Sentences with phrase «pop cultural moment»

Fifty years after Time magazine declared Swinging London the global capital of cool, comes an exhibition by one of the relatively overlooked visual chroniclers of that heady pop cultural moment.

Not exact matches

And, anchored by gorgeous production design and the pop naturalism of its performances, How to Make It in America dramatizes this particular cultural moment with uncommon style and a little grace as well.

Audaciously staged as a little - more - than - real - time dramatization of a single night's house party, the air humid with that special, pheromone - drenched mist of booze and sweat and young sex and aspirations towards same, Can't Hardly Wait is a reminder of the pop - cultural moment when Brad and Gwyneth were the hot celebrity couple, Jennifer Love Hewitt was an up - and - comer, nobody had ever heard of Selma Blair or Lauren Ambrose, and the likes of Smash Mouth and Eve 6 were planting hit singles on MTV and the radio.

As fitting as it might've been to have the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie about a black hero in theaters while the first black commander in chief was in office, Narcisse feels it wouldn't have conjured the same kind of pop - cultural moment.

In 1995 he achieved a breathtaking pop - cultural moment when he had the nation's No. 1 best - selling book (The Lost World), the No. 1 movie (Congo), and the No. 1 TV show (ER), a trifecta he repeated in 1996 with Airframe, Twister, and ER.

Through refined, calculated, and controlled gestures, whether it's application of paint, color choices, compositions, or pop cultural references, all of these works lead to moments of reflection and beauty among the chaos.

Delving into the 400 - page publication that takes on the politics, gender roles, and cultural variations of Pop, the organizers will talk about how they created an exhibition that attempts to recast this pivotal time in the history of art and culture, and what Pop foreshadowed of our current media - infused moment.

But if you're able to snag a few moments at these stations, you'll see the objects on view in the aesthetic and cultural context of significant artworks, monuments, and movements: Marcel Duchamp's 1913 readymade Roue de bicyclette [Bicycle Wheel]; the Crystal Palace at the 1851 World's Fair; Pop Art's embrace of mass - media messaging.

A highly specific chronology charges these works not only with a certain absurdity, but also an unexpected poignancy: the Lakes act as poetic sarcophagi, cementing bygone moments in recent pop cultural history as well as the technology which helped generate them.

The imagery and objects rendered allude to the mass consumerism that rapidly developed during the lead - in to this moment (the «40s and «50s) in a resounding response to pop cultural idioms provided by television, film, advertisements, and literature.