Sentences with phrase «pretentious art»

Kwade's displacements stick to the space and time of the gallery, even as more pretentious art stars like Doug Aitken and Urs Fischer are knocking them down — and, in the case of Urs Fischer, gentrifying as well.

Thankfully, Fe isn't what I would call a pretentious art game, something that has littered console and PC libraries over the past years.

Much of the story centers on the smothering and painfully pretentious art world the trio inhabit and skewers the artistic community's grand delusions of changing the world with impenetrable academic theory, which makes the show sound unbearably dry.

So lets go get coffee, go to an obnoxiously pretentious art gallery, go get some wine and play pool while trading stories and laugh about how horrible we are for each other.

Not exact matches

«Skill set» just means skill («A skill is a skill — that is it,» wrote Stephanie Hamm - Wieczkiewick from Litfield Park, Ariz. in support of getting rid of the word), «curate» is too often an unnecessarily pretentious way of saying «select» («It used to have a special significance reserved mainly for fine art and museums.

I do think politics, family, education, art, religion and so on, can be particularly pretentious manifestations of our darkest selves.

Yes, he created art with his football, but if anything he was too humble and too rooted in the natural innocence of football as a boyish pastime to see it as something as pretentious as high - art or poetry.

«We're loose, we're laid - back, we're not pretentious,» Bryan Sperry is saying about Art Attack, the storefront gallery he and fellow artist Troy Abshire opened last April at 1937 W. North Ave. in the bustling neighborhood where Wicker Park and Bucktown meet.

I think cool / nerdy has taken over as what people think of when they think of artistic and pretentious is what people who want to look like they don't give a f*ck call art.

The over-hyped, pretentious modern art scene in London is satirized in this dark ensemble comedy about the double dealings and calculated relationships encircling the effort to get an aging collector to part with a valuable painting.

Art School Confidential goes for its doctorate in Jonathan Parker's bitchy, hilarious (Untitled), the story of two pretentious brothers jealously jousting with each other in the dog - eat - dog world of fine - art crArt School Confidential goes for its doctorate in Jonathan Parker's bitchy, hilarious (Untitled), the story of two pretentious brothers jealously jousting with each other in the dog - eat - dog world of fine - art crart cred.

Note that her pretentious accent aigu was superimposed over Renée Zellweger's first name for the cover - art credits of this disc (she's plain old «Renee» on screen), and that, so far as one can tell, Tobey Maguire's expunged role continues to reside in a vault somewhere.

James Franco even gets some great moments playing up his pretentious fine - arts douchebag persona, hinting that these actors all know their bad sides and aren't afraid to show them.

The Captive combines the most pretentious aspects of an art movie with the dumbest aspects of a thriller, and is doomed to satisfy neither audience.

John Malkovich gives an inspired performance as a pretentious & frustrated art professor.

Success vs. selling out debates follow, as do takedowns of corporate exploitation, billionaire bros, mass media, wage - slave labor, the celebrity co-opting of activists, racial strife, pretentious performance art, our viral age and anything else that wanders in to the movie's crosshairs.

After Shia LaBeouf was accused of plagiarizing Daniel Clowes in December of 2013, the Transformers star kicked off a campaign of bizarre public behavior he later explained by way of borrowing the go - to excuse of Hollywood's pretentious and / or just - fucking - around class: It was all performance art.

The scene distills a few of the film's many heady concerns: Art is often silly and pretentious, yet can still be dangerous, and most people prefer to keep some distance between themselves and the things they claim to care about.

Whether video games should be perceived as «art» remains a contentious cultural topic, and the Academy as a whole is definitely pretentious enough to think video games are not «art.»

All art is pretentious because in the end it's all about the artists and their art.

You'll probably hate it, and end up talking about how pretentious or over-hyped it is on a forum, which interestingly means you've become part of what it's all about, a never - ending discussion on what is and is not art, and whether something so personal and open to interpretation is genius or bullshit.

There is a misconception that indie games are for the pretentious, art - house loving stereotypical art students among us.

looking at art - it is a little pretentious to think someone comes to my blog to look at my art.

The curators make brilliant use of Renzo Piano «s sprawling architectural design and none of the art is precious, pretentious, or tired.

When this webzine began, I took a pretentious title (not to mention one less catch in search engines than, say, «New York Art Crit») that I have regretted ever since.

Space figured in Cubism's reconstruction of vision, Surrealism's space of dreams, Clement Greenberg's demand for flatness, the shallow space of paint itself, the viewer's space in Minimalism, or the pretentious gallery spaces of installation art now.

The Mad Libs-esque results of that, and from applications such as this artist statement generator, underscore the art world's pretentious, exclusionary tendencies.

That he didn't shows art is now judged by criteria that are pretentious and empty

(1991), a performance in which the artist embodies six different art - viewer archetypes ranging from an uncertain novice to a pretentious expert, was reprised amid Lawler's show.

Pretentious, self - publicising art, maybe.

The Turner Prize may be maligned in some quarters as pretentious or willfully oblique but, like Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, it provides a rare opportunity to put challenging, immersive contemporary art before the general public and for that service alone deserves to be cut some slack.

They also called it pretentious, «unremarkable and boring» and on July 25, 2002, deposited a coffin outside the White Cube gallery, marked «The Death of Conceptual Art».

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IT is a fair bet that when an art critic speaks of people «engaging» with a piece of work, what he (or she) actually means is that fellow beard - strokers (of either sex) have made pretentious comments regarding the creation.

Tate Britain's conceptual show is drab, dismal and pretentious, a return to the days when nobody loved modern art

His work «Masterpiece» has stood the test of time, the humorous take on the pretentious nature and celebrity culture of art is just as relevant today.

His latest comments echo those of a former chairman of one of the UK's top art galleries, Ivan Massow, who described conceptual art as «pretentious, self - indulgent, craftless tat».

I suppose it has to be, or all the pretentious and empty art that sells in galleries would lose its value.

Andrew Haydon: ICA programmes ruin good live art work with incomprehensible and pretentious descriptions

Art is now judged by criteria that are fundamentally pretentious and empty.

Art seems to be quite a rediculous and pretentious «game» with players like this!

You Could Win Our NOT the Turner Prize; Had Enough of Pretentious Nonsense Masquerading as Art?

Wesselmann was a private man who shied away the from the flash and pretentious side of the art scene.

If a pretentious theory - laden art historian were judging it, she would win - but then again, she's got on the shortlist, so perhaps it really is being judged by criteria set by the American academic magazine October.

Perry's rebellion now mainly consists of poking gentle fun at the meaning - obsessed contemporary art world, which he views as pretentious and elitist.