| 单词 | subversive |
| 例句 | Each has a submachine gun slung ready, for whatever dangerous or subversive acts they think we might commit inside. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She recognized a kindred spirit, a similar subversive spark to the one she often felt flaring inside her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “They’re subversive, you know? They can look light and fun on the outside, but they have punch.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Students were picked up who to my knowledge had never done anything subversive except call for an end to Bantu Education. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I was, to hear him tell it, anti-American, un-American, seditious, subversive, and probably Communist. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A handful of other men were also interested, and the questions were many and good when Clevinger and the subversive corporal finished and made the mistake of asking if there were any. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Newspapers referred to him as a subversive, a commie, a Red nut, a Soviet sympathizer, a freak. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Hundreds of black clergymen, journalists, civil rights activists, teachers, lawyers, students and anyone suspected of subversive acts had been detained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We immediately took the paper and wreath to the police station, along with information as to what obviously subversive family had discarded the offending decoration. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z My loyalty to Mr. Smeath is similar to my loyalty to my brother both are on the side of ox eyeballs, toe jam under the microscope, the outrageous, the subversive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Experience had taught them that in the end the fox always eats the hens, despite the subversive ballads that were traveling from mouth to mouth preaching just the opposite. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Anything of a subversive or out-and-out nasty nature, that is. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z "McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For a long time there had been rumours—circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy—that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Armed and camouflaged soldiers would from time to time burst into classrooms, interrupting lessons to read off lists of those suspected of subversive activities, rounding them up in armoured vehicles, headed for unknown destinations. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a college for adults, and many years later I found that it was on the House Un- American Activities list of subversive organizations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Republican Party, eager to score points against President Truman, a Democrat, accused him of being "soft on communism" and willing to turn a blind eye to subversives in his own administration. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t really know Lio was a communist, a subversive, all the other awful things the editorial had called him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is alleged that the disturbance was caused by labor agitation, as papers of a subversive nature were found on and about the site of disturbance. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In 1951, Air Scoop published a long list of organizations that the government had labeled totalitarian, Communist, or subversive, the clear message that affiliation with any of them might jeopardize one’s job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Franklin pinpoints similarly subversive elements in other Strauss works, notably the ballet “Josephslegende,” which eroticizes the Biblical figure of Joseph. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z What Mac does is more audacious, political and subversive than most drag shows. Taylor Mac defies all comparisons and adjectives, and he wants you to leave his shows exhausted 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Before they could board officials would run their pillows into a machine that would extract the dreams from the night before and make sure there was nothing subversive in them. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z But the genuinely subversive and challenging aspect of Yuknavitch’s work is her foregrounding of the body, and especially her writing about sex. The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The royal family rejected this all too human portrait – a work of subversive emotional honesty by a 20-year-old young enough to feel the new Romantic impulse. National Portrait Gallery shines light on forgotten artist Thomas Lawrence 2010-08-04T18:38:00Z In the McCarthy era, the specter of Reds — which is to say Communists — lurking in the studio commissaries and writers’ bungalows and smuggling their subversive messages onto the screen was a source of considerable alarm. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z In an interview with the New York Times, the group expressed support for demonstrators in Ukraine, called for “subversive” acts in Sochi and hoped protests would spread to other flashpoints in Russia. Pussy Riot: We Don’t Want a Shirtless Man on a Horse Leading Us Into the Future 2014-02-06T08:34:26Z Such pictures may not be subversive, but their verve transcends plain geometry. Not all right angles in ‘Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But there are ways in which it can be used subversively, or for gains that are not exclusively commercial. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Norris’s undeniably dexterous hand is most effective — and subversive — when it tickles, instead of bludgeons. Review: A Boisterous ‘Low Road’ Finds the Potholes in Capitalism 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z This defuses the bully’s insults, and, potentially, helps the nerdy kid seem a tiny bit subversive. How to Beat Trump, According to Experts on Middle-School Bullies 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z A self-avowed communist, he was deemed a subversive and a danger by the Catholic Church and the government. 'Jimmy's Hall' won't let Jimmy Gralton and his deportation be forgotten 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Curators have always been reluctant to deal with the subversive. Street Art That?s Finding a New Address 2010-03-03T23:13:00Z Both are about the disruption of normality; both are subversive. Ourhouse gives art and comedy a twisted new home 2011-03-10T17:22:03Z Both films emphasise the subversive carnival of the race in a less stage-managed age, with multiple scenes of urination en route, and the riders looting a roadside cafe. The art of cycling on film 2011-08-26T14:05:53Z For all its charm, “French Braid” is a quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z At root, many of the works are charged with subversive politics. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Its wilful silliness seemed subversive at the time. Readers recommend: children's songs ? the results 2011-02-17T16:01:23Z “When you saw them perform, they seemed highly subversive and highly uncontainable,” said Mr. Mills, laughing. Boss Hog’s Punk Rock Revs Up as It Hits Middle Age 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Unremitting in his pursuit of "subversives", he was known for harassing political activists and wire-tapping public figures. Leonardo DiCaprio tapped for J Edgar Hoover biopic 2010-04-01T15:21:00Z Instead, some weeks later, reports leaked that the government planned to charge him with making a "subversive" film in his own home about last summer's events. Iranian director finds freedom and moral victory 2010-05-25T13:25:00Z This subversive act, inspired by a dream, fractures the family life of the heroine, Yeong-hye. Dendrophilia 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z As a teen who was busy basing his entire identity on embracing all forms of subversive art, I knew that Divine and Pink Flamingos had gone as far as anything, or anyone, could go. My streaming gem: why you should watch I Am Divine 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Her blond hair framing subversive dark eyebrows, James creates a Cinderella that is both classic and modern, the sculptor of her destiny. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The stripped down production is “almost subversive” as the two actors move the chairs and tables in the moments between scenes. An overnight sensation after 45 years in the biz: Denis Arndt, Mary-Louise Parker's co-star in 'Heisenberg' 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Related: Masters of puppets: Charlie Kaufman and the subversive allure of stop-motion The main drawback is the all-encompassing, Eeyore-like totality of Michael’s unhappiness, which at times threatens to suffocate the movie. Anomalisa: Charlie Kaufman’s unique take on the mid-life crisis movie 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z He was an establishment man, but with a subversive streak – he likes to say he studied "history, volleyball and surfing" at university. Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z Ms. Shane’s memorable rendition of “Any Other Way” contains a line — “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay” — that she imbued with subversive subtext. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z This was a chance to be sassy, not think too hard, and also be a little subversive. A 'Wonderful Town' in search of wonder 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z A British blogger and mother of a toddler said she’s found “subversive messages” in the children’s television show “Thomas & Friends,” calling it racist and harmful to children. Thomas the Tank Engine show is racist, British blogger accuses 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z He was also very clever, obviously – but it's accurate to show him as subversive and a bit coarse. Galileo reaches for the stars 2012-09-26T15:02:28Z A brilliantly subversive Belgian Surrealist with little patience for bohemian adventures, Magritte never fit in with the avant-garde, yet he became one of the most important painters of the 20th century. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z But she said Tim can also be seen “as kind of subversive, because he’s the one who empowers the change in Scrooge.” Rethinking Tiny Tim: Should a Disabled Actor Play the Role? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The boy, who embarks on a search for his biological father, is given to issuing subversive intellectual manifestos. Critic?s Notebook: Tribeca Turns 10: Films on Rebels, Rock and Real Life 2011-04-14T12:00:00Z Dahl's children's literature, in contrast, understandably feels subversive. The dark ending of the "The Witches" remake is actually the one that we need right now 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Her “Jurassic Park” co-star, Sam Neill, noted her “wicked and subversive sense of humor.” Laura Dern is at the peak of her powers 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The film remains as delightful and subversive as it was when I first reviewed it a year ago. 'Wild Grass': Resnais' Delightful Con Game 2010-06-25T18:25:00Z But the show doesn’t really support such treatment, and Mr. McAnuff tries to walk a line between respect and subversive flash that doesn’t quite solve the problem. Critic?s Notebook: ?Jesus Christ Superstar? and ?Camelot? at Stratford 2011-08-29T21:59:36Z The combination of religious veneration and illicit substances, or spiritual enlightenment and surreptitious bliss, takes stunning shape in Nagle’s subtly subversive works. The form of their presentation amplifies the content of individual sculptures. Ron Nagle's mind-bending art, like mini movies in sculpture form 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z But what’s most subversive about the work in New York, where Mr. Ji lives part time, is that it never quite picks a side. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Realizing to ourselves that this amazing, funny, subversive, totally unexpected show exists at all is nothing short of miraculous. For a dad stung by stereotypes, 'Fresh Off the Boat' is point of pride 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z For a show trying to balance subversive style and entertainment value, this number — complete with tap dancing and an electrocuted pet frog — was the outer limit. Talking Points From a Year Onstage 2010-12-25T04:00:48Z I remember spotting a decal with such a symbol stickered subversively on a dormitory wall and asking a younger relative if she knew what it meant. Perspective | Let’s talk about maternal gore 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Klein’s highly structured, subversive images are a good counterbalance to Pfeiffer’s more jocular, candid photos. | Hy?res Photo Festival 2010-04-28T21:30:00Z They are appealing and subversive in their slightness and cease to exist when not on display. Art Review: ‘Mel Bochner: Proposition and Process’ at Peter Freeman 2013-05-23T20:30:49Z Beautifully staged, in many now demolished buildings that formed Britain's industrial landscape, Brazil is Monty Python meets George Orwell and it's as clever, witty and subversive as that sounds. Brazil: No 17 2010-10-21T10:38:00Z Yet the works here may qualify as passively subversive. Art Review: Romantics Shining Clear Light on Daily Existence 2011-04-07T22:30:23Z He is coming off the release last month of “Ancestral Recall,” an impressive album on which West African-derived rhythms and whispery synthesizers fortify his bristling trumpet playing and the strident, subversive poetry of Saul Williams. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Levy walks a line between the danceable and the subversive, and on this tour at least he's planted his flag deeply in the former. Live review: Gesaffelstein at the Fonda 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z If Maria Miller is going to consider the theatre in her arts brief, she may wish to attend to see how to co-opt subversives. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z The work, largely a solo, is strongest when she uses Bharatanatyam technique subversively. Dorrance Dance and a Mythili Prakash Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Lucas remains a wonderfully bold and subversive model for women in this #MeToo moment. Is Sarah Lucas Right for the #MeToo Moment? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Here’s a breakdown of the music, the moves and that subversive studded armband. When Queen Took ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ to Live Aid 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Mark's Kate was funny and subversive about the male attitudes surrounding her story. The best performance I've ever seen: Tom Morris 2010-03-28T00:07:00Z It was a congenial match between a sophisticated, sneakily subversive playwright and a bright, bohemian city. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The protesters' star is Marina Pepper, a cheerful soul who believes in the subversive power offering the police a nice cup of tea. Just Do It ? review 2011-07-14T21:42:01Z These delightfully dark and subversive tales featuring feisty children, nasty-smelling adults, bizarre goings-on and sweet revenge are just as humorous and thrilling as you remember. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Jackson’s novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Her early work especially, where she manipulated her femininity and pushed herself and viewers to aggressive, sometimes violent extremes, remains remarkably subversive. How Marina Abramovic's memoir does and doesn't illuminate the artist's work 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z They don’t see this as a subversive act. Arts & Leisure: Richard Prince Lawsuit Focuses on Limits of Appropriation 2011-12-28T16:38:04Z “Using Keanu in that world is very subversive because you automatically react one way when you first introduce him. “ Nicolas Winding Refn Dissects His Bloody Confection 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z A man celebrating himself in makeup is a subversive act. Those Lips! Those Eyes! That Stubble! The Transformative Power of Men in Makeup 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Eisenberg added: “If I were just playing improvised music or just writing songs, it would be so boring, and not very formally revolutionary. What I really care about is being musically subversive.” Wendy Eisenberg finds meaning in complexity 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Now, as then, fans of the look in its myriad incarnations may respond as eagerly to white’s subtly subversive undertow as to its aura of freshness and candor. Summer’s Color Forecast: Whiteout Conditions 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Predictable, supposedly subversive play with the semiotics of Modernist art and popular culture is so ubiquitous, and ultimately so exhausting, that you might almost wish for a revival of pure, formalist abstraction. Art Review | 'The Armory Show': Ahoy From Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z There’s freedom in being Julian Sands, an actor whose eclectic career has taken him from prestige romances to subversive indie movies and sinister TV shows – and to more than 50 countries. ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The evening seemed secretive and subversive, in an exciting way, and I asked several people if they thought that spanking might be the next thing out of the closet. Coming out about spanking 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z His mute, hilarious antics are delivered with a mixture of ladylike propriety and subversive mischief; popcorn spitting is not unknown. 2010-01-15T03:58:00Z According to a letter from Strauss, Joseph Goebbels and Hitler, presumably finding nothing subversive in “Frau,” approved it. Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z But it quickly took a darker, more subversive turn: Mr. Sanz’s character, a longtime friend of Mr. Gethard’s, is an aimless ex-con, while Mr. Parnell’s is a burned-out high school teacher. Television: Chris Gethard Carries Comedy Central?s ?Big Lake? 2010-08-13T17:38:00Z Members of the KGB together with the government's arts council swoop on theatres demanding to see the name of the directors, writers and cast and examine scripts for any reference to subversive themes. Free expression 2011-04-21T12:16:07Z “She hews to the model of a pretty girl being pretty and filling feminine roles, really while nominally subversive,” she said. Arts & Leisure Preview: Katy Perry, Pop Cartoon Sprung From the Playbook 2010-08-19T17:54:00Z Sometimes under threat from the East German authorities, the theater staged left-leaning, politically subversive plays that were some of the first to incorporate multimedia, like film, onstage. Plans for Volksbühne Theater Cause Worry About Berlin’s Artistic Direction 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z I realize now that the books were always subversive. We are far from Stoneybrook now: On the quiet revolution of "The Baby-Sitters Club" 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z The percussion music’s effect is now subversive, now simply an enriching counterpoint. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z Inspired by nursery rhymes and fairytales, this is sweetly subversive work that charms as much as it alarms. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Fisher and Gad had never worked together before but were friends and were ready for a little subversive fun. Love bites in ‘Wolf Like Me’ with Isla Fisher and Josh Gad 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z After retiring from the stage in 2000, Ms. Rosenthal announced, with obvious subversive glee, that she planned to give her life over to “tea and crumpets” and “ ‘ER’ reruns.” Rachel Rosenthal, Bold Performance Artist, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z "Glee", a sometimes dark, subversive comedy featuring a high school choir, has taken U.S. pop culture by storm since its 2009 debut. Racy "Glee" photos in GQ kick up a storm 2010-10-20T22:02:00Z You would think the subversive point of view that makes these shows stand out from standard histories would actually be their selling point for today’s audiences. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z A credible biography of Dr. Kevorkian has to focus on the self-serving zealotry beneath the martyr’s guise, but Mr. Pacino has a subversive gift for tapping into the endearing underside of the most despicable villains. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z Quietly, subversively, as is her way, Doucet proceeds to spike it, refusing sentimentality in order to provide an autopsy of youthful abandon. It’s Julie Doucet’s World 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z I wish to propose a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr – review 2013-02-13T07:00:02Z There’s a subversive family history too, with his father being expelled from the country 14 years ago. Homeland recap: season six, episode one – Fair Game 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Those adhering to this view may be delighted to learn that their fancy's been made flesh by such a supposedly subversive scallywag as Chris Morris. Four Lions may roar, but its laughs are hollow 2010-05-10T10:09:00Z It's a subversive shambles, basically, and not for everyone, but peppered with real poignancy. Comedy Gold: Johnny Vegas's Live at the Benidorm Palace 2013-01-31T15:51:50Z “We always hoped that the film wouldn’t simply preach to the choir but instead carry a subversive message as far and wide as possible,” he said. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z Along the way this subversively funny, tonally twisted film morphs from something playful with dark undercurrents into the opposite. | 'Super': You Don?t Need Superpowers if You Have a Pipe Wrench (and Anger Issues) 2011-03-31T23:05:03Z Ramli had been captured by the army as a suspected subversive and stabbed in the stomach. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z I figured that while I was here, I might as well become one of those prison intellectual types; the subversive scholar. Convicted drug dealers are political prisoners: I should know — I was one 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z It would rattle the many music educators I know who are generally fearful of being taken to task for thinking too subversively, rather than too conservatively. Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z As they shimmied their shoulders and swivelled their hips, they were released into a brief but deeply subversive world – a world of freedom. When flappers ruled the Earth: how dance helped women's liberation 2013-04-29T06:00:22Z Over time, Mering has learned not only to trust her voice’s beauty, but to depict beauty and even softness itself as a subversive tool. Weyes Blood Gives Beautiful Voice to Global Pain 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But the Kenya Film Classification Board, which banned the movie in April, said it still considered “Rafiki” morally subversive. Kenya lifts ban on lesbian film, making it eligible for Oscars 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrell’s seductive, seditious, subversive shows are as much a commentary on fashions in dance and spectatorship as they are on the industry of glamour and the cult of the star. Dance Review: Vogueing in a Playground of Gender, Celebrity and Fashion 2011-02-11T23:36:53Z I was hard pressed to find any of the intelligence and subtlety of a writer like Mr. Jesurun, while the choreography, credited to the typically smart and subversive Ms. Muz, is cursory. Theater Review: ‘Etiquette of Death,’ at La MaMa, Includes Song and Dance 2012-06-19T22:26:00Z Her art is full of subversive humour, dangers and fears. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z Some of that inspiration is derived from Mr. Van Horn’s Seattle days, when he studied theater and performed in what he called “subversive, edgy and dark” cabaret with performers like Ryan Landry and Dan Savage. Stimulus Programs That Roll at Night 2010-03-04T06:50:00Z We sense, too, I think, that artistic freedom is subversive. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He usually tucks his moral commentary, subversive and otherwise, inside meditations on his other primary concerns. Books of The Times: ?Collected Poems? by Jack Gilbert 2012-03-13T12:00:00Z But up until then, Roseanne was that rarest of beasts: a smart, subversive, superlative treat. Your next box set: Roseanne 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z Or by Key’s case for suppressing the antislavery subversives in the name of white supremacy? Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z The subversive comic is the only woman to ever succeed in lucrative late night television, where she hosted her E! show Chelsea Lately for seven years before quitting the show last year. Chelsea Handler On Her Netflix Risk And Overcoming Career Setbacks 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “I realized that the show itself is rather subversive, really psychedelic and whimsical and very much full of anarchic energy. It’s a world where anything is possible.” With a Singing SpongeBob, Nickelodeon Aims for a Broadway Splash 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z It's not necessarily a community of Pitchforkers but it is a community of people with subversive and underground taste. Pitchfork Music festival Paris speaks the international language of indie 2012-11-08T10:36:38Z In 1965 the Cuban military sent him to a forced labor camp; he was one of tens of thousands of artists, intellectuals, priests and gay people deemed potentially subversive by the government. Pablo Milanés, Troubadour of the Cuban Revolution, Dies at 79 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z She radiates steely, self-satisfied graciousness — except when she reveals a subversive streak. Review | A first lady and a diva show their vulnerability in two productions 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Neuman said it was “like Lynch’s ‘The Straight Story’ but with a subversive twist” on gender. Andrés Neuman’s New Novel Is ‘Talking to Ourselves’ 2014-04-16T20:50:36Z In 2011, Ai himself was arrested for allegedly publishing subversive material on his blog. Boats evoking refugees hang from Italy palace in Ai Weiwei installation 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s to Abrams’ credit that not only does the young woman fight off her aggressors without help, but that the director uses the subversive shift in tone from previous outings to comic effect. Is Star Wars: The Force Awakens really female-friendly? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z “Her humor is so funny and so subversive,” he said. Laura Benanti Takes On 54 Below and Her Career 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z They are going to remove our ability to communicate and act subversively so that means that the internet and other digital technology are going to be highly restricted, like in North Korea or Iran. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Maybe, out there, chatting about The X Factor over garden fences, are the last true subversives in Britain. Harry Potter and the Deadly Dullards 2011-07-23T23:06:50Z In Findlay's production, which uses the 1986 Don Taylor translation, the defeated Polyneices represents a terrorist threat; and, in her determination to bury her dead brother despite official decree, Antigone implicitly becomes a dangerous subversive. Antigone – review 2012-05-31T16:02:44Z His work is more subversive than it might first appear. The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z We saw films that were defined by unbridled fury, low-boil resentment, no-effs-to-give independence and a range of subversive behaviors in between. Perspective | In 2020, women’s pandemic-era rage exploded on screen 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z “I want to make things that are subversive and not so entry-level.” Patti Harrison Bucks Transgender Stereotypes, One Joke at a Time 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z It's like a Wool greatest-hits set, with each of the personae he's tried on over the years – the hell-raiser, the addled surrealist, the political subversive – represented. Glenn Wool ? review 2011-08-23T18:20:00Z “Made for Love” crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist. The Real-Life Reality Show That Jumped the Shark 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z And with her victory, Davuluri has made an outmoded, quaintly sexist relic somehow relevant – subversive, even. Miss America brushes off the bigots 2013-09-16T14:25:00Z Its craggy, raw, mind-boggling masterpieces remain as daunting and subversive today as they were a century ago. Leonard Lauder's $1bn gift to Met gives new lease of life to cubism 2013-04-10T15:08:08Z Mensch's subversive idea spurted through the Twitterverse like a frozen spear of urine falling from an aircraft toilet, and soon pâté de foie gras was itself shooting up Nigella's pâté chart. Gobbling pâté allowed a nation to scoff at the legacy of Thatcherism 2013-04-20T21:00:03Z She works mostly on paper, creating large-scale interiors that combine serene human figures with dense areas of collage and image-transfer that subversively evoke her Nigerian heritage. Join the queue 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “Airplane!” and its successors never felt dangerous, subversive or aggressive. Unsinkable Captain of Spoofs 2010-12-01T20:43:00Z Yet there was a strong vibe to this summer show that seemed subversive rather than somber. Sporty? It's the Olympics, Stupid! 2012-09-18T17:23:29Z There’s a subversive spark of spontaneity within the disciplined rote, a feeling of genuine joy, and sorrow, and terror. ‘The Old Woman,’ With Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z He is best known to mainstream audiences for his Tony Award-winning book for the charming musical “Once,” but his usual brand of whimsy is far more subversive. Review: The Private Dystopias of ‘Arlington’ and ‘Rooms’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z As the days drag on - that's right, they are in line for days - the two women get to know each other and a small but meaningful subversive act begins to take shape. ArtsBeat: A South African 'Miss Julie' Captivates Edinburgh Festival 2012-08-21T19:44:25Z It is this sort of thing that makes one subversively nostalgic for the era when movies like “Fatal Attraction” and “9 1/2 Weeks” made currency of raw sex and untrammeled desire. | The Joylessness of Sex on TV 2013-05-28T13:30:29Z Beginning on Dec. 6, 1941, and unfolding in 23 days of real-time narration, “Perfidia” is a murder mystery, a subversive historical novel, and a dark meditation on power, politics, race and justice. James Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’: dark doings on the eve of WWII 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z At the center of the series was the subversive idea that although women are incredibly powerful, they often downplay or hide their abilities in a world that wouldn’t be able to handle it. 21 TV Shows That Revolutionized Female Sexuality 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z She lived among the subversive artists of her day — Salvador Dali chief among them, along with Man Ray and Jean Cocteau — as well as the beautiful people. Fact-laden Schiaparelli biography gives little shape to the woman or her designs Early on, Bailey established a subversive style of portraiture, often placing his famous subjects against a simple white backdrop, crowded into a square frame to project a new generation’s energy and attitude. The Rolling Stones, David Bailey and Taschen's big, pricey book 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Built in 1914, the Volksbühne made its reputation as a center for theatrically daring, sometimes politically subversive performance in East Berlin, when the city was divided in the postwar years. Plans for Volksbühne Theater Cause Worry About Berlin’s Artistic Direction 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z "Outside pressure was enormous," he told Reuters, adding that the Stasi especially targeted punk bands, believing it provided them with a way to get at leaders of a subversive youth culture. Archive immortalizes East German Punk rock scene 2011-07-20T11:09:05Z The Turner quartet’s subversive act will, paradoxically, affirm their own position within the museums, biennials, fairs and institutions that confer artistic prestige and power. What’s the Point of the Turner Prize, Anyway? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Cowart described the somewhat “subversive” sharing arrangement as “membership in a club.” Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Donates Shunk-Kender Photo Trove 2013-12-18T23:03:36Z While all these shows are adored by comedy fans, they never found huge audiences, because the comedy was too niche and clever to be packaged and consumed en masse: Sly, edgy, smart, subversive, absurd. I’m worried that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s “Sisters” will be as bad as it looks 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Directed by Tim Burton, “Alice in Wonderland,” a 3-D blend of live action and animation that opens Friday, is meant as a contemporary, subversive take on a cherished story. Film: Drinking Blood: New Wonders of Alice?s World 2010-02-27T02:58:00Z That take ended up in the final film, and it reassured leagues of fanboys worried that it could lose the dark, subversive tone of the graphic novel. Teen actress flexes muscles in "Kick-Ass" 2010-04-20T00:22:00Z But Alice’s adventures are perhaps most subversively appealing for their blithe indifference to the kind of tidy moralizing that had been a staple of Victorian children’s literature. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z The series is full of similarly subversive cultural material designed to infiltrate the country's stifling isolationism. Planning for the future: how design students got serious 2010-07-13T13:18:00Z Cheryl opposed television, so young Anaïs would sneak over to her grandparents’ place whenever she wanted to watch; she has fond and uncommonly subversive memories of the nightly news with Dan Rather. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “For me, what’s subversive about Superman is that it’s not subversive.” ‘Man of Steel’ Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again 2013-05-22T12:06:02Z He had a great gift for subversive humor. In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z I knew this from when I was very young, when my school friends were framing Monet prints in their childhood bedrooms — I was subversive so I chose Warhols. Mourning in Paris 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z With luminous interiors, the pristine but unpretentious building is a subtle container for its subversive and challenging art, and a geometric foil to the surrounding landscape, which itself embodies lessons suggested by Gilardi’s micro-ecosystems. 2 Art Havens in the Hudson Valley Offer Nature Indoors and Out 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Madonna — once upon a think piece — was subversive. Stop calling corporate pop stars “subversive”: Gaga has nothing on actual dissidents like Ai Weiwei 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Throughout the film, Moore chats with locals and drops his jaw as he discovers subversive yet common sense ideas being implemented, such as nutritional lunches for school children, rehabilitative prison systems and free universities. Michael Moore: 'Donald Trump is a performance artist' 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z And the circumstances by which we meet these boys is where the subversive brilliance of "Attack the Block" begins. Before John Boyega became "Star Wars" hero Finn, he was far more revolutionary in "Attack the Block" 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Zink’s voice is naturally satirical and subversive; she can’t help seeing that her characters are comic and sublime at the same time. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Rathom followed up his bogus Muck story with absurd accusations that the conductor was engaged in subversive activity. The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z But its subversive intentions are ultimately undercut by its lack of nerve, along with a lurking sentimentality. | ?Happy, Happy': ?Happy, Happy,? Directed by Anne Sewitsky ? Review 2011-09-15T22:54:43Z It is, after all, one of the most subversive acts we can do. The Classic Novel That Makes Percival Everett Cringe 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Waters is one of the great independent film-makers, a true subversive. Still Waters 2010-12-04T00:03:00Z Some of his translations involve a tidy paring-down — “Running Up That Hill” began in a pastoral haze and only gradually hit Ms. Bush’s original stride — but others felt shrewdly subversive. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z But it’s unified by its subversive humor and its inventive spins on traditional formline art, the distinctive ovoid/curvilinear style in which creatures of myth and legend are depicted in indigenous Northwest Coast art. Alison Marks’ show at Frye Art Museum shows satirical sensibility 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z “I think ‘Little Women’ is always a secretly subversive story,” Amy Pascal, a producer on the film, said in an interview. This Is ‘Little Women’ for a New Era 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It was an entertainingly subversive lob at," he wrote, "the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. Seattle Shakes delivers a fine 'Pygmalion' 2012-02-28T23:02:04Z Such success in unloading the affect on to the beholder is unusual in any kind of art, and deeply subversive. Why Bran Nue Dae should get a UK release 2010-07-25T21:04:00Z “I loved the book as a kid, but I always pictured the witches as little old white ladies, right? So this feels almost subversive.” ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Partly because of three big buildings: the capacious National, the daring Globe, the subversive Young Vic. Strange Interlude; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Trash Cuisine – review 2013-06-08T23:05:35Z With Community, I’m counterbalancing the Orwellian pacification of a sitcom with messages of humanity, which is subversive in that medium. Rick and Morty creators: 'We're pulling apart the tropes of sci-fi' 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Despite this success, though, the group is still considered underground at home, where both its message and its sound are considered subversive. Queer, Arab, and Onstage After Orlando 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z As our reviewer, Merritt Tierce, put it, the novel “crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist.” New in Paperback: ‘Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,’ ‘The Fact of a Body’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The artists Chinen favors tend to be “unruly,” “stubborn,” “subversive” and/or “dissonant.” A Case for the New Jazz Sound That Will Inspire Playlists 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Certainly Mr. Parker’s collection of “Nutcracker” dances shows a subversive streak, an alternative mentality. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: 'Nut/Cracked' 2010-12-24T16:35:09Z Instead, they saw an intentionally subversive, campy film and called it a failure. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z In a centrally commanded, “progressive,” utilitarian Soviet society it was a gesture of subversive silliness. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A Russian Guru at Work in Venice 2011-06-13T12:00:06Z The intellectual context of theatre of the absurd may now be long over, but surely one can still make subversive French art? Has French theatre lost its va-va-voom? 2011-03-23T15:02:34Z I can’t otherwise explain how a Canadian vision of a proud, kindhearted and racially reconciled America made an old-fashioned, feel-good show like “The Music Man” feel the way “Rocky Horror” used to: transformative and subversive. Which Show Is Good, Clean Fun: ‘Rocky Horror’ or ‘The Music Man’? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z “There are always epidemics no one understands, coming out of nowhere,” a character comments in Larry Kramer’s immense, sprawling, subversive, slightly insane and brilliant new novel, “The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart.” A boisterous novel that imagines American history as a gay epic 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It was seen as a subversive attack on capitalism and the patriarchal family. Jonathan Miller attacks West End trend of 'dumping' classic plays in a new era 2013-02-02T11:23:44Z Notwithstanding its political partisanship and rousing feminist message, The Post is not an especially risky or subversive film. Meryl Streep's newfound politicisation fires up timely drama The Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z If cricket seems an unconventional delivery system, Karunatilaka offers the world a subversively funny, spot-on portrait of one tiny nation addressing its tragedy with humor, kindness and quiet, unwavering courage. 'Pradeep Mathew': The story of a country, told through cricket 2012-05-02T19:31:05Z The imagery, she said, “is so sophisticated and subversive but it’s so joyful as well.” This Century-Old Mural Was Rescued From a Whitney’s Stairwell 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Her work uses repetition as an artistic tool, becoming like abstract manifestos “as political as they are economic, reflecting subversively on social behavior and social structures,’’ the catalog said. ArtsBeat: Brazilian Artist Wins New $100,000 Prize 2010-12-10T21:37:00Z The Weimar spirit survives explicitly in performers like Dusty Limits – whose accomplished musicality and gender-twisting elan are a fixture of the new London scene – and implicitly in the hilarious, radically subversive broadsides of David Hoyle. Come to the Cabaret 2013-02-28T17:53:53Z All pretty harmless, though there's probably a more subversive show trying to get out. The World's Most Dangerous Place for Women | The Genius of Omar Khayyam | Cougar Town | The Man Who Cycled the Americas | Watch this 2010-03-30T05:45:00Z The images look like they were born as ads, or billboards — which, we learned in the 1970s, contained big, subversive messages. In Praise of Maurice Sendak 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z But success and excess among its brilliant and subversive contributors begins to challenge its existence. Sundance Film Festival 2015 Lineup: High-Profile Documentaries Among Premieres 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Scenic designer Jacob A. Climer adorns the rustic space with Christmas lights, Virgin Mary figurines and a flickering menorah for a subversive holiday-season production that deftly toes the line between grunge and glamour. Review | Mason Alexander Park brings star power to Olney’s ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z But despite the potential subversive thrill, this graffiti lasts only as long as the projector is on, which is why video sites like YouTube are vital in preserving it. Video Mapping Artists Use Light as a Medium 2012-01-29T05:00:11Z I guess most people know me for Scandal now where I play a dark character who has this secret, subversive government job as a spy. Scott Foley Talks Directing, His Dark Side and His 'Scandal' Love Triangle 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z She concluded her speech by saying that "our culture will remain proud, subversive and free." France moves to bolster cultural venues, cinemas following terrorist attacks 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Payne, Dern implied, is in a tradition of subversives who have courted Hollywood money yet recoiled from the superficiality and predictability of the films that most producers want to finance. Cannes celebrates the movie mavericks 2013-05-25T23:06:17Z That last film, a subversive movie about a superhero who wasted his powers, was a brilliant parable for the years ahead. Can Will Smith Become a Major Movie Star Again? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “It was my outlet for everything. Especially as kind of an angsty teen, I felt something extremely subversive about hip-hop that connected to me.” ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ breakout star Awkwafina is here to steal scenes and change the way you see Asian American women 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z She slips a subversive double edge under Mary’s worshipful adherence to Gary’s every word, effectively signaling that she is not quite the happy homebody. | 'Apple Cove': In-Laws Are Core Issue for This Adam and Eve 2011-02-15T23:42:54Z Although there are many subversive fairytales to choose from, I particularly like this picture book, with Grandma all twinkly-eyed in her cap and apron, and lots of yummy recipes. Emma Barnes's top 10 books with wolves 2012-08-09T13:42:22Z But this N.W.A. alum still has a rich catalog of songs that were once considered subversive but are now classic. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Over 100 years on, it still seems subversive and threatening. Reading group: A slap in the face from André Gide's The Immoralist 2012-07-12T16:48:17Z In this novel, as in earlier ones, he uses his impressive talent to create brilliantly subversive alternate histories. ‘A Man Lies Dreaming’: Imagining Hitler as a low-rent private detective 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Dietland is most subversive in its insistence that not giving in to these messages is actually productive rather than futile. Killer looks: how Dietland confronts the violence of beauty culture 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Asked to illustrate mankind’s future, Rivera gave its hero the features of Lenin; the young Rockefeller had the subversive fresco ripped from the wall. The great might-have-been 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z And as he began to experiment with writing his own songs, DuBrul found his voice in culturally subversive lyrics. Meet the punk activist who’s changing the psychiatric system from the inside 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z To some ears, that message seems subversive, indeed bracingly so. A Sly Wink to Pinups of the Past 2012-05-21T14:58:01Z There are some great films on this year’s best picture list, but Get Out is the most purely subversive and raucously entertaining. Why Get Out should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z In the 1960s, he blurred gender lines by crafting pantsuits and tuxedos for women at a time when such notions were considered revolutionary and subversive. Perspective | Richmond exhibition further cements Yves Saint Laurent’s legacy 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z That subversive streak has returned in these strychnine times. Against all odds, A Tribe Called Quest delivers one final masterpiece 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z "It seems so difficult for people to do, more and more, so I think it's very subversive in that sense." Venice film fest puts hard-hitting global issues on screen 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z His cast gives wonderfully understated performances that pair nicely with a script, written by Ohs and his actors, that tackles grief and guilt with deadpan humor and a subversive understanding of the afterlife. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z The preface to the poem describes it as “subversive to the existing interests of Government.” Shelley Poem, 200 Years Later, Returns to Oxford 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z His subversive but oddly effective approach caused Advertising Age to call him the father of the funny commercial and one of the 20th century’s most influential admen. Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z One of the great things about AHS was the way it took horror movie conventions – whether witches, vampires or aliens – and subversively played around with them. American Horror Story season six review – a scarily shaky start 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z These men and boys make the subversive power of makeup crystal clear. Those Lips! Those Eyes! That Stubble! The Transformative Power of Men in Makeup 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It’s an almost subversive approach to using aesthetics to lure a viewer into dealing with subject matter that’s very difficult.” Ori Gersht: ‘History Repeating’ at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 2012-08-26T03:54:34Z The marriage between the parents is just one union serving as a counterpoint to the love match that all the daughters so ardently, subversively desire. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z The character that Suilebhan plays seems earnest, yet also subversive and mischievous. The revolution will definitely be dramatized 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z McKay understands that as well, creating her own pop songs that are as joyful as they are subversive. Nellie McKay is working her way through the decades 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z He published those pictures in 1978 as the “X Portfolio” — it’s on display at the Getty — and they are by far his most subversive work. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z In Hitler’s universe the Jews were an alien “counter-race”, whose unnatural beliefs included dangerous and subversive politics. Re-examining the Holocaust 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z There are plenty of other musicals that offer a jolly, escapist knees-up, but few that combine it with such subversive wit and emotional clout. My Fair Lady – review 2012-12-19T13:14:23Z “This,” Eleanor Nairne wrote in her review of the show in The New York Times, “is painting with the subversive edge of a contemporary fable, fresh from the imaginative depths of a wicked national treasure.” Paula Rego, Artist Known for Unsettling Images, Dies at 87 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Simultaneously starchy and louche, the look is meant to be subversive. Are Hippies the New Goths? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Blaker, a clean comic who steers clear of politics, seems more subversive than secular Jewish comics, even those working with much edgier material. What’s So Funny About Orthodox Judaism? This Comic Has One Answer 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z MacFarlane's hit show frequently features subversive song and dance numbers, which pay tribute to the era of Hollywood musicals. Family Guy to perform at Proms 2012-06-14T10:04:07Z I’m all for conscientious or even subversive commentary. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z And this is the essence of this Canadian troupe's subversive genius, won by shuffling critiques of first-world stupidity into a tall stack of inane. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It's a brilliant move, not only for its sheer subversive power — critiquing a government in terms it does not recognize — but also for its understanding of desire as essential, equally, to politics and ardor. Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The Bloomsberries could be at turns backbiting, encouraging, critical and adulatory; their “radical and subversive code of conduct,” coupled with a refined taste for the good life, shaped Keynes’s approach to economic questions. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The show has changed the face of drag, a historically subversive art form, and has become a beacon of visibility and hope for LGBTQ2+ youth. Drag is not dangerous: How exposing your kids to drag performance can be a good thing 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Similarly subversive styles are being marketed as novelties. 2010-01-21T08:08:00Z Tyrone, as the puppet is called, begins blurting out the kinds of subversive thoughts that the seemingly docile, naïve Jason would never dare to verbalize. Theater Review: ?Hand to God,? by Robert Askins, at Ensemble Studio Theater 2011-11-12T00:45:29Z It may indeed be time for him to quit, and his previous, consistently subversive forays into gallery-running, exhibition-making and magazine publishing give him plenty of options. Art Review: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim - Review 2011-11-03T22:20:09Z In its own subversively elitist way it offers the promise of bright futures only to those who educate themselves at fine universities beyond Dillon’s borders. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z And now, this autumn, Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset are unleashing their subversive imagination on London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Elmgreen and Dragset plan mischief for V&A 2013-01-17T15:18:21Z His novel “The Garlic Ballads,” as it was called on its publication in English in 1995, and other works “have been judged subversive because of their sharp criticism of contemporary Chinese society.” China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z In the wake of slave rebellions, several states passed laws fining those who might teach slaves to read and write, tacitly acknowledging the subversive potential of reading and writing. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Like “Try Me,” the song’s narrative is all subversive id: Dej brushing off an obsessed male suitor who doesn’t realize that she’d rather take his necklace than his phone number. A Female Rapper Pushes Forward 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z For a hit Hollywood comedy, National Lampoon’s Vacation is surprisingly subversive in its demolition of the archetypal all-American family holiday. Worst holidays in cinema – ranked! 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Yet the man who remains best known for his brief, stellar scenes in “The Princess Bride” is actually “one of American theatre’s finest prose stylists and most subversive playwrights”, writes Mr Lahr. Bright lights 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s this illogical, inexplicable humour that makes much of this new wave of TV comedy feel novel and slightly subversive. 'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z For the young he was a subversively Romantic figure. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z Framing the story as a minstrel show that, while subversively comic, means derogatory language and blackface are part of the action. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z But with the exception of “Black Mirror,” few of these shows lean into the type of subversive social commentary Serling regularly wove through “The Twilight Zone.” It’s Bobcat Goldthwait’s moment: With “Misfits & Monsters,” he’s not hiding anymore 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z I think it probably is, for some people, but their subversive, ironic play still feeds the valorization of mass killers and encourages them to do what they do. Why are women obsessed with true crime? Rachel Monroe has some answers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Even when dressed for masculine realness, Little Richard somehow managed to be subversive. No Prince Without the King 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z It seems absurd to complain of what’s described as a “trailer park ballet” — let alone one with this title and a set that prominently features a toilet — as being neither subversive nor vulgar enough. ‘Chris March’s The Butt-Cracker Suite!’ at Here 2012-12-01T03:33:58Z So one of the most pleasant surprises of the altogether pleasant and surprising "Guardians of the Galaxy" is that it takes us back to Marvel's roots and the subversive satisfactions those early days provided. 'Guardians of the Galaxy's' heroes aren't what you'd expect 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The characters are smart enough to know how reductive these personas are; “GLOW” is smart enough to show how fiercely owning these roles — which, at least, give women power-bombing agency — can be liberating, even subversive. Review: In Netflix’s ‘GLOW,’ Empowerment Comes Through Power Slams 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Four years earlier, Attorney General Tom C. Clark had placed it on a list of subversive groups. Sonia Handelman Meyer, Socially Conscious Photographer, Dies at 102 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z In the words of our reviewer, Alida Becker, this novel is a “captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean” to the real women who worked thanklessly on the first Oxford English Dictionary. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z He still lives on, sometimes in more subversive versions of the traditional fairytale. Emma Barnes's top 10 books with wolves 2012-08-09T13:42:22Z The highlight was when he subversively introduced the “Academy’s new director of the minority outreach”, Clueless actor and Fox News contributor Stacey Dash. OscarsSoWhite: Chris Rock exposed the depths of the industry's race problem 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z But Ms. Rush’s wry, subversively timed performance makes it worth watching. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Then, the theatre was an unlicensed playhouse, prevented by law from staging anything so subversive as a play. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z The MacArthur Foundation on Thursday lauded him for a “subversive, fearless, and risky approach” that challenges viewers “to reconsider the integrated spaces we share and to reflect on opportunities for sympathetic connection.” ‘Now my life will change’: Meet the 2016 MacArthur ‘geniuses’ 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Studios scoured movie scripts for subversive leftwing messages, and in any other version of 1947 Meg would have been heavily scrutinised. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Or as strange and subversive — “Rent” is full of sex and drugs, bonkers performance art and mentions of B.D.S.M. — as any form of art. How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z It's simple — “Claws” is cheeky, subversive, outrageous, and smarter than the average summertime diversion. Smart Watch: "Pose" returns with a season demanding to be seen 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z In our case, it's mostly situational comedy, but it still deals with subversive issues. Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing and what constitutes a patriotic comedy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z I admire “Open City,” by Teju Cole; Maggie Nelson’s subversive, smart and loving “The Argonauts”; Emily Berry’s poetry collection “Stranger, Baby” — it’s about the death of a mother. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “Something like The Craft is totally empowering and subversive as it’s about harnessing your power,” she said. ‘We are the weirdos’: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It would take the ballet equivalent of Johnny Depp, someone who can explode a show from the inside, but these performers are far too earnest in their interpretations for any such subversive fun to transpire. Dance Review: Dreams of a Dying Courtesan 2011-06-05T22:09:55Z Bachor uses hundreds of pieces of Italian glass and marble that he cuts to create the sometimes subversive mosaics, which he installs on the ground to beautify unsightly city streets. Rogue artist fills city potholes with mosaics and social commentary 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Her brand of feminism was subversive; it wore a good dress. Death of Letitia Baldrige Is Loss for Society as Decorum Fades 2012-11-05T18:32:08Z Crass were many things – angry, subversive and loud – but they were not a band of hate. Crass's political punk is as relevant now as ever 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z Some comics will establish a sweet demeanor, such as Sarah Silverman, only to shock audiences with a subversive, carefully crafted, outrageous statement. We don’t know when Donald Trump is joking 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z He is hired to protect it against people who might in any way be subversive. "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z But he then segues into a subversive rendering of that inviolably upbeat song, “Accentuate the Positive.” Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The subversive “Botticelli” swaggers with unbridled simulated sex, full nudity, unexpected disco and — why not? — soothing meaning in peanut butter sandwiches. Review | Sex, politics and art painted in broad strokes in ‘Botticelli in the Fire’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The show is subversive, thought-provoking, sometimes silly and fascinating - all typical attributes of the company. Theater festivals fire up a cold New York 2013-01-05T23:37:24Z It falls open at the Secunda Pastorum – the second shepherds' play – which must be one of the most subversive pieces of literature ever written. Season's readings: Secunda Pastorum by Alfred W Pollard 2010-12-20T10:43:33Z Mixing nature and culture, wood from the urban wild and “civilized” furniture, the object is arresting and disturbing, a brilliantly simple and subversive gesture. Nari Ward Shows the Power of Objects at the New Museum 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The fact is, comedy can only be so subversive when that subversion gets you invited back by the target in the hopes of generating bigger ratings. An Unexpected Globes from Gervais: No Harm, No Foul, No Memories 2012-01-16T14:06:04Z This was especially important for enslaved African-Americans, who invented group dances like the Ring Shout or the Cakewalk as subversive acts against racial oppression. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z A comedian whose sarcasm and subversive wit seemed revolutionary back when the gracious Johnny Carson was late-night's undisputed king, Letterman, 68, ranks as the format's elder statesman. The No. 1 reason fans are turning out: They love David Letterman 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z “Better Living Through Chemistry” has its mildly subversive moments, especially when Doug bonds with his son by inviting him on a vandalizing spree. Movie Review: ‘Better Living Through Chemistry,’ or at Least Better Loving 2014-03-13T23:05:47Z The burglary seemed to be an impromptu reprise of the theme of Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, a subversive response to the consumerism on show. Cannes 2013: Festival taps into the power of nostalgia to fight back against global competition 2013-05-18T19:04:38Z A sprawling, subversive and mesmerizing novel about families and the power of storytelling. 8 books about Muslim life for a nation that knows little about Islam 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Among the material deemed subversive for children is a description of a “pounding and cutting room” where knives and machines threaten to cut and pound a child instead of fudge. Here's a 'Lost' Chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z His portrayal of the Kabbalists evoked a realm of mystics who succeeded in being absolutely subversive of Jewish tradition while somehow remaining within its historical folds. A Guide to Religious Anarchy: Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The story is told clearly enough – no small achievement in this opera – and the production has no distracting idées fixes, though it does keep one subversive surprise until just before the final curtain. Lohengrin – review 2013-05-24T16:47:29Z “It’s subversive, in a sense,” said Ms. Diamond, of Yahoo Food. Vegans Go Glam 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z "Real Women" was revolutionary for its time and still, decades later, feels subversive: It puts women center stage, and not rich, glamorous women. 'Real Women Have Curves': funny, flawed and fabulous 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z If any of these shows are genuinely subversive, however, it’s probably MTV’s “Faking It,” on Tuesday. Television Review: MTV’s ‘Faking It’ Stars Katie Stevens and Rita Volk 2014-04-21T21:55:24Z The story is either “transformative president” or “subversive president,” but that nails you in the same direction, emotionally. Stephen Colbert Discusses ‘The Late Show’ and Covering the Election as Himself 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Hints of the trickster, indeed, that most intelligent subversive. A Poet Takes Aim at the Literary and Political Patriarchy 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Edinburgh gets a chance to see 1927's slyly subversive staged graphic novel, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, which is at the Traverse on Tuesday as part of Manipulate. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-01-28T16:50:48Z The dictionary project was now judged subversive, and many of those who worked on it were arrested and shot. Stalinist Crimes in Ukraine That Resonate Today 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The novelty may fade quickly for those interested in subversive snacks as the lollipops don’t actually contain human breast milk. A treat fit for Freud: Breast-milk lollipops 2013-06-06T23:25:00Z Most importantly, this transferred through to his work even as he came to embrace blockbusters like "Spider-Man," creating a subversive effect. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Cunningham, however, keeps spinning subversive variations on this idea. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z It’s a pure-dance theme-and-variations architecture in which a few sparse but subversive and exploratory movement ideas are assembled into a vast and unpredictable whole. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z It has many other things on its mind, including a subversive history of American politics from Operation Desert Shield through the start of the Trump presidency, and it’s superb. With ‘Doxology,’ Nell Zink Delivers Her Most Ambitious and Expansive Novel Yet 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z A lot of the humor is very subversive and it's very subliminal in some ways, and there's very broad humor. Robin Thede leads yet another comedy revolution with "A Black Lady Sketch Show" 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z They are rebels at school together — staging protests, publishing subversive content in the school magazine, encouraging other students to revolt. 'Girlfriend Boyfriend' tracks social change in Taiwan 2012-08-02T20:14:10Z He wants the next incarnation to be for television, in a form that allows the show to be “much more subversive and broader.” “Halal in the Family”: The Sitcom We Need 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z These unscripted speeches are today’s version of the subversive marginalia that popped up in medieval manuscripts. “Kiss my behind, King Cetewayo”: The secret hilarity of untranslated foreign-language movie lines 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z We like to let our imaginations run riot and think of them as a latterday Throbbing Gristle, a bunch of art terrorists doing abusive, subversive things to mainstream pop culture from the margins. New band of the day ? No 823: Hype Williams 2010-07-12T16:19:00Z Deeply romantic, it also had something of the subversive about it. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z The real problem here lies in the experts, who don't understand what most of us mean by "bribe" and what we're trying to achieve with our supposedly subversive approach. Motherlode Blog: In Defense of Child Bribery 2013-01-11T21:30:05Z Growing up in a conservative Midwest suburb with a stay-at-home mom, working dad and brothers who they encouraged professionally, I found Barbie to be the perfect subversive mentor. How feminists are catching up to Barbie: She's everything – and has always been subversive 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z In the Soviet era he was arrested and interrogated twice by the K.G.B. for processing his own supposedly subversive prints in the darkrooms of two different factories for which he served as official photographer. The Week Ahead: May 22 ? 28 2011-05-20T20:21:34Z It might be over-egging the pudding to claim that an animated fairytale, however cheerfully subversive, is a feminist masterpiece. Frozen-mania: how Elsa, Anna and Olaf conquered the world 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z And now we can see that her decision of expressing the tremors of the masculine epic of war through domestic life was poignantly subversive, true, and truly free. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The message is shockingly subversive: young is no longer cool. Toyota Venza's anti-hipster commercials 2011-07-11T19:52:00Z “Their work is wry, gently subversive and affable — perhaps all are British qualities,” Ms. Lilley said. This Fall, London is Awash in Sculpture 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, he began a subversive newspaper that was swiftly silenced. Theater Review: Sean McNall in Charles Morey’s ‘Figaro,’ at Pearl Theater 2012-11-06T22:50:17Z As an understated challenge to assumptions about genre and gender, the release fits easily with Ms. Ndegeocello’s oeuvre, which has long made subversive ideas about music and culture sound approachable. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Throughout his long career, both in the Soviet Union and the United States, Mr. Melamid, now 69, has perpetrated one long series of subversive stunts. Alexander Melamid Begins Artenol, an Art Magazine 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z In fact, the movie’s cool politesse belies the subversive nature of the main characters' actions. Cannes: Cate Blanchett-starring lesbian romance 'Carol' true to period 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But subversive crafts or décor can also represent a retreat, a taming of political energy into calming projects: knitting, coloring on a poster, browsing Etsy for yard decorations. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z "X" is a really upbeat, fun, crazy night out at the movies, even though it also has these weird, dark, subversive elements too. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z The angel in this picture is subversive in a new way: it is androgynous. How Leonardo da Vinci's angels pointed the way to the future 2012-12-25T01:00:00Z The frightening term formalism — code for anything considered subversive — was mentioned. ‘Bolt,’ at Gallery for Russian Arts and Design in London 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z In his review in the Guardian, Michael Billington described it as “the most shocking, subversive and violent play in London,” comparing it to Martin McDonagh’s comedy of horrors about Irish terrorism, “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” Review: Stephen Rea Is One Really Mad Man in ‘Cyprus Avenue’ 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z And by the way, being mean isn’t automatically daring and subversive. Stop mocking Adam Holland 2013-04-30T15:04:00Z British TV viewers are relatively used to seeing irredeemably eccentric characters and TV shows that don't condescend to the audience, but on American TV in 2003, this was all wildly subversive. Arrested Development season four: the return of the greatest sitcom ever 2013-05-20T16:13:33Z Owens, although usually well-behaved, can at times also be defiant, willful and immature, and Mr. James adroitly conveys his hurt and half-buried anger in subversive flashes. Review: ‘Race’ Chronicles Jesse Owens’s Rise to Olympic Glory 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z He is not as subversive as he thinks, preaching as he is to the converted. Immortal Technique – review 2013-06-17T13:47:40Z A similar motive soon propelled Andy Warhol, who elevated a subversive litany of gay-themed clichés to a position of cultural respectability and acclaim. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The tone of the movie is sharp and the moral at times subversive. Mary Poppins: not sugary, but sharp and subversive – on the page and the screen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z But while reading their respectful account, I began to wonder if Day’s religious conservatism might also, perhaps unconsciously, have been politically subversive. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Her hits, including “Supermodel” and “I Kissed a Girl,” fused sugary melodies and her bright, girlish vocals with storytelling that was brilliantly subversive for mainstream audiences. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z With “outside” activists like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch summarily dismissed, the field of possible subversives is narrowed. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z Thomson's running theme is the relentless, profound and subversive effect that cinema from the outset has had on us. The Big Screen by David Thomson – review 2012-10-12T21:55:01Z “Taste” stands out among the cookbooks of its time: It’s seasonal in its organization, lyrical in its prose, precise in its instructions and subversive in its politics. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Part of the subversive appeal of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Into the Woods" is that it gleefully skewers well-known fairy-tale tropes. 'Into the Woods' starts strong but magic fades, reviews say 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Beeping like a truck backing up, Ms. Hoffbauer transmitted the work’s subversive wit, but she ended in tune with Satie, her sung note ringing through the cavernous gallery. Dance Review: Yvonne Rainer Retrospective at Dia:Beacon 2012-02-27T23:17:52Z Far from the control of famed surrealists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and the poet André Breton, a group of female European emigres created a distinct, subversive and surprising world of their own. The surrealist muses who roared 2010-06-18T07:34:00Z The French festival sorted categories by pinup glamour and militant subversive. Theater: Tassel-Twirling Gets a Feminist Touch 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z But, like the illegal rave, most UK underground theatre isn't subversive or experimental: it's merely out to give people a good time, while bypassing licensing laws. Spirit of the underground: theatre 2011-01-30T23:00:00Z Game theory, he argues, isn’t just part of “hegemonic cold war discourse,” but what the political scientist James Scott called a subversive “weapon of the weak.” Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z The Stephen Colbert who will emerge in 2015 as a considerably more traditional late night talk show host will no doubt be brilliant and subversive – as, for over three decades, Letterman has been. “Stephen Colbert” is dead, long live Stephen Colbert! 2014-04-11T14:36:00Z The gallery states that the work is meant to “provoke an examination of one’s own insecurities, thus turning them into subversive ‘thinking sculptures.’” Erwin Wurm Brings ‘One Minute Sculptures’ to Lehmann Maupin 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z His humour was cheeky, irreverent, subversive and most definitely not politically correct. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z Who effects change in this country more subversively? Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale: Men of Devo 2010-06-23T08:00:00Z Zhenya, the heroine, is arrested in 1937 on trumped-up charges of terrorism, brutally interrogated and slung into a steel cage with other supposed subversives. Into the Whirlwind - review 2011-01-23T17:59:34Z They were as subversive as they were popular, and with songs such as “Peg,” “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” and “Hey Nineteen,” they were very popular. Walter Becker was the cynical one hiding behind the guitar 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z There was a massive campaign of repression that targeted real or imagined opposition members and "subversives," including students, workers and labor leaders, human rights activists, academics, doctors, priests and politicians. Democracies don’t bounce back post-dictatorship. "Argentina, 1985" shows how justice looks afterward 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z The horror of Hitler is shown through five women of the Third Reich representing both compassionate subversives and rabid Nazis. 'Night': worthy message, too heavy-handed 2012-01-26T21:23:04Z Could it suggest that the avant-garde, which was once seen as incendiary and subversive, is so enfeebled that it is reduced to the role of a real estate developers’ marketing ploy? Design: The Power, or Folly, of a Product's Name 2011-10-30T13:00:09Z Related: Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields The film’s central figure is Adi Rukun, a man whose brother was captured and killed with unimaginable cruelty for being a suspected subversive. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US – No 6: The Look of Silence 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z At one point, I wondered if the most subversive thing to do would be not to record “The Entertainer”! A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z So he found objects and then set about them, often with subversive intent. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z For most of its history, jazz has been subversive and political, O’Farrill told Salon. Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But for all its maverick – and often subversive – imagination, the moral vision is clear for anyone who can see past the tufty haircuts and nonsense words. Dr Seuss, happy birthday! Let's say it once more 2011-03-02T19:05:00Z “It subversively gets kids into Shakespeare,” Robbins said. L.A. without the NEA: Tim Robbins on his $50-a-week first acting job, and why it proves the power of the NEA 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z It was one of the most subversive stories I ever ran in my section — I felt like Thomas Paine. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I declare these jokes groundbreaking 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The knowingly demented likes of Secular Haze and Ghuleh/Zombie Queen are both wildly entertaining and elegantly subversive, as a refined pop sensibility collides noisily with the reassuring thud of old-school metal. Ghost: Infestissumam – review 2013-04-11T21:00:01Z These gripping paintings are both elegiac and subversive. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Horror, always a disreputable genre, is the perfect vessel for political comment and George’s films were always subversive and knowing. Edgar Wright, Alice Lowe, John Landis and Ben Wheatley on zombie king George A Romero 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Why would he act as though talking about politics was a subversive act that required a deep cover? Perspective | The woeful defeatism of Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z I treated the entire process as a performance that operated on both sincere and subversive levels. I left Facebook 2012-07-10T15:22:00Z He wrote a song about how everything was awesome amid withering divorce proceedings — making it the “Here, My Dear” of subversive pop confections written for toy adaptations. ‘Everything Is Awesome’ for Shawn Patterson, the most unlikely of best original song Oscar nominees 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The director has a taste for glossy spectacle and an eye for delirious mise-en-scène, matched with a darkly subversive bent and a taste for ambiguity. Paul Verhoeven Has Made a Film About a Lesbian Nun. Jesus Is Next. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Millet’s boldly playful and intellectually charged body of work combines lightning bolts of emotional acuity, moments of precise poetry and subversively dark comedy along with investigations of existential ideas and real-world concerns. In These Stories, Home Is Where the Heartache Is 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In a sea of red and coral, ethereal pink and nude seemed downright subversive, as did black, especially Katharine McPhee's Theyskens for Theory gown with a plummeting neckline that elicited gasps. On the Runway Blog: Trendspotting: Taffeta and Tulle at the Golden Globes 2013-01-15T00:29:07Z In its jaunty and insouciant way, this is actually pretty subversive: a film about strikers who are not evil, or deluded, or indeed defeated? Film review: Made in Dagenham 2010-09-30T10:59:00Z I don’t mean to suggest that Mr. Nicholaw, best known for the spectacularly smutty “Book of Mormon,” has infused the original material with subversive aspects, or even a single naughty word. Theater Review: ‘Aladdin’ Tweaks the Disney Formula With Breezy Insouciance 2014-03-21T02:00:01Z They didn’t go for subversive fashion statements but rather they dressed for the fantasies that movies conjure up. Perspective | The Oscars red carpet was diverse, even if the nominees weren’t 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z “I wanted to create artworks for the everyday, explore their sculptural, subversive power and shed the heavy, ancient French culture of saddle making.” Luxurious Quality, More Than a Name 2012-11-21T15:30:24Z His clothes were wild, but not nearly as subversive. Perspective | Little Richard would have been the first to say his style was fabulous. He was right. 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z On the day it won the Turner prize, Whiteread was named "worst artist of the year" by a subversive rival award. Artangel: Frontline warriors 2011-03-21T21:30:00Z Enrique spends the night there, outdoors, in the subversive shadows of art. Review: Enrique Vila-Matas Plots His Own Awakening in ‘The Illogic of Kassel’ 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z It was subversive, countercultural and punky, and used near-future and science-fiction stories as blackly humorous satires of contemporary events: in particular Thatcher’s Britain, the Cold War and the very real prospect of nuclear holocaust. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Then he embarks on a fluent soliloquy about subversive 1970s cinema, Thatcher-era repression, the scourge of box-office figures, the larger-than-life greatness of Elizabeth Taylor. T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z Her behavior — inspired by that foulmouthed little genius Arthur Rimbaud and tinctured by a subversive subject — wasn’t improved by the experience. Solving the Many Mysteries of What Became ‘Carol’ 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z No, their behavior isn’t — there’s that word again — nice, but the fun of Ms. Barrows’s work is that she allows her little heroines to be truly subversive, in Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer style. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z On Top of Spaghetti - Tom GlazerA reminder of one of life's simple and most subversive pleasures: changing the lyrics of hoary old campfire songs to something absurd. Readers recommend: children's songs ? the results 2011-02-17T16:01:23Z But those three words, not so much asked as insisted upon, were all that was needed to send us into a giddy space of subversive merriment. Joan Rivers, a singular comic with a writer's conflicted heart 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The channel is now backing Rothwell enthusiastically; along with Insecure, she has her own development deal, and is working on a “subversive” comedy for the network, set in New York. Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell on being 2018’s funniest character 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z O’Farrill, a socially engaged Grammy Award-winning musician who was born in Mexico and raised in New York City, set a subversive tone for the show. Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z What was subversive in the 1930s became abrasive or explosive in the 1940s. Astaire The Artist, Even in Blackface 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z “The story is either ‘transformative president’ or ‘subversive president,’ but that nails you in the same direction, emotionally,” he said. Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z A comprehensive visual aesthetic heavy on VHS fuzz, Polaroid soft focus and subversive holy imagery helped pique curiosity. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z But it is the clarity and passion of Evans’s images that hold us more than Ms. Levine’s subversive gesture. Art Review: ?Sherrie Levine: Mayhem,? at Whitney Museum - Review 2011-11-10T23:15:08Z Particularly in her depictions of immigrant women, Cornejo Villavicencio reveals a fullness of character that feels subversive, simply because of how rare it is. This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don’t Look Away. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Chief Judge Carol Amon dissented, calling Socrates a "dangerous subversive." Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z White’s subversive way with a hook and her ability to effortlessly blend dance beats from around the world make “Master of My Make-Believe” a deceptively breezy and enticing summer album. Album review: Santigold, 'Master of My Make-Believe' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-30T13:58:00Z It's a subversive way to approach our cultural attitudes toward domestic labor. Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z “And she was a very funny and kind of subversive person.” A Boy Raised by a Few ‘20th Century Women’ 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z A second is a riff on “Beauty and the Beast” as an ogre takes a princess captive, albeit to subversive results. Cannes 2015: In 'Tale of Tales,' reimagining Disney via Del Toro 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z His email protest accidentally triggered a subversive online campaign that might well see obscure Anglo-Japanese act The Frank Chickens crowned as the Australian lager's comics supreme. Edinburgh festival comedy endorsements are no laughing matter 2010-08-25T12:41:00Z It might be going a step and a half too far to suggest that “The Overnight” is subversive, in any grand social sense. “The Overnight”: Jason Schwartzman and Adam Scott ask whose is bigger in this edgy all-night comedy 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Hindemith’s Suite “1922” is Neo-Classical in form but subversive in content: a group of fractured, propulsive dances thick with parodies of 1920s pop music, played dazzlingly here. ?Evgeny Starodubtsev: Piano Recital? ? Review 2011-12-04T16:37:56Z In fact, most of his plays are socially subversive as well as funny. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z “Mislaid” feels like a subversive minstrel show sprung from an encyclopedic mind drunk on the Mad Hatter’s tea. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z An academic writing unreadable postmodern scholarship could claim to be subversive and quote several equally subversive friends. Stop calling corporate pop stars “subversive”: Gaga has nothing on actual dissidents like Ai Weiwei 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The theory of evolution faces a similar problem, especially as it’s routinely linked by religious and other thought leaders with a kind of subversive atheism. ‘Girls’ still racist 2012-06-22T16:56:00Z Mr. Olive’s play captures the surreal, satisfyingly subversive tone of Mr. Sachar’s tales, which, like Roald Dahl’s, often pit resourceful children against an absurd and arbitrary adult world. Spare Times for Children for May 17-23 2013-05-16T22:17:51Z The documentary’s subversive quality lies in how Mr. Mansky chose to shoot it. MoMA Apologizes for Dropping a Film Critical of North Korea 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Despite crusader victories, the Cathar heresy lingered subversively for about a century, eluding the most ruthless efforts of the Inquisition. Languedoc, France: Brutal History and Beautiful Setting 2010-05-07T18:37:00Z Part drama, part dance, the result is accessible but also cheekily subversive. In praise of ? Matthew Bourne 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z The movie doesn't have the TV show's subversive, satirical sass and fictional limberness. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-24T21:01:01Z Hoover kept “subversive” files on almost half a million Americans. Stop calling corporate pop stars “subversive”: Gaga has nothing on actual dissidents like Ai Weiwei 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z But if the show is going to act like a conventional sitcom with little on its mind, it’s fair to treat its more excessive touches as mindless instead of subversive. Review: In Season 5, Girls Becomes a Traditional Sitcom 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The new paintings introduce the additional subversive theme of the gay Black cowboy, and with it, lawlessness and the myth of straight white masculinity. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z But some of the designs in the show, in the salons of the Salomon Rothschild Hotel, revealed subversive touches. Valentino adds subversive twist to classic gowns for Paris show 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z His portraiture is not radical, or innovative, or subversive, or even modern. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z Haydn's Symphony No 92 may seem decidedly ancien régime, but it is full of typically subversive rhythmic effects. BBCNow/S?nderg?rd ? review 2010-12-06T21:45:00Z “A Thousand Ships,” published in Great Britain in 2019, was shortlisted for Britain’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and was lauded for its subversive, feminist spin. Review | Natalie Haynes’s ‘A Thousand Ships’ brilliantly reframes the Trojan War 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z It remains the aggressively subversive garb of street toughs, bikers and Goths. What Pops in a Sea of Shrill Color? Hint: It’s Not Pink 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z And in a more subtle way, the gold-band pumps remind me of the subversive touch of a metal choker, like the one from YSL for day. Fall Fashion: The Five Things You Need for Fall 2011-08-24T23:08:42Z Perhaps the single most subversive act that occurs is that a young boy playing a frisky dog pretends to do a poo on the sand. Beached - review 2011-07-18T17:02:23Z Since Genet’s movie was often viewed as samizdat, there was an unusual carry-over of subversive feeling in my viewing. Is Watching a Movie on a Phone Really So Bad? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z And fans of the subversive Australian cabaret performer and Edinburgh favorite Meow Meow will be happy to know that she will be doing a festival-long run of late-night shows this year. Edinburgh Festival to Feature Zinnie Harris Works and a New Alan Ayckbourn Play 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z “The Bold Type” evolved into a decadently subversive series through its first season by embracing these core truths while dressing them up in fashion glossy fantasy. “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s slightly subversive that Jennifer slinks back home because she’s been too good at her job, upsetting the male order of things. ‘Jennifer Falls,’ a TV Land Sitcom, Stars Jaime Pressly 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z This is, sort of, Gloria's speech in action, and that is either wonderfully subversive and satiric or just plain stupid. In "Barbie," of course Ken hijacks the journey of empowerment in a misguided tour of the patriarchy 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z She told me that, going into her Date Lab date, she was worried about being matched with a white supremacist, a closet Republican or a “black dude that thinks Black Men are subversive.” His first reaction to his blind date: ‘I did not feel worthy’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z It was only subversive in the sense that it was raw-edged: the music was like something by a garage band. How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2013-03-04T19:30:02Z "The really good genre films reflect their time and views in incredibly unique and subversive ways." Best picture Oscar contenders often break the genre film barrier 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Trained as a scientific illustrator, with some background in traditional Chinese painting as well, Washington artist Justin Gibbens combines naturalistic detail with surreal flights of fancy in his “subversive zoological drawings.” ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z He wrote, in his book, that the “subversive creator” must “immediately supersede himself; for at the moment of victory, he is already dated.” The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z I told him I’d expected a bit of subversive sparkle, and he shrugged: The suit might be conservative, but the man wearing it wouldn’t be. Taika Waititi Puts on a Tuxedo 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Six decades later, with hip-hop now pop music’s lingua franca, bringing rap’s beats and bling back into the church might be just as subversive. Art at the Terminal and Beyond 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z He took inspiration from the street, the nightclubs and popular culture — injecting youth and a subversive spontaneity into fashion. Perspective | Richmond exhibition further cements Yves Saint Laurent’s legacy 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning Drawing now hangs in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, one of the most renowned works by this subversive artist. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z It’s got a cocky, star-spangled, wide-angle feel, as if a subversive young novelist had decided to rewrite a Tom Clancy thriller after first piloting some nuclear submarines as a gonzo practice drill. Books of The Times: What?s a Submarine Officer Doing in the Desert? 2010-09-21T21:23:00Z But the film’s real subversive edge lies in its ability to out GOP policy for all of its naysaying, doomsday, Chicken Little rhetoric. Michael Moore’s gutsy new film: Our military has not won a war since World War II 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z And there’s no denying the subversive frisson inspired by watching actresses go full harridan, especially when it comes to traditional ideas about female agency and the approving male gaze. Perspective | Why female portrayals of power on screen need to evolve 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Using tactics taught by Americans, the officers kidnapped trade union members, suspected socialists and other “subversives,” covering their heads with hoods and bringing them to the center by car. 36 Hours in Buenos Aires 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The quirkily subversive series, which also ran briefly on Fox, poked fun at sitcom conventions and frequently had its characters break the fourth wall to address the audience. No Flipping: Remembering Garry Shandling 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Roberts's "nu folk" or "freak folk" is many things – subversive, inspired, authentic – but do not expect wall-to-wall jigs and reels any time soon. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z It’s not easy for art to shock these days, but blasting James Brown among antiquities feels subversive. Burning Calories at the Met 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z It's a decent thrill ride, though there's nothing as subversive as the Americans trying to emigrate to Mexico in his big freeze movie, The Day After Tomorrow. DVD review: 2012 2010-04-08T22:35:00Z Beyond the red carpet, fancy gowns are also back in favor, but worn subversively without hauteur or grandeur. A Celebration of Dressing Up 2012-05-21T12:30:29Z Clearly, with recent police infiltration of the green movement, any self-respecting subversives would do well to look at this system, which baffled the French authorities in Algiers. Movie tips for revolutionaries 2011-01-31T17:29:33Z The family is harassed by bill collectors and also by the police, bouncing from Cologne to Paris to Brussels as Marx’s political agitation brands him a dangerous subversive. Review: In ‘The Young Karl Marx,’ a Scruffy Specter Haunts Europe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z But it is the lyrics that are often the standout: they are thoughtful, at times almost subversive. 10cc still exploring darker side of human nature, pop-style 2013-08-12T15:12:15Z But with the world showing no indication of becoming less topsy turvy any time soon, there will surely be a continuing demand for these subversive Alice adventures able to illuminate the incongruous. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But Phantom Thread is a fascinatingly unexpected and wildly subversive treat, a film about far more than initially expected, a piercingly sharp study of a relationship that turns into a pitch-black romantic comedy. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 4 Phantom Thread 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z While the look is medieval, the vibe seems more current, but it's not so anachronistic as to be subversive along the lines of a "Shrek," for example. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-02-28T02:07:11Z Gran Fury, an art collective that placed subversive art in public spaces as a protest against homophobia, designed a poster in the spring of 1988 to spread word of the original kiss-ins. Two Men Kiss, an Act of Love and Activism 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z None of its details take on the subversive power of other works in the exhibition. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The gallery setting for these spiritually subversive images is comical. Art in Review: ?GIVERNY?: E. V. Day and Kembra Pfahler 2012-04-05T21:37:44Z The voice Ephron developed in her essays — honest, acerbic, sweetly subversive — echoes throughout women’s writing today. An 'Effort' that feels familiar at Skylight Theatre 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z New wave subversives Devo asked Lynch for permission to play In Heaven live. Eraserhead: the true story behind David Lynch's surreal shocker 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z She says it is something much more subversive - a film about an elderly woman. 'The Iron Lady' shows Thatcher still divides Brits 2011-12-21T11:12:16Z There’s a subversive queerness, too: When Nevena becomes a handsome young man, she explores the male body as well as the expectations that come with it. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In animation, what’s subversive is dealing with life and its harshness. Rick and Morty creators: 'We're pulling apart the tropes of sci-fi' 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Laughter can be subversive, of course, and one of the great satisfactions of these films is watching so many women laugh — often guffawing, not tittering — through one predicament after another. Rewriting Women Back Into Film History 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Banksy offers a heady and hilarious voyage through the underworld of contemporary art that poses all kinds of puzzlers about the role, meaning and context of allegedly subversive art in a consumer society. "Exit Through the Gift Shop": Art-world rebel Banksy exposed (almost) 2010-04-16T18:55:00Z After 10 seasons — the longest run on Cartoon Network — this subversive show wraps up with a one-hour finale. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Adventure Time’ and ‘RBG’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The subversive legacy of comic Bill Hicks When Bill Hicks died of pancreatic cancer in 1994, he was just 32 years old but had been a working comedian for more than half his life. The subversive legacy of comic Bill Hicks 2011-04-05T22:01:00Z It is, in the end, a sharply disturbing experience to peer through into Wallinger's subversive diorama. National Gallery puts on a peep show with Mark Wallinger's nude Diana 2012-07-09T15:25:00Z The other installation is a collaboration between Faile and an artist who goes by Bäst, known in the street-art world for pasting subversive posters on urban walls à la Shepard Fairey. Review: Faile Mines the Dark Depths of Modern Youth With Two Exhibitions 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Freberg's commercials were a critique of commercials, and because he was the outsider on the inside, he could seem subversive, even selling soup. Satirist Stan Freberg, ad man and comic, dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Her wonderful score is seductive, meditative, spiritually elusive and subversive. Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer overcomes all challenges in 'Song From the Uproar' 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z In other works, a crazily complicated lattice of thin lines suggestive of Cy Twombly will hide within it subversive figures that seem to want to escape into a reality beyond their two-dimensional imprisonment. Review | George Condo is not as complicated as he thinks he is 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Brief digression: Last fall, at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, I saw a subversive confection of a musical called “Romantics Anonymous” that just about wrecked me. Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z His cavorting and richly subversive "fifth gospel," "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," is reproduced in full, as is "Twilight of the Idols," one of his last works and a fine condensation of his mature project. Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus" 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z In Ms. Philo’s, it was to a stealthily subversive tendency on the part of fashion to erode the lines between public and domestic life. Noted: A Warm-and-Fuzzy Trend That Leaves You Cold 2012-12-12T18:19:33Z It may be, if Grisham is being cleverly subversive, that both the title and the denouement of “The Reckoning” address the state’s racial mores with a wicked, devastating twist. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The moralistic conclusion of the film contains its subversive antithesis, its politically unacceptable longing for the past. What “Neighbors” and “Chef” can teach us about white male privilege 2014-05-10T16:30:00Z The following year the Weavers were investigated by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, whose purview was to root out subversive citizen threats. Ronnie Gilbert, Folk Singer for the Weavers, Dies at 88 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, outside the master’s house, Josephine is introduced to the spiritual work of the Revisioners, a subversive group of slaves who pray and sing and even foresee the future. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z An imaginative and occasionally subversive response to a set of circumstances that need never be realised in flesh and paint to be considered a meaningful piece of art. Let's launch a festival of the impossible 2011-02-04T14:52:39Z Within this conventional plot, however, Grossman is relentlessly subversive and inventive. ‘The Magician’s Land,’ the final volume of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy But within his nondescript exterior lurks the heart of a maverick, alert to the evils of a surveillance state where even thinking subversively is a crime. Review: Doubling Down on Doublespeak in ’1984’ 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z In a Doris Day world on the cusp of the feminist movement, the semiotics were subversive. Chanting Crowds and Camo Chic 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Walker is known for her haunting and subversive silhouette images of African American stereotypes; this film put them in motion. The pushback against how Black suffering and victims of violence are depicted in art 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z But to treat “Empire” as merely this decade’s best answer to “Dynasty” is to miss some of its fuller intent as subversive social commentary. New season of Fox’s ‘Empire’ offers subversive social commentary 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The American Civil Liberties Union protested against the book-burning, but the paranoid and anti-communist Reich suspected that the organisation was riddled with subversives and refused their offers of help. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z I enjoyed this show, and I can't think of any other important public gallery that would currently harbour such a subversive figure – well, maybe the Serpentine, which is brilliant these days. The ICA must be saved | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-17T10:58:00Z The absurd, subversive world of Belgian surrealism was once based at an unassuming house in the north Brussels suburbs. 10 top tips from our Brussels correspondent 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z While the look of it is medieval, the vibe seems more current, but it's not so anachronistic as to be self-referential and subversive along the lines of a "Shrek," for example. Review: A lively, detailed `Giant Slayer' 2013-02-27T14:48:09Z Achebe takes his characters seriously but not too seriously; he finds subtly subversive ways to question them and even laugh at them, and he refuses to rescue them from their foibles. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z There is a childlike hilarity to these catchy, subversive songs written in 1978 for a Vienna still harboring ex-Nazis who put on courteous faces. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Putting marginalised women’s words in print is a subversive act in itself, especially when they are commissioned, edited and funded by women, too. Zine queens: how women’s magazines found new life via indie publishing 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z So rare were such pictures in mid-20th-century America, so far outside the mainstream, that they were bound to strike onlookers, black or white, as alien, if not downright subversive. Theaster Gates Is a Toast of the Fashion and Art Circuit 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z A reviewer for the Independent called it "a rather mixed affair," adding that Cumberbatch's prince is "pointedly subversive if insufficiently spontaneous." Benedict Cumberbatch's 'Hamlet' is center of his own 'six degrees' game 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The book, one of the Book Review’s 10 best of 2017, crafts a subversive argument about the role of ornamentation and pleasure. Paperback Row 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z There is a trail of admiring correspondence with Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright and president of the Czech Republic, who helped spread the subversive gospel of Reed’s group the Velvet Underground in the Soviet days. Lou Reed Archives Head to New York Public Library 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Black Emperor is scheduled to perform at a marquee Beijing club next month, despite their subversive politics. Kraftwerk denied China visa over 1999 Free Tibet concert 2013-03-29T18:54:14Z For the Beatles always remained, in the first instance, a comedy team—their energies are satiric and expansive far more often than they are subversive or explosive. George The Fifth 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The surface of Paul Thomas Anderson’s subversive romance Phantom Thread is all deceptively pristine elegance. Cannibalism, bad dates and ice skating: the best movie moments of 2017 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z In this supposedly patriotic 1937 symphony, there is always the unresolved question as to whether the composer, fearful of Stalin’s lethal criticisms, wrote something subversive or sycophantic. With his L.A. Phil program, here's what a man of mystery portends for New York 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Together these exhibitions provide an unusually complete picture of his subversive wit and rather restrained, almost classic sense of beauty, not least because he uses the two locations for call-and-response exchanges. Last Chance: Martin Creed’s Solo Shows at Gavin Brown and Hauser & Wirth 2013-12-17T22:13:14Z Easy charm, subversive spirit … Fear of a Brown Planet. Fear of a Brown Planet ? review 2011-08-16T18:14:01Z Humor, especially used as a liberal coping mechanism on Comedy Central, became not just a subversive, provocative free-for-all but a form of critique with its own agenda. Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: “Key & Peele” returns and “Why? with Hannibal Buress” premieres, not a moment too soon 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “There’s something exciting and notable about all of them, and the spirit that they have—of not being afraid to be, like, ‘I am the King,’ “ she said. “They know that that’s subversive. Morgan Parker Gets a Tattoo 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z It's a clever narrative approach and allows Rogowski to create a complex, multi-layered portrait of a man who is subversively operating within the rules of a restrictive systems to achieve his desires. The poignant resistance of "Great Freedom" found in a German prison where gay men are criminalized 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Make of that what you will, this American weapon of subversive optimism. The miracles of John Adams' 'El Niño' 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z His art was brilliantly subversive and based on his belief that everyday life is shrouded in mystery. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Right-wing loonies like Sen. Joseph McCarthy and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover dug around for “subversive persons.” Stop calling corporate pop stars “subversive”: Gaga has nothing on actual dissidents like Ai Weiwei 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z A natural provocateur, she pays homage to a string of subversive role models. Shien Lee Presides Over Peripatetic Costume Parties in New York 2010-04-21T22:42:00Z What’s not so subversive: Once she goes to work in her brother’s sports bar, she spends a lot of her time wearing short shorts and a referee’s shirt with a plunging neckline. ‘Jennifer Falls,’ a TV Land Sitcom, Stars Jaime Pressly 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z She also worries that drag is losing its subversive edge. Lady Bunny Is Still the Shadiest Queen Around 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Remorse must be tempered by a resolution to remain uncouth, just as a professional agreement to play a little ball must be undercut by subversive sniggering. 30 Rock: is the quarantine reunion worth the wait? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z You often see revenge thrillers dismissed as blood and bang-bang trash, but the genre can disguise a politically subversive message just as well as any other picture. Burning desire: John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z In her latest, Was She Pretty?, she is back at the drawing board with a subversive catalogue of ex-girlfriends. Leanne Shapton: 'The idea for my new novel came from my raging jealousy' 2013-04-28T09:30:01Z There's a long history of commodifying domesticity in the name of women's liberation — a fact that's equal parts grim, subversive and empowering. A brief, subversive history of women baking for liberation 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Landy has just enjoyed himself, and you can feel his excitement, his subversive glee. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z There's something subversive in my Christian upbringing or something, my mid-America upbringing. Nearing 50, a heightened perspective for Pitt 2012-11-28T19:47:08Z But Mr. Walsh’s rich and strange contribution to the field is in its own subversive class. Theater Review: In Far Over Their Heads: Life at the Pool?s Bottom 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z Suicide’s keyboardist, Martin Rev, explained: “We weren’t exactly embraced by the music industry. We were considered very subversive. We used to think of ourselves as Che and Castro coming into Cuba under Batista.” Craig Leon Rerecords Two Synth Classics 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The sly, subversive and disturbing wit on display here will feel familiar to readers of Ashbery’s poems. Review | You can’t really know John Ashbery’s poems until you’ve seen his collages 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z But for those who grew up admiring the quirky, subversive energy of “Playhouse,” there was always something missing. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In what seems to be a flash point in popular culture, women in entertainment are taking on aging in humorous and subversive ways. An Age-Old Dilemma for Women 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z In its scruffy early years, the show was an impudent, mildly subversive reflection of post-countercultural euphoria. Review: ‘Live From New York!’ Celebrates 40 Years of ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Though trump-conservative.com aggregates many editorial cartoons in support of the president, a vast majority of these graphic works are left-leaning, with depictions that are allegorical and subversive, addressing immigration, class and the White House itself. Comic Books That Put the Pow in Political Power 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z As Berlanti observed, American film is veering ever closer to becoming a monoculture, defined on one hand by giant, spectacle-heavy “events” and on the other by scrappy, subversive independents. Do ‘middle-class’ movies have a future in corporate Hollywood? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z "There's nothing nowadays more subversive than loving and showing compassion and meeting in the middle," Mortensen said. Venice film fest puts hard-hitting global issues on screen 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z A collaged photograph of the artist’s young son and the combine’s general air of chaotic dereliction add an intensely subversive spin to the notion of “American” art. Art Review: ‘Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New’ at MoMA 2013-12-19T22:57:15Z What we said: The intriguing thing about Black Panther is that it doesn’t look like a superhero film – more a wide-eyed fantasy romance: exciting, subversive and funny. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z For them, high culture, despite its marginality, reinforces the power structure, whereas pop culture — by any standard, a pillar of the global economy — is vital, subversive, transgressive, even revolutionary. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z No, this was one of those subversive and eye-opening new experiences that is likely to remain provocative for years, at least until the Constitution gets amended — or we do. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z He recalls a meeting in Saudi Arabia with an official at the Ministry of Information who found the comic book subversive and banned it. PBS to Show ?Wham! Bam! Islam!? on ?Independent Lens? 2011-10-12T22:48:01Z From the start, the novel was able to be more God-defying and subversive, equivalent in intention to the satyr plays with which a day at the theatre ended for the Greeks. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z In many ways this airborne disaster farce – anarchic, absurdist, garishly stylish and gleefully debauched – is a return to the Spanish auteur's subversive roots. I'm So Excited, The Eye Of The Storm, Gimme The Loot: what to see at the cinema this week 2013-05-04T05:00:12Z But the band’s idea of beach-pop is flexible and occasionally subversive. Playlist: Songs for the Feet, And Even the Heart 2010-10-08T15:49:00Z Many of the season’s best new shows share a certain tone of sadness — sometimes grim, sometime subversively comic, but always a little overcast. Perspective | 10 new shows to check out this fall, including ‘Murphy Brown,’ ‘Camping’ and ‘Forever’ 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Facial and body piercings, ear gauging, dental grills and tribal ink were once the province of so-called deviant or subversive subcultures. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z You’ve been inordinately successful throughout your career, but have challenges come with having a subversive attitude? Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It is hard not to read “Lessons in Chemistry” and wonder if Zott’s creator has achieved something similarly subversive, offering readers more substance than some, at least, expected — and changing their lives in the process. Beneath Its Pink Cover, ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ Offers a Story About Power 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Food, she said, can be a subversive vehicle for social change. An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Buñuel bowed out with a hat-trick of barbed, subversive comedies, beginning with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. From Don't Look Now to The Godfather – why the 1970s is my favourite film decade 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The most subversive moment on television this summer? ‘Dietland’ is Violent, Disruptive and Surreal. And Funny. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “Funk It Up” is a very enjoyable 70 minutes of ribaldry and repartee — and a subversive act of cultural appropriation. Theater: Shakespeare gets all funked up 2011-01-27T17:55:00Z In the 1970s, subversive new ideas from France began leaching into American English departments. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Henson the subversive advertising genius is just one of the lesser-known identities the exhibition reveals. And a Frog Shall Lead Them: Henson?s Legacy 2011-08-18T20:16:26Z As Leif and Matthew’s romance deepens, so does the Working Group’s prankishly subversive efforts, which include an intuited password and the hacking of a Homeland Security contractor. Review | Surveillance, hacking, government overreach: ‘Overthrow’ tackles modern fears 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z His previous films ranged from lavish historical epics, tragic war stories, and hardboiled crime dramas to dystopian thrillers, cerebral science fiction, and subversive political parodies. Why "The Shining" is a hopeful film 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Having bought the rights to Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the 1960s, he himself played the lead for its Broadway adaptation: McMurphy, the subversive wild-man imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital. Kirk Douglas at 100: a one-man Hollywood Mount Rushmore 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Nothing about telling kids that it's okay to work through the beauty and messiness of self-discovery should be subversive. The extraordinary, validating power of "Steven Universe" 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Sean Carvajal, in one of the more idiosyncratic performances, wore his Shakespeare like a pair of comfortable sweats, almost subversively contemporary. ‘Richard II’ Review: A Radio King With a Tottering Crown 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z That relationship allowed investigators to paint Muck as both subversive and immoral—a one-two punch of xenophobia and puritanism. The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z In the end the only subversive thing about “The Talls” is how studiously subversive it isn’t. | 'The Talls': A 17-Year-Old Beanstalk From a Wholesome ?70s Family Is Eager to Go Far Out 2011-08-16T21:14:24Z The film’s subversive commentary on casual cruelty and the misogynistic power dynamics that drive the high school caste system provide an abundance of opportunities for discussion. We need to talk about “13 Reasons Why”: The timeless case for getting into uncomfortable conversations about teen crises as seen on TV…and in movies 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z These days, most iterations either veer into the subversive or stay firmly lodged in the macabre, but Morris’s book prefers the liminal space between the otherworldly and ordinary family drama. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z A young woman of independent mind and progressive morals, Olivia looks back on her exciting, subversive youth from the vantage point of her ninth decade. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The lines became a kind of literary ear-worm: subtle, rich and subversive. Farewell words and music reflect a patriotic austerity and insularity 2013-04-13T23:04:44Z His presence gave this gripping revolutionary thriller a subversive subtext: Danton and his followers are played by French actors, while the villainous Robespierre and his allies are played by Poles. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The story “is a little subversive,” La Puma said in a phone conversation. Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The subversive comic horror film targets the anti-gay fulminations and takes the U.S. government to task for its simplistic use of terrorist threats as an excuse to do anything it wants. Kevin Smith: I "feel good" about semi-retirement 2011-03-07T02:07:48Z We were on a kind of pop platform, but it was subversive at the same time. Q&A with Annie Lennox: Why the singer doesn’t listen to music 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z I still feel a guilty, subversive thrill when I sit down to read a book during the day. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The real subversive message of Dexter is just keep on eating those doughnuts. ArtsBeat: 'Dexter' Watch: Love Blooms and Blood Spills 2010-12-06T15:50:00Z The term “subversive,” of course, was used with neither irony nor praise during the Red Scare of the 1950s. Stop calling corporate pop stars “subversive”: Gaga has nothing on actual dissidents like Ai Weiwei 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z I thought it was one of the most subversive comedies I’ve read in a while. James Marsden: 'The D Train' Plot Twist Isn't a 'Cheap Punch Line' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In the future, when Jay Roach or whoever turns this all into an Oscar horse fall release, the anonymous subversive will undoubtedly get a swell of string music and a vindicating third act. Why 2019 has been a big year for the big screen whistleblower 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Jackson's subversive coronavirus-themed cross-stitch patterns feel like a natural extension of this movement, but she's not the only one who is using cheeky takes on this traditionally domestic activity to pass the time at home. Make quarantine your "stitch" with the subversive cross-stitch community 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z To thrive at the weight I was felt not just subversive, but a triumph. My swimming odyssey: ‘It felt like a last chance to prove what I was capable of’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “In this era, keeping a secret is the most subversive thing imaginable. There are things I would not write about.” Sherman Alexie and the Tricky Art of Memoir 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The book was banned for more than 30 years during Suharto era due to its presumably subversive theme. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z That choice reveals something subversive and uncomfortable roiling under the surface. I Am Cait Proves Caitlyn Jenner Is the Kardashian Family's Most Compelling Star Yet 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z On the one hand, he believes himself to be subtly subversive, affording his mixed-race and black sitters a dignity through portraiture. Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z In this crepuscular, uncertain world, a cinema advertises a Russian film, The Radiant Future, while showing a subversive Polish film. Tadeusz Konwicki lays bare Poland's 'ruined-modern' past 2011-04-06T11:54:51Z Became raw, bleak, true, subversive, funny in the most off-kilter British sense. Bodice-rippers! How period drama went from buttoned up to sexed up 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z In normal years, this meant commissioning and presenting works that subversively tweak the parameters of opera theater and music theater, gathering up what might be considered the fringes and pulling them toward the center. Perspective | Opera is taking entirely new forms. Its survival may depend on it. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Norms, doctrines and mass movements were likely to be oppressive, whereas margins and deviations were potentially subversive. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z Both "Kate" and "The White Lotus" try their hand at subversive, anti-imperialist themes, while ultimately demonstrating the shortcomings of whiteness trying to critique itself. Netflix's Tokyo-set action flick "Kate" tries to critique imperialism while ultimately relying on it 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Once again, we find a woman in a claustrophobic marriage with a husband who fails to understand her needs; and once again, the notion of pregnancy is used in cunningly subversive ways. Review: In ‘The Ruins of Civilization,’ a Bleak Future, Brightly Told 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Day shot to fame in Harlem during the 1980s and was known for his subversive “homages” to luxury brands, and is having something of a moment himself, thanks to a new collaboration with Gucci. André Leon Talley’s Next Act 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The new Nobel laureate has been accused of being both subtly subversive and too close to the party line Chinese author Mo Yan at a book fair in Saint Malo, France, in 2006. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z It’s certainly his most subversive and penetrating public foray into the elite art marketplace. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z But the film frames their insistence on following their desires, whatever the consequences, as a powerful form of dissent; Atafeh tells a friend: "Here anything illegal becomes politically subversive." Maryam Keshavarz: 'In Iran, anything illegal becomes politically subversive' 2012-08-23T20:00:04Z His paintings on biblical, mythical or historical subjects were closely scrutinized for subversive content. Our country’s first spin doctors: The painters of the American Revolution 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z In “Her Body and Other Parties,” Machado reveals just how original, subversive, proud and joyful it can be to write from deep in the gut, even — especially — if the gut has been bruised. Carmen Maria Machado's 'Her Body and Other Parties' reclaims the female body in subversive, joyful ways 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z He discovers, apart from her coronation robe, two books: William Tyndale's once-banned version of the New Testament and an even more subversive volume. Anne Boleyn 2010-07-29T20:29:00Z And black injected a subversive note into a flurry of high-end fall advertising campaigns. What Pops in a Sea of Shrill Color? Hint: It’s Not Pink 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z On Friday, she’ll release her debut solo album, “No Home Record,” a subversive, post-punk ode to the city that shaped much of Young’s output. Kim Gordon Talks About Her Favorite Song 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Because of that, he said in an email, they are “able to be more progressive, more radical, more expansive, more subversive.” The New Magazines and Journals Shaping Africa’s Literary Scene 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z A subversive and innuendo-laden movie that sent up the nuclear-family entertainments of the 1950s, "Vacation" became a huge hit upon release, then spawned four sequels and countless imitators. Will the new 'Vacation' make Clark Griswold proud? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “What we’ve combined is great, great pop songs with slightly subversive lyrics,” he adds. New Tears for Fears songs ‘plumb the depths of our souls’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Bobby’s death, Tsombikos decided, was a result of his struggle against an oppressive, grinding world that does not make room for eccentrics and subversives and people who are different. Growing older without growing up: Graffiti artist Borf 10 years later 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z His “My Life and Loves” reveals the manic intensity of his writing, as well as a subversive wit that heroin later wore away. For April Fool's Day, a celebrated literary hoax 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z In the fall, the surreal and subversive “Underground Railroad Game” opened to rapturous reviews off-Broadway. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It has the same subversive structure, and it’s about sexual aggression and male privilege. A Walk Through the ‘Barbarian’ Basement With Zach Cregger 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “I feel like my movies have always been very subversive, even when people haven’t perceived how subversive they really are,” he said confidently. ‘Man of Steel’ Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again 2013-05-22T12:06:02Z Jewison’s healthy cynicism towards lowest-common-denominator diversions, married with contempt for corporations and the hegemonic pillars supporting them, makes for an exploitation picture still subversive today. Moon Nazis and sex in space: what can we learn from movies set in 2018? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Five decades on from its first release, Billy Wilder's freewheeling comedy remains a cherished classic; warm, witty and slyly subversive. Tony Curtis: a life in clips 2010-09-30T11:57:00Z But these are not subversive in any provocative way about perceptions of beauty or beastliness. Dance Review: A Fairy Tale, With Nudity, at Abrons Arts Center 2010-04-20T22:32:00Z Kiss curls seemed more subversive in a collection where the emphasis on tailoring was firmly expressed. Special Report: Fashion: Skirting the Issue of Gender 2011-06-26T16:53:58Z By appearing to creep off their plane, the artworks in this show present the viewer with subversive surprises at each turn. These Abstract Works of Art Blur the Line Between Two and Three Dimensions 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, Magritte's demolition of pictorial illusion is very much an echo of this subversive pastoral that Manet painted in the 1860s. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z In his garden, he said, “the only subversives are bugs and weeds.” Books of The Times: ‘The Long Voyage,’ a Collection of Malcolm Cowley’s Thoughts 2014-02-11T19:43:52Z In a subversive and often subliminal way, that’s what “Silicon Valley” warned us about. Perspective | ‘Silicon Valley’ is done, but the important work of mocking tech culture must carry on 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z The work felt at once precious and subversive to touch and intentionally requires that the person working in the gallery begin a conversation with gallery visitors. Art That Rose Through the Cracks 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z In a totalitarian regime, dreaming has been declared a subversive activity. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z Just a few years later, though — on Dec. 5, 1947, to be precise — the league appeared on a list of organizations considered “totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive” by the United States Attorney General. Art Review: ?The Radical Camera? at the Jewish Museum - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:54Z The incursion of humor was taken as proof of an ironic stance, which in turn signaled subversive intent or a cynical detachment from the material. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z There are traditional holiday tunes polished to a sheen; songs that approach festive joy through completely new musical lenses; and numbers that use familiar frameworks to deliver subversive messages. Holiday Music for the Joyful, the Lonely and the Skeptical 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z It's a revival that should finally banish our condescension towards the joyously subversive Shaw. The Doctor's Dilemma – review 2012-07-25T17:12:19Z On Kafka, Dauber argues that his subversive comedy is distinctly Jewish because it mocks the pretensions of scientific certainty that papers over the irrational forces controlling our lives. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Religious themes alternate in her work with subversive fashion imagery. Up Close: Andrea Mary Marshall, Photographer and Shape-Shifter Pursuing the Unsavory 2013-01-02T21:18:56Z Indeed, the most subversive facet of Soderbergh’s approach to the subject matter is the way he slowly inoculates us to the “magic” of Club Xquisite. Magic Mike: The Sexy, Sad Lies We Tell Ourselves 2012-06-28T20:15:18Z But Ms. Fumudoh felt strongly about wearing it for the first episode instead, using it to set that subversive anti-late-night host tone for the series. That ‘Ziwe’ Look 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z In 1987, the official poster for the Relay, designed by a sneakily subversive Slovenian art group, turned out to be a copy of a Nazi propaganda poster. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z That’s not to say I didn’t dabble in a bit of subversive cultural appropriation, courtesy of my best friend Sam, who organised our stag do. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z So subversively, I make a little theater of my own, put on a show that I can rehearse in my living room and then just bring in an enormous, miniature production into the concert hall. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z "His words are totally joyous and vibrant and hopeful and subversive and fearless," said Cott in an interview on Tuesday. Rolling Stone releases Lennon's final interview 2010-12-08T11:46:00Z Similarly, historical tropes are used in fast and loose fashion, to wonderfully subversive effect. The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review 2013-03-21T09:00:01Z But galleries are wary of subversive exhibitions like his, the artist said. ‘Suffocated’: Art becomes form of protest against Olympics 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z For many wearers, Ms. Peiss said, the zoot suit was initially an expression of style, no more subversive than the outlandish hats adorning women at this April’s royal wedding. ArtsBeat: Thinking Cap: The Zoot Suit: Statement of Style or Protest? 2011-07-05T12:00:16Z Linger long enough and you’ll find “Give It or Leave It,” Smith’s multiroom installation at the Frye Art Museum, on view through Sept. 1, is doing complex, thorny and deeply subversive work. With disco balls and gorgeously cinematic installations, this artist is creating deeply subversive work at the Frye 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z I’m not sure this novel is art with a capital A anymore than a Joan Didion musical could be, but it’s a charmingly subversive treat. ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z But the subversive tale of self-reinvention and the feel-good re-creation of a vanished, simpler era turn out to be mirror images. Which Show Is Good, Clean Fun: ‘Rocky Horror’ or ‘The Music Man’? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z At the brand's core, Oliver said, is a desire to remain subversive, "almost like a fetish in the fashion industry." Hood by Air takes on New York Fashion Week with a wench 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Most are just generic placeholders, but a few are strikingly brutal exploiters, none more so than V. A. Vandevere, a subversive invention. Review: ‘Dumbo’ Goes Bonkers in Dreamland 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z “This is the kind of meme where it has the potential for being subversive, ironic and really challenging things like traditional gender roles and binaries,” she said. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Its sustainable business model is welcome today, and, for many of us, its subversive staples and fuss-free design fill a smidgen of the hole left by Phoebe Philo’s departure from Celine. How to Feel Cool in the New Year 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Over the course of his career, the Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce has made often subversive, sometimes playful and always queer work for the big screen. Bruce LaBruce on 'Virginia Woolf' and Other Influences 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Even some readers who are skeptical of “Dark Knight III” say that a current environment of redundant and unadventurous Batmen could be just the right moment to do something subversive with the character. ‘Dark Knight III: The Master Race’ Comic Book Prompts Reflection and a Look Ahead 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z “Fundamentally, the story I am telling is very nice, it has no subversive message,” he said. Film: Paying Tribute to a Silent Hollywood 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z With a bookish air and a subversive sensibility, Mr. Fier fit the ethos of the band. Anton Fier, Drummer Who Helped Shape a Downtown Scene, Dies at 66 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z For a story about the limitless possibilities of the imagination, it is a surprisingly constrained and old-fashioned musical show, and it displays little of Dahl's subversive humour. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – sickly sweet 2013-06-28T10:48:00Z During an age when the United States' culinary godfather James Beard was ascending as an evangelist of sorts for "fresh, wholesome, American ingredients," Bracken's book was subversive — and it was successful for it. Madison Cawthorn's dog whistle about microwave meals isn't new 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z In a movie that mostly treats womanhood as something that’s both rigid and incidental, Hathaway, playing the vapid, self-entranced actress Daphne Kluger, delivers a subversive and shockingly funny disquisition on femininity performed to fit. Anne Hathaway Wins “Ocean’s 8” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But “Krazy” also helps to expand the meaning of the comic’s subversive play with identity beyond race. The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “I found it to be incredibly subversive and surprising and hilarious,” he said. A Teen Pretends to Be Trans, and Some Viewers Object to the Deception 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Such subversive female derangement is mostly possible in horror films, where bullied, bloody girls burn down their schools and passive mothers sacrifice their children. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Your brand is subversive humor, but is anything — a hot-button issue like gun control — not up for satire? David Sedaris discusses prison pen pals, pandemic sensitivities and that apology he’s never going to give 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z It is subversive, apparently, just to look Big Brother in the eye. Galleries: Big Brother is watching 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z In embracing being too much, when on the surface she has so little, Peg becomes a leopard-print-clad, big-haired icon of subversive femininity. Perspective | Why Peg Bundy was the true ’90s-sitcom domestic goddess 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It led to a pretty severe bout of stage fright, which makes the title of her stand-up special a nice, little subversive move. Netflix's best new releases in October, from the "Breaking Bad" movie to "Big Mouth" 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z And this is what I love so much about children's books: they can be revelatory, even subversive. Making sense of a senseless world: How children's books can mitigate the horror around us 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “His Dark Materials” is at heart a daringly subversive retelling of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” posited on the daring notion that the world is saved, not ruined, by original sin. With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z There's interesting stuff in this new Tron, particularly some subversive jabs at the regressive solipsism of computer games. Tron: Legacy ? review 2010-12-16T22:50:01Z Meanwhile Danish subversives Superflex attempt to hypnotise you into experiencing the financial crash from the viewpoint of the financial speculator George Soros. Whitechapel Gallery's Spirit of Utopia offers only broken dreams 2013-07-03T15:18:21Z In his review, the AP’s Mark Kennedy said the movie “thinks it’s being subversive when it’s really being very corporate.” New this week: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’ 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z “I always go back to that great Pynchon line — ‘Keep cool, but care,’ ” Anderson says, also noting his admiration for the subversive attitude of another influence, experimental filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Photograph: Photos 12/Alamy In the trilogy, Luna, like Almodóvar, mined the subversive potential of melodramatic excess, a tradition that can be traced back to Luis Buñuel's surrealist classics. Bigas Luna obituary 2013-04-07T16:53:09Z It’s puckishly subversive, another area where Morton excels. Review | Morton sings the hot pants off ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ songs 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In this she stood in the great tradition of subversive comedians. It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z But “Thank God for Girls” isn’t subversive or substantial or anything at all. Weezer is the absolute worst: Is Rivers Cuomo just trolling us all? 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z She performs a similar feat here, to a wonderfully subversive end. Review: Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Finds the Joy in Sadness, and Vice Versa 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Like Mr. Melamid, he is an émigré from the former Soviet Union with a lofty sense of the magazine’s subversive mission. Alexander Melamid Begins Artenol, an Art Magazine 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Peele, 38, is known for his subversive comedy sketch show with Keegan-Michael Key, and had never before seen a movie like the one he desperately wanted to make. ‘I’d Never Seen My Fears as an African-American Man Onscreen’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Is Paul Feig’s “Ghostbusters” remake, supposedly shrouded in supposed controversy ever since its supposedly subversive casting was announced, an exercise in feminism or in nostalgia? The new “Ghostbusters” delivers: It’s a cheerful exercise in feminist nostalgia — except, wait, is that possible? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z One could consider the film overmoralising in that it conflates sexual freedom with corruption, but it has a great subversive power and is still banned in many Arab countries. The 10 best Arab films 2013-07-06T15:00:00Z The subversive artist confirmed on Instagram that the “Season’s Greetings” mural on a breeze block garage wall was genuine. Banksy gifts Welsh steel town a white Christmas attraction 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Combining bittersweet comedy and beautifully observed satire, it’s a gently subversive summer gem. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s dangerously getting to a place where if your views don’t push a kind of agenda, then you’re an outsider or you’re somehow subversive and trying to be hurtful. Danny McBride: Vice Principals Isn't A Story About Race 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z “He pulls off the hardest kind of comedy — timeless, human, clean and subversive. And he makes it all look effortless,” O’Brien said of Newhart. TV comedy greats take a bow, make ’em laugh at ceremony 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Is that subversive feminism the best way to address women’s issues in film? Eve Ensler: 'Max Max: Fury Road' Is a 'Feminist Action Film' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The approach was obviously in Moran’s wheelhouse, but in a sense it was in Monk’s too: Endlessly subversive in his day, to subvert him is to revere him. Jason Moran takes liberties with his homage to Thelonious Monk 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z It is a brilliant, subversive account of class relations and the changing times. The Servant – review 2013-03-21T23:40:01Z The novel hopscotches between America and southern Italy — where Maria’s father remains as a “confinati,” someone under internal exile for subversive views — with occasional stops in Washington, D.C., and Germany, among other places. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z “I wanted to explore how to honor tradition but challenge convention. To be subversive yet still sophisticated.” Victoria Beckham's black dresses, chunky platform boots stage 'gentle rebellion' at London Fashion Week 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z The degree to which the music is ironic — its bubbly passages even politically subversive — is unclear, a familiar ambiguity from a composer adept at playing all the angles. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z We adored the subversive “Cat in the Hat” and the weird illogic of “Hop on Pop.” Perspective | How Dr. Seuss’s ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’ became a graduation-gift cliche 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Amid all this were the writers, one of whom was Deborah Levy – not yet, but soon to be, shortlisted for the Man Booker prize for her strange and subversive fable Swimming Home. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z It's also going to be vigorously defended as a subversive action-movie masterpiece that offers a big middle finger to Hollywood convention, audience expectations, and anybody and everybody who would rather watch "The King's Speech." The twisted, stupid brilliance of "Sucker Punch" 2011-03-25T01:01:00Z There couldn't be a more subversive use of this technique than the poem's opening: "Putting it in a poem is no use". Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z Throughout proceedings, the duo play subversive games with audience expectations, as well as with the conventions of sketch comedy. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z A group of schoolgirls uses baby dolls to powerfully subversive effect in Erica Schmidt’s Shakespeare adaptation, “Mac Beth.” They Played With Dolls. Did That Make Them Playwrights? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Odder, crazier and more quietly subversive than McKay's earlier efforts -- which were already pretty funny -- this is a startling late-summer surprise that's hysterically funny when it's not falling on its face. "The Other Guys": A late-summer cop-comedy surprise 2010-08-06T00:20:00Z A sly subversive in structure, Mr. Ayckbourn sets time moving in several directions in “Time of My Life.” ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The thoughtful and companionable humor of “Shrill” belies its subversive manifesto about self-liberation. Review: The Find-Yourself Beauty of ‘Shrill’ 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The works, some older but most from the past few years, are dazzling, however nuanced or obvious their subversive intent. C.K. Wilde dazzles with cut currency 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In the evening’s singalong section, he offered a sampling of little-known, “subversive” lyrics Guthrie wrote for “This Land Is Your Land.” Music Review: ?Songs of America? at the 92nd Street Y 2012-02-14T22:26:54Z But Goodwin can't resist a subversive little nonverbal kicker at the end — a sly reminder that boys will be boys. Review: 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' ? bromancing buddies and their gals 2010-03-25T21:47:00Z British graffiti artist Banksy, known for his subversive street art, released a two-minute video from war-torn Gaza on his website Wednesday. Watch Banksy's Two-Minute Gaza Video 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The film’s subversive brilliance is how Kubrick uses cinema to not only make Alex and his “droogs” palatable, but also uncomfortably entertaining. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in March 2019 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z “It’s really very subversive,” Tan says with a mischievous laugh. Margaret Leng Tan reigns over a toy piano renaissance A significant portion of her work explores gender roles, often with a subversive slant, but when asked if she considers herself a feminist, she seems taken aback. Pasadena Playhouse's 'Pygmalion' is more a rethinking than a revival 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Riding writes: “through the experience of her forebears, Thomas examines how conscience fares when society considers it subversive.” ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: A Pacifist in the Family 2011-07-01T19:42:52Z At the same time, there is something faintly optimistic in the idea there are still places that actually find theatre dangerous and subversive enough to think it's worth banning. Subversion on stage: can theatre change the world? 2011-01-06T12:13:12Z But it's also subversive in ways people only appreciate after sitting with it. "I'm a Virgo": Boots Riley's incredible, ungentle giant swing at late capitalism 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z “You don’t want to get too hyperbolic about a 30-second commercial, but Jack as the Little Lad is both hysterical and weirdly subversive,” McElroy said. The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Was his “1989” some kind of subversive repurposing of the most popular album in the world? Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Amid all this fluster of trying to relive the past, or regain our original, dare I say “better,” selves — both impossible endeavors — you might wonder what happened to my antiwar, peace-marching subversive boyfriend. Perspective | Woodstock can’t be duplicated. Perhaps we should leave it at that. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z “That it’s about a black woman leading — and that she’s chosen to lead? It’s really subversive.” Can a 108-year-old opera — by Scott Joplin — be made to sing for today? 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z All that, and she also has to create more signature sketches that are not only funny but also insightful, subversive and threatening to the patriarchy. Inside Amy Schumer: she's back, but lacking bite 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Bonds’s “Minstrel Man,” about a performer whose humanity is invisible to his audience, stirred a wry, subversive spirit in Austin. Review: A Big Baritone Sound at Play in an Intimate Setting 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z “You see it today in Australia with people like Josh Thomas doing stand-up, all working off that older heritage of knock-about subversive humour.” Geoffrey Rush: 'Art doesn’t do well in the dark. But that’s where we’ve put it' 2013-07-15T05:13:00Z Or maybe he’s not being subversive at all. Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG” Is a Forced March of Fun 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Monroe’s singing is soft and clear, subversive precisely in its sweetness. Craig Taborn, Wayne Shorter and Bill Callahan Achieve 2013-12-13T18:35:06Z But one thing remains unchanged: Those in power in Iran continue to regard him and his work as subversive. ‘The Colonel,’ by the Iranian Writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2012-07-01T18:15:33Z Outed from anonymity three years before her death by persons unknown, Martineau suspects that the British intelligence services have been monitoring her — or, as one of George’s friends jokes, “minotauring” her — for her subversive activities. ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Indeed, one of the subversive triumphs of “Blade Runner” is making techno-fascist dystopia seductive. Am I in Manhattan? Or Another Sequel to ‘Blade Runner’? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Rob Corddry is a comedian, former “Daily Show” correspondent and the creator of “Childrens Hospital,” a subversive parody of medical television shows. What Rob Corddry Can’t Travel Without 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Its title was “Two Class Acts,” referring to subversive intellectual exploration, theatrical performance and honorable behavior under siege. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But then Chicago’s Chance the Rapper took the stage and literally made it and the venue’s floor shake — seismically — with his subversive raps, charming smile and otherworldly energy. Seattle critics pick the best concerts of 2016 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z But it’s a short road from subversive upstart to established presence. Stephen Petronio, Dance Upstart Marked by Experience 2010-04-16T14:29:00Z On that same note, the film also features subversive behavior. "She feels things deeply": How "A Radiant Girl" slowly realizes the persecution of the Holocaust 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z But he says it is writers such as Mezrich who are the genuinely subversive talents. The Social Network creator to tell true story of crime, sex... and moon rocks 2011-01-23T00:07:00Z “Paul Reubens’s humor was kind of manic and subversive in certain ways, so it operated on more than one level,” Mr. Bushman said. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 29-Sept. 4 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It is, as footwear goes, handsome enough, but cheeky rather than subversive. Shopping at Band of Outsiders 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The subversive sex appeal of unmasculine approachability fits tightly into a niche that Jewish men have long occupied. Timothée Chalamet and the return of the Cool Jew 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Now we get her only story collection, previously released in Britain, showing that whether writing nonfiction or fiction, Diski remained witty, subversive and determined to tell her truth even when it was difficult. New books by dead authors 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z If a subversive person has to be dealt with then they have to go. "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z This Bulgarian artist, based in Brussels, has a persuasive subversive streak. ‘I-Cure’ Provokes at the Queer New York Arts Festival 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Some see a subversive message about Washington’s failings; others see his glorification. These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Parker might have appropriated his title in a pointedly subversive nod to D.W. For Nate Parker and ‘Birth of a Nation,’ separating artist from the art may be impossible 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Garbus's own bold, joyfully subversive voice reveals its full range on Whokill, leaping from impassioned tribal growls to soft, hazy lullabies. Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on life after lo-fi 2011-04-07T21:29:00Z She didn’t realize what kind of subversive, morbid glory was in there. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Loves Antiheroines. Of Course. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Rather, it spreads its subversive sentiment in all directions, women just get caught in the crossfire and ended up getting the brunt of the injury. M*A*S*H at 50: the Robert Altman comedy that revels in cruel misogyny 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Whether you’re into sprawling expositions or smaller, subversive fairs are more your speed, there is something for everyone in the burst of art on display this weekend. Reveling in Photos, Paper and Wild Cards: 5 Art Fairs to See in N.Y.C. 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Vogel’s notion of subversive art depended on his setting up of a straw man of conventions that films subverted, the norms that they defied. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Above all, remain alert for, and resistant to, subversive efforts to influence your vote by dog-whistle speeches or even insidiously worded columns. There’s no subversive political message in this column. I swear. 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The best director honor went to Jane Campion, whose subversive western, “The Power of the Dog,” was the most nominated movie of the night. 2022 Oscar Winners: Complete List 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Strange what passed for subversive in the old days. Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The slyly subversive nature of speculative fiction is something Atwood is well aware of, citing the ingenuity of science fiction authors during the McCarthy era. Margaret Atwood has a few wry comments about being a PEN Center USA lifetime achievement honoree 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z With the war raging in Vietnam, and F.B.I. agents storming the apartment on Avenue C looking for subversives, Mr. Shepard avoided the draft by feigning a heroin habit. How Sam Shepard Hit Downtown New York and Reinvented Himself 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z They project a caustic intelligence, their rapport is contagious without ever being cloying, giving the proceedings a slow-burn, subversive edge. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The Strokes' brilliantly subversive media blitz Judging from all the publicity for their fourth album "Angles," the Strokes have learned their lesson. The Strokes' brilliantly subversive media blitz 2011-03-14T15:14:00Z The Roald Dahl Audio Collection : Dahl narrates five of his best-known tales, spotlighting the subversive humor for which children adore him. How to get your children to relax — and learn — in the car 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z They seem seductively cute in this context, rather than dangerously subversive. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Some of the subversive edge is dulled, however, by a set that is more literal than playful. Stones in His Pockets – review 2012-07-12T16:53:38Z With the lights of the city shimmering outside a wall of windows, Gurung offered a contemporary, slightly subversive take on uptown dressing, with leopard-print tuxedo trousers, a cacophony of prints and waves of feathers. Perspective | Fashion Week celebrated what it means to dream — culminating in this one moving Marc Jacobs moment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z That might sound contradictory, considering the presumed male-centric audience for this kind of film, but there’s nothing especially subversive or unusual about it. Male angst in the wild: Emasculation panic fuels “Backcountry,” a satisfying hipsters-vs.-bear thriller 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z And he is infatuated with its youthful underground, subversive artists and shadowy underbelly. The fashion world’s nod to feminism: Flats are in vogue Mr. Izzard’s performance is smart and sensitive, but it generally feels more submissive than subversive. | 'Race': Eddie Izzard in David Mamet?s ?Race? 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z His second album with the Guantanamo School of Medicine, White People and the Damage Done, is as sharp, subversive and exhilarating as anything in the punk icon's catalogue. The best albums of 2013 (so far) - the critics' choice 2013-07-11T19:53:04Z But didn’t you adore Coral’s subversive moves here, playing along and teasing Libby about how when they share one bed alone at night all the bad stuff goes away? 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Jumping Into an Ice Cold Lake 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z In a recent interview, Davis similarly said that, for all its “surface naïveté,” there is a “subversive quality,” a “darker underpinning,” in much of Wiggins’s music. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z And yet, Mr. Colbert said, his outward normalcy disguises a subversive streak. Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z “I like stand-up when it’s subversive, when it’s not politically correct,” he said. Exploring the Diversity, and Precariousness, of French Stand-Up 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Was he afraid of retribution because his drawings were too subversive? Peeling Back the Paint to Discover Bruegel’s Secrets 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Few other avant-garde filmmakers borrowed so liberally or so subversively from popular iconography. Kenneth Anger, 96, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z This is a truly subversive poem, whose first three lines signal the arrival of literary modernism and which can be practically read as its credo. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z These are not uncommon themes in hip-hop, but for most rappers, wealth itself is subversive, political. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next,” Reviewed 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to “confess” at the Cuban writers’ union to the charges of “subversive activities.” Books of The Times: ‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ Centers on Trotsky 2014-01-21T22:09:20Z The pieces are blithely indifferent to Western distinctions between high and low, and art and craft, and their implicitly subversive stance is amplified by exuberance and scale. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z Oberst is still sometimes written off as death-obsessed, but maybe his most subversive act has been, all these years, keeping some uncompromisingly youthful part of himself alive. Bright Eyes’ Summertime Sadness 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant. Jessica Valenti: my life as a ‘sex object’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z In the futuristic “Arlington,” a prisoner and the man monitoring her attempt a subversive romance. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z It gives the government sweeping powers to prosecute any speech it deems subversive. Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Finally Open. It’s Already in Danger. 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z I arrived here, in 2021, now finding “The Contender” adorably, offensively retro and wondering if what I think of as subversively progressive now will seem old-fashioned in 20 years. ‘The Contender’ Lit Me on Fire. Now It’s a Cringe Factory. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Under Letterman, "Late Night" has long been a dry and sardonic alternative to the celebratory showcase of "The Tonight Show," but it's not subversive and it's certainly not satire. The sun sets on Stephen Colbert's sterling satire 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z A spinoff, “Knots Landing,” came soon after, then “Falcon Crest” and “Dynasty,” but “Dallas” was the first and the most subversive. Television Review: ‘Dallas’ Is Updated in New TNT Series 2012-06-12T22:27:52Z But hitchhiking seems to have become more subversive than making a drag queen the lead in your movies. John Waters on hitchhiking across the US: 'I wanted something I couldn't control, something I couldn't plan' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z In our society, artists get extra brownie points for writing about the dark things, but it's a lot harder – and more subversive – to write about happiness. The artists' artist: children's authors 2011-07-06T21:30:01Z But this pitch about “the innovator of edgy needlepoint” made me wonder what subversive even meant these days. Stop calling corporate pop stars “subversive”: Gaga has nothing on actual dissidents like Ai Weiwei 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Both revel in what Sands calls "the richness of the language, the outrageous, subversive humour of it, the vicious, violent, uncompromising, stiletto-like confrontations, which are fantastic for actors." Homage to Harold Pinter 2011-08-07T20:31:01Z Until recently, Mr. Evans was best known in jazz circles as a member of Mostly Other People Do the Killing, a gleefully subversive combo led by an old Oberlin classmate, the bassist Moppa Elliott. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The audience is entitled to wonder if some of the ambiguity and restraint of Hausner's film was contrived to get official permission for these sequences, but even that possibility has its own subversive fascination. Film review: Lourdes 2010-03-25T22:25:00Z To me, that in and of itself was subversive.” Perspective | How two new movies prove to be quietly radical in their depiction of gay relationships 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Lenny Bruce was perhaps the ultimate example of this — he wasn’t particularly funny, just a sly and subversive observer. This is your brain on selfies: The science of self-portraits, faces, art and the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z His comic shtick, like Doctor Brown's, involves the audience in a clever and subversive series of sometimes embarrassing visual jokes. Clown takes Foster's Edinburgh Comedy award for best show 2012-08-25T17:55:38Z The show’s collection she said, is a “treasure trove of beautiful things,” which also served its subversive point as much as the up-to-the-minute soundtrack and Gen-Z dialogue. A 21st-Century Emily Dickinson Finds a Home in the Archives 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Almost every essay in this book contains “pearls” of Arendt’s tonically subversive thinking, and many of her observations push readers to think harder about the language in which political activity is conducted. The Philosopher in Dark Times 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Zahedi was promised "no restraints at all" on subject matter, tone or style, even though the festival's official theme was "art as a subversive act." 'The Sheik and I': Filmmaker's artistic freedom put to the test 2012-11-15T21:33:10Z Unfortunately, based on the first five episodes sent for review, “Silicon Valley” only hints at the hilariously subversive brilliance those projects displayed at their best. HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ has potential but no belly laughs 2014-04-01T17:43:41Z An admirer of classic Hollywood films, he made his own in a muted visual voice with sardonic, subversive undertones. Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z Mr. Neumann’s trademark humor was in full, subversive effect, balanced by an almost elegiac mood. Dance: David Neumann?s All-American Meal 2010-02-26T15:44:00Z I do think it’s more subversive in how it gets you. Nine Inch Nails Is Back Onstage, With a Vengeance 2013-07-25T12:00:01Z Maybe Juster’s earnest, mildly subversive playfulness, which dipped a toe or two into the brewing countercultural energies of the early ’60s, has turned cloying with age? Rainn Wilson Narrates a New Audiobook of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Bill is somewhere in between Percy and Redmond, wielding a quietly subversive irony as his weapon against the absurdities of army life. Review: With ‘Queen and Country,’ John Boorman Continues a Tale 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z And then there are the ghastly missteps, lip-synched and over-orchestrated pop numbers that cater to “American Idol” tastes but clash with the show’s subversive wit and cynicism. Television: In Fox?s ?Glee,? It?s the Attitude That?s the Showstopper 2010-04-09T18:08:00Z The move is intentionally subversive, as a way to normalize queer relationships within a story setting where such relationships are taboo. ‘Lilies’ Review: A Queer Romantic Drama That Wilts Quickly 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s what everyone deserves: a level of professionalism that borders on subversive. I Never Planned on Being a Playboy Pinup 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z It's arguably a bit more subversive than Danny Boyle's masterly Olympic opener – though perhaps no less heartfelt. London: The Modern Babylon – review 2012-08-02T19:00:01Z That bridge is a cleverly subversive indictment of the beauty-industrial complex, and it’s probably the most memorable part of the song. The Clueless Soundtrack Is Turning 20 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Allison Stewart, pop music blogger with the Washington Post, said Madonna "delivered the most excellent and unexpectedly subversive Super Bowl halftime show in years." Super Bowl, Madonna set new TV audience records 2012-02-07T00:54:00Z There is a feeling of inevitability in that line of station wagons, advancing like a column of tanks, and DeLillo’s words provide subversive ammunition against them. Don DeLillo and Move-In Day 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z It was a dark comedy with unlikable characters who refused to be good, which was what made the film such a subversive piece of suburban art. The original ending to Alexander Payne's "Election" 2011-05-17T17:18:00Z Today, Mr. Delfin is known for his classic men’s tailoring conceived for women with a subversive twist. Playful and Sleek, With Subversive Twists 2010-08-02T14:35:00Z This was the era of the corruptly alluring spiv, the postwar black market and the reaction against socialist austerity fostered by a combination of the rightwing press and the subversive Ealing Comedy. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z “Dancing in the Mosque” is heartbreaking, but it’s also alive with curiosity and subversive joy. Homeira Qaderi Wants Her Son to Know Her, So She Wrote a Book 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Great comedy is shocking and subversive and makes trouble. Don’t heckle Daniel Tosh 2012-07-13T15:48:00Z Barbara Kruger transforms the language of popular graphic design into a subversive threat in an oversized photo-triptych of a sleek, predatory jungle cat underscored by the off-kilter legend, "Make my day." An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Aaron Flint Jamison, a multimedia artist living in Portland, Ore., draws from both these traditions as well as the Dadaists’ subversive approach to art and technology. Review: Aaron Flint Jamison’s Craft of Technology 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z As with so many elements of fandom, it’s casually subversive—a re-creation that grapples with the social construction of gender and imagines its infinite fluidity. The radical notion that women can pursue their own grand TV destinies: “Halt and Catch Fire” finds its voice by focusing on women in tech 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z It also signified that Zhang, who hailed from a family with a Chinese nationalist past and was once seen as a subversive film-maker, had been welcomed into the fold of official Communist party approval. The Flowers of War fails to bloom for Chinese film industry 2012-08-02T19:00:07Z That’s not to say that Madonna and Buffy didn’t have their subversive elements, but unlike actual political activity, those elements could be easily ignored by audience members who didn’t care to hear about them. Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z De Vries’s books certainly respect the conventions of plot and character, but his heart is elsewhere — with his sly, even subversive wit that detonates paragraph after paragraph as the narratives unfold. The off-kilter universe of novelist Peter De Vries, back in print 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z This account of Diana's final lonely years is unlikely to be subversive or controversial – although it is noteworthy that Hirschbiegel's most famous film so far has been Downfall, his study of Hitler in the bunker. Ghost of Diana returns in biopic starring Naomi Watts 2013-06-13T14:53:34Z With her dark beauty and subversive comedic instincts, she was less a Manic Pixie Dream Girl than a Borderline Personality Dream Girl. Parker Posey’s Offbeat Glamour 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Now any rethinking or reframing or parody of an old work was “subversive.” Stop calling corporate pop stars “subversive”: Gaga has nothing on actual dissidents like Ai Weiwei 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z In 1976, as the political climate thawed, the family returned to Beijing, where the younger Mr. Ai enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy and joined Stars, a nascent group of subversive young artists. Art Review: Ai Weiwei Survey in Washington 2012-10-11T22:29:26Z Young black people started donning African medallions and African-inspired fashion, while pushing hip-hop into a politically subversive realm of musical expression. In Tupac’s life, the struggles and triumphs of a generation 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z J.D., despite his seemingly subversive ethics, ends up espousing a vicious credo that mimics the Heathers’ division of the world into the powerful and the powerless. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Farscape had an epic premise fans of Buck Rogers may remember, but quickly became a very strange, complex and subversive show. Firefly to Futurama: the cancelled TV shows you are still angry about 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z It is left to the viewer to ponder whether she is the figment of a misogynist fantasy or the projection of a subversively feminist vision. Movie Review: ‘The Taste of Money,’ Directed by Im Sang-soo 2013-01-25T01:23:02Z Wegner’s work on the subversive western has already generated wide recognition. Ari Wegner: A Cinematographer Who Knows Actors Down to the Eyelash 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z O'Rourke subversively asks: "Is it tonight we are expecting the Russians to attack?" Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun – review 2012-05-28T11:08:05Z “In some radically subversive way, this play and this community and this particular production contribute to that conversation.” Hot Vax Summer? Falstaff and Shakespeare in the Park Are Ready. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z But because “The Maids” was written by Jean Genet, one of the most subversive dramatists ever, sentimentality doesn’t figure in this coruscating one-act drama from 1947. The Week Ahead 2012-03-09T19:52:13Z But he is subversively sound, I think, on the nature of the monarchy. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – review 2012-05-29T11:00:22Z According to a source on the production: "Someone close to Abu Dhabi's royal family has seen the movie and does not appreciate its portrayal of the UAE, and considers the movie to be politically subversive." The disappearance of Djinn, the United Arab Emirates' first horror film 2012-12-12T16:33:59Z The level of insight around a plot that sounds like something you come up with in a dorm room after way too much Purple Haze indicates how subversively brilliant this show really is. Time Traveling Bong: stoner comedy is smarter than it needs to be 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The movie was, of course, Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," a film that 52 years after its shocking premiere still hasn't released audiences from its subversive thrall. After 'Psycho,' a shower of violence in movies 2012-11-23T14:04:10Z Let it be said that MOCA’s use of subversive entertainment here was medical: much-needed group therapy for those supporting a dependably brazen pillar of the contemporary art community. | MOCA Gala 2013-04-22T18:32:45Z Also nominated for Best Animated Short is "Let's Pollute," by Geefwee Boedoe, and it's a funny, subversive little thing about our legacy of environmental destruction as regards our continually accelerating levels of consumption. Scarecrow Suggests: More Academy Award Nominated Shorts 2011-02-10T19:32:24Z Brave Spirits produced more than 20 plays and employed over 300 artists, and was known for its quietly subversive interpretations of classics, usually through a feminist lens. Lost in 2020: Epic Shakespeare, and the Theater That Planned It 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z I found it harder to think of Columbiners as engaged in some kind of subversive, ironic “play”. Why are women obsessed with true crime? Rachel Monroe has some answers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z If the album ever sold well and charted you could almost describe it as subversive, even if it is a decade too late to do any damage. New band of the day: The Winter Olympics (No 1,368) 2012-10-09T16:49:54Z It was, in many ways, the most authentically subversive moment of the evening. Miley Cyrus’s Quest for Realness 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z That hugely influenced how I think about dramatic beats — it’s subversive a little bit. Du Yun: A Composer’s 10 Cultural Influences 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Empowering accessory… or subversive relic from a male-dominated world designed to cripple women in their quest to meet a social ideal? High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z This is the way that Donna Haraway imagined her cyborgs, subversive and disloyal; they would use the technology forced upon them and into them as tools to dismantle the house. “Morgan,” “The Girls,” and the Beautiful Cyborg 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The show marks Baron Cohen’s first television project in a decade after he launched his comedy career as subversive white English rapper Ali G., whose interviewees included Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich. U.S. lawmakers shown backing fake kindergarten gun scheme in Sacha... 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Though blackface certainly often expressed racist sentiment — I shudder to recall the TV “Black-and-White Minstrel Show” of my youth — it was often used subversively. Astaire The Artist, Even in Blackface 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z No one else swapped outfits with quite the same alacrity, but she wasn’t the only one who brought some subversive attitude and private storytelling to the party. Can Oscar Fashion Be More Than Marketing? 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z That tradition continued Thursday night when Invisible-Exports, a tiny subversive gallery on the Lower East Side, unveiled two new works. Scene City: Invisible-Exports Hosts a Party at the Wooly 2011-03-07T16:51:15Z Looking for a subversive talk show to fill the Letterman-size hole in your heart? What to Do This Weekend 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z If “Hamilton” is subversive, Reed asks, what is it subverting? In “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z “Particularly in her depictions of immigrant women, Cornejo Villavicencio reveals a fullness of character that feels subversive, simply because of how rare it is.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Aside from the obvious fact that, as CJ suggests, being likened to a professional escort shouldn't be an insult, here, we witness the real, subversive power of the "Mansplain." On “FBoy Island,” the feminist “Mansplain” puts an end to “bros before hoes” 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Will "Jay & Silent Bob Reboot" be able to capture the fun, the intelligence, the subversive wit and underlying social commentary of the best View Askewniverse films? "Clerks," one of the greatest nerd films 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Miller’s play spoke to a generation that was living in a kind of paralysis—its members fearful that, if they spoke up, they might be labelled subversive or unpatriotic. Sunday Reading: A Night at the Theatre 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z They set the eye and brain whirring, parsing subversive meanings and quotations, skipping among mediums and savoring the contrasting surface textures, which include slatherings and smooth, enamel-like finishes and thin, brushy strokes. Art Review: ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-27T22:04:12Z Time has also been kind to the record, which sounds far weirder–and far more subversive–than it did at the time. R.E.M.’s “Monster” ranked from start to finish: An underappreciated, polarizing album that’s aged very well 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z There is something almost subversively populist and peppy about this depiction of the class divide. The TV Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns for a Fourth Season 2014-01-02T21:12:16Z In its blasé way, “Don’t Call Me Son” is subversive. Review: ‘Don’t Call Me Son’ Considers Identity and Fluidity 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Given the aesthetic graveyard that is the Internet, a silly headline on a subversive video in order to compel readers to click on a feminist or pro-worker video seems like a minor offense. In defense of Upworthy: Why viral uplift might actually be good for us 2013-12-07T00:00:00Z Some of his productions were banned outright; others had to be rewritten to remove what the authorities considered subversive content; others were merely criticized from on high. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z At the keyboard, Bavouzet exuded a relaxed, confident musicianship and offered a reading full of telling inflections and slyly subversive touches. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But those who watched the subversive comedy about a failing high school show choir mostly liked what they saw. "Glee" debut loses TV fans but wins over critics 2011-09-21T19:24:06Z The photographer Catherine Opie has always been interested in the subversively domestic. From Catherine Opie, a Visual Diary of the Recent Past 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Purposeful strides have been exchanged for something hypnotic, rhythmic and faintly subversive. Theater Review: ‘Fela!’ on Broadway at Al Hirschfeld Theater 2012-07-13T02:00:00Z Gioia positions “Music: A Subversive History” as both a history of subversion in music and a subversive work of history. Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z She instills a frenzied portrait of life at a women’s college with daringly subversive qualities. These Talkies Star Complicated Women You Might Well Recognize 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z There's an everyday quality to the anecdotes that shows how those resisting the checkpoints, beatings and censorship are not dangerous subversives but people like us – though operating in a different world. One Day in Spring: 24 Hours in the Middle East – review 2012-05-23T16:17:57Z Whether the fare in question would have satisfied what Vogel called his “very visual eye that tends toward painterly values,” whether it would have struck him as “subversive,” is another matter altogether. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z To see these celebrities simultaneously amused and bemused by her as she wraps uncomfortable questions in sunshine and approachable wit serves as its own endorsement for this delightfully subversive series. With Showtime's sunshiny and sharp "Ziwe," we have an iconic talk show host in the making 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s a surprising, subversive turn for the character. Michael B. Jordan Is Finally in Control. Now What? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The result is a show as inflated as his famous — and wonderfully subversive — stainless-steel “Bunny.” Jeff Koons' Whitney retrospective ending with 36-hour marathon viewing 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z It’s not a level playing field, but I don’t think of it as closed doors, because I think there’s a subversive power in making new doors. The Guerrilla Girls, After 3 Decades, Still Rattling Art World Cages 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z At its heart it’s down, it’s dirty, it’s grubby, it’s tart, it’s essentially subversive. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z Bob Dylan might sing that the times they were a-changin’, but the change young American liberals seemed to be seeking at the time was hardly subversive. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z Some of the most edgy, subversive, incredible comics were like, "I can't do this bit. Am I going to get in trouble?" "We're going to be canceled for a joke": Judy Gold on how "safe spaces" in comedy ignore reality 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Knuckles and the other gay African Americans who invented house music began the process of rescuing disco from its own excesses by stripping away the cliches and reconnecting it with its subversive counter-cultural roots. Long live disco 2012-05-21T17:55:01Z The government considered fax machines subversive; they took a boat trip to Thailand to communicate with the outside world. The Woven Art of Laos 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z WhyBaldessari remains one of the wittiest, most subversive artists around, so the treatment of his collected observations made for hours of playful, left-field fun. | Artists Gather for a Spoken-Word Tribute to the Diabolical Wit and Wisdom of John Baldessari 2014-02-03T21:43:55Z Those subversives are dangerous and a threat to the public. "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z In Nell Zink’s subversive comedy “Mislaid,” the white heroine and her daughter pass as black, moving undetected through a swamp of racism and white guilt. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z This archive will capture what it was like to be a passionate, engaged, subversive country intellectual living through a time of profound change. Archives of environmentalist Roger Deakin given to university 2010-05-08T12:55:00Z He would have loved that – though it's ironic that I got it by being subversive, by being the opposite of what he wanted me to be. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z In 1968, he started writing a pilot script for a comedic series he called “The Imposters” or “There’s No Business,” about subversives who infiltrate a television network and undermine it from within. Arts & Leisure: Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell 2011-05-19T15:34:47Z Too subversive for Fox, it turned out, who – despite the show winning several Emmys – cancelled it in 2006. Arrested Development season four: the return of the greatest sitcom ever 2013-05-20T16:13:33Z Berlanga, who spent three years as president of Filmoteca Española soon after the dictator Francisco Franco died, is remembered by many for directing masterful comedies whose subversive undercurrents survived Franco’s censors. In Transit Blog: Historic Madrid Theater Celebrates Spanish Directors 2011-09-11T10:00:38Z The idea of a playwright-saboteur wearing a sharp suit and carrying a briefcase full of subversive ideas into the heart of the square mile is fun. Noises off: Time to play the markets? 2011-02-03T16:26:21Z Instead, Walker’s voice made his songs feel wild and subversive, as if they were dispatches from some other plane. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z He paused, then said: “Don’t try to be subversive. We believe in things, we agree with things in the fashion system and we don’t agree with some things, we just follow our own path.” Is There Life After Hermès? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Astra Magazine, Spiegelman said, was “both unusual and exciting, a glamorous and subversive literary project, a breath of fresh air and hope.” Astra Magazine Had Creative Freedom and a Budget. It Wasn’t Enough. 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Michael Sims, reviewing it for The Washington Post, called it “an insightful overview of the most independent and subversive entertainment genre of the last century.” From Charlie Hill to the 1491s, ‘We Had a Little Real Estate Problem’ gives Native American comedians their due 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Me: But isn’t this song important to develop children’s healthy sense of subversive thinking? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Great green gobs of nutritional advice 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z His starkly framed images stand on their own, without making literary allusions or grand metaphors, quite unlike the formal experimentation and subversive social commentary of Todd Haynes, Levy’s third subject. ‘Gay Directors, Gay Films?’ review: Onscreen depiction of sexuality 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The prospect of role reversal seemed at once subversive and practical. Motherlode Blog: A Stay-at-Home Dad Confronts the Unexpected 2013-12-12T20:00:21Z In a scene full of subversive plot twists, Brown heartbreakingly captures the awakening of Hero's empathy for Smith — a compassion that is at once self-compassion. Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Father Comes Home From the Wars' is an entrancingly intimate drama 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Well, if so, kudos to that subversive choice, too. Perspective | How I learned to stop worrying and love ‘White Christmas’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Ethan Angelica, director of creative and consulting at Museum Hack, uses terms s uch as “subversive” and “reverently irreverent” to describe the company’s approach to museum tours. Sleepovers? Feminist tours? Custom beer? Museums get creative to engage new audiences 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The most subversive, rage-inducing act in heavy metal played the Fonda on Sunday night. Babymetal shreds heavy-metal's seriousness at the Fonda 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Her subtly subversive wardrobe staples — tuxedo jackets, luxuriant knits, wide-legged trousers, all cut just so — became a de facto uniform not only for fashion and art world insiders, but also for writers, filmmakers, architects. 11 Women on Phoebe Philo’s Céline Era 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Indeed, he adds, Lincoln ultimately was able to redefine democracy “precisely because he had experienced culture in all its dimensions — from high to low, sacred to profane, conservative to radical, sentimental to subversive.” Searching for the Real Abraham Lincoln 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z And Palizban, portraying the only female character, carries the burden of womanhood within a masculine gaze, fulfilling the "exotic female" role, yet with a distinctly subversive and mysterious presence. Iranian film-maker Mohammad Shirvani takes aim at weighty issues 2013-04-23T15:31:08Z Yet a legion of smart, subversive and downright scary horror movies has been packing them in. Why smart horror is putting the fear into sequel-addicted Hollywood 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But Apple’s new emoji feature seems more likely to impede a different kind of skill: creating surprising, figurative and subversive forms of individual expression out of the digital ephemera that populate our devices. Hands Off My Smiley Face: Emoji Become Corporate Tools 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z A torso-trimming, double-breasted coat with leather lapels added a subtly subversive touch. | The Top Five Fall/Winter 2014 Men’s Wear Shows in Milan 2014-01-15T20:29:19Z Speaking of all-girl duos, Broad City deserves some recognition as one of the most wildly subversive shows on the air. Emmys 2015: the TV shows that should be nominated on Thursday 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z But Mr. Vu has more subversive designs, which become clearer on the album’s three originals, notably “Child-Like” and “I Shall Never Come Back,” which develop like ominous weather systems, with sculptured distortion and drones. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z They are, their admirers insist, steeped in irony, riffs on the same idyllic — or subversive — themes that colored Douglas Sirk’s movies and, decades later, films like “American Beauty,” and “Revolutionary Road.” Longing for No Nostalgia 2010-07-30T17:09:00Z There is nothing more subversive than a definition of happiness, a vision of how things could be better. Margaret Thatcher never liked her country 2013-04-14T07:00:00Z The subversive genius of “Spotlight” is that it doesn’t contain any “movie moments” in the conventional sense. The best film won: 5 ways ‘Spotlight’ beat the Oscars odds 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “I suppose it was an effort to make a commercial pop record in a subversive way,” she tells TIME. Why Marina and the Diamonds Wrote a Song About Rape Culture 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The stories they were telling to young children in these very fun and subversive ways were avant-garde and progressive. Sara Bareilles on the Lessons of Pema Chodron and the Joy of 10-Mile Walks 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The brand’s subversive Catholicism is expressed in accessories: a cannabis crucifix charm, a Virgin Mary medallion tipped with a shank. ‘To show them in a kind of glory’: How a high-end designer celebrates working-men chic 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z There, for all the mass appeal of Hogwarts, the iconography and very notion of magic can be subversive and heretical. Harry Potter pilgrims find their own magic in Chicago 2012-08-11T16:30:29Z Because he, himself, was such an interesting, subversive, unpredictable force. To see or not to see? Experiencing Shakespeare during the pandemic offers its own rewards. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z In an area so intent on the pursuit of surface beauty, there was something quietly subversive in focusing on its inner sound. For the Solstice, a Bach Appearance on the G Train 2012-12-23T22:44:46Z Giorgio de Chirico created a slyly subversive cover for the November 1935 issue that endowed a traditional fashion still life with a hint of Surrealist menace. Jennifer Lawrence’s New Vogue Cover: a John Currin Painting 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Such paintings are as direct and immediate as commercial art but with a subversive, emotional twist. Review | In the galleries: Works draw on feeling, seeing and a penchant for jazz 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z I find the women subversive, smart and funny. Lauren Groff: By the Book 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The alternative is an abrasive self-consciousness that pretends to be subversive but quickly turns sour and cynical. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Fresh Take on a Venerable Hero 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z These haute tchotchkes feel like shrugs — what was once subversive is now ordinary. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But I think something more subversive is going on. Lady Gaga Defines a New Role: Fashion Enabler 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The determination of these women to become artists was considered nearly subversive by their families. Two Projects Helping Female Artists in Africa Find Their Voices 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z That still-boyish smile — used to such darkly subversive effect in “Cabaret” — quickly returned when the talk turned to life passages he was most happy to revisit. Joel Grey, a Broadway Eminence, Comes of Age at 83 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “I think of it as a funny, sweet, subversive piece,” Ms. Green said of the installation in the window, the day after the show opened on Sept. Coping With an Unfinished Life 2010-10-08T19:50:00Z You don't want to miss 1927's slyly subversive and utterly distinctive The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, which is at Leicester's Curve on Tuesday and Wednesday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-03-22T16:46:17Z Now that hand-held glowing screens have become as dominant as television once was, one misses that influential artist’s subversive spirit. ‘Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV’ Review: Art Onscreen 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z With “A Report on the Party and the Guests,” Mr. Nemec began to run afoul of the government censors; recognizing the film’s subversive political undertones, they blocked its release for two years. Jan Nemec, Czech Filmmaker Known for Works of ‘Dream Realism,’ Dies at 79 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The ease of his tone inspired Melissa Haizlip to label him a “subtle subversive.” ‘Soul!’ Brought Black Culture to TV in 1968. A New Doc Tells Its Story. 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Vera Chytilova, a filmmaker often called the first lady of Czech cinema, whose work — subversive, experimental and strongly feminist — was long banned in her homeland, died on March 12 in Prague. Vera Chytilova Dies at 85; Made Daring Czech Films 2014-03-23T02:16:56Z The subversive anti-war comedy avoided sentimentality and teachable moments in favor of cruel pranks and a more hardened cynicism. M*A*S*H at 50: the Robert Altman comedy that revels in cruel misogyny 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Most of what we think of as radical or subversive – or even simply ethical – doesn't actually change anything. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z The whimsical setup might suggest we’re heading into a modern descendant of “The Odd Couple,” but there’s a more slyly subversive agenda in play as Robyn’s emerging secrets lure Sharon into breaking bad. 'The Roommate': When an 'Odd Couple' story shifts toward 'Breaking Bad' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z In Mistaken Identity, a colonial-era playboy is wrongly accused of being a subversive. Hari Kunzru: my hero, Nayantara Saghal 2012-07-20T21:55:13Z Indeed, this compact, jam-packed hybrid -- which travels to La Mirada after its Burbank run -- may be the Troubies’ most refined synthesis of artistic mission and subversive attack yet. 'ABBAMEMNON' a fun, jam-packed hybrid 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z This creates an interesting frisson within an exhibition that is both masterly and radical, traditional in feel yet subversive. What to See in New York ArtGalleries This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In a career spanning three decades, Van Sant has consistently gravitated towards those subversives and visionaries who go against the grain of mainstream society. Gus Van Sant: 'Whatever scene we're filming, we make it as hard as we can' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Quite subversive on Yelp's part, we must say. Yelp.com adds Hipster feature 2011-03-23T12:01:00Z “It’s quite subversive in a poetic way. That monument would be in production right now in the context of all these other colonial monuments being reconsidered and removed.” San Francisco Apologizes to Artist Over Maya Angelou Monument 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z And thanks to International Art English, the artist can still appear vaguely subversive and the host state committed to openness, a mutual saving of face. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z With no program notes to stop me, I decided to read subversive intentions into the choice to program Michael Daugherty’s “Regrets Only” right after “Wedding Day.” New Music From Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Of course, what’s subversive about it is that it’s not subversive at all. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z There's just easy charm, subversive spirit – and a cool confidence, amply justified, that this stuff is really interesting to talk about. Fear of a Brown Planet ? review 2011-08-16T18:14:01Z This is a surprise, given that the director is Mr. Butler, a founder of the adventurous Debate Society, which is known for subversively creepy shows like “Blood Play” and “Jacuzzi.” Review: ‘Legacy,’ an Uneasy Comedy of Morals at Williamstown Festival 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z On a T-shirt it would be kitsch, but inscribed into rosewood furniture in a gallery it has a certain subversive weight. Is it design, or is it ... art? 2010-05-04T14:49:00Z There is something so transforming about this odd spectacle that it feels subversive. Spirit of the underground: theatre 2011-01-30T23:00:00Z Pleasure is more contentious, difficult and subversive, both emotionally and politically, than these authors want to see. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z She herself portrayed Keeler, so she must have found her notorious image subversive and fascinating. Christine Keeler's nude photograph: still sexy and subversive, 50 years on 2013-05-01T14:56:17Z And if it seems dangerous and subversive and scary, then talk with other women. I like to be objectified 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z It’s a musical about having the right to choose who you want to be, in a country so riven by tribalism that improvising a new racial persona can seem the most subversive act imaginable. Review | Get a load of the exuberant new sister act: Mary and Martha Clarke, singing outlaw heroes of ‘Gun & Powder’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Against this dull background, the very act of joking – however weak the material – takes on a superficially subversive quality. Boris Johnson, the comedian of politics, has the last laugh 2012-07-30T12:00:01Z With the initiative, Google is the latest organization to wade into debates about how or whether to institutionalize, let alone commercialize, art that is ephemeral and often willfully created subversively. Google Adds Graffiti to Its Art Portfolio 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z “I was interested in Obama in 2008 because his stated positions at the time made him seem like a subversive delivery vehicle for progressive principles I believe in,” Mr. Fairey wrote in an email. Hillary Clinton Aims to Capture the Cool 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Though the new wave of zines is less esoteric, Freedman still sees something subversive in it. Anatomy of a Zine: When Magazines Go Indie 2011-09-03T20:00:00Z But the subversive spirit has now been melded with the blander aesthetic of the top-dollar multiplex event movie. Prometheus 2012-05-30T14:12:53Z When paired with traditional men’s garments, the single earring can “give a subversive edge to smarter looks,” said Nick Paget, the senior men’s wear editor at the fashion forecasting firm WSGN, in an email. Why Men Are Embracing the Single Dangly Earring 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z These days, he's branched out a bit but his comedy is as subversive and unsettling as ever. This week's new live comedy 2011-08-26T23:06:02Z Gaultier, with his peroxided hair, was a prankster and a subversive. As Jean Paul Gaultier takes a bow on ready-to-wear, a look back at a fashion agitator Cohen was looked on as a daring subversive for turning politeness against his unwitting victims, feeding them the rope by which they could then happily hang themselves. Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen's new show aims high but goes low 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps unsurprisingly, they are partial to dark, subversive or satirical objects and images. In Berlin, a Loft That Is Part Gallery and Part Roller Rink 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z In Nell Zink’s subversive comedy “Mislaid,” the white heroine and her daughter pass as black, moving undetected through a swamp of racism and white guilt. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Everyone bellows, barks, screeches and shouts so much that Orton's subversive wit gets buried under an avalanche of coarse acting. What the Butler Saw ? review 2012-05-17T11:01:56Z Mr. Stanfield likes to inject his press appearances with a bit of subversive je ne sais quoi. Lakeith Stanfield Is Playing Us All 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The paintings that filled his 2002 New York solo show depicted famed battles from the American civil war, subversively tackling their portrayal in the history books. Artist of the week 2011-03-10T16:29:20Z January 2012 will see the debut of "House of Lies" starring Don Cheadle, which Showtime programing president David Nevins described as a subversive comedy set in the world of management consultants. Showtime adds 2 million subscribers, expands original shows 2011-08-04T18:31:47Z It's the one genre that at its core needs to be subversive and disturbing, because its raison d'etre is to help us confront our darkest fears. Take Splice, add Inception: the possible recipe for a big-screen Neuromancer 2010-07-22T17:52:00Z Listening to the radio together in our little kitchen also felt subversive, in a different way. From Our Children: Retreating to Memory With a Song 2012-09-25T15:15:07Z It’s a complex, subversive work, written in 1942 after the arrest and subsequent death of a friend of the composer’s, and Johnson looked unflinchingly into its anguished depths. Trio of talent from Verge gives powerful performance at American Art Museum “There was something interesting about being part of a movement that was not widely accepted and felt underground and slightly subversive,” he said, speaking of the 1980s, when he joined the company. The Trocks, an All-Male Dance Troupe, Balance Camp and Skill 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Tonally, it seemed to be going for the subversive wit of “Mean Girls” but instead landed closer to “Family Guy” — empty, scattershot provocation for its own sake. Is Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ as Offensive as It Looks? Let’s Discuss 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Altogether, “The Comedians” is an insightful overview of the most independent and subversive entertainment genre of the last century. ‘The Comedians’: An antic history of the people who make us laugh 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Long-time Hitch collaborator Charles Bennett adapted Buchan with the ideal level of disrespect and produced a joyful confection of subversive humour, intelligent twists and wild sexual tension. My favourite Hitchcock film: The 39 Steps 2012-06-16T23:03:03Z He’s a novelist who has spent a lifetime creating his own subversive pantheon, a jumpy CBGB’s of the literary soul. Books of The Times: Jonathan Lethem?s ?Ecstasy of Influence? - Review 2011-11-08T23:22:25Z Galileo's endorsement of Copernican theories of the cosmos is subversive, precisely because it questions the existing religious and social order. A Life of Galileo – review 2013-02-13T16:52:00Z This century has had its share of denim-clad cultural figureheads, but aside from the occasional office dress-code ban, jeans have mostly lost their subversive associations. Is Denim in an Identity Crisis? 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Flegenheimer I wonder if part of it — for Kanye and other Trump fans who think like him, to Astead’s point — is just how subversive it can feel to support the guy. Kavanaugh, Kanye, Beyoncé, ‘Black Panther’: Washington on Pop Culture in 2018 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z But its most subversive moment comes at the very end, after the house has been spotlessly restored and Mother returns to ask, “What did you do?” Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Her taste for the subversive extends to ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” a dyspeptic sitcom about an Asian-American family. For Margaret Cho, Nothing Is Too Private for a Punch Line 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z At any rate, the shot resonates with the subversive tone of much contemporary animation. How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The resulting installations, at once intimate and subversive, polarized the critics: Some dismissed Mr. Burden as a mountebank, while others praised his explorations of masculinity, martyrdom and the Romantic ideal of suffering for one’s art. Chris Burden, a Conceptualist With Scars, Dies at 69 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Usually you have to listen closely to Nilsson’s sweet, soothing expression of nostalgia to pick up its subversive subtext in phrases like “love is only in a dream” and “life is never as it seems.” Randy Graff Turns Nostalgic in ‘Made in Brooklyn Revisited’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Do you see “Live From Daryl’s House” as subversive, because so much of what now passes for television and music entertainment is “formulaic,” as you implied? Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Like a Jasper Johns painting, “Art in America 1945-1970” is patriotic and subversive, filled with flags and targets. ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z And it felt gently subversive besides—an easy way to buck expectations, or defy the norm. The Nostalgia in Beto O’Rourke’s Indie-Rock Videos 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Now we take for granted comedy that traffics in realism and bluntness, that feels a little subversive. 25 Years Later, It Turns Out Phoebe Was the Best Friend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z I look at everything I do as subversive, and this show in particular. Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Everything about the work in Yun-Fei Ji’s show “Rumors, Ridicules and Retributions” is subversive. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The catchall "indie rock" that's rehearsed or performed in barns, fields, basements, abandoned buildings or rooftop shacks by ragtag bands of shaggy hipsters isn't inherently offensive or subversive. 'No One Knows About Persian Cats': A pair of Iranian rebels just want to rock 2010-04-29T20:10:00Z Yet a brief moment of subversive elegance lingers in my mind. Boston Ballet performs ‘Bella Figura’ at the Kennedy Center After Friday’s court decision on Friday, the Kenyan censor said it still considered Rafiki morally subversive. Lesbian romance film shows to sell-out crowd in Nairobi after court... 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z That may make them subversive of a high order. Review: Can't Get Much Dummer Than Dumb and Dumber To 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Whereas it seemed like we’d seen it all before when it came to grimacing men in tights engaging in CGI’ed derring-do, Wonder Woman burst on the scene as something genuinely novel, subversive and exhilaratingly modern. Starting with ‘she-ro’ Wonder Woman, spring’s movies look encouraging for exhilarating female roles 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The music docs, meanwhile, cover a subversive gay theatre troupe and the father of "gangsta samba", Bezerra Da Silva. This week's new film events 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z A large part of what makes him so subversive is the way he looks utterly innocent while perpetrating assaults on propriety. He’s Got a Good Wig on His Shoulders: Meet Cole Escola 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z After its own unexpected and light-hearted fashion, “Results” is as subversive as Bujalski’s other films. “Results”: Cobie Smulders and Guy Pearce will pump you up in this buff and delightful rom-com 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z His photography is also much more subversive than Westerners might perceive. 2010-02-11T23:58:00Z “So even before it gets to the gay community, it’s subversive.” The Prancing Elites Dance Their Way Up 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Or would we do something really subversive, like starting a family before getting tenure? Modern Love: Is the Husband Going to be the Problem? 2010-08-12T23:00:00Z Orwell despised the book because of what he viewed as its fascistic reverence for sexual power, but the movie substitutes something more topical and subversive in those unsettled postwar years: an erotic dream of democracy. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z He barges into her workplace and social events, becoming a classic trickster, that mischievous, subversive figure who upends the status quo. The Director of ‘Toni Erdmann’ Savors Her Moment at Cannes 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Hardly surprising for a teenager, but downright subversive for a Disney princess. From Snow White to Brave: the evolution of the Action Princess 2012-06-26T16:21:04Z It’s a place that embraces the sophisticated ease of Chloe, the subversive imagination of Rick Owens, the audacious exuberance of Dries Van Noten and the intellectual gamesmanship of Loewe. Perspective | At the Paris shows, disparate points of view beautifully coexist 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z In Alison Anderson’s brisk, colloquial translation from the French, “Life Form” fuses the sincere with the subversive to tell a story as winning as it is perverse. ‘Life Form’: a fan’s notes to a novelist 2013-02-06T23:32:45Z Even so, the stirring pratfalls and well-placed dirty jokes make “It’s a Wonderful Binge” a keenly subversive Christmas movie. ‘It’s a Wonderful Binge’ Review: A Spiked Christmas 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The joke here — and it is, if not subversive, consistently funny — lies in Mr. Galifianakis’s open jealousy of and contempt for his guests and his complete lack of concern with making them look good. Television/The Web: Fishing Online for Cable Viewers 2011-02-20T02:01:55Z As frolicsome, inventive and smartly subversive as her breakthrough Off Broadway hit, “Men on Boats,” the time-skipping “Wives” is really about sisterhood. The Week in Arts: An End to ‘The Affair’; A Lincoln Center Horror Show 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z “That was so exciting,” said Shaw, “going through hundreds of lobby cards that feel subversive to us now and understanding how they were used as advertising at the time.” 'It's not about nostalgia': re-examining gender roles in film posters 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “I wanted to reclaim the term jihad, I wanted it to be subversive,” he explains. Mohamed El Bachiri: ‘Terrorists killed my wife: this is my jihad for love’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Iwillnot wants sticker art to remain subversive, but he also wants more people to pay attention to it. Stickering is an increasingly popular art form for D.C. artists, particularly women 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Soon, this became a kind of subversive mantra, repeated whenever the mood took him after a baking forecast, or even just a mild one. Eddie Mair: a rising BBC star 2013-03-25T19:07:00Z Maybe it is the subversive classicism of the casts of human arms that enables Bruce Nauman’s “Bound to Fail,” hanging above another fireplace, to succeed. Art Review: At Acquavella, Art From Robert and Ethel Scull?s Collection 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z Not strictly a Christmas show, but a real humdinger is 1927's brilliantly clever and subversive The Animals and Children Took to the Streets at BAC. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-12-17T15:49:42Z May you enjoy an exquisitely funny evening of continuous, subversive and heckler-free entertainment. This Weekend: Chapelle's Shows, Plus Last Chance to See ... 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “Along the way this subversively funny, tonally twisted film morphs from something playful with dark undercurrents into the opposite,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in March. DVD: Desert Tales, Centuries Apart 2011-08-06T20:23:02Z In true British fashion, four-letter words double as terms of endearment, and a subversive delight may be detected in the encyclopedic range of filth on show. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Present are the Archers trademarks: sparkling energy, inventive effects, spry humor, sterling production values, a subversive sense of play. The Week Ahead: Nov. 13 ? 19 2011-11-11T14:58:50Z But with over 50 years' insight we can also see how the director was offering a somewhat tactless, subversive satire. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z At its lowest points, witchcraft stopped being subversive or frightening and became just another costume. Monsters, men and magic: how Trump awoke a powerful, angry new wave of feminist witches 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “Little Women,” written and directed by Gerwig, is a subversive new take on a classic novel. Women Made Them. Viewers and Critics Liked Them. No One Nominated Them. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z April - England is a mildly subversive exercise in English pastoralism, perky and rippling in its outer sections, but going walkabout in between, and visiting some unexpected and richly polyphonic territory. Proms 27 & 28: Hall?/Elder; BCMG/Volkov 2010-08-07T12:03:00Z The stylish packaging of the title and cover and the swagger of the prose in the end don't seem as subversive as they should be. Lindsay Hunter's 'Ugly Girls' plays it safe in the dark 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z I think it's more subversive and more radical to try and do a film about Muslims and Jews, particularly Muslims I guess, that puts them in the mainstream. Films poke fun at Jews, Muslims, suicide bombers 2010-04-09T11:19:00Z But arguably one of its most subversive points is that men are, actually, in fact, not all that funny. “Kevin Can F**K Himself” is a thorough takedown of the “Gone Girl” cool girl 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s bracing to experience this reverse and sometimes subversive angle on the great good cause of our time. Review: In ‘Too Heavy for Your Pocket,’ Who Can Afford Civil Rights? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Morera likes the subversive idea of taking a uniform made specifically for one activity — a gi for martial arts — and adapting it to another. Less Posing, More Pruning: Stylish Gardening Clothes Arrive 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z "It's a fringe art which means you will find the most egregious misogyny in there – but also the most subversive feminism." Joss Whedon: 'I kept telling my mum reading comics would pay off' 2013-06-02T05:00:01Z Do you like your Christmas hits traditional, or more subversive? Have your say on ... Christmas hits 2010-12-13T18:01:00Z It must, however, be pleasing for these long-assimilated elderly rebels to know that someone, somewhere, is still scared of them and that their subversive potential has not yet been utterly absorbed and nullified. Why Bob Dylan didn't make a fuss in China 2011-04-09T23:37:00Z This is hardly suprising, for how can something be subversive when it is the dominant and overriding language anyway? I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z Odd Mom Out, currently airing its second season Monday nights on Bravo, remains one of the summer’s most delightful shows—and a comedy with meaningful subversive bite. Review: "Odd Mom Out" is a Tough, Refreshing Summer Satire 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z As immaculately sung by Anderson’s young Lucy, valentines of songs subversively careen off course into darker dissonance, evoking Stephen Sondheim’s pastiche numbers for “Follies.” Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z This lively, subversive book is fascinated by questions of feminism and femininity — womanhood as it is lived, and as it is socially constructed. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z A more subversive satire might suggest that the world doesn’t care whether women are beautiful so long as they’re outwardly sweet-natured and sympathetic to the needs of men. ‘Unfortunate Importance of Beauty,’ by Amanda Filipacchi 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Or is it a subversive relic from a male-dominated world, designed to cripple vulnerable women in their quest to meet a fashionable and social ideal? High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z As a declaration of desire, it’s subversive in any context: This relationship is not equitable! Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But there are moments when you are surprised and delighted by his soft, subversive delivery and the way he's turned his distinctly non-Hollywood body into an asset. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z This might make for a fascinating, subversive take on Darrow if carried out fully: a warped mirror image of Mr. Spacey’s conniving Frank Underwood on “House of Cards.” Review: Kevin Spacey as Clarence Darrow, Stadium Size 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z As Louis frames it, family is the template for, and the creature of, the state, with its brutal leadership, its sycophantic enablers, its goons and its subversives. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Even while appreciating the careful framing, meticulous grooming and self-consciously subversive wardrobe, it’s possible to see glimmers of the girl in that 1918 portrait, staring at the camera with unforced, disarming candor. At the National Portrait Gallery, Marlene Dietrich exerts a seductive, enigmatic pull 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “How disturbing, how subversive, how really apropos today.” ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z One can appreciate the effort being made here to take societally important messages, or even just cheeky and subversive slogans, to a highly visible event like the Met Gala. From AOC to Cara Delevingne, are the Met Gala’s feminist displays meaningful or just performative? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z We leave the festival with a commissioned poem on the marquee guest, and fittingly it includes a bit of subversive empire-dashing, which is very Ozymandias. Inside Ozy Fest, the progressive alternate reality where the brands outshine the ideas 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Most of these roles run subversive variations on the wastrel charmer he played in The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Dallas Buyers Club: He Hated Gays, Got AIDS and Saved Lives 2013-10-31T21:00:41Z But I can’t help thinking that the failure of these imperfect but adventurous romps through American history also suggests some discomfort on the part of large audiences with their gleefully subversive attitudes. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z On the spacious second floor, shelves are piled with T-shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags and denim printed with subversive bunny cartoons that are equal parts creepy and cute. Five Places to Shop in Tokyo 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the far right has developed a fascinating and deeply subversive form of satire, based on embracing its own caricature, often unconsciously. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z A subversive double vision soon surfaces and drives the show, directed by Sondra Lee, on an alternative route. KT Sullivan and Jeff Harnar Reflect a New Era 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z They made subversive queer-themed paintings, and their photographs — created in antique styles, with painstaking precision — depicted them as dandies of a bygone era. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z It has been buoyed by controversy – “The mess was good publicity,” Hamoud admits – over its presentation of Muslim and Christian Arab women in spiky, subversive roles. Maysaloun Hamoud, the female director shaking up Israel and Palestine 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Somehow, it still managed to be one of the most subversive television shows about womanhood since . . . well, since ever. ‘The Mindy Project’ was never really woke. But at least it starred a South Asian woman 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Street art that was once illegal and subversive may be considered “pre-packaged rebellion,” as Art Center illustration chairwoman and exhibition organizer Ann Field puts it. Spray-paint revolution: 'OutsideIn' street art exhibition opens at Art Center in Pasadena 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z But even under the weather, Humphries, an Australian gentleman of prodigious build and even more prodigious wit, couldn't resist unleashing a fusillade of delicious quips and subversive sallies. Though her purple hair shows no silver, Dame Edna prepares to retire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Firstly, backing up my view that Globish describes a process that is contagious, adaptable, populist and even subversive, there's the story of the Zimbabwean artist Owen Maseko. Everyone's talking Globish | Robert McCrum 2010-04-06T10:21:00Z "The things they go through in their lives are as extreme and subversive in their own way as what young, hip people go through," she said. Frances McDormand embraces abrasive 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z “Roots” retains the company’s signature mix of art forms, with a silent-movie-like style that combines a kind of Gothic Expressionism, slyly subversive social commentary and anarchic humor. Onstage in Edinburgh, the Mood Is Grim 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But the seductiveness that had imbued the live performance, as one man directly enlisted our complicity in a subversive act of make-believe, wasn’t there. The Mythic Performances That Are Keeping Me Company 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z In her performances, she flips from hilarious facial expressions to subversive, politically sharp critiques of the patriarchy through dance, glitter and lip syncing. Cherdonna Shinatra takes her subversive clowning to Frye Art Museum with ‘DITCH’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Tattoos have become the ubiquitous cliché of subversive cool. | Ink Stain 2010-07-29T16:41:00Z As for his campy and subversive observations, he gets away with it all without a wince from Scholastic, his publisher. What is Paul Rudnick Doing Writing Young Adult Fiction? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Yet as net art evolves in response to an increasingly hostile, high-stakes digital environment, Paul notes, “less subversive does not mean less interesting.” These artists make online disinformation into art. Or is it the other way around? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The audience was not outside of the action: Many patrons sat at conference tables, just like the officers who deceptively purred their questions toward the potentially subversive writer into a microphone. How to design a dystopian play 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The exhibition made her think about the subversive history of dance. How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Serving a bunch of McNuggets at the White House to mark their accomplishment is neither ironic nor subversive. Cold Whoppers in the White House: A visual metaphor for the Trump presidency 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Onstage or off duty, sex workers’ accouterments form the subversive foundation of role play. Time to Trot Out the Fishnets and Put on a Show 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the F.B.I. files in this collection monitor writers considered by the government to have been subversives. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z These gorgeous glass pipes shaped like bananas, cherries, grapes and oranges are beautiful enough to display as subversive sculptures but functional enough to be used on a regular basis. 5 best munchies-themed gifts for the stoner in your life 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Plus, there’s the joy of watching a dance where dancing is not allowed: It’s a subversive performance. Subway Performances Can Be a Wonder of Grit and Grace 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z By turns poignant, humorous and virtuosic, Ms. Chen’s performance offered a slyly subversive take on issues relating to femininity, technology and power. Phyllis Chen Performs With Toy Pianos and Music Boxes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z When the authorities clamped down on him, he subversively turned to "harmless" early music and period keyboards, in the process unearthing long-forgotten wild music, some from Russia's past. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z In that way, "Vacation" may be subject to a criticism about today's R-rated comedies: for all their in-your-face gross-out humor, they are actually culturally less subversive than their predecessors. Will the new 'Vacation' make Clark Griswold proud? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z It added, “Instead of a well-made satire, the book is a marketing coup,” and noted that the book was less subversive than advertised. ‘Look Who’s Back’: Germans Reflect on the Success of a Satire About Hitler 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The work — a subversive blurring of genre, time and politics reflecting on how little has changed over the centuries, yet how much change is possible — jolted the generally conservative Vienna State Opera. Genre-Blurring, Politically Charged Opera Wins Top Music Prize 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Depicting despondent workers marching in line or a machine as an animal was decried as subversive; some even called for the walls of the DIA to be whitewashed. Rivals and accomplices 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “Switched On” is subversive in more ways than one. Review: In ‘Switched On,’ John Elder Robison’s Asperger’s Brain Is Changed 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z This is Aeschylus, utterly remorseless, astonishing and subversive. Shedunnit – how Agatha Christie became cinema hot property 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Now, she is bringing her cheerfully subversive form of women’s work to a public park with her exhibition “My Neighbor’s Garden.” Imagine Spider-Woman With a Crochet Hook 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Well, they would be, wouldn’t they, since this is a play by Mr. Barker, whose arguments have a subversive way of imploding? Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z My view of What the Butler Saw is that it's a deeply shocking and subversive play, masquerading as a farce. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z But it also reveals that he and Zimmer wrote its politically subversive elements after, not before, Honegger’s expulsion from the Resistance. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z It was destructive, and subversive in a way she understood. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z This will seem impossibly pretentious to some, thrillingly subversive to others. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “To be able to put out something that I think is very subversive and smart to a mainstream audience, and to see it be financially successful, that feels good,” Mr. Reznor said. Subversive and Smart Scores Raise the Volume in Oscar Talk 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z One of them, “Homecoming,” brings to the foreground the kind of subversive political commentary that Mr. Dante often sneaks into the margins. Movie Listings for Aug. 19-25 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z This is painting with the subversive edge of a contemporary fable, fresh from the imaginative depths of a wicked national treasure. At Tate Britain, Celebrating a Mischievous, Subversive Talent 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z I wanted to learn about Nazi book burnings, those bonfires that were known as Feuerspruches — “fire incantations” — in which books considered subversive were “sentenced to death” and thrown into a bonfire. Susan Orlean: By the Book 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Then I thought, “Oh man, maybe she’s being subversive by making literal the kind of objectification that the entire industry, and awards ceremony culture, is premised on.” Sofia Vergara’s spin at the Emmys: A subversive stunt or just a woman on a rotating platform? 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z In response, he took to writing secret, tweet-size messages to Castro on the reverse side of his abstract embroideries, literally hiding subversive content in his art. A Bumpy Journey From Havana to New York Ends at ‘Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Blum’s human taxonomy—small gestures, plain T-shirts, smudges of eyeliner—is quotidian enough to be subversive. Another Side of Appalachia 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z It’s dated in some ways, and still subversive in others. Streaming: Netflix and the Obamas raise the stakes 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z “Because EU authorities deliberately ignore distress calls from ’non-Europeans’,” the subversive artist continued. Artist Banksy on migrant crisis: ‘All Black Lives Matter’ 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z I look at the manic sunniness of “Mrs. Maisel” as a subversive form of accuracy. Perspective | Sure, ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ could reach for more importance, but that’s not why it’s here 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The subversively imaginative vanishing and reappearing act that Martin stages here between himself and Acker seems nothing short of a kind of strange magic. Three Literary Critics Who Engage With Their Subjects, Unconventionally 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z In her new book, Miller says that literature often overlooks how rowdy and subversive Keats really was. 17 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Season 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The duet certainly doesn’t look subversive, which may be the point. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The Segura series is called "Cuba: Scenes Behind the Scenes," and that title—hinting at uncomfortable truths exposed—epitomizes the subversive spirit of the couple’s collection, which is guided by instinct rather than professional advice. Art Shines in a François Catroux–Designed Residence 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The only problem is that he's just a dark silhouette, surrounded by some of his famous pieces of subversive art. 2010-02-15T11:49:00Z Singing in a gymnasium, she is joined by muscular actors playing the US Olympic team, who form a distinctive – and distinctively subversive – Busby Berkeley chorus around her. Jane Russell: Mean! Moody! Misunderstood! 2011-03-01T22:00:01Z There is a silliness to the juxtaposition, between the breezy yet subtly subversive tone of the TV show and the self-important bombast of the New York stage. Squidward Tentacles, voice of millennial despair 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z |
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