Sentences with phrase «using pop culture»

In the recent ARTFORUM, Hans Ulrich Obrist calls her work «both critical and spectacular, using pop culture as a bridge rather than as a simple reference in the ubiquitous orgy of appropriation and revival».

Exploring two diverse locales, this duo of exhibitions investigates contrasting everyday experiences Horesh's (b. 1975) work records the reality of life in Neve Sha'anan, a neighbourhood in Israel home to thousands of immigrants and refugees, whilst Bush's (b. 1987) series explores notions of identity in the west, using pop culture and Americana to reconstruct established tropes.

Erró began using pop culture imagery in the mid-1960s, when he made several extended visits to New York City.

These artists, including Ed Paschke, Jim Nutt, and Joseph Yoakum, shared Brown's interest in using pop culture and its vernacular as source material.

Comic - Con has arrived and Activision is using the pop culture phenomenon as an opportunity to reveal a new Skylanders Trap Team Trap Master character as well as a couple new villains that will be playable in the game once you use a Trap Master and appropriate Trap to catch them.

Using a pop culture reference from a Harry Potter book is perfectly acceptable.

What are the pros and cons of using pop culture as a source of advice?

I'm all in favor of using pop culture to communicate a policy point to the public, as long as it's somehow relevant (or at least clever).

Using pop culture references like Beyonce and Britney Spears, the class discusses different voices and explores ways to take chances with your writing.

The artist talks about the process of making her embroideries, why she uses pop culture for source m...

October 18 - 19 Ryan Kelly is a Philadelphia multimedia artist who references historical figures and uses pop culture and myth in his allegorical performances and videos.

On the other hand, being highly critical of religion, mass consumerism and the general darker side of human nature, Peter Adamyan uses pop culture imagery to comment on the contemporary society.

Painter Lai Chiu - Chen uses pop culture references and a comic book aesthetic to reflect upon contemporary fashions and the artist's distinct worldview.

Gean Moreno (b. 1972, New York): An art critic and curator as well as an artist, Moreno uses pop culture to inform his collages and paintings.

My playful interdisciplinary practice uses pop culture and humour to engage audiences in questioning social and political systems of power and influence.

While this exhibition takes its starting point from hip hop, it branches out to include artists who use pop culture, graffiti, fashion and other signifiers of urban life in combination with more traditional forms of Aboriginal identity.

Many artists in Unorthodox use pop culture, animation, and cartoons to address serious issues around violence, racism, and sexuality.

Not exact matches

The brand uses the strategy of responding to events in the news and pop culture — from the Super Bowl to the NBA playoffs to Hostess's bankruptcy filing announcement — with related trivia to get people tweeting.

Readers are used to seeing musicians, politicians and pop - culture icons glorified on the cover.

In pop culture, OCD is often used as a kind of shorthand for fastidiousness.

Kelly said he used to «feel terrible» in response to the pop - culture references associating him and urinating.

Avon Ladies used to be a fixture of U.S. pop culture, their «Ding Dong Avon Calling» rallying cry part of the vernacular.

Twerking in pop culture means shaking, wobbling and bouncing your butt like crazy, and used mostly to describe women dancing in rap videos and strip clubs.

The phrase went viral, sparking a pop culture phenomenon akin to «Wassup» and «I Love You, Man» phrases from commercials of years past — printed on T - shirts and used in memes online.

We have used the theme «Where you hold your duration matters as much as how much duration you hold,» or its pop - culture version — «Dude, Where's My Duration»?

That is, pop culture studies can not simply be about conservatives (or Christians, or Great Books educators) dwelling upon the best moments of such culture, or otherwise using it to prove the relevance of the traditions they want to convey.

We've chosen the categories: best celebrity / brand personality appearance, best pop - culture reference, best use of animals, best use of special effects and best variation on the Super Bowl theme.

Using the old categories, the Beatles, who dominated pop culture at the time, were definitely of the world, the flesh and the devil.

He not only enjoyed being a pop - culture figure, he used the role skillfully.

But if we understand that, and are prepared for it, we have a good chance of using the Church's pop culture moment, instead of becoming its victim.

And there were a lot of pop culture references: the defendants regularly used the term «ziti» in emails in reference to The Sopranos, where it was a code word for money.

(l - r above) Yesterday's Bronx Scavenger Hunt, sponsored by the Bronx Tourism Council and Ruben Diaz Jr.'s office, involved a full day of driving around the Bronx from top to bottom using 200 clues of historical and pop culture references to find borough -LSB-...]

Today, sites like Facebook and Twitter are used for everything from instantaneous messaging to organizing activists, even while the more digitally savvy candidates are trying to leverage widely - read pop culture sites like Buzzfeed to create viral content that offers a level exposure that was once unimaginable.

The plant with psychotropic properties has a long pop culture presence — and an even longer record of use.

So they divided volunteers into two groups — one that was told to use Google and one that was not — and asked them challenging trivia questions about sports, pop culture, and history.

The pop art movement took place primarily in the 1960s, and it is easily distinguished by its use of images, objects, and themes from popular culture as subject matter.

Since the beginning, Eliza used her blog to showcase her fashion editorials and outfits and each post was accompanied by her musings on pop culture, race - related issues and social justice.

It still falls back into those traps you see in so many bad animated films... unnecessary dance sequences, the pop culture references and catchphrases that are two years to late and using real world music in a fantasy world of birds.

The jokes are a combination of «Lego humor» that anyone who has ever used Legos could appreciate, mixed with family friendly pop culture references that will go right over the little ones heads.

Like most Coen movies, it isn't quite the way they used to make them, but is deeply in love not just with the films of the past, but all of popular culture, from product packaging (principally Dapper Dan hair pomade) through period pop music to modes of dress and politics.

The film makes use of some kick - ass cinematography (colorful imagery of the summer, and a picture that reflects childhood innocence), while the story sheds light on poverty, and the bad things that come along with it, and how it affects childhood, and for me, that is what pop culture nowadays would describe as «woke», because not a lot of films these days shed light on those important issues.

But even if rights and licensing agreements won't let them quite say it out loud, The Lego Movie also wants you to ignore that stuff, to cram a Ninja Turtle into a Barbie Dream House alongside a Transformer, or throw away all the pop - culture signifiers and use the Legos to build a giant castle straight from your own imagination.

The movie almost has the feel of a documentary as it makes extensive use of news and pop culture images and video to identify time periods and to explain how these events came to be.

Modern Day Setting Enhances Gameplay Options and Adds Pop Culture Feel The in - game smartphone is used to check email, read comments on «Pitter,» take sidequests, catalog ad flyers, launch apps to identify the undead, and much, much more.

The main streams of pop culture being used to populate the world of Ready Player One are certainly movies, TV shows, and video games, but there are a handful of music references to show that's just as important.

Here at The A.V. Club, we're big fans of Eclectic Method and his funky pop culture video remixes, which have been used to celebrate everything from Back To The Future, Doctor Who, and Star Trek, to Wes Anderson and Jon Stewart.

Adults are also targeted by most of the forced pop culture references too current to have used on the last movie: nods to Charlie Sheen, Sarah Palin, a double rainbow, and The Most Interesting Man in the World.

Deciphering their whereabouts requires an encyclopaedic knowledge not of»80s pop culture, but of all the things Halliday used to manufacture depth that were actually functioning as coping mechanisms for someone with an obvious social disorder.

Play as one of many famous, but for legal purposes, slightly different pop culture icons and verbally spar with other Hollywood elitists using a deep battle system.

In this week's episode, Carolyn has visited the OASIS of Ready Player One and lives to tell Anita and Ebony the tale, demonstrating her own knowledge of obscure pop culture trivia and criticizing RPO for its use of the woman - as - trophy trope familiar to so many of the properties that inspired it.