| 单词 | artifice |
| 例句 | The invigorating newness of Mussorgsky, whose art, thought Debussy, was 'free from artifice and arid formulae’, was but one of the extraordinarily fruitful imports to the Exposition Universelle. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Denying the validity of the nature/artifice distinction was a key move which made the Scientific Revolution possible: see above, pp. 332-4. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One day I noticed there was no more skin to absently peel, just air where there’d been artifice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This lack of artifice owes as much to the rousing arrangement of songs, which blend seamlessly together, as it does to Echevarri’s poignant narrative. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The artifice required to shape a major work of history or philosophy was not in him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This time, along with many other artifices, they brought a flying carpet. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I've watched his death daily, as the Women's Orchestra provides an artifice of calm and succor to the passengers being unloaded and sorted. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Rowan couldn’t be sure if the man believed it, or if it was all artifice. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Upset by the news, José Arcadio Buendía stood motionless, trying to rise above his affliction, until the group dispersed, called away by other artifices, and the puddle of the taciturn Armenian evaporated completely. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As long as no one succumbed to its artifice and unsickled it with a cigar. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In a case like this the experimental method requires you to move smoothly back and forth between nature and artifice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A postmodern touch in our domestic cinema, pointing up artifice, calling attention to mechanics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Some of the most insidious tricks employed tonight will involve artifice and illusion. Without the milk you could be even more susceptible. It would only broaden their ability to mask their true appearance.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Haydn's aim was the manufacturing of beauty and elegance in the material world; he was conscious that what he was doing was artifice, not a divine intervention. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He increased the volume and they sang along; there was an exuberance to the song, its rhythmic joyfulness, so free of artifice, that filled the air with lightness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My eyes burn, and it’s not artifice, unlike the wincing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z And Ms. Solomon’s beloved “P and D” led her to the savvy artifice of Virgil Marti, whose 1999 show was one of the last at her gallery. Art Review: ‘Hooray for Hollywood!’ Recalls Holly Solomon’s Eye for Art 2014-01-16T22:48:08Z Their exposure in 1989 was validation for many music critics and social commentators who feared that American culture was moving into the age of artifice. The spontaneous magic of Gov't Mule in concert: "We feel more comfortable on stage than anywhere" 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z He riffs on shifting semantic variations, on the relation between art and artifice, illusion and elision, energy and entropy. Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z Is it the artifice and what, for want of a better word, we must call irony that they appreciate, or the good teeth and fine hair? Rewind TV: The Fall; The Murder Workers; Skint; Made in Chelsea – review 2013-05-18T17:00:05Z Or at least some acknowledgment of the artifice. Cultural Studies: For Only the Authentic ? Cultural Studies 2011-09-09T21:41:28Z With no artifice at my disposal, basic grooming suddenly takes on a preposterous weight. Barefaced trick: lose the lipstick, grab the spotlight 2012-07-13T22:01:21Z But the selection process he subjects his memories to in order to fulfill the narrative demands of his writing rises to a level of considerable artifice. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, even many independent films depend on more than emotional and practical connection to the actors’ and filmmakers’ lives—they also involve cinematic artifice, whether conspicuous or camouflaged. A Few Thoughts About British Actors Playing American (and African-American) Roles 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Still, a hint of artifice keeps this performance from being wholly persuasive, and Walpole’s variable Mid-Atlantic accent doesn’t help, given the Southern setting. Review | ‘Member of the Wedding’ is Southern Gothic looking for flavor 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z But watch his old shows now, and their flamboyant physicality and overt artifice stand out. Andrew Dice Clay Returns, With at Least Two Personalities Showing 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Robert Longo also plays with artifice and reality but with a less sociological goal. Friesen Gallery's 'Speak for the Trees' plants some good ideas 2010-04-08T23:18:00Z “Satire’s role is to tell the truth,” Vuillard said, “or at least get close to it and show the artifice behind which power hides.” Coloring History’s Gray Areas, With Strong Moral Outrage 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Shades of Beckett, Miró and Dubuffet drift about in the ether; harsh reality and elegant artifice keep each other at bay. The Lower East Side as Petri Dish 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z And Gamble transforms a terrifying first season story about the false lure of the romantic hero into a different danger, this time informed by the city's reputation for artifice and social masking. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The collection intersperses flash-length stories that can feel a little thin compared with the longer ones that allow readers to watch with rapt attention as each protagonist spirals out of his or her artifice. Two Lies and a Truth: Story Collections Exploring the Spectrum of Human Honesty 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Weirdly, this extreme artifice seems geared to make the light look real. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Of course the middle-European "locations" are all the Shepherd's Bush studios in London, but such high artifice has its charms too. DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't 2010-07-24T15:01:00Z We appreciate wines of every caliber that are not made with a sense of inflated importance, and that allow terroirs to speak for themselves with a minimum of artifice. The Profound Modesty of Good Dolcetto 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Yet it's hard to pinpoint how the artifice is operating within the scene, which depicts the perfectly ordinary sight of a boy tossing a rubber ball into a garden. 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age 2011-08-10T20:11:06Z If you’re looking for a concert experience totally without artifice, the Peoples’ Symphony Concerts at the Washington Irving High School auditorium in Manhattan fit the bill. Peter Serkin’s Peoples’ Symphony Concert 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Are you witnessing the blossoming of authenticity or the triumph of artifice? Movie Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ Directed by Benh Zeitlin 2012-06-26T20:56:35Z This is the reason people turn in to the bonus rounds of reality shows, after all — we want to see some semblance of true behavior cracking through the polished artifice. Even Andy Cohen needed a shower: Watch what happens when Donald Trump turns a presidential debate into a reality TV nightmare 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z We are in a world of artifice and illusion, confected from old-fashioned production-design virtuosity and newfangled digital hocus-pocus. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z Now empty rooms and small isolated objects like shells, playing jacks, eggs and a wood box cloak alienation in a sense of control and artifice. This Surrealist Is Having a Moment, 66 Years After Her Last New York Show 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But Charlie Brown opted, instead, for the scrappiest of green trees, throwing shade to artifice and commercialism and embracing authenticity and the true spirit of Christmas. The silver Christmas tree, an icon of Space Age kitsch, turns 60 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Lauren Oyler’s first novel, “Fake Accounts,” is about many things: artifice, authenticity, being an American abroad, being an American at home. Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Frayed-looking performance film alternates with cuddly home movies and the director’s theatrical interventions, but the couple’s willingness to bare flesh only heightens the overall feeling of artifice. Movie Review: ?The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye,? by Marie Losier 2012-03-08T18:59:15Z Drag lives to be weird, to mock conformity, and pokes hole in the artifice of normativity, exposing the notion of fixed identity and gender as an inherently flawed premise. ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Highlights the Struggle for Acceptance 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z A gift for artifice emerged early as he learned to emulate his upper-crust schoolmates and a social class to which he did not belong. ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Thinker, Player, Searcher, Spy 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z In a way, a gun onstage is not unlike a dog: It rips the fabric of theatrical artifice, replacing it with its own kind of drama. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z “I don’t practice painting or drawing as an art, in the sense of artifice, of making an imitation of something. It’s something I do from an inner compulsion, that has to come out.” Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93 2014-04-17T03:18:03Z Ireland is so naturalistic an actress that she can't always pull off the artifice in the dialogue, as when calling Charlie "Husband dear" or "Handsome." Review: Fame cuts both ways in 'The Big Knife' 2013-04-17T03:16:04Z Instead, Majoli has liberated himself to embrace the artifice in his productions, seeking authenticity in inviting both his subjects and his audience to concede that “they are playing a role, without me telling them.” Alex Majoli’s “SKĒNĒ”: The World as a Photojournalist’s Stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Just because something looks simple does not mean it is; the aesthetics of simplicity cloak artifice, or even unsustainable excess. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z His earlier pictures were almost-traditional landscapes, but framed in a way that proclaimed their artifice. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z This intimacy is created not by stripping away artifice, but by adding more layers, creating a state of communion between the two art forms. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s a wonderful painting, and yet its element of artifice is pronounced. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z This novel was written from that profound space in a writer’s heart from which art flows without artifice. Perspective | R.J. Palacio: We met in Queens, as kids. Decades later, we reunited, as authors. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z One actor in multiple roles only draws attention to the artifice. Shattered ? a stonking showcase for its mesmerising hero 2010-10-18T23:05:00Z The challenge was to spin the basic tale into an artifice that displayed enough verve, charm and elegance to impress a coterie of connoisseurs. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Yet for all the appeal of this approach, that factory worker and the university professor become players, as much bound up in artifice as Cary Grant or Spencer Tracy. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z "The whole world is so full of artifice that I think people just want to see something natural and real." Gaptoothed women are in vogue 2010-10-18T18:57:00Z Kirsch also objects to the artifice engaged in by most of the characters in “The Flamethrowers,” who do indeed spin a lot of yarns and do a lot of bits. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z In fact, most are painted from small sculptures and models made by the artist, although painting them adds a transformative artifice. Sascha Braunig 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Henson brings strength, radiance, precision, and presence to the gags and playful situations and to the drama, however mild it is; she lends the movie’s artifices a surprising illusion of substance. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Powell and Pressburger keep up their layers of artifice right to the end. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann,’ Newly Restored, Opens at Film Forum 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z “There’s so much artifice and false narrative in the marketplace,” said Mr. King, whose wardrobe consists predominantly of garments thoughtfully selected on two annual visits to Mr. Kinori’s shop. Want to Make It Big in Fashion? Think Small 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z In an era of studio artifice, Mr. Adams sounds natural and all the more moving for it. Music of Heartache, Mortality and Success 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z The cultural chestnuts evoked include “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” “Nosferatu,” early Frankenstein films and the brittle, hectic artifice of silent films in general. Art in Review: JOHN BOCK: ?In the Shadow of the Maggot? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z Beyond this, artifice rules, with more or less interest. Art in Review: ?BEAUTIFUL VAGABONDS?: ?Birds in Contemporary Photography, Video and Sound? 2011-08-11T21:15:27Z It starts feel like a heavy artifice, as in "Harry Potter" where computers just don't operate on Hogwarts grounds: a convenient magic. Sects, lies and videotape: "Archive 81" and the mystique of the semipermanent artifact 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z What's happening is concealment and misdirection, as Teller demonstrates with a neat routine involving a vanishing cigarette, which he first performs, then flips around to reveal its artifice to the crowd. Penn and Teller 2010-07-16T21:15:00Z Joking aside, it’s kind of wonderful to be liberated to play through moments and have that connect even to other moments and other scenes without all this artifice of the fragmentation and the repetition. For these guys, it's about finding that rhythm 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It proves that the painting’s overheated artifice is more naturalistic than first surmised. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z In depicting grave subjects with comic artifice, Lee makes “Chi-Raq” this year’s “The Wolf of Wall Street”—a work of such freedom and fury that it runs the risk of moralizing misinterpretation. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Metcalf prefers to work the same way, not letting artifice — “a shell” she calls it — distract from the work. Laurie Metcalf has been acting for four decades. She’s finally on the verge of stardom. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z In their parodic stylishness, Ms. Sherman’s pictures highlighted artifice, disguise and gender stereotypes, and they cast doubt on photography’s putative truth-telling capabilities. Bleak Reality in Nan Goldin’s ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The Sunshine State of leisure and artifice, of Disney World and Miami Beach, is nowhere to be found. Florida’s Shadow Country 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z In a tradition that takes the artifice concept to the extreme, mannequins appear in most of the pair’s works. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z I didn't find it in the least sad; I just enjoyed the artifice and luxurious Englishness of it all. Oscars 2011: The Academy and the elderly genuflect to The King's Speech 2011-02-28T09:20:46Z The variety, artifice and playfulness are by design, guided by the overall strategy of Leslie Koch, the 48-year-old president of the Trust for Governors Island. Governors Island as Playground for the Arts 2010-08-13T00:29:00Z In 1970 the play’s overt self-consciousness presumably felt more daring and novel than it does today, when art that advertises its own artifice has become commonplace even on television. | 'Lemon Sky': ?Lemon Sky? by Lanford Wilson at Clurman Theater - Review 2011-09-28T02:30:33Z But rather than inviting her readers to suspend disbelief, as children do, Luiselli instead encourages us to see the artifice as artifice, even to be wary of it. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z He and Fassbinder were both masters of style and artifice, intellectual filmmakers unafraid to embrace popular forms. Ready for Drama (and Meta-Drama)? Start With These Two Masters. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z “UnReal” functions in the same way as much “Bachelor” criticism and analysis does, stripping apart the show’s artifice while still not dismissing the power of its illusion. “UnREAL” nails reality TV: 5 reasons why this behind-the-scenes drama is a “Bachelor” hate-watcher’s dream 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Spalding's rejection of artifice reflects her jazz background, but the social engagement of her lyrics sets her apart from the too-often-rarefied world of her jazz brothers and sisters. Esperanza Spalding plays Paramount Theatre Tuesday 2012-04-23T21:42:04Z Between fantasy and reality, certainly, but also between authenticity and artifice, theater and therapy, art and life. Review: In ‘Madeline’s Madeline,’ Hazy Boundaries Between Life and Art 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But figures and background are united in an intensity of paint-handling, achieving a kind of blazing artifice and an irony that seems implicitly modern. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Any “Giselle” must contain a strong element of public presentation, of deliberate artifice, but I have never seen this approach taken so far. Dance Review: Paris Ballet Opera’s ‘Giselle’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-15T21:45:22Z Even if this was all artifice, she made that sadness felt. Dance Review: Kapila Venu in ‘The Abandonment of Sita’ at Asia Society 2012-09-10T03:34:44Z The opening minutes of the film are a long paean to the artifice and artfulness of Christian Bale’s comb-over. The Carpetbagger: A Missing Comb-Over, a Miffed Actor and Other Surprises 2014-01-17T13:30:14Z "Theatre Is Evil" echoes the Beatles' muscular, crackling artifice, studio-based layering and epic grandeur. Amanda Palmer and Grand Theft Orchestra play Neptune Theatre 2012-09-27T20:24:14Z The understated, elegant Teuscher, with a distinguished Romeo in Aran Bell, has found a way to fold her acting into the precision of her dancing so delicately that artifice dissolves. American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z For Phillips, this is the point entirely, the moment artifice reveals itself as art. Carl Phillips' 'The Art of Daring' celebrates literature as risk 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Yet onstage, amid all the artifice of costumes, wigs and dance steps, Lady Gaga keeps one important thing natural: she doesn’t lip-sync. Music: Even Offstage, Lady Gaga?s Ready for the Stage 2011-05-18T13:02:40Z Both productions operate on the premise of “It’s only a play,” which means calling attention to the artifice with which these stories are told. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Pretending that the treatments were working and she was going to come through this injected an artifice in our relationship at odds with the confidences we'd shared for 25 years. Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z He films the characters in action and doesn’t call attention to the artifices of the process. The Misunderstood Maurice Pialat 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The focus was a very English rose — except it was worked in clear or woven plastic, facing off nature and artifice in a smart, modern way. Prints That Tell a Story 2012-09-16T18:24:24Z There’s artifice to the drama of it, obviously, but you just want to hug everybody. B.A. Parker Can’t Get Enough of K-Dramas 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The cautionary example of what not to do is Niagara Falls, which, as Henry James kvetched, had become “choked in the horribly vulgar shops and booths and catchpenny artifices.” Review | How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The artifice is not so subtle in “Twisted Melodies”: Roston’s Hathaway hears us react, looks startled, then figures we are his muses, or “angels.” Review | Solo actors capture dark and light in ‘Twisted Melodies’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z What little artifice lurks in the song, which provides this album with its title, manages not to dampen its openhearted sentiment. New Releases From the Decemberists, Hanni El Khatib and Duane Eubanks 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z As inhuman as the bots are, their greatest promise may lie in their ability to cut through the artifice of political Twitter to reveal something real. On Twitter, a Battle Among Political Bots 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The other missing ingredient is the candy-coloured artifice of the film, in which even the wallpaper matched the characters' costumes. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - review 2011-03-23T00:24:15Z And grunge ended up being this perfect metaphor for exploring that, this idea that we're going to strip away all artifice and just be our true selves. 'Girls on Fire' author Robin Wasserman sees parallels between '90s and today in politics and women's empowerment 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z It’s an inappropriate question, a question that misapprehends the knowingness and deliberate artifice of contemporary media. How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z A former hairdresser, he had taught himself to perform a new kind of magic in a world of artifice. The Image Chaser 2013-12-04T20:44:57Z In the 1990s, leery of its own pretensions, U2 remade itself with electronic beats and artifice until it came to a dead end with its 1997 album, “Pop.” U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Stripped of her avant-garde artifice and fiery bras, Gaga becomes perhaps less interesting. Lady Gaga reveals new album release date 2011-01-04T10:21:37Z On the contrary, pretty much every element smacks of artifice. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z But their use of pedestrian movement, like walking and now running — as evident in their new video for “Don’t Wanna” — and their stylish lack of artifice relate to that era. Moving the Haim Way: ‘We Love Feeling in Our Bodies’ 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z We don’t want hearing aids that ply our sound world with obvious artifice, like a supposedly “acoustic” album that’s been overworked by a manic sound engineer. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z It also may be because he is utterly without artifice: still in his 30s, he projects a cherubic boyishness and freshness. NSO offers “Lobgesang,” but highlight is organist Paul Jacobs playing Bach If the quarantine version of “Idol” creates an idealized vision of the hearth, the homebound “Voice” appeals to nostalgia for TV itself — ordinary, pre-Covid, high-gloss TV, with all its artifice and showbiz wizardry. Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z But as the sonic violence takes its toll on him, the film’s culture-clash humor gives way to an uncanny fuguelike seepage between reality and artifice. Movie Review: An Engineer’s Sonic Ordeals in ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ 2013-06-14T00:57:13Z Behind the artifice, there is a living heart, the heart of France, and all of us. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Everywhere the self dissolves, and yet what remains is still more, somehow, than mere artifice. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z There’s no such restraint in the style of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” an animated film of a splashy artifice that also wears its religious element on its sleeve, pivoting on the word “faith.” The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Would he keep up the artifice all night? In an abnormal year, the Met Gala felt like a delightful brand of New York normal 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z So it was of little surprise that, last weekend, passionate questions around authentic presentations of self and voice, as well as explorations of artifice and mirage, were front and center on the runway. What We Saw at London Fashion Week Men’s 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Miquela draws out tensions about the authenticity of social media performance; sometimes she filters her face through stylized anime beauty apps, layering artifice on artifice. The Rise of the Social Media Fembot 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z All strings and swoons, Actress takes on the dance between art and artifice. Jim James: Regions of Light and Sound of God – review 2013-02-03T00:05:08Z At the same time, an obvious artifice created tension between the illusory and the real. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “Back to the Future” puts the art in artifice. Artist or Artifice: Who Is Adam Himebauch? 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z In a masterwork of artifice, American ballparks and European soccer stadiums have piped in the crowd roars originally created for video games. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Even if Mr. Lubischer’s rendition of that world too often seems fraudulent, the struggle seems genuine; he keeps pulling the rabbit of real feeling from the hat of artifice. Review: In ‘Bobbie Clearly,’ It’s Crime, Punishment and Then What? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Still, Rossini artificially turned two unrelated pieces into a completely reconceived opera, so the artifice of Mr. Sher’s staging is somehow resonant. A Lively, Stylish Met Debut For Rossini?s Last Comic Opera 2011-03-25T14:01:52Z Mary’s boss, in a weak romantic overture, invites her on a road trip to Los Angeles, mecca of movies, artifice and plastic surgery. Movie Review: ‘American Mary,’ by Jen and Sylvia Soska 2013-05-30T21:50:47Z What perhaps sets a novel apart from these other genres is the childlike pleasure it can take in pure play, in the imaginative pact of treating the artifice of the story as lived reality. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z To a man not encumbered by such artifice, he might forget the bustle is there while dining with female companions most definitely wearing them. The best character on "The Gilded Age" is the bustle, adding an extra party to the back 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z His strength lay in tightening and tweaking reality a little beyond the real, creating a sharp and exacting artifice that brought the decorative, the abstract and the natural into perfect harmony. Landscapes and Still Lifes of New Territories 2010-12-30T23:01:02Z His friend and colleague Émile Bernard called Cézanne’s drawings “documents without artifice,” as if they weren’t actually art at all. The Cézanne We’ve Forgotten How to See 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The combination of outlandish artifice and grounded experience is startling. The sculptures that help you to see (and feel) color in a new light 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The more I saw her, including the first time she did a half-hour set, I started noticing common themes: The performance in everyday life, the space between reality and artifice, confession and disguise. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z In between times, under the hot lamps of history, Hollywood, in common with other national cinemas, discovered reality instead of artifice. From The Naked City to Double Indemnity – why the 1940s is my favourite film decade 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But the glory of the Mankiewicz movie is its immaculate artifice. Review: ‘All About Eve’ Gets the Vampire Treatment from Ivo van Hove 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z In the end, there is only one possible conclusion: Ant and Dec owe their success in an industry built on artifice to – of all things – authenticity. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z The stripping away of practiced inflections and mannerisms can offer a bracing corrective to the familiar artifices of the actor’s craft. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z I’ve always loved the artifice involved with making movies, especially the line at which the set ends and the real world takes over. Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Restoration comedy, however, is tricky, requiring a canny balance of theatrical artifice and delicacy to animate its wit, wordplay and satirical irreverence. Theater Review: Lovebirds, Twits and Blowhards in ‘The Rivals’ 2014-05-08T21:43:20Z Call this artifice, but don’t call it art. Call House Of Cards artifice, but don't call it art 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Now imagine the young man’s grandmother is Diana Vreeland, the iconic fashion editor who embraced artifice and luxury in equal measure until her death in 1989. Up Close: Even the Dalai Lama Needs a Point Man 2010-05-19T18:57:00Z But sitting still is the best way to let Bell's nature-minded artifice wash over you. Taking the mountain for a walk: Vaughn Bell's playful 'Thinking Caps' at Jack Straw in Seattle 2010-08-09T23:37:00Z She exuded bone-deep affection and respect for vaudeville stylings, in which impeccably controlled artifice became a conduit for sentimentality as well as rowdy humor. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z What is not evident here is the author’s deeper critique of a society entrenched in artifice, calculation and masquerade. Oscar Wilde’s elegant wit shines in Seattle Shakes’ ‘Earnest’ 2014-03-26T23:59:36Z In contrast, the lighter, more intricately staged “Birder” revels in quirky, meta-theatrical artifice, complete with flashbacks, overt symbolism and fourth-wall puncturing monologues. Twin tales of an imperfect parent: 'Birder' and 'John Is a father' onstage in North Hollywood 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Washington, as director, neither emphasizes and heightens the artifice of the theatrical premise nor counteracts it by pressing the physicality of the actors to the fore. What “Fences” Misses About Adapting Plays for the Screen 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z A hint of staginess in the acting — Donovan and Christopher Herring, who plays a library assistant, are frequent culprits — often adds to the sense of artifice. Review | An ‘Alabama Story’ that has national relevance 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z As they tipped, stepped, rotated and twisted, their dancing celebrated life rather than artifice. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-10-28T23:41:39Z It’s remarkable how Bournonville keeps the dancers looking unaffectedly themselves, whereas in other repertory elements of constraint and artifice creep in. Review: Royal Danes Deliver Fresh Shots of Bournonville 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z There was a backlash to pumped-up magnificence and artifice. Waif vs. Adonis: Fashion week sets up a great manliness debate Following three brothers on a nighttime foray into New Orleans, the Ross brothers find surprising tones and affecting images in the blurry zone between artifice and observation. Critic’s Notebook: BAMcinemaFest, With Jonathan Caouette and Others 2012-06-19T22:25:32Z In mainstream spaces, that artifice has been eyed with suspicion, wrapped up not just in homophobia but also a fear of technology, which might threaten to reprogram the essence of human culture itself. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Do you believe a show like yours can help the cycle spin faster and accelerate a departure from all the artifice, and return to the organic quality of art and entertainment? Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z “That positive view of artifice is something that is common across gay culture.” What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Faber's approach was more sly in Crimson Petal; imagining ourselves in 19th-century London felt like a collusion between narrator and reader to engage in the artifice of suspended disbelief for narrative purposes. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z In his letters, Verdi speaks a lot about "Art": "I want Art in any of its manifestations, not the amusement, the artifice, the system that you prefer." Maestro Verdi, your Art must not die 2013-05-03T16:00:01Z The center of gravity is shifting, or perhaps the laws of gravity are being rewritten entirely, permanently troubling our ability to distinguish seriousness from whimsy, or reality from artifice. Critic?s Notebook: His Back Pages, Captured on Film 2011-05-17T19:00:20Z They showed an artist reveling in photography’s primary substance, light, but maintaining the same level of artifice and even abstraction, and the same awareness of her medium that pervades all her art. Sarah Charlesworth, Artist of Deconstructed Photographs, Dies at 66 2013-07-01T00:20:45Z Their artifice, like Brontë’s own, was overt, whereas Ms. Arnold strives to disguise hers in the trappings of authenticity. Movie Review: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario 2012-10-05T00:03:37Z At her best, Ms. Burch, who consistently draws attention to the artifice of her stories before switching gears into something more earnest, focuses her kinetic showmanship. Theater Review: ‘Tar Baby,’ With the Comic Desiree Burch 2013-01-10T21:52:00Z Frivolity and artifice would have to await the 1950s to stage their wholesale comeback. From The Naked City to Double Indemnity – why the 1940s is my favourite film decade 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z His only real misstep is a framing device: two quasi-Brechtian scenes on a soundstage that bookend the story and announce its artifice. ‘The Wonder’ Review: The Hungry Woman 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z For a director who is sometimes lazily understood as being uninterested in human emotion, or only able to approach it through ironic artifice, the consistency of his tragic vision is remarkable. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Authenticity is rarely a fair standard for judging movies, which always depend on overt and invisible artifice. Movie Review: ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Examines Honor and Sacrifice 2013-08-15T21:57:24Z Like a starter folk album, it’s gentle and plain-spoken and free of any artifice. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z “There’s no Hollywood artifice about her at all. She’s just a very cool, ambitious, friendly person — and she did work very hard.” Jennifer Meyer’s Goal? ‘Jewelry You Wear All the Time’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But its artifice never feels like a stunt. Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Expanding on the video’s pervasive artifice are photographs focused on the shaggy, asymmetrical haircuts of the boys in the video, alternated with images of real and faux animal skins from Chinese markets. Art In Review: JULIKA RUDELIUS: ‘Rituals of Capitalism’ 2012-08-09T20:27:20Z I wanted to draw attention to artifice and, at the same time, show the skills of the people who aren't usually regarded as artists. Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe 2010-09-29T20:30:00Z The actors deliver their lines with stark and declamatory fervor, and their gestures have a sharp, sculptural stillness that’s reminiscent of the grand artifices of classic-Hollywood productions. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z But if this kind of artifice is a specialty of cinema, so is the ability to discover what is truly strange in the world that exists. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z Since Wodehouse and especially Wilde built airtight fun houses in which artifice is pretty much everything, you might think that letting in a little natural oxygen would send the whole edifice tumbling down. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Every time a shot paused on the Irish vampires—red heads dressed in various shades of green, fisherman sweaters and tweed caps—the audience howled at the sublime artifice. It Was the Best of the Worst of Times: Breaking Dawn-Part 2 2012-11-15T21:09:35Z Whether this is an intentional bid to achieve zaniness through artifice or evidence of a budget crisis is hard to know. Television Review: Navigating Bromances and Romances 2011-02-07T23:25:55Z But the play teases the audience by repeatedly acknowledging its artifice. Beyond the Trump Show? Two Political Plays in Chicago Give It a Try 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It promises to be a nice place to hang out, with an alternative view of artifice and nature to an average park pavilion, although not quite achieving everything the concept promises. Heatherwick Studio; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – review 2012-06-02T23:05:42Z The artifice, sweat and satisfaction of creating a story are made transparent. Theater Review: Daniel Kitson’s ‘Analog.Ue,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2013-12-05T03:00:01Z His lack of artifice becomes critical in constructing the literary monster of Philip. 'Listen Up Philip' is a toxic triumph 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Much credit must go to the director Spike Jonze, whose on camera presence hinted at a stripping away of artifice, while his stunning compositions suggested the opposite. Best Comedy of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z “Sense8” is not subtle—this is sci-fi T.V.—but their scene together is simple, direct, and moving: there’s a lot of authentic emotion to go with all the artifice. Sympathetic Sci-Fi 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Atmospheric external filmed sequences were intercut with those taped on cramped studio sets, giving an impression of simultaneous verisimilitude and artifice. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z But Coward's paradoxical plot hilariously exposes the guests' good manners as a mask for hypocrisy and the artifices of the family as the true expression of sincerely genuine natures. Hay Fever 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z Sontag’s “Notes” attempts to define a certain aesthetic sensibility—an earthy zest for artifice. The Best-Dressed Men at the Met Gala 2019: Risking Foolishness, Arriving at Defiant Good Taste 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z If people only see the artifice, I feel that I’ve failed.” King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z But while stylistically impeccable, it seemed to speak the same language as the Rzewski: one that communicates a wealth of meaning without artifice, as spoken by a truly gifted artist. Sound worlds spinning from a single keyboard 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Is this believable, or is there a level of playful artifice at work? All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z It wasn’t that long ago when artifice appeared to be on its last leg. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z Although the song is memorable and the sound remarkable, spatially distributed by a system created for the show, it lacks the artifice of her best work. Björk, a One-of-a-Kind Artist, Proves Elusive at MoMA 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Botox and surgical artifice are not the way for a woman to prolong a career on stage and screen. A golden age for Britain's acting grande dames 2010-12-31T12:30:47Z After all, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas draw much of their comedy from overt references to their own artifice. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Retirement House, for all its artifice, presents a version of aging full of novelty and active curiosity. ‘Grandfluencers’ Are Sharing a New Vision of Old Age 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Whether you work inside the theatre or out, don't get trapped by its artifice. Want to be a theatre director? Here are my 10 top survival tips | John Caird 2010-03-23T12:12:00Z The constant tension between reality and artifice is the essence of wrestling, but Diaz’s point applies to American pop culture in general: It is fueled by the need to create make-believe and fantasy. From a Wrestling Ring to Tiny Boxes: How ‘Chad Deity’ Went Zoom 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z The dancers are dressed to look modern, everyday, devoid of artifice. Review: Doom, Doom Everywhere (and Just a Drop of Joy) 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Endings are artifices, especially in movies, where the happy ending is a convention so deeply ingrained in mass entertainment that the unhappy ending has become a similarly absurd convention of art-house productions. Richard Brooks’s “Fever Pitch” Never Got Its Due 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Hollywood Reporter called "Wonderstruck" "a genuinely affecting story of children and family that doubles as a work of fabulous cinematic artifice". 'Carol' director returns to Cannes with hotly tipped 'Wonderstruck' 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z “Audiences, especially my generation, Gen Z, I think we’re just very tired of the artifice of it all, like the embellishment of very curated media,” Ms. Chang said. Want an A in His Class? You Ha Better Go Viral. 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z For the prices, these were all decent wines, straightforward and unpretentious, made without artifice. Be It a $10 Wine, or Much More, the Judgments Come Free 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Whereas Tyrion–without physical stature or a direct claim to rule–is all artifice, needing to secure whatever comes to him by his wits. Game of Thrones Watch: There?s a New Hand in Town 2012-04-09T11:57:28Z But walk round the back and the hollow mould is exposed, as if to say that this artifice is only skin-deep. Presence: The Art of Portrait Sculpture – review 2012-06-02T23:06:07Z Sometimes I don’t want to look at “acting”—conscious artifice. The Year in Theatre and Farewell to a Friend 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Even apparently simple shots realized in a studio were the work of a battalion of highly skilled technicians deploying tools of mighty artifice. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z To deploy it was to express "what's basically serious to you in terms of fun and artifice and elegance." LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z We crawl into a priest hole with only a season one DVD for company while we try to preserve the wonder of a great artwork arriving without fanfare, its artifice preserved. True Detective season two: every casting rumour to date 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z This collection gathers her cutting-edge reports on the art and artifice of American life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Giacometti’s willful distortions transcend eccentricity and artifice, arriving in the realm of greater naturalism—as he moves beyond mere appearances to perceive and unearth something deeper, truer, more human. ‘Giacometti’ Review: Beyond a Retrospective 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Everyone, in fact, works hard to transcend the artifice, and they deserve better. Review: ‘The Only Living Boy in New York’ Rejects Dad’s Money but Not His Mistress 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The first act is more or less traditional, though with a glowing frame around the action as a subtle reminder of theatrical artifice. Tobias Kratzer Is Leading Opera’s Next Generation of Directors 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The performance manner always contains a layer of artifice. Review: ‘Spectator’ at the Japan Society 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Sitting far back, I saw the artifice in the actresses’ glacial, theatrical precision. "Carol" Up Close 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z But Chekhov’s method, or rather his avoidance of method, seems the polar opposite of Boyd’s enthusiastic embrace of artifice and contrivance. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Theater exposes spiritualism’s artifice, spiritualism lays bare theater’s attempts to persuade and enthrall an audience. A Séance Relies on Illusion. So Does Theater. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z By contrast, no artifice was necessary to send a very grand Gainsborough soaring to a record £6.53 million. Auctions: Eagerness to Buy Old Masters at Odds With Their Availability in Auctions 2011-07-08T12:00:05Z If it’s artifice — and photographs and digital images, like paintings, are basically artificial — why should we care about it, invest belief in it? Art Review: ‘A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial’ 2013-05-16T21:04:47Z The just-the-facts-ma’am objectivity of their images is only achieved through serious photographic artifice. Photography’s Delightful Obsessives 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Before she talked about cancer onstage, her comedy was unsentimental and formally experimental in a way that drew attention to its own artifice. Going Topless, Tig Notaro Takes Over Town Hall 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z “Another Dance Film” is part of a fascinating trend to strip dance of artifice by cinematizing it in outdoor settings. Perspective | The best dance, on your laptop: Young risk-takers are going outdoors to create short, raw films 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z For an artist who often revels in fantasy, irony and otherworldly artifice, it was an endearingly down-to-earth moment. Best and Worst Moments From the 2022 Grammys 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Watching A Doll's House last week, I was struck by the visible artifice with which the immediate threat to the heroine, Nora, is allayed when her friend, Mrs Linde, offers to marry the blackmailing Krogstad. Henrik Ibsen: the demon inside A Doll's House 2012-07-16T15:08:37Z Shine uses all the now-standard "epic" devices that playwright Brecht pioneered to crash the "fourth wall" between artifice and commentary: the actors talking directly to the crowd. Review: Mack the Knife would approve of Seattle Shakes' sharp 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-22T04:48:04Z Her large-scale photographs spike tired conventions of documentary portraiture with freewheeling artifice and invention. Perspective | Dawoud Bey, Jasper Johns and ‘Automania’ are among the many compelling reasons to visit museums this summer 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z “The Folded Clock” offers all the thrill of that trespass, in a work so artful that it appears to be without artifice. ‘The Folded Clock,’ by Heidi Julavits 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z After some struggle with the artifice of my own identity, I chose not to smile at all. The Promise of a Really Great Passport Photo 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z But in the end we have to create a theatrical artifice or nobody's going to watch it. DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus: 'A film-maker needs to watch like a cat' 2013-03-06T00:39:54Z They were excellent bottles made by producers working simply, without artifice. In Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, the Gifts of Simplicity 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z He illustrates the blurring of reality and artifice, a fixture of the local theater scene portraying an out-of-work version of himself, clinging to the bar as a second home he’s about to lose. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z It signals “a down-to-earth rejection of fashionable artifice, while still using the power of fashion.” Silicon Valley Has a New Style Icon 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Smith chose door number two and mostly failed to distract me from the artifice he presented to filmgoers. All hail Will Smith and Tom Hardy, Hollywood's bad accent kings 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Yes, "The Evil Dead" was a product of artifice, but it was a notably human artifice. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z These anonymous artists combined the most formal artifice, in which animal-like gods reigned coolly over their realms, with the most vivid sculptural naturalism, which brought those beastlike divinities vividly into the human world. Exhibition Review: King Tut Reigns at the Discovery Center and the Met 2010-04-22T22:18:00Z This season, she has dropped yet another layer — not of artifice, she never had that — but of the kind of performative veneer that any dance artist has. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z I briefly considered the headscarf/turban alternative, but the futility of the artifice felt tragic. How to get through chemotherapy: Decca Aitkenhead on cancer treatment 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z It was full of artifice and candor, and entirely Wilson’s own. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z That extra layer of artifice is not necessary, and actually harmful to your ability to enjoy Collateral Beauty. Here's every single thing that is wrong with Collateral Beauty 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z He wants to conquer the world in the name of the underdog, to celebrate nature by means of the most extravagant artifice, and to make everything new feel old again. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: Big Blue Marvel 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The point — indeed, the driving concept of this sharp and disturbing novel — is that there is an irresolvable gap between life and artifice, especially in regard to creativity. Fuminori Nakamura's 'Last Winter, We Parted' blurs reality, invention 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Even more striking is the way nature and artifice complement each other psychologically. Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Cosmic Nature’ Dots a Bronx Garden 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z She employs several layers of artifice and a lot of surface eccentricity. Music Review: A Big-Voiced Singer Takes Off In Several Directions at Once 2011-07-28T22:09:05Z The body has been moved; the diagonal declares the artifice. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z And yet, there has to be something other than artifice to draw us to reality TV, otherwise we’d surely be watching scripted programming instead. Reality or “Reality”?: Should NBC’s Olympics Coverage Be More Straightforward? 2012-08-08T12:00:20Z She urges artists to own the taint of their artifice, which, she writes, expresses “something deeply authentic—the longing to glorify, to immortalize, to preserve.” Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z “At Least for Now” is his declaration of selfhood, an album very much about the act of becoming, with a tightrope balance of dramatic artifice and diaristic detail. Review: Benjamin Clementine Releases His Debut Album 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z One of the great themes of “Daddy” is artifice, performance. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z So is Degas giving us reality or artifice? Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z From the opener "Howlin' for You," through to the set ender "Lonely Boy," it was a performance that emphasized musicianship over artifice. The Black Keys at KeyArena: Minimal fuss, maximum power 2012-05-09T19:15:05Z That's what I'm interested in, this encounter we have in the modern world, of the artifice and this thing behind it, a heart. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z In this version, Aldridge becomes the brave new incarnation of a forceful, natural style in a theater governed by artifice. Theater Review: ‘Red Velvet’ Recalls One Shocked London Audience 2014-04-01T13:23:28Z His sensibility was honed, however, working on TV shows like “Freaks and Geeks” and “The Larry Sanders Show,” which were themselves created as respites from the tick-tock artifice of sitcoms. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z The lesson, again and again, is how much artifice and calculation goes into realism. Exhibition Review: When Pictures Leap to Other Screens 2011-01-13T21:55:50Z If anything, "Somewhere" purifies the themes of "Lost in Translation," stripping away most of the sentiment and artifice. "Somewhere": Sofia Coppola's smart, stylish celebrity takedown 2010-12-21T02:02:00Z As the series’ own subtitle suggests, the campaign is all about performance, artifice and storytelling. Review: ‘The Circus’ Is Reality TV for a Reality-TV Presidential Race 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z From an artistic perspective, the technology has made artifice so immersive and overwhelming and everything feels like it can be fictionalized and overblown and gaudy. Comedian Mike Birbiglia on His New Movie, Sleepwalk with Me 2012-08-22T12:00:43Z Her “Swan Lake,” unencumbered by artifice, was raw and so full of acceptance — of herself and of the moment — that it just about tore your heart in two. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z He evolved into a theatrical maverick, whose brief was to strip away the encrusted artifice of conventional classical theater and reveal a work’s essence. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z By its very nature acting is a combination of artifice and autobiography, modulated by a set of strategies known as “technique.” “Boulevard”: In Robin Williams’ tormented final role, the beloved star still doesn’t know what he’s looking for 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The result is an uncanny mix of new and old, authenticity and artifice. A Beacon in Berlin 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Eventually, I began to mistrust every word—not because of the potential dishonesty of the characters, and not because the artifice in Schweblin’s conceit was becoming unwieldy. The Sick Thrill of “Fever Dream” 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z A distraction or mishap – however tiny or trivial – that slams home the artifice of what you're watching, breaking the spell? In theatre, there's devilry in the details 2010-04-13T16:25:00Z It does not transcend its artifice, and nothing feels true enough to matter — not phony, just superficial. Review: ‘A League of Their Own’ Broadens the Field 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z What I mean is that you can’t tell a story, even a true one, without artifice. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Self-satisfied and too slick by half, “Boundaries” projects a sheen of artifice that deflects any genuine engagement with the story. Review: A Father and Daughter Renegotiate ‘Boundaries’ 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The play takes a step back from the grim implications of this scene, in a sequence that exposes the artifice of theater making. ‘Bootycandy’ Looks at Black Attitudes Toward Gays 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z I think the relationship to artifice is central to a lot of these films. He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The series is a mix of behind-the-scenes showbiz satire and office comedy, and like many shows in that overpopulated genre, it’s about artifice and selling lies and keeping a sense of yourself while doing so. ‘I Love That for You’ Review: The Art of the Sellout 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “Bisbee ’17” is more concerned with the ethical, political and social meanings of artifice, and in how past conflicts resonate in the present. Review: In ‘Bisbee ’17,’ Anti-Union Violence Haunts an Arizona Town 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Issues of artifice and uncertainty are pervasive in Mr. Allen’s work and life. For Woody Allen's Next Trick, Shrugging Off Bad Publicity 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But we look right past the artifice and invest in the puppet. She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z And somehow, without artifice or contrivance, Ms. Bloom changes everything by putting him and Macy in a bar together, watching TV while sharing talk about their pasts. 2010-01-12T06:57:00Z And shiny artifice is what gives “Eve” its energy. Falling in Love Again With ‘All About Eve’ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Beneath the artifice, the virtuosic singing and the foreign languages, opera’s stories are deeply familiar: tales of love, loss and duty that anyone could identify with. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z An opera about a visionary artist, “The Perfect American” is ultimately an opera about art, about the separation of art from the artifice of fame. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “While the film is full of artifice and allegorical implication, it also presents itself as a quasiscientific look at human male pack behavior in the wild,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Friday: A Foo Fighters Concert and ‘Lady Dynamite’ 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z This battle over aesthetics and artifice was soon to be moot, as the book inevitably barrels toward the plague of AIDS. In the Gritty New York of the ’70s and ’80s, Not Exactly a Model Life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z I found them rustic in the best sense of the word, genuine and forthright, without the finesse, perhaps, of the wines of the Médoc or Graves, but also without the artifice. The Wines of Irouléguy, in French Basque Country 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Here is art that manages to reject artifice and yet be something wholly new and itself in sheer artistry. The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z But Jimmy also knows that even pop-culture artifice can carry a spore of genuine sentiment, and Mr. Soderbergh shows a similar faith in the impure products of America. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The melding of memoir and artifice called autofiction; the fondness for fragments; the evasive, obliquely wounded female narrator; the excavations into trauma, addiction, maternity. Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z The artifice, far from alienating us, helps draw us in. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z But what do you think - assuming it still tastes good, is artifice in food a waste of time and effort? Fantasy food cookbooks 2010-09-28T10:00:00Z With precise artifice, Mr. Cohen made it appear to be an utterly natural setting. Music Review: Leonard Cohen at the Barclays Center 2012-12-22T00:28:21Z For sure, there was more artifice to the series than in the cinema-vérité documentaries, like PBS’s “An American Family,” that inspired it. ‘The Real World’ Revisited: When Reality Had Bite 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Gruber made much of the piece's mixture of artifice and intensity, so we were constantly aware of how its formal rigidity both offsets and highlights its emotional violence. BBCPhil/Gruber – review 2013-03-14T17:49:19Z Amstell continues to prod at the artifice of celebrity and success, but this time by turning his lampooning eye inwards. Simon Amstell’s Ego 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The connection between all these bands: An eschewing of artifice and attitude for a more direct, often acoustic connection with listeners, exactly what the crowd was looking for at Doe Bay Fest. Review: Doe Bay Music Festival lives up to its reputation as one of the best of its kind in the Northwest 2010-08-16T21:40:00Z Yet she also senses the insecurities behind his swaggering egotism, smartly pointing out — given his educated, upper-middle-class background — the artifice of his underdog posturing. ‘Malcolm & Marie’ Review: Fight Flub 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z His cleverness culminates in the documentary’s startling final act, where Ollie shows how the artifice of filmmaking can mirror the lies we tell ourselves about love. ‘There Is No “I” in Threesome’ Review: Monogamy Alternatives 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It can even turn into an emblem of artifice, especially in rock musicals where the cultivation of a simpler, more “authentic” voice is often called for. ArtsBeat: In Praise of a Bernstein Flop And Other Answers to Your Musicals Questions 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z Certainly there have been great TV orators whose artifice was sort of the point, and the delightfully florid locution functioned as a sort of a viewer candy. 'True Detective' Recap: Big Blasts and Diminished Men 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The penultimate scene in the airport -- with Pam, who'd been playing hooky up till then, showing up for a last hug -- kicked the awareness of artifice up a notch, and the result was sublime. "Goodbye, Michael," and goodbye Steve Carell 2011-04-29T04:29:00Z Pino Donaggio’s vivid, sensuous, perversely jaunty musical score emphasizes the almost campy artifice of the drama, which is played out by actors who rarely seem to believe what they are saying. Movie Review: Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Stars Rachel McAdams 2013-08-29T22:04:14Z It’s down-to-earth, not trendy; it prizes realism over artifice; it’s steeped in traditional values — old-time religion, the old folks at home, Old Glory. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Besides exhibiting his self-portraits, Mr. Ghenie will also explore Marilyn Monroe, twisting and blurring the movie star’s features in an examination of reality and artifice. Off Frieze’s Beaten Path in London 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, she seems as confined by this play’s stale artifice as the fresh young Heléna is by her suffocating layers of mourning. Theater Review: Nina Arianda Stars in ‘Tales From Red Vienna’ 2014-03-19T02:00:02Z And there are all these skills of pretense and artifice. In ‘Your Honor,’ a New Orleans Judge Breaks Bad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z It can make people more bold, though – and even that can feel like an added level of artifice. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z This work, with elements of cunning, artifice and naivete that sometimes fails to jell, emerged with cohesion and an unmistakable emotional credibility. Review | Takacs Quartet delivers buoyant Mozart 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Lichtenstein’s late nudes only come alive if you see them as problematic: they are transfixing and even rewarding to the extent that they embrace the extremes of artifice. Masters of Surface 2012-07-26T20:00:00Z The artifice of theater is not hidden, and the natural world is revealed through the lens of paranoia. In 'Half Life,' Cloud Eye Control tries to see the unseen 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In “The Burnt City,” the chaos of war meets the curated artifice of performance. The Theater at War 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Without a touch of artifice, she captures the raw poetry in the girl’s speech and her astonished insights into the world. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z And though the production is so consciously playing with the artifice of the form, each performer has a moment of vulnerability when he — or at least his autofictional persona — reveals a tragic fact or experience. ‘This American Wife’ Review: Wives Out, Knives Out 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z Everything here is artifice, and artifice is his truth. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z What happens to Ana and Janis isn’t just a matter of accident or narrative artifice; there is a political dimension to their relationship that is the key to the film’s structure. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z In her landmark essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag defines the aesthetic as such: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess." If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z It’s not that she crosses lines between artifice and reality, desire and detachment; she erases them. Artists at Winston Wächter gallery construct enticing ‘Summer Dreams’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Everything the actress does is a triumph of artifice – she is like a walking metaphor – while Burnaby is doggedly literal, so that, at some level, their interplay describes opposing efforts to put life into language. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z None of that for Mr. Wilson, one of contemporary’s cultures leading proponents of artifice for artifice’s sake. Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z This time, his minimalist leanings give the proceedings an air of casual artifice and emotional vacancy, as if he decided not to push himself too hard. Review: Don’t Mess With the Dog in ‘In a Valley of Violence’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It was an uplifting moment that made you completely forget the artifice of Graves’ stage image. Shakey Graves offers something new to nu-folk | Concert review 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z But in a way, that may be fitting for a show whose themes are about combining authenticity with artifice–about how you get to Baohaus by way of Cattleman’s Ranch. Review: Fresh Off the Boat Has the Makings of an American Original 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z His music accommodates elements of funk and electronic music, but rarely accepts the known artifice of fusion. David Binney: David Binney?s Art of the Straddle at 55 Bar 2010-04-07T21:58:00Z “This is singing as conversation,” Mr. Scott says, “a way for the actors to express their emotions, simply, sincerely and with a minimum of artifice.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' 2011-05-17T13:44:32Z Writing a novel is similar to designing and creating a Japanese garden: both arts require artifice and lies. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z Cinema of the 1930s was no less dominated by artifice, but it wore a luxe glow sadly missing from today’s television series and films. “The Last Tycoon”: Visually rich, spiritually poor 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Atmosphere A small, bright room with a deliberately eccentric design that celebrates newness and artifice. At Le Turtle, a French New Wave You Can Eat 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z We meet in a north London studio, following her photo shoot, but there is no artifice in the minimal makeup or artlessly swept-back hair, and the miraculous perfection of every feature is mesmerising. Gemma Arterton: ‘Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z But the second time I watched the film, I realized all of that artifice is perfect for Phil, who is concealing more than just his silver-spoon upbringing and degree from Yale. Forget Naturalism. With Movie Acting This Year, Big Swings Are In. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z GCSEs, jobs and many cinema trips have gone by since I originally saw Ray's work but they remain among the first examples I think of combining cinematic artifice with authorial honesty. Satyajit Ray's artifice and honesty set him apart from other film directors 2013-07-22T19:00:01Z As a reader, you want to believe — you have to believe — that an absence of artifice defined Grant the man as well as Grant the writer. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Throughout the movie, Michael Douglas does a fabulous job of underpinning Liberace's artifice with vulnerability. Behind the Candelabra: Michael Douglas steals the show as Liberace 2013-06-04T14:38:00Z It is not uncommon for Spark to rummage around within the contents of the novel she is writing and change it as she goes along, making conscious the artifice of her fiction. How Muriel Spark Came Home to Scotland 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Gainsborough doesn’t always indulge in “Countess Howe” extravaganzas of artifice. At SAM, a grand show from London’s Kenwood, and Seattle collectors 2013-02-14T19:07:22Z Fashion photography, a discipline defined by artifice, is perhaps not the most immediate venue for politics. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It's a classic case of art hiding the artifice. Reading group: True Grit by Charles Portis 2012-11-06T13:28:44Z I instinctively gravitate to whimsy, fantasy, nonsense and artifice, as well as to works that are waking dreams of adventure, derring-do and romance. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Do these references mean that Roth, who is now 77, is abjuring furious artifice for a sage-like calm? Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z That sense of style defies and overcomes any dichotomy between reality and artifice. The Suffocating Solemnity of “The Revenant” 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s minimal and unadorned, sort of confrontational in its apparent lack of artifice: This is me. Vanity Fair’s September Cover Sells Something. And Not Only What It Says. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Berlant seemed to be making a mockery of confessional comedy, emphasizing the artifice of her own performance, talking about herself but revealing nothing. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z A video is played, revealing yet another layer of artifice: an illustrated guitar, picked by real hands. Mediums collide at YouTube's Guggenheim exhibit 2010-10-21T23:02:00Z All the artifice was peeled away in a wise, deceptively simple song. ‘Sondheim on Sondheim’: A Broadway baby in symphonic clothes 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z It is manifestly a concoction, a place of fantasy and a work of delectable artifice. All masterpieces great and small: get lost in the Wallace Collection 2011-01-17T13:32:07Z “These strategies help organically shape the conversation that feels less like pandering and artifice and offers a real and impactful dimension to the practice of those artists.” Museums Change Their Approach to Showing White Male Artists 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The new overlord of the land of artifice and playacting hates artifice and playacting. Reed Hastings Had Us All Staying Home Before We Had To 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z She is also direct, without artifice but at the same time sensitive to the nuances of Muslim communities. Ausma Zehanat Khan's 'Unquiet Dead' rises above mystery setting 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Maybe its borders are wide enough to encompass artifice of every kind: self-consciousness, coercion, premeditation, deceit. Riff: Reaction Videos as Anthropological Study of America 2011-11-27T04:00:09Z What those trying to aggressively market an ever more “exotic sex life” fail to realize is that sexual preferences aren’t shaped by artifice. Is vanilla sex boring? 2012-07-17T13:54:00Z It’s the album’s one experiment, an eccentric exception amid the rehashed artifice. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z “La La Land” succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Her lack of artifice attracts Roger and also brings the audience to her side, since it’s almost impossible to be on his. Film: Greta Gerwig?s Breakthrough Performance in ?Greenberg? 2010-03-26T19:34:00Z Van Aelst’s critics regularly noted a certain bipolarity in his paintings: while they were manifestly objects of extraordinary artifice, the viewer experiences the things they depict as uncannily present, as if they were hallucinated. Art Review: Willem van Aelst Still-Life Paintings at National Gallery 2012-08-10T04:50:08Z And it suggests that these pretty soon-to-be outcasts dwell in a society that puts a high value on social artifice and frippery. 'As You Like It': Inconsistency slows this visit to the Forest of Arden 2012-06-08T20:27:04Z The new book is bloated and unwieldy, however; it lacks the blunt power of its predecessor, which was stark and swift, flensed of artifice. In Yiyun Li’s Latest, a Grieving Mother Desperately Clings to Memory 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Abercrombie’s performance is thrilling, and is all the more impressive for its theatrical artifice. The Sanitized Christianity of “War Room” 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z His more recent work is much more interesting, partly because it seems that its elaborate artifice is built on rock-solid truths. | 'My Last Play': Oh, Come in. Glad to See You. Would You Like a Book? 2010-12-17T21:58:35Z Fiona Gordon, as the fairy, displays her long, sinewy legs as if the human body – any human body – were beautiful, a revolutionary idea in this age of artifice. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z What doesn’t break, however, are the poems’ lines; all but three are in a prose format, perhaps as a way to avoid artifice. Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But that artifice is at odds with the natural light that infuses his work and that, along with his artful composition, directly or obliquely influences fashion now. Slim Aarons’s Photographs of Celebrities and Moguls On View in SoHo 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But as he sings “Rocking you to sleep, from the Otherside,” the heavens suddenly open up with a cathedral-size chord, shimmering percussion and choirlike vocal harmonies, a paradise of pop artifice. Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z He weeded out artifice and mannerism where he could. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z You’re still always aware of the artifice, which is part of the fun. Review: ‘Borg vs. McEnroe’ Revisits an Epic Court Battle 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Yet taken together they reveal several of the productive tensions in the work of Oehme and van Sweden, between enclosure and openness, artifice and informality, the hard line and the permeable interface. Wild gardens that grew out from Washington 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Manchester Art Gallery, to 30 Aug David Osbaldeston, Manchester In Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters In Search Of An Author, the line between theatrical artifice and real life dramas is intriguingly, and unnervingly, blurred. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z The induction of Adele into a not-so-secret society will be cheered as a triumph over artifice, and what an unfortunate thing that will be. Critic?s Notebook: At the 54th Grammy Awards, Everything Old Is Praised Again 2012-02-13T19:47:24Z Thus, artifice becomes this opera’s essence, a choice from which it steadily struggles to recover, though not without its pleasures. Review | ‘. . . (Iphigenia)’ is an opera in the form of a question 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z It’s a drama so scrubbed of artifice that the first stage directions in the script are: “No curtain. No scenery.” ‘Our Town’ debuted in 1938, but it’s still staged everywhere. A new book explains why it’s so timeless. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The busyness and artifice of the theater fade away, and so does the artifice of cinema. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z A remarkable quality of the Road to … series is they have so much fun acknowledging the artifice of film-making. My streaming gem: why you should watch Road to Bali 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z There’s no shame or artifice to appreciating beauty, she argues, but we have a moral imperative to understand its costs. 11 New Books Coming in April 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The movies of classic Hollywood existed in a realm of severe artifice; the reality at their heart was that of the actors themselves. Classic Hollywood Photos That Reveal Who Movie Stars Are 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes the artifice is blatant — an outrageous, theatrical dash of role play. Genevieve Gaignard turns the self-portrait into a mirror of culture yet again 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Though this 1939 work poses technical challenges — passages in double-stops, some fairly quick, are plentiful — it is less about artifice and surface dazzle than intensity and foreboding. Music Review: Recreating a Bill of the Obscure and the Familiar 2011-02-25T23:59:27Z After going to such lengths to create a realistic style, why mess it up with artifice? Theater Review: Kathryn Erbe in ?Yosemite,? at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater 2012-01-28T00:08:10Z The grand artifice is the very reason for these films; the quest for an ordinary tone as counterpoint is a mark of the times. The New “Avengers” Is Really About the N.S.A. 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z But despite such obvious artifice, within seconds this wonderful film has you forgetting that the characters aren't real people; Mary And Max is more real than most live action films. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-01-22T00:06:30Z The garden is a human artifice, he writes, but it connects to the rest of nature and stops us from thinking of other life-forms as being separate. A passionate gardener who cut his roots and wanders the world 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z For all the theatricality of the performance and the artifice of the spectacle, Pavlova has the rare quality of cinematic aliveness and immediacy that leaps out of its context and its story to appear ever-modern. A Great Ballerina’s Explosive Movie Performance 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z New York magazine concluded that “Swift played herself by revealing that even in the midst of a celebrity feud, her supposedly off-the-cuff social-media response was constructed artifice.” It’s all fake: How the leaked call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West exposes the artifice of celebrity culture 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z “There are a series of artifices that she builds to create this translation of worlds, to help us see what they see.” Brazil’s Defender of the Indigenous Brings Their Fight to the Shed 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Onstage there was a crackling romantic energy between them, although both were married to other people and always maintained that their lovelorn duets and ballads were pure artifice. From the Civil Wars, an Aptly Named Album 2013-08-02T19:03:21Z All the careful artifice seems an effort to do justice to a feeling that these are the sounds she should make. Twenty Years of Listening to Gillian Welch 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z It was just as I remembered, more rugged than pretty but absolutely without artifice. From 2018, Indelible Messages From the Past 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Yet it uses that flamboyant artifice to confront reality. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-18T23:45:23Z The song opened her full-length debut album, “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides,” which spanned harsh, aggressive electronics and ethereal meditation, with lyrics touching on identity, artifice and yearning. Sophie, Who Pushed the Boundaries of Pop Music, Dies at 34 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Her “Beguiled” is less a hothouse flower than a bonsai garden, a work of cool, exquisite artifice that evokes wildness on a small, controlled scale. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The movie’s flaming artifices get to some cold truths, beginning with the one-man chorus Dolemedes’s direct addresses to the audience. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z For them, artifice is an essential element in both statecraft and marriage. ‘The Diplomat’ Review: Save the Marriage, Save the World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Sunday’s episode, at least the retrospective “Then” portion, was a leisurely installment that meditated at length on core themes of the show: How best to exist in a world stripped of its artifice? ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Price of Inner Peace 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z An overall aesthetic, borrowed from dance music, that would embrace the artifice of the recording studio instead of trying to conceal it. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z This is a true story, and that seemed to me a perfect metaphor for advertising’s ongoing tension between authenticity and artifice. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The End of Advertising’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Waits' distinction in an age of advanced artifice is that image and actuality correspond. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z “Craft service” as a strategy is about pointing out the artifice to children — showing them that things are not what they seem. Perspective | Lessons for my children about fears, real and imagined 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Back then we were all dazzled by how committed it was to fairness, vocal ability and fighting back against The X Factor's shallow artifice. Has The Voice lost its charm? 2012-05-18T10:56:43Z But, above all, there’s a sense of style that laboriously weighs down the film’s substance in an artifice that sinks into contrivance. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z But he also exposed the artifice of the whole project, in, for instance, a shot of a bridge connecting the park to the industrial district of Suresnes. Art Review: ‘Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris’ Debuts at the Met 2014-01-31T00:01:15Z Bill Brandt took staged photography out of the studio, blurring artifice with documentary to create an uneasy ambiguity. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Certainly, the machinations of the Borgias are their own kind of theatrics, and Fo exaggerates the analogy to the point at which artifice overruns plot and infects form as well. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z This is a place of melancholy artifice, a concatenation of assorted pastiches; and picture is a kind of sight test – how to read the visual signs in art as well as life. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z Styles of acting are similarly diverse, with room for ripe penny-dreadful artifice and, in the cast of Ms. Gray’s Zoe, startling emotional veracity. Theater Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep 2014-05-05T02:00:01Z Mr. Hornby manages to make her willfulness appealing because there is absolutely no artifice to her, and because she’s as blithely witty as she is determined. Nick Hornby’s ‘Funny Girl,’ About a 1960s BBC Sitcom Star 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z A veteran of movies and TV, Hutton arrives with no artifice — genuine, a little intense and happy to explain the inner workings of Russ Skokie. Timothy Hutton's postmortem on 'American Crime' 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps this is because novels like “Manhattan Transfer” were among the first to try to recreate the seamless artifice that cinema appeared to lend to its fictions. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z "The entire movie is illusion against reality. It's Ronald Colman becoming 'Othello' and the whole artifice of the theater and that society, transposed against the Shelley Winters character who is really down and out." Ronald Colman's 'Double Life' role carries echos of 'Birdman' theme 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But however you read it, the Beetle was an aesthetic choice, made while constructing an elaborate artifice. Secrets of “Blood Simple”: The devious neo-noir classic is more complicated than it looks 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z What we'd gotten used to as a seasonal adjustment was really just artifice in a lot of cases from management councils limiting seasons before catch shares. Untangling catch shares with Lee van der Voo 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Our fears, though, are all for the anxious couple, whose genuine decency and vulnerability pierce the movie’s artifice and shame Nancy’s posturing. Review: In ‘Nancy,’ a Troubled Woman Seeks Connection 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z This bricolage felt perfectly natural despite its artifice, and for the first time ever, I write of the new work that it was too short. Shaw’s terrific ‘Blueprint’ felt too short 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z From the raw material of memory he’s made something that nearly erases the difference between artifice and life, as well as the distance between past and present. At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Yet the resulting impression of unvarnished veracity masks artifice of a different kind. Clio Barnard's The Arbor is out of lip-synch with reality 2010-10-25T10:06:00Z Ms. Humphries, by comparison, uses painting to make us think about interfaces, artifice and human fallibility, and what we might be overlooking in our visual world and daily lives. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z I got into the grubby artifice that created this extraordinary thing, so I kept at it. Eddie Redmayne and Emma Stone on Acting, Fame and Protecting Their Privacy 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z His made-up biennial joins a long tradition of art-world trickery that plays with ideas of artifice and hype. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z The shaky artifice is set into relief by Mr. Hurley’s personable authenticity, yet the work improves whenever he is onstage. ‘Healing Wars,’ by Liz Lerman, Portrays Soldiers’ Trauma 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z After all, I started listening to music in the early 80s, when artifice and pop were the same thing. Two years ago, the death of Auto-Tune seemed like a smart prediction. Instead, the technique has settled into the toolkit of pop 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z The distance between acoustic-guitar sincerity and electronic artifice is nearing zero. Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z But true to the rest of the St. Vincent catalog — this is her fifth solo studio album — “Masseduction” stays poised between passion and artifice, trusting listeners to decrypt its paradoxes. St. Vincent Makes Her Move Into Pop With ‘Masseduction’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z While Florence and the Machine rose by celebrating elaborate, dramatic artifice — lots of twinkling harps and Lady of Shalott costumes — the new album is rawer and less adorned, with Ms. Welch detailing a failed relationship. Florence Welch Slows Down the Machine for the Band’s Next Album 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z She gave the character, at Schatzberg’s request, a light Louisiana accent, and it’s a performance that wears its artifice up front—as the character does. Early Meryl Streep and Peak Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z As a result, Lynch at times seems endearing, perhaps because he seems incapable of guile or artifice. '101 Theory Drive': a scientist's search to understand memory 2010-04-15T20:43:00Z If you are what you eat, what other possible outcome would you foresee for a generation raised on a diet of folly and artifice: Vietnam, Watergate, “Charlie’s Angels” and Twinkies? Possessed : Jonathan Adler’s Guiding Light: His Mother 2012-12-08T00:16:34Z What is interesting is that behind the artifice, there is this person who is moving and who touches us. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z It also creates a culture of faux-Brechtian artifice that both kills moment-by-moment suspense and prevents the audience from being drawn into Frank's confidence in real time. 'Catch Me If You Can' on Broadway: Adaptation strays from script 2011-04-11T02:28:45Z Love is the playwright's subject, but the originality of her insights stems from the way artifice and reality are played off each other. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z But his black models somehow float free of stereotypes, perhaps because he makes us so acutely aware of the artifice: They are models posing; he is an artist painting. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Most everybody readily acknowledges the artifice inherent to pop music—as consumers, we know and understand, to some degree, that the whole business is and always has been an aggressively managed charade. Miley Cyrus’s Creepy Return to Wholesomeness 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z For all his conspicuously realistic theatrical artifice, Bergman overcomes it, in “The Silence,” with a realm of highly inflected images that owe little to dramatic realism. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z For Ms. Dimoldenberg, drawing attention to that artifice is an act of vulnerability, if not defiance. Finding Love, One Nugget at a Time 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z One song, "Theatre of Evil," he writes, "echoes the Beatles' muscular, crackling artifice, studio-based layering and epic grandeur." Weekend preview: Cheap fun and pricier pleasures 2012-09-28T17:52:50Z And if she were a pop singer who specialized in artifice, that multiplicity might be fine. Music Review: Sinead O?Connor at the Highline Ballroom 2012-02-26T21:35:23Z “They’re not interested in making money. For them it’s all about the artifice. In fact, they don’t even call it an instrument — they call it a sound sculpture.” In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Delighted with the artifices of filmmaking, Mr. Greaves is also after the truth — about human interactions, about cinematic image-making, and also, slyly and unmistakably, about race. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Winterbottom, a protean and prolific filmmaker, has often shown an interest in finding the point where cinematic artifice collides with literalism. | 'The Killer Inside Me': Casey Affleck in Michael Winterbottom?s Adaptation 2010-06-17T22:56:00Z A queasy sense of party-line artifice haunts both the theatrical performance and the TV footage, which the film’s archival opening telegraphs strikingly. ‘Uppercase Print’ Review: Between the Lines 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But diffuse or focused, interrupted, projected, coloured or reflected, the light is electric every time and the eye begins to resist this artifice in the end. Light Show – review 2013-02-03T00:05:16Z There is deliberate, wary artifice in how they talk. ‘This Is Our Youth’ Stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s an oft-uttered sentiment, as is the fact that the meticulously groomed garden incorporates the six characteristics — spaciousness, tranquillity, artifice, antiquity, aquatic elements and panoramic views — that collectively create the ideal, balanced Japanese garden. Next Stop: In Kanazawa, Japan, Ancient Beauty Fuses With Modern Art 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z With a blend of erotic and decorative exuberance, and a virtuosic display of stylistic imagination, she reveals the liberation in artifice and the alluring masks of natural desire. What to Stream: Five Directors’ Outstanding First Features 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z They mirror nature but always retain their gleaming industrial artifice. Man of Steel?s Industrial Web, Mirroring Nature 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z She is in thrall to artifice, the way it holds desire. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z But there was no denying the blend of art, artifice and sheer sensory overload. Concert review: Madonna at the United Center 2012-09-20T07:42:00Z The intensity of such an experience may be rooted in Tsushima’s life, but focussing on this resemblance ignores the book’s artifice. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z This use of language effectively draws attention to the artifice of Brecht's polemic, while maintaining a semblance of living speech. Mother Courage and Her Children – review 2013-03-03T14:55:09Z As the afflicted enact their suppressed fears and fantasies, the ensuing horror blasts through the cardboard rhetoric of the Chinese Dream and the brittle artifice of Chinese society. In a Brutal Chinese Satire, Villagers Surrender to Their Worst Impulses 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Only during the finale of "Infinity" did the band show any real artifice. The xx delivers an ethereal yet precise show at the Paramount 2012-10-07T21:10:05Z Both Climer’s set and his shimmering costumes are ripe for hidden reveals, combining with Mike Potter’s wigs and makeup to layer the show in artifice. Review | Mason Alexander Park brings star power to Olney’s ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z He was trapped in artifice through most of his career, when his mere presence was itself one of the most charismatic and original ever filmed. Free Yourself from the Cult of Marlon Brando 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp,’” she says it’s all about artifice and exaggeration, living life in quotation marks. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The movie may be artifice and these advertisements mass produced, but he doesn’t hesitate to put his personal stamp on each one. Nowhere Man: Nick Cave, 20,000 Days on Earth and the Nature of the Unknowable Man 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The issues raised about art, artist and artifice would be as relevant if he'd flipped the camera around on his crew and made documentarians the subject. 'National Gallery' a portrait of humanity on canvas and on-screen 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But there was no ironic, Dave-or-Conan-style archness here in deconstructing the artifice of the moment. On James Corden's Late Night Debut, It's One More Mr. Nice Guy 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The lacquered artifice of Hideko’s performances also contrasts with the juiciness of the women’s love-making, which begins with an exchange of lollipop-flavoured saliva and ends with the oral lubrication of Japanese sex toys. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Akpan, who good-naturedly pokes fun at Ekong’s clumsy yet endearing attempts to squeeze all things Nigerian through an American filter, employs the same artifice in constructing his novel’s narrative. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Moore might disappear for much of the movie, but her one song is so genuinely moving it only underscores the emotional artifice surrounding it. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Review: You’ve Got a Friend (Not) 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Modern art acknowledges its own artifice, he was saying. Manet?s Reflections of Paris at a Cultural Peak 2011-05-16T13:33:21Z For all the artifice of their outfits, the queens make themselves emotionally naked for us, by turns poignant, comic, vulnerable and heroic. RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z But she returned to artifice quickly, shifting into the inherent optimism of the voice of a mystical figure who believes enough in the future to read it on tarot cards. Now Playing Nightly on Instagram: Sketch Comedy’s Newest Star 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z For all its artifice, “Anomalisa” features one of the most tender and weirdly authentic portrayals of sexual intimacy in the history of Hollywood movies. In ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,’ Practice Makes Pandemonium 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Devoted to artifice, reality-bending theatrical devices and critique of political and social mores, RuPaul and 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht have surprisingly analogous roots. The epic theater of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”: The surprising intellectual rigor behind TV’s most campy competition 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Antonacci’s remarkable talent is a suspension between artifice and naturalness, theatricality and subtlety. Review: Anna Caterina Antonacci Charms With French Art Songs 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s an administrative choreography of a most delicate theatrical artifice, and the weight of that artifice is a burden and a lure in the viewing of “Birdman.” “Birdman” Never Achieves Flight 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Again, these characters are not people I analyze; they’re pieces of verbal artifice I invent, and whose almost limitless complications I try—again, using words—to make reconcilable. Richard Ford on the Drama of Adolescence 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z But he’s also making a connection with that soulful gaze, communicating the loneliness of the performer and calling attention to the basic artifice inherent in the performance. A Garry Shandling Photograph That Closes the Book on a Late-Night Era 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps he intends “Mission to Paris” to echo the tone of late 1930s Hollywood artifice. Books of The Times: ‘Mission to Paris’ by Alan Furst 2012-06-03T22:37:20Z Though theater isn’t an art form of total honesty either, it is its own kind of artifice; the difference is in the presentation of that fiction. Theater, Reality TV and What Is Stranger Than Fiction 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z He is simply a reflection of another culture’s artifice, an imitation of an imitation. Waking Up From the American Dream 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Lunney, in a dark suit, performs on a bare black set with only a hint of theatrical artifice: a wry proscenium arch near the back of the stage. | 'Gary the Thief' and 'Plevna: Meditations on Hatred': Howard Barker?s Poetic Plays at Atlantic Stage 2 2010-07-20T21:17:00Z Intermittently beautiful but frustratingly leaden, “Shutterbug” labors ineffectually to promote authenticity over artifice. Movie Review | 'Shutterbug': Photographer, Camera, Subjects 2010-03-19T04:02:00Z The artifice overload might cause less attention-deficient brains to short circuit, but it's one of the first films to accurately reflect the information-bombarded, electronically enhanced, pop literate mindscape of modern youth. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z The simplifying artifice of performance is a theme here, but there is a satiric edge to this intellectualizing, almost as if next to the heated passions of the play, it were beside the point. Critic?s Notebook: Going Under the Radar, and Into the Unknown 2011-01-11T23:53:39Z He didn’t have time for the artifice of Hollywood. 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Where Naked and Afraid seeks to force contestants to engage with their primal selves in the wild, Dating Naked aims to strip away all the artifice of dating by putting everything out there at once. Dating Naked Is Just the Same Old Reality Formula, With Less Clothes 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s as if the artifices of fiction were too much for Hastings to take; they had to be subverted periodically. Review: ‘The Last Magazine,’ by Michael Hastings Monáe’s age of artifice was over, or, as she sings on “Crazy, Classic, Life,” “I just have to tell the truth, baby.” Review | Janelle Monáe brings her truth to Washington 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z The openness of the group's artifice is half of the appeal, and it's done in good spirits. Babymetal shreds heavy-metal's seriousness at the Fonda 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Such “novels from life,” as Heti’s book was subtitled, reflect the authors’ exasperation with fictional artifice. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Wes Anderson is another admirer, as is witnessed by the extreme artifice of films like The Grand Budapest Hotel. Jacques Tati’s Playtime: life-affirming comedy 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “A lot of what you see is complete artifice that’s designed to look O.K. in a picture but really would kind of look ridiculous in real life,” Smith told me. A Photographer’s Elaborate Transformations in His Childhood Bedroom 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z A crazed man on a Bowery sidewalk rails against “artifice.” A Mesmerizing Marathon of Robert Frank’s Movies 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Donen had an instinctive grasp of how the musical worked when it was muscular and forthright and uninhibited, but also within its own world of mannered artifice. Stanley Donen: a Hollywood blueblood treasured for Singin' in the Rain 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Kenrokuen means “garden of six attributes,” a reference to a Chinese poet’s checklist of essential characteristics: antiquity, artifice, panoramas, seclusion, spaciousness and waterways. Japan’s bullet train has made this well-preserved city more accessible than ever 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z These rules include a preference for “authenticity” over artifice and an overriding admiration for rebellion and masculinity. Glen Campbell: The First Good Ol' Boy of American Pop 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z And here I found myself resisting the artifice. Exhibition Review: ‘Body Worlds: Pulse’ at Discovery Times Square 2013-05-09T20:27:43Z Capra never lost this film's delight in artifice. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z But the moment was, of course, only horrifying: The repellent artifice of blackface revealed the audience members’, as much as the characters’, inherited cross-cultural fetish. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Because I think sometimes because musicals have artifice, they can seem artificial. How They Assembled the ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Puzzle 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Pure artifice becomes pure feeling — and the effect is pure Minnelli. DVD: ?Meet Me in St. Louis,? on Blu-Ray 2011-12-09T21:48:05Z She has a job title that makes many men giddy — bikini designer — but none of the artifice that can suffuse the fashion world, often outfitting her old friends in her new designs. Finding the Right Note, Pure and Easy 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “Never Look Away” traffics in all kinds of thorny, ambiguous material: It’s about family secrets, psychological misdirection, the sometimes uncanny harmonies between artifice and reality. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z They were youngish ladies, whose versions of old themes are encrusted with rococo artifice. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z There’s a play between the natural and the artificial, too, and the installation involves more artifice than is immediately apparent. Review: Pierre Huyghe Mixes Stones and Water for Roof Garden at the Met 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Some depth is sacrificed for the swiftness; the book doesn’t burrow into the psychology of its characters so much as map the wages of artifice, fracture and loss across generations. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Arranged as a delicate duet with the guitarist Marc Ribot, it’s the moral heart of this album, an indictment of womanly artifice that Ms. Krall has said she associates with photographs of the Ziegfeld Girls. New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z You’ve argued that it’s really about artifice and a self-conscious kind of persona and theatricality. The Kanye-Bowie connection: “It’s songs about fame and about decadence, about this dissolute life and how you’re quite unhappy” 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Because when you write about even the most horrible thing, there can be something appealing about it—an attraction, an artifice. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z And he starts talking about the artifice that’s been built, and the sort of castle. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Coming from a working-class family, I find myself drawn to these sorts of characters: characters who appear to have less armor and artifice. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z As it slides between realism and extreme artifice, using cinematic and theatrical devices, “Kuroneko” becomes increasingly, pleasurably difficult to predict. | 'Kuroneko': Tragic Love Tale of Spirits and Samurai 2010-10-21T23:12:00Z Their purposeful lack of artifice — yes, it’s a pose, but a vulnerable one. New Music From Tom Petty, Shawn Mendes and Hermán Olivera 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z That Arcadian image of the celebrating lovers and their "sweet pastimes" at the tomb-side seems to take a graceful turn from artifice into generous humanity. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z After funneling his songwriting through various band conceptions - the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather - White is directing his latest production without artifice. In first solo album, Jack White taps a blue vein 2012-05-03T14:01:11Z And his contrasting arrays of acrylic hues give his rugged peaks a crazy-quilt quality, in which heightened artifice equals heightened apprehension. October galleries: Apocalypse now 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Over-the-top, infused with artifice and bawdy humor, and, ultimately, a legacy that just won’t quit. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Embracing the artifice of theatre, the intimacy of camera-confessional and the stylisation of drama, the film cannily and courageously uses meta-narrative to subvert both audience expectations and documentary form. Casting JonBenét director on our obsession with the murder of a child pageant queen 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “For the task of the spy is not so very different from that of the novelist: to create an imaginary, credible world and then lure others into it by words and artifice.” Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z There are two important exceptions, moments of theater that use borrowed words and self-conscious artifice to deliver strong doses of unadorned feeling. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z She is giving a consciously theatrical performance, because artifice is her best defense against the mortal pain and immortal darkness that await her. Theater Review: Cynthia Nixon in ?Wit,? at Manhattan Theater Club 2012-01-27T03:01:00Z There’s an incipient and unfulfilled Brechtianism in De Palma’s work—a sense that the most efficient way to reveal the truth is to display the artifice that goes into the telling. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Yet Green applies these highly refined artifices to situations and settings that are ordinary, contemporary, even documentary-based, and their effect is critical, even comedic. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Of course, “UnREAL” is scripted—not “real”—but by now the audience is so many layers of artifice and inauthenticity in that if anything, it’s an addition frisson of excitement. From the Duggars to the Bachelorettes, we’ve made our cynical TV beds — and this damning critique of our “reality” obsession couldn’t come at a better time 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Here and there, that physical ease is blurred by computerized artifice, but no matter; we believe in her felinity. “Cats” Reviewed: It’s Not Quite Weird Enough 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Lest all the artifice of breed descriptions, chemistry-set jargon and ingredient rebranding in the posher kind of restaurant make a certain kind of diner suspicious, a parallel recent trend is the reassuring adjective "proper". Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z Registering the artifice in Hopper’s limpid art may free us to see a link between hotel rooms and painting itself: Both magnetize desire and a longing to escape. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Like all reality TV, it veers between authentic human drama and absurd artifice, and the fun lies in finding out where exactly the cracks in the seams are. “UnREAL” nails reality TV: 5 reasons why this behind-the-scenes drama is a “Bachelor” hate-watcher’s dream 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z But what I was trying to do in making the film is find the natural beyond the artifice, behind this lying, mendacious thing. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z There is, however, a problem with the switchover, which as a defiantly transparent piece of artifice is irritating, even though it allows Paul to explore beyond his limited horizons. Sundance film festival 2013: Touchy Feely – first look review 2013-01-22T12:04:53Z His directing philosophy is a process of purification, focusing on stripping away artifice, cutting away excess interpretation and aiming for lines delivered neutrally. Richard Maxwell Comes Full Circle With O?Neill?s ?Early Plays? 2012-02-19T03:27:16Z To construct our own reality in the games of childhood, and say F* you to the artifice of the adult world. How do you write about life when it's lived on computers? 2013-05-17T09:59:03Z Her understanding of the artifice of the medium reads as evidence of her Bronx authenticity, so it’s easy to buy into the plainly staged scenes that gloss up the season. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z What theatre does, at its best, is use artifice to tell fundamental truths. Noises off: Politics casts the die on theatre's fate 2010-04-22T16:53:00Z It seems to me that, despite all the artifice, Byrne is trying to capture something real: something to do with measuring time, how the past persists, how the new becomes old. Video artist Gerard Byrne: the great pretender 2013-01-17T06:30:01Z Many layers of artifice are at work in “Underground Railroad Game,” and no sooner do we find our footing on one of them than it shifts to another. Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z And he played a key role as Italian cinema moved away from the neo-realism of the postwar years to incorporate stylization and artifice. Tonino Guerra, Italian Screenwriter and Poet, Dies at 92 2012-03-23T04:08:37Z In that context, words such as “imitation” or “impression” became insults, equated with empty mannerism and inauthentic artifice. Why music biopics so often fall flat 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z But she sometimes emphasizes artifice, allowing dangling string to pool on the floor or arranging green stones on a descending scale in a piece that resembles musical notation. In the galleries: Manipulating nature at McLean Project for the Arts 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z But “it is difficult to think of someone who constructed such a complex artifice trying to justify that decision to others but also to himself,” he said of Toomer. Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White 2010-12-26T21:46:48Z “Wayne’s World” is a movie obsessed with authenticity but built on layers of artifice. ‘Wayne’s World’ & Me 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z They project aggression with artifice, enacting the line in their then current hit, "Substitute" – "The simple things you see are all complicated." Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z Supporting wires are exposed and suddenly cut to further lay bare the artifice of theatre. The Seagull – review 2013-04-21T15:39:52Z "Community" is not the first show to make a point of its own artifice. 'Community' is back in session, this time on Yahoo Screen 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z My job is to make it look like it’s not all artifice and not all design. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z Implicit in this gentle, cozy artifice was the notion that our thoughts are very powerful, like our feelings, and that we can think our way into and out of places as we need to. How Mr. Rogers Became Everyone’s Neighbor 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Throughout his film, de Oliveira plays with the tension between verisimilitude and the artifice of performance. ‘The First Fallen’ Review: A Remembrance of Those Passed 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z This was another excellent episode from The Hospital documentary series, which works harder than most to strip away the layers of artifice and euphemism that increasingly clutter any interaction between the public and public medicine. TV review: The Hospital and Who Do You Think You Are? 2010-07-27T06:59:00Z The mask-like artifice of the pilots in song, the histrionic flourishes of the historical masques, the melodramatic excesses of villains and heroes alike offer an extravagant thrill of overstoked emotion to a nearly unbearable intensity. The Virtues of Screening “Forbidden” Films 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z He allows us to see that Valere's work has a crude vigour, and that the principled Elomire, who argues that "good verse conceals its artifice ideally", is dogmatic. Review 2010-07-08T01:12:00Z Beneath the artifice of the styling, however, these were actually conventional clothes, apart from the gender transgression. On the Runway Blog: In London, the Ones That Stand Out 2012-06-18T14:13:43Z It was supposed to be a back-to-the-basics recording without the artifice of studio trickery. A look inside the Beatles’ messy breakup, 50 years later 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The goal of this artifice is realism, bringing the visitor to an imagined spot, granting a glimpse of the natural world without humans. Exhibition Review: Giants on Tiptoe at a Los Angeles Museum 2011-07-19T16:30:28Z “Her one song is so genuinely moving,” Catsoulis wrote, “it only underscores the emotional artifice surrounding it.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Try Harder!’ and ‘Sheryl’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z It is tempting to think of the Jurassic museum as a postmodern gloss on the world in its assertion that in the human manufacture of museums all is artifice. Museum Review: Museum of Jurrasic Technology Shows Its Wild Side - Review 2012-01-09T23:12:21Z Organized by Douglas Eklund and Beth Saunders of the museum’s photography department, it skims across the diffuse purposes and sensibilities that the staged photograph has served, while revealing different facets of its inherent artifice. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Like all reality TV, there is some predictable artifice, but the show is refreshing in its concentration on creative process over performance. Why you should catch up on Netflix's addictive "Rhythm + Flow" 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z In any case Ms. Pinkins is such a forceful actress that she would rip through any lingering artifice anyway. | 'Milk Like Sugar': ?Milk Like Sugar? at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-11-02T02:00:09Z The lack of showy artifice in “Spotlight” is exactly what makes it great: The film never loses sight of telling a complicated story as simply as possible. “The Revenant” takes the lead: Repeat Oscars for Iñárritu’s spectacular vision would make history — and shouldn’t let the academy off the hook 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Reality and fantasy intermingle, as do abstraction and representation, nature and artifice, attraction and dread. The gorgeous but threatening world of Marion Estes 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Michel, Franck and the others are at once in their natural habitat, doing what comes naturally, and participants in an elaborate and complex game of artifice and concealment. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z "I also like the idea of blending nature and artifice. And, in the title track, I sing 'ooh, ooh, ooh', so it reflects that sound." Marina: 'Co-writing is killing pop' 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Once people have the camera there’s always a kind of artifice and design in motion. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z That look speaks assertively to a Gen Z crowd chary of artifice and aggressive displays of sensuality. Billie Eilish: Gen Z’s Outrageous Fashion Role Model 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Waller-Bridge knows how to combine naked confessionalism and comic artifice, and it allows her to tap veins of honest emotion — anger, fear and particularly deep sadness — rarely felt in half-hour comedies. Review: ‘Fleabag,’ Biting, Bitter and Pushing Boundaries 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Minor missteps — the sound of Mary rummaging upstairs in the attic, the flash of lights for emotional flourishes — call undue attention to the artifice of what we’re experiencing. Alfred Molina, Jane Kaczmarek and the slow burn of a 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The artifice of self-consciousness is integrated into their very nature. Two French Melodramas: “3 Hearts” and “Villa Amalia” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The conversation sometimes meanders, sometimes crackles with tension, and is peppered with academic quotes; the boundaries between artifice and reality, between acting and not acting, are blurred. What Happens to the Hope at the End of the Evening – review 2013-07-14T14:11:00Z Baldung sets the ecstatic scene in a pretty landscape, but his aesthetic is basically one of enclosure and artifice. Art Review: New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800, at the Met 2013-05-23T22:47:11Z He thought the lack of artifice, the pictures everyone could read, might inspire people to live together; it turned out he was speaking a language narrower than he’d ever known. The Disappearing World of Wolfgang Tillmans 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z A. Christmas is all about artifice and magic, and then with a dash of darkness, you add alcohol. Drag Queens Reflect (Grrr) on the Christmas Season 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z And lack of artifice is built into the show itself. Review: Tito Jackson’s Sons on ‘The Jacksons: Next Generation’ 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Warner’s staging is vigorously modern in its costumes, characterizations and Brechtian effects calling attention to the artifice of theater. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z But all of these things don’t always go hand in hand, and often Lady Gaga finds herself in various tugs of war with herself — sincerity versus artifice, extravagance versus asceticism, and so on. Review: Lady Gaga, the Flashy Provocateur, Battles Lady Gaga, the Raw Voice 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z This is wide of the mark and something of an injustice. is not realistic: it is a very smart artifice. Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z He usually refrained from using professional models because he felt they brought artifice into his studio. Realist painter Lucian Freud has died aged 88 2011-07-21T20:28:08Z This introduction of artifice is a hopeful sign, since so much of the film’s power isn’t transferable: the sad setting; the close-ups; above all, the ambiguity and shock of fact. Review: ‘Titicut Follies’ Tries to Deliver a Shock to Ballet 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z This is work playing knowingly on art's innate artifice and on each individual artist's wilfully composed self-creative conceits. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-05T23:09:02Z While movie musicals hoped their lip-syncing created a naturalistic illusion, drag leaned into the artifice, building a commentary on the source material by challenging its gender norms. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Yet the artifice of the form works something wondrous with the material, highlighting the generic nature of our response to extreme violence. Review: 5 Murdered Prostitutes and an Anxious City in ‘London Road’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Some have learned to treat the screen as a stage allowing some artifice, even in real time. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Lynda Benglis’s “Water Sources”, installed earlier this year and on view until the end of the autumn, charts a playful middle course between nature and artifice. Gigantism 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z "I read Borges for his extraordinary ability at verbal artifice; he's a man who teaches you how to write ... to sharpen your instrument for saying things." A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z The effect is unearthly, ghostly: The ear finds it impossible to separate live sounds from their electronic manipulation, art from artifice, presence from re-creation. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The explicitness and the extremeness of the artifice is a marker of its authenticity. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Readers got a glimpse of the real, murky world of espionage, the flip side to Ian Fleming’s glossy, soft-focus artifice, with the flawed and jaded Alec Leamas more victim than hero. The spy who came in from the cold 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The interesting thing about directing it is, how do you embrace all that artifice but keep the acting totally real? Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! No, Really, You Gotta! 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Penn’s image expresses a balance that exists in the wild but that’s harder to find in the world of artifice. Perspective | What does Vogue do in a pandemic? It shows medical workers as heroic — but also human 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The word Wednesday is named for the Germanic god Woden — the ruler and war god who loves a relentless quest as much as chicanery or any sort of artifice and he eschews law or rules. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z It's been hailed as a high point of feminism, a triumph of nature over artifice, the epitome of crafted songwriting, and the ideal surface on which to roll a joint. Christine Tobin weaves a new Tapestry 2010-06-24T22:30:00Z But, human beings are remarkably adept at detecting artifice or insincerity. Lake Wobegon’s new mayor: Chris Thile’s “Prairie Home Companion” will go “from Bach to Kendrick Lamar” 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Martin’s act is not only a rebuke to simple, romantic notions of comedic truth, it’s also explicitly preoccupied with artifice. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Steve Martin: The Television Stuff’: A Comedian’s Evolution 2012-09-17T21:49:26Z “The ease, the comfort, but more than anything, the complete lack of artifice and pretense.” Pining for the Intimacy of Pandemic Pods 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z By calling attention to the artifice of performance, they subtly highlight their role as the show’s creators, too. Human nature 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z In “Self Portrait,” he discusses this explicitly, and the diary films are full of ironic acknowledgments of their own artifice. The Avant-Garde Filmmaker Who Tried to Tell the Truth 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Much of the appeal of the beauty boy lies in his embrace of makeup’s playful artifice. Those Lips! Those Eyes! That Stubble! The Transformative Power of Men in Makeup 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The acting, the camerawork, the artistic sheen of the series rendered these Black deaths visually indelible, but those elements also signaled the artifice of those scenes. My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z And Ms. Benson, the inventive artistic director of Soho Rep, has coaxed her very affecting, very funny cast into almost naturalistic performances, while still celebrating Mr. Maxwell’s love of the artifice of theater. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Dear Boy, Emily Berry's first book of poems, is immediately striking for its sophisticated awareness of such artifice. Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review 2013-03-22T19:00:01Z “In ‘Bardo’ he does what few actors are capable of doing, which is to erase the artifice of acting to reach the essence and the presence of something honest and truthful,” Iñárritu said. When Daniel Giménez Cacho Met the Three Amigos 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z In the interest of nature, the garden has studiously applied artifice. Critic?s Notebook: Where the Lenape Trod 2011-11-03T22:02:38Z There isn’t a shred of artifice on “Little Oblivions,” its honesty palpable enough to make listeners flinch. Julien Baker questioned her faith. Music helped her embrace the uncertainty. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z An inspiring alternative for him was the film "Taxi Driver," which he saw as an antidote to stiffness and artifice in drama. A tasty turn by Mads Mikkelsen as NBC's 'Hannibal' 2013-04-02T14:25:14Z “Both of us enjoy artifice — we like miniatures a lot,” Mr. Steele said. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Her work is figurative, often photorealistic yet hermetic, knowing but mysterious, authentic while embracing the pleasures of artifice. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The whole point of Cocteau’s “Belle” is formal artifice, the stylized Beast, the gorgeous costumes, the magic castle with living fixtures. The Philip Glass effect on film: Transforming 'Dracula' and 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Far from the clear and discrete quantity that we’re told it is, it’s actually something that’s hidden beneath layers of obscurations, something that we tend to only find with the use of artifice and imagination. I'm a trans woman. Kiarostami's films helped me escape a prison of the mind 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Since opera is a genre full of dramatic artifice, Mr. Crimp has suggested, why not use artifice as a dramatic element? Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z He chops Michel Legrand’s lush score into disconnected fragments, has characters address the camera, exposes his own artifice, and generally expresses his sense that real life is just one long movie. 9 Great Godard Films to Stream Now 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “The Valley” is a visual contemplation of an animal impulse in the context of late capitalism, activated by the artifices and edifices of the American suburb. Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Van Hove brings the artifice to the forefront. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Yet on another, it is an impressive bit of meta fiction, a tribute to its own artifice that would almost seem to demand a guest appearance by Joaquin Phoenix. Critic?s Notebook: Fake Writer, Real Books? That?s ?Castle? 2010-12-05T22:15:00Z Mr. Wright’s brilliant gamble is to arrive at this level of emotional authenticity by way of self-conscious artifice. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z Whereas what politics does, at its worst, is hide the truth with cleverly fashioned artifice. Noises off: Politics casts the die on theatre's fate 2010-04-22T16:53:00Z He celebrates the essay as a form born of contradictions between tradition and innovation, fragmentation and wholeness, autobiography and artifice. A Witty and Original Writer Shares His Love for the Essay 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z When the British performer Dickie Beau, for instance, lip-synced to Monroe and Judy Garland interviews in his show “Blackouts,” he used the artifice to dig into issues of identification and exploitation. Review: Up All Night, With Rebecca Hall as Muse, in ‘Soundstage’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He had no time for the usual artifice of TV: no retakes, no stop-starts, just shoot what happens. Anthony Bourdain made food writing muscular and kinetic | Jay Rayner 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Most garden plants are highly evolved, either through natural selection or the artifice of the plant breeder. These larger-than-life sculptures elevate the timeless fern, with obsessive botanical accuracy 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The artifice lies in the gorgeous colors, the suave camera movements and the elegant wide-screen compositions. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The point in time he is trying to recreate, whether it ever existed or not, is the only point in his memory where he felt free from artifice in his actions. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z Sontag rather describes it as "a sensibility that revels in artifice, stylization, theatricalization, irony, playfulness, and exaggeration rather than content." If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z It’s all there — the fascination with the art object, with authenticity and artifice, with looking. Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Life doesn’t stand a chance in the face of such brutally honest artifice.” Brian Bedford, Stage Actor Who Brought the Classics to Life, Dies at 80 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Yet despite the obvious layers of artifice, there is something insistent and revealing in these scenes. The Emotion and Artifice of Medical Actors 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Kha uses playful artifice to get at an emotional truth: the fractured layering of identity. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z The concept, she said, is "neon nature — fusing artifice with natural elements." Marina and the Diamonds' new intimacy bears 'Froot' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z He presented artifice as the new authenticity, while also holding to rock’s ballsy power in tracks like “Suffragette City.” How the 1970s Launched David Bowie's Career 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Even her fingernails are perfectly shaped, as is the body underneath all the artifice. 'A Dame to Kill For' is a sinful waste of a sequel 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z There are no stakes, no substance, and no honesty—just artifice on artifice on artifice. Don’t apologize, Noah Galvin: Let’s applaud celebrities who dare to speak their mind, not tear them down 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z The movie’s distinction is clear: what the drag queens do is artifice, predicated on a kind of fakery. Drag Queens on the Screen: There to Prove a Woman’s Authenticity 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Their extreme artifice became a framework for extreme ideas and extreme emotions, even in an era of extreme public reticence about what goes on in the bedroom. “Fifty Shades Darker”: Not Even the Sex Has Personality 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Instead of evoking the felt experience of inner life, Ellmann seems to be creating a stylized braid of conscious and unconscious thought—an artifice that’s aware of its own construction. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Rihanna’s real art—her accessible brand of casual, forward-thinking cool and her unyielding rejection of artifice—has always seemed incidental to her tangible output. Rihanna’s Anti-Album 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z It can be awkward, as the interlude dissolves the show’s carefully constructed artifices. Review | A member of Pussy Riot is in a new play that dramatizes the group’s courage 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Being aware of this doesn’t preclude people from enjoying the series while still acknowledging the dome of cinematic and cultural artifice under which it operates. We can't say enough about "Stranger Things" season 3 — literally 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Stewart greeted a crowded arena at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn by nodding to his talk show tenure and to the artifice of professional wrestling. At WWE’s ‘SummerSlam,’ Jon Stewart’s Chair-Throwing Incites Fans 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The studio artifice that “Sgt. Pepper” daringly flaunted has long since become commonplace. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Though Mr. Mthethwa works in people’s homes, he maintains the studio environment’s sense of artifice and collaboration between photographer and subject. Art Review: Zwelethu Mthethwa at Studio Museum in Harlem 2010-07-15T21:40:00Z Like Burton and Taylor – the comparison is a familiar one – there was grand passion on stage and off it to begin with, and no one was quite sure where artifice ended and life began. Angela Gheorghiu's serious claims might not be taken seriously 2013-07-03T17:00:00Z Some singers have this kind of artifice around them; part of what they’re doing is communicating with you, and part is showing you where in the music world they come from. Theo Bleckmann Performs Kate Bush?s Songs 2012-04-04T22:21:32Z In other words, Gowar, as an ingenious artificer herself, locates her most authentic reality in artifice and art. The Malevolent Little Mermaid: Not Your Usual Fantasy Heroine 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z In a truly post-racial world, perhaps their previous offerings would just be a random artifice. ArtsBeat: SXSW 2014: Jungle Unmasked, Sort Of 2014-03-12T15:25:00Z Parsing that quality of photographic artifice is central to Weil's art. Brian Weil's work focuses on a 'World' few ever see 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The artifice and mastery of form in the creation of this game are obvious. Video Game Review: Gears of War 3 - Review 2011-09-19T17:12:57Z This graceful, unhurried style, with its blend of austerity and artifice and its roots in classical French theatrical traditions, is Mr. Green’s signature. Review: In Eugène Green’s ‘La Sapienza,’ a Search of Ideals of Civilization 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The old sculpted glamour and artifice were anathema. Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z It is an affect ritualized into performance, like the performances enacted every day in Chinese TV commercials and Internet promotions, and on highway billboards, where affluence is equated with influence and artifice earns cultural currency. The Viral Wedding Photos That Conquered China 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z While the film is full of artifice and allegorical implication, it also presents itself as a quasiscientific look at human male pack behavior in the wild. Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ the Manly Games Played on the Aegean 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Determinedly drab, she is allergic to any form of artifice or titivation. Moral Questions Lurk Beneath a Ghost Story in ‘Melmoth’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The extra work takes the form of myths that we build around the reasons and circumstances of a recording, and through that myth-building we temporarily disbelieve in artifice. In Praise of Blue Notes: What Makes Music Sad? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But Mr. Evans said he had learned to ply his trade without the usual artifice. 2010-02-11T08:28:00Z My guess is that America is only going to continue tolerating this act if she maintains some shred of artifice to make us believe she's suffering. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: In defense of Niecy 2010-04-20T12:21:00Z With a writer like Muriel Spark or Angela Carter, consciousness of artifice allows for an admittance of artifice. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z Some of these are long and dense, but in the relatively concise 2003 manifesto “The Third Paradise,” he wrote that humanity must seek “a balanced connection between artifice and nature.” Michelangelo Pistoletto Endures. Even Covid Couldn’t Stop Him. 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Ross Cobb is a fine winemaker, and, while this is in the California style of bold fruit framed by toasty oak, it has plenty of acidity and no artifice. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Fall Edition 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The novel, originally entitled The Godgame, makes a game of what is real and what is artifice, of perception and of identity. Summer readings: The Magus by John Fowles 2011-07-31T09:00:00Z In the poem “Sweetheart,” Myles acknowledges the artifice of this truth as well as a division of the private and the public-private: From an Iconoclast and an Icon, Poems of Personal and Public Transformation 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z There’s a reason why many of the greatest cinematic stylists—such as Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, and Ernst Lubitsch, creators of magnificent artifice—are also among the greatest cinematic moralists. The Styleless Fakery of “Suicide Squad” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z It is not an artifice that the mind has added to human nature. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z They inhabit this minimal level of artifice with some discomfort. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Burnham has always been hyper-sensitive to artifice and self-projection , and this story of an American teen who turns his own life into a reality show may be the perfect vehicle for his abundant talents. Tracy Morgan called 'sexist' at Melbourne comedy festival 2013-04-16T12:09:02Z Coming up in an industry known for its artifice, Spears used dance as a means of transparency with fans. Britney Spears Has Always Fought Back. By Dancing. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z That it looks to be clean and pure and without artifice, even though it is possibly as sophisticated as any commercial American movie ever made. So You Want to Watch a Weepie 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Yet part of the film's charm is in seeing Deneuve, Depardieu and company not slumming, exactly, but relaxing into the artifice of the material. Catherine Deneuve: A real dream of a woman 2011-04-08T18:48:00Z Closer to the beach is "Organica/Mechanica," which blends nature and artifice in ways typical of many of the pieces in the exhibit. Outdoor art and 'Sunset and Music' come to Carkeek Park 2011-07-29T17:30:07Z Onstage, she and her band perform the songs with theatrical staging, as if to highlight a spirit of playful artifice. Review: Esperanza Spalding’s Funk Enlightenment 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Caurier and Leiser sometimes lose sight of the underlying artifice, though the updating really brings home Rossini's often delighted approval of hedonistic pleasure. Il Turco in Italia | Opera review 2010-04-04T20:30:00Z Once people had seen what war looked like – neighbours bombed out, platoon buddies blown to pieces just yards away – their taste for artifice and escapism ebbed somewhat. From The Naked City to Double Indemnity – why the 1940s is my favourite film decade 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s all the more moving, then, when his world tilts and the man who spent decades unmasking the artifice of others finds deception much closer to home. Review: ‘An Honest Liar,’ a Documentary About the Debunker James Randi 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It’s the kind of rewardingly happy ending that reminds us of how the artifice of theater can stir real emotions not just for those who create it, but for those who attend it, too. Theater Review: ‘Stage Kiss,’ a Sarah Ruhl Comedy, at Playwrights Horizons 2014-03-03T03:00:19Z In his biography, Andrew Morton wrote that Diana was “deeply disenchanted with the protocol, the flummery and the artifice” of the family, and “the brittle formality” of royal life. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z But this sex goddess, much like the Sex Pistols, is also a work of pop-culture artifice, whose self-creation has roots in the Los Angeles punk scene. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The illusions are so seamless, it’s easy to mistake what is “real” and what is artifice. A Shape-Shifting Woman Plays All the Parts 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z |
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