| 单词 | kitsch |
| 例句 | But here she was now, disliking it with the haughty confidence of a person who recognized kitsch. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Amid the ethnic kitsch, there were still a few authentic coffee houses, patronized by old men in their seventies and eighties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The truck stop was a wonderland of Southern kitsch. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The very polish of the "finished" paintings sometimes pushes them into kitsch territory, while the sketches, done with quick, crazed brush-stroke energy, careen toward the abstract in a manner similar to J.M.W. Frye exhibits 'Implied Violence,' 'S?ance' may freak you out 2010-10-14T23:51:00Z Asked to define that spirit — is it clean or kitsch or cool or retro? The queen of Capitol Hill 2013-06-05T23:56:48Z Often mocked today by intellectuals and reflexively dismissed as a piece of '80s kitsch, "Cats" looks positively avant-garde by current Broadway standards. 'Cats' to be revived in London, and maybe made into movie too 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But will today’s gruesome TV be looked back on as equally quaint and kitsch? Has TV reached peak gore? The Walking Dead and Ash vs Evil Dead push limit 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The rare star who simply and vigorously adores his celebrity, he serves as tour guide around his kitsch museum of a Vegas mansion, noting, “I personally support the Australian rhinestone business.” Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra: Michael Douglas IS Liberace 2013-05-21T18:32:58Z Some argue that certain elements of tiki iconography exploit genuine elements of Polynesian and other “exotic” cultures, turning them into escapist kitsch. Anyone who picks a fight over tiki drinks’ authenticity is missing the point of tiki drinks 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z But to loyalists of the classic Hollywood musical — or the modernist-revisionist era that followed in the ’60s and ’70s driven largely by Sondheim — the Stone and Gosling performances are just amateurish kitsch. “La La Land” and the Oscars: Why the movie attracts haters 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Stripped of its driving emotional force and its wider political implications, The Crucible becomes so much historical kitsch. The Crucible – review 2013-06-28T00:38:00Z The Czech writer Milan Kundera wrote about kitsch as a kind of false emotion that the Soviets used for propaganda, to manipulate people for political ends. 2009-12-28T16:02:00Z Her paintings are emptier; the objects are still mysterious but there’s little kitsch. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z He looks at its kitsch, its vivid faces and bright colors, but he also looks at the light that flickers on the walls — and that eventually leads him to this quiet, tender movie. ‘The Cathedral’ Review: A Boy, a Home, a World 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z With great generosity of spirit, it satirizes both pretentious high art and Hollywood kitsch. Art Review: ?George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies? at MoMA PS1 - Review 2012-01-05T21:56:40Z I’ve long been most familiar with this Delibes opera through its famous “Flower Duet” and nothing more; the French kitsch and cringy colonialism put me off. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z By the end of the century, the Frankfurt School was seen in many quarters as an artifact of intellectual kitsch. The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z While exceptionally imaginative and wide-ranging in its historical references, the team’s work is more clever than visionary, closer to entertaining, high-end kitsch than to deeply stirring fine art. High-End Works Toying With Politically Loaded Signifiers 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Any exaggeration turns this piece into kitsch; even the brassy conclusion, under Muti’s baton, is shockingly elegant and clear. For Riccardo Muti, a Grand Sort-of-Finale in Chicago 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z My final, blurry memory of the trip is of shirtless alphas in snug suede harnesses competing to be pull-ups champion on rafters groaning with kitsch alpine paraphernalia and a huge stuffed bear. Skiing and partying in Austria’s Obertauern 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z “I think it will be much less kitsch in several years and people will find it very appropriate for the location.” Jeff Koons Sent Paris Flowers. Can It Find the Right Vase? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Just as appealing is its backroom bar, the High Life Lounge, a tribute to Miller beer and the 70s kitsch surrounding it, where cheeseburger baskets and spam sandwiches are served at retro wooden booths. The best towns and small cities in the US: Des Moines, Iowa 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z “Mars Attacks!” screens again on Thursday and Friday at 3 p.m., and offers an opportunity to see how Thomas blended 1950s and ’60s flying-saucer kitsch into Burton’s pastiche. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Something about its spiky sense of kitsch satisfied a savvy audience’s yen for winking trashiness, because once the show began running, the response was electric. After 36 years, ‘Little Shop,’ a ‘close to perfect’ musical, comes to the Kennedy Center 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Wiktor is a Polish expat playing African-American music in Paris, pursuing an illusion of freedom as Zula — whom he calls the woman of his life — performs communist kitsch and gradually falls to pieces. ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Rodriguez said that a fascination with kitsch is what drew her to make the lamps in the first place, and the more she makes them, the more opulent they get. Fake Food Is Trendy Again 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z We learned that all it takes is one or two special touches — a certain shade of red, a pair of glittery heels or a velvet tux jacket — to be Christmassy without the kitsch. Plaid scarves, fleece-lined boots and pea coats won't do 2011-12-05T17:18:31Z “You Say You Want a Revolution?” is confusingly overcrowded in places, and suffers from eruptions of kitsch, like the green carpet intended to evoke the grass of Woodstock. Victoria and Albert Exhibition Opens a ’60s Treasure Chest 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z In a city that traditionally raps American culture as trashy, residents prefer to be associated with Mozart, Salzburg's favorite son, instead of a film many write off as Hollywood kitsch. Sound of Music comes to Salzburg 2011-11-22T12:01:05Z What saves songs and solos like that from kitsch is serious musicianship. Music Review: Lyricism With a Dash of Soft Rock 2011-08-10T22:15:29Z In this largely Mexican production, this cultural struggle becomes a metaphor for American colonialism, as Mexico's ancient traditions are replaced by a simulated, kitsch version for the tourists. Montezuma 2010-08-15T21:01:00Z Some see transcendent statements, others a reduction of the Jewish experience to kitsch. Watteau in Wartime, and a Miami Showcase for Anselm Kiefer 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The Vessel is costly kitsch, New York’s equivalent of the tacky roadside attraction, and it was recently closed, indefinitely, because it has become a magnet for suicides. Review | An artificial island with a real upside 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The kitsch work of art is not a response to the real world, but a fabrication designed to replace it. High culture is being corrupted by a culture of fakes 2012-12-19T08:30:04Z The word “kitsch” cropped up in more than one review. Opera Review: Pablo Neruda and His Mailman, This Time Sung 2010-12-14T13:59:19Z She also draws on the centuries-old tradition of porcelain figurines while studiously ignoring all boundaries, especially those dividing insider and outsider; art and craft; and high, low and kitsch. Art in Review: Kathy Ruttenberg: ‘Nature of the Beast’ 2013-05-02T19:33:50Z And now, along with the Charles Bridge and the castle, Kafka has become a part of Prague kitsch. On the Trail of Kafka in Prague 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z On the gallery’s Web site is a remembrance by Mr. Miller, who sees in Mr. Kelley’s work “an inclusiveness that turns the habitual avant-garde/kitsch distinction inside out.” Art In Review: JOHN MILLER: ?Suburban Past Time? 2012-02-16T22:48:16Z Before the show, the designers, Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty, spoke about how they wanted to avoid the kitsch box of prints, their mainstay. | Fashion Review: Women?s Wear - NY Fashion Week - Review 2011-09-11T21:55:13Z It verges on kitsch, but retains a sense of the fantastical and the marvelous. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet?s ?Ph?dre? and ?Psych?? - Review 2011-09-28T21:04:57Z When in doubt, approach your tree like an outfit, with a balance of high and low, classic and kitsch. For this year’s Christmas tree decorations, embrace the unexpected 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z He has the ability to remind us that Korngold is often better than we expect, bringing glamour and emotional nuance to bear on music that can sometimes teeter on kitsch. Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-M?st 2010-08-19T21:01:00Z Ease into the day at the Beauty Shop Restaurant in Midtown, with an ambience that neatly combines a little kitsch with refinement. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Somehow The Scream would have seemed too obvious here – Munch's weirdness made kitsch through over-familiarity. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 2 – Edvard Munch at Tate Modern 2012-12-20T13:38:40Z It would have looked perverse amid the kitsch excesses of The Greatest Showman, where Ferguson played the opera singer Jenny Lind. Rebecca Ferguson on Mission: Impossible – ‘Tom says he makes the films for the audience. I don’t’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The result is sordid, flimsy Holocaust kitsch, fanatical chic, with all the actual political substance of a designer Che T-shirt. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z He worried that some moments in “Melancholia” have ended up “in the area of kitsch,” which both attracts and disgusts him. Derailed Director Cites Urge to Entertain 2011-05-20T23:26:44Z Something similar is at play in the work of Rex Orange County, a young British lounge-soul singer with a firm grasp on kitsch and devastatingly earnest lyrics. The New Indie Pop: Off-Kilter, Handmade, Whimsical and Emotional 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z These would be the artworks that the Nazis began systematically to steal — by emptying museums and confiscating work owned by Jewish collectors — soon after Hitler, that famously failed painter and lover of kitsch, took power. Movie Review: Clooney and Company Hunt for Treasures in ‘Monuments Men’ 2014-02-06T22:43:48Z Among the trappings featured in the Hallmark-caliber promotional video were various “Be Best”-branded pieces of kitsch, as well as a haunting, widely mocked corridor of blood-red Christmas trees. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z On the one hand, they throw public money at cinema, architecture and monumental sculpture, producing mounds of propagandist kitsch, of course, but also providing the wherewithal for real talents to learn their trade. The best art is born from democracy 2010-04-07T11:48:00Z Not just items of beauty but also kitsch: "objects cut loose from their mass market origins and granted talismanic powers to evoke historical moments or a personal past." Michelle de Kretser: Who travels? Who doesn't? What is home?' - interview 2013-06-22T00:33:57Z It is hard to escape the fate of their childhood homes, stuffed with refurbished kitsch but emptied of feeling. Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s the same sort of appeal as postmodernism, except kitsch is done with such self-consciousness. Possessed: One Designer?s Love: Vintage Trailers 2011-02-25T17:39:51Z Photograph: Elaine Constantine Slightly kitsch, a little nostalgic, occasionally touching: it's no wonder that Saint Etienne have occasionally alighted on Christmas for inspiration. This week's new live music 2010-12-18T00:07:39Z It’s kitsch or something close, though the continuing presence of the old codes for fear and brooding indicate a charge of disturbance that faith didn’t touch. Art Review: ?Paintings of Charles Burchfield? at the Whitney 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z This barrage of kitsch is enough to turn any saint in the audience into the old, grouchy Vincent, before he got canonized. Review: Bill Murray Bestows Some Grace on St. Vincent 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z And kitsch has a kind of shameless enthusiasm that allows you to revel in these values, like excessive decoration or the overly bold use of color, that are not quite respectable. Possessed: One Designer?s Love: Vintage Trailers 2011-02-25T17:39:51Z There'll be none of the commemorative kitsch that abounded at the British wedding, where everything from tea bags to toilet seat covers were emblazoned with the royal couple's broadly smiling faces. Monaco's bride seeking to make her own mark 2011-06-26T11:31:09Z And much like recognizing domesticity as a performance isn't inherently bad, neither is camp, though many people have come to regard the term as a synonym for kitsch or tackiness. If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Were it not for the consummate craftsmanship of the great Bolognese master, the word kitsch would spring to mind. Tracking the Elusive Masters 2010-07-09T14:30:00Z A delicate poise between kitsch and the sublime is the hallmark of their greatest songs, like 2001’s “Digital Love” and the new album’s “Fragments of Time.” Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z The local group delivers a dance party without kitsch or irony on its new album, “Animal Nature,” with lyrics that nod to the jazz titan Anita O’Day. Pop & Rock Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z In lieu of heavy oak and country kitsch is bare plywood that wraps from floor to wall to ceiling, giving Kinski a frank sense of space. Now Serving | The Art of Kn?del 2010-03-10T21:02:00Z Camilla adds: "We wanted the video to be a bit kitsch while mirroring the sentiment of the song, which is frustration and a good healthy dose of anger." The Staves: 'Bon Iver gave us cabin fever' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z There's terrific fun to be had in this kitsch 1977 shocker, which tries to cash in on Jaws, The Exorcist and Death Race 2000. Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space: this week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z “It’s been the perfect storm recently with social media like TikTok, lockdown and people looking for kitsch visual things,” she said. It May Be Time to Dust Off Your Roller Skates 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Frederick Ashton's Symphonic Variations, for example, is one of the most moving ballets ever created, but the men's sparkly coronets, off-the-shoulder tunics and white tights now appear dismayingly kitsch. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z The store has a light and airy feel, without the kitsch that many vintage stores gravitate toward. For the (Renewed) Love of Vintage Dressing 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Somehow along the way she also became a centerpiece of a kitsch marketing bonanza. Frida Kahlo Is Having a Moment 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Some might laugh, finding kitsch where others see only horror. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z The story is 19th-century Russian ballet at its most spectacularly kitsch but the classicism of Petipa's choreography remains its unsullied, exquisite heart. This week's new dance 2011-08-05T23:09:46Z The rooms are kitted out with kitsch furniture and comfy beds, and chairs outside the doors add to that old Americana feel. Kitsch American motels: readers’ tips 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z But it's allowed to be a little bit kitsch, I think, and the flaws are part of that quality. How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2013-03-04T19:30:02Z It is instead a demented entertainment, an embarrassment of kitsch riches that, in between inspiring giggles and snorts, incites you to consider imponderables like, who greenlighted this, and why? Review: In ‘Gods of Egypt,’ That Doughnut Beast Is Stepping on My Sandal 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Blending elements of Western kitsch, traditional Latin American handicrafts and pre-Columbian burial customs, the piece somehow invoked both ritual solemnity and carefree, even erotic pleasure. The Textile Artist Employing Centuries-Old Practices and Pop Culture Imagery 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s unabashed kitsch, but it serves the needs of the song, a missing-persons picaresque whose chorus hinges on the phrase “answering machine.” The Playlist: Metallica Flickers Back to Life, and Tayla Struts Into the Spotlight 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Of course, kitsch depends on the perspective: An English garden gnome taken seriously is depressing; viewed with irony, it’s droll. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Within minutes, sometimes seconds, workers must morph the traditional country home of the recently deceased Maitlands to the kitsch taste of the Deetzes, and then finally into a demon-infested haunted play land. See How ‘Beetlejuice’ Designers Built a Habitat for Demons 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z There’s too much cynicism there for it possibly to be kitsch. | Q&A: At the Barbican Centre, James Bond’s Stylish Progress – Q and A 2012-07-18T23:13:39Z This probably fits most people's contemporary view of kitsch. Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z A carnival of flocked velvet and gold braid, it integrates art and craft, glamour and kitsch, fantasy and hand-sewn reality. Velvet, Organza and Vipers: Stage Costumes Dazzle 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z So none of the three dictators would have found fault with Labour's kitsch vision of a nuclear couple, who have apparently given birth to puppets, staring across iridescent green fields towards a blazing sun. General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip 2010-04-12T16:50:00Z Do not call Mr. Margolies’s subject matter kitsch: If you had even thought as much in his presence, you would have had another think coming. John Margolies, Photographer of Whimsical Architecture, Dies at 76 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z An earlier painting of a dancing woman is equal parts Mexican folk art, Orientalist kitsch and fashion magazine. ‘Paint the Revolution’ Offers Mexican Muralist Muscle and Delicate Beauty 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z He nimbly avoided the pitfalls of yahooism, academicism, social realism and surrealist kitsch and, in so doing, forged a style that was exemplary for its technical and expressive economy, if not for daring imagination. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z But rather than the medieval streets of fair Verona, or even the sun bleached blend of grit and kitsch in Baz Luhrmann's Verona Beach, this was the talk of today's teenagers. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z At the little hotel, everything is like Disney, all kitsch wood on the outside – but the interiors don't make sense. Inside The Shining 2012-10-29T17:15:40Z On Thursday, however, it became the celebrant of sensationalist kitsch in the triple bill that opened its four-program season, “A Tribute to Maya Plisetskaya,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Review: Mariinsky Celebrates a Prima Ballerina 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z But by the time of Mikhailov’s youth, socialist realism had become the only permitted style, and imagery of the revolution had decayed into Stalinist kitsch. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z That place, which W magazine recently characterized as an “irreverent orb of gossip, gorgeous people, designer clothes, groovy tunes, art, kitsch and street culture,” was something more. Drawn Again to the Images of the Illustrator Antonio Lopez 2012-08-29T22:01:48Z New York was avant-garde, L.A. was kitsch — critically discredited, culturally vanquished, doomed to second-class status. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Her unpredictable works, unafraid of kitsch, are costume pageants with room for prayer, feats of endurance and bravery that don’t disguise awkwardness and vulnerability. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The couple is known in large part for upending Modernism by embracing the vernacular of neon signs and kitsch as legitimate design. Bid for Pritzker Prize to Acknowledge Denise Scott Brown 2013-04-17T22:13:48Z Greeting card homilies, wads of kitsch and corn, head straight toward your forehead. Review: Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ Heaps One Tragedy Upon Another 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Within a week the bedizened emblems of kitsch became vehicles for Pollock-esque, purposeful art as protesters hurled balloons filled with paint on government buildings, the Equestrian Warrior, the Triumphal Arch. Beyond Kitsch in Skopje 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The association of tyranny and kitsch art is real and it is slightly mysterious. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's art showed the grotesque symptoms of dictatorship 2011-08-26T13:25:04Z He also has exceptional drawing skills, an expansive sense of humor, an acute moral compass and a connoisseurial eye for weird kitsch. Jim Shaw: ‘I Only Wanted You to Love Me’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Grooms has been hailed at times as a zany genius and at others dismissed as so much kitsch. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In a sublime bit of kitsch that only she could pull off, Celine Dion duets with a projection of herself in her current Las Vegas residency, and lightly banters with her ephemeral clone. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s very kitsch and total nonsense, but absolutely compelling. Brian Cox: 'I’m dying to get back to work so I can get some rest' 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Underwritten by the most famous institutions of the nation, Koons’s kitsch spoof had to be taken seriously. Auctions: In Contemporary Art Sales, Big Is Better and Famous Is Best 2011-05-13T12:00:05Z As well as critiquing modernism, they embraced some of its taboos, including nihilism, nostalgia, kitsch, ornamentation and irony. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z It’s understandable if she didn’t want “Cold Mountain” to become mired in Carolina kitsch. Review: ‘Cold Mountain,’ at Santa Fe Opera, Recounts a Separated Lover’s Arduous Journey 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z What it really is is kitsch: pseudohigh art for a philistine clientele that was generally wealthy, East Coast, urban and male. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z Like those of David Lynch, his exact contemporary, Spielberg’s films veer wildly between kitsch and cruelty. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Her tale was serendipitous: In late 2009, she got bored one day, drove to a flea market off Route 340 in West Virginia and spotted one vendor’s box of kitsch. ‘Renoir Girl’ revealed as N. Virginia driving teacher from artistic family 2013-04-06T04:04:22Z At first glance, these portraits recall the kitsch pictures of Stalin, Lenin and co from the early Komar and Melamid days, in that each makes a monument of the subject. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Cool and charismatic owner Jeff Hafler showed me around a space that still offers hairdos but is also Americana nirvana, packed with vintage, kooky and kitsch hairdressing products and advertising dating to the 1900s. Joshua Tree national park: music, myths and art in the desert 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z “And two, we could not succumb to kitsch and nostalgia. When it comes to Jewish food, deli or Jewish food can evoke a lot of conversations and a lot of kitsch and nostalgia.” The Jewish Deli: An American Tale Told in Pickles and Pastrami 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z The production design displays a genuine enthusiasm for the decorative kitsch of the Halloween season, and the flashes of giddy craftiness beneath the slick style almost compensate for the toothlessness of the horror. Review: ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ Is Toothless Terror 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z His uproarious live shows incorporate elements of skyladika, or “dog songs” — an ’80s kitsch style developed by Middle Eastern immigrants living in Greece. Next Stop: Salonika, Greece?s Cultural Capital 2011-11-04T16:01:38Z At the lower end is a thunderous growl, at once heroic and ominous, that transforms his signature song, “The Impossible Dream,” from sentimental kitsch to an anthem of demonic obsession. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell?s Broadway Songbook at Town Hall 2010-04-18T22:13:00Z It’s a fun but rather kitsch place to be located in the city’s finest, and most zealous, modernist building. The Unrepeatable Architectural Moment of Yugoslavia’s “Concrete Utopia” 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z But don’t call it dinner theater, a phrase that conjures up visions of banquet-hall chicken cutlets and 1970s kitsch. The new gimmick on (and off) Broadway: Enjoy the show — and pass the pierogi 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z American director Quentin Tarantino listed the work as among his “grindhouse,” or low-budget kitsch cinema, favorites. Japanese martial artist film star Sonny Chiba dies at 82 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Decorated in fishing kitsch — think nets, plastic lobsters and Mardi Gras beads. Crustaceans and camaraderie at Crawfish House 2013-06-06T20:40:06Z Many scholars still view them as unworthy confections of overwrought kitsch. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z To do so now would not, Kundera argues, be just kitsch, but abominable. Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats – review 2013-06-28T07:00:00Z This is obsessive devotion channelled into an outsider art that knowingly echoes all its influences, both kitsch and sublime. Images from the outer limits 2013-06-01T23:05:40Z Finding this soapy New Age slop therapeutic, while simultaneously reserving the right to disown it as laughable kitsch, feels like classic millennial bet-hedging. Review | What is the strange allure of Bob Ross? I painted my way to an answer, sort of. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z These efforts could prompt the art world to reassess the legacy of someone whose work was dismissed as kitsch during his lifetime. Bob Ross Fans Seek Some Happy Little Appreciation for Their Muse 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z He often uses snippets of material — ad jingles, saccharine pop productions, throwaway dialogue — that he can’t entirely dismiss as kitsch. Oneohtrix Point Never’s Quest to Make Music That Freaks People Out 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s flamboyant, kitsch, and filled with low-level political feuding. Eurovision 2018: why America needs to join the Super Bowl of camp immediately 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “We didn’t want to retain legacy content just for the sake of kitsch,” he said. How Jell-O Molds Claimed Their Spot on the American Table 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z There’s way too much indifferent, amateur- and student-level work, as well as semiprofessional kitsch. Governors Island Art Fair Fills Colonels’ Row 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The quality of the garden’s design, its craftsmanship and materials all mitigate against any kitsch. Biden put Wilmington on the map — but for garden lovers, it was already a destination 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Horowitz calls this “a major American cultural event that’s been totally forgotten” — though he concedes that one reason for its neglect is that “Most of the music is kitsch.” The Lakota Music Project finds common ground through collaboration 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The showy and kitsch mix of styles — Classical, Renaissance and Art Deco — takes center stage. Check In: Hotel Review: Teatro B&B in Lisbon 2013-06-13T20:56:25Z Neither at this moment nor later, when he dances dully as a glittery kitsch shaman, does “Bear/Skin” itself achieve theatrical catharsis. ‘Fest’ and ‘Bear/Skin’ at American Realness Festival 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The same is true of Lemebel’s art: in celebrating melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds, he reaffirmed the commitment he made in the title of his early “Manifesto.” A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z His art, which was recognized as kitsch at the height of its popularity, is the visual inspiration for the show, an animated send-up of the echt ’80s cop show “Miami Vice.” Review: Comedy Central’s ‘Moonbeam City’ Recalls the World of ‘Miami Vice’ 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z There is, for instance, the war of commercial kitsch against both high culture and youth culture. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Moving down the aisles, he uttered some dismissive phrases like “the cute, the kitsch and the clumsy” while the camera passed often inconsequential work that was left unidentified. ArtsBeat: Morley Safer Launches a Halfhearted Salvo in his War on the Art World 2012-04-02T16:30:26Z Coming to the event cold, Praxis might be little more than an opportunity to hear this cult band's aerated synth-pop while surrounded by vintage commie kitsch. Neon Neon – review 2013-06-08T23:06:01Z A little kitsch, a load of lip color often cheers me up. | End-of-Season Dregs 2011-02-04T16:53:22Z Democracy, it seemed, demanded its own brand of unifying kitsch, something as powerful and effective as the enticing, mass-media lies that demagogues in Germany, Italy and Spain were selling. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Tijuana Christmas Nowadays this too probably looks like a "kitsch classic". The worst album sleeves of 2012? Our art critic thinks they're fine ... 2012-12-21T14:50:27Z Plisetskaya’s whole career was based on taking thin, kitsch choreography and transcending it. Review: Mariinsky Celebrates a Prima Ballerina 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The architectural design in her coastal hamlet is a considered hybrid of midcentury modern and nautical kitsch, and characters’ facial expressions are richly emotive. ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ Review: Coming of Age is a Sea Change 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z And not only by heading to Las Vegas for one of those long, lucrative engagements that turn legend to kitsch. Mariah Carey’s List Is Short: All She Wants Is Immortality 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Some people travel the US to see the sights and bright lights, to maybe lose themselves in the kitsch of Vegas or craziness of Hollywood. New chapter with opening of Britain's first centre for book arts 2013-01-01T15:52:43Z The band was the bookmakers’ favorite going into the Eurovision finale and sealed the win early Sunday with the highest popular vote in the enormously entertaining, and incredibly kitsch, annual song festival. Rome band brings Eurovision back where song contests began 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z This sort of thing was naturally infuriating to many people, as were the paeans, in “Learning from Las Vegas,” to the detritus of American kitsch landscapes—billboards, signs, neons. Remembering Robert Venturi, the Close Reader of Architecture 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Catchy pop tunes, consumer kitsch, church choirs, staccato handclaps and a shipwreck of luxury cars are all thrown into the hallucinatory mix. This week's new exhibitions 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z Sheffield's Peace Garden, for instance, while verging on kitsch as a piece of design, provided a real sense of seclusion and communality. Glasgow's welcome stand against the '21st-century square' 2013-01-28T10:30:01Z Mr. Rose is rarely the offender, though; on W. C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues,” it’s the tack piano that turns the song from a merely hackneyed choice into a bit of saloon kitsch. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z This is the kind of kitsch that is foisted on helpless peoples by Neros and Hitlers and such tyrants so beyond normal restraint or criticism they believe they are artists. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z Starting from a state of haunted near-silence, he evokes a bit of the music of Shakespeare’s era with plaintive open intervals in the winds and darkly winding counterpoint in the low strings, utterly without kitsch. Listening Booth: Operas by Rufus Wainwright and Hans Abrahamsen 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z When one of his students from a rural area once admired the pieces, Mr. Eliason thought he detected a knowing twinkle in the student’s eye and gave a philosophical lecture about the parameters of kitsch. Antiques: Elvis and Toreadors, Aglow on Black Velvet 2011-02-03T22:55:03Z His film career, which began in 1947 with small roles in “The Foxes of Harrow” and “Doctor Jim,” was memorable at first for its kitsch value. William Schallert, Father on ‘The Patty Duke Show’, Dies at 93 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z When the Calgary Olympics debuted in 1988, the opening ceremonies were conspicuously low on patriotism, and high on pioneer nostalgia and '80s kitsch. 2010-02-12T14:01:00Z But the form still has a tinge of kitsch, its extravagant morbidity shading into camp or humor. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z But by the time I was old enough to choose, I would never waste my time on something that felt like kitsch or cliché, and it was already too familiar. A ‘Tradition’ Omission: I Had Never Seen ‘Fiddler’ Until Now 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The Keanes had never been the darlings of art critics, who mocked the portraits as kitsch in comparison to the pop art, minimalism and abstract expressionism bursting out of the hippest galleries. At 87, ‘Big Eyes’ artist Margaret Keane gets her Hollywood break 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z In another he denounces the trend, seen in some Manhattan restaurants and bars, toward decorating with Soviet-era kitsch, including images of Stalin. ‘Ethics in the Real World,’ Peter Singer’s Provocative Essays 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z He arrived at the Tea & Sympathy annex, a small shop on Greenwich Avenue stocked with teapots, chocolate boxes and kitsch accessories. Shopping for Marmite With Harry Hadden-Paton 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The drawback to this kind of immersive décor is that it can border on the theme park-ish, turning the specific into the ersatz and treading dangerously close to kitsch. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Exploding Art of Set Design 2010-12-09T18:21:00Z “To Mr. Woolford, hula is more than Hollywood kitsch,” The Times noted. Keo Woolford, a Detective on ‘Hawaii Five-O,’ Dies at 49 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z If the authors had picked a thematic lane — kitsch, pure pageantry, dysfunctional family dynamics, monarchical history, the media’s celebrity obsession — one could begin to look for deeper meaning. Review | In time for Thanksgiving, Broadway serves up a turkey: ‘Diana’ the musical 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z As in each of her pictures, Gaignard portrays a character of her own invention, here with long, blond hair and jet-black roots, outfitted in regional strip-mall kitsch. An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Other varieties of fetishism can be found amid the treasures of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where you can find kitsch souvenirs like a modern china teapot in the shape of Shakespeare’s cottage. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z That vocabulary has long since fallen out of vogue, but it doesn’t feel out of place here, since von Donnersmarck is essentially trying to use the tools of kitsch to illuminate the mysteries of art. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z At times the works walked right to the edge of kitsch. Marie Cosindas, Whose Photographs Brought Color to the Fore, Dies at 93 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The 36 single and double rooms are, as one would expect, dripping in Communist-era kitsch, complete with groovy, colorful wallpaper and bedspreads. 36 Hours in Berlin 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It is there not just in the seemingly mundane subject matter, but in the almost realist style, a style that, in lesser hands, could teeter into kitsch or even folk art. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z Real life, after all, takes place in the microdramatics of incident, not in the frenetic kitsch of adventures, with adversity producing neat “lessons” for the protagonists. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z There is always an element of kitsch in monumental memorials, a built-in grandiosity that exaggerates the physical and spiritual statures of their human subjects. Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z A whole load of kitsch from a "Nice Jewish Guys" calendar to Clockwork Orange jumpers. Internet picks of the week 2011-03-26T00:07:03Z We would rather revel in a curse: May you live long enough to see all your formative memories revised first into references, then into kitsch. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Viewing the Olympics through the prism of style can be a screwball proposition, since the pinnacle of sport is also pretty reliably the height of sartorial kitsch. Embracing Fashion, Saggers to Sequins, at the Winter Games 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Whistler's touchingly subtle portrait of the little girl Miss Cicely Alexander – otherwise known as Harmony in Grey and Green – is shoved in a corner and then further obscured by a kitsch Victorian statue. Walk Through British Art – review 2013-05-18T14:59:01Z O’Connor says he will modernize the character, making him accessible for new generations and will wipe away “the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration”. The Green Hornet reboot in works after underwhelming Seth Rogen comedy 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z National pride, friendly competition between countries that once went to war, an appetite for kitsch, schadenfreude, questionable taste — the reasons for applauding Eurovision are numerous. Eurovision Song Contest 2016: A Viewer’s Guide 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z In her work, she brings a perverse sensibility to the baroque kitsch fantasy-land where she grew up, along with an historian’s fascination with various art forms. Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Their Own Best Creations 2011-03-11T21:40:24Z While period pieces are nothing new, the attention to detail on “Mrs. Maisel” transcends the usual nostalgic kitsch. Turning Back Time on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The dish is so charged with seaside kitsch that inside the Ferry Building, Hog Island Oyster Company doesn’t even use the word on the menu. Cioppino This Good Can’t Be a Cliché 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Its lingering kitsch factor has clouded its impact for sure. A Big Bold Show Wants You to Rethink Pink 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Thus, an empty room with a folk song playing in it is not likely to be dismissed as kitsch – it may be fairly banal, but it is not vulgar, ostentatious, garish. Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z No one was there when we arrived, so we admired the rustic furniture and kitsch art, like a mirrored sign exhorting pilgrims to upload selfies to the Punto Sosta’s active Facebook page. On the Via Francigena in Tuscany, Monasteries and Fellowship 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The waxwork figures of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and her family were festively decorated with kitsch Christmas jumpers on Tuesday to help raise awareness of a children's charity appeal. By royal command, British waxworks get Christmas makeover 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Other critics were delighted, however, crediting Mr. Morente with reviving interest in a musical tradition that was homogenized during the years of Franco’s dictatorship and later ossified into the aural equivalent of tourist kitsch. Enrique Morente, Celebrated Flamenco Singer, Dies at 67 2010-12-15T05:11:10Z She holes up in the maison, continuing to cram the place with new acquisitions: ceramic cherubs now, and other kitsch from thrift stores. Move Over, Royal Tenenbaums: Meet the Mighty Franks 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Here her imagery is so familiar that she strays into kitsch. Lauren Grossman at Platform Gallery: leviathans and hellmouths 2012-04-05T19:30:11Z Confederate monuments, like their Communist bronze and granite comrades in Budapest, are kitsch. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Little Rickie was a kind of hip, East Village novelty shop, and they had everything from paints and pencils to decks of kitsch playing cards called “52 Handsome Nudes,” handsome male nudes. It Was ‘Cool Central’: Bill T. Jones Leads a Trip Through His Archive 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The story is a bracingly vicious tale of betrayal and poetic justice in what at first seemed an atmosphere of placid kitsch. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z His pieces are wildly contaminated with Pop, Surrealism, kitsch and the psycho-sexual. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z Winking kitsch is not the same as successful irony. Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears' 'Pretty Girls' video is enough to make John Waters cringe 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The idea of the “Thaïs Pas de Deux” is close to kitsch. American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z Removing the familiar melody excises the kitsch, but the message remains simple and sentimental, if still probably necessary. Review: A Message-Heavy Bill T. Jones Dance-Theater Collage 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z But if the president argues that the jars are harmless or merely kitsch, send her a link to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University. I Shouldn’t Have to Tell You This Is Racist 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Koons, who has been making art out of kitsch since the 1980s, has been slammed by some critics as glibly calculating, even as others have praised him. Whitney Restrospective for Jeff Koons’s Monumental Ambitions 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Another milestone was reached: She was trying to determine which trinket’s kitsch would survive north of the border. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z More worrying are the religious kitsch paintings and Catholic-tat plaster sculptures, which decorate an installation that's like some sort of dismal, Father Ted vestry. Jake or Dinos Chapman - review 2011-07-14T15:05:56Z And the further we get from Auschwitz, the easier it is to reduce its horrors to kitsch or light entertainment. The Survivor of Auschwitz Who Painted a Forgotten Genocide 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Instead he toyed with kitsch and calendar art, and based paintings on found photographs. Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It was just unclear how to read it against kitsch scenery. A Vision in Melancholy 2011-07-06T22:31:19Z Yet it’s hard to shake the suspicion that Orientalist kitsch was integral to the shows’s commercial appeal. Can ‘Miss Saigon’ Be Saved? Two British Shows Disagree. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z But it also reflected his taste for kitsch — plastic women’s handbags and a triptych of 3-D dog posters, picked up at flea markets for $1 each. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Though Sweden opted to tighten the budget for this year's show after Azerbaijan spent lavishly last year, pop fans around the world can still expect the usual heavy-duty kitsch. ABBA in the air as 26 countries fight for Eurovision glory 2013-05-18T19:30:23Z A dusting of kitsch, in the blue-and-white boating motifs on wallpaper, carpets and napkins, adds to the charm. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z That, I suppose, was exactly the moment when revolution turned into revolutionary kitsch. Patty Hearst’s America: What “American Heiress” gets wrong (and right) about an insane time and place 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z It comes by its kitsch honestly, and it is difficult to marshal cynicism in response to a procession which concludes with the arrival of Santa, even if one is skeptical of his existence. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Adapts to the Eye of the Times 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Italy finished in second place while Sweden was third in the 56th annual edition of the contest that is famous for light entertainment and heavy-duty kitsch. Azerbaijan wins 2011 Eurovision Song Contest 2011-05-14T22:38:53Z These are included to suggest the short distance between sober documentary remembrance and exploitative Holocaust kitsch. Review: ‘Because I Was a Painter,’ a Documentary About Art Made in Nazi Camps 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Of the Henry Shrady monument in Charlottesville, he adds: “Art aims for truth, while kitsch is the cheery aesthetic embodiment of a lie. The Lee monument is kitsch.” Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z If you’re not a fan, that “Hotel California” feeling, that jumpy angst its opening notes provide, signalling the operatic kitsch to come, can come to represent your entire feeling about the Eagles. Glenn Frey and That Peaceful, Queasy Feeling 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z "Honeymoon in Vegas," based on the 1992 Nicholas Cage movie, arrived on Broadway on Thursday night with a winning dose of glitz and kitsch. 'Honeymoon in Vegas' ups ante for glitz in new Broadway version 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z To them, pop means fun, mass appeal, crass commercialism, shared experience, celebrity, artificiality, fashion, dancing, performance art, simplicity, craftsmanship, kitsch, naïveté, self-consciousness, something to love, something to mock and something to reconfigure. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z While the art world is typically the place where you’ll find the definitions of “kitsch” and “camp” debated with serious academic underpinning, the world of food and beverage is arguably equally stratified. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z On May 23, Australia will be fast-tracked to the final in Vienna, Austria, to perform in front of an estimated television audience of more than 195 million in the world's most kitsch musical talent contest. Australia's affection for Eurovision pays off 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Across the board there was a welcome absence of kitsch. Fashion Review: Milan Men’s Wear for Spring 2013 2012-06-27T21:26:14Z Stop by Joyce Worrell’s Iron Works Boutique for vintage fashions, antiques and garden kitsch along with keys to free yellow bikes. A sweet slice of small-town Western Washington in Tenino 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Maybe this seemed a trifle strong, an unnecessarily extreme analogy to describe Hirst's decay from lively young mind to arrogant purveyor of kitsch. Damien Hirst's new statue is a dangerous monstrosity 2012-10-11T14:23:22Z “It has this gravitas of being something that is so Italian and so important, but then, like Venice in general, there’s something a little kitsch about it, like the best version of Disneyland.” Inspired by Murano, Glassware Goes Wild 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The Oxford art dictionary hedges its bets, defining kitsch as "art, objects or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way ..." Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z The collection, Marc Jacobs' strongest for the brand for several seasons, shot the darkly sensual clothes with a stiff dose of self-mocking kitsch. Gaultier's last Hermes collection ends Paris shows 2010-10-06T21:32:00Z But the success of American Pop art changed the calculus of kitsch respectability. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It also epitomized what Milan Kundera calls “totalitarian kitsch,” which banishes “every display of individualism . . . every doubt . . . all irony.” ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z I don’t want to just play the kitsch factor, but bring something authentic and honest to it. Jerick Hoffer flips his wig for ‘Hairspray’ at 5th Avenue 2013-06-19T19:14:18Z If McAnuff’s update seems wide of the mark, it’s probably a reaction against kitsch. With 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,' heaven knows the Queen of Disco deserved better than this 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Among the perplexities of our age is that art is becoming less durable and kitsch more so. In the galleries: Unfinished works at Target Gallery 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z I think it can certainly be described as kitsch. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z Their kitsch is suddenly electrified by something profound; it's like God, the voice of judgment lilting down, is teaching them noir's true depths. Indonesian cinema and the rise of a new noir 2013-06-05T15:36:08Z It starts to sound like a species of intellectual and stylistic kitsch, a preciousness that is the preserve today mostly of pseudo-spiritual treatises and vacant self-help volumes. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Tyrrell continued to appear in further kitsch midnight movies and also turned to painting. Susan Tyrrell 2012-06-27T14:41:00Z “These are outrageous,” said Mr. Korban, who clearly saw them as kitsch. Encounters : For Ryan Korban, Luxury-Minded Interior Designer, More is More 2014-03-28T20:41:11Z It’s trying to do nothing more than generate the sort of smile that kitsch always does. Review: Fuller House's Forced Nostalgia Is Bad News For TV 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Kids will probably find the mischievous antics of the alien Stitch most endearing, while adults may laugh more at his taste for kitsch. What You Should Watch This Thanksgiving Weekend 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “I appreciate the vintage kitsch ideas of talking to your plants to make them happy like they're your lovely little babies,” Wells said. A new generation of “plant music” blossoms amidst the Millennial-fueled houseplant boom 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “GLOW” doesn’t elevate kitsch values; it frolics among them. The New Season of “GLOW” Is Proudly Defiant in Presenting a Camp Eighties Pageant 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z American critics thought the canvases, festooned with pieces of colored glass, were too decorative — basically kitsch. Lucio Fontana, a Sculptor but So Perverse 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z When she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer, Ehrenreich wasn’t fazed by the corporate-sponsored pink ribbon kitsch; she was simply repulsed by it. Barbara Ehrenreich Contains Multitudes. They’re All Ticked Off. 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In the ballads, pink hearts flutter above the lyrics like kitsch angels.
Review: Grease and a Sing-a-long: They Go Together... 2010-07-16T23:55:00Z “The main conclusion of most of the tourists is that Skopje became Europe’s new capital of kitsch,” Andrej Zernovski, the mayor of Skopje’s Center Municipality, wrote in an email. Beyond Kitsch in Skopje 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z But it is, I fear, a kind of moral kitsch: a lovely idea undermined by a naivete about how high-level creativity works. Review | For Dana Schutz, a new show after her controversial painting of Emmett Till 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z As clean-cut as their 2010 “Broadway Christmas” may have been, it also displayed a ravenous need to entertain, not to mention unexpected senses of humor and kitsch. Review: TV Crooners (and Danny Aiello) Head ‘Home for the Holidays’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z First comes the order, accompanied by giggles and a sense that one is knowingly indulging in a bit of retro kitsch. You May Sound Silly, but Don’t Be Afraid to Order a Grasshopper 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z His own taste, which became official Nazi taste, was for kitsch, Aryanized nudes in a heroic, neoclassical vein he termed — with no sense of its absurdity — “Greco-Nordic.” Art in the midst of catastrophe — and renewal 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The amusement park staple is today cherished as a nostalgic Victorian-era emblem of childhood and also 1950s kitsch. All the Pretty Horses! A Carousel at Art Basel 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Richard Wagner's ultimate love story of tragic passion, deceit and death often ends up as an evening of tedium, or worse, kitsch. Stemme shines as Isolde in Wagner's love story 2013-06-14T14:56:09Z He had already embraced the kitsch that has characterized his work ever since. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z "It can be bracing to see Picasso shuttle between triumph and kitsch in the space of a week."Patent nonsense. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Sometimes, it was hard to decide whether they were serious or an elaborate, kitsch parody that ended up sounding better than the stuff they were subtly lampooning. Hidden treasures: Telex – Looking for Saint Tropez 2013-01-22T15:04:00Z Smith regaled the packed house with tales of idiosyncratic 1970s style and charming Mayan kitsch from the renovation of his dazzling getaway near Palm Springs. West Week 2015 Begins with a Lively Keynote 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z It owed something to goth and something to punk and skater culture, with luminous pops of color adding more than a hint of self-conscious kitsch. Emo revival: why 2022 was the perfect time to bring the genre back from the dead 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Much like recognizing domesticity as a performance isn't inherently bad, neither is camp, though many people have come to regard the term as a synonym for kitsch or tackiness. If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z I think he was a bit stunned by my taste for strong cocktails and disco classics in the kitsch bar we went on to. Blind date: ‘He was stunned by my taste for strong cocktails and disco classics’ 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Lots of praise has been devoted to Koons’s desire for material perfection, as well as his use of kitsch objects, in the pursuit of flawless beauty. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z There is also a portrait taken from the home of Ukraine’s former state prosecutor that shows his blond wife dressed like a member of the ancien régime French aristocracy — a triumph of post-Soviet, crony-capitalist kitsch. Ukrainians Turn to the Arts in a Time of Upheaval 2014-04-29T21:46:47Z It would have been easy to turn this series into transatlantic kitsch -- but in fact the kitsch is respectfully made, and distinctively British. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1": Harry Potter goes dark 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z As such, nostalgia became kitsch, trivial and reactionary: hardly the stuff of a meaningful engagement with the past or the workings of memory. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z He was also an avid collector of Mexican kitsch and popular art, much of it displayed at the Estanquillo Museum, in Mexico City, which he helped set up in 2006. Carlos Monsiv?is obituary 2010-06-24T18:04:00Z It can be bracing to see Picasso shuttle between triumph and kitsch in the space of a week. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Even to try and define kitsch is to enter a hall of mirrors that reflects your own prejudice. Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z You wouldn't want to hear the "kitsch" that some renowned composers' scores that they tossed in the wastebasket. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z This fervor finds its campy, gin-soaked mirror image at El Garlochi, a velvet-draped haunt done up entirely in lavish church kitsch: brass candelabras, Madonna shrines, plastic funeral bouquets, oil portraits of weeping saints. 36 Hours in Seville, Spain 2014-04-10T14:19:24Z Before 1955, most popular music was dismissed as kitsch by the reigning culturati, and distinctions between “high” and popular art were rigidly demarcated. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z He aimed instead, he explained in a catalog essay, to underscore the underlying cultural instability of which kitsch is an inevitable result. Fashion Review: Milan Men’s Wear for Spring 2013 2012-06-27T21:26:14Z And like the attractions that line the highways that generations of Americans have traveled — on their way to places such as Mount Rushmore — it is kitsch: gigantic, colossal, nationalist kitsch. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z "But they don't have to be museum pieces or kitsch." English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll 2011-03-10T12:15:00Z The real question is whether Picasso would agree with what the public and art critics sort into piles of kitsch and triumph. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s now a popular tourist attraction of historical gravity and artistic kitsch. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Most of the costumes in the auction appear to hail from the 1970s and 80s, and some are pure kitsch. Folies Bergere plumage hits auction block in Paris 2012-06-08T16:04:45Z Those early Power Rangers TV shows were fabulously kitsch in the way that the terrible, out-of-sync dubbing somehow added to the eccentric thrill of Shaw Brothers martial arts movies. Why so serious? Power Rangers' first trailer ditches the kitsch 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s a fairyland of Cinderella kitsch, all right, though contemporary art is no stranger either to kitsch or popular culture. | A Snow Queen for Our Time 2011-02-02T19:17:16Z In tourist towns with saltwater taffy and T-shirt shops, such huge, homemade creations could seem like kitsch. Journeys: Correspondents Select Some of Their Favorite Roads 2012-05-20T22:47:22Z Emitting a funny laugh, a kind of yip, he added, “How kitsch could it be?” At the Met, Andrew Bolton Is the Storyteller in Chief 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Through the windows of the gift shop we spied commemorative plates, coffee mugs, ski vests, T-shirts and other Bond-related kitsch. | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond 2013-05-01T18:06:17Z The American artist who died last week was, despite his commercial success, derided by the official art world as essentially a purveyor of kitsch. Kinkade: Home decorator, kitsch-master, or artist? 2012-04-14T16:50:10Z The subject matter, therefore, is kitsch, not because it’s fantasy but in the word’s original sense of mass-produced popular art, culture marketed for shopping. Review: Ratmansky’s Confectionery Shop Also Serves Ballet Poetry 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z My house – once ours – is full of kitsch Lynch prints, 1950s bombshells and Art Deco nudes. A letter to … my ex-husband, who preferred pornography to me 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z As for what’s at the Armory, it falls short as art, as art history, as conservation and even, I regret to say, as kitsch. Art Review: Adding Bells and Whistles to Leonardo 2010-12-05T22:48:00Z “It is perfect kitsch — gaudy, beautiful and floral,” said Holly Vaughn, a Vegas native and El Cortez regular. Fans of El Cortez’s floral carpet can now own a square of Vegas history 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Her errand completed, Ms. Ullman piled into the black chauffeured car that was waiting outside and sped uptown to Blue Tree, a Madison Avenue treasure chest stuffed with jewelry, accessories and cheerful kitsch. Tracey Ullman Stocks Up on Lingerie Before a Date With Meryl Streep 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z But there’s a lot of kitsch on the market, too. Front Row: Nice Jacket, but It Can?t Do My Taxes 2011-06-08T20:30:11Z Metamorphoses … Dolls come to life in AS Byatt's tale, which starts as placid kitsch but becomes a story of betrayal. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z Surrealism, born in modern Europe, got critically swept away with the rise of an American avant-garde after World War II. Its mass-culture associations were dismissed as low-class foreign kitsch. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z I used to dismiss Soviet futuristic design as totalitarian kitsch. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z What Gadsby did was give the audience permission — moral permission — to turn their backs on what challenged them, and to ennoble a preference for comfort and kitsch. With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Everything about the build-up to the crater – the billboards, the gift shop, the museum – is wonderfully kitsch, but seeing the 1.2km-wide crater itself is a surprisingly powerful experience. 10 of the best US road trip stopoffs – readers’ travel tips 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z His Eurovision commentary affectionately mocked the kitsch pop music competition, at which Britain generally fared badly. BBC Star Sir Terry Wogan Dies at 77 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s a rare occasion for Halloween to coincide with a night of , so the producers did their best to pump up the kreepy kitsch. ?Dancing with the Stars? Week 7: The Monster Mash 2011-11-01T13:00:39Z Nothing here feels cute, quaint or kitsch, though whimsy can fall that way, into a slough of soggy sentimentality sometimes laced with an emetic of twee. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Marie often blends into the ornately patterned backgrounds in her matching swimsuits and sarongs, or poses like a cross between the Virgin Mary and Bettie Page in their kitsch living room. Images from the outer limits 2013-06-01T23:05:40Z Another mistake induced by the dearth of goods was to try to make up for the insufficient number of Old Masters by throwing in late 19th-century works qualifying as kitsch of the first water. 2010-01-30T05:37:00Z “The only label I would write about his guy’s work would be: ‘Any museum that thinks this work is anything other than kitsch needs to rethink itself.’ Seattle artist finds personal opinion, art an uncomfortable mix 2013-03-23T22:33:44Z In that respect, Martin rates as one of the founding fathers of Victorian kitsch, now set up on a pedestal. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z It’s a bit kitsch, but I like to flirt with kitsch on occasion. ‘When we can, we’d love to throw a party to show it off’: designers on their lockdown DIY 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Like Fritsch's cockerel, but unlike Locke's work, it avoids being kitsch. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z The city is pretentious, yet kitsch at the same time. Screw Los Angeles: Minneapolis should host the 2028 Summer Olympics 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Here in Britain, the ebbing of religious faith has combined with our insatiable taste for kitsch to desensitise us to the historic potency of angelology. From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels by Valery Rees 2012-12-21T07:00:01Z "I think Jeff's relationship to kitsch and popular culture is one of the most complicated and interested aspects of his work," he added. NY's Whitney Museum celebrates Jeff Koons with retrospective 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Magill paints landscapes enchanted by memory and a knowing dose of nostalgic kitsch. This week's new exhibitions 2011-04-01T23:06:02Z The wackier the costume the better for the Kawasaki parade, just outside Tokyo, with many participants wearing prosthetics, complex theatrical makeup or kitsch, homemade fancy dress. Vampire state of mind: how to join the world's greatest Halloween parade 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “But the qualities of contemporary kitsch and surrealist illustration are not to everyone’s taste.” Mark Ryden: Drawing a Dividing Line 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “Puccini took kitsch plays,” he said, “and ennobled them.” When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z With increased elbow room, the Carousel has become a better option for locals in need of a nightcap and dose of classic New Orleans kitsch before bedtime. Heads Up: In New Orleans, Hotels Upgrade Their Bars to Attract Locals 2012-03-30T18:21:43Z All hover just this side of kitsch in a way that is entertaining. Tom Gidley, Howard Hodgkin and Bridget Riley – the week in art 2012-06-01T15:31:33Z She is the first mainstream star to showcase the aesthetic of the current festival-going teens: think denim shorts, bright sportswear, kitsch accessories. Rihanna: evolution of a style icon 2012-07-17T16:37:03Z But it is done with such exceptional brio that you are even persuaded to look at some paintings that in any other context would be dismissed as appalling kitsch. A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z The Connor home is a living museum of ’80s kitsch, with the costumes coordinated to blend with the furnishings; the clothes really do match the drapes. Review: White Bird in a Blizzard: Snow Job for Shailene Woodley 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The stress that museums place on African ceremonial art of the past, this implies, is a bit like judging modern European art by kitsch replicas of Raphael Madonnas. The anti-museum flinging open its doors 2013-07-01T15:51:36Z To make a statue now is to do something consciously kitsch – just look at Marc Quinn's latest excursion into pseudo-figurative sensationalism – but there are more creative ways to engage with tradition. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z The saccharine mash-up of romance and posh schlubbiness teetering delicately between pastoral and kitsch before blossoming into pure Disney fantasy: taffeta, velvet, iridescent blues — the frumpy duckling turning into a polka-dot-and-silk-swathed swan. Why Do We Care So Much About Diana’s Dresses? 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z A wildcard of the dance world, he's a man with serious classical pedigree who also brought us the enormously kitsch Princess Di ballet, Diana the Princess: A Celebration. Sir Frederick Ashton's Romeo & Juliet ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:38Z Live guitar players in flowery shirts sing beachy rock standards, providing just the right dose of Hawaiian kitsch. 36 Hours in Kauai, Hawaii 2013-12-05T17:25:08Z Willis was well known as a collector of kitsch, and her pink 1937 Los Angeles home housed her collection of candy-colored ephemera that is cataloged online at her Museum of Kitsch. Allee Willis, ‘Friends’ Theme and ‘September’ Songwriter, Dies at 72 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z "I call this 'palatial kitsch'," he tells Scott proudly, like Gatsby showing his mansion to Daisy. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-08T23:07:01Z And if you look at his legacy in cultural matters, it’s all quite kitsch. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z This wasn’t ballet, and it certainly had elements of kitsch and cliché, but its use of several Chinese traditions — high-level martial arts, borrowings from Beijing Opera, virtuosic pipa players — was freshly entertaining. What’s Chinese About Chinese Ballet? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The novelist Milan Kundera believes kitsch to be the natural expression of totalitarianism. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z I think it's time to take the marketing out of the Market, and the kitsch out of the Kitchen. Why Christopher Kimball Is Moving On From America’s Test Kitchen 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The exit gallery offers up a kitsch crescendo. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Uplifted by the titans of Mount Rushmore, we will find unity that no one expected,” he said, which is to say, inspirited by nationalist kitsch, we will whitewash history. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z They may be kitsch now, but a typewriter has been captured in the company of some of the most significant and iconic individuals of the last century. Typewriters: an illustrated guide and a debt of thanks 2012-11-22T09:08:55Z Dour, wild-haired Karl presides over the first gallery of an ambitious, searching show on religion and revolution, uniting paintings, posters, propaganda, film clips, and a fair amount of Soviet kitsch. The Jews Who Dreamed of Utopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Wherever they are, they are truly hideous, beyond kitsch. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z And here’s the thing: You would never guess she’d adore this kitsch if you met her any other time of the year. This is not your grandma’s Christmas tree. For one thing, she probably couldn’t afford it. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z "It can be bracing to see Picasso shuttle between triumph and kitsch in the space of a week." Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The definition of "cool kitsch", as street kid Jimmy triumphs against the odds and becomes a disco dancing champion. Top 10 Indian cinema soundtracks 2013-07-25T16:02:25Z Not far from there is a kitsch little brocante that turns into a fairy-lit bistro by night.You sit on secondhand furniture, maybe catch an impromptu guitar set. ‘Paris is where I learned, like Hemingway, to be poor and happy’ 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The stretch of Allen Street between 3rd and 6th Streets is blocked off to traffic, and it’s fun to walk around and observe the Wild West kitsch and street performers. Tucson Is a City That Encourages You to Explore 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z There’s so many artists that I hold in the highest regard that might be considered kitsch or just of their time, and I feel like they're so grossly underappreciated. Grammys 2015: Beck discusses his album of the year nod 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z As a feat of imagination, this network of stations and tracks is a marvel, but it could easily have overwhelmed the novel, recasting the pre-Civil War era with steampunk kitsch. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Goldman hopes her work will help people understand the cultural importance and context of the figurines without being "overwhelmed by a discussion of kitsch." Paula Goldman's menagerie of Hagen-Renaker collectibles 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The raw thrill of discovery hasn’t been tempered with kitsch, and there’s no rush to consume nature as if in a zoo. Explorer: Treading Lightly in the Simanjiro Plains of Tanzania 2011-05-20T18:55:00Z Commission of Fine Arts, which is charged with protecting the grace and dignity of public space in the nation’s capital from clutter and kitsch. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Right now, many designers are collectively referencing a Pop aesthetic, from vivid cubism to the giddy kitsch of the Memphis group. | In Living Color 2014-02-14T22:35:36Z Instead of pinball machines and ironic kitsch, Kopelman’s sanctum is outfitted with art, books, family photographs, and beloved keepsakes. Art Advisor Will Kopelman Devises A Sophisticated Home Office 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The décor seemed to throw takeout-counter kitsch and indie-rock cool together in a wok with a few extra fistfuls of Sichuan peppercorns. Danny Bowien Reopens Mission Chinese Food 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It was a history- making mix of culture and kitsch, science and schlock. This season is your last chance to see Joffrey Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ a 28-year tradition 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Over the following decades, against a backdrop of political turmoil, he hopscotched across the spectrum of available styles, from conservative-modernist to extravagant kitsch to preening avant-garde. Review | Lucio Fontana slashed his canvases with a knife. Was it a gimmick or something more? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z That was the penultimate number, and it led inexorably into the “Fiddler on the Roof” anthem, “Tradition,” offered up as the sincerest sort of kitsch, in a style approaching surf-rock. Music Review: ‘The Big Picture,’ Movie Music at the Museum of Jewish Heritage 2014-01-30T23:53:10Z Like kitsch, any suggestion that a movie is the one “we need” prohibits the reader from experiencing the movie on his or her own terms and demands it be filtered through the critic’s values. Why we need to stop saying 'this is the movie we need right now' 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Is a kitsch painted nameplate, bearing the name Donald and decorated with Confederate flags, real or imagined? The Colors of American Patriotism in the Age of Trump 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “The kitsch thing to say is ‘I’m afraid of clowns.’ It’s the worst time in history to be a clown. They just want you to love them again. 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z A nostalgic soundtrack, retro wardrobe, and one of the craziest wig collections TV has ever seen in action granted it a certain kitsch factor. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s a bit retro, so I was in-theme with the hotel: classic Palm Springs kitsch. What I Wore: Embracing the One-Piece, Beyond the Pool 2011-07-15T18:23:06Z Rolling Stone magazine also called you the master of “bombastic pop kitsch.” David Foster, the Godfather of Schmaltz 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z The décor is a long way from kitsch. Cactus gets a polished new look at its South Lake Union location 2013-02-07T23:26:17Z “It was truly a weekend of horrifying images. We saw Nazi flags and marchers carrying torches. Tiki torches, by the way, because nothing says white nationalist quite like faux-Polynesian kitsch.” John Oliver on Trump's Charlottesville response: 'There's no point waiting for leadership' 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z It puts the Beach Boys’ kitsch classic “Student Demonstration Time” on the soundtrack during a section on campus unrest, for instance. ‘Hesburgh’ Review: A Portrait of a Heroic and Scandal-Free Catholic Priest 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z If Mr. Whitten occasionally took a wrong step, it was with marble; his use of big, highly finished white marble blades in later works pushes some toward kitsch. Revealing a Secret Art Life: A Painter’s Sculptures 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z A work of borderline kitsch that was once one of the museum’s most popular paintings, it is now rarely displayed. Art Review: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA 2013-08-22T22:04:13Z But “End of the Rainbow” works as drama, not just ready-made kitsch, and it’s blessed with a leading lady who knows how to work a room. On the London Stage: It's Judy's World and Welcome to It 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z Part of Lowry is that he's not kitsch. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z That’s an apt emblem for the whole dance, which keeps artfully approaching edges, leaning toward but not quite touching camp, kitsch, overwhelming emotion, ecstasy. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z After the shoot, the girls filed into the church gift shop, which was stocked with religious kitsch. Tavi Gevinson: The Oracle of Girl World 2012-07-27T21:24:36Z Only one, "Neptune's Daughter," shades over into kitsch. Sculptor Everett DuPen: 2 regional exhibits with a lifelong view 2012-05-10T20:33:07Z The Guide tells Ariel that reading what people say about his music, they always make it sound ironic or kitsch, but on actually listening, it's surprising how heartfelt it is. Before Today you may have considered Ariel Pink quite kitsch 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z Swamped beneath a mountain of gift shop kitsch, it does Dürer no favors. Loss permeates Jim Hodges' art; prepare for heartbreak 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Some high-end manufacturers, trying to move away from what Mims describes as the “infomercial kitsch” of the egg-shaped devices, are starting to call the machines “air fryer ovens” and “air fryer toasters.” Will You Succumb to the Air Fryer this Holiday Season? 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z His mixture of flamboyant, gender-bending minimalism and stylised melodrama, inspired by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera and the music of German romanticism, often juxtaposed with popular song, blurred the distinction between art and kitsch. Werner Schroeter obituary 2010-04-22T17:34:00Z The 70s vibe is true to the era, but never ventures into kitsch or nostalgia. Fargo's all-star second season delivers a bravura study of America in the 1970s 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Isenberg examines the white rural outcasts who have been vilified and shunned and have inspired mockery, kitsch and unceasing grimaces in the nation’s cultural imagination. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The Duffers have found a novel formula that does that by balancing homage and kitsch to create something entirely new. Stories from the Set of Stranger Things, the TV Escape We Need Right Now 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Yet despite moments of outrageous excess, and even kitsch, enough of the piece comes over in Martin Lloyd-Evans's production to make it worthwhile, however many barriers of taste are crossed along the way. I Gioielli della Madonna – review 2013-07-25T10:00:00Z De Luca's maximalist sound flirts with bombast and kitsch, and it remains to be seen if he's got the balance right. Vito de Luca of nu-disco hitmakers Aeroplane on becoming a one-man band 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z Its force lies in its emphasis on the bleakness of vision of a work usually presented as kitsch. Aida - review 2011-03-13T14:55:38Z “But for those of us who were sitting at CBGB, he was just kind of a kitsch figure.” Perspective | Elvis Presley died 40 years ago, and he couldn’t have picked a worse time to do it 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z I love Mozart, and it’s charming to see the city where he spent the last decade of his life celebrating him with so much kitsch. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Whoever designed the new Hamburglar’s costume chose a super unsettling mix of kitsch, cartoon and mass-produced polyester hipster. McDonald’s new Hamburglar is a flame-broiled pile of hipster garbage 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It feels playful—close to, but not quite, kitsch. Playing Hoodoo: Renée Stout and “The Rootworker’s Table” 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Compact windows, built-in nooks, wood paneling and rope trim suggest nautical without a whiff of kitsch. Boisterous Ballard Annex serves seafood in classic style 2013-06-20T21:58:20Z Other residents followed suit and now the town is something like a Bavarian amusement park, a kitsch German-American response to Colonial Williamsburg. 361 Days of Christmas 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Correct me if I’m wrong, but do snow globes or bobbleheads even have a kitsch half-life? To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The Guardian’s Anna Jones shares his preference: “As time goes by, maybe I am softening to the kitsch of it all,” she wrote in a recent piece. Don’t Let Naysayers Ruin Dining Out on Valentine’s Day 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Tattoo artists loved to copy his work, while detractors dismissed it as so much morbid kitsch. H. R. Giger, Artist Who Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, Dies at 74 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The ultimate clue, though, is in Melamid's signature: kitsch, florid and running like a comedy punchline across the bottom of each work. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z “There’s no kitsch, nothing over the top,” said Nils Stolzlechner, general manager of the hotel. A Vintage Miami Beach Hotel Gets a Makeover 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Walt Disney, Salvador Dalí, Norman Rockwell and Andrew Wyeth all incurred suspicion for the taint of kitsch attached to their work. An Appraisal: LeRoy Neiman and the Serious Art World 2012-06-22T22:44:42Z Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images With its cult of destruction and self-sacrifice, national socialism might have been designed for adolescence; Nazi party members indulged Teutonic pagan myths and sub-Wagnerian kitsch. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z It flirts with kitsch, but also looks like an extremely beautiful child’s storybook, and its characters have the two-dimensional charm of fairy-tale figures. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The bar is a study in retro kitsch: crocheted blankets, tacky ceramic statues and an attic’s worth of tchotchkes soften the cement-walled space. A guide to Sydney’s flourishing small-bar scene 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The avant garde confronts kitsch, the old world confronts the new, the individual confronts the mass-produced, and the confrontational confronts the jocular, even as the visible is declaring its viewers invisible. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z This is misguided because, by modern definitions, some of the greatest works of art in the world are kitsch. Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z Although the Eurovision Song Contest might be derided as a campish monument to mediocrity and kitsch in some countries, it is for others an eagerly awaited celebration of Europe's diverse cultures and languages. Eurovision head says global contest a "challenge" 2011-05-16T10:48:35Z The sheer, silly kitsch meets pop culture meets couture combination works surprisingly well. Barbie and Balmain Want to Make Toys the Next Big Fashion Frontier 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The great art critic Robert Hughes once charged Chagall with manufacturing “cloying ethnic kitsch.” With joyless prose about joyless people, Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Here I Am' is kitsch at best 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It was one of those places nobody really went anymore — most of us ordered in, or stopped in occasionally for the kitsch factor. T Magazine: Gordon Ramsay Plays Chicken 2011-08-16T14:00:47Z My personal pleasure required the most physical practical sequencing: fulminant jazz, call it—without, incidentally, the kitsch of musical accompaniment. The Pyro-American in Me 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Arguably, this interactive monument to American diversions, or this arcade revival — whatever you want to call it — by any name does not amount to more than kitsch. A pinball museum? There has to be a twist. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Music goes from techno to 60s French pop, but you can't miss Bordello nights, with kitsch Italian songs and drag shows. Italian music now: from Turin to Sicily 2012-07-10T15:48:29Z “Jane the Virgin” is an inspired swirl of Latin music, romance and telenovela kitsch that takes its ethnic identity as a given. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Ends a Strong First Season 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The program looks cheesy, but under the kitsch, there’s rot. ‘Watch List’ Review: A Mother Is Forced to Fight in Duterte’s Drug War 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Ultrasweet kiddie-type cuteness is constantly invoked — there are giant toys, a carriage horse played by two dancers, and cupcake children — but so much careful affection is evident that kitsch is both triumphant and transcended. Review: Ratmansky’s Confectionery Shop Also Serves Ballet Poetry 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z There was lots of creamy lace and point d’esprit, soft pleating and an absolute minimum of bows and couture kitsch. On the Runway: Paris Couture: Valentino 2011-01-27T00:00:06Z It’s kitsch, camp, weird — so outlandishly so that it stays entertaining. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z There’s a kitsch element or value to it. Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters horror movie ‘Studio 666,’ emotional weight of Seattle returns 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The book resides in the popular imagination as kitsch, as if it were a series of aroused and arousing Pilates poses for two. Books of The Times: The Kama Sutra, Newly Translated 2012-01-31T17:03:33Z Linda Stark’s New Age-y painting of Stonehenge with a talismanic bauble sculptured in 3-D dangling next to a full moon in a luminous pink sky nicely combines kitsch and real mysticism. Art In Review: ‘VIVA LA RASPBERRIES’ 2012-08-02T20:31:29Z But for collectors, it’s a trove of kitsch, weirdness and the odd deep-album-cut revelation. Box sets 2011, from Beach Boys to U2 2011-12-06T05:45:00Z “To be sentimental is to be kitsch, phony, exaggerated, manipulative, self-indulgent, hypocritical, cheap and clichéd. It is the art of religious dupes, conservative apologists and corporate stooges.” People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z Entries in the cathedral’s visitor’s book suggest public discontent at his approach, calling it “arrogant” and “kitsch.” A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z There is an element of mock kitsch in these objects, but mainly they are a delight for the eyes. Art in Review: JUSTEN LADDA: ?7 Mirrors and a Nose? 2010-12-16T23:42:02Z With total sincerity, he says that he hopes to create the “kitsch of the future.” 10 pivotal moments for digital art in 2012 2012-12-31T14:00:00Z Also a good idea is to cook the cherries on the stove with sugar and a bit of almond extract or kitsch to extract excess moisture before filling the crust so it isn't too soggy. Another ‘Twin Peaks’ Puzzle: How to Make That Cherry Pie 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Disco has become, like punk, a series of codified practices the general public struggle to accept as anything beyond, at best, camp nostalgia and, at worst, kitsch karaoke. New band of the day – No 1,285: The KDMs 2012-06-11T15:37:56Z Unlike Elena’s mother, young Russians see the anniversary as largely irrelevant, to be remembered only with a kind of kitsch nostalgia, if at all. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Memphis’s kitsch, colorful furniture was a populist representation of the postmodernist theories that had dominated avant-garde discourse in architecture and design for over a decade. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z Declining in general to gin up kitsch references to cowboys or rockers or Mods or American Indians, they relied on tried and true design. Fashion Review: Milan Men’s Wear for Spring 2013 2012-06-27T21:26:14Z “When you go to designers’ houses, you see a lot of kitsch,” he said. Possessed: One Designer?s Love: Vintage Trailers 2011-02-25T17:39:51Z In his film, he goes behind the kitsch, contrasting clips from Hollywood movies and interviews with family members, activists and newcomers to the island. In ‘Cane Fire,’ When an Image of Paradise Creates Loss 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Mila Turajilic's film recalls a time and place – Yugoslavia under Tito – in which cinemas specialised in a kitsch exaggeration of the proletarian paradise that the regime insisted it was building. TV highlights 04/03/2013 2013-03-04T07:00:00Z But even if your pride is as big as the Adirondack Mountains, you don’t need to exult with kitsch like this. Andrew Cuomo Ascends to the Mountaintop With His Pandemic Poster 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The buildings were originally a dormitory-style holiday camp for Russians, but the only remnant of that considerably less luxurious era is a towering copper sculpture of Josef Stalin — retained, presumably, for its kitsch value. Splendor on the Steppe 2010-04-14T12:55:00Z Deluxe reissues are decadent, they teeter into kitsch, but if one of my favourite records got this monumental treatment, I'd be thrilled. Be grateful to the Grateful Dead 2011-01-27T21:30:01Z “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” was redeemed from kitsch as Mr. Reid quietly confronted a partner with curt, tense accusations of indifference. Music Review: Sensitive Revelations, Free of Anguish 2011-02-11T22:31:59Z "A mixture of local good taste and the most appalling kitsch," was the verdict of the newspaper Liberation at the museum's launch. Chirac's collection of kitsch gifts wrecks region's economy 2010-12-31T16:21:24Z Fallaci spent almost a decade on “Inshallah,” a giant novel about the war in Lebanon, which exposed her weakness for melodrama and metaphysical kitsch. A new biography gets Oriana Fallaci the way people who knew her couldn't 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z In other words, it beggars belief how an object designed six decades ago doesn't look – or, more importantly, sound – kitsch or outdated. Sixty years of the Fender Telecaster 2010-07-04T19:59:00Z Hernando’s life, then, was one packed with wonders, some discovered in the New World with his father, others because of the new technology of the printing press and a few quite charmingly kitsch. Review | The story of Christopher Columbus’s son, the ultimate completist 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But an impressive jump was made that same evening by a picture that qualifies as kitsch with only the faintest whiff of Modernism. Auctions: In an Uneven Night, a Lesson for Art Investors 2011-02-10T14:23:15Z On a T-shirt it would be kitsch, but inscribed into rosewood furniture in a gallery it has a certain subversive weight. Is it design, or is it ... art? 2010-05-04T14:49:00Z Art aims for truth, while kitsch is the cheery aesthetic embodiment of a lie. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z But he also has a taste for kitsch — he collects plastic women’s handbags and has a triptych of 3-D dog posters, purchased for $1 each at a flea market, hanging above his desk. Robert Gottlieb: Avid Reader, Reluctant Writer 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Her beloved cat Snacks is on the cover of her forthcoming debut, Crazy For You, swimming off a scrappily collaged beach which, aptly, is as kitsch and naïve as her simple surf rock. Klaxons, Best Coast and Wavves are all cool for cats 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z The poodles are funny, but they are also faintly terrifying – and as far from kitsch as it is possible for a plaster poodle to be. Katharina Fritsch on her Fourth Plinth cockerel sculpture: 'I didn't want to make fun – but I was invited' 2013-07-24T18:29:00Z To be a mohican-wearing punk in London is to be a kitsch throwback – but in Indonesia or Burma, it can put you on the receiving end of heinous treatment from the authorities. From Pussy Riot, a lesson in the power of punk 2012-08-19T18:30:00Z An island standout etched into the fabric of a Dalmatian fishing village, this ancient compound blends heritage with luxury but with a slight bend toward kitsch. On Croatia’s Coast, Stunning Pools and a Mediterranean Mood 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z The world of the movie is all kitsch and gimmick, a non-stop gag of yah-you-betcha Midwest provincialism interrupted by violent flares of criminal disorder. “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” Which Is Finally Streaming, Is Possibly My Favorite Movie of All Time 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z I think it’s gaudy, labor-intensive kitsch, but it was considered the Modern’s most popular painting. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z At a table in the back, I asked him about his involvement with kitsch. The Artist Sam McKinniss on Capturing Lorde in the Twilight 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Whether from cold winters or disheartening politics, the idea of escape is the key to tiki drinks’ transition from kitsch to camp. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z In the self-proclaimed European song championships, flag-draped fans and outrageous outfits are par for the course and contestants mix glitz and kitsch, ballads, rock 'n' roll and disco to lure the highest number of votes. German teenager wins Eurovision contest 2010-05-30T00:52:00Z But there are splashes of almost every look from industrial to Regency glam to chinoiserie to hunt country kitsch. Rediscovering Richmond: Where to shop for modern design and vintage finds 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z He's serious about this, which helps raise the music from the area of kitsch – which would make it trash – towards the more rarefied realm of camp. New band of the day ? No 971: Hunx and His Punx 2011-02-18T17:13:29Z The interior now mixes the traditional with the whimsical, with a hip Dutch nod to kitsch. Check In, Check Out: Hotel de l?Europe in Amsterdam ? Hotel Review 2011-12-01T20:24:38Z “About all that’s missing from the self-consciously kitsch retread of ‘Clash of the Titans’ is Laurence Olivier pitching a fit in a toga,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in April. DVDs: Olive Films Releases ?Deep Library? Films on DVD 2010-07-23T20:38:00Z They sit, wide-eyed, at the intersection of consumerist kitsch and a surprisingly earnest engagement with current events and history, to say nothing of the meticulous craftsmanship required for their construction. Peeps Dioramas and Their Surprisingly Long Prehistory 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Hermann Broch maintained that someone who chooses to make kitsch is “ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil.” Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z Such pluck in the face of adversity verges on kitsch; for a moment a wave of syrupy sentimentality seems to be building up in the wings. Tyson's inviting 'Trip to Bountiful' at the Ahmanson Theatre 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Kinkade’s paintings are irredeemably false, like all kitsch, but through them you can just barely glimpse the honest desires they seek to exploit, sinking under the dreck. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z A large assemblage of reflective pink shapes is a vortex of kitsch, as mesmerizing as it is gaudy. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z But most would agree that we learn from seeing all of a great artist's output, kitsch and all. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z It's got kitsch, international intrigue and an array of eclectic musical performances from Belgium to Armenia. The director of the TV alliance that produces the Eurovision Song Contest says the show's message of unity is particularly significant at a time when Europe is seeing its internal borders returning 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The king of kitsch, the Hawaiian shirt, got a classy upgrade, paired with featherweight chiffon in eye-popping orange, yellow and purple. Lanvin gets world-weary fashion crowd worked up 2010-10-01T21:00:00Z I just recently started an obsession with collecting kitsch albums. For Questlove, ‘Soul Train’ Is His Happy Place 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Widmann, who holds the Debs Composer’s Chair this season at Carnegie Hall, summons a huge complement of musicians, many playing multiple instruments, for a storm of loud and soft, beauty and kitsch. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Strauss Humblebrag 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z In other places, farther from the battlefields, it might look decidedly kitsch. How to Remember a War Without Glory? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z They watch for a number of reasons — fashion, celebrity, pop culture kitsch — but primarily because they love movies. Perspective | Without editing and cinematography, there’s no movies. So how can you have an Oscars telecast without them? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z He saw symbolic realism while the more polite critics saw colourful kitsch. Chinese gold 2013-03-20T18:07:48Z Still, these artworks shaped our understanding of prehistory to a degree that has proved irrevocable, thus transforming the dinosaur from an elite curiosity to popular kitsch. Creating a Lost World, From the Fossils Out 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z These days, the hill is equal parts charm and kitsch — still vaguely small-town rustic but mobbed with tourists and pickpockets on sunny weekends. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Many are kitsch, but some are wholesome, appropriate and well handled. Much of a Dutchness: the Hotel Inntel Zaandam 2010-03-31T20:30:00Z Once again without fail, it produced a mix of bubble-gum pop songs, somber ballads, bagpipes, accordions and bizarrely kitsch musical productions. Denmark’s de Forest Wins Eurovision Song Contest 2013-05-19T00:48:42Z He fights against a past that haunts him and fights some more against a city that’s indifferent to his cowboy kitsch and absolutely pitiless in spotting a rube in its midst. Midnight Cowboy at 50: why the X-rated best picture winner endures 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z As I wrote at the time, those statues weren’t great art — they were propagandistic kitsch. Perspective | HBO Max isn’t censoring ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s reframing it. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z At this point, however, her persistent, fluorescent brand of kitsch can surely be seen from space. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z There's plenty of reason that empty-headed kitsch fits neatly in the authoritarian worldview. Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z With midrange adult dramas increasingly being concerned with personal portraiture and psycho-emotional catharses, sharp, thematically pertinent movies are in danger of being relegated to metaphorical kitsch, however smart and well executed. Perspective | ‘Get Out’ shows how genre can address serious issues. Why can’t serious drama? 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z He wrote that music should not be banned — that is, “unless it is a clear case either of rubbish or kitsch or of anti-state cultural Bolshevism.” A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z There’s no visitors center here, no hotels, no waterfront kitsch shops. Off the grid: Exploring the San Juans’ most remote islands 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The heterosexuals of showbusiness loved excess and kitsch and bad taste, too. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-06T14:29:02Z Wonder Woman became as kitsch and comforting a memory as that of eating marshmallows with my sister in front of the TV on a Saturday. My possible superhero 2011-03-28T20:30:01Z During Heidegger’s Nazi-extolling inaugural address in Freiburg, yellow stars of David rain down on the audience, and the Adolf Eichmann trial scene is a piece of kitsch worthy of Ken Russell. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Into a Song’s Mysterious Heart Listening to Amanda McBroom perform her song “The Rose” at the Café Carlyle on Wednesday evening, I pondered the notion that one person’s art is another person’s kitsch. Music Review: Amanda McBroom at the Café Carlyle 2013-02-04T23:19:36Z Objets de Ruth are now part of the temple of highbrow kitsch, along with Freud bobblehead dolls and Shakespeare rubber ducks. Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z But kitsch here strains at the limits of resemblance: Is this the Dr. King of the “I Have a Dream” speech? Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z Elsewhere, art ranges from kitsch Victorian paintings of kittens to 1960s ceramics. Lille wonder: a whistle-stop tour of a Franco-Belgian jewel 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z But it also includes a few patches of rock/pop music that in context sound trite — mere kitsch. Review: Liz Gerring’s ‘Horizon,’ Exuberantly Athletic, Has Its Premiere 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z The reception at this intriguing stopover on Highway 101 to LA is pure kitsch, and dark glasses are suggested for the bar, as you perch on shocking pink sofas in a shocking pink room. Kitsch American motels: readers’ tips 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s degrading kitsch remade into fiery cultural armament. How the black radical female artists of the '60s and '70s made art that speaks to today's politics 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z But neither is it sufficiently spectacular in its tackiness and tawdriness to be considered kitsch. New band of the day ? No 960: Parade 2011-02-03T17:26:24Z Credit “Amélie,” the musical, with this: it goes out of its way not to traffic in Parisian kitsch. “Amélie” Arrives on Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In Gerster’s view, Berlin’s unresolved past taints its bustling charm and glossy serenity, as well as every familiar course of practical action—yet his movie veers toward the historical kitsch that he satirizes. Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z With the painting, which elevates pop culture kitsch to high art, “Warhol is literally poking fun at the very concept of Abstract Expressionism, which is about free will,” Mr. Shiner said. Warhol Museum Is Adding Long-Sought ‘Do It Yourself (Sailboats)’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Somehow, Perry's vapid kitsch pop seemed wiser, funnier and more knowingly calibrated than before. , then, arrives as something of a rude shock after what might, in retrospect, have been a wilful suspension of disbelief. Katy Perry: Teenage Dream 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z But there is a particular style of object and image today that is self-conscious about kitsch and pop in a way that I believe is genuinely indebted to Koons. That Jeff Koons twist goes beyond balloon dogs 2011-01-13T12:01:06Z He describes the Loyal, his latest restaurant, as an American brasserie, but without the vintage kitsch. Bond 45 Reopens in a New Theater District Location 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z She is one of the few public figures with seemingly bipartisan appeal, celebrated by some as a working-class Southern hero and venerated by others for her support for L.G.B.T.Q. rights and unapologetic kitsch. Dolly Parton and James Patterson Are Working 9 to 5 on a Novel 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Until the 1970s, Victorian art in general was regarded by sophisticates as stale, morally stultifying, formulaic kitsch. Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The “masterpiece,” in this case, is by king of kitsch Thomas Kinkade. Trimpin’s high-tech whimsy takes over Seattle’s Winston Wächter 2013-01-24T23:04:28Z For more than 40 years, she's acquired debasing kitsch objects at flea markets and garage sales, and then transformed them. For Betye Saar, there's no dwelling on the past; the almost-90-year-old artist has too much future to think about 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z He was drawn to what the writer Greil Marcus called “The Old, Weird America,” to a vernacular culture untainted by the fancy taste of high society or the predilection for kitsch of masses. Art Review: Walker Evans’s ‘American Photographs,’ at MoMA 2013-07-18T20:50:03Z But no trip to the beach is without kitsch. The runner's view of Los Angeles: Its landscape, its people, and the BBQ at mile 10 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z These watering holes have unique flavors of kitsch and camp, as do the singers who grace their karaoke stages. The 8 types of karaoke singers you’ll hear in Seattle 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z I’m very attracted to kitsch and campy things. Sustainability is the standard, not a niche thing for Leeann Huang 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z At the store, where he instituted a dress code - even for customers - which he enforced in person, he installed a kitsch bronze memorial statue of Diana and Dodi dancing beneath the wings of an albatross. Mohamed Al-Fayed, Harrods owner whose son dated Princess Diana, dead at 94 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Such a version might have flirted with kitsch, but it might well have satisfied the representational completists in the audience. ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasure 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z He embraces the classic, even the kitsch, symbols of traditional Spanish culture. Spain’s election Sunday pits 2 leftist vs. 2 rightist parties. Here’s a look at the leaders 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z I try to avoid objects made in the waning years of a period that are simply “knockoffs” of originals or at the point of being kitsch. The thrill of building a collection — and discovering more to add to it 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z This approach may reek of kitsch, but Mr. Fouser is flexible on authenticity. A new approach to saving the old homes of Seoul 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z But beneath the Communist kitsch lies a real affinity with Russia among the region’s 300,000 or so people, which up to now has been to their advantage. Far from Russia, a pro-Moscow sliver of land tries to cling to its identity — and keep war at bay 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z And kitsch doesn’t work for Charles quite as well as it did for the older Elizabeth and her corgis. King Charles coronation souvenirs: The most popular, elaborate, awkward 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Frank Rich of the New York Times characterized it as “a victory of dynamic stagecraft over musical kitsch.” The Christines take their final bow He soon became intoxicated by the contest's exotic cocktail of cross-cultural pop and kitsch glamour. Eurovision hits meet Liverpool humour in Jonathan Harvey's A Thong For Europe 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z On TV, we had the White Heather Club - women in white frocks and tartan sashes dancing impossibly complicated reels and strathspeys; men in kilts playing accordions and singing kitsch songs about exile and nostalgia. Allan Little: The story of Scottish independence - what next? 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Mussolini kitsch has long been for sale in Italian shops, and the removal of his portrait from a government ministry resulted — predictably! — in the Italian right wing declaring Mussolini a victim of cancel culture. No, dictatorships are not more "efficient": See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Boston is filled with bronze monuments, and they are often overblown, ugly and kitsch. Perspective | I wanted to love the new Boston MLK statue. But it’s just awkward. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Wallace has an eye for Americana: the kitsch, the disorder, the atomization. A survey of McNally Editions, the boutique publisher of out-of-print gems 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z It replaces culture with nationalist and patriotic kitsch. America's theater of the absurd: Our politics has become an endless carnival 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z If you couldn’t tell from the Heileman’s Old Style beer sign hanging out front, Ivy and Coney is a no-frills neighborhood bar that revels in Midwestern kitsch. How to spend a secular Christmas in D.C. The boogie-woogie backup vocals and quirky syncopation from the lyrics give the whole thing a lovable kiss of kitsch. Not-so-silent nights: Your guide to having a merry Christmas karaoke party 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Artists are reviled or ignored, unless they produce wartime kitsch. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The decorations are a combination of unabashed kitsch and schmaltz, do-it-yourself ingenuity and captivating fantasy, along with multiple iterations of first pets Commander and Willow. Perspective | ‘We the People’ need some holiday cheer, and the White House has it 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z The mix of witch-burning artifacts and kitsch fudge stands is a Burton playground. Netflix's 'Wednesday' is the 'Addams Family' spinoff we deserve 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Do you want to explore the complex rum drinks and the nostalgic, sometimes problematic kitsch of tiki? You don’t need fancy cocktail glasses to make great drinks 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z As a grad student, when I wanted to use bright colors, it was thought of as “not serious” or kitsch. L.A. painter Carolyn Castaño turns the humble poncho into a portal to lush worlds 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z There’s a certain kitsch quotient for some collectors, but he thinks more people who collect royal souvenirs are drawn to the fairy tale connotations of princesses and princes, of queens and kings. Perspective | The queen may have died but the collectibles she inspired live on 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z It is now the epitome of kitsch and rich, with its midcentury architecture, pastel pink at every corner and a lively nightlife. In the California Desert, L.G.B.T.Q. Voters Could Sway a Key House Race 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Part of Seattle’s character is its quirkiness, and Oberto embraced the kitsch. With the passing of Art Oberto, Seattle’s quirky character fades some more 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z |
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