| 单词 | consumerism |
| 例句 | Marketers have had to adjust their strategies in this fluid world of consumerism. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z "I give people credit for buying into consumerism!" he says excitedly, having found his pun. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z After a second, he mumbles to himself, "Credit, people, consumerism. . . . There's a pun in there somewhere." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The show also includes some of his later satirical critiques of capitalism and consumerism. Singapore's Once Unruly Young Artist, Still Poking at Social Norms 2010-08-17T14:39:00Z For Miller, wellness is about “people reconnecting and being comfortable in their mind and spirit level. Before, people were distracting themselves through consumerism.” Wellness: just expensive hype, or worth the cost? 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Teach the boys at home, raise them away from all the violence, greed, racism, and consumerism. Memories of Mexico 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Through this tale, Davis highlights Warhol’s burgeoning ideas about consumerism and art. ‘The Trip’ review: An entertaining cross-country romp with Warhol 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z She made her name on her eponymous talk show which, at the time, was revolutionary with its mix of emotionally charged interviews with celebrities, consumerism and news investigations. Oprah Winfrey launches OWN television channel 2010-12-31T12:18:56Z The song is named after the affluent Gangnam District of Seoul and it mocks the rampant consumerism of that suburb. Psy's "Gangnam Style" video becomes YouTube's most viewed 2012-11-26T04:20:08Z When the Disneyland Paris theme park arrived in France almost three decades ago, the guardians of the Gallic way warned of the dangers of American cultural imperialism and a slide toward consumerism. An 18th-century Parisian garden of delight can teach us much about what not to do today 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z It’s all the more ironic, then, that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is the ultimate example of the symbiotic relationship between Christmas and consumerism in America. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z "Beat Generation" takes its name from the group of writers whose works raged against the conformity and consumerism of the 1950s. Kerouac's only play premiers in Mass. hometown 2012-10-10T17:58:08Z 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 Ellis has had some reputational ups and downs in the U.S.; many regard him as implicated in the consumerism and celebrity culture he portrays. Bad book, great movie 2012-06-19T21:13:00Z “I think of them as a kind of fragment, a glimpse, into what our reality is,” said Ms. Meckseper, 47, whose work often operates at the intersection of culture, consumerism and power. Art Project Takes Over Lot at Eighth Avenue and 46th Street 2012-02-29T23:17:15Z Catholic Italy, though, was changing fast, and Mamma Roma caught the new mood as the economic miracle of the early 1960s brought chewing gum, Coca-Cola, jeans and other trappings of American-style consumerism. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z Mundanely expensive shops were juxtaposed with a uniquely surreal visual journey — art placed in a home for consumerism. When Theater Installations Aim to Make Room for Drama 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Years later, I took a few gender studies courses, and came to realize what everyone else does about Disney princesses: They are pink, sparkly conduits for consumerism, antiquated gender roles and unrealistic standards of beauty. I am not a Disney princess 2013-05-28T00:00:00Z In his essays on art, Singer is critical of American consumerism, yet he greatly admires the significance of freedom in the United States; it was one of the values he believed in and promoted. This Week in Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z She is judgmental about bourgeois privilege and consumerism, but her only serious political discussion with Olive is an abstract discourse about creation and destruction inspired by drawings in the Morgan Library. Bombs and Bank Robberies: A Political Novel of the 1960s 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Luna also seems to question whether Spain's shift to democracy and consumerism was really as liberating as presumed. Bigas Luna obituary 2013-04-07T16:53:09Z The interesting existential tidbits about agency, morality and artificial intelligence play second string to the straw-man argument about the baseness of consumerism. ‘Free Guy’ Review: Don’t Hate the Player 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The goal, Berean said in a phone interview, was to pose questions about consumerism and mass production. Diaspora: Lily Garafulic’s 100th Meanwhile its lyrics fling images of consumerism as brainwashing and distraction, and of partying toward self-destruction, none of which stopped fans from dancing. Critic’s Notebook: Calle 13 at the Latin Alternative Music Conference 2012-07-15T22:22:21Z The result is an emphasis on the comedy — particularly its pointed swipe at consumerism — but the dark edge found in both the Ellis’s book and the movie adaptation is stifled. 4 Ways The American Psycho Musical Differs from the Novel 2013-12-13T22:14:40Z It may seem like mere consumerism, but I consider that impulsive but cathartic mask purchase an act of courage in the face of an endless sea of unknowns. I can't stop buying N95 masks: As a hoarder, my instinct is to shop my way out of the pandemic 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z The mythology of consumerism is tethered to the invisibility of labor. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z FRI-SUN Special exhibit focusing on consumerism and celebrity culture ends Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Her photography, she said, was “sociologically themed,” with an emphasis on consumerism and cultural values. Arts & Leisure: ‘The Queen of Versailles’ and Its Lawsuit 2012-06-21T15:00:00Z Yes, in individual works, where the backdrop of unbridled consumerism, the horrific health crisis and more can be felt. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Usually something about consumerism, or not trusting the Man or too much TV's bad for you. Talking with Scott Stuckey, the man behind 'Pancake Mountain' 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z You could read “Psycho” as an Oedipal parable, say, or George Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” as a sendup of voracious consumerism. Movie Review: ‘Chernobyl Diaries,’ Co-Produced by Oren Peli 2012-05-25T21:37:16Z Just inside the front door is a huge American flag made of red, white and blue Chuck Taylors: it is not an art installation about unchecked consumerism, except that it is. Critical Shopper: Chuck and Doc Step Out 2011-01-05T18:57:08Z In the 1950s and 1960s, it was expressions of rebellion against corporate consumerism, but safely and acceptably.” The Deities of Men’s Style 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z But I’m hardly the first economist to moan about out-of-control consumerism. Half a billion on Halloween pet costumes is latest sign of America’s out-of-control consumerism 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The internet also encourages sectarianism and consumerism; other identities are competing, such as the recent football wars between Egypt and Algeria. After Tunisia: Alaa Abd El Fatah on Egypt 2011-01-28T13:00:02Z While skewering its vacuity and vulgarity, Langsdorf captures the sensuous allure of confident, over-the-top American consumerism. Families Banter and Bicker Their Way Through Three New Novels 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In the song, McKay admits her own complacence regarding the consumerism and identity politics that drive contemporary life. Revisit Nellie McKay's "Get Away from Me," one of the great pop albums of the early 21st century 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z In the middle of Times Square nestled between digital billboards, flashing lights, and wall-to-wall consumerism there is a relic of the past – T Sq. Pop-up newsstand in Times Square gives nod to city’s gritty past 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z For children’s entertainment marketers, it’s one more leap toward the globalization of childhood consumerism — mesmerizing prekindergartners who watch again and again on tablet and phone screens. The story of ‘Baby Shark’: How toddlers around the world made a K-pop earworm go viral 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z We’ve seen Lorelai relate to the wilderness through consumerism before, when she was dating the dad from “Twilight” for a hot second, plus ... if she’d read “Wild,” wouldn’t she know not to pack like that? Watched All of the ‘Gilmore Girls’ Revival? Let’s Talk About It 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “The Gentlemen’s Guide” highlights the hallmarks of hipster consumerism at its most annoying, including the fetishization of obscure implements and an emphasis on the artisanal and the handmade. Review | Hipster style at its most annoying 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Much of Andy Warhol’s artwork is a once a celebration of and a commentary on packaging, consumerism and consumption. Super Bowl in the age of anxiety: Maroon 5's boring halftime show was a symptom, not the disease 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z And about Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing,” a genial, barbed parable of consumerism, environmental crisis and social inequality disguised as a dystopian farce. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z "Cuba remains a Communist country, yet at the same there is the sensuality of the dress and the consumerism of the designs - there is a contradiction there that in this case coexist perfectly," Cuty said. Cuban artists paint garments, not canvases for 'Fashion Art' show 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z While the show has been fairly criticized for its conspicuous celebration of consumerism, which sits awkwardly with the general mood of the times, it's not Emily's overthought outfits we're meant to aspire to. "Emily in Paris": Why it’s so hard to admit love for the show despite it being so popular 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The story amounts to a weirdly affecting critique of consumerism, half homage to Supreme and half culture-jamming. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The other alternative, by the standards of the ’60s, was to reject consumerism altogether, a fantasy that was in those days usually projected onto the counterculture. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z "Our mall is a setting for expression, for liberal ideology, not just consumerism — an experience that will set it apart." Mall Culture: Art Meets Mart in Kuala Lumpur 2011-12-08T15:05:00Z In the 80-minute opera, Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” is moved to the trash-strewn streets of a contemporary London troubled by the plagues of unemployment, poverty, police brutality and consumerism. The Orchestra Brawls in a ‘Beer and Pizza’ Oedipus Opera 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z This pay-cable saga wasn't just about the mob, the suburbs, consumerism or the changing face of American life in the aughts; it was also about work. There's more to the office than "The Office" 2011-09-05T17:01:00Z WED Humanities Washington hosts conversation about the rise of consumerism in postwar America and its impact on our national well-being, 7 p.m. Community calendar 2012-03-28T23:08:04Z The model should be one of “participation, not consumerism,” and he has sought to anchor the festival in larger artistic communities and to make connections with the broader Mediterranean world. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z I owe no one here anything, but the world of consumerism owes me my life. Kleptomania and a mother’s love: The five-finger discount is my personal rebellion against inequality 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z “Overall conscious consumerism is on the rise in industries across the board, and we are seeing that in weddings as well,” said Kristen Maxwell Cooper, editor in chief of the Knot. Women-Powered Weddings on Rise 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Through Mao and the Baader-Meinhof gang, colonialism and consumerism, A.I. and conspiracy theories, Curtis develops a beautiful and disturbing stew. Marc Swanson Draws Comfort From Rural Cemeteries and ’80s Club Music 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Protesting consumerism, but only thanks to the abilities and freedoms provided by capitalism. The Real Burning Man 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The book serves both as an account of Ernaux’s experience and as a generational memoir of postwar France, and captures the shift toward sexual liberation and consumerism. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In the United States, the fossil-fuel industry and its Republican lackeys picked away at a handful of loose scientific threads in the film, depicting it as some partisan, puritanical attack on capitalism, consumerism and prosperity. It’s too late to halt climate change and our society is doomed — but wait, that’s the good news 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z No. Go back to your essence – don't play this consumerism game. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z A retreat to the couple form is not a solution to consumerism. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z In this autobiography, the French writer anchors her particular 20th-century memories within the daunting flux of 21st-century consumerism and media domination, turning her experiences into a kind of chorus reflecting on politics and lifestyle changes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Ford ultimately intertwines these stories into one suffocatingly intense narrative and makes powerful, sometimes stinging comments on the importance of loyalty, the thrill of revenge and the perils of consumerism. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Behaviorism and consumerism, two ideologies which achieved tremendous power in the twentieth century, are cut from the same cloth. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z His rage played out among the signs of the corporate menace he feared, in a landscape of consumerism. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Run-DMC was at the forefront of brand-driven consumerism in hip-hop, a feature that would become central to the genre over the years. Review: ‘Fresh Dressed’ Follows Hip-Hop From the Streets to the Runway 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z That’s apparent from the very first track, “Price Tag,” an attack on consumerism, with the kind of full-throated roars from singer/guitarist Corin Tucker in the chorus that send a tingle up the spine. Sleater-Kinney still sounds tough and terrific | New Recordings 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z “I referred to that Kmart as an episode of ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’, but truly, it felt like someone from the Midnight Society was telling a crazy story about consumerism.” ‘Was the Astor Place Kmart Haunted?’ and Other Thoughts on Its Closing 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Readers trade the orthodoxy of consumerism for the orthodoxy of tidiness. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Others felt that the director did not go far enough in dinging her corporate sponsors, keeping the critiques of consumerism and female beauty standards at surface level. ‘Barbie’ Reviews Are In: Slickly Subversive or Inescapably Corporate? 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Their designs are formally expressive, yet also critique Chinese consumerism. Design: Looking at China as a Creator, Not Manufacturer 2011-07-10T13:20:00Z Romero’s 1968 cult classic “Night of the Living Dead” — and subsequent films in the series — tackled a barrage of issues including, racism, nuclear war and consumerism. Zack Snyder blends social commentary into ‘Army of The Dead’ 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a kind of consumerism that is a little bit of anti-consumerism.” For the Walker Art Center, a Shop That Peddles Evanescence 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Themes of consumerism and celebrity culture seem just as vital today as they did back then, says reviewer Michael Upchurch. 5 things to do this weekend, from cheap to splurgey 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z This vogue-ballet in drag also serves as a sharp sermon against consumerism and the cult of celebrity. Dance Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The second sale includes about 20 paintings and drawings by Thiebaud, who combined formalism, Pop and realism with notions of consumerism and nostalgia. Inside Art: Sotheby?s Strategy: One Offer for Two Sales 2011-03-31T22:50:36Z Some were eager to discuss the show's take on psychology, suburban life, consumerism, the waning of the Baby Boom generation, and other recurring topics. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z The avocado was my revenge on consumerism, on the structure of money at large, on a world that places a hierarchy on health. Kleptomania and a mother’s love: The five-finger discount is my personal rebellion against inequality 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The life-sized sculpture showing the Ronald McDonald clown on a cross has been at the center of an exhibition about consumerism and religion. Israeli museum to drop 'McJesus' sculpture after protests 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z George Babbitt rebels not only against racism, consumerism, religious conformity and capitalism. Markov Chains, Sinclair Lewis and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The reality is that there’s not such a neat line between Bauhaus and the present trends of consumerism, construction and design. In Munich and Dessau, Art and Design Call. But History Is Even More Compelling. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z This clarion call comes from teenagers, the crew we characterize here in America as eye-rolling creatures suspended in a helpless state of consumerism, hyper-sexualization, and crushing academic pressure. Parenting the climate-change generation 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a mordant meditation on capitalist imperialism and mindless consumerism. An H.C. Westermann Retrospective Melds Humor and Provocation 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z And the numbing sameness of every single scene is nothing short of courageous, standing as an indictment of empty consumerism, political gridlock, spiritual vacuity and the general stagnation of our age. Critic’s Notebook: Sprout Channel’s ‘Snooze-a-Thon’ on Christmas Eve 2012-12-23T22:47:32Z The film — a fraud itself — weaves the family’s videos with other clips found on YouTube to tell a tale on the perils of consumerism. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Disenchantment’ and ‘Darkest Hour’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The evolution of her work since the 1980s, on view in video works, digitized images and a “selfie room,” is a race against the ever increasing power of media and consumerism to destroy lives. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z "And at home, we've seen the return of a kind of neo-modernism, with simplified geometric forms and an ethic that is disconnected from the practice of consumerism." Beyond the World Cup stadiums, architecture in Brazil returns to glory The unspoken theme pervading those shows was consumerism — a tacit endorsement of shopping and acquiring. Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z From the beginning of this album, Raury is earnest and aggrieved — he begins by lamenting consumerism and income inequality, in a voice that’s part tense rapping and part wistful singing. ‘All We Need’ is the New Album by Raury 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The world Bora and his friends inhabit may be a place of cruelty, inequality and shallow consumerism, but they are determined to find love, joy and meaning in spite of it all. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z What makes Mr. Pruitt’s work so engaging is not that he distances himself from consumerism, but that he acknowledges his own very human, very American place in it. The Artist Rob Pruitt: Paradox on a Pedestal 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z They are recreational zones, community hubs, surveillance centers, temples to consumerism, places where loitering is encouraged until the mall cops kick you out for loitering too much or in the wrong fashion. ‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The program note cites “the enduring damage of the Reagan era” and consumerism consuming civic engagement, but the production doesn’t carry that much political weight. ‘The Mood Room’ Review: 1980s Anomie, California Style 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z There was, no doubt, a critique of American consumerism somewhere in them, but that wasn’t the thrust of what they were meant to do. Perspective | Wayne Thiebaud’s artistic eye was so much keener than pop art confections 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z There he railed against Black Friday and America’s unbridled consumerism. Lewis Black slams outrageous Black Friday hypocrisy on “The Daily Show” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In the patois of idealized consumerism that has become common in the 21st century, he refers to Lululemon loyalists — employees and customers — as “the collective.” Lululemon’s Kumbaya Capitalism 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z “It speaks to a lifestyle of commodity, consumerism and capitalism, of transactions being canceled,” he said. Everyone Is Canceled 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Aside from the drugs and sex, the show – which features mostly dancing and songs and not much spoken dialogue – also has a strong take on the American mainstream media and consumerism. Green Day spice up Broadway with sex, drugs and punk 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z My students’ attitudes toward my authority have been tempered by the twin forces of consumerism and the self-esteem movement. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z “The Years” is an earnest, fearless book, a “Remembrance of Things Past” for our age of media domination and consumerism, for our period of absolute commodity fetishism. Reclaiming the Past in the Internet’s ‘Infinite Present’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Equally, consumerism is contradictory to the basic tenet of Buddhism: the idea of ending suffering through detachment. Buddha branding is everywhere – but what do Buddhists think? 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Within this huge mass of consumerism, the researchers zoomed in on sales in the consumer packaged industry—products ranging from laundry detergents to frozen pizzas to toothpastes and razors. Conservatives and liberals drink different beer 2013-02-27T16:32:00Z It’s set chiefly in Des Moines in the 1950s, when America was perfect except for the threat of nuclear annihilation, racial oppression, the birth of unbridled consumerism and little Billy’s mother’s cooking. The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z He also propagandizes them to reject, totally, the premises and functioning of modern society—he rejects organized religion, consumerism, moralism, pop culture, supermarket food, diner food, and the compromises of big politics. The Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic” 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The Hirshhorn Museum’s current exhibition on ’80s pop art raises serious questions about consumerism, marketing and the artist as a brand, but it also spotlights a less cerebral issue facing many museums today. A guy in Minnesota is the museum world’s answer to old technology 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z With an anthropological eye, Sharif’s reflections on freedom, consumerism and loyalty are at once witty and incisive. Poems of Exile, Introspection and Self-Discovery (Cicadas, Too) 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z However, even in the initiative's most seemingly innocuous themes there exists a powerful meta-message selling raw consumerism and materialism. "Sesame Street": Brought to you by PNC Bank 2011-05-05T17:01:00Z It’s a beautiful project that captures the desolation of the desert, Americana, and reflects on consumerism and waste. A Road Trip to Death Valley: Salt Flats, Chilly Nights and Kitsch 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The exhibition, titled "You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970", explores the era-defining impact of the period on modern life, touching on music, civil rights, consumerism, multiculturalism and more. 'You Say You Want a Revolution?' 1960s exhibition opens in London 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z With an audience that understands references to consumerism as “a hedonic treadmill,” many articles in The New Inquiry make The Paris Review look like a beach read. New York?s Literary Cubs 2011-11-30T23:21:40Z And she’s also often been a covert feminist: On “Material Girl,” a song still cited as an ode to consumerism, Madonna is the winner because “experience has made me rich, and now they’re after me.” Madonna and Hillary: ‘Witch’ and ‘Nasty Woman’ as Sisters in Arms 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Over the last four decades, he has explored a variety of subjects through his art, including the effects of globalization, societal changes in postwar Japan, the evolution of popular culture, consumerism, spirituality and religion. Dragons, Saints and a Sexy Nurse: The Art of Takashi Murakami 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z More accurately, the movement was “Art for Art’s Sake” — the rallying cry of 19th-century aesthetes appalled by the ugliness of the industrial revolution and its vulgar consumerism. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z Rosenthal, sensing the rising tide of consumerism, seems to anticipate the excesses of the Thatcher yearsIt is not an unsympathetic portrait, though: the Nicholsons end up being ostracised by both rich and poor. Your next box set: Jack Rosenthal at the BBC 2011-03-25T08:00:05Z On Never Let Go he rails against consumerism, that old chestnut, and doesn't say much more than Prince did on Sign o' the Times. New band of the day – Rowdy Superstar (No 1,395) 2012-11-14T16:26:32Z The change was both a response to the new culture of consumerism — items are a click away — and a way to engage the audience in real time. ‘Project Runway’ Is Back on Bravo. Here’s What to Expect. 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Advertising was, after all, a frat boy’s business ruled by wanton consumerism and outright lies. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z Eyeing the Lens With Suspicion It is an article of faith in contemporary art that consumerism is bad. Art Review: ‘New Photography 2012,’ at Museum of Modern Art 2012-11-29T20:43:18Z She finds in this 50-year old "score" relevant themes of environmental degradation, the perils of consumerism, the persistence of hope. Beckett's 'Happy Days' to go on stage at New City Theater 2012-03-01T21:03:04Z But it's the same shallow consumerism that, for instance, allows all those techie boys to jump around waving their Ipads outside the Apple store. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z His ideal was to hold up the illusion of democratic empowerment while curbing democratic impulses through a voracious cycle of consumerism that would pique and then sate people’s desires. The beautiful Airstream myth and painful RV reality of life on the road 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z "In general reggaeton is about the poor people of the Caribbean, with its poverty, violence, precariousness, machismo, the avalanche of television, consumerism, the lack of values." Cuba targets racy reggaeton in lyrics crackdown 2013-01-07T20:12:27Z The Butterball talk line is one of the great marketing ideas of modern American consumerism, right up there with using a national baking contest to promote Pillsbury flour, or Clydesdales to sell Budweiser. Turkey Trouble? At Butterball, Operators Are Still Standing By 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The association of Christmastime with “excess” survived into the 19th century, an era that forever fused the Christmas season with excessive luxury via capitalist consumerism in the collective American psyche. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z Tech-enabled convenience, rampant consumerism and a culture-wide exhaustion would appear to indicate that Americans have abandoned any desire to make anything harder than a sandwich. Summer TV: It's even hotter inside these reality shows, where contestants play with fire 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z This “vogue-ballet” in drag also serves as a sharp sermon against consumerism and the cult of celebrity. Dance Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It was solid state, with no ticking, and the new watch heralded the dawn of mass tech-based consumerism. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z While his screed is full of rage against heartless corporations and American consumerism, it is, above all, a Malthusian panic about the arrival and incorporation of immigrants into American life. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z As curators, artists, auction house executives and critics reflect on the value of art in the age of consumerism, we see that the issue is rarely black and white. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Price of Everything’ and ‘Mars’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In boom times, the theory says, zombies become popular in part due to their association with mindless consumerism; in recession, vampires return, with their air of guilty consumption and self-doubt. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z The best of his work is fueled by nuclear-strength imagination, grand metaphysical and theological explorations, and prescience in matters of technology, marketing, consumerism, media and ecological catastrophe. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z I was getting bad vibrations about money and income, consumerism and family relationships. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z But he seems like a character of the present -- a reality-TV culture, consumerism, a disregard for the very idea of facts and universal truth. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z But Mr. Hughes, whose father was a roofing salesman, used these communities to explore issues of class, status and consumerism as well as the tension and attraction between suburb and city in ’80s America. The Teen Streets of John Hughes’s Chicago 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Part of the success of Made in Dagenham is to add the stylish celebratory twist of the arrival of working class consumerism – TV, white goods on hire purchase and plenty of 1960s fashion. Social deprivation in Britain: how a writer's life turned to tragedy 2010-10-17T15:00:00Z They may be art, or at least artistic in some ways, but they are art in service to consumerism, and that’s a different kind of art. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The notion of Santa as artisan, crafting gifts by hand in his workshop, helped resolve the contradictions introduced by consumerism in a society in which “thrift and restraint” were seen as virtues. A Reconsideration of Santa’s Lap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Over the past 10 years, Mr. Ventura’s works have explored the role and place of religion in Filipino society, issues of identity and social stereotypes, consumerism and warfare. Special Report: Asian Art: A Filipino Artist's Fantastical Vision, Finely Crafted 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z “And when it is based on consumerism and capitalism, this is what fills the gap: companies coming in to make these purchases more attainable, even if there are downsides.” Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z By owning fewer things, we might be able to construct new identities through selective curation instead of succumbing to consumerism. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z There our hero explains how realising the gimcrack nature of Ikea-like consumerism led him to choose another more spiritually enlivening lifestyle path, namely getting beaten crapless by strangers suffering the same white-collar existential malaise. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z But they also push a heavily privileged and neoliberal message of consumerism as psychological catharsis. The Politician's antihero is a victory for queer characters – because he's awful 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The rampant – not to say hysterical – consumerism and building booms of recent decades are over. Catalan artistic vitality might not thrive in splendid isolation 2012-11-20T20:10:01Z Romance in a sweaty clinch with consumerism, perfect for these fiscally perilous times when we know more than ever about the habits of the super-rich. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z Today, Christmas for many of us is about family, feasting, fun — and good old-fashioned consumerism, of course. Atheists aren't fighting a "war on Christmas" — many of us even celebrate it 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z The shopper, the student, the worker, and the voter are all seen by consumerism and behaviorism the same way: passive, conditionable objects. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z On the other hand, I do believe there should be simply less travel writing published, since it is undoubtedly an aspect of consumerism, and it’s all out of hand. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z Thirty-five repetitions of a cup of coffee, placed dead against a woman’s face tinted orange, become a yawning little abyss of existential need, if not the multifaceted eye of an all-consuming new consumerism. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The holidays in New York City evoke everything to rail against for the viewer – false cheer, mindless consumerism, a willful blindness to the evil running roughshod over the world. Unhinged melody: "Mr. Robot" puts a grim holiday bow on its endgame 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z We pine for the consolation of religion, but in its absence allow ourselves to be bamboozled by technology and browbeaten by consumerism. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z He offered a riff on that ubiquitous phrase, while lamenting the fact that patriotism and consumerism had been so readily conflated. George Carlin’s Shocking Prescience on the Nights Before 9/11 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z With spending embedded in the culture and consumerism deep in this manufacturing hub's roots, this island isn't known as a shopping mecca for nothing. Where To Shop In Hong Kong 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z The only thing that ever seems to soothe these neurotics is the local supermarket, a gleaming, jumbo-sized temple of consumerism where everything is always in the right place. Venice: Noah Baumbach Finds the Music in ‘White Noise’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z From political calls for expanded child welfare to the era's booming family-oriented consumerism, images of children saturated the cultural landscape, serving as a lightning rod for both social anxieties and hopes. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z And there are moments of ridiculous theatre – Billy's spasm of desire for "a hair product" in Tesco's – that nail consumerism more effectively than any singalong. Reverend Billy ? review 2011-07-19T18:00:04Z “Just because fashion and consumerism overlap does not mean they are synonymous,” said Drew Austin, a writer who covers urbanism, technology and social change, in an interview last month. Is Denim in an Identity Crisis? 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Perhaps ironically, the designer, whose dresses and suits sell for thousands of dollars, rails against consumerism. Westwood blurs lines of fashion, art, culture 2011-04-20T22:01:06Z But the student rebellion of 1968 in Paris — the historic Events of May — traumatized the French architectural world, which subsequently questioned the cold, abstract formalism of Modernist architecture within a larger postmodernist critique of consumerism. A French Modernist Masterpiece, Lost and Found 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The relationship between evangelical consumerism and formal religious authorities is a fruitful area for further research. From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The book details the ordeal of villagers in the Maoist era, and their suffering as greed and consumerism replace political imperatives. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z In the final scene, Norton’s character “kills” Tyler, implicitly recognizing—and picking—a path between mindless middle-class consumerism and the nihilistic will to power of the terrorist. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It's a picaresque satire of modern America, with all its anomie and family dysfunction, empty consumerism and sexting, which moves towards wholeness and redemption – to building a new family around yourself when your own implodes. Women's prize for fiction: a darkly comic and addictively readable winner 2013-06-05T19:48:54Z It's about asking questions and having conversations, about comfort and consumerism and identity. Women stop shaving for "Januhairy" and the backlash is all too predictable 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The museum says the exhibition “takes a critical and humorous look at culture, consumerism and how the two forces often work in tandem to conceal their connection.” Tariqa Waters, a force in Seattle’s arts community, expands gallery, curates vibrant show at BAM 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Gang of Four’s lyrics and imagery critiqued colonialism, capitalism and consumerism. Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z I’m not comfortable with the world of consumerism, and I do not want to be an accomplice. Werner Herzog on Why You’ll Never Find Him on Facebook or Twitter 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z “Shoes Etc.” draws heavily from Pop Art and 1970s Photorealism, but is also reminiscent of Ashley Bickerton’s sculptures from the 1980s, which used product logos to define identity in an age of mass consumerism. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Chris Rock hosted last night’s “Saturday Night Live,” and he aimed his hilarious monologue at American consumerism and the gun lobby. Chris Rock rips into American materialism in hilarious “SNL” monologue 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Yes, consumerism in the United States is disgusting, and we should all be embarrassed. Perspective | How can I stop relatives from spoiling my 6-month-old? 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z “It’s not a good thing for us to be peddling consumerism to men and women,” he said. Why beauty brands are removing gender from their marketing 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z But the film’s real target, Mr. Oskouei says, is the consumerism and nihilism of contemporary Iran, compared with the years after the 1979 revolution, when people were prepared to die for their ideals. The Saturday Profile: An Iranian Filmmaker Tiptoes Around the Censors to Explore Risky Subjects 2011-05-07T01:56:05Z I would argue, despite my lack of familiarity with 2000s-era “Sesame Street,” that it’s persisted, even if it’s been diluted by the merchandising and consumerism that have kept “Sesame Street” going all this time. The gentrification of “Sesame Street”: Cashing out, once and for all, from the radical notion that the urban working class are people, too 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The New York artist’s first career retrospective traces his long engagement with American consumerism and popular iconography, as reflected in his paintings of everything from the flag to “Family Guy.” New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Ebony Magazine to Young Chefs 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z As part of the Year of France in Russia, the works of more than 20 neo-constructive French and Russian artists demonstrate visions of consumerism run amok. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Using Wealth to Critique the Wealthy 2010-12-01T11:00:00Z And there are other reasons to watch the series, like its bravura direction and critiques of consumerism. ‘Westworld’: A Show That’s Amazing but Not Necessarily Good 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Though I didn’t really understand the details, I gathered from them that dieting was tied up with the other unpleasant parts of mainstream society: crass consumerism, soul-deadening materialism, the subjection of women. My lifelong diet 2012-08-02T23:40:00Z Utopian fiction has largely fallen by the wayside these days, trampled by dystopian visions of futures devastated by technology, climate, consumerism, religion, totalitarianism, or all of the above. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Botsman, the author of “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption,” argues that we are moving away from endless consumerism. Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z These days, we have mostly divested ourselves of any notion that art and profit are inherently at odds, or that work made in service of consumerism is fundamentally compromised. The Corporate Optimism of Justin Timberlake at Last Night’s Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The exhibition features other adventures in First World consumerism. At This Museum Show, You’re Encouraged to Follow Your Nose 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But they also serve as beasts of burden; strapped to their backs are bulky space shuttles, slogan-incised pagodas and blocky delivery trucks — emblems of exploration, yes, but also expansion, appropriation and consumerism. Artists at Winston Wächter gallery construct enticing ‘Summer Dreams’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Where, at the same time, legislation struggles to keep pace with technological change; capitalism and consumerism destroy even as they enrich; and nationalism, racism and xenophobia poison the public discourse, threatening disaster. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z But this consumerism and narcissism I find in American audiences at this time is really detrimental to the theater culture. After 40 Years, a Luminary of Theater’s Avant-Garde Departs 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z This is part of a much bigger shift in favor of immersive experiences and against consumerism in general. Will Superblue Be the ‘Infinity Room’ Writ Large? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Q: Do you get complaints that the magazine encourages consumerism in young girls? Amy Astley on teens, models and fashion 2010-12-01T17:40:00Z The new Child’s Play is actually a parable about smart tech and consumerism. Doll parts: why there's always room for creepy toys in Hollywood 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Ayivi frames his participation in fashion as commentary on consumerism. Where’s That Jumpsuit From? It’s a Long Story 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Zentner, however, believes there is no better time than autumn to consciously indulge in consumerism. There's something about autumn: why do people love fall so much? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z A hemp-and-organic-cotton dress and some locally made ruffled pants later, I chuckled at the hypocrisy: succumbing to consumerism during a minimalist living experiment. Try a 120-square-foot home on for size at the tiny-house hotel in Portland, Ore. 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Think about it: In most holiday product ads and all the coverage of the ensuing mayhem at the mall, consumerism is now shrouded in the argot of giving and subliminally presented as selfless sacrifice. Don’t blame commercialism for your shopping madness 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z The potential growth of a middle class, in countries where the rich are a tiny minority, could be positive for consumerism. Special Report: Fashion: Luxury and Unrest 2011-02-25T19:01:18Z Adding insult to injury, capitalist consumerism was increasing and beginning to deliver mountains of shiny new products to eager customers in rapidly developing suburbs. Art Review: ‘Signs & Symbols’ and Oskar Fischinger at Whitney Museum 2012-07-26T20:02:10Z The song addresses a number of topics: consumerism, death, unborn chicken voices. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z “The whole idea of sleepwalking into sort of mindless consumerism.” A Maverick Director, His Big Pig and the Small Screen 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Learn how to avoid the rampant marketing and consumerism of the back-to-school culture. Get ready for kindergarten with practical tips, tricks, and tools 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Their puckers and pleats convey the oceanic sweep of history, and his abstract compositions bristle with attention to trade, slavery, consumerism, and the environment. El Anatsui’s Monumental New Show Is an Act of Justice 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z He examined the role consumerism played in the rise of Pablo Picasso in 1965’s “The Success and Failure of Picasso.” John Berger, influential British art critic, novelist, dies at 90 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z There was a reaction against consumerism and hypocrisy, yet there was still an old-world artistry to it. Nellie McKay is working her way through the decades 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The pools of Southern California have stood in for so many American ideals — optimism, yes, but also “wealth, consumerism, escape, physical beauty, and the triumph of people over nature.” In Palm Springs, to Pool Hop Is to Time Travel 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Still, some wonder whether buying metal ice-cube trays is just another example of conscious consumerism. You’re Addicted to Plastic. Can You Go Cold Turkey? 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The event, a work of conceptual and performance art, was a comment on the nature of recycling and, of course, a critique of consumerism in the art world. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to Auction 3 Paintings 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z According to the professor, local gift economies don’t just push back against consumerism. The Buy Nothing movement: Give up your stuff and pick up some friends 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “The country’s cultural patrimony should be outside logics of consumerism or marketing.” Nero Rock Opera Is a Burning Issue in Rome 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z In these cash-strapped days such wilful, wasteful consumerism is a wonder to behold and it's great to see MTV actually putting some M on their TV for a change. Isle of MTV 2010-09-04T05:45:00Z Emphasizing the role of the poverty that drives the story, Pelly’s vision of the fairy-tale is a thought-provoking reflection on the costs of consumerism. Local singer Marcy Stonikas stakes a claim on Seattle Opera’s main stage 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z No matter how much of an effort is made by people striving to be good, the show says, the consumerism model fueling it makes being ethically sound impossible. None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC's comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Apparently people don't make things anymore, we just consume, like the passive foolish consumers we are, worshipping at our altars of mass consumerism. What is Rule 34, you ask. Let Charles Stross explain 2011-08-11T11:25:12Z He takes back the knife of consumerism and makes of it something wild and strange, imperfect, terrible, disturbing, unpredictable, mutable, at once lovely and unbearable. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z This quiet, homespun stuff might seem too comfortable if it weren't for Jensen's wry take on art and consumerism. This week's new art exhibitions 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z And that this irrepressible enthusiasm for style in Rio de Janiero and São Paulo is only the beginning of a wave of luxury consumerism lapping at the rest of Latin America? IHT Luxury Conference: Brazil and the Fashionable Life 2011-11-09T12:11:45Z And it doesn’t come through my phone, it doesn’t come through consumerism, it doesn’t come from capitalism.’” Nick Offerman: 'Trump is about to be presented with a gory butcher's bill' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Amidst the bleakness of this social landscape, squinting all the while in the glare of a culture that radiates ultraviolet consumerism and infrared celebrity. UK riots: Big Brother isn't watching you 2011-08-11T17:18:00Z A few scenes pondering the effects of consumerism attempt a clunky counter argument, but for the most part this gesture at critique merely slows down the narrative. The opulence and drama of the Asian jetset in 'China Rich Girlfriend' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The final three, if final they be, deal with, among other things, international oil interests, anti-Semitism, terrorism, consumerism and the long reach of war. Lamenting the end of 'Foyle's War,' a TV masterpiece 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z When he cries out "Stop inventing stuff nobody needs!" it isn't a stand he's taking against the wastefulness of consumerism, it's because he dislikes frills. Comedy gold: John Caparulo's Meet Cap 2013-04-18T12:07:20Z But in the Washington Post, culture critic Henry Allen was wondering whether the age of consumerism itself was over. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z Rather than denying that art and consumerism shared any border, Mr. Pruitt just bulldozed the wall between. The Artist Rob Pruitt: Paradox on a Pedestal 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z “Or rather, in the Gap’s case, the ultimate icons for consumerism. We’re talking about a society that uses the language of dissent to sell this really bland lifestyle.” Was the Gap Ever Cool? A Look at 50 Years in Denim and Khaki 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z In one of the sadder plays a vodka bottle finds his love for a rose betrayed by a symbol of contemporary consumerism. Theatre review | Here, There & Everywhere | Theatro Technis | London 2010-03-20T01:03:00Z Perhaps the bigger problem is capitalist consumerism, which produces the markets which Beyond specifically targets in order to sell its products. With deep-fried fake chicken, can Beyond break the link between health food and vegetarianism? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z But this 1963 work, “Dinner Date,” displays a Pop influence and hits many of its essential concerns, including its distinctive obsession with food and consumerism. Priestesses of Pop: The female imprint on a genre of sex, irreverence and desire 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z His major lines of inquiry included the failures of socialism in America, the exhaustion of modern culture and the transformation of capitalism from an industrial-based system to one built on consumerism. Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91 2011-01-26T16:05:52Z Imagine the impact on consumerism and employment, family and friends, if everyone had access to portable, perhaps even concealable, brain-scanning technology. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z He thinks his film does indeed indict consumerism; but then it sort of celebrates it as well. Consumerism triumphs in The Joneses 2010-04-26T10:22:00Z Those answering in the affirmative argue that narcissism is dangerously on the increase and visible everywhere: in rampant consumerism and failed marriages, on Facebook and Twitter, in the executive suite and the halls of government. Lay off Kim and Kanye! Why millennials actually aren’t “Generation Me” 2014-04-06T15:00:00Z Very quickly, the show sets up binary between French sophistication, quality and taste, and American brashness, naivete and pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap consumerism. "Emily in Paris": Why it’s so hard to admit love for the show despite it being so popular 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Pop Art of the 1960s seemed to view the circus of American mass entertainment and consumerism with a mordantly amused eye. An Appraisal: LeRoy Neiman and the Serious Art World 2012-06-22T22:44:42Z Rather than express mortality or existential dread, the liquefying flesh in these paintings represents the effects of consumerism. Review | In the galleries: Comic book artists show new dimensions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z And that’s the story of how what began as a goofy seasonal item produced by a hardware-store chain has become a national mascot — an arguably benevolent example of consumerism run amok. Can gigantic skeletons save Halloween? 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z There is no texture, no layering, no obvious point to a piece that shies away from any real examination of the relationship between sex, desire and consumerism. Shoes: The Musical ? review 2011-02-17T17:08:29Z Lois Long’s “Feminine Fashions” explores the emergence of a distinct Hollywood style in the thirties, while Kennedy Fraser’s “The Fashionable Mind” examines the influence of fashion and consumerism on self-expression. Style Files 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z It also poses some awkward questions about the impact consumerism has on the daredevils in thrall to social media. Mountain: a movie that reaches new peaks of cinematography 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Here, Holzer is sending out a warning flare about the rampant nature of consumerism that exploded in the 1980s. Fort Worth’s Modern Museum of Art hosts exhibit of ’80s New York art She conceives her clothes as protests against rampant consumerism by making them from recycled fabrics and garments, often using ancient processes and styles, and inventing her own organic dyes. Design: Looking at China as a Creator, Not Manufacturer 2011-07-10T13:20:00Z He recognizes that multiple factors contribute to changes in birthrates, including consumerism and workaholism, which the American right celebrates. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The early 2000s have been back in style for what feels like forever now, reviving demand for the velour tracksuits, low-rise jeans, rhinestone-studded baby tees and trucker hats that defined an era of consumerism. The Untold Story of Von Dutch 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Wolf: Well, I think it’s in the history and the kind of dialectic we were looking at, which was two things: democratic consumerism and regimentation. The makers of ‘Teenage’ discuss youth culture, from Nazi Germany to the Internet age Thant crosses the border into China, he finds shopping malls, amusement parks and heritage tourism, all evidence of the growing consumerism that is one of the factors driving China's alliance with the Burmese junta. Siddhartha Deb welcomes a study of Burma's relations with its powerful neighbours 2011-08-19T21:55:02Z Clean eating is an extension of our cultural fascination with minimalism, which is to say curation, which is to say conscious consumerism. Moon Juice’s haute healing: What aspirational lifestyle diet books are really selling 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Many conservatives maintain "capitalism and consumerism and growing individualism" have led to "decay in the society". India gang rape outcry provokes fierce debate on attitudes to women 2013-01-15T12:45:18Z This gorgeous high-definition 3-D video alternates between the Amazon rain forest and a pristine lab to tell a fictive story of “bioprospecting” in the name of global consumerism. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z "He is tackling the idea of consumerism, being consumed and wasted," Eltorie said. Venice Biennale explores artistic freedom 2011-06-01T16:56:11Z And the Northern embrace of Mitchell’s plantation nostalgia, with its depiction of happy, obedient slaves, wasn’t just harmless lifestyle consumerism. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z According to Brittain, some photographers felt that the images glorified consumerism, undermining photography’s true mission: to expose social ills. 50 Years of Taking Photography Seriously 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z “Spinnin’,” his take on the Lee Morgan tune “Speedball,” was a winsome, convincing romantic complaint; “Too Many Things,” based on Thelonious Monk’s “Think of One,” was an awkward critique of consumerism. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z Coming of age in post-communist Eastern Europe, Ms. Popova developed an interested in consumerism, “the notion of people making sense of themselves through stuff, through what they own and what they buy.” This Life: Maria Popova Has Some Big Ideas 2012-11-30T21:35:52Z You need only look at the career of George Romero, who imbued his zombie movies with blunt social commentary on consumerism, race and Cold War militarism. Why Are We Ashamed to Call ‘Get Out’ and ‘The Shape of Water’ Horror Films? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z It is a global disease of our time – the idea of consumerism, this perverse thing. On the Runway: Q & A: Christophe Lemaire of Herm?s 2011-03-07T18:56:16Z Artists are not economists, after all, and there is a value to her insistent gaze on the most unrefined forms of wealth and consumerism. Lauren Greenfield Tries to Capture the Meaning of Money 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z His dream was never realized: American malls remained insular, and, like Frankenstein’s monster, only nourished the frantic consumerism Gruen was trying to mitigate. The mall isn’t dead — it’s just changing 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Indeed, it’s difficult to conceive of an American Christmas without consumerism. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z After more than four decades of using rotting flesh to criticize racism, consumerism, privilege and technology, Mr. Romero may be running on fumes. | 'Survival of the Dead': More Zombies From George A. Romero 2010-05-27T23:30:00Z Yes, it's true, Sex and the City celebrates a shallow consumerism that it is the purpose of serious journalism, and indeed serious living, to challenge. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z In the 1978 George Romero film “Dawn of the Dead,” zombies swarm a shopping mall in a grim parody of mindless consumerism. Zombie Poetry Takes On a Life of Its Own 2012-01-13T14:47:39Z Like other Pop artists of his generation, Mr. Lueg focused on mass media, popular culture and consumerism. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Aside from the specifics of jazz, rhythm'n'blues, Italian suits and the rest, what arguably defined pure Mod was a fevered consumerism, whereby what was in or out could change drastically in a matter of weeks. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z Together, the works speak to American consumerism and art’s place in the economy. Innovative printmaker Mixografia to premiere new gallery space 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z In Ms. Carbone’s view, the traditionalism of art in the ’20s was not a conservative reaction to European Modernism but a humanist response to baleful developments like industrialization, bureaucratization and consumerism. Art Review: ?Youth and Beauty? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z But though Common Sense’s review states that consumerism is “not present” on the app, it is everywhere. Does a Toddler Need an NFT? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z A sacred object or sentimental curio should not be absorbed into an industry enamored with surface image, engaged in consumerism and focused on extravagance. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures At a time when pop music is largely muted on social issues, Tempest deals bravely with poverty, class and consumerism. Kate Tempest: the performance poet who can't be ignored 2013-04-10T14:50:13Z “I really wish for them freedom from the prison of consumerism, but I also think then we wouldn’t have such a great podcast.” Laughing All the Way to the Wellness Industry 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Most simply went to waste. It struck me that people were undergoing this same experience all over the world. I became convinced that the consumerism I was brought up with was deeply shortsighted and harmful. I bought nothing new for 200 days 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z He brings the timeline up-to-date with the birth of the "hipster meditator", a postmodern Buddhist influenced by all three Buddhist traditions, as well as the science on the neurological effect of meditation and consumerism. Manchester's FutureEverything conference ? day one 2012-05-18T08:00:00Z It told a story of alienation and empty consumerism that you couldn’t get out of your head: “this heaven gives me migraine.” Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z She warns against consumerism, comparisons and artificial peer pressure; she gradually stacks up electric guitar riffs and then breaks them down to a little percussion and a lone, undaunted voice. Shawn Mendes and Tainy’s Summer Breeze, and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z These references, delivered as dreamy asides, echo Kline’s indictment of the American dream, venture consumerism, housing inequality, and big pharma in the “Climate Change” series. Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In New York, the Shed debuted with a goal of bringing a culture of new art to offset the gleaming consumerism of Hudson Yards. Perspective | In classical music it was a year of building, deconstructing and, occasionally, rescuing 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Millsaps said Birkins were a “cultural symbol of rarefied wealth and status,” ripe for artists to explore as metaphors of consumerism. Hermès Wins MetaBirkins Lawsuit, With Jurors Deciding NFTs Aren’t Art 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Roth revisits Jordan Peele’s “Us,” Mary Harron’s “America Psycho,” Robin Hardy’s “The Wicker Man” and other films that explore unsettling societal issues tied to class, consumerism and religion. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Industry’ and ‘Transhood’ 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Hailed initially as “a rebuke of empty consumerism,” the sale — from an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer — subsequently raised all kinds of questions: such as whether the auction house was involved in the prank. Auctions, protests and controversial patrons: the three big ways art and money clashed in 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z One of the great paradoxes of modern consumerism is that these goods are mass-market signifiers of exclusivity, tokens of aristocratic populism. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z Most of our intelligence is being funneled into technology and consumerism. | Alternative Housing: A Yurt With a View 2010-04-22T21:29:00Z There's probably something profound in here about symbiosis and the nature of consumerism and waste. Meat Men, where butchering is life 2012-11-23T16:00:00Z Technology is increasingly designed with a short lifespan to fuel consumerism – so stave off the next purchase by checking if broken things are fixable first. Fix it, dispose responsibly and buy better – how to choose more ethical tech 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z In the 20th and 21st centuries, no example better highlights Americans’ paradoxical rejection and embrace of holiday consumerism than the 1965 television special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z The very nature of the kingdom – which prioritises the poor and the vulnerable and invites us to be our true selves in Christ – is a work of resistance against the emptiness of rapacious consumerism. The church: our best hope against the zombies 2012-08-28T09:16:20Z The video espouses propaganda from the church of consumerism, over blipping, mournful electronic music. Lunar Cuts: Mario Sweet and Malice, Imneye, JusMoni 2010-12-22T20:49:05Z The truth is, the horrors of consumerism notwithstanding, a department store or boutique offers up a pristine environment in which to momentarily escape the all too familiar self in favor of alternate visions. T Magazine: Bare Market 2011-09-17T15:00:22Z This time he's turning his back on consumerism, playing Life Swap with St Francis of Assisi, who also gave up the playboy life to serve God. How to Live a Simple Life 2010-05-07T22:05:00Z DeLillo’s book is a thicket of weighty modern themes — consumerism, ecology, the fear of death and the nature of time — implanted in a tart campus satire. The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z We as the largest consumers on the planet are driving all the woes of the world because of big business greed — but we’re enabling that because of mindless consumerism. Fran Drescher reveals the role she turned down out of principle: "Who am I if not my word?" 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z An HBO documentary spotlights the role of art in the age of consumerism. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Price of Everything’ and ‘Mars’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Duncan Clark, an expert on China’s technology sector, explains the result in a fascinating new book: Mr Ma “stands at the intersection of China’s newfound cults of consumerism and entrepreneurship”. Crocodile of the Yangzi 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z More specifically, it’s the fact that aging baby boomers — currently the prime market for wine — are nearing retirement age, the time of life when consumerism typically declines. The Wine Business Sees a Problem: Millennials Aren’t Drinking Enough 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The resulting assemblages — free-standing or suspended, cascading down walls, spilling across floors — colonized gallery space the way consumerism swamped the globe. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Its contemporary topics — no less relevant now than in the ’80s — include intellectual fashion, pharmacological folly, environmental destruction and rampant consumerism. ‘White Noise’ Review: Toxic Events, Airborne and Domestic 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But this "freedom" looks a lot less glamorous when viewed through the perspective of planned changes in consumerism. Ewan Morrison: what I'm thinking about ... why capitalism wants us to stay single 2012-08-11T12:01:34Z It’s interesting that the plot of the show fights off Christmas consumerism so vehemently, but Peanuts itself has become such a huge marketing vehicle. Q&A: Charlie Brown Christmas Producer Lee Mendelson 2011-12-23T15:35:43Z Their distinctly American consumerism appears bittersweet and courageous, a display of affection for a country which had never returned the favor. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Instead, like jazz, to be any good it requires an intimacy and an edginess that is hard to sustain in an era of mass consumerism. It’s got that swing 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Vallotton made images not just of the consumerism of the age — the shopping, gallivanting and dancing in the Latin Quarter — but also street protests, clashes with police, a carriage accident and murder. Review | The Félix Vallotton exhibition at the Met is not to be missed 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Cast against the splendor of a business magnate's world and grounded in consumerism and sex, Mr Selfridge has the potential to win over American fans in a way Midwife has not. PBS seeks Downton-esque Brit hit with Call the Midwife and Mr Selfridge 2013-03-29T17:04:00Z Hannah J Davies The idea of plonking frocks, furniture and fripperies in a cathedral-like space devoted to consumerism dates from the 19th century. TV highlights 27/03/2013 2013-03-27T07:00:11Z Nike has become, Mr. Goldman said, “a consumer product that somehow appears to challenge the idea of consumerism.” How Nike Won the Cultural Marathon 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Presided over mass at Yankee stadium and frequently derided consumerism. Playing six degrees of Kevin Bacon with HBO's The Leftovers 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z So said the secretary of commerce and next president, Herbert Hoover, to a group of PR men in 1928, after America’s decade of revolutionary consumerism. The beautiful Airstream myth and painful RV reality of life on the road 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z With childlike optimism and nostalgia, Mr. Arnold headed to the epicenter of seasonal cheer and consumerism, Fifth Avenue. Holiday Madness in Midtown Manhattan 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z It's also a rich portrait of Asia's real obsession with consumerism and its economic rise, one whose trajectory, like Kwan's, is not yet complete. The opulence and drama of the Asian jetset in 'China Rich Girlfriend' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The three establishments form a kind of blissful Bermuda triangle of guilt-free consumerism. Critical Shopper: Not So New, but Not Forgotten 2011-05-25T20:34:11Z In countries around the world, people live their lives unencumbered by social media, American consumerism and Donald Trump. Readers Remember Anthony Bourdain, Passionate Traveler 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Sure, Josh sits around the Horowitz mansion in his sad plaids and Amnesty International T-shirts, complaining about Cher’s narcissism and consumerism and listening to Radiohead. “Clueless” and the end of Gen X: How Cher Horowitz taught us to stop worrying and embrace millennial optimism, post-racial fantasy and the 1 percent 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z If they ever questioned the numbing consumerism that dictates their aspirations, they are deaf to it now. Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Collectively called “Technological Reliquaries,” they were clearly sendups of Minimalism’s industrial machismo and Pop’s complicit consumerism — though at a time when a brutal war was building in Southeast Asia, they also hinted at larger politics. Art Review: Believing Is Seeing (Or, the Meat Of the Matter) 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z “It’s a metaphor for the discernment which is obscured by consumerism,” said Miriam. Tidying up guru Marie Kondo teaches New Yorkers to find joy in decluttering 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Warhol shot to fame in the 1960s with his unique take on American consumerism and quickly became a fixture in the New York club scene. Jared Leto to play Andy Warhol in biopic 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z His vision implies that if we are allowed to lead absorbing, properly remunerated lives, we will likewise outgrow our addiction to consumerism and technology. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review 2013-02-27T07:59:01Z Like many other contemporary commentators, he sees a confluence of forces in higher education leading to greater conformity and consumerism at the expense of inquiry, inspiration and challenge. Books of The Times: Mark Edmundson’s Essays Ask, ‘Why Teach?’ 2013-08-20T20:56:24Z His celebration of simplicity and rejection of material possessions also chime with today’s distaste for heedless consumerism. Walking in Italy: on the trail of Saint Francis of Assisi 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Maybe, in an age of conscious consumerism, folding offers us a new relationship with our possessions. The joy of folding: how an everyday chore became an online, anxiety-busting sensation 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Yes, you read that straight: Tom Ford is railing against the perils of consumerism. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z With the energetic Howie Mandel as host, it is entertaining in its own way, but that way involves consumerism and self-interest, with charitable instincts an afterthought, if they’re present at all. Critic’s Notebook: ‘American Bible Challenge’ Vs. ‘Take It All’ 2012-12-11T23:09:50Z Some interpretations consider this a commentary on the link between art and consumerism, emphasizing the ordinary quality of the everyday object. ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z It was this American model of consumerism that prevailed, and it was in America where the term “teenager” was coined, in the New York Times, with the “Teen-Age Bill of Rights.” The makers of ‘Teenage’ discuss youth culture, from Nazi Germany to the Internet age It lists lack of community, family difficulties, low social mobility, poor relations between police and young people, consumerism – and of course the panel is right. The poison of inequality was behind last summer's riots 2012-08-05T20:15:01Z But where avant-garde permanent revolution ends and novelty-seeking consumerism begins is a moot point. Comfort zones 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z You might turn our whole system of consumerism on its head: Pay Now, Live Later. The ground is cold, but the seed market is open for business 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z But like “Infinite Jest” it depicts an America in thrall to myopic consumerism, and like his first novel, “The Broom of the System,” it grapples with corrugated questions of identity and the difficulties of communication. Books of The Times: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence 2011-03-31T21:14:33Z How can they deal with four to five breaks an hour backed full with the stuff of consumerism that pays the networks bills? And the loser is ... why everyone is sick of award shows 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Christmas helped intensify and legitimize a commercial kind of consumerism. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z It’s a longstanding fantasy that avant-garde art opposes and subverts the homogenizing effects of consumerism, bureaucracy, industrialization and so forth. ‘Unorthodox’ Faces Paradox at the Jewish Museum 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z One was to control youth through regimentation and militarism, and the other was to allow them a certain measure of freedom through consumerism and pop culture. | Filmmaker Matt Wolf on the Origins of Teenage Culture 2014-03-11T21:24:59Z In Mr. DiCaprio’s view, the film is a cautionary tale against consumerism and profligate spending. The Carpetbagger: ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ Take Top Honors at the 2014 Golden Globes 2014-01-13T05:14:45Z Art’s Turn on the Catwalk “LET me tell you something,” said the artist K8 Hardy, a star of the current Whitney Biennial, whose work typically subverts common conceptions of fashion and consumerism. Front Row: Art?s Turn on the Catwalk 2012-05-17T19:07:05Z It seems a bit trite and dreary at Christmas time to point out the perils of consumerism, but a Christmas pudding for £250? Can a Christmas pudding ever be worth ?250? 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z The novel largely focuses on this time in California, with Broder’s sharp eye focused first on the absurdity of Los Angeles consumerism, then moving closer into Lucy’s own actions and thoughts. Review | Can a woman find true love with a handsome fish? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But it succeeded in denouncing American consumerism, conformism, careerism and the country’s own secret fear of the future. George A Romero: the zombie master whose ideas infected American cinema 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Coca-Cola, forbidden to Gypsy on the grounds of her alleged allergy to sugar, exists as a symbol of national values, of finding community in consumerism and popularity through sickly sweetness. “The Act,” Reviewed: A Juicy True-Crime Drama That Deconstructs Soapy Tropes 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z But it also scarily suggests how people may be sucked into the swirling vortex of consumerism. Art Review: ?Art for All? at the Yale Center for British Art 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z What Chipperfield remains most exercised about these days, however, is what he sees as an unrestrained free market, undirected investment, a reactive planning process and how our culture fosters consumerism. David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Born in 1966, his thoughtful and politically conscious work is steeped in Pop Art and issues like consumerism and identity. Worlds of Oppression Are Interwoven in a New York Show 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z If handled rightly, the result should be far removed from musical consumerism and mental sloth. Maurizio Pollini: a life in music 2011-01-01T00:04:05Z He refused to be with his family on Christmas morning, finding it consumerism run amok. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z Political repression, mindless consumerism and the hardening of class divisions conspire to threaten Silvio’s happiness and rob him of Elena’s love. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z His best movies arose directly from the suburban ennui of the Eisenhower era he grew up in: atom-bomb drills in school, the Bomb itself, 1950s television, consumerism, mindless conformity. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It included Mr. Veloso’s “Baby,” a sweetly melodic ballad satirizing consumerism that became her first major hit. Gal Costa, Singer Who Embodied Tropicália’s Innovative Spirit, Dies at 77 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z And it sure as hell wasn’t the best thing to happen to consumerism since Christmas. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z Today, much of our resource-intensive consumerism is still mindless, despite rising awareness of the impact of our plastic waste. 'We just didn’t think about it': how did we let plastic bags get everywhere? 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z Over the course of “Touch,” Sloane loses faith in her job and in techie consumerism, and turns instead toward the messy warmth of real relationships. An Exuberant Satire of the Culture of Swipe 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Now that's because our culture has adapted itself to accept consumerism, to accept the profit motive, to accept the personal selfish attitude as "non-political" ... Noises off: Playing politics can still be seriously dramatic 2010-09-08T15:22:00Z Not that good old consumerism was in small supply. Medellín, Colombia: a miracle of reinvention 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z A living history park for the upper classes, the Savage Lands offer playlets based on antiquated customs — marriage, consumerism. ‘Brave New World’ Arrives in the Future It Predicted 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z There’s nothing wrong with a little consumerism—the economy needs it—but it’s striking how little “thanks” goes into “Thanksgiving.” How to Be Happier This Thanksgiving 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Leonard, who collects a $33,000 salary from her nonprofit, doesn't watch TV — a device she holds responsible for ad-driven consumerism. Seattle native's 'Story of Stuff' videos go viral 2010-07-28T22:50:00Z When I visited in 1986, it was a time of stagnation, repression, poverty, corruption and lies – but at least that Moscow didn't look so heartless, so conspicuously grasping, so in thrall to consumerism. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z “For me, it was always about finding joy in things beyond consumerism and focusing on the things in front of me,” Williams explains. Pre-covid, the ‘van life’ was a free, easy and trendy lifestyle. Now, its practitioners are pariahs. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows. This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Höch and the Surrealists showed us that strange juxtapositions can produce an irrational logic that makes us understand things like war or history or consumerism in surprising ways. Art Review: ‘Alexandre Singh: The Pledge’ at the Drawing Center 2013-01-17T20:50:38Z To retreat is to reject government bureaucracy and consumerism. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z America in Freberg's creative heyday, which stretched from the Korean through the Vietnam wars, was a place of hope and dread, of consumerism exalted and materialism decried. Satirist Stan Freberg, ad man and comic, dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z It is notably lacking in consumerism, and by the time Friends hit TV screens, a notable shift had taken place. Seinfeld and chill: why the classic sitcom can help beat lockdown anxiety 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The piece, which premiered in 1982, had a turbulent early history, inspiring a rare chorus of boos and drawing criticism as a symptom of American consumerism. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The name signals Mr. Koons’s obsession with their virginal purity, and his interest in isolating an essential pleasure of consumerism: newness itself. ‘Jeff Koons: A Retrospective’ Opens at the Whitney 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z As we grow increasingly disillusioned with quick-fix consumerism, we may want to consider an option which exists in many non-digital industries: quite simply, demanding that writers get paid a living wage for their work. Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z The exhibition is subtitled "a commentary on consumerism, appropriation and art history", inspired by Duchamp, Emin, Manzoni, Marshall McLuhan and the Situationists. Coat-stealing isn't art, Mike Ballard 2010-10-10T21:30:00Z She makes points about consumerism, self-image and the optimization of happiness. A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It is this mélange of consumerism and lifestyle that the Getty exhibition Paris: Life and Luxury in the Eighteenth Century seeks to evoke. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z Vegas must have sounded good on paper, but the heart of empty consumerism was a strange place to drop 5,000 Utopian-minded geeks. Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z Vince Cable, one of the few at Westminster to have warned in advance of debt-fuelled consumerism, has already been elevated to that status. Alistair Darling turns hard man but Vince Cable gets all the laughs 2010-03-29T21:22:00Z She uses herself as a “case,” a person who has been conditioned by advertising and consumerism. Reclaiming the Past in the Internet’s ‘Infinite Present’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In front of a huge Amazon logistics building, I was confronted with a comment on consumerism: “DNA DL90” by Abigail Fallis, 22 shopping carts arranged in the shape of a DNA helix. Along London’s ‘other river,’ an art walk brightens the scenery 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Companies that promote outdoor recreation have long grappled with their contribution to consumerism and waste. Cheap Meets Eco-Chic on the Ski Slopes 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The paintings could be viewed both as critiques of modern consumerism and as glimpses into the collective American consciousness. James Rosenquist, Pop Art Pioneer, Dies at 83 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z “It’s fascinating. The whole of humanity is here; it’s vanity fair,” he quipped, making a reference to the 19th-century novel by British author William Makepeace Thackeray, which satirizes rampant ego, class and consumerism. Is Hugh Grant rude or just British? Oscars interview may be lost in translation. 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z “Adhocracy” tiptoes around this concern under the assumption that delivering information and tools into the hands of nonexpert, ordinary people will make everyone more free from mindless consumerism and control by big business and government. Art Review: ‘Adhocracy’ at the New Museum 2013-05-09T20:27:22Z Surrealism and Pop Art were concerned with mass production, consumerism and the psychic impact of living in a world flooded with objects. What to See in New York City Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z His films were politically conscientious, skewering consumerism, racial prejudice and bigotry with their zombie metaphors, and he never disappointed in terms of practising what he preached. Edgar Wright, Alice Lowe, John Landis and Ben Wheatley on zombie king George A Romero 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Until his death partly stalled the show – the imperatives of consumerism ensuring the band's ghost would continue to post a profit regardless – the music kept getting better. "Nevermind" 30 years on — how Nirvana’s second album tilted the world on its axis 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, a small photograph of the burning Deepwater Horizon rather heavy-handedly suggests the self-destructive implications of consumerism, as does a small and erratic video of cracked glass — a car windshield or store window. Art Review: In West Chelsea, Sculptures Speak in Dialects 2010-06-01T22:51:00Z The installation is meant to convey the juxtaposition between eternal beauty, represented by Venus, and modern society's social degradation and consumerism. 'Venus of the Rags' to rise from ashes in Italy's Naples 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z I became a Costco member five or six years ago and speaking as a Generation Xer who spent most of his life being skeptical about consumerism, it’s totally embarrassing how much I love Costco. Inside a married couple’s 5-year quest to uncover the secrets of Costco 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z When the military took over it implemented a free-market economy that suddenly meant those with means could go on a consumerism binge even as the poverty rate soared. A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z "I think it's very classic consumerism for this country," said shopper CJ Butler from Atlanta, Georgia. Divided US embraces Trump mug shot merchandise 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z Multinational corporations, consumerism and imported food are all depicted as inherently bad. In Mexico, accusations of ‘communism’ and ‘fascism’ mark school textbook debate 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Over the last decade, a wave of consumerism and a shift to online shopping have given rise to the construction of massive logistics and distribution depots. Fontana rejects massive warehouse proposal amid public outcry and pollution complaints 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z In this new show, the brothers take on consumerism, dating apps, faux-spiritualism and the planet’s environmental crisis with humor and absurdism. Fun, interactive Seattle art shows to see in August 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The installation, first created in 1967, is meant to convey the juxtaposition between eternal beauty, represented by the goddess Venus, and modern society's social degradation and consumerism. Italian artist Pistoletto's 'Venus of the Rags' destroyed in arson attack 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “Like the biblical prophets, you confront things that at times are uncomfortable; you criticize today’s false myths and new idols, its empty talk, the ploys of consumerism, the schemes of power.” Pope Francis invites artists to the Sistine Chapel as the Vatican seeks a new cultural dialogue 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “The point of tipping is for exemplary service rather than subsiding the worker through consumerism,” he said. Tipping Gets ‘More in Your Face,’ and Not Everyone Likes It 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The sports apparel industry is a multibillion-dollar industry that lacks Black ownership, but it has profited heavily off of Black talent, Black culture and Black consumerism. Actively Black: Lanny Smith talks about the power of mental heath awareness for Black athletes 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z The knighthood for the author of “Money,” a satire about consumerism in London, comes 33 years after his comic novelist father, Kingsley, received the honor from Charles’s mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. Late British novelist Martin Amis knighted by King Charles in his first birthday honors list 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Among his best-known works were “Money,” a satire about consumerism in London, “The Information” and “London Fields,” along with his 2000 memoir, “Experience.” British novelist Martin Amis dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Lives were transformed for the better by consumerism and medical advances, but many Europeans still found the sheer velocity of change overwhelming and threatening. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Max Hooper Schneider’s Hammer Museum installation is part “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” part Pirates of the Caribbean ride, part diorama of consumerism run amok. Melted action figures, mushrooms, rotting French fries: Inside Max Hooper Schneider's 'feral' art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Countless Chinese are riding an explosive wave of live shopping, which blends entertainment with consumerism and has transformed the way people buy and sell. Your Monday Briefing: Inside Ukraine’s Trenches 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Communication technology is intimately linked to fashion and consumerism. Review | Video art cuts through the noise. But the noise is getting louder. 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Some of his work subverts Soviet propaganda, grafting it with American consumerism: Colonel Sanders in Red Army epaulets, a logo for “Stalinbucks” coffee. Perspective | D.C. artist floats pro-Ukraine message above local statues 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Two examples of this phenomenon were the spread of literacy and the rise of consumerism. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Oe followed with “The Silent Cry,” a much more ambitious work whose psychological intensity is infused with his concerns about Japanese history, cultural integrity and mindless consumerism. Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate and Critic of Postwar Japan, Dies at 88 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z They are matched only by a civic culture that is under siege by the apostles of neoliberalism promoting privatization, consumerism, anti-intellectualism and a brutal market ideology purposefully bereft of any sense of social responsibility. Historical amnesia in the age of capitalist apocalypse — and how to overcome it 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z "Throwaway consumerism and the escalating cost of living just compounds that powerlessness." Repairing broken gadgets for a greener future 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Your Santa of “Violent Night” has become bitter and jaded by rampant consumerism and the loss of the collective Christmas spirit. How David Harbour went from 'anti-Christmas' guy to action hero Santa in 'Violent Night' 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps the iconic example of a shift in patterns of acquisition and consumerism was the advent of department stores. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z But much of it does, especially its satiric sendups of consumerism and society manners. Review | To find great female novelists, stop looking in Jane Austen’s shadow 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z One of the people giving the shops a wide berth is Martin Dorey who described consumerism as "one of the greatest drivers of climate collapse". Green Friday: The eco-friendly alternative to Black Friday 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z While the project can be interpreted as a critique of the spiritual hollowness of consumerism, Shawky does not see it that way. Wael Shawky Enters the Realm of Myth 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z But instead of inspiring generosity, he inspired greed and consumerism and the sugary idea that we gotta eat more candy, it isn’t enough, as opposed to the idea of giving. How David Harbour went from 'anti-Christmas' guy to action hero Santa in 'Violent Night' 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Benedictions for the dead recur in Salvatierra’s poetry, but so do sly critiques of consumerism, details accumulating in service of not only sorrow but laughter and the shock of juxtaposition. A bilingual California poet honors migrants — both the living and the dead 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The group said its members were highlighting the dangers of capitalism by gluing themselves to a work that depicts “consumerism gone mad.” Climate protesters target Warhol art in Australian gallery 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Paramedic Mr Walker said Black Friday was "consumerism at its worst" and described the greener alternative as a "great antidote to the madness of spending". Green Friday: The eco-friendly alternative to Black Friday 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The series, a variation on “Project Runway,” is framed, in part, as a rebuke to unthinking consumerism. TV show ‘Upcycle Nation’ hopes to cut waste, create sustainable fashion out of scraps 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z They last graced the charts in 2018 with the space-jazz concept album Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino, which explored themes of consumerism and politics through the concept of a luxury resort on the moon. Alex Turner on the Arctic Monkeys' musical evolution 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Pushing consumerism ensures people seek comfort at home, alone with their arsenal of spa goodies. Botox and bubble baths are Band-Aids. Here's how to avoid consumerist self-care 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z During this celebration of patriotism and consumerism, residents eat, shop and travel in honor of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Few signs that China is trying to escape its ‘zero-covid’ trap 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr Krideras, from Australia said he was eager to offer an alternative to the "frenzied consumerism" of Black Friday. Green Friday: The eco-friendly alternative to Black Friday 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z I’m still figuring it out, trying to balance a desire for simplicity and responsible consumerism with emotional considerations. Dressing Up 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z One of his hit songs, “All Falls Down,” took aim at the dangers of consumerism for Black people, along with the perils of aiming for Whiteness. Opinion | Kanye West, Herschel Walker and the politics of toxic Black men 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Du Mez, who is writing a book on the overlap of consumerism and Christian identity, said such events are orchestrated to extract money from participants. Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken roadshow recruits ‘Army of God’ 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z He believed that the Communist Party was on the verge of becoming irrelevant in a society dominated by capitalism and consumerism. Opinion | What the West is still getting wrong about the rise of Xi Jinping 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Today, though, “the era of mass consumerism is fracturing,” Duke notes. Is the print newspaper comics page in trouble? 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Colombian President Gustavo Petro devoted his time to lambasting capitalism, consumerism and the U.S.-led war on drugs, particularly its focus on coca plant eradication. As Ukraine worries UN, some leaders rue what’s pushed aside 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z And the intimate balance she strikes between her skeptical, curious investigation and her honest relationship with consumerism gives "The Gospel of Wellness" its intelligent, emotional punch. The cult of Goop 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Many long-term Western travelers have the same experience, shocked in particular by the West's extravagant consumerism. Culture, progress and the future: Can the West survive its own myths? 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z For better or worse, American consumerism had begun. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Joy and relief: How baby gear beat fears of pointless consumerism. You’re Being Watched 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z “An ‘artistic painting’ might, for example, fall within the scope of fair use even though it precisely replicates a copyrighted advertising logo to make a comment about consumerism,” Justice Breyer wrote, quoting a treatise. Warhol’s Images of Prince: Social Commentary or Copyright Infringement? 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Under neoliberalism, everything is for sale and the only obligation of citizenship is consumerism. Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z It includes industrialization, globalization, urbanization, democratization, scientific and technological advance, capitalism, secularism, rationalism, individualism and consumerism. Culture, progress and the future: Can the West survive its own myths? 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z “You can satisfy that desire for consumerism without separating yourself from your cash.” Kimberly Palmer: How to afford big-ticket items for the year 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Luckily, being raised in a community of Black and African people, I was shown other possibilities beyond consumerism. This Independence Day, we are less free than the year before. We must work together for liberty 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Far from just promoting restrictive eating habits, the $4.5-trillion wellness industry has infused health with consumerism, productivity pressures and gendered societal expectations. Wellness culture gone wrong has come for kids 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Corporate models of education attempt to mold students in the market-driven mantras of self-interest, harsh competition, unchecked individualism and the ethos of consumerism. Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Donald Trump and everything he embodies is the product of our society, with its extreme inequality, consumerism and greed, racism, anti-intellectualism and fetish for violence. Yes, Donald Trump is an "American monster": But he wasn't built by a mad scientist 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The opening was the first taste most Muscovites had of Western consumerism and service efficiency, as well as a sign the Soviet Union was slowly dropping its guard and allowing foreign culture into the country. Russian-owned successor of McDonald’s opens in Moscow 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Too much dark sarcasm, consumerism in unpleasant series. What to watch with your kids: ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ and more 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The singer-songwriter Vérité, who has released music independently since 2014, said it is “really disheartening when technology and culture shift in a way that … is so blatantly focused on pure consumerism.” Record labels want viral TikToks. Artists are pushing back. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Authoritarianism has become the default setting for neoliberalism, but that doesn't mean consumerism and profit-making have lost their power as the organizing principles of citizenship. A new age of fascist politics brings a war on youth — but young people are ready to resist 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Apart from the drug dealing, it wasn't a place for consumerism. The Hacienda rises again: The Manchester nightclub raves on after 40 years 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z “It seems that these efforts are direct responses to the consumerism surrounding Cinco de Mayo, and the commercialization of Latino culture in the United States,” Lavariega Monforti said. Today is Cinco de Mayo; know the history and how it’s celebrated 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z It has lots of sarcastic humor, as well as a persistent theme of consumerism: Characters repeatedly participate in faux product plugs and advertisements. What to watch with your kids: ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ and more 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Our neoliberal, global capitalist order is now a wrecking ball whose casino-like financing and degrading consumerism are fomenting climate crisis and deepening inequalities, forced migrations, cultural implosions and rampant fraud and violence. We must defeat the enemies of democracy — but that doesn't just mean Putin 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z This is not to suggest that in this new era of creeping authoritarianism that consumerism and profit-making have lost their power as the organizing principles of citizenship, if not freedom itself. A new age of fascist politics brings a war on youth — but young people are ready to resist 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The authors say they want teachers to help students become “empowered change agents” ready to disrupt “the inequalities of contemporary life, including structural racism, sexism, consumerism, and economic injustice.” Perspective | National English-teaching group loses grip on reality at terrible time 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z If it lacks its predecessors’ satirical edge as regards American consumerism and self-sedation, it has other things to say about the way we are, and where we are going. Showtime's ‘Man Who Fell to Earth’ sequel won't blow your mind, but it's solid sci-fi 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z "There's more of an awareness of things like our carbon footprint, consumerism of fabric and traceability of the things we wear and have in our home," she says. How Instagram opened a new world for Welsh quilting 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Your work subverts advertising and consumerism, yet your work has also been merchandised as object. Barbara Kruger on remixing her own art and her visits to 4chan 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr Huang hopes this gradual orientation away from excessive consumerism will serve as inspiration for his next instalment of the series. China: Peeking into the private lives of livestreamers 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Lawyers for the Warhol Foundation told the Supreme Court that his Prince series transformed Ms. Goldsmith’s photographs by “commenting on celebrity and consumerism.” Supreme Court to Hear Copyright Fight Over Andy Warhol’s Images of Prince 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z By masking luxury consumerism in lofty ideals, the art world offers itself up for satire. How Should Art Reckon With Climate Change? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z A lot of your recent work is sort of dystopian, with a heavy dose of political satire and satire of consumerism. The digital artist known as Beeple: ‘I’m just trying to expand people’s idea of what art is’ 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z I must say, I was a bit smitten by the raw performance Apple was promising and began slapping my wallet nervously in my palm — but instead of choosing consumerism, I chose violence. Honey, I decapitated the MacBook 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Yet people like Ms. Wood, and her thriving community of climate communicators, believe that staying stuck in climate doom only helps preserve a status quo reliant on consumerism and fossil fuels. ‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z About 400 companies have chosen to suspend or withdraw operations from Russia, including iconic brands of global consumerism such as Apple, Ikea and Rolex. Ukraine War and Pandemic Force Nations to Retreat From Globalization 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “Outside it’s unavoidable to buy trash, to get swept away by consumerism. It really gets you down,” she said. Build a New City or New Humans? A Utopia in India Fights Over Future. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z A lot of my favorite moments at The Verge happened at CES, the bacchanalia of consumer tech and consumerism that used to matter much more than it does now. A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Our democratic soil is despoiled by poverty, racism, consumerism, extreme income disparities, militarism, partisan interference in elections and an ongoing “war” over the role of government in creating a fair, equitable society. Opinion | A World Moving Toward Autocracy 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s a SoCal tradition that stands as a lasting testament to the power of American culture and consumerism. Commentary: Disneyland's Electrical Parade gets more 'Encanto' and 'Raya,' less outdated patriotism 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z How does she escape the onslaught of consumerism? Review | In this movie, our dreams, like our phones, are filled with ads 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z What may take viewers aback is the movie’s enthusiastic embrace of consumerism; the film often feels like an advertising platform. What to watch with your kids: ‘Moonfall,’ ‘Death on the Nile’ and more 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Over the past decades, plastic use and waste surged as the UAE transformed at warp-speed from a parched desert pearling towns into a super-modern business hub known worldwide for its culture of consumerism. Turtles dying from eating trash show plastics scourge in UAE 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z “Through her prescient lyrics that focused on climate change and consumerism, her rebellious DayGlo attire and guttural operatic yell, Poly created a persona that has become the standard bearer for feminist punks everywhere.” A complicated, groundbreaking punk heroine gets her due in new documentary 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But the first Super Bowl had a fraction of the pomp and circumstance that currently surrounds this weeklong celebration of football, fandom and consumerism. The Super Bowl grew out of modest Los Angeles beginnings 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s also a continuation of a theme he’s explored in past works of art: American consumerism. Can L.A.'s condiment king turn TikTok fame into fortune? 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The result is "Ascension", her debut feature which has been shortlisted for the Oscars and which Kingdon hopes will get audiences reflecting on the universal aspects of consumerism. Oscar-shortlisted 'Ascension' captures chase of the 'Chinese Dream' 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z If only we could discontinue consumerism based on desire rather than need. Opinion | Warming up to electric cars — or at least electric-gasoline hybrids 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z In his homily, Francis urged people to move past the “barriers of habit, beyond banal consumerism, beyond a drab and dreary faith, beyond the fear of becoming involved and serving others and the common good.” Christian world marks Epiphany with series of celebrations 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Francis in his homily urged people to move past the “barriers of habit, beyond banal consumerism, beyond a drab and dreary faith, beyond the fear of becoming involved and serving others and the common good.” Pope marks Epiphany by decrying consumerism 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z “Every day we get a firsthand view of the size and scale of the American economy and American consumerism. Not many appreciate this when they go to the market and buy individual items.” 'There’s no room for error': The humble tugboat's crucial role in easing a global crisis 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Structured in three parts around the themes of labour, consumerism and wealth, the film juxtapositions the lives of its subjects. Oscar-shortlisted 'Ascension' captures chase of the 'Chinese Dream' 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z He then picked up where the bishop left off, decrying “Santa Claus aka consumerism, the desire to own, buy, buy and buy again.” Italian Bishop Gives Children Harsh News: There Is No Santa Claus 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z And a note about gift cards: If you are truly a minimalist concerned about consumerism, you should rethink this practice, because in using gift cards, you are basically encouraging spending, buying and consuming. Perspective | Ask Amy: What can a minimalist gift for a child’s birthday party? 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Rev Paolino, who is the communications director for the diocese of Noto, said the bishop had wanted the children to "reflect about the meaning of Christmas", saying that the date had become known for consumerism. Italian church apologises after bishop tells children 'Santa does not exist' 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z For devotees, Buy Nothing is less a statement about consumerism than an antidote to some of the social ills and financial pressures of the moment. Buy Nothing groups offer an antidote to waste and isolation, with a world of free stuff 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “Today’s sirens want to charm you with seductive and insistent messages that focus on easy gains, the false needs of consumerism, the cult of physical wellness, of entertainment at all costs,” he said. Leaving Greece, pope asks youth to resist tempting ‘sirens’ 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z "Amazon and companies like it have capitalised on our desire for convenience and stoked rampant consumerism at the expense of the natural world," it said. Climate activists target Amazon depots in Britain on 'Black Friday' 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Most Americans feel so entitled to instant consumerism that any concerns regarding sustainability, carbon emissions and local resilience are overlooked. Opinion | Solutions for the Shortage of Truck Drivers 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z He said they also largely avoid social media, which he sees as “fueling this epidemic of consumerism where people don’t go in depth.” How 4 environmentalists travel with the climate in mind 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z It was a sensibility that helped shape her views on consumerism and give rise to the Buy Nothing Project, the movement she co-founded with Rebecca Rockefeller with a focus on reducing plastics waste. Buy Nothing groups offer an antidote to waste and isolation, with a world of free stuff 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Accented with references to 21st-century brand names and consumerism, they have a way of implicating us all. Umar Rashid’s narrative paintings collapse past, present and future into a darkly comic vision of colonialism 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z They describe its effects in less systemic terms, as globalization, privatization, deregulation, consumerism and so on, without calling attention to their common ideological roots. Neoliberalism vs. the planet's future: It's a decisive moment — and there are signs of hope 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z But adults will also be intrigued by its frequently scathing critique of consumerism. 5 movies open Oct. 22 at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z But she won’t call her coping strategies self-care; she says the term is too “difficult to relate to” because of its association with consumerism. Have we been doing self-care all wrong? 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z She has created a body of work over the last 20 years informed by the history, consumerism and social structures in her home country China. Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021 winner revealed 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Of course, consumerism, for better or worse, is built into the “mass market mind-set”: The earlier children are introduced to Marvel’s superheroes, the more likely they are to be lifelong consumers. To break into kids TV, Marvel relied on a Hollywood force: preschoolers 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The Olympics are nationalism and consumerism, urban development, politics, sexism and kitsch. Perspective | A glimpse of the Olympic myth 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z That is clashing with the party’s message of success and consumerism as its celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding. Some Chinese shun grueling careers for ‘low-desire life’ 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z But experts have another concern beyond the association between self-care and consumerism. Have we been doing self-care all wrong? 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z As in the original, there is a hefty dose of consumerism between the product placement and the characters’ focus on material things. What to watch with your kids: ‘The Boss Baby: Family Business’ and more 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z One of the last corners of Black life untouched by mass consumerism and cultural appropriation and erasure. Column: Celebrate Juneteenth. But please, let's not turn it into a consumer holiday 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z In the process of this film I learned about Chinese culture and tradition as it pertains to wildlife consumerism. "Tigre Gente" director got into a boat chase with jaguar poachers while filming documentary 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z “American consumerism was a utopian project no less audacious than Soviet communism,” Levy writes. Review | From commerce to chaos: An economic history of the United States 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Others call their behavior a form of nonviolent resistance or “ideological emancipation” from consumerism. Young Chinese take a stand against pressures of modern life — by lying down 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z At the same time, trans people are the latest population to become marketable, targeted with rainbow products and boilerplate statements from brands that offer validation through consumerism. Imperfect offerings: inside the complex new world of trans tech 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z “All too often, our culture broadly equates ‘environmentalism’ with personal consumerism. Beefing over beef is a distraction the climate movement can’t afford 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z “Gift cards teach them about consumerism. To spend on things you don’t really need,” she said. Seahawks’ Russell Wilson and performer Ciara surprise West Seattle students with savings accounts 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z "I was quite fed up with a lot of things about our society: consumerism and the political situation in Italy," Mr Morandi said. Man living alone on Italian island to leave after 32 years 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z As the Instagram account grew, Kirby started asking more serious questions about wealth, class and consumerism, including whether it’s appropriate to generate massive revenue from selling the gospel of Jesus. Preachers and their $5,000 sneakers: Why one man started an Instagram account showing churches’ wealth 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Some of the earliest American zombie flicks by George Romero were charged with the racial tensions of the 1960s or the mindless consumerism of the 1970s. Zombies are everywhere in South Korea, feeding on fears and anxieties 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z At this stage in your career, how do you think about the fundamental tension between consumerism and preserving the environment, especially as you join the board of an automotive company? Patagonia’s Former C.E.O. Retreats to the Rainforest 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z "It's what a lot of consumerism is organised around, it's what all the focus groups in politics are organised around." Adam Curtis: Critics praise new docu-series as 'dazzling' but 'incoherent' 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Driving became an inextricable part of America’s cultural identity, and as midcentury mass production combined with expendable incomes and the advertising power of television, so did consumerism. Opinion | The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Problem 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Some of her characters are depicted as victims of the cruel conditions of their society, whether it’s the totalitarian rule of Communist China or the rampant consumerism of capitalist America. Review: Journalist’s first collection of fiction excels 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Splashed against our history of sexism, consumerism and brutal cultural divides, Dolly becomes a fascinating case study, a bedazzled pinball in the machine, zipping past traps to score again and again. A Dolly Parton class is in session at Eckerd College 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z While it recognized the company’s efforts to “reduce its impact on the environment,” it also questioned “the very usefulness of all the group’s activities” — essentially denouncing what the students saw as pointless consumerism. At Elite French Universities, Students Demand Environmental Action 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z But is this increased ethical and environmental consumerism really here to stay? Has coronavirus made us more ethical consumers? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z The self-storage industry got its start in the 1960s, when swelling consumerism led Americans to buy more stuff than they had room for. 74 of Our Favorite Facts for 2020 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It even symbolized freedom, she said: “Freedom from consumerism, societal standards, burdensome obligations, but also freedom in the sense of self-reliance.” Rolling Homes That Make an R.V. Look Palatial 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z It encourages consumerism and everything it entails — the needless extraction of resources, carbon emissions from production and shipping, and a pile of waste that collects when people move onto new things. People didn’t used to be "consumers." What happened? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z In his address, Francis also warned against “frenetic” consumerism during the Christmas season, urging people to remember those who have nothing. Pope snubs Vatican's sci-fi Nativity scene, directs visitors to others 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z “The Chief Rabbi was simply pointing out the potential dangers of consumerism when taken too far.” Jonathan Sacks, influential chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, dies at 72 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z I asked Steyer about that, plus plenty of other things related to climate, consumerism, and economics. Why Tom Steyer, hedge fund billionaire and Biden adviser, is disillusioned with the free market 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z There are few better visual metaphors for China's growing confidence in its system than the bright lights and glitzy consumerism of this month's Beijing Car Show. US 2020 election: Who does China really want to win? 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Public institutions show people that there is an alternative to individualism and consumerism that is possible. Noam Chomsky: "If you don't push the lever for the Democrats, you are assisting Trump" 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z At his last Sunday blessing and address before Christmas, Francis also said the holy day that marks the birth of Jesus had been “kidnapped” by consumerism. Pope snubs Vatican's sci-fi Nativity scene, directs visitors to others 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z |
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