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“The design chief for Confederate Motorcycles—a boutique manufacturer of what might be called high-art drag bikes—includes among his inspirations Arjuna, the silver-bright and unconquerable charioteer in the Mahabharata; Sun Tzu's military strategy of "yielding and resisting"; the "intentionality" of Japanese architect Tadao Ando; and the exploded-view functionalism of Pompidou Center.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Master of Machine-Age Motorcycles
“Because Wilson's installations are in effect high-art Rorschach blots, these judgments tell us more, perhaps, about how touchy the topic of American slavery still is than about Liberty/Liberté.”
“Because Wilson's installations are in effect high-art Rorschach blots, these judgments tell us more, perhaps, about how touchy the topic of American slavery still is than about Liberty/Liberté.”
“Quickly, if not overnight, Mr. Watts amassed a substantially mixed audience of music, comedy, theater, and high-art crowds before earning national acclaim through Mr. O'Brien and various short comedic videos online, the most popular of which has an unprintable title and more than two million hits on YouTube.”
The Wall Street Journal: An Old-Fashioned Show in the Hair and Now
“When I make my work, my goal is to make things that can function from a "high-art" standpoint, but also be the types of things that everyday people can relate to in the context of their everyday lives...”
“In every era in human history, artists have reflected the moral urgency of vengeance, from the high-art of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama to the lowbrow makers of heart-stopping horror films.”
The Huffington Post: Thane Rosenbaum: True Grit and the Truth about Revenge
“With its high-art wrappings, name director, and instant Oscar campaign, we're certainly meant to think that Black Swan is the better film of the two.”
“Lily (Mila Kunis) is a Nina's professional and sexual rival and frenemy -- the Gina Gershon in this high-art Showgirls to Portman's Elizabeth Berkeley (with apologies to Portman, who is good as always here).”
“One is about the high-art dance form of ballet, the other about the more base burlesque.”
“Black Swan is auteur high-art, Burlesque is guilty pleasure.”
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