Other motifs in the story are attached to concepts, for example ‘transformation’ or ‘love’ or ‘servitude’, or to things, such as a ‘spear’, the ‘gold’ or the ‘River Rhine’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Lovesickness, it would seem, if the repeating motif around this place is any indication. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

On the rickety, old-fashioned stained- glass door, with its motifs of exotic birds, there was a bronze knocker in the shape of a woman’s hand pressing on a ball. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most revealing feature in this compromise motif is that on each issue, both sides could plausibly believe they had gotten the best of the bargain. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The motif had been a popular one in earlier Dutch genre scenes, where bubbles symbolized life’s brevity and, hence, the vanity of all earthly things. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this was not the only contradiction to the Dublin-black-shawl motif. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Just as the period’s architects designed buildings from the same limited collection of motifs and shapes, Haydn and his contemporaries were designing music from a similarly limited catalogue. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Each had knotted, carefully combed tassels, fleur-de-lis borders, ornate medallion designs, and minute scalloping amid a motif of connected eight-spoked wheels, all in rust and fire orange. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The result is that each raga is a collection of melodic scales, phrases, motifs, and ornaments, that may be used together to construct music in that raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When a motif returns, it can be slower or faster, or in a different key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Old scars with old motifs stitched along their borders. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, that was the motif of the thing, so to speak—what I was trying to bring out in a fairly subtle way,” Lane said, very closely following the trend of his own conversation. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

To help the creative process, you might give students a short, simple rhythm to work with to create the motif. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was unpretentious, masculine, decorated with a nautical motif, and had a constant smell of fried bacon about it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had looked closely at the elaborate motifs of her tablecloths and doilies and had tried to draw them on lined notebook paper or on flattened grocery bags. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Direct your attention to the wallpaper with its Revolutionary War motif. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Etched brass with leaf motifs and plaster swirls above the door. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For after 1765 Copley freely adapted and combined motifs from different prints in his paintings, often disguising their origins so completely that we cannot be certain which they were. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most elegant and sublime of these is a representation of the creation of the universe at the beginning of each cosmic cycle, a motif known as the cosmic dance of Shiva. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most figures and motifs are shorter than phrases, but some of the leitmotifs of Wagner's operas are long enough to be considered phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There’s probably a religious motif, though in the foreground something more immediate: money, the release of others jailed in some sinkhole for doing more or less the same thing these men are doing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

These themes are often complete melodies with many phrases, but a single phrase can be taken from the melody and used as a motif. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Like a motif, a subject has often changed when it reappears, sounding higher or lower, for example, or faster or slower. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A standard motif in science fiction and UFO literature assumes extraterrestrials roughly as capable as we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motif of a young woman contemplating her beauty goes all the way back to antiquity, but rarely has it been depicted with such disturbing Overtones. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with other motifs, leitmotifs may be changed when they return. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I searched for some logic, some binding motif the collection had in common, but I found nothing in my hasty examination. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Chandresh cannot decipher any of it, cannot even tell if the marks are broken into words or simply continuous strings of motifs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The robin sings flexible songs, containing a variety of motifs that he rearranges to his liking; the notes in each motif constitute the syntax, and the possibilities for variation produce a considerable repertoire. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cross-stitch itself was tedious, but the prospects were beautiful; Mother had the foresight to give me a botanical motif, knowing how I love green and growing things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A motif is a short musical idea — shorter than a phrase — that occurs often in a piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Some of these notes are discarded as fruitless, while others are tucked away to form a storehouse of motifs and studies for later use. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They whimsically combined styles, patterns and motifs from earlier times: ancient Egyptian and Greek architecture, Art Deco, Bauhaus and California Funk. ‘The Memphis Group’ 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

There are several wreath motifs in the show, including “Conn Con,” from 2017, a large ring of straw festooned with ornamental corn. And the Blue Ribbon Goes to ... Anissa Mack 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Rubio created Bolt Hero, which relies on Chargers themes and motifs, more than a decade ago. If Big Brands Copied Their Work, What Are Artists to Do? 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Unable to compete with the extravagant, steel-framed skyscrapers being constructed in the US, European cities developed their own style of streamlined building, with exotic facades combining art-deco geometry with national motifs. 10 of the best European cities for art deco design 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of improvisation and finding different rhythmic motifs that work at a fast tempo,” he explains. Tapper, musician Alex Dugdale cuts a rug at ‘Sacred Music’ 2013-12-23T20:06:42Z

A longing viola motif, as of a hand reaching tentatively toward the sky, evokes Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.” Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Percussive strikes on the bodies of the instruments and pizzicato motifs recalled traditional Persian music. Review | San Francisco’s Amaranth Quartet offers world premieres in its D.C. debut 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

It’s striking that Schmidt chose cricket to put a spin on the boy-as-athlete motif. Kids Searching for the Complicated Truth 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

It’s telling, I think, that Jimmy’s recurring motif is one of hesitation at doors, instead of knocking, like Walter, or opening, like Gale. The best antihero now isn’t a badass: “Better Call Saul” is the brilliant, pathetic counterpart to prestige TV’s bold angry men 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bovell is big on coincidences and on recurring motifs, even recurring bits of dialogue. Theater Review | 'When the Rain Stops Falling': Fish Soup and Bad Weather, Across the Decades 2010-03-09T08:12:00Z

The tune from the title track of “Philosophy of the World” also recurs as a motif throughout. Outsiders No More: Shaggs Musical Coming in 2011 2010-06-23T19:39:00Z

The bar's interior also reportedly features an orange motif, which critics claim is inspired by Agent Orange, a chemical weapon used in the war. Vietnam War-themed bar in Australia apologizes following backlash over 'horrific' decor 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

In the new show at the institute, the vessels and sculptures are knobby, horned, gnarled and faceted, and trimmed in motifs based on ancient Greek fretwork, acanthus leaves and frilly seashells. Antiques: The Ceramists Frans and Marguerite Wildenhain on View 2012-08-16T20:43:06Z

The first piece opens with a gesture one recognizes from the composer’s symphonic style, a low pedal point over which a grand descending motif suggests a melancholy sense of stormy, wide-open spaces. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes every detail count at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

In kaleidoscopic colors and patterns — tribal motifs, overblown peonies, cheetah spots, abstract skulls and awning stripes — they’re eye candy for a new generation. It?s a Turban, It?s a Dress (It?s a Scarf) 2011-05-25T21:01:02Z

Images related to the theater became ubiquitous as motifs embellishing buildings, furniture, frescoes, household goods and as garden ornaments. Review: The Face of Captive Greece in Rome 2010-08-13T15:41:00Z

Despite his affection for fairy-tale motifs, his ex-wife is not a wicked witch holding him hostage in a castle tower. I Love My Boyfriend. But Why Does He Live With His Ex-Wife? 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Mauceri led an orchestra and chorus in a new overture to the movie, sampling different motifs from the score. Danny Elfman concert at Hollywood Bowl brings out Tim Burton fans 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

A three-note rising motif in the percussion unfolded to a vision of what seemed like a horizontal hailstorm over a cloudy background. Review: Daniel Wohl’s ‘Holographic’ Is Performed for the First Time 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Wagnerian strands run through the music, even hints of motifs from “Tristan” and the so-called “Tristan” chord. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

The furniture’s mahogany and beech frames are sculpted with leaves, flowers, scrollwork and spiderweb motifs, and the tapestry upholstery depicts courtiers frolicking in pastoral landscapes. Flagler Museum’s Gilded Seating, Restored, Evokes a Sumptuous (and Torrid) Gilded Age 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

The work rollicked along with blues-inflected riffs in dancing unisons on three main motifs: fast runs, repeated notes and syncopations. Trio celebrates 40 years of music 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The movement, an automatic Dubois-Dépraz 9000, is decorated with circular graining on the bridges and a snailed côtes de Genève motif on the rotor. Shades of Blue 2013-04-25T16:18:32Z

Small skittering hops and stamping motifs send the dancers ricocheting across a white, light-drenched stage, composed in the moment within the work’s overall arc, which is set but allows for a great deal of improvisation. Dance Review: No Matter the Country, Boys Will Be Boys 2010-10-20T21:31:00Z

The festive cocktail and dinner napkins, place mats and table runners are made from unprocessed linen hand-embroidered in India with folkloric motifs for a look that's at once rustic and refined. | Heather Taylor Home's Linens 2012-12-17T16:51:15Z

Likewise, the film falters when it relies on a clunky visual motif of an IV bag rolling on to the floor to mirror Amy passing out in a hallway after discovering Charlie's method of killing. In Netflix's uneasy "The Good Nurse," Jessica Chastain suspects Eddie Redmayne of killing patients 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

They create musical motifs for specific trees, animals and plants. Listening to the sounds of the woods 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The motif of the dark trek appears when Maurice meets his Cambridge sweetheart Clive Durham for the first time, in a college room at the end of an unlit corridor. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z

One of Duncan’s favorite chinoiserie patterns, Brighton Pavilion by Schumacher, is a floral and bird motif that she prefers as a wallpaper in dining rooms and bedrooms. How to incorporate 7 popular patterns in your home, according to experts 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Even today I’ll often read, for example, a composer’s program note explaining that a new chamber music piece written in a single 15-minute movement and an essentially atonal language is based on a five-note motif. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

It may be worth noting that Crivelli used the cucumber — virtually absent from Renaissance art — as a signature motif. Carlo Crivelli, an Overlooked Renaissance Master, in Boston 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

The piece, conceived for gut strings, is an exploration of largely soft and subtle sound worlds through the repetition of melodic and rhythmic motifs, with programmatic titles inspired by events in the composer’s life. The Diderot String Quartet wins some converts 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Created using thick glass paint and industrial varnish, the vibrant colors of his political and religious motifs appear almost luminous. Israeli artist depicts pain of rootless Jews in Berlin exhibition 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Abdelmahmoud brings up the ostinato in music — the repeated motif that acts like “guard rails for your emotional experience during every measure of the song.” ‘Son of Elsewhere,’ a Funny and Frank Story About Life After a Big Move 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

It has a handsome portico with the columns' capitals decorated with an acanthus and palm leaf motif taken from the Temple of the Winds in Athens. Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester home to get £2.5m restoration 2013-02-13T08:17:36Z

Versace adorned her creations with Byzantine crosses, often bejeweled, another of her brother's favorite motifs. Versace corners chainmail market 2012-02-24T21:11:27Z

A descending four-note bass pattern keeps recurring like a “Dies irae” motif. Music Review: Carmina Burana Choral Project at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-06T23:19:09Z

The fashion crowd thus got their summer holidays early -flown first class across a vibrant mix of Polynesian prints - and color-rich baroque foulard motifs. Hermes' stylish take on vibrant modernism 2012-09-30T20:01:04Z

Such representations and motifs are also common in recent artwork and cinema. Poached or painted: A closer look at how eggs became a complex motif in countless works of art 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

In late works from 2019, a skeleton holds an oversize skull over his groin, and in other works, based on a string draped into a catenary curve, the repetition of the motif creates a veil. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The work’s most recurrent motif, for individual women, is a straight-legged, side-to-side teeter on point, with the dancer transferring her whole weight from toe to toe and back again — tentative but twinkling. Dance Review: ?Jeu de Cartes? by the Pennsylvania Ballet - Review 2011-10-21T23:28:56Z

Instead, she approaches her songs the way a visual artist might treat a blank canvas, filling them with sonic motifs, thematic associations and spoken-word interludes. Jenny Hval’s lyrics will grab your attention at Kremwerk 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Conner created the works’ rows and fields of tiny Rorschachian emblems by drawing a single motif and then doubling it by folding the paper. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Haneke begins the movie with a flash-forward sequence which impresses on our minds and retinas a devastating memento mori motif, governing how we react to everything that succeeds it. Cannes 2012: Amour ? review 2012-05-20T14:26:48Z

He spends the rest of his time in New York with his boyfriend, the photographer Ryan McGinley, and at pottery workshops at Columbia Teachers College, firing plates in unusual, even uncomfortable, motifs. Maker to Know: A Ceramist Creating Insect-Adorned Plates 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

The combination of a Moorish motif and floral carvings appears in a number of other Herter Brothers pieces. An Antique Fireplace Surround Is on the Block 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

He also sees a clear connection to Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs” — particularly the recurring motif of gangsters who hang out, talk trash and do their jobs like, well, jobs. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

He eventually described his work as “harmolodics” — a combination of harmony, movement and melodic motifs into a fluid, untethered music evolving from a central idea. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The orchestra played the agitated motifs of the Allegro Molto with nervous drive, and the final section unfolded with sizzling energy. Review: Lisa Batiashvili With the New York Philharmonic 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The collection’s mix-and-match palette of white, gray, sage, and navy is chicly versatile, suitable for city and country and mingling happily with other linens of almost any color or motif. See Aerin Lauder's Bedding Collection 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

So did the computer-generated patterns — bright lacquer red with lagoon blue in abstract, crisscross motifs — judiciously used so as not to overwhelm a quieter piece in white or black. Sense and Sensibility 2012-09-25T18:19:08Z

The motifs that Farrow-Savos paints on her sculptures are usually simpler, although one of the women is wrapped in a shroud covered in old photographs. In the galleries: Brave new worlds and fantastic heroines 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Aerial footage, most of it from helicopters, was the signature motif of “O.J.: Made in America.” Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

The crispy poultry motif figures heavily in the “Green Book” trailers, conceivably as a warning. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Woven together, the classical dance and folk motifs — circles, flexed heels, quick runs backward and forward — knit patterns onto the stage, almost transforming its surface into a sky of gliding birds. Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Forget the subtle barn motif, the online videos suggesting conscientious cooks are fussing over breakfast, lunch and dinner. Founding Farmers review: Zero stars for the mega-popular D.C. eatery 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

The bucket motif, however clear in terms of getting her point across, gradually loses its luster. Dance Review: ‘Voices of Strength’ at New York Live Arts 2012-09-23T21:57:09Z

Morlot drew excellent and well characterized playing from his musicians, highlighting important motifs and coordinating the complicated traffic of all those section solos. Solos step up in Symphony’s take on two masterpieces 2014-04-26T00:46:53Z

There is nothing daring at all about swiping ideas and motifs from Helmut Lang, a designer whose career is the gift that keeps on giving. Weirdness, Emotion, Provocation Mark Paris Men’s Wear 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Save for a sweetness afforded "Father, Son," most arrangements were protracted, with the occasional avant-garde motifs offset by a lack of energy. Peter Gabriel's experiment with strings attached 2011-06-21T14:26:00Z

For the most part, it’s a bland reprocessing of neo-noir tropes, vaguely borrowing its tone and theme from “Body Heat” and other films that are themselves reprocessings of earlier Hollywood motifs. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Missing within those motifs, which repeat yet rarely develop, is momentum. Review: Gallim’s Dancing Waves of Contractions and Contortions 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

I recall a pair of blue Doc Martens with steel toes, and a black shirt with a silver arabesque motif which, I regret to say, I buttoned to the top. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z

Super 8 is, among other things, a smart medley of motifs and moods from the films of Spielberg's early prime. The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z

With that accomplished, he then smartly reintroduced some of the floral motifs, but in a modern way. Fashion Review: Leonard and Alexis Mabille Embellish Their Designs 2012-03-06T19:30:36Z

Now "Wall Flowers," an exhibition at Palm Beach's Gavlak Gallery, organized by S|2, the art gallery at Sotheby's, examines the flower as a recurring motif in contemporary art. Sotheby's exhibits contemporary art featuring flowers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Certain motifs are repeated in many variations like a growing obsession. Spanish thriller dredges up dark childhood secret 2012-02-11T20:08:24Z

The adjoining master bathroom, which features large Armenian tiles depicting nature motifs on the floor and walls, offers passage to yet another bedroom that she converted into her dressing space. ‘They’ll have to carry me out of here in a box’ 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

We notice patterns and motifs without worrying too much about the structure that governs them. Movie Review: ‘In Another Country,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert 2012-11-09T01:11:30Z

The four-handed works look more like her solo one: representational, expressionist and punctuated with collaged patterns that range from simple lines to elaborate floral motifs. Review | In the galleries: Turning the commonplace into uncommonly fine art 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

There were some alluring effects throughout, beginning with the viola motifs played with panache by Amanda Verner, the soloist. Music Review: American Soundscapes Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-29T20:31:54Z

Her pieces’ ample shapes and tactile botanical motifs earned her the MoMu Award, the prize from Antwerp’s fashion museum. The Dress in His Painting? She Designed It 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

One of the motifs of the 2010 Proms is a commemoration of the 150th birthday of Mahler; the composer isn't here to enjoy it, but he'd have approved of tonight's programme. BBC Proms 2010-08-07T05:45:00Z

By the end of “Twenty-seven,” we’ve seen dancers deliver this motif while lifted, while jumping and at different angles. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

And he repeats motifs to the point of exhaustion: He never met a curlicue of eyeliner he didn't like. 2009-12-10T01:10:00Z

I admired the zigzag motif that formed part of the design above the main entrance on West Fifth Street. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Till Eulenspiegel” was even better, infused with dynamism and a splendid march to the gallows, with principal horn Andrew Bain nailing the torturous solo motif near the opening that gets the piece rolling. After last-minute cancellation, Emmanuel Villaume steps up to lead L.A. Phil 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

At first, "By Nightfall" is a rather slight, cool treatment of these motifs. 'By Nightfall': Michael Cunningham's story of beauty's power to transfix and delude 2010-10-07T18:40:00Z

He went through all the poems, commented on their strengths and weaknesses, and said that horses were a fine ancient motif in poetry and art. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It features chimes, playground screams and tribal drum motifs, while her trademark piano can sound as if it is being hurled down the proverbial flight of stairs. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel … – review 2012-12-20T21:30:06Z

The show also has a running motif about people wondering what it would be like to switch places with one another, as the mother and daughter do in the movie “Freaky Friday.” Theater Review: ‘The Performers,’ With Henry Winkler and Cheyenne Jackson 2012-11-15T03:07:21Z

In fact two of the work’s five movements are fanfares, with the first made up of overlapping rising motifs that create a bright, eager, clamor. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. McPhee used a poem — Langston Hughes’s “Birmingham Sunday” — as a motif to bind disparate patches of musical and textual terrain. Music Review: Steve Dalachinsky and Charlemagne Palestine at Issue Project 2013-09-05T21:54:11Z

Photograph: Magnum Photos It struck me, too, while looking at the 10 images by Cartier-Bresson around which this illuminating show revolves, that the same sense of silence was a recurring motif in all his work. Henri Cartier-Bresson: who can beat the master of monochrome? 2012-11-07T14:58:41Z

The dancers may wobble, as if on a balance beam, yet that’s a motif. Dance Review: Works by Peter Quanz and Jodie Gates at Gotham Dance Festival 2012-06-04T21:19:43Z

The dynamic, wisely, isn’t will-they-or-won’t-they, a rote motif that has sunk mightier shows. Critic’s Notebook: ‘New Girl’ Season Finale, With Zooey Deschanel 2013-05-13T21:56:07Z

In her choice of motifs, the Venezuelan-born artist seems entirely unbound by convention. | An 84-Year-Old Ceramist’s New York Moment 2014-03-03T23:45:27Z

Mercedes-Benz’s three-pronged star is an example, so is the “meatball” motif of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, in which a spacecraft orbits a cluster of planets in the night sky. Design: Company Logos Aim for the Personal Touch 2011-06-13T08:00:06Z

A dense, extended doodle, it embeds a lexicon of Kahlo motifs — a hand, veins, some eyes, several breasts — in a geodesic constellation fraught with stars and spirals that seem straight out of late Kandinsky. Art Review: Drawing an Escape From the Chill of Winter 2011-01-27T00:35:08Z

There’s a physical motif of hands quivering with the spirit. Review: Kyle Marshall’s History Lessons, in Fragments 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Especially intriguing are a series of mostly black-and-white works in which Warhol, inspired perhaps by David Salle, starts using a projector to draw and paint existing motifs directly onto the image. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z

Redemption of a suffering male through the love of a virtuous woman is a motif in many Wagner’s operas. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

In “White Mountain,” the motif is formed from two cutout pieces of mineral-dark canvas side by side. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Adams sings the five-note saxophone motif from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story as an example. Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

She didn’t initially plan to release it in English, but began translating chapters to share them with her sister, whose illness is a recurring motif in the book. Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Buildings and cities — often in apocalyptic states of ruination — were recurring motifs. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

It succeeds in the space between laugh-with and laugh-at; he endlessly replays the same scenes and motifs, a Groundhog Day of braggadocio and encouragement. For DJ Khaled, Snapchat Is a Major Key to Success 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lash, in “How to Remember Seeds” for string quartet, attempts to fracture, tweak and develop little motifs and figures. Review: Decades Later, a Classic Concert Gets a Redo 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

But the use of strong citrus colors, animal prints and geometric motifs gave the relaxed tailoring a bit of much-needed backbone. Special Report: The Forecast? Variable and Partly Stylish 2010-06-20T16:13:00Z

But the notion of acting has become a central motif in this case. ‘Law & Order True Crime’ Season 1, Episode 4: There’s the Rub 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Given a committed performance here, “Backlight” certainly calls to mind Ms. Monk’s vocal aesthetic, beginning with dissonant tones in the winds unfolding over a string and piano motif that increased with gentle insistency. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

But this show uses its motif and the platform to distinctly make a statement about the grotesquely lopsided priorities of local government bureaucracies honors teachers as witty, resourceful and stalwart servants. Amazingly, "Abbott Elementary" finds laughter in the challenge of teaching in underfunded schools 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Hearts are selling well, and the coming collections will have star motifs. Big Bold Gold 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Choose any motif or medium, and it will set you traveling. Art Review: The Met?s New Islamic Galleries - Review 2011-10-27T23:27:21Z

Rather than industrial motifs, the materials are transformed into a homespun dollhouse, a child’s chair and vaguely figurative forms suggesting giant rag dolls and gargantuan puppets. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

His clients commissioned personalized etched patterns on their drinking vessels: Cuban officials wanted palm tree motifs, and robber barons asked for their monograms and the names of their yachts. A New Glass Museum Will Open in a Historic Factory 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Yet the orderly motifs are subtly warped by materials or the artist’s hand. Review | In the galleries: The grid is the primary motif but subject to subtle change 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

She began with a carefully shaped and idiomatic reading of Bach’s Partita No. 3, before plunging without pause into Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2, which quotes the partita and the “Dies Irae” motif. Music Review: A Violinist Layers Bach With Relative Newcomers 2011-01-31T23:34:50Z

Instead, you got an unusual glimpse of the work’s skeleton; recurring motifs obscured by Varèse’s orchestral density stood out with a sharp clarity. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z

These suggest the public language of advertising reclaimed as private, of printed motifs reconstructed by hand and meaning all but lost in translation. Art In Review: Ryan McLaughlin: ‘Raisins’ 2013-12-13T00:29:17Z

He recurs like a motif, and, right now, he is having a moment. In Ireland, Chasing the Ghost of the Rebel Roger Casement 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

A third series on view explores her favorite motif, the iconic house: a box with a triangle on top, inset with window and door. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

Insistent cello motifs underpinned melodies in the upper strings, punctuated by energetic outbursts and elegiac passages. Music Review: Tribeca New Music Festival Features Jack Quartet 2010-06-06T22:14:00Z

The goal was an island vibe without the cheesy seashell motifs, an endless summer in just over 200 square feet. In my mother’s illness, her bedroom became a source of healing, for both of us 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

On that day, I slipped on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt with a Taurus motif. Experience: I was painted by Andy Warhol 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Still, this was a solid showing of sharp tailoring, with belted coats streaked with gold buttons, and imaginative use of the baroque motifs that her brother Gianni loved to extravagance. On the Runway: Versace: New Baroque 2011-02-25T23:33:36Z

The recurrent mistaken identity motif is employed to subtle effect, with every character seeing only as much they choose, each telling a version of their own story. Like Someone in Love – review 2013-06-22T23:05:00Z

SS Golden Mean has Shorter quoting Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca, and Pegasus shifts from an opening motif like an old Mahavishnu Orchestra hook, through a sequence of shifting melodies and and breathtaking improvising. Wayne Shorter: Without a Net – review 2013-01-31T22:15:02Z

Ms. Peck, Mr. Rushing and Mr. Scott begin seated at a table, performing a repeated gestural motif, then solos and duets in vignettes. The Film ‘Enemy Within’ Melds a Variety of Dance Styles 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Certain motifs emerge, giving the piece a touching back story. Art in Review: VLASSIS CANIARIS: ?Sculptures: 1973-74? 2011-10-06T20:59:00Z

That is to say, it needed to be its own thing, with visual and rhythmic motifs that allude to a different era of moviemaking, but made using tools and techniques of today. The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z

That said, what really evokes the earth in Ms. Napangati’s paintings is the relentless way she applies her ancient colors and motifs. What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

While Nakashima’s mode of painting is fundamentally Western, his pictures employ Asian motifs and objects to diverse ends. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

“As soon as I found out how crazy and convoluted and interesting porcelain history was, I was just fully hooked,” said Mr. Domingo, who makes plates, trays and cups that often incorporate botanical motifs. It’s a Fine Time for Fine China 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

In these performances his “Symphony #9,” as happens with many distinguished pure-dance compositions, kept disclosing recurrent motifs, further facets, more intricate moods. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at New York City Center 2012-10-22T04:10:05Z

A fragment of the same motif later bolstered her sprightly rendition of “Autumn in New York.” Music Review: Barbara Carroll Opens an Engagement at Birdland 2014-02-11T21:34:44Z

When they met, Mr. Brown suggested a London show with a sports motif. Artist Sews Together Sports and Geopolitics 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Denk did more with the latter work, in which Beethoven dissects one of his favorite melodies, drawing attention to the hammered repeated-note motif in the second phrase, for example, in its various permutations. In Jeremy Denk’s Kennedy Center recital, the music has the most meaning when he talks about it 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Where The Hangover had Mike Tyson and tigers in hotel rooms, Date Night has rooftop chicanery and high speed car chases - motifs we have seen a billion times before. You review: Date Night 2010-04-26T14:24:00Z

Flowering examples of germander speedwell, daffodil and chicory cast shadows and consort with the odd caterpillar or beetle, surrounded by borders of more schematic leaf motifs that nonetheless have space for some quite real-looking birds. Religious Miniature and Nature Drawings at the Morgan 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Working with our colleagues at Walker Zanger—long a trusted supplier—we were encouraged to explore themes in American vernacular design as well as motifs from the classical tradition.” Architectural Digest Celebrates Robert A.M. Stern’s Debut Tile Collection for Walker Zanger 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

In the opening section breathless, ascending, scalelike motifs keep being cut short, only to start over. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

There is a singing trio dressed in a camel motif. Review: ‘Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,’ a Musical 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

A birdcall-like motif in the strings’ high range opens the work, which moves through a crescendo to intense, energetic passages. Music Review: Lark Quartet Performs a Jennifer Higdon Work 2010-04-23T22:46:00Z

But then there’s the motif that’s often strong, that seems to be the embodiment of evil. John Williams on 'Force Awakens' score: 'I felt a renewed energy, and a vitality' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Illness is a recurring motif that shaped Chopin’s career before cutting it short. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Fragments of this motif were printed horizontally on extra-large pieces of paper that Bourgeois then attacked with pencil and red gouache or watercolor. Louise Bourgeois: Imagination Unfolds in All Dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Art Deco jewelry, with its mixing of natural and mechanical motifs, offered one inspiration. Carol Bove’s Light-Touch Heavy Metal Faces Down the Met 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson added dense layers of guitar, saxophone and percussion, and a virtuosic solo part for live guitarist, with pitches, melodic motifs and rhythms derived from the recorded vocalism. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

As the work begins, a solo flute plays stray phrases and sputtered repetitions of a single pitch, a motif that keeps being repeated as the work goes on. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z

But the more recent works use the oscillating motifs as backdrops for brushwork that’s big and bold — and sometimes conspicuous by its absence. Review | In the galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Later she applied similar discipline to motifs of slanted bars and arabesques — forms that nod to Seurat’s diagonals and Matisse’s cutouts. Bridget Riley, Through Her Own Eyes 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

There was, of course, a printed sweatshirt, whose tiny motif featured miniature Korean scholars studying the rolling of joints and the ripping of bongs. New York Men’s Fashion Week: The Mixtape 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

And so — though it was certainly clear that the two halves shared the same structure and motifs — it seemed on first viewing that the dance material itself might not be exactly the same. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z

It's quite easy to see that good lighting or good materials might help, less so the personal artistic motifs and manoeuvres of individual designers. Maggie's cancer care centre, Newcastle – review 2013-05-18T23:05:22Z

Lines, formations, relationships, shapes, motifs materialize and vanish. Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-31T22:53:57Z

The hand motif, she said, has been an important part of Gordon's work since the 1990s. Turner prize-winner's work stolen from Christie's 2012-11-29T18:32:59Z

The lantern motif also reappeared on several key items — one with the hole positioned on the model’s chest like a talisman. Paris Fashion Week goes colorful, soft and underwater 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

In this season of “Better Call Saul,” AMC’s prequel series to “Breaking Bad,” a specific image has become motif. The best antihero now isn’t a badass: “Better Call Saul” is the brilliant, pathetic counterpart to prestige TV’s bold angry men 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Another motif is an animal in a mask or hat that represents another species. In the galleries: The free-for-all that is Artomatic 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The sculptures were based on 3-D scans of the people, which were then reworked into 2-D motifs. A New Kind of Model: Giant, Inflatable, Aggressively Sexy 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The Manhattan collection riffs on the cutting silhouettes and linear motifs of Art Deco masterworks in New York, such as the Chrysler and Empire State buildings, all extravagantly realized in glimmering diamonds. Leysen fine jewelry inspired by New York City architecture 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

That motif, echoed throughout the home, is just one of many subtle nods to sophisticated hallmarks of bygone eras. Manhattan Penthouse - Modern Decor Inspiration 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Using that line as inspiration, the band assumed a bumblebee motif and deconstructed their name to say it stood for “Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace, Encouragement, and Righteousness.” Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z

That’s simple to say and not always enough, but it remains a good operating principle and the abiding motif in “By the People,” which offers its own mash-up of do-good projects, 60 in all. In ‘By the People,’ Designing for the Underserved and Overlooked 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Visitors will see canine stamps, artistic prints with sausage dog motifs, handmade puppets and porcelain figurines. 'The world needs a sausage dog museum', so German owners provide one 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Some of the newer designs are requested by vendors outside Romania, many of whom tend to avoid ancestral motifs featuring animals and prefer bolder and monochrome palettes. Can Old-World Ceramics Survive Modern Tastes? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

The movie owes a sizable debt to “Do the Right Thing,” both in its portrait of a community on the verge of violence and its use of music as a motif. Review: In ‘Gook,’ Bonds Strengthen as Racial Tensions Build 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

A starfish necklace was one of the jewelry pieces that embraced the seaside motif, always popular with French houses. Resort isn't a season for fashion to take a break 2011-06-16T20:36:17Z

The main recurring motif is a molded or carved decorative panel featuring an intricate geometric design. Artist Rodrigo Valenzuela's shrines of disillusionment 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

While employing such Kurdish cultural motifs as doves, horses and sunflowers, Ahmad incorporates Christian iconography to stress the universality of his subject. Review | In the galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Indeed, motif is the apt word, originating, as it does, in the French word for motive: “All the world’s a stage,” as Shakespeare put it, and if everyone is acting, then everyone has hidden motives. ‘Law & Order True Crime’ Season 1, Episode 4: There’s the Rub 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

The randomness of life and the capriciousness of human nature were recurrent motifs in French New Wave movies of the 1960s and ’70s. ‘2 Autumns, 3 Winters,’ Homage to the New Wave 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Ginger Thatcher, in an excerpt from her “Urban Study,” showed some skill in arranging her motifs. Dance Review: Ballet NY at Ailey Citigroup Theater 2014-04-16T20:45:53Z

Etro embraced ecology and nature long before it was fashionable, and the brand’s charming show on Monday took the tree of life as its motif. Special Report: Embracing the Blues 2010-06-21T16:30:00Z

She often uses eyes and hamsas as motifs, but each is unique. | Exotic Jewelry and Rare Company in Orange County 2013-12-20T16:45:19Z

Molesworth’s variety of motifs, materials and forms steadily attracts new collectors, as do the expansive upholstered seats. Antiques: Vintage Thomas Molesworth Furniture Heads to Auction 2013-09-05T20:00:56Z

Newcomer Huishan Zhang delivered a sophisticated debut collection Saturday that impressed the crowd with his fresh take on traditional Chinese motifs. Flights of fancy at Day 2 of London Fashion Week 2012-09-15T18:24:10Z

These disparate feminine personae, and Brandy’s dark fears and compulsions, bring us into a fascinating realm of female sexual identity — and a motif often woven into the contemporary plays WET tackles. The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z

“In C” consists of 53 short musical motifs that can be repeated an arbitrary number of times or sometimes skipped outright. Music Review: Summertime Anarchy, but of the Guided Kind 2011-07-03T21:09:12Z

Sterling interpretation and production values permit a fresh look at “Light,” including the elegant way Ellington weaves together motifs heard earlier in “Black,” just before a rousing finish. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

You can see the motifs migrating and mixing in the rooms of these palaces. | Q&A: Karen Knorr?s Photography Offers an Ironic Sense of Place ? Q&A 2011-11-02T22:32:13Z

And then again, the motifs gather and spread out from the cupola as if tracing the passage of light in through the windows. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

He survived a stabbing in 1972 by a leftist who considered his motifs too frivolous, and committed himself to presenting avant-garde versions of timeless tragedies that resonated with current events. Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Who Directed Avant-Garde Productions of Classics, Dies 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

These cotton pajamas are adorned with a vibrant green banana leaf motif that was inspired by the Martinique print that the decorator Don Loper created for the hotel in 1942. New PJ’s for Your Hotel Stays 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Clearly, the discussion of quilting - the patterns, the styles, the methods - is intended as a motif to carry the reader seamlessly through the story. Review: Chevalier's latest novel disappoints 2013-01-22T19:01:05Z

When a man and woman fashion an arch with their bodies — another portal and a motif throughout the dance — Mr. Eirich watches wistfully, then ventures through the opening they make. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance - Review 2011-11-04T22:32:48Z

Such “seriality,” if you will, was a means by which she pushed her motifs toward abstraction, or explored different materials, primarily charcoal, watercolor and pastel. Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Artisans of the Italian Renaissance were the first to master complicated double-pile weaving techniques that created plain, voided and figured velvets, often incorporating Judeo-Christian and Islamic motifs like pomegranates and carnations. | International Velvet 2013-08-23T22:31:07Z

Delft, a term often used to describe blue-and-white motifs, is named for a town in the Netherlands where renditions of the Chinese style were produced en masse. An Exhibition at Fondation Bernardaud in France Explores Blue-and-White China in Contemporary Art 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the survey, Ai Weiwei uses traditional ceramic sculpting to reinterpret ancient motifs. "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art : Architectural Digest 2013-12-16T05:00:00Z

Her movement, scored to a string motif overlaid with schoolyard taunts, is agitated, suggesting depths of interior hurt and longing. | A Bronx Schoolyard Rivalry, Told Through Dance 2014-01-15T23:24:40Z

When it reopened in the early 1990s as Grange Hall it looked several decades older, with an Art Deco motif that lasted, in some form, through subsequent changes of name and ownership. Going Back to the Time of the Shakers at Commerce Inn 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Time is also a central motif in the script and lyrics: how we try to freeze it, bend it, escape from it. Review: Lost on a Magical Mystery Tour in ‘Alice by Heart’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

In the slow introduction to the first movement, somber themes and motifs emerged haltingly, as if trying to coalesce into something solid. 2010-01-09T01:00:00Z

Badura-Skoda catches Mozart’s frustrated rage in the stark motifs and hammering dissonances in the first movement of the Sonata No. 15 in F Major. What Paul Badura-Skoda Did for Classical Piano 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

These vases are patterned with common Chinese motifs. A Pair of 19th-Century Chinese Vases Is on the Block 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

That motif, in countless manifestations and transformations, runs through the entire work, a five-hour evening at an opera house. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z

The stark staccato motif of the third movement is reprised in the sixth. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z

One witty motif plays with a dancer leaning like Pisa’s tower. Dance Review: ‘Astral Converted’ by Trisha Brown at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-11T22:05:08Z

The story motifs used by all the collectors of tales could be found in parallel versions all over Europe. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z

Their art doesn’t directly respond to one another’s work, but certain motifs overlap. Review | In the galleries: Noelle K. Tan’s photos develop interest with obscurity 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Oriti repeats motifs of the suburban homes like the ones his subjects grew up in, in gray-toned backgrounds, then paints over them in messy white acrylic. Frank Oriti’s Paintings at Richard J. Demato 2013-08-15T21:13:34Z

Having taken its name from the town’s most famous former resident, it’s fitting that this “coastal cuisine” restaurant has walls hung with tasteful art and a Mondrian motif in the bathroom tiles. Overnighter: Where Mondrian Lingers on a Dutch Coast 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z

Some of its motifs are based on the diatonic “do, re, mi” scale tones, but little about this 30-minute concerto in three connected parts seems elementary. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

The symbolic eye of Osiris, used as a design motif, represented the idea that Thaïs is being seen and judged by herself, by Athanaël and by God. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z

Aniline dyes allowed for bolder colors, while the European Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements introduced new motifs in graphic new styles. ‘Kimono Style’: A Beautiful Painting You Can Wear 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Circles, in fact, are themselves a recurrent motif, partly suggesting the shape of his camera’s lens. 'Doug Aitken: Electric Earth': Why MOCA's big new show has too few sparks 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

He turned that into the “Theme of Ali”, the arrestingly subtle, delicate four-note motif performed on a flute that is heard when the insurgent Ali is arrested. Ennio Morricone: a composer with a thrilling ability to hit the emotional jugular | Peter Bradshaw 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Egyptian motifs appeared on clothes, jewellery, hairstyles, fabrics, furniture and in architecture. How 'Tut-mania' gripped the world 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Organized by Sabine Rewald, of the Met’s department of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art, the show explores the open window as a favored motif of certain Romantic painters — mostly German, Scandinavian or French. Art Review: Romantics Shining Clear Light on Daily Existence 2011-04-07T22:30:23Z

Booklet in hand, Jane and I race through the streets noting clues and solving riddles: What secret motifs are carved into the fountain? Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Its four-leafed motifs on dangling chains reflected the spirit of the hippie years. Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z

Influenced by hand-painted mosaic motifs, Hillier used a rainbow of exotic skins and semiprecious stones to dress up the simple, timeless designs. | Asprey Private Collection Handbags 2013-05-14T21:30:38Z

Since then, Detroit techno DJ Jeff Mills has had the Montpelier Philharmonic Orchestra playing simple repeated motifs along to stripped-down beats in The Bells. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z

They are fitted, brightly colored, with big floral motifs, and often elaborate embroidery on the kebaya. Special Report: Fashion: From Robe to Blouse and Sarong 2011-03-10T08:01:28Z

Her first stop was Ahe, a French Polynesian atoll, to source the farmed pearls and beads made of recycled, crushed oyster shells that would be a motif of her spring 2011 collection. A Fashion Week Debut, Seven Weeks in the Making 2010-09-09T04:20:00Z

It opens with ominous, distant horns, like some primordial fanfare, that evolves into spiraling figures and fleeting motifs. Music Review: Atlanta Symphony at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-06T22:13:48Z

It was a strange melange of traditional motifs first proposed more than 20 years ago that never got anywhere – as often happens when the prince gets involved, the main effect is delay. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth – review 2013-06-01T23:05:24Z

In another of the show’s defining ironies, partial credit for that motif goes to Mr. Schwartz, who directed more than 40 episodes despite a diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa that means he is legally blind. How ‘Baywatch’ Went From an Early Belly Flop to the Big Screen 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

For the evening, Chiuri, who joined Dior last year from Valentino, added sparkling sequins, floral embroidery and moon and star motifs on dark velvet and tulle dresses. Dior sees blue, Issey Miyake looks to northern lights at Paris shows 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

It seems that those cultures, independent of one another, created their own version of the motif. This pattern keeps popping up in design, and it’s even older than it sounds 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The result is an embellished land of Christian saints, biblical episodes, Portuguese kings, historical glories, pastoral idylls, aristocrats at leisure, landscapes, seascapes, floral designs and, above all, geometric motifs. 12 Treasures of Europe 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The leaves and vines of his Paradise Lost motif, for example, are based on the geraniums and nasturtiums that proliferate in his well-tended L.A. garden. Blithe Spirit 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The installation calls on African folk motifs, but it’s eclectic and personal. In the galleries: At Osuna, scarlet makes a splash amid Hamami’s black-and-white 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The iconic Baroque Versace motif made appearances as appliques sewn onto wool coats or in the familiar gold-and-black print in a quilted coat. Milan designers fall back on the “classics” 2013-01-14T18:09:16Z

Unlike the songs on Carey’s debut, “All We Grow,” which are mostly built on a single, minimalist motif, “Range of Light” sounds more expansive, frequently jumping from one musical idea to the next. | The Dreamlike Sounds of S. Carey, Bon Iver’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-25T13:00:12Z

National Anthem soars gloriously away from a string motif that sounds not unlike that sampled on the Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony. Best albums of 2012: 20–11 2012-11-28T09:00:00Z

He used indigenous materials, including amethysts, and reworked motifs such as the jaguar, which were common in pre-Columbian art. An American in Mexico 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Mushrooms were a frequent motif in his paintings and photographs. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z

“Chet the Secret Agent Architect” will take them on a scavenger hunt for architectural motifs and styles to use in creating model buildings. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 28-Jan. 3 2012-12-27T23:31:39Z

The 1951 work includes motifs that are synonymous with the artist, such as the juxtaposition of a bright sky with a dark landscape. Fair Warning: Lots of Passes, But Sotheby’s Modern Sales Still Bring In $427 Million 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

It was a breath of fresh air, a sign of real life emphasized by the floral motifs. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

The decision to hang up the guitar, aside from short bursts of writing and demoing new songs, coincides with a new sonic motif Jurado really embraced with last year’s “What’s New, Tomboy?” Damien Jurado’s 10 comeback concerts mark Seattle’s highest-profile shows since the shutdown 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

The contrasts in gilded surfaces slow down the eye, revealing illustrated lexicons of techniques, patterns, symbols and motifs. Gouthière at the Frick: Gilding the Lily (and Everything Else) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

With motifs of winter roses, illuminated Madonnas and baroque embossing, the 2014 winter menswear collection evokes the design house's Sicilian roots. Milan Fashion Week starts on somber note 2013-01-13T00:01:07Z

But the tailoring was terrific: jackets, perhaps with shiny leather tuxedo lapels or with a sharp motif running down the backbone. Fashion Review: Saint Laurent: Sexual Swagger 2013-07-01T15:07:02Z

His “Sarah Sleeping” shows a woman on flowery fabric bearing motifs that complement the elaborate tattoos on her arms. In the galleries: ‘Transient States’ illustrates Steven Walls’s rigorous realism

His fascination with the drone — as a foundation, as a provocation, as something to get lost in — has been one recurring motif. Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z

Create a palette of colors they like, and accent with motifs of some of their favorite things. Everything Merry & Bright 2010-12-08T19:14:00Z

Hyland's gown sported an icicle motif and celebrated her curves as she spoke about the importance of body positivity. A mixed red carpet in colors and cut for the Emmys 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Constant resistance by the politically powerless against a white racial establishment is a motif as well in Wells’s analysis of New York City’s 19th-century “kidnapping club.” Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Decorators, who are typically women, paint the pieces using ancestral motifs that include spirals, waves, spider webs, roosters, serpents, fish and an arboreal design known as the tree of life, which is dotted with apples. Can Old-World Ceramics Survive Modern Tastes? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

Wallpaper is an opportunity to experiment with classic deco motifs, such as fans and sunbursts, and to add a hint of glamour. What’s driving art deco’s resurgence? It could be today’s political climate. 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Chile native Joan Belmar often draws from the history and topography of his birthplace, enlisting motifs from maps and the body paint of an indigenous tribe that was largely exterminated. Review | In the galleries: Honfleur show celebrates the wonders of three dimensions 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

But the music soon settled into predictable patterns, with Ms. Barton’s lines soaring lyrically, while piano and cello traded the same arabesque motifs. Review: Jamie Barton Shows That She’s a Powerhouse of a Mezzo-Soprano 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Strewn across the wall are breezy rainbows, clouds and lightning bolts: pop culture motifs endemic to 1970s Southern California. Dan McCarthy's 'Facepots': The smiles never end in this L.A. world 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

The painting, “In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow,” is an 82-foot-long explosion of colorful, cartoonishly grotesque figures and motifs appropriated from Japanese and Chinese history. Dragons, Saints and a Sexy Nurse: The Art of Takashi Murakami 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

That isn’t to say that the Mountain Goats don’t have dance-along beats, because they do, it’s just that the lyrics are far from typical deep-feeling rock n’ roll motifs. Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Songwriting for Tormented Souls 2012-09-25T15:00:13Z

Giraffe-thin, white wood chairs and tables were cut with circular motifs that recalled eggs, and, by association, fertility. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The issue isn’t merely that Mr. Malick visually connects the impregnated planet, as it were, and the expectant woman, an association that sets a Mother Earth motif in motion. Critic?s Notebook: Malick?s Film Adds a Dose of Sincerity to the Festivities 2011-05-16T22:01:03Z

A section on gold includes pieces from his fall 1997 “Afghanistan” collection, with its gilt-foiled fabrics and motifs, as well as a video of caddis flies spinning larval sheaths out of gold. Front Row: The Dries Van Noten Exhibition in Paris 2014-03-06T00:30:31Z

There are bustling rhythmic figurations and whole passages built from ascending, sputtering scale motifs. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Mwangi Hutter’s multimedia installation “In a Pure Land” now appears in the “Hell” section of the exhibition, and “Burning Desire” will echo motifs from that piece. Bridging the differences between people 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The house called this the “link rings” motif. Paris Fashion Week goes colorful, soft and underwater 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Not all of Mr. Dorsky’s films unfold in the same way, despite some recurrent motifs and juxtapositions, notably between the natural world and its human-made counterpart. The Startlingly Beautiful Films of Nathaniel Dorsky 2012-04-13T17:02:18Z

Rey, a rising heroine, has a minor-key melody that seems related to Williams’s Force motif—itself a cousin of Wagner’s Siegfried—while possessing its own airy, modal character. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

For fans of Iyer and his considerable ire – available also at his excellent blog, spurious.typepad.com – the novel reprises many now familiar motifs and themes. Exodus by Lars Iyer – review 2013-02-27T11:00:01Z

But he managed to separate the motif from its attendant morality. Art Review: Workers at Rest: Smoking and Playing Cards 2011-02-10T21:40:34Z

The motif of hatred returns again and again. Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck – review 2013-03-26T15:23:23Z

The motif forces audiences to engage before the image threatens to slip away. The ‘Haunting’ of Gary Simmons 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

"The Lion King" is a tale of stolen legacy, mending, and restoration – the same motifs that color the history of the people to and of whom "Black Is King" speaks. "Black Is King" continues Beyonce's immortalizing of the Black American experience through art 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

A few years ago I trafficked in some of the same motifs, writing my own recovery memoir that became part of the giant pile of woe and redemption. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z

The bird became a wedding motif and was embroidered near his heart in the lining of Mr. Surendran’s dark royal blue jacket, which had gold paisley embroidery on the lapels and cuffs. Finding Common Ground in the South, San Francisco and South India 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Collins doesn't always steer away from melodrama, and the star-crossed lovers motif is so heavy-handed that the conclusion is fairly predictable. The Gamal by Ciarán Collins – review 2013-04-27T10:00:01Z

At the opening of the slow first movement of Mahler’s Ninth, halting motifs and hesitant riffs coalesce into a multitextured, gentle accompaniment for a yearning theme in the strings. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Mahler and Thomas Ad?s - Review 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z

His first major works belonged to a series of paintings and drawings that feature German motifs. German Artist Markus Lüpertz’s Life’s Work Is on View in Paris 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Another motif is the Icarus story, suggested by Gomez himself, who, startlingly, keeps a painting of Icarus in his apartment to inspire him. “Conviction,” Reviewed: A Bronx P.I. Pursues Justice, and Glory 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

The motifs he employs are powerfully expressive: trains, motorcycles, pool halls and the all-important communal table, in its endless permutations, appear throughout his cinematic landscape, at once lyrical and fraught with narrative intensity. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Usually, it takes him a while to assemble a theme from a series of tiny motifs, but this symphony flares to life like a match. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

The kilim’s central “tree of life” motif contains complex references to the mosques, accounts of individuals and communities. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Show Highlights the Return of the Loom 2011-06-13T12:00:07Z

One recurring motif in “Uncanny Valley” is that people in the start-up scene remind Wiener of children. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

That second work introduced another motif that would continue throughout the set: quotes from other songs. Blues Alley offers big shoes for Cyrus Chestnut, but he’s got a pair of his own 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Tents are a motif in “Singing Beach,” whose meshing of worlds — earthbound and fantastical — is difficult to imagine on the page. Tina Howe Copes With Caregiving and Other Late-in-Life Storms 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

They are based on six motifs — door, window, table, basket, mirror and rug — that have recurred in the artist’s drawings and sculptures since the mid-1970s. Inside Art: Elevators as Art, for the New Whitney 2013-06-06T23:00:15Z

The beachy feel came across most strongly in prints - especially a tie-dye motif in silk satin, which appeared in a host of flowing gowns in pink, blue, red and black. Friendships bubble up at NY Fashion Week 2013-02-12T21:49:11Z

Even the Rube Goldberg-like motif of a marble dropping from a jar into a series of pipes that eventually disgorge it onto the stage loses its ingenuity after much repetition. Kyle Loven: A miniature world of loss and hope | Performance review 2012-12-06T21:58:25Z

I love how the light filters through the botanic motifs. | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z

The show employs a time-travel train motif to revisit colorful stops in the career of Montevecchi, a tiny, chic woman in a jaunty red cap and black rehearsal duds. Tommy Tune helps ZinZanni salute Liliane Montevecchi 2011-08-31T20:32:04Z

Prints and graphic motifs popped up all over, with cheery floral patterns the most ubiquitous. Milan designers: Summer fashion should be fun 2012-09-24T18:09:09Z

There are some familiar Harjo motifs—celestial bodies, mythic and anthropomorphized animals—and a few heavy-hitting abstractions: “Grief is killing us. Anger tormenting us. Sadness eating us with disease,” she writes in one poem. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

At times Verhulst fixates on a repetitive rhythmic figure or melodic motif in a striking way. Music Review: Utrecht String Quartet at the Frick Collection 2013-01-22T23:00:32Z

Among them is an Amish “Diamond in the Square” motif from the early 20th century, spiritually Anabaptist but formally Bauhaus. Art Review: ?Women Only? Exhibition at American Folk Art Museum 2010-04-15T22:04:00Z

Ironically, one of the great success stories was a brocaded silk cataloged as “Central Asia” that displays motifs pointing to early 14th-century Iran. Special Report: Asian Art: 'Islamic' Culture: A Groundless Myth 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

Images appear and reappear or are ghosted out and inverted, almost like musical motifs, as she creates a richly ornate visual world. Davidson Galleries: Artists play mind games using sharp skills 2012-07-18T18:52:03Z

A retro 1960s aesthetic, in a mainly monochrome palette with flashes of his signature floral motifs and bows. Giambattista Valli presentation in Paris channels 1960s 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Overused, the motif also constrains “Come With Me,” reining in a work that’s otherwise inclined to pleasant energy and charming changes of mood. Dance Review: The Limón Dance Company at the Joyce 2012-06-20T21:44:19Z

The space will blend the tech-focused characteristics of a science center with core elements of a children’s museum, stretching the target audience to age 12 and connecting the entire experience with a dream motif. New National Children’s Museum will finally open Nov. 1 after a delay 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

"Most of !!!'s sleeves use the big repeating exclamation mark motif, so it wasn't a great leap of the imagination to apply it to this," said designer James Burton. Daft Punk up for artwork prize 2013-11-14T06:43:59Z

They’re a recurring motif in his performance art, photography, painting and sculpture. EJ Hill Wants to Take You on a Ride 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The haunting yet playful theme song by Siddhartha Khosla completes the experience and provides a recurring motif heard throughout the series. Those magical "Only Murders in the Building" main titles – including each hidden Easter egg 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Keys, locks and doors are common motifs in his work. For two Cuban artists, divergent paths intersect at GALA Hispanic Theatre

Soprano Hyunah Yu’s beautiful but slender voice allowed her to fit into and at times hide within the tightly coiled clusters and repeated motifs of the strings. Musicians at Marlboro provide lovely reading of Mozart 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

For the Reich, the players tackled insistent syncopations and interlocking motifs with seeming ease. Phillips Camerata and guests perform a trio of Washington premieres

In part he did this by returning again and again, as the exhibition stresses, to certain sites and motifs, completing pictures not on the spot, but often in his studio, based on what he remembered. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z

Silver plate with parcel gilt motifs in a hybrid style mixing Chinese and Iranian patterns was created around the same time. Review: Groundbreaking Picture of China 2010-11-19T12:36:00Z

And even as it takes up unfinished real-world business at home and in Vietnam, “Da 5 Bloods” wrestles with some of the defining myths and motifs of American cinema. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

In particular, the manners and motifs of the capital's tube system are seen just as they were 85 years ago. Underground depicts a world both far removed and familiar 2013-01-08T16:43:47Z

An air of feigned happiness suffuses: Big pink shapes and motifs connect home and studio by conjuring a space they share, the bathroom. Lily van der Stokker: ‘Huh’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

At times, the narrative stretches a bit thin, repeating certain motifs as the characters roam the halls, entering one mysterious room after another. Review | In Elisabeth Thomas’s ‘Catherine House,’ an exclusive university harbors sinister secrets 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

This wrist shake, recycled as phrases end, is silly, a shtick, like so many Morris motifs. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

This year there were a few noteworthy trends, and one of those was the use of the fatherhood motif — or “dad-vertising,” as one twitter user smartly put it. Super Bowl XLIX was the year of “dad-vertising” 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

And one prominent motif, a childish idea about the moon, seems forced throughout. Review: In ‘1969: The Second Man’ Buzz Aldrin Is an Unhappy Runner-Up 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

One-piece suits were her specialty in some seasons, and birds, flowers and waves were among her favorite motifs. Leah Gottlieb, a Designer of Swimsuits, Dies at 94 2012-11-20T23:23:01Z

He introduces a motif, a raised hand, for instance, as in “Pacific.” Mark Morris Dance Group’s many surprises flow naturally at GMU 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

A drawing of the same motif flattens it into a single angled line spiraling in on itself. Homage to Mexico: Josef Albers and His Reality-Based Abstraction 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Thirteen tracks in, Nothing Is Real is a substantial incursion of bleary sunshine, its nagging melodic motif recalling a My Bloody Valentine guitar loop. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-08T23:05:05Z

“As a monolithic depiction, the ‘princess’ would historically have stood as a visual symbol for tobacco, reducing Indigenous peoples to a singular motif, a mental image that still stands.” Museums Look Locally for Growth and, Sometimes, Survival 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Several of those early works are on view in Chicago, along with more recent installation pieces, sound works, video and wall-size text pieces that recast earlier motifs and ideas. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

More urgently, the 20th-century works seem plagued by a kind of physical deficiency, a failure to integrate motif and material into a seamless whole. Art Review: ?Kindred Spirits? at Peter Blum Gallery in SoHo 2011-12-22T23:13:25Z

The 101 Dalmatians motif that was printed onto silk tops and pants, created in sequins on a mini dress and cut into a cropped-sleeve jacket was a bit of fashion fun. Special Report: Fashion: Reducing the Razzmatazz 2011-03-09T18:32:54Z

That formation is a motif in the film’s advertising and a recurring, nefarious force in the story. ‘Us’ Took Hands Across America and Made It a Death Grip 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Journeys both physical and emotional are a recurring motif. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z

The motif took off in the 1960s and peaked in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

The motif helps connect the porch to the brick exterior, as does a decorative frieze where the columns meet the ceiling, one of the house’s many Arts & Crafts touches. A Narnia-Inspired Design, on Long Island 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

The motif begins to drift up the keyboard but appears to lose faith; starts over further down; and eventually grows more and more loud and irate. Review: Pianist Ursula Oppens Seamlessly Connects the Classics With New Music 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

He repeated an oval motif from one of the home’s old doors on the arbor and fence, tying house to garden. Laurelhurst garden is a study in grace with subtle color and good geometry 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Hartley also dashed off a series of flatter, more tersely painted canvases using motifs and scenes from American Indian cultures. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

On closer inspection, many objects from early China retain their mystery, even when part of the motifs seem obvious. A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z

His use of concrete and masonry shows their influence, but he makes Le Corbusier's motifs serve his own principles and purposes. Charles Correa: India's greatest architect 2013-05-11T23:04:04Z

Another woman’s motif was to keel over sideways until her partner caught her just off the floor; this had nothing to do with the body language of the rest of their duet. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center 2012-09-30T21:58:45Z

For all the compositional ambition, there’s also tomfoolery; yes, those synthesizer motifs sound like squeeze toys. Review: On ‘La Di Da Di,’ the Latest From Battles, Momentum Is a Driving Force 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Aloneness is a motif, imposed by divorce or death and amplified by the prospect of life lived beyond the comfort of coherence. In Richard Ford’s New Stories, Ambivalence Is the Default Condition 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

From the tower they unfurl a red flag whose motif resembles the German eagle. Art In Review: Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned 2013-04-18T20:30:52Z

And, even if the revenge motif is nothing like as subtle or as complex as in Hamlet, we still see ghosts returning from the grave to urge the living to action. The Orphan of Zhao – review 2012-11-09T01:02:50Z

When Aminé took the stage, he initially played the part of the whimsical Portland rapper, tinkering on a piano adorned with bananas, one of his signature motifs. A Young Rapper’s Bold Anti-Trump Message on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

But another of the show’s motifs is finding beauty in the unimpeccable. How the Star of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Found Beauty in Her Voice Again 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

“Golden Galactic,” from his upcoming album “Golden Gaia,” uses plinking, harplike motifs, repeating them a few times and moving on, constantly changing up the implied rhythms instead of settling into a loop. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

But the work takes itself seriously, reprising all of its weak motifs at the end, before topping off Mr. Rushton’s male fantasy with some female nudity. Review: Danish Dance Theater, Pulse-Checking and a Rave for the Undead 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Start by selecting a main motif that will set the tone. How to incorporate 7 popular patterns in your home, according to experts 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Though unpredictable from moment to moment, the music — at times almost voluptuous, at others edgy — affords a gratifying logic with its repeating motifs, within movements and from one to another. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z

These motifs draw us into the particular climate of struggle that this work is all about, in which dancers are both part of a human community and isolated in their hard work. Dance Review: Some Death, Some Struggle, Some Strain, Yet So Much Still Is Joyful 2011-07-29T21:45:30Z

His productive period in exile, suggested on a splendid gallery wall, drew on charming architectural motifs he encountered along Dutch rivers and canals, and also on the burgeoning market for the picturesque genre. ‘Monet & Architecture’ Review: Watching a Painter Build His Career 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

Among the most interesting pieces in the exhibition is an extremely rare dish, one of three found in the wreck, with floral lozenge motifs surrounded by sprigs of foliage. Museums: Ancient Arab Shipwreck Yields Secrets of Ninth-Century Trade 2011-03-07T13:30:06Z

The motif, often expressed through shreds of pink on top of the sweets, is hastily changed when its counterpart in nature is unexpectedly blown away. In Japan, Sweets Take On an Artistic Role 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

I was completely moved by the corona motif. David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

These will include a $44,500 black jade cuff decorated with an original Verdura rose gold and diamond crisscross motif. Special Report: Jewelry: A Sparkling Fair for the Masters 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z

The motifs include Op-Art-like spirals, a marvelous Crucifixion scene, and symmetrical bird and animal motifs that reach back to pre-Columbian art. Art Review: ?Testimonios,? Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio 2012-02-09T23:48:36Z

Drawing on motifs from Persian, Nigerian and Senegalese textiles, Olowu created a series of rough gouache sketches, layering them up, pattern on pattern. From a Beloved Fashion Designer, Fabrics for the Home 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

In this context, familiar motifs reveal previously unobserved affinities. In the galleries: Putting a fine point on colored pencil drawings 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Floral patterns and animal sculptures were decorative motifs throughout her two sumptuous homes: a 14-room duplex on Park Avenue and her country estate, Holly Hill, overlooking the Hudson River in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Contents of Brooke Astor's homes going to auction 2012-09-23T21:16:04Z

Greek artistic motifs and intellectual concepts, albeit rapidly transformed, left a profound imprint across the Middle East. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

Amiable and mellifluous by Schoenberg’s standards, the work develops conventional motifs in almost Beethovenian fashion in the first of its two movements and simply bandies them about for much of the second. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW With Heras-Casado at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-12-18T22:47:07Z

Many of the figures wear bathing suits, harking back to the bathers motif taken up by modernists like Cezanne and Matisse. The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Despite all the turmoil, however, he never forces his emotions onto his motif—never bends the world to his will. ‘Chaim Soutine: Flesh’ Review: Bloody, Brilliant Still Lifes 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

And then when it’s time to draw and select the right motif or style, the forms just sort of flow onto the page. Not the Harvey Pekar graphic novel you’d expect 2012-07-13T13:39:00Z

Mr. Ailey builds each section from just a few dance motifs, but his skill with stage patterns and simultaneous multiple action is such that the eye is continually occupied. Alvin Ailey Troupe Gives Rushing’s ‘Odetta’ Its Premiere 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Behind him a huge screen bubbled with images — flying birds were a recurring motif — that dwarfed him in size and energy. Music Review: Play That Funky Laptop, Wiry Boy 2011-04-24T21:15:27Z

The structure embodies the play’s central and cleverly executed motif of mirror images. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

It also shows his musicality and construction by movement motifs. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s ‘Gloria’ and ‘Jesu, Meine Freude’ 2012-06-24T21:28:00Z

The work faded away on a contemplative note, with a three-note motif whispered in the violin’s highest register. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z

In these works, Beethoven grew increasingly fascinated with small musical motifs and ways to process them in a meaningful way. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z

Abstraction, if carried by the same strong contrasting colors and clear-cut motifs, did just as well when the quality of the works warranted high prices. The Winning Card at Auction: Expressiveness 2010-05-07T11:30:00Z

That explains the motif that we developed both in the field and also in the editing room of holding on faces for a really long time. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Stephen Sondheim once expressed interest in writing a musical adaptation, but never followed through; one can imagine the fun he’d have with recurring motifs every time Phil tweaked a pick-up line. Cultural Clicks: Benjamin Britten, Billie Holiday, and Bill Murray 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nathan’s cinematic “the space of a door” — dedicated to his mentor, Steven Stucky, who died this year — directly borrows from Brahms, taking its opening gesture from the motif that starts the Second Symphony. Review: Brahms at the Boston Smphony, With Hélène Grimaud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

He can hit an old Ross Macdonald motif at 50 yards. Review | Jonathan Lethem is back on the detective beat looking for America’s troubled soul 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

That’s partly because Ms. Jung, a writer of industrious imagination, has a poet’s gift for sustaining and interlinking motifs and metaphor. Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

He often draws and paints while on tour, and his motifs bear corresponding impressions of different environments and people. Art in Review: BOB DYLAN: ?The Asia Series? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z

Former New Yorker critic Arlene Croce dubbed this a "tradition of morbidity", and certain motifs crop up over and over again. Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies 2011-01-07T12:38:10Z

One recurring motif is school milk cartons flying through the air in slow motion. Film: Samplings From the Asian Film Festival 2010-06-24T21:39:00Z

Although earthquakes and tsunamis are recurrent motifs in many books and films, they are far from neutral. Japan's fantasy films act as a buffer against the reality of the natural world 2011-03-29T12:59:01Z

Neuman’s own term for one of his motifs is “Wavelengths,” a title he applies to many prints that are identical save for their color schemes. Review | In the galleries: Disrupting and denaturing the concept of comfortable at home 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

She believes the history of leopard print can be traced back to the robe à la française from the 18th century, which featured an elaborate brocade of leopard print motif along with florals. The Leopard-Print Midi Skirt Is the Summer Trend That Won’t Die 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

The tempo shifts constantly; the music is essentially constructed from short motifs that whisk by and are not heard again. Radical Music: Sometimes Shocking, Sometimes Subtle 2012-09-18T17:43:03Z

One recurring motif of his new exhibition, for instance, are spinning tops, which he said represented a desire to find “balance” in his political positions. A German Painter’s New Rule: ‘Never Answer a Critic’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

In their interaction, for instance, a commonplace melodic motif becomes less commonplace, whereas it remains commonplace in the orchestra’s hands. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

In a clip posted on the Star Wars website, Williams said he expected to weave familiar themes and motifs into the new score. Star Wars: Episode VII to limit cheap CGI tricks and keep it real 2013-07-29T11:47:40Z

Bristling, arrhythmic funk, a shimmering lyricism on slow pieces and an improv angle on a Tristan and Isolde motif, contributed to a show that condensed an implausible range of expressiveness into 45 minutes. Partager festival 2010-05-09T21:15:00Z

Like earlier painters who were inspired by “primitive” art, Smith imbues simple motifs with sophistication. In the galleries: Exhibition explores the art of mentoring 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

The man-made things are incongruous, yet feature decorative motifs drawn from nature. Review | In the galleries: Artists create a multi-work homage to a teacher and a comrade 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the most striking example is a large foot mounted on a formal plaster pedestal, with fluted sides and a vine motif. Exhibit review: In Virginia, a Rodin show changes how we see the sculptor 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Feathers are a repeated motif in the book. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

As a girl, Boyce was fascinated by the wallpaper motifs, which seemed to come alive at night, she said. Fighting Forgetting, With a Venice Biennale Win 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Tuesday's show saw plays with houndstooth and crisscross motifs on peaked jackets. Actors and seamstresses the stars of Chanel's Paris couture 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

She studied antiques as design sources, too, borrowing forms and motifs from Egyptian scarabs, Roman cameos, Mughal jewelry and Tang dynasty lobed bowls. Antiques: New Study of Marie Zimmermann, Metalsmith 2011-11-17T22:32:18Z

This notion that Mrs. Clinton is secretly wrathful appears in another familiar motif in these books: She’s a thrower, the progenitor of her own asteroid belt. Review: The Anti-Clinton Brigade’s Four-Letter Word Obsession 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

This exuberant piece of just over seven minutes began with an assertive, brassy four-note motif that set off the whole orchestra into teeming, suspenseful activity. Music Review: National Youth Orchestra Takes Purchase; Washington Is Next 2013-07-12T21:08:59Z

The motif appears in its original leather throughout the boutique, in everything from the shade on a gunmetal floor lampto a console’s drawer front to an array of stylish desk accessories. Bottega Veneta Opens Its First Home Furnishings Boutique In Milan 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Star Wars movies will always be judged on their ability to intelligently balance dark and light motifs, as the saga works best as pulpy, knockabout space adventure rather than brooding sci-fi. The six key questions Rogue One: A Star Wars Story must answer 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

It’s obsessed with repetition and surprise, both in its decorative motifs and unlikely materials. August brings extravagance at Seattle art galleries 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

“Trauermarsch” is based on a falling semitone, G flat down to F, that instantly recalls fateful motifs in Wagner and Mahler, but it takes those associations in a direction wholly new. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Executed in tiny, jewel-toned squares of gouache on tea-stained paper, the mosaic-like patterns appear to be designs for full body suits, complete with arms and legs and decorated with beautiful, overlapping geometric motifs. For Ellen Lesperance and Helen Mirra, the message is woven into the art 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

A few dance motifs occur in all three parts of “Jewels,” which can be seen as three variations on a single theme. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

This month—just in time for the holidays—Hermès unveils the motif in spectacular platinum, lending fresh energy and luster to the design. Hermès Launches Its Mosaïque au 24 Collection of Tableware in Glittering Platinum 2013-12-11T05:00:00Z

The finest cloths by Suberis are delicate voiles with appliqué motifs in cork whose natural colors underline the resemblance to autumn leaves. Style: Turning Cork Into Couture 2011-08-22T11:36:34Z

There was a loose ski motif through this collection, although Kors said he was more concerned with the apres-ski life at the lodge that he favors more than the slopes themselves. Michael Kors offers sporty glam at Fashion Week 2012-02-15T22:26:12Z

There are motifs – notably sunken tracks, tunnels, and skins/skinning – that recur dozens of times in different forms. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z

Rather than composing melodic themes for the characters, or dutifully applying motifs to particular events, Hooper and Bell approached the soundtrack like vengeful deities, raining down storms of pure nightmare. From Goblin to Morricone: the art of horror movie music 2011-08-18T22:00:02Z

Some of the simpler motifs here are actually more attractive, but this is thin and underwhelming choreography. Dance Review | 'Kings of the Dance': Men Dancing vs. Male Centrality 2010-02-22T06:00:00Z

The play could only have worked because Peele's audience recognised the motifs and appreciated his ingenuity in reconciling themes from so many different types of tale and from so many versions of those types. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z

A rigorous visual fugue ensued, with motifs passed from dancer to dancer. Review: Mark Morris Dance Group and SSO in a rite of spring 2010-05-22T18:08:00Z

The motifs of all the cast-iron elements are plants, so it refers to nature, which softens the technological aspect: Otherwise they could have made it look like trusses, but they didn’t. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The third mood was more exotic, with five dresses embroidered with feathers and beads; the patterns and textures evoked a standard African tribal motif as seen by Hollywood. Gucci, Somewhere in North Africa 2010-09-22T19:20:00Z

And certain decorators have started to paint the pottery in unconventional motifs and colors; Ms. Stefanescu, for instance, has used bright red as well as yellow and pink. Can Old-World Ceramics Survive Modern Tastes? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

Traditional Brazilian rhythms, Minimalistic motifs, breakneck picking and sighing melody are commingled in pieces that look both inward and far ahead. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

Rendered in Zughaib’s colorful style, which melds traditional Arab motifs and Western pop art, the show includes images of poverty, cultural fragmentation and spiritual imprisonment. Through art, creating a dialogue between Palestinians and others

With motifs that include the purpose of art, the bitterness of failure and the hard choices that have historically faced women, “Mariela” is a substantive play as well as an elegantly crafted one. Art, life and disappointment in the deserts of 1950s Mexico 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, visual motifs — masks, costumes and even stains — recur throughout both works, which are otherwise aesthetically distinct. Review: Two Operas Conjure Apocalypses Personal and Cosmic 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

It’s telling, perhaps, that one of her favorite motifs was to shoot her own shadow. What Vivian Maier Saw in Color 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Amber Robles-Gordon’s large wall hangings feature circular motifs, notably the snake that encircles one of them, perhaps representing the cycle of existence. In the galleries: Heading home 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

A curious visual motif, a maze or mandala, turns up mysteriously in odd places. ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Much of it is Sondheim sitting at a white piano, offering background and deconstruction of motifs, as well as tips on acting, directing and conducting. From ‘South Park’ to ‘Knives Out,’ Pop Culture Is Steeped With Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

It is a linear, at times almost traditionally symphonic work, with motifs and episodes exchanged and even occasionally developed in writing of considerable discipline. LSO/Harding – review 2013-02-08T12:46:35Z

Black lines drawn in ink fill the areas between the painted motifs, and are clearly subsidiary to them. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Some simply have to do with the preservation of moods and motifs from the original series, but some are new. ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Redux 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

What were the motifs or sets that you would fall to? Paul Haggis on “Show Me a Hero” and bringing the politics of fear to life: “That’s still what we do all the time. It’s how politics is practiced in America” 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

A few of Stockton’s prints are based on triangle-based patterns, but she derives most of her motifs from nature. Review | In the galleries: ‘Evolving Traditions’ from a nontraditional artist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Her colleagues gathered at the edges of the pool, their insistent motifs underpinning Ms. Richards’s elegiac solo. Music Review: Asphalt Orchestra Enlivens Lincoln Center 2010-08-05T19:55:00Z

A small porch area features an object that has become a recurring motif in Mr. Koon’s art for the last few years, the gazing ball. Loving Art to the Moon and Back 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

In the first set, Abrahams's delicate opening piano motif became a long reverie entwined with bassist Lloyd Swanton's dolorously descending figure and Tony Buck's soft tickings and cymbal whispers. The Necks 2010-06-29T22:00:00Z

The handles and knobs are shaped like animals, and the planks are carved and painted with foliage, animals, cherubs and biblical scenes, among other motifs. The Arcane Charms of Mangle Boards 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

A common thread uniting Southern Guild’s designers across mediums and methods is an abiding commitment to showcasing African materials, motifs, traditions and techniques in their work. | South Africa’s Creative Uprising 2014-02-28T21:24:33Z

They seem intended to make the mirrored rooms the ultimate expressions of her vision, her repetitive motifs and her obsession with infinity, which she also likens to obliteration, or a form of death. Into the Land of Polka Dots and Mirrors, With Yayoi Kusama 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The motif of the flashback began to lose its power as a summoner of memory, becoming more like a technical crutch. The Disappointing, Emmy-Baiting Finale of “Big Little Lies” Season 2 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Gypsy Rose Piñata” was inspired by another work on view at the Petersen: the Gypsy Rose, a tricked-out 1964 Chevy Impala that features an ornate floral motif, velvety pink interiors that came with a chandelier. Object Lesson: A lowrider piñata inspired by a famous car bounces into the Petersen Automotive Museum 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Much of it is just his voice and an arpeggiated piano motif that’s at once dainty and relentless; organ tones and a flute join him. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Soon enough, the quilts there were made in ye olde fashion Anglo way, but the patterns incorporated Hawaiian plant motifs — ginger blossoms, plumeria, ti leaves –  all sewn in riotous colors. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z

Her mature style arrived after a series of efforts from the mid-1920s that read as mildly visionary Cubo-Futurist motifs: frazzled flowers and an incandescent fountain. The Whitney Reopens With 3 Powerhouse Shows 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Cable stitches were also used as a motif, along with other trompe l’oeil effects ranging from a bra pattern on the chest to a giant, bow-shaped wrap at the waist. Comme des Garçons: Knit One, Curl One 2014-03-02T20:34:12Z

The printing house also stocks stiff note cards embossed with obscure motifs brought out of mothballs from time to time, and then just as capriciously returned to obscurity. The Europe Issue : How I Fell for Milan 2011-04-15T18:55:00Z

In the opening passages, Simmons's short brass motifs invited high strings rejoinders, prodded and stretched by Ben Reynolds's asymmetrical drumming. Fringe Magnetic ? review 2011-02-10T17:19:22Z

They include the whimsical, intricate visions of James Flames the gothic fantasia of Richey Beckett and the sleek modernist stylings of Invisible Creature, encompassing a cornucopia of styles, moods and motifs. ‘OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The show begins its stylistic trajectory with pieces designed in the garland style, a remnant of the 19th century, that explores the motif of ribbons, entrelacs and acanthus swirls set in gold or silver-backed mounts. A Rare Gathering of Cartier's Best 2012-12-06T16:30:20Z

His time there is also riddled with the motifs that a cynical author such as Max might put into a work of horror : doppelgangers, mute children, bird attacks. Burnt Island by Alice Thompson – review 2013-05-29T14:02:55Z

That complicated history of “Carol of the Bells” has embodied a grim motif since its inception. ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

He's been tortured, and a toy monkey has been stuffed inside his mouth – an indication, for those familiar with the genre, of a serial killer with a motif as well as an agenda. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-03-22T12:00:02Z

But as burns go, this is a controlled one: Within a few seconds, more nuanced dynamics predominate, which in turn seed fresh articulations and motifs. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

These amphibians swirl their fishlike tails through seas of repeated decorative motifs that suggest both African textiles and Celtic metalwork. Review | In the galleries: Cutting, pasting and creating dazzling order out of chaos 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

The website’s wall listings will be searchable by location, artist’s name, original homeowner, motifs and techniques. Documenting the Romantic Strokes of Long-Ago Muralists 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

As visitors are looking at a red, yellow and blue “X” painting, they will also see in their peripheral vision the same motif repeated in different scales, mediums and colors. Wade Guyton’s Computer-Made Works at the Whitney 2012-09-27T12:00:35Z

The gestures erupted into a cacophonous frenzy, followed by schizophrenic mutterings and chaos that faded into the unison slashing motifs of the opening. Music Review: The JACK Quartet Plays Bryant Park 2013-07-28T19:41:00Z

In place of menace, “Return” offers dung: the film’s most consistent motif is the danger of stepping in, sitting on or being splattered by it. | 'Nanny McPhee Returns': Emma Thompson Tames the Wild Child in Wartime 2010-08-19T23:34:00Z

Also, with a square frame, it’s more difficult to get multiple people in a shot, a tableau motif that is often found in Mr. Anderson’s films. Below the Line: Shooting 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The tritone in ‘Maria’ is part of an expression, not a famous motif.” Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

The abstract, digitized motif was initially rejected by the competition’s jury but the bank overruled their decision, awarding Snøhetta the commission. Norway Announces New Banknote Design 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

A tennis motif is used to suggest friction between father and son. ‘Brahmin Bulls’ Explores a Family Relationship 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

She has succeeded here where so many have failed, fashioning a ballet that mostly works as narrative, a children’s ballet tightly woven with movement motifs and layered with symbolic meanings that adults can appreciate. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z

Superheroes: True, some die-hard fans will never tire of this motif, but for the rest of us the Burden of Specialness is like gum with all the flavor chewed out. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

The Necks’ general modus operandi is simultaneously Minimalist and improvisational; it finds itself a texture and a constellation of motifs and inhabits them for as long or as briefly as it wishes. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Flips Mannequins Into Barbies 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

This motif, sounding like an ecstatic awakening, obsessed him: he used it in The Pilgrim's Progress to denote the Christian pilgrim arriving at his goal, the Celestial City. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

They combine the themes and patterns found in Persian myths, miniatures, and carpets with motifs from Western pop culture, cartoons and graphics. Amir H. Fallah Feels the Pull of His Iranian Origins 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

In its early going, triumphal writing for brass was tugged at — and moodily complicated — by descending string motifs that traipsed across unpredictable intervals. Review: The Philharmonic Departs From Business as Usual 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

She will ask reasonable questions of a mad world or just tell you about something that happened and let the silences and stresses and repeated motifs carry the comedy. Comic Tig Notaro: This hot property is more than the sum of her bad luck 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The troupe’s sui generis productions — skits, movement-rich vignettes and musical interludes, linked by retro motifs — are typically feats of comic whimsy, sometimes flecked with wistful lyricism. Review | Angst and comedy among the Olympians in ‘Pantheon’ 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

The original peacock wallpaper has been replaced with a floral motif, and the new arty green-and-gold banquette running the length of the dining room is as much about comfort as style. Review | Bar Charley has grown up. Now, you’ll dine as well as you drink. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The Werner show gives you a sense of Puvis’s deliberation, the way he worked up motifs in drawing, and also his range. A French Painter, Fallen From Fame, Gains Historical Weight 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

While the pictures are not arranged chronologically, changing seasons are among the show’s motifs. Review | In the galleries: Exploring how body language is a visual form of communication 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

A bright chord brings in the soloist’s first statement: a quick rush of notes, then a trio of crisply articulated D’s, then a gracefully skipping motif that rises and falls into momentary resolution. Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

He extended the shop’s Southwestern motif into Zuni: whitewashed walls and clay-tile floors; piles of desert sand and ribbed saguaro skeletons; serape textiles with lush stripes in fruit-peel colors. The Forgotten Queer Legacy of Billy West and Zuni Café 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Some of the piece’s early motifs, gloomy yet seductive, could have emerged from Wagnerian woods. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Penn Libraries recently acquired the only known surviving copy of a 1723 Franklin broadside, showing an elegy for a Philadelphia poet and printer named Aquila Rose, and topped with a bold skull and crossbones motif. For Ben Franklin’s Birthday, His First Piece of Printing Reappears 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Hunters, a young indie rock band out of Brooklyn, sounds like most punk-flavored bands in Williamsburg: simple repetitive lyrics, frenetic drums, repeated guitar riffs that revolve around a single eighth-note motif, a pedaling bass. ArtsBeat Blog: Relationship Tension, Over Screeching Feedback 2011-10-19T05:46:55Z

Five decades into hip-hop’s existence, it’s now routine for rappers to die sickeningly young, often just as their careers are taking off, like casualties of some cruel motif of Greek drama. The Too-Short Evolution of Mac Miller 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

Slowly but surely, the film pulls you in, thanks to the spiral motif, the rhythm of the edits and the quotation from a 1960 Ballard short story that itself features an organic artwork. Movie Review: Mary Frank and Tacita Dean Shape Two Documentaries 2014-04-15T22:43:26Z

This narrative of survival and cultural flourishing is an essential counterpoint to the painful facts of the past, but it threatens to become generic, a “happy ending” motif in the feel-good vein of Hollywood. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

This motif carried on through every day that followed: when other foreigners saw me eating around Osaka, they’d try English first, and then Japanese, and then English again. The Japanese Fried-Rice Omelette That Rewired My Brain 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Countless articles and threads have been created to analyze the many theories, Easter eggs and visual motifs that make up the show, each one fueling an addiction that digs its nails deeper every week. Why You’re Hooked On Breaking Bad 2013-09-28T15:59:00Z

The same few dance motifs get recycled in changing musical contexts. Dance Review | 'Kings of the Dance': Men Dancing vs. Male Centrality 2010-02-22T06:00:00Z

It begins with the violinist sounding an assertive three-note rising motif that generates an expansive dialogue with the orchestra, and ends with a quiet echo of that motif. Review: The New York Philharmonic Offers Works by Modern Masters 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

“In a way her death became the motif and the stimulating force — that sense of loss.” Gerald Stern, Poet of Wistfulness, Anger and Humor, Dies at 97 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

Most are showing recent work that continues or expands on familiar motifs. In the galleries: A ‘Homage to Hillary’ is repurposed 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Ivory and deep gray tiles create the motifs from David Rockwell’s designers. Italian in an Intimate Setting Comes to Greenwich Village 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Lapels were trimmed in thin gold metal, and there were chunky metal rose cuffs and coiled rose necklaces, a motif repeated in blown-out silk prints. | Fashion Review: In Paris, Ovations Where Merited 2011-03-05T00:36:15Z

The “Kaiser” production is especially evocative, incorporating the creators’ prison experience into the play, as it were, with a striped-pajama motif in most of the costumes, designed by Paul Carey. Review: Juilliard Opera’s Timely Double Bill 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Much of the score, conducted here with fervor by Reinbert de Leeuw, feels somber, starting with the sighing motif that opens the work and recurs throughout. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Her pursuit of tough inharmonious motifs is ambitious, but too often leaves her work looking brittle and contrived, as if she were avoiding traditional beauty yet declining to find an alternative. Review: Charline von Heyl, ‘Düsseldorf: Paintings From the Early 1990s’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

They contain, in drips and dribbles, one of Meloy's favorite motifs. A dark lyricist turns to tales for children 2011-10-13T18:19:41Z

In the end, a whirlwind of classic space-opera motifs was able to achieve the same goal without undercutting the film’s uniquely sombre tone. Lost in space: the Rogue One Disney didn't want us to see 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Stephen, a self-taught artist, fills his wooden walls with vivid trees of life, a motif that symbolizes, for him, a “journey never-ending.” Personal Journeys : Back to Borneo, and an Eden at Risk 2014-02-21T19:03:43Z

In another motif, they all take ballet’s fifth position and extend an arm to the side, with the hand very exactly dropped from the wrist. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z

An old-fashioned design motif would look strange on an aerospace company. Would you buy a logo from this man? 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z

The boxing motif in “Still Life” adds psychological depth and poetic resonance. Review | Get ready for a fight in these productions by Theater Alliance, Flying V 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Yet his glam-goth industrial rock – stripped of the grotesque burlesque theatrics of previous tours, bar the odd recycled costume motif – can still crackle. Marilyn Manson – review 2012-07-06T17:15:01Z

Double identities, disappearing acts and survivor guilt are all motifs of a larger conundrum that Mr Modiano strives to understand about the war, the occupation and his father’s role in it. French letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

When it succeeds, triumphantly here, it’s because he binds his motifs into keenly rhythmic phrases. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z

A series of silkscreen monoprints translates the sculpture’s roundabout motifs to paper, more gently. In the galleries: Artist Francie Hester’s pieces show allure of the old

His elegant cups, bowls, beakers, jugs and flasks decorated with geometric and botanical motifs were sought after by wealthy Romans and traded throughout the Mediterranean. Review: ‘Ennion,’ at the Met, Profiles an Ancient Glassmaker 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Each one is a furious little world — or a quite large one — unto itself, a visual rabbit hole of recognizable forms, motifs and symbols, from the structure of the atom to the Madonna and Child. Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dal? of Constant Ambition 2010-09-02T21:32:00Z

Dali's images include several of his themes, including the crutch, Don Quixote, jewels, forms sprouting chicken legs and the eye motif. In pictures: Salvador Dali fruit watercolours 2013-06-18T11:26:54Z

Tiny nature motifs almost invisible to the eye, like twigs and leaves, were printed onto the fabric to create the illusion of being an extension of the forest. Clothes and Character: 'Maleficent' 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

For India’s Muslim rulers and their tomb gardens, native Hindu motifs were merged with Arabesque geometry and the floral patterns of local temples transposed with Koranic calligraphy. Review | A look at some of the most beautiful gardens in the world 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

It is clear Sondheim enjoyed the play of words, of motifs, of reinventing musical theatre to fit the changing perspectives of contemporary life. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

The long narrative paragraphs and clearly recurring motifs intertwine and pullulate, drawing the ear and interest along. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Winds, brasses, strings, piano and percussion cycle through chattering yet softly voiced motifs — until Mr. Singleton punctuates the mist with sinuous solos or dramatic eruptions. So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

The result of these experiences is an openness that goes beyond using non-Western decorative motifs. In the galleries: The devil is in the details in an exhibition filled with symbolism 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

That’s where the artist places the transferred Chinese decorative motifs and an occasional Western corporate logo. In the galleries: The fleeting beauty of birds, making their final flights 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

The adinkra motifs are considered a precursor to his majestic tapestries. ‘Love at First Sight’ Inspired This African Art Collection 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

As with the Mario cloud piece, these works bring forward and isolate background motifs, in this case ones that are frequently used in commercial art. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z

Nassar's stitched patterns riff on traditional geometric borders, foliate and floral motifs, but his thread colors don't necessarily correspond to those designs. Jordan Nassar at Anat Ebgi: Palestinian cross-stitch art as boundary-breaker 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

A descending motif in the upper register meshed with prepared piano notes in the lower register to create an eerie canvas. Music Review: Jenny Q Chai at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-05T23:29:28Z

“The motif is almost like Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, in that it keeps propelling the movement forward,” Schwarz says. At SSO: Two nights of Shostakovich, two Schwarzes 2013-05-09T22:02:20Z

A Japanese theater company did away with the bug motif altogether and made Gregor a robot. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

A blue-green rug, intricately woven with wreath motifs and oak leaves inspired by the stunning ceiling plasterwork, was installed in 2012 at the start of the project. Obama legacy includes a new look for White House’s State Dining Room 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Short, nervous motifs are passed back and forth before rising to a beautifully paced anticlimax in which the listener is lost, carried away in the process. Philharmonia/Sokhiev/Wigglesworth 2010-04-19T22:00:00Z

The motif impressed him deeply and gridded, letterlike images — a kind of meeting of magic and mathematical rigidity — dominated his work. Gysin, In-Depth, at New Museum of Contemporary Art 2010-06-23T22:28:00Z

Nor can Mr. Leon’s expertly fluid direction quite disguise the artificial overuse of some fairly tired symbolic motifs, including baseball and the fences of the title. | 'Fences': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson?s Classic 2010-04-27T02:03:00Z

They each remained faithful to their chosen motifs. A sublime trio 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z

Visitors with a boat can get a view of a lakeside house that Mercury rented for several years — he called it the “duck house,” due to the landlord’s decorating motif. A Queen fan’s pilgrimage to a sleepy Swiss town where Freddie Mercury found tranquility 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Now, Ms. Sacco is back, hosting a party that promises exclusivity, A-list exuberance and the palm-tree motif from her original Bungalow 8. The Empress Is In: Amy Sacco Holds Court at Another New York Nightspot 2012-06-13T21:15:33Z

Still, throughout the series, one of the recurring visual motifs for this character has been water: Kendall sinking morosely into a bathtub; Kendall falling face down into a pool; and so on. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 6: Cool New Rule 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

Common embroidery motifs included stars, birds, vine leaves and angels, their faces sometimes sewn using human hair. Middle East: A Culture's History Written in Thread 2011-03-30T20:31:12Z

Q: But you do seem to be interested in issues related to being a woman, mother-daughter images, motifs about the female body. Women on art: What does 'woman artist' mean? 2012-10-07T06:37:54Z

Those include the snake that undulates through “Wiggle” and the decorative motifs Ballen combines with his own childlike drawings. In the galleries: A look at apartheid’s cruel costs

Equal parts ribald humor, lurid emotion and raw elegy, the Writer's accounts pull a plethora of familiar Williams motifs into play against everyone's crushing loneliness, “a sort of soft, awful groaning in the walls.” Lonely eccentrics, adrift in the French Quarter in Tennessee Williams' 'Vieux Carré' 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The lodge was furnished throughout with hand-forged wrought iron, handmade wood furniture, hand-woven fabrics and hand-hooked rugs incorporating three major design elements: pioneer heritage, Indian motifs and native plants and wildlife. At least once in your life, you’ve got to ski Oregon’s Timberline 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Repeating motifs included hearts and diamonds of playing cards and simple flowers. Milan runway not all black and white 2012-09-21T20:26:11Z

Short slow motifs of a few notes sound in the basses and low brass, then fade away. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Denis Kozhukhin Perform 2014-02-14T22:30:29Z

The drawings depict some of his most frequently used motifs — targets and American flags — as well as his reflections on the Vietnam War, and the most recent piece is from 2016. The Menil Drawing Institute in Houston Will Open in November 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

In the second section, “Kullervo’s Youth,” a downward violin motif unfolded with glistening clarity over the lower strings. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z

Light is also a motif of the artists' stories. Leeds centre prepares for OverWorlds & UnderWorlds 2012-05-17T10:01:01Z

Wistful motifs never overstayed their welcome; indeed, you often wished one or another idea would linger to bloom fully. Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z

Whitehead assumed that his "typical readers" would be resistant to the use of the zombie motif. Zombie invasion 2012-08-13T16:21:23Z

Perhaps the earliest mythological motif of eggs is the cosmic, or world egg, which deems that the universe came into existence via a hatched supreme egg. Poached or painted: A closer look at how eggs became a complex motif in countless works of art 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Historically, the motif of the circle appears again and again in seating,” Adjaye explains. Architect David Adjaye Collaborates With Moroso on a Furniture Line 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The scurrying motif low in the bass that repeatedly nags at the serene melody sounded foreign and unpredictable, heightening the radiance of the rest of the music. Review: Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Displays Both Delicate and Robust Tones 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

So Lucy’s room is bedecked in a girly motif of yellow roses and bluebonnets, and Bobby’s Western crash pad is dressed in patriotic colors, moose antlers and a headboard branded with the ranch’s logo. Dallas is the most affordable go-to travel destination for 2015 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

In both, Barber borrowed rhythmic and thematic motifs from the first movement. Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber?s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum 2010-03-11T05:24:00Z

Art Deco motifs, it seems, are sometimes a reference point for designers whether they are aware of it or not. A Ticket to East Egg, Please 2011-12-07T23:15:27Z

In the introduction to the opening act, the orchestra plays the rising, athletic motif of young Count Octavian, then the gentle, falling, noble theme of the Marschallin. Review: An Ecstatic ‘Rosenkavalier’ Introduces a Conductor to Carnegie 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Where does this motif go over the course of the work? Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

In this sophisticated piece, repetition transforms the emotional charge of musical motifs. Review: A Rediscovered Symphony Radiates Cosmic Grandeur 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

And that builds upon one of the motifs in the first "Wall Street," the worry that we're not making anything anymore except money. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z

With the link to the Silk Road, suzani weavers were able to benefit from the flow of designs between the East and the West, gaining inspiration from Chinese floral motifs and Islamic geometric abstractions. A 20th-Century Suzani Wall Hanging from Uzbekistan Is on the Block 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The simultaneous fondness for the recurring motifs of speculative fiction and its irreverent mocking of twists and tools that have been done to death are central to this show's duende. "Rick and Morty," resistance heroes, face a new nemesis channeling our current uncertainties 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Who wants to bet that lucky horses become a popular motif in 2014? Browsing: Shopping for New Pants That Act Like Jeans, a Longchamp ‘Year of the Horse’ Bag and More 2014-01-15T23:10:33Z

In the first two seasons, Britell followed a fairly confined playbook of the eight-chord motif’s different guises: a beating piano similar to that Mozart fantasia, darkly regal strings and brasses. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

“There are a lot of circular visual motifs in the film,” Mr. Johannsson said. Composing 'The Theory of Everything' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Certain images, steps and motifs bind its parts together. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z

His raucous, densely composed works are crowded with apparent pop-culture figures and motifs that are nearly all invented. Joe Grillo and Zane Lewis in Separate Shows at the Hole 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

They swing wildly from danceable, hummable motifs to chaotic passages with all the predictability of a pinball game. Skrillex to Play at Webster Hall and Roseland 2012-01-26T23:36:04Z

And we understand it's a motif in your own life, too. @Michael_Haneke: 'Izzy huppert always speeks the truth even wen shes high' 2012-12-24T12:22:00Z

An overhead camera slowly revealed children posed in individual white orbs, a stylized but unmistakable motif of children separated from their parents and held captive at the border. Review | J-Lo and Shakira shake off boundaries, put on a ferocious master dance class at the Super Bowl 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Florentine designer Cavalli, known for making his own animal prints, created deco motifs for his robes in natural shades. Milan fashion opts for light, timeless and wearable 2012-09-25T18:07:40Z

Countless fans who’ve never experienced a classical concert can identify a suite’s worth of “Star Wars” motifs with a connoisseur’s passion. Hollywood composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The sisters here look like some Baku baron’s privileged daughters, arrayed in various dresses that blend Persian princess motifs and punk styles. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z

Fires, cactuses and the word “Christmas,” inscribed on flesh, are motifs. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

How did you come to employ art historical motifs into Megillat Esther and Not the Israel? Not the Harvey Pekar graphic novel you’d expect 2012-07-13T13:39:00Z

Recycled plastics found in the ocean were thus imagined here as fringing on a dress resembling an apron or as decoration on a polo shirt motif. Dior reimagines feminist fashion in history in Paris show 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

These viewpoints guide the album, with several motifs and developments seeded throughout its 49-minute duration — teasers delivered a week before the theatrical release via a project conceived to help generate excitement for it. Review | ‘Black Panther: The Album’ promotes the film but stands on its own 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

It was one of the city’s finest private houses, with well-preserved mosaic floors and frescoes depicting mythological scenes and architectural and animal motifs. Ancient Roman home reopens in Herculaneum after 36-year wait 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

And in Louise Glück’s hauntingly inward collection “The Wild Iris,” a book of rapture, a white rose’s monologue touches on religious motifs of suffering, death, and resurrection. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XIII 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The auteurs of these complex artworks, which suggest biomorphic, art deco and ancient Celtic motifs, are computer programs. Review | In the galleries: Artists, too, might someday be replaced by machines 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

There are four ’60s “Net” paintings at the Hirshhorn, but you can also see the motif germinating in a clutch of visionary works on paper that Ms. Kusama made while still in Japan. Into the Land of Polka Dots and Mirrors, With Yayoi Kusama 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

A pillar from the same church associates five-lobed palmettes common in 10th- and 11th-century Iran with knotted motifs reminiscent of Viking ornament. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z

They are about as precise as Twombly gets; the motif turns shambling in four larger oil paint drawings nearby. Cy Twombly, Redefined by His Drawings 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

When I asked about the spiderwebs, he contacted his sisters and other relatives, but nobody knew the significance of the motif. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

And others, like Tom Ford, employed the classic motif to liven up more traditional tailored suiting. | The Sleeker Side of Floral Prints 2014-03-10T21:23:42Z

The Peasant is called by a little horn motif, a classic trait of German Romanticism. Review: Thomas Adès Leads the Philharmonic, and Björk Listens 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Those subtleties of colouration similarly transformed the repeating motif that followed, before a build-up to another roar found Lefebvre's thudding bass and Wood's drums taking the band close to house-music territory, to the crowd's delight. Wayne Krantz – review 2012-08-23T14:19:13Z

Perhaps the most common motif is dancers riding dancers, and the greatest rider is the petite Larissa Lima. Review: A Parade of People, Pulled by Many Forces 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The motifs that characterize his work and recur throughout — reflections, doubling, nightscapes, shadows — often allude to this fractured identity. Paris Celebrates Kert?sz, an Adopted Artist 2010-10-04T10:00:00Z

Sometimes this rivalry is figured through an evil twin motif, with the good and bad dancers measured not by skill but character, one embodying the dark flipside of the other. Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies 2011-01-07T12:38:10Z

It might seem logical that Vincent van Gogh, the most famous depressive in all of art, adopted the Mediterranean cypress tree as a motif. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

"This movie contaminates historical tragedy with the classic motifs of Italian comedy, thus desecrating a topic - World War I massacres - that was still taboo for national cinema," said Italian critic Paolo Mereghetti. Monicelli's films captured Italy's flaws, sins 2010-11-30T20:46:00Z

He specialized in bulbous vases and ewers with Moorish filigree lids, dolphin handles, gilded spider-web textures and Japanese chrysanthemum motifs. Antiques: Edward Lycett, Designer for Faience Company, Brooklyn 2011-05-26T22:02:06Z

It’s about the layers of motif in the interiors, which go from Hindu to Islam, from temple to mosque. | Q&A: Karen Knorr?s Photography Offers an Ironic Sense of Place ? Q&A 2011-11-02T22:32:13Z

And there was her daughter, now 31-year-old Carly, a textile designer for Stella McCartney who made a scarf in a repeated hummingbird motif for her mother's HSN line that launches April 3. Twiggy: `It could have gone terribly wrong' 2010-03-29T20:25:00Z

Exact, hand-painted reproductions of wall motifs and story scenes complete the exhibition space in this gallery. NYC exhibition depicts ancient Buddhist caves 2013-04-29T17:04:14Z

Toyota featured a “one bold choice” motif in this advertisement: Super Bowl XLIX was the year of “dad-vertising” 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Because the motif is so signature, the things around it don’t have to speak as loudly. Luxury Has Gotten Jumbled, but Not at Bottega Veneta 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The works incorporate flora and fauna motifs, as well as rough, unpolished geodes — the raw material for the precious stones de Castellane knows and loves. | Victoire de Castellane’s Blinged-Out Sculptures at Gagosian 2014-01-24T14:00:39Z

He is a passionate cynic, an artist who degrades and celebrates his medium through the relentless yet fervent repetition of a selected motif. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

As for this summer’s brand-new reading, if there’s one overriding motif, it’s this: the crazier, the better. A Critic’s Survey of Summer Books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

This exquisite corpse is disconcerting because it flows so well; the artists seem to have intuited a motif of sinuous lines, even though they were blind to one another’s inventions. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z

It’s now a recurring motif in “Outlander,” whenever Claire steps in to cure one of several wretched characters who would have otherwise croaked. Perspective | In Starz’s enjoyably escapist ‘Outlander,’ a relevant story line about finding the cure 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Nash makes place not by verisimilitude, but by summoning up totemic symbols, motifs and spirit. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z

He said his favorite part of the museum tour was the Aleppo Room, whose walls are painted red with elaborate floral motifs. Berlin’s Museum Tours in Arabic Forge a Bridge to Refugees 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

That relationship is something of a motif at this year’s festival. Critic?s Notebook: A Film Festival With a Penchant for Making Tastes, Not Deals 2010-09-23T22:17:00Z

Some paintings with hints of brocade and signs of the stenciled tulle echo carpet’s foliate motifs and evoke the tiny grid of carpet weaving. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z

Watteau invented the popular motif of the fête galante, or courtship party, but this is a strange, even somewhat disquieting example. The Getty just announced its most important drawings acquisition in 20 years—and adds a 'Surprise' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Like many a great artist, Williams was not above reusing discarded material and reintroducing familiar motifs in new outfits. Theater Review: ?In Masks Outrageous and Austere? at the Culture Project 2012-04-17T02:00:12Z

Elements of Orientalism in the form of a floral motif surround the image. Made in L.A.'s Mohn Awards winners a varied, creative lot 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

She also illustrates the positive correlation between these botanic frenzies — such as plant collecting, an expensive 17th-century hobby, or the Victorian mania for camellias — and trends in fashion prints, motifs and silhouettes. | Fashion’s Fertile Ground for Inspiration: Gardens 2014-01-31T23:12:54Z

A recent collection featured a Stanton Street Sports motif, the words rendered in Greek coffee cup font on one pocket T-shirt, a red line through a rat on another. The Inevitability of Supreme 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

There were also block flowers - floral prints and motifs a clear trend this season. Colors in, and black out, on Milan runway 2012-09-23T22:46:03Z

Other parts of the show included thinly pleated creations with knitted details or fluid silk dresses and skirts with optical patterns which included the brand's fret motif. Naomi Campbell leads bold Versace runway in Milan 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

But dark, obsessive, even violent motifs and rhythmic spans keep threatening. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z

Haque says that recently he has been writing compositions based on various mathematical ideas: particular pitch intervals, melodic motifs that evoke geometric patterns, that kind of thing. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z

Once, when I asked about the meaning of the spiderweb motif, she shrugged and said that she had no idea. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

More than any other choreographer today, Mr. Morris loves to stud a work with repeated movement motifs. Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z

But other artists might let these motifs land with mawkish sentimentality. Kehlani’s Journey of Healing 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

But nature is rarely absent from O’Keeffe’s motifs; the lines can also evoke tall thin water birds — herons, for example. Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Kruger's art often involves text placed over images, a motif she developed early in her career while working as a graphic designer for magazines. Barbara Kruger and Quentin Tarantino, plus Boy George, at LACMA gala 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

The chevron motif is repeated in the wineglass shelves above the bar. Corkbuzz wine bar opens a new location in Chelsea Market 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Yet even when exploring new realms of structure and sound, Beethoven generated these late scores from small motifs. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

If you look closely, his spiky, angular faces, skulls and figures intimate letters piled one on the other, until alphabet morphs into motif. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

At moments this emphasis on composition is irritating; a couple of the motifs are too preciously artful. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z

Was it when PBS began rebroadcasting the Andy Williams Christmas specials, showcasing the singer of “Moon River” and his weakness for knitwear with snowflake motifs? Cultural Studies: Ugly Holiday Sweaters Are All the Rage – Cultural Studies 2012-12-14T22:23:35Z

In a recurring motif, Ms. Mearns takes walks on point to the front of the stage as her arms part the air. Dance Review: ?Ocean?s Kingdom? at New York City Ballet - Review 2012-01-21T00:29:19Z

While you’re guessing, you might note that the spheres anticipate the target motifs that would become a Johns signature. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

They’re more like laboratories, where a given motif can pass through countless editions of clay, foam, plaster and fiberglass; get photographed or scanned, then edited with computer software; and then be sculpted again. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Smoked cherry panels crossbanded with bamboo and inlaid with mother-of-pearl accent the interior, repeating the blossom motif in the silk. Rolls-Royce Presents Serenity, a One-of-a-Kind Phantom 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The motifs varied: a monogram, a family cipher, an Old School motto, a series of signal flags. Noticed: Belts, Stitched and Still Preppy 2010-07-21T19:20:00Z

Most items keep things simple in basic shades of blue or white, but several add dashes of print—spots, perhaps, or a coral motif—that have resurfaced from the home line. Furnishings Brand Serena & Lily Debuts a Clothing Line 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

In tandem with his longtime collaborators, choreographer Karma Camp and music director Jon Kalbfleisch, Schaeffer’s evincing as fine a touch with Sondheim’s lighter motifs as he did with the darker themes of “Passion.” Review | Signature opens season with ‘A Little Night Music,’ one of Sondheim’s precious gems 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The motifs come equally from nature, geometry and instinct: worms, cells, flowers, triangles, eyes and circles-within-squares are among the words they bring to mind without accounting for their mesmerizing yet adamantly modest effects. Museum & Gallery Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:43:41Z

In the rooms, you can see my bed, but it’s higher, and has a classic motif, English library. Ian Schrager Unveils the New York Edition 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Do the geometric patterns seen in migraine and other conditions prefigure the motifs of Aboriginal art?” he asks. Books of The Times: ‘Hallucinations,’ by Oliver Sacks 2012-11-26T22:26:01Z

I suspect, though, that draining the political power of Rivera’s motif for simple decorative ends might have had something to do with the Mexican’s anger toward the Spaniard. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Decorative features demonstrate the way that the Spanish blended traditional Catholic symbols with motifs from the indigenous Coahuiltecan people. The Alamo Earns World Heritage Status 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Aldana worked over short motifs, using the full range of her instrument, articulating long and fast lines. Music Review: Melissa Aldana Quartet at Jazz Gallery 2013-02-03T23:08:18Z

Saul’s placed two metal folding chairs in front of the picture on which he’s at work, in which Superman, a favorite motif, trades right hooks with God over the Brooklyn Bridge. Peter Saul Doesn’t Want Any Advice 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

More than any other of Mr. Ratmansky’s Shostakovich works, “Concerto No. 1” deals in choreographic motifs. Late Into American Ballet Theater’s Fall Season, a Flowering 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

In a concert featuring new pieces, a small ensemble of instruments including harp, orchestral chimes, keyboard and cymbal shared momentary clusters of notes or fleeting motifs, like bits of crystal briefly catching the light. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Roche seems to have selected a handful of Joyce’s 18 sections, interpreting some more literally than others, and establishing certain gestural motifs that lend a sense of cohesion. Review: A Choreographer in Conversation With James Joyce 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Symbols of childhood and adolescence, of marriage and death, and visual motifs—bent silverware, grasping hands, loose hair, wedding cake—seem to imply connections among the scenes. A Norwegian Artist’s Memory Disturbances 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Keith Sonnier calls his new wall drawings in neon, wire and electrical transformers “portals,” and their design motifs and titles do refer to forms from ancient Roman and medieval architecture, often ecclesiastical. Keith Sonnier's neon drawings open portals to another place 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

In a new series called “Bruise Paintings,” his motif of the anxious face is now almost completely abstracted, rendered in a frenetic freehand with a palette of blues and repeated across linen in vast grids. In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

So is the way that, by the time the instrumental break comes, those gestures have become choreographic motifs, deftly arranged to make musical sense. Yes, Burt Bacharach Wrote That. And You Can Dance to It. 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Each section comes heavily footnoted, indicating the appearance of traditional folk tale motifs — taboos, odd coincidences. ‘In the Dream House’ Recounts an Abusive Relationship Using Dozens of Genres 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Amid these various familiar TV structures, the morbidity and sarcasm that have always characterized Wednesday become more of a motif, a running gag, than a defining trait. ‘Wednesday’ Review: The Strange Girl Is on the Case 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

In fact, for a show with a football motif, there is a whole lot of emotion going on. On ?Friday Night Lights? the Other Side of the Tracks 2010-04-24T20:10:00Z

A few imported motifs did seep into the era’s furnishings and accessories: Constructivist slashes on drinking glasses, cropped flapper hairstyles on porcelain statuettes and movie ads, and skyscrapers printed on kimonos. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z

Mr. Jones later invited Mr. Blame to collaborate with him on a series of Louis Vuitton accessories using motifs from Mr. Nemeth. His Name Was Blame: A Legend of London Fashion Remembered 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

The building on the National Mall was designed by the Tanzanian-born architect David Adjaye to evoke a crown motif from ancient Yoruban sculpture, or, alternatively, women’s hands raised to the sky in prayer. Michael Jordan Endows a Hall in African American Museum Gallery 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Many of the contributors employ wax, resin or glitter and share a taste for bold colors and hypnotic motifs. Review | In the galleries: Autobiographical pieces prevail at the Trawick Prize 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Etro used the bovine motif as "a metaphor for mountain and central European culture." Menswear on the European runways 2011-01-24T19:08:53Z

Hand drumming meshes with percussive, modal motifs from Brooklyn Rider, as Ms. Herrera’s performance merges wonderment and disillusion. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The resilience and early maturity of children in bad situations is a familiar motif, but the 6-to-11-year-olds in “Homeless” convey a particularly heartbreaking blend of innocence and experience. Television Review: On HBO, Alexandra Pelosi Documentary About Poverty 2010-07-25T21:27:00Z

At times resembling medieval viol-consort music as daubed with a Japanese brush, the work is more rigorously constructed than it sounds: simple, plaintive motifs circle and recur, like fallen leaves caught in limpid pools. Music Review: Momenta Quartet at the Stone 2013-01-09T22:51:07Z

The repetitive second movement long outstayed its welcome; perhaps reflecting Mr. Rossi’s background as a frequent collaborator with Philip Glass, descending string motifs recurred incessantly over viola pizzicatos. Music Review: Tribeca New Music Festival Features Jack Quartet 2010-06-06T22:14:00Z

His wall motif was inspired by the streets of New York, he said. Burhan Dogancay, Artist Inspired by Urban Walls, Dies at 83 2013-01-21T04:18:59Z

As the meditations progress, assertive statements of the mingling motifs are sometimes enshrouded in celestial harmonies and regularly interrupted by skittish birdcalls. Music Review: Jon Gillock Plays Messiaen - Review 2011-11-16T22:40:23Z

The severity of his own judgment is relieved to a degree by one of his recurring motifs: the image of a rural road stretching from the foreground to the distant horizon. Art Review: ‘Robert Adams: The Place We Live’ at Yale Art Gallery 2012-08-30T21:55:20Z

And I also wanted to keep in there a feather motif. Dressed to Kill: A Conversation with the Costume Designer of Catching Fire 2013-11-22T23:55:03Z

But LaDonna's story could have been a lens through which many these issues, talking points, themes and motifs were refracted. "Treme's" cheap, ugly showstopper 2011-05-09T03:09:00Z

This exhibition, with more than 35 garments from the Kyoto Costume Institute, shows how fashion designers around the world have — much more recently — borrowed from and adapted the kimono’s fabrics, silhouettes and decorative motifs. Mark These Dates: A Wave of Art Is Coming Your Way 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

In a letter to the boyfriend aggrieved about the Scottish trip, written while watching snowfall — snow is a recurring motif of “Bold Ventures” — she bemoans how “the white of my paper has been unbroken.” The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

If there was any single motif, it was unsteadiness. At Ivy Baldwin Dance’s ‘Oxbow,’ only the dancing is static

There he produced a stream of paintings that synthesized Cubism and other European modernisms, mixed in non-Western motifs and mysterious symbols and culminated in his lusty, elegiac German Officer paintings. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to do the expected: repetitive, decorative motifs,” he says. A Beloved Provence-Based Wicker Workshop Comes to Paris 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

With its checkerboard motifs, subdued tones and starkly contrasting features — transparent and opaque, rough and smooth, expensive and inexpensive materials — the hotel was a critical and popular hit when it opened in 1984. Andrée Putman, Global Interior Designer, Dies at 87 2013-01-21T03:48:51Z

The typewriter’s punchy carriage return — and its associated pinging sound — has a way of punctuating the end of barreling motifs in the flute writing. The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

The form was then freed from its own expectations, and able to engage with any idea or theme where it might identify the motif of its little golden square. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The doubling effect, uncanny in itself, is redoubled within each gallery, where works painted in color appear alongside the same motifs painted in greyscale. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

They create a reverie of recurring motifs that is most seductive in the opening gallery. Art Review: ‘Gauguin: Metamorphoses’ at MoMA Goes Beyond Paintings 2014-03-13T19:24:47Z

It's a Besson motif: the scripts he writes for others may be testosterone-heavy but the majority of those he keeps for himself feature headstrong female leads. Luc Besson: 'You can't imagine how many people ask me for a Léon sequel' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Not to mention enough cryptic symbols, pop-culture references and recurring motifs to keep the online decipherers busy. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

And it’s Ylitalo, who lived in Kyoto for five years, who incorporates Japanese motifs. Review | In the galleries: Artists make use of Asian iconography via paper and sculpture 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

And though set in a radically different world, the motifs here are similar to “Lone Survivor,” Wahlberg’s working-class drama about gritty men fighting for their lives in dire conditions. The BP oil spill comes to movie theaters 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The miserable sight of their discarded backpacks in the earthquake rubble is transformed into the primary motif in a giant display outside his So Sorry exhibition in Munich. Berlin 2012: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ? review 2012-02-13T18:02:10Z

Also in the mix are such favorite motifs as dogs, masks, and mirrors, as well as a musical element conceived with her frequent collaborator, the American jazz musician Jason Moran. Joan Jonas, Roger Waters, and Mother’s Day Theatre Picks 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The French designer Isabel Marant produced a spring collection that draws on the stylized motifs of Navajo sand paintings and the arts of the Southwestern Pueblo tribes. Reporter?s Notebook: An Uneasy Exchange Between Fashion and Navajo Culture 2012-03-14T19:47:42Z

One motif was the monkey mime of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Dance Review: Ballet Tech Performs at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-14T20:30:52Z

And the flower was a constant motif in the collection - as cherry-red blooms on a mink coat, as embroidery on linen, opened-top bags. On the Runway Blog: Prada's New Flower Power 2012-09-20T19:59:38Z

But a composition titled “Moorish Echoes in Bali” suggests what Kern does with the colors and motifs she spots on her journeys: rips, chops and reassembles them. In the galleries: Phantom people make a statement — a beautiful one 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Surviving storms, moving on, becoming oneself: All are motifs in Mr. Hansard’s latest songs. Pop: Glen Hansard, Touring Behind His ‘Rhythm and Repose’ 2012-06-22T16:00:01Z

Today, taking a tour of the town’s oldest sites is like witnessing the turmoil of early Christianity, with its clash of Roman, Byzantine and Arian motifs. Ravenna, Italy, Glittering Still 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s built around a motif that is often thought of as a quotation of the “Dies Irae,” the music of Judgment Day. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

The textile motif also serves as a kind of formal and philosophical template for Mr. Bayrle, who imagines a social fabric that “is made up of individuals who are woven together but cannot move.” Museum & Gallery Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

She has concluded that in the last few centuries spotted-cat motifs have been used to attract attention and exude power, ferocity, independence, sophistication, sensuality and sometimes outright debauchery. Dressed to Kill: The Power of Leopard Prints 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Above and below these vignettes are more bands: images of chains or razor wire, or repeated motifs like a knife-wielding hand. In ‘Hatched in Prison,’ Gil Batle Carves Jailhouse Life Onto Ostrich Eggs 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The group favored the sensualists among the late Victorians — Rossetti and especially Swinburne — and Rosenblitt brings out their “pagan” aestheticism as it emerged in illustrations and motifs of the faun and the goat-god Pan. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The Kerbs Boathouse, with its tranquil pond full of model sailboats, triggers a soothing Pachelbel-like motif with a descending bass. Bluebrain?s App Central Park (Listen to the Light) 2011-12-07T23:35:57Z

That theme unfurled at its outset serves as a functional motif, around which many others race and swirl. New Music: Iggy and the Stooges, Darcy James Argue, Kenny Chesney 2013-04-29T21:31:45Z

They'll queue all day to get to the front of a show and change their profile pictures to include the Disclosure face motif. Disclosure: how the Lawrence brothers are rebooting dance culture 2013-05-18T05:00:00Z

His first really successful experiment, in 1963, was creating a cutout silhouette he called the Walking Woman, which became a signature motif. In Moving Images, Michael Snow Teases the Eye and the Mind 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

There’s a repeating motif in David Simon’s passionate, gutting adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel “The Plot Against America.” Can It Happen Here? In ‘The Plot Against America,’ It Already Did 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

The "intellectual" off-kilter feeling continued in designs that turned inside garments out — like underskirts on the exterior, inverted capes, and even bustier underwear motifs on the front of a series of white dresses. Kardashian shares Givenchy spotlight with Malik, Hadid 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

The POV motif is in some ways more strictly enforced in Lady in the Lake than in Enter the Void — and yet in some ways less strictly. How Enter the Void sees itself in Lady in the Lake 2010-09-22T11:15:00Z

It was as much about friendship, compassion and growing up, and those motifs helped keep the film number one until 1993, when another Spielberg movie -- “Jurassic Park” -- replaced it atop the box office heap. Review: 'E.T.' comes home to the Hollywood Bowl 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

Since the cobra is a symbol of the Egyptian monarchy, and a motif that kings wore on their headdresses to represent protection, this was a rather ominous sign. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

They display a motif signifying happiness and are decorated with red silk. Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Reddit users seemed to take the husband’s side, however, with one writing, “You say that his office goes against the ‘motif’ of the rest of the house. Wife complains about husband's Taco Bell-themed home office, gets slammed online 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Where his earlier work repurposed characters and locales from video games, the artist now combines motifs from sci-fi, corporate iconography, and art and architecture history. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’

They started an archaeological exploration of its ruins, exhibiting their finds: a pseudo-Cretan wall painting and scraps of pottery with three poodles in compromising positions, and wood panels marked with the ziggurat motif. Haute Culture: General Idea - review 2011-03-01T14:00:59Z

Eerily floating string disharmonies were cut off by jarring percussion and brass outbursts; inquisitive wind motifs were answered with stark silences. Music Review: The Many Paths of Japan?s Avant-Garde 2011-04-11T20:27:03Z

The returns of its dance motifs and its range of geometries deepen its fascination. Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Minter’s images possess a disorienting doubleness that forces you to examine them with extra care; they put you on intimate terms with the motif, the painted surface and your own suggestibility. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Her score was built on small musical motifs, some, like the exotically spiced opening motif in the violin, deeply expressive. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

He can take a motif from a previous collection — say a flower or a plasticized material — and make them fresh. Fashion Review: Christopher Kane and Erdem Show Smart, Controlled Styles 2012-02-20T19:09:28Z

Mr. Salahi freely interweaves Modernist abstraction, Arabic calligraphy and architectural motifs. MoMA Takes a Stand: Art From Banned Countries Comes Center Stage 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Metalsmiths set nautiluses on gold pedestals sculpted with mermaid and sea foam motifs. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

For Public School, the designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne took street motifs often associated with men — parkas, puffers, hoodies, anoraks — and toyed with how to dress women in them. Gender Fluidity on the Runways 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Costumes are a recurring motif in the book, as are self-deprecating glances at previous humiliations. In a Memoir, the Impeachment Witness Fiona Hill Recounts Her Journey From ‘Blighted World’ to White House 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

A tongue-in-cheek motif of intergalactic visuals highlights the fact that these issues belong not to some distant future or past; they define our present. Review: Marjani Forté’s Latest Work, on Urban Plagues 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

All motifs benefit from ingenious combinations of strident drawing and suave stained color; they are often simultaneously transparent and opaque, explicit and mysterious. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Presenting the exhibition in the Turner Contemporary, which looks directly onto the sea, gave poignancy to the poem’s motifs of “drowning, voyages and shipwrecks,” Mr. Tooby said. 2 Literary Greats, in Art Galleries by the Sea 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

On “All of No Man’s Land Is Ours,” Moran bends the end of one motif so that it ends in a less celebratory fashion than it does on Europe’s recording. Jason Moran Pays Tribute to an Early Jazz Ancestor 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

She showed me that fall could be more to my taste with calmer, more inviting autumn hues, rather than having to embrace the country-comes-to-town hay bales, dried corn and scarecrow motif. These Martha Stewart-inspired pumpkin bars are packed with the best flavors of fall 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

At the conclusion of an icy, fiery, truncated season full of abruptly concluded plots, this narrative-as-king motif was, as some might say, a weird flex. “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Finale Recap: The Iron Throne 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Yet it has coherence, character and recurring motifs. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

"Denim is treated in a new way, we color block, patchwork, bleach bandanna motifs on chambray and use an array of denim hues to create a water-colored plaid print." Fashion world marks Sept. 11 as shows go on 2011-09-12T15:55:19Z

One of the most recent, discovered in 2005, is a series of enormous agricultural terraces, each decorated with a llama motif. The Hidden Route to Machu Picchu 2011-06-24T19:06:22Z

It was mostly in black and white with occasional blocks of bright color and with pleats as a motif. Special Report: No Operatic Shout From the Heart 2010-09-24T18:06:00Z

The story’s bleakness, its motifs of environmental destruction and the possibility of human extinction give it resonance, as does its allegory of the despair and vengefulness fostered by the Cultural Revolution. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

The models’ headpieces, designed by Shaun Leane, depict the sun and the moon, celestial bodies also found on tarot cards, which are a recurring motif here. Are the Salem Witch Trials Part of Women’s History? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

And the threat of flooding remains a natural motif. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tinterow said that Delacroix was the first artist to introduce North African motifs to the Paris Salon. Houston Museum Buys Delacroix Discovery 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

That’s very interesting, but in my case the motifs and the themes are not so different. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Everything Is Love,” by contrast, is slick and effervescent, triumphant, a return to the outlaw motif that the couple embraced years before. What It Means When Beyoncé and Jay-Z Take Over the Louvre 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Neither Nixon nor the current president is a motif, but the work is strongly political. Review | In the galleries: Myths and respite at the American University museum 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The standout is “Pinball Machine,” which incorporate motifs from Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations. In the galleries: Watercolors reveal a forceful vision at Touchstone 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

If you were Jung you would identify certain primordial and universal motifs at work in the story. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz | Book review 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

Motion becomes a motif: As “Happer’s Comet” progresses, it becomes difficult to keep track of how many of its subjects have donned roller blades or skates. ‘Happer’s Comet’ Review: We Live by Night 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Singer Kelly Jones delivers dark, melancholy songs of sadness and contemplation, the title track and Violins and Tambourines pondering the transience of life over touchingly simple guitar motifs. Stereophonics: Graffiti on the Train – review 2013-02-28T21:00:01Z

Bukhara occupies a fertile oasis surrounded by orchards and fields — natural features that surely inspired the abstracted motifs in ikat designs. Review | Are these the most beautiful textiles in the world? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Voices repeat motifs obsessively in some places, and there are long chains of reiterated suspensions in almost endless cycles — in, for example, the “Crucifixus” section of the Credo. CD reviews: Fresh takes on Gershwin and Josquin 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

From the start, sections of the orchestra, especially the strings, play undulating, lapping motifs that murmur and bustle, as if rhythmic riffs and whole themes were trying to coalesce into forms more concrete. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony Plays Mahler and Samuel Carl Adams 2012-09-30T21:54:38Z

Judith Weir compresses both the melody and harmony of Bach/Stölzel into bright, staccato chords, interspersed with a punching bass motif. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

T-shirts advertising YouTube or sportswear companies are juxtaposed with decorative motifs like lions, birds and arabesques that wrap around the figures, moving from background to foreground. Art Review: The Diaspora Is Remixed 2012-03-22T22:53:15Z

From an opening motif in which a gleaming flute line ascended over contrary peals on a vibraphone, the work played on the tension between stately chord progressions and unpredictable, increasingly brisk rhythmic outbursts. Music Review: Louis Andriessen, Composing Under the Radar 2010-04-19T22:18:00Z

“The range is unified by the punk-stud motif, an icon that transcends time and seems to be continually reinvented.” Waterford Crystal Channels Punk 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Knafo indicates that Gomez seems to be caught up in a romantic narrative of his own imagining, or several—motifs that the series somewhat tepidly incorporates, for art’s sake. “Conviction,” Reviewed: A Bronx P.I. Pursues Justice, and Glory 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Window Seat would fit perfectly there, Agitation smooths over its prickly jazz piano riff by reprising the "What a day, what a day" lyrical motif from that album's hit On and On. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z

The objects include traditional design motifs that complement those of Kim’s light shows. Review | In the galleries: ‘Misprints’ exhibition takes a purposeful approach 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Stockton’s large-scale woodcut prints include more immediately recognizable natural motifs, including waves, clouds and blooms. In the galleries: Taking flight 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

In one much-repeated motif, the 11 dancers, sitting on a bench at the back, all lean forward as they shift their weight onto their feet, rise and slowly advance. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z

Cringe-factors and the Simple Minds drum-plod of The City aside, the instantly singable Sex and You, with its simple, sublime guitar motif, do enough to suggest they'll be heard everywhere this year. The 1975 – review 2013-01-29T15:10:22Z

As she lifted the lids, fabrics fluttered and revealed motifs of skulls, playing cards, cricket cages and tangled necklaces. At the Met, Honoring Kimonos and a Scholar of the Same 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Her wardrobe evoked tiger and leopard motifs, and she wore extravagant furs. Review | At 50, does ‘The Graduate’ still hold up — or is it all plastics now? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

I came to this show to hoot at the motifs of its subgenre—the sham glamour of photo shoots, the cornball lines lobbed at pitch meetings—and stayed for its amiable exploration of self-discovery. Wearing Its Topicality Lightly, “The Bold Type” Is a Show to Warm a Jaded Heart 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The best of these bare-minimum works was a series of enormous raw canvases that boasted a single motif outlined in black oil crayon. Joe Bradley Begins Again 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Video games are supposed to be, to borrow Jorge Luis Borges’s favorite motif, labyrinthine. What Pokémon Can Teach Us About Fiction 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Behind it all there's a twisted fairytale motif that leads inexorably to the house of the Brothers Grimm, recalling the cranked-up symbolism of Neil Jordan. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2011-08-27T23:05:46Z

The sighing “ba-dum, ba-dum” motif in the prelude to Act II anticipates Verdi’s “La Traviata,” which premiered just 22 years after “Norma” and mines that same motif for the same pathos. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

But where the fountains play on the intricacies of baroque choreography, the motif in Angoulême is more geometric. The Treasures of Saint Pierre 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

But the movements are linked, almost subliminally, by short musical motifs that run through almost every moment of this 50-minute score, lending it inexorable sweep and structural cohesion. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The motor of that drama is Shelley's twinning of creator and creature in an inimitably gothic doppelganger motif, whereby the outcast fiend, rejected by his maker, is seen nonetheless to reflect him. Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z

Corrado uses design motifs that are all around us to construct little cartoon universes. Review | In the galleries: Views of lost scenes from Syria 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

In his 1919 essay The Uncanny, Freud writes that the motif of the double, produced by a mature mind, often appears as a "ghastly harbinger of death" – an unsettling entity observing and judging its twin. Post-apocalypse cinema: abandoned Earths and disturbing doppelgangers 2013-06-12T13:17:52Z

The labyrinthine quality of that mystery emphasizes structure over narrative, and makes “characters” no more important than other things that recur: tropes, references, motifs. How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

In his latest works, there's a recurring motif: Women, or mermaids, recline on bikes, recalling the old joke about a woman needing a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Review: James Martin's weird, wondrous works at Foster/White 2011-02-17T21:33:15Z

Mr. Pilati’s theme, in mostly black, red and yellow, was nautical, with anchor and rope motifs on many of the clothes. On the Runway: Resort: Castaways in Manhattan 2011-06-02T21:56:35Z

The colossal first movement has moments in which majestic themes unfold in segmented phrases and episodes where motifs go through complex harmonic sequences. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Sís draws young Nicky as a fencer suited up like the figurative and literal knight he would become, and sets him inside an oval ring — a familiar Síssian motif. A Captivating New Picture Book Celebrates the ‘British Schindler’ 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The central motif of this passage is not so much the impartial insight into the indigenous plants of the island as that of ordering, classification and the creation of a perfect system. A Place in My Country by WG Sebald – extract 2013-04-20T07:00:21Z

There’s a constantly recurring motif in the film of the cardboard, cutout Ben Carson. How God’s will and an awful lot of PAC money made Ben Carson seem like a legitimate candidate 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

It is one of Hume's characteristically ambiguous double images – duck-rabbit style – in this case deepened by the outer darkness surrounding the motif. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z

On “All of You,” his repeated motifs and incantatory helixes of melody are exercises, aimed at perfecting a method of inclusive prayer. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

The feather motif and the idea of sudden change suggested her title, “Murmuration,” a scientific term for how flocks of birds fly in swarms and suddenly change directions in perfect unison. Public art projects in Long Beach, Willowbrook win national award 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

A dusting of kitsch, in the blue-and-white boating motifs on wallpaper, carpets and napkins, adds to the charm. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

It is disturbing, harsh and jagged with the nightmarish “human shout” motif that fans remembered from his spaghetti western work, and yet weirdly hummable. Ennio Morricone: a composer with a thrilling ability to hit the emotional jugular | Peter Bradshaw 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Designed by Sir Norman Foster using desert and Middle Eastern motifs, the building is a fitting welcome to a country that is trying to modernize while maintaining its natural beauty and traditions. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

Geometric forms offset by images of neoclassical statues were the collection’s motifs. Dolce&Gabbana preserve the live fashion show during pandemic 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

The bigness resides within the paintings, in the three-way tension involving panel size, the drawing of the linear motif and surface textures. Art In Review: CHUCK WEBSTER: ‘Paintings’ 2012-05-24T20:26:40Z

The track “I Know” features synthesizers performed by Donald Swearingen; those keyboard motifs suggest an affinity for both 1980s new wave as well as some 1970s Philip Glass. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

"We think of him almost exclusively as a painter so these sketchbooks reveal ... he would jot these pictorial ideas right in front of his motifs," Tucker said. NYC exhibition evokes Claude Monet's flower garden 2012-06-02T17:01:17Z

Intricate marquetry throughout the room appears in geometric patterns and in representational motifs depicting objects like sewing tools, hairdressing implements and jewelry. Peeking Into the Gilded Age at the Met 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

It uses Western cement construction, then in its infancy here, but with Chinese decorative motifs. Heads Up: The King Yin Lei Mansion in Hong Kong Is Saved 2011-04-29T18:55:00Z

If the bonds between the disparate subjects and motifs in “The Mansion of Happiness” sometimes seem to be sustained by Lepore’s own personal version of extraordinary measures, there are plenty that hold firm. “The Mansion of Happiness”: Matters of life and death 2012-06-24T21:00:00Z

I used the Puccini motif, and I reversed it. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

Although his work celebrated life in all its color and intricacy, death was always a subject of fascination for Mr. Castro; skulls, both animal and human, were a common motif. Terry Castro, a Proud Outsider in the Jewelry World, Dies at 50 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

The 16th-to-19th-century Moghul miniatures were so moving, in fact, that they inspired Zoffany’s latest collection of fabrics and wallpapers—Jaipur—which nods to the sultanate courts and Indian motifs that they famously depict. Zoffany’s Jaipur Collection Showcases Indian Magnificence 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

In another 1960s-era motif, a hospital in the “city” is pictured as a place where you are ignored, “plugged into a wall” to rot. Hushpuppy, anarchist antihero? 2012-08-09T19:40:00Z

“Pollux,” though, is misty, swirling, altogether starry; delicate violins at one point are joined by a gentle motif in the flutes that becomes a gradual, dawnlike blossoming of winds. Review: Mythical Twins Inspire Music Divided in Two 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

In it he revisits three or four previous series — extending, editing or recombining their motifs — and introduces two new ones that more than meet the Johnsian standards of mystery, suggestion and painterly allure. Jasper Johns Stays Divinely Busy 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Sometimes almost wilfully contemplative, its motifs are repetitive and its dark grip unfaltering. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z

Using as a template the last collection her brother showed, at the swimming pool of the Paris Ritz that July, the designer reworked the Byzantine cross motifs that, in retrospect, seemed such an ominous inspiration. Fashion Review: Donatella Versace Revists Her Brother?s Last Collection 2012-02-24T19:31:24Z

As it opens, a subdued, ominous bass motif stirs and slowly crests, breaking into fractured brassy fanfares and choral proclamations. Review: Julian Wachner Celebrates Ginastera’s Centennial 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

The next line also signals the stakes and the thematic motif of the film: "I don’t want any toy left behind." How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

And the writing for brass instruments often merged seamlessly with buzzing, noisy motifs from the composer’s “sampling keyboard,” a vivid instrument of her own design, similarly prominent in some of her earlier work. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Female power is the motif in “Myriad,” danced by six women and a man. Perspective | When world-class dancers leap into a new role: Choreographing world premieres 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Green, himself Gullah, drew extensively on West African motifs in his visual design. ‘Porgy and Bess,’ a Spoleto Festival USA Homecoming 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

The work not only reflects careful attention to Picasso, but also presages Jasper Johns’s splayed-face motifs from the late ’80s, which were also inspired by Picasso. Art Review: Following the Dots Around the City 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z

In those days I was taken up by exploring a quality of stillness within an experience of slow time, for which the motif of a quiet sky seemed perfect. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z

Ms. Agha has laser-cut elaborate shapes, partly inspired by Islamic geometric motifs, into steel cubes. Anila Quayyum Agha Uses Patterns to Break Patterns 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

The album artwork for the other installments in the cycle explore similar motifs of body modification via mechanical aberration: a limb converted into a machine gun, or thick electrical wires attached to her nipples. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The company does a boot camp when all the new guys learn the materials and the motifs. Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

The design makes a clear effort to steer clear of classical references — or any recognizably European motifs, for that matter. Design for Obama library and museum off to surprisingly somber start 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Look to Adam's runway for the winged motif in light pinks, purples and whites. Color, color everywhere on NY Fashion Week, Day 3 2011-09-10T20:41:11Z

What about the fermata over the last of the four notes in the motif? A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

I particularly admire the way he repeats motifs with just the slightest changes.” Wade Guyton’s Computer-Made Works at the Whitney 2012-09-27T12:00:35Z

In the finale, “Can’t Wait,” the energy of the first movement was reintroduced with rhythmically driven motifs. Music Review: Contact! ? Philharmonic New-Music Series at Symphony Space 2010-04-18T22:58:00Z

The play’s motifs do echo many recent news events, including the politics of the current U.S. border crisis and controversies related to voter I.D. laws. Dancing some pleasing duets at the Contemporary American Theater Festival

But it exerts the rhythmic power of the incantation that recurs as a motif: “Lingering spirit of the dead, rise up!” Haile Gerima and his landmark film ‘Sankofa’ are being rediscovered. Finally. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

This motif alone suggests deep concentration of spirit as well as body. Review: Mark Morris Is a Citizen of the World at the White Light Festival 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

The little-known Gurs way station, and the unfathomable inhumanity it represents, became a recurring motif in Trimpin's life. Trimpin's 'Gurs' is a mechanical marvel as well as a haunting elegy 2012-05-18T19:22:03Z

Using new techniques and abstract motifs, they signaled that they were aware of developments in art not only in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, but also in Paris, Moscow and New York. A Small Brazilian Photo Club That Reached for the Skyline 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

There was an effort to move beyond the vagaries of mood swings and surface behaviour to find the latent motifs of manic depression and to investigate its differences from other diagnostic categories. Bipolar memoirs: What have I done? 2013-04-26T06:30:11Z

Fresh, playful and on-trend, this Brooklyn artist’s imaginative motifs are bold without being loud. Wallpaper is making a big comeback. Here’s how to choose, use and remove. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

There’s also a recurring motif of rats scurrying around the edges of the story. ‘House of the Dragon’: Is Larys Strong the New Littlefinger? 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

Ahkami manufactured the small artifacts to illustrate how motifs and objects from ancient Persia have been incorporated into Western life and art. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Morphine, “soldier’s joy,” and heroin pop up frequently in Welch’s songwriting, and, like other motifs, feel as much symbolic as literal. Twenty Years of Listening to Gillian Welch 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Yet some of the industry’s most directional brands and trendsetting young designers still seem to be infatuated with printed fabrics, returning again and again to intensely vibrant, graphic and super-saturated motifs. The Future of Fabric Prints Is Bright 2012-02-21T18:16:17Z

His design for the Arab World Institute in Paris in 1987 was dominated by mechanical, light-regulating apertures arranged in a pattern that evoked Islamic motifs. Architecture Review: Celebrating the Delicate Beauty of the Desert Landscape 2010-03-22T22:46:00Z

Suzanis are embroidered with silk or cotton with bright-colored motifs that include carnations, pomegranates, irises, tulips and discs denoting the sun or moon. Review | Are these the most beautiful textiles in the world? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

A recurring motif is a voice-over reading from a self-help book, “Letting Go With Love,” which compares the enabling relative’s plight to a person who repeatedly boards a boat he knows is bound to sink. Comic Performers Play It Dark in Netflix Movies 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Winterson would rather take these motifs on, activate and invigorate them. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

The quasi-atonal music unfurls in small recurring motifs that overlap and build into outbursts of intensity. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The climbing musical motif which recurs throughout the film temporarily sheds its shadow of caution and takes on a joyous, exultant air. Cannibalism, bad dates and ice skating: the best movie moments of 2017 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Subjects include bright pink lips attended by tubes of lipstick; torsos flaunting bikini underwear styled with motifs from Picasso and Mondrian; and a hand with fake nails in the shape of Maurizio Cattelan’s taped banana. A Gallery Resurgence in Chelsea 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The church’s nave is decorated in the incredibly intricate Manueline style — motifs that pay tribute to the sea trade that made Portugal rich. Tranquil Tomar: A break from Portugal’s tourist tumult 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

These pictures include circular motifs and silhouetted animal shapes that recall cave paintings. In the galleries: Exhibition explores the art of mentoring 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Both artists explore the same motifs in one-dimensional works on paper or Mylar. In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kigawa embraced the changeability of Mr. Boulez’s catlike motifs, which creep and echo until they suddenly quiver or jump, and he wove them convincingly into larger structures. Boulez’s Piano Solos in Taka Kigawa’s Hands 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ciupinski, whose compositions often include electronics, began this piece with quiet, rippling, meditative motifs in the piano’s upper register. Music Review: Lysander Piano Trio Performs at Weill Recital Hall 2014-04-08T22:14:34Z

Angular, bright, and just plain fun, the motifs facilitate “the brain’s reaction to movement, color, and contrast,” says creator Ellen Van Dusen. Dusen Dusen’s Fun New Home Collection Is Here 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Heaven, and its symbolics, and the jagged Chicago skyline are most-requested motifs, and they are rendered with an almost rococo decadence. Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

She sings apocalyptic lyrics over a foreboding minor key motif. ArtsBeat: Adele Releases New Bond Theme Song 2012-10-05T15:42:11Z

Inspired by the bold motifs of Ted Baker’s clothing designs, the floral dinnerware and geometrically printed gift items are an easy pick for a fashionable tablescape. Ted Baker Launches a Twofold Dinnerware Collection 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Several characteristic Lang motifs emerge — doubling, disguise, claustrophobic confinement — during a climax that finds the heroine trapped in the hermit’s cabin, buried under an avalanche. New on DVD, ‘Fritz Lang: The Early Works’ 2012-11-09T23:32:07Z

I also liked the fact that, though he dealt with his favorite motifs, there was really no hokey theme, like a Jacques Cousteau under-the-sea moment. On the Runway: Jean Paul Gaultier: Black Magic 2011-01-26T21:46:52Z

Now he’s taken those engagingly odd motifs and transmuted them into captivatingly strange three-dimensional works. A new exhibition of work by Alexander Gorlizki 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Holly Fulton pulled that together with constructivist designs, using modern gadgets such as cellphones and calculators, as well as manicured hands in the motifs. Fashion Review: J.W. Anderson’s Mesmerizing Weirdness 2014-02-16T18:38:24Z

Boocks’s compositions are more open, but with repeated motifs to highlight the underlying grid. Review | In the galleries: Dark hues that paint unsettling portents 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Another gallery is devoted to Degas’s “dark field” monotypes, made by covering a plate with ink and brushing, wiping or scratching it away, creating a motif by subtraction. The Modern Degas You Haven’t Seen 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

How to handle sweetness seems to be a motif of the season. Special Report: Fashion: Addicted to Love 2011-02-13T17:19:03Z

The redeployment of classical forms echoes, very slightly, the playful juggling of historical motifs by the designers of the Memphis Group. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Like many contemporary European painters, he dips into the styles and motifs of modernism’s heroic early years. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

A motif in which a dancer hovers at the edge of something without diving in is all too apt as an encapsulation of the work. Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Debuts Two New Works 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

A 15th-century carved hunting horn, possibly made as a gift for King Ferdinand V of Castile and Aragon, features Western motifs and religious references delicately carved into its ivory surface. Review | How to look at African art? Slowly and impressionistically. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The noted critic Clement Greenberg disparaged Albers’s work for what Greenberg called its “inability to rise above merely decorative motifs.” Review | A portrait of Josef Albers, in all his originality 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

From the lyricism of the music and dancing to the movement motifs that deepened the story, this was a seamless performance. Review | A ‘Giselle’ that whirls with unusual lyricism 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Brass and string players perform most of the melodic motifs, even those that are written to sound computer-generated. Dan Deacon Shows a Changed Attitude in ‘America’ 2012-08-28T21:58:24Z

The grids of smaller monitors around the edges exude layered images and motifs. Nam June Paik at the Whitney: A Work of Dizzying Complexity 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Bass chose the spiraling forms in the Lissajous book as his main motifs, knowing that they would reflect the frenzied tension of the plot. Design: Saul Bass Made the Title Sequence Into a Film Star 2011-11-06T14:09:04Z

It fills about 185 square feet, creating a magical space teeming with embroidered floral motifs, slender columns and scalloped arches. ‘Peacock in the Desert’ Review: Courting Opulence in Northwest India 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Instead of the Medusa, Versace chose as the star fish as the motif of the season, a hopeful symbol of self-regeneration. Milan Fashion: Marni avenges lockdown with global video 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

The models were imported from Europe or based on European designs, though the Chinese workshops later added motifs of their own. They Look Like the Emperors’ Clocks. But Are They Real? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

In their honor, he revived the equestrian motif. At Don Peppe, Expect a Lot of Everything 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

These mass-produced kimonos reveal how once insular Japan absorbed Western culture while at the same time merging it with traditional motifs and clothing. East meets West in bold, colorful kimonos in LACMA show 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

While producing new cut-paper works last month for her Berlin show, Yang realized that she was making “figurative motifs, faces, hand, sea animals,” the stuff of “very old-fashioned fairy tale books.” Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Bereavement, whether of husband or child, is a recurring motif that transforms women into vengeful slasher-movie furies. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

“The Strange City” abounds with art-historical references — the Renaissance, Romanticism — in addition to motifs from modern science. | Enter ‘the Strange City’ of the Artists Kabakov 2014-05-08T19:10:03Z

Most often, he applies pigment thickly, typically in spiraling allover patterns, and then overlays simple motifs in what appear to be two distinct colors. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the tension between physical and digital art 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Strings repeat the motifs over and over, punctuated by a pummeling of syncopated bass drums, the only percussion. Henryk Górecki's quirky, final major musical statement 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Rap, of course, is as ubiquitous at fashion shows as graffiti motifs or American athletes. American Chic on the Runways of Paris 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Made of wood or papier-mâché and decorated Rococo-style with floral, avian and Asian motifs, they were used as face screens by 19th-century British aristocrats to keep wax-based makeup from melting in front of fireplaces. Art in Review: Art and Antique Dealers League of America Spring Show NYC 2013-05-02T19:35:27Z

For all the episodic shifts and turns of this piece, as it plows through four dramatically contrasting movements, most of the music is generated from a handful of motifs that you hear at the beginning. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four 2011-01-10T17:10:24Z

They exhibited at the same fairs as Jean Mayodon, who mixed Persian and Hindu metallic motifs to produce what the Kelly exhibition catalog describes as “centaurs, sirens, mermaids, gods, nudes and stylized animals.” Over There: Daughters of Liberty 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Design memory: I would sit watching my grandmother’s wallpaper for hours, looking at the motifs, the repetitions — basically staring at the walls. | Sydney Albertini 2011-02-09T18:11:40Z

One motif involves the dancers’ lining up in a hurry, the person in back rushing to the front. Dance Review: ‘D-Man in the Waters,’ From Ailey Company, at City Center 2013-12-12T23:20:01Z

Its Corinthian columns have elephant motifs carved into their wooden pediments; the color scheme is drawn from the Royal Thai costume, but the tapestries and artworks are all by contemporary local artists. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Bones in Whispers,” which Akerley wrote as a companion piece to “How We Died,” is a more enjoyable riff on the motifs of mortality, paranoia and trust. One play’s weirdness has meaning; the other just seems to be fooling around 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Yet it’s not the development of any motif that is Perry’s tribute to the literary heroes—grand, mythic, Olympian, terrifying—who loom large in his imagination. The Actor as Intellectual Artist in “Listen Up Philip” 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Decorative motifs on both wood pieces indicate they likely came from a single workshop, ecumenical in its production. The Art Lovers Who Founded Cairo 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Hardware assignments gave the staff a chance to produce playful iron dragons and foliage motifs on a small scale, and homeowners could always remove the pieces if their tastes changed. How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

This heavy, glossy coffee-table book explores how flowers and floral motifs have been used over the ages in art, fashion and design. Updated field guides, other titles lure readers outdoors 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

There are pippy flute motifs, and a silly salute to Strauss's Don Quixote. Want to read some of the best classical CD reviews around? Try Vice magazine 2010-12-07T16:03:00Z

Though Dulac imitated the jewel-bright colours of Persian miniatures, his Nights illustrations also featured techniques and motifs drawn from Japanese prints and Chinese paintings. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

A bathrobe made from a man's coat followed a crepe dress made with motifs of an undergarment. Inside Kate Moss' hotel room at Louis Vuitton 2013-03-06T16:53:14Z

But there is also real sensuality in the motifs. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Though he began as a mischievous party-starter, Mr. Miller, who often made his own beats, turned toward darker sounds and motifs. Mac Miller, Rapper Who Wrestled With Fame and Addiction, Dies at 26 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

With its folksy violin motif and vaguely populist uplift, the song plays into EDM trends these days. Your week in Seattle music: Sam Smith, Elton John and more 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, it’s a new collection, from artists who’ve kept evolving their craft even as they revisit their eternal motifs. We Haven’t Seen That Before: A Critics’ Conversation About ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Over the next five years Martin expanded what would become her standard motif. Survey of Agnes Martin's powerful yet meditative work draws a straight, vibrant line to Zen 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The mostly beaded and embroidered motifs on the cascading skirts of the evening gowns by Worth in the Astor ballroom are all derived or distilled from nature. Art Review: American Style at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum 2010-05-06T22:29:00Z

These slightly ominous motifs are depicted not with Dali-like rigor, but in a painterly expressionist mode. In the galleries: The stars and planets align for ‘hyder flares’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

With sure dramatic instinct she zoomed in on moments of pathos, lingering on a sighing motif, or building up crescendos with muscular impatience. Review: Hilary Hahn Plays an Unabashedly Romantic Bach 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

The live part for various flutes — including bass and contrabass varieties — occasionally imitated those prefashioned motifs, while at other junctures it seemed to trigger new twists in the work’s progression. Review: The Bloom Is Still on Claire Chase’s Monumental Project 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Several other motifs have a deliberately pastoral character: a turn of the head and eyes to admire the view, a moment of standing-still receptiveness with one leg folded over another. Review: Mark Morris’s New Pastoral Says Less Than Its Music 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Not a million miles away from the Netflix Fyre festival documentary, but with more personality, motifs and metaphors running through it. 'I got the guy!' My 17-year manhunt for a $50m art criminal 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Artists who adhered to his racial philosophy and his approved painting style — semi-abstraction incorporating tribal motifs — got lots of exposure. An Art Critic In Africa: Salif Diabagat? and Other Artists Struggle in Africa 2012-04-15T04:10:00Z

Fragments of “The Star-Spangled Banner” are used as motifs to generate an organic, hazy introduction. Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Certain steps become motifs — an arabesque balance, with both arms and one leg all swept back, a treading-on-the-spot image, and others. Dance Review: ?Wanderer Fantasy,? a Puzzle at Danspace Project 2010-05-21T22:54:00Z

Actually, things don’t look all that bad in Schmidt’s miniature city, where boxy model buildings abut wooden boat hulls — a motif of her earlier work — and small video projections show men engaged in repetitive tasks. In the galleries: A celebration of language from antiquity

It's propelled by a nagging piano motif and pounding percussion, while she wails about salvation and heartache. This week's new tracks 2012-12-01T00:06:01Z

Their palette is suave, their details rich, their motifs abstracted yet familiar. Sharon Horvath: ‘Cosmicomics’ and ‘Varanasi Notebook’ 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

But his ambitious new 150-minute piece, the start of a tetralogy with playing-card motifs, leaves me in two minds: admiration for the dazzling technical means, but bewilderment over the desired intellectual ends. Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-12T17:31:11Z

The score by Harold Rome is rich in melody and employs a sophisticated fabric of musical motifs to weave together the destinies of its characters. 2010-02-06T06:35:00Z

Then, in unison, the helical covers flopped to the ground, revealing Mr. Browne’s familiar short-pants suits, now in Easter-egg plaids, with whale and lobster motifs. Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z

From a coral cuff that bears a corn motif to a Deco-inspired bolo, these 21st-century creations represent Native American heritage with a contemporary twist. More than 300 pieces of contemporary Navajo jewelry at New York’s National Museum of the American Indian 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

A shot of birds filling the screen and rendering darkness is also effective as a visual motif within the narrative. Natalie Portman talks to Salon about her directorial debut: “I felt lucky to make the film in Israel because being a female director there isn’t unusual” 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

All those repeated phrases take on the haunting insistence of melodic motifs. Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The seller, a shadowy figure called La Valette, seems to have obtained the specimens via his work at Parisian military establishments and prisons; motifs ranged from flowers to female figures, patriotic slogans to inscriptions. Tattoos: the naked truth about our forebears 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

The music of George Michael is a recurring motif in “Keanu.” With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — Kittens in Tow 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

There are moments when Venkatraman asks her dialogue and motifs, including a dead butterfly, to carry a bit too much explanatory freight. A Jailed Indian Boy Chases His Scrap of Sky 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

As Syrians wait and IS prepares to advance on Damascus, it is not clear which side of the egg-and-dart motif will prevail. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The works employ vintage washboards as a central motif in exploring aspects of black female identity in U.S. history. Betye Saar's gun-totin' mammies turn stereotype into power at the Craft & Folk Art Museum 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

With “Forging IV,” Smith reverts to traditional art motifs and an additive process. Art Review: ‘David Smith: The Forgings’ at Gagosian Gallery 2014-01-02T21:55:28Z

She modeled them after several paper dresses she owned, including a kooky one made by the Campbell Soup Company, a 1960s marketing gimmick that embodied the Pop Art motif of consumer culture. Browsing: Lisa Perry Puts Warhol on Dresses 2010-06-16T18:51:00Z

The searching qualities of the piece continue even during a tranquil middle movement, a pastoral; the finale is like a stormy march that scatters that main motif. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Terry has noticed, as have others, the Aesopian motifs that occur, and includes slender, playful versions, sometimes modernised, of Aesop's fables himself. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z

The first draft was like a really bad wannabe “True Romance,” filled with all these clichés and motifs and action sequences that were ridiculous. With ‘Animals,’ David Dastmalchian Uses His Past to Rewrite His Future 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The motifs are arranged in tidy geometric patterns and don’t derive directly from the natural world. Review | In the galleries: A revelatory exhibition by D.C. artist Jonathan Monaghan 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Every work in this show sustains an extended reading of process, motif and meaning that is something like a performance. The Expansive Provocateur Pope.L, in Smaller, Potent Doses 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

“Only in New York” is a classic motif, as old as the city, and it’s what the original “Ghostbusters” is all about. The Gentrified Ghostbusters of 2016 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

In this work, the younger artist makes a deep bow to his master and to the long-dead Korin, both of whom had painted versions of the same motif. Art Review: A Cascade of Petals From the Met’s Japanese Collection 2014-01-30T23:17:46Z

Black and white stripes are a key Memphis motif. Memphis Milano Returns, and Takes Over Fashion 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Where eight of the masks feature colorful decorative motifs, the ninth starkly reads, “I can’t breathe.” Review | In the galleries: Works of art emerge via waking up with a word in mind 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

That ambiguity is most apparent in a motif of hands raised overhead. Dance Review: ‘Political Mother,’ by Hofesh Shechter, at BAM 2012-10-12T22:47:29Z

Did I mention that the human heart, and its spiritual weight, is also a dominant motif of that first act? Review: In ‘Duat,’ the Here and Now and the Hereafter 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gordon’s Clarinet Quintet combines a similar zest for sonic experimentation with a four-movement structure built around thematic signposts — reiterations of an opening motif — that guide the listener through a colorful and atmospheric journey. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

The music “needs to live,” he told the orchestra musicians at a previous rehearsal, advising them how to phrase a descending motif more effectively in an Act I duo between Elizabeth and Leicester. Joyce DiDonato Takes On ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Met 2012-12-30T05:03:03Z

They could be anything — found objects, materials, mediums, motifs or styles. Meret Oppenheim: Enough With That Tempest in a Teacup 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

That included one ballad with the noble architecture of a Gershwin song and another that seemed to arrive fully formed, with a twinkling motif and a delicate logic of harmonic development. Review: Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, Precise and Aglow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Ligeti uses one of the most familiar tropes in music, a horn call, as a crucial motif. Review: Chamber Music Society Performs Ligeti’s Trio 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t make me proud to admit that until last week, Lucille Ball was a vague shadow on my consciousness, indistinct from the corny motifs of rockabilly hairdressers and vintage food truck logos. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Whole episodes unfolded in stretches of eerily sustained tones and elemental clusters from which feisty single notes and motifs kept escaping. Review: JACK Quartet and Jennifer Koh in the NY Phil Biennial 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Marionettes again, another motif of the novel, a reminder of how little everything counts. Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The bride wears black, the cake is purple, and skulls are a central part of the decorating motif. Critic’s Notebook: ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,’ and More Anti-Romance 2014-02-13T23:17:12Z

There are motifs, structures, incidents and dramas making us sense that we’re observing fragments of a sometimes formal, even ritualistic whole, yet it concludes without any decisive ending. Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z

Hence, the preponderance of Mother Nature motifs and organic materials. A New York Gallerist Curates a Sale of Nature-Themed Art, Objects, and Furniture 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Having swum with sharks when he was young, Sebastian became fascinated by their capacity for beauty and danger, and they became a recurrent motif in his large-scale paintings. Sebastian Horsley obituary 2010-06-18T14:40:00Z

I made a cardboard stencil of a flower motif, inspired by medieval and folk patterns. ‘When we can, we’d love to throw a party to show it off’: designers on their lockdown DIY 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

Since the 1980s, Halley’s trademark prison, cells, and conduit motifs have worked like simple diagrams of a complex world dominated by technology, for better or for worse. Peter Halley’s abstract works are on view in a new exhibition in Connecticut 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The result is a floating tapestry of fascinating textures made up of tiny musical motifs, and a music that throbs with tension between stillness and agitation, density and light. Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Users select from these options, choose a fabric, and upload their motif. AD Innovator: Print All Over Me 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

“So, in this case the artist took the motif from another artist,” Noergaard said, and “the design from the customer.” Denmark Now Has Two Little Mermaids. The Famous One Is Suing. 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

In the pre-vaccine pandemic days, as shutdowns dragged on, odes to the lost joys of the dance floor became a motif in media. Harnessing an Unusual Kind of Natural Energy: Dancers’ Body Heat 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Along with intense mental states, the band’s songwriter, Mark Foster, savors the construction details of his perky pop songs: the clockwork counterpoint of terse, staccato motifs played with carefully selected and individually skewed tones. Playlist: Industrial Hip-Hop And Bouncy Sociopathy 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

Rumba’s dimly lit, dark wood motif is similar to that of a lot of other hip cocktail dens, only here the décor gets accentuated with a wave of aqua blue chairs and booths. Humble rum scales new heights at Rumba 2012-12-26T20:37:55Z

The three women sang oohs in wordless harmony, and Mr. Longstreth crooned extended, leaping lines, all cantilevered amid the orchestra’s fits and starts of percussion, cackling Stravinskyan woodwind motifs and hovering tone clusters. Music Review | Dirty Projectors: Indie-Rock on a Quest, With Woodwinds, Brass and Strings 2010-02-22T05:52:00Z

But perhaps the moment the crazy cat lady motif truly jumped the shark was with the song Buttload of Cats on an episode of the television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend earlier this year. Claws out! Why pop culture clings to the crazy cat lady 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

A nearby image of three women in a garden has a more landlocked version of the same motif. Review: ‘Sultans of Deccan India,’ Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age, at the Met 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

“Although memory is a major motif in ‘Mnemonic,’ as the title suggests, the play is concerned more broadly with efforts to ferret out the past. DC Theater Friday: ‘Three Sisters’ 2.0, plus a ‘Nasty Women’ rep 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The quintet, which used strings and classical motifs in its compositions, formed in 1965 and featured Mr. Brown’s father playing violin on its best-known song. Michael Brown, who helped write rock hit ‘Walk Away Renee,’ dies at 65 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The blurring of truth and illusion is a continuing motif in “Ghost Light.” Review: Specters of the Stage Enchant in ‘Ghost Light’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

Inside, discover motifs that turned up in his paintings – sash windows or the fireplace. 10 top tips from our Brussels correspondent 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Yet, the wall motif did not begin as a political statement. Zack Snyder blends social commentary into ‘Army of The Dead’ 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

The eddies and whirlpools of jazz motifs and classical references in that playing were so densely intermingled they seemed almost impossible for the untutored listener to unpick. 50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution 2010-04-14T11:25:00Z

The horrific romance between the deadly Phantom and the ominously named ingénue, Christine Daae, drives the chugging, churning rock motif of blaring horns and organ. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

As the music breathes calmly, motifs and figures intrude: a burst of quiet brass, a darting riff in the woodwinds, fidgety melodic fragments. Review: Susanna Malkki Makes an Immediate Impression 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

When you read a lot of rock and roll memoirs and watch a lot of music documentaries, you become accustomed to certain recurring motifs. And she was: Talking Heads' Chris Frantz on their "Twilight Zone" sound & his romantic rock memoir 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

But this premonitory mood dispersed as quickly as it established itself, with the players weaving their motifs and themes into a sturdily classical brocade, the intricacy of which was dazzling. Review: Loose string enhances, doesn't detract from, evening's beauty at chamber music fest 2010-08-11T19:44:00Z

How these visions were reconciled runs as a motif through “The Project of Independence.” When Architects Made Worlds 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

It’s only small motifs; it’s not a melody; it’s nothing. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

In fact, the decorative, gilded shell is ersatz, a contemporary iteration of a 16th or 17th century European motif filmed gracing a wall of the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Upended assumptions in "Augment This" at Cherry and Martin Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

We don't know why that motif is in them, but what we do know is that same motif is also in the filaments that hold our own cells together. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z

“Classical Symphony” creates a remarkably full-tilt style, with steps recurring as motifs, and many connections of movement. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z

The egg motif, rendered in the blackened steel of old guns, appears throughout the collection, evoking both images of medieval weaponry and armor. Jewelry Designed to Disarm 2012-11-27T15:59:55Z

A buzzing tarantella-like section, with an obsessive triplet motif, showed off her agile left hand. Music review: Bella Hristova 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

And Cal badly needs to feel needed; he’s also ready to play out the western’s motif of seasoned loner mentoring a lonely teen. Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

And he based his own teaching on linear motifs — squiggles, circles and so on — derived from pre-Columbian pottery shards. ‘Paint the Revolution’ Offers Mexican Muralist Muscle and Delicate Beauty 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Geometric incised motifs turned up on rumpled leather sacks at the feet of Mary and Joseph cradling the infant Jesus. Antiques: Lumière Autochromes and Other Early Color Photos 2013-01-04T00:46:45Z

The apple is one of several motifs — another hallmark of Hong’s style — that loop through the movie, producing a sense of structure in the relative absence of a plot. ‘The Woman Who Ran’ Review: Conversations With Friends 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

And beneath vocal writing is a Minimalist score typical of Lapelyte, ostinatos executed with electronics and built from a rising two- or three-note motif, or a single tone at a steady beat. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Recent additions include a Christian cross made from gun parts dramatically juxtaposed against a giant dome decorated with Soviet Communist motifs. 36 Hours in Kiev, Ukraine 2012-06-21T19:38:44Z

“We actually started firstly thinking of the 1920s,” when butterfly motifs were popular with artists like Erté and the French couturier Paul Poiret. Another Kind of Face Mask 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Only on tracks such as The Jig Is Up and Sign Here, with minimal beats and a tiresome lyrical motif about interrogation, does the creative energy drop and the old formulae peak through. El-P: Cancer for Cure – review 2012-05-24T20:15:01Z

Ves Harper designed the “Revelations” costumes, whose colors underscore salient motifs: browns signifying the earth, whites suggesting cleansing and renewal, blacks and yellows evoking the strength and religious ardor of a church community. Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’ still dances into audiences’ hearts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Set to Vivaldi with some electronic interventions — the buzzing of the light, the rumbling of the bull — the work unfolds in short overlapping episodes, linked by motifs but no obvious story. Review: Making an Epic Visual Impact With Minimal Means 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

There is a graceful economy to the small kitchen, with vegetables seasoned one by one and recurring as a steady motif. At Ejen in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a Mother’s Touch Infuses the Menu 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Overlapping polychrome circles and squares from the 1920s gave way to the postwar bombast of oversize sickle motifs and quasi-neoclassical rosettes and scrollwork. 4 Books to Inspire Your Inner Designer 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

A wispy motif that alternated with dramatic moments anchored the mirthful but mercurial opening movement. In Aizuri Quartet, a natural bond and a captivating performance 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

The score makes extensive use of time-freezing vamps and riffs that flirt with early rock ’n’ roll, as well as recurrent motifs that are guaranteed to take up longtime residence in your ear. ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

End of the World launches from an insistent one-note guitar – we hesitate to call it a motif because it would be counter to the spirit of unadorned rawness and simplicity. New band of the day – No 1,291: Deap Vally 2012-06-19T17:08:22Z

“It looks like you’re drawing a flower,” it intones, and then links to a short audio recording by an expert on flower motifs in wallpaper over the years. The Met and Other Museums Adapt to the Digital Age 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

As usual, many of the artists adapted customary motifs and techniques, exploring a new format for familiar ideas. Review | In the galleries: Circles of life at annual benefit for people living with cancer 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Although “RainForest” is for six dancers and has some recurring movement motifs, we’re never shown more than three people at a time. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z

He then joshed with the audience about what to play next, went off stage for some cold-cure, and returned with a hypnotically rolling trill like a bowed double-bass, buoying up a delicate ballad motif. Keith Jarrett – review 2013-02-26T18:16:43Z

The playwright’s conversations with the dead, however, many of whom begin their scenes unaware or in denial of their demise, is the show’s most compelling motif. Review: In ‘Plays for the Plague Year,’ the Soundtrack of Our Lives 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

The fantasy designs spring from motifs and colours found in Aymara culture and weaving. High society: El Alto, Bolivia, steps into the spotlight 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Guy Anderson and Mark Tobey, for example, freely experimented with the signature motifs and techniques of Native American design in their early paintings from the 1940s. In making art, Haida culture is revived 2013-11-25T23:26:01Z

Constructed in the 16th century and now running on a mechanism from the 1800s, the multistory, many-tiered clock is outfitted with biblical automatons, Zodiac imagery, elemental motifs, religious statues and moving dials. 36 Hours in Strasbourg, France 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

At a converted chapel in Brooklyn where the group plays intimate concerts, they gave an hourlong, luxuriously gonzo reading of Cage’s prompts and motifs. Review: Revisiting a Luxuriously Gonzo Side of John Cage 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Repeatedly Galgut invokes the motif of something bitter or rank buried at the ‘sour core’ within both the Swarts and their country, and perhaps within existence itself.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

As cinema motifs go, the tension between singles and couples is nothing new; it’s the stuff of many a romcom and a fair share of dramas. Cannes: With 'The Lobster,' a director keeps swimming in rebel waters 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Drapala, whose master’s thesis focused on Chanler’s motifs and paint recipes, also located and studied the room’s original stained-glass windows, with their eerie portraits of snarling, fanged animals. Antiques: A Painter?s Menagerie of Birds and Beasts Comes Back to Life 2011-06-09T21:33:48Z

Not until the latter half of the album does the orchestra fully come alive, with a rich and immersive passage on Track 6 — sometimes regal, sometimes bluesy — that almost eclipses the motif, but not quite. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

The musical seed for all this couldn’t be simpler: not the theme for the main titles, but a lumbering, eight-chord motif that appears within it, and at the start of the “Strings Con Fuoco” cue. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

But it also was squarely in keeping with his championing of contemporary classical music, neither parroting nor repudiating some of the experimental musical motifs of his time. Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of intricate musical wit, dies at 66 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Instead, Schatz posited that each studio’s stable of stars, directors and technicians — guided by shrewd moguls — helped create films with distinct visual styles and storytelling motifs. The studio as auteur: Movie hits and misses this year define the system 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Gharem’s work typically incorporates motifs and artistic ideas that are part of the canon of Islamic art — geometric and floral designs, arabesques and embedded text. The hidden messages in LACMA's massive stamp painting, 'Camouflage' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Art series, the commission featured three powder-coated-aluminum follies with whimsical motifs. The Best Museum and Gallery Exhibitions of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

There is sad music, which is to say music that deploys lyrical or musical motifs meant to connote misery. The Sound of Sadness Overwhelms and Inspires Mount Eerie 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

They include folk motifs, fun designs, and the national flag. History in the making as Czech museum opens face mask exhibition 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

She also created 29 long, red fabric braids that hang from the top of the stage and represent a recurring motif in Kahlo’s work. Frida Kahlo Could Barely Walk. In This Ballet, She Dances. 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Avoiding what the cast and crew referred to as a ’90s version of this film meant, in a sense, skipping the first act and choosing not to make Black trauma a central motif. A Cast and Crew’s Commitment to Making ‘Devotion’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

The new attribution is based on studies of underdrawings, a comparison of motifs and details on a microscopic level with similar ones in undisputed Bosch paintings, and an analysis of Bosch’s brushwork. Work at a Kansas City Museum May Be by Hieronymus Bosch, Researchers Say 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

He's also playing on another familiar children's literary motif – that of the portal from the mundane to a world of fantasy. William Sutcliffe: 'It was so much more brutal than I thought it could be' 2013-04-02T07:00:01Z

The starry sky, the reminder of an eternity that exceeds all human hopes and suffering, is a central motif in Bulgakov’s novel “The White Guard.” Teffi’s “Memories” and the Women of the Russian Revolution 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

But the maestro takes a longer moment to dig into the fascinating story of "Rendering," which draws upon motifs and quotes from Schubert's music to fill holes in the composer's unfinished, final work. Roberto Abbado becomes familiar guest at Seattle Symphony 2012-02-09T21:58:10Z

The frowning, scantily clad Indian was a Curtis motif. Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Although his work draws on Christian themes and motifs, including ascensions and annunciations, Mr. Viola said he preferred to think of his work as “spiritual” rather than religious. Art: Bill Viola: A Journey of Emotions 2014-03-11T12:20:01Z

“The director has produced a colorful, affecting collage of Dickensian moods and motifs,” Mr. Scott wrote, “a movie that elicits an overwhelming desire to plunge into 900 pages of 19th-century prose.” Douglas McGrath, Playwright, Filmmaker and Actor, Dies at 64 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

In labour, he looks forlorn in a cerise nightie with a cute animal motif. The story of one man’s pregnancy: ‘It felt joyous, amazing and brilliant’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

While evasion and violence are recurring motifs in Hinton’s books, several of her novels end with the young men accepting and benefitting from adult responsibilities. S. E. Hinton, “The Outsiders,” and the Birth of Y.A. 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Strategically placed lights give the structure an unearthly blue glow, from the clear-as-glass bar and elk-hide-draped couches to a 16-foot-tall centerpiece of North Shore motifs: cliffs, pine trees and the Split Rock Lighthouse. Bites : Restaurant Review: Blu Ice Bar and Splashing Rock Restaurant, Two Harbors, Minn. 2012-01-20T16:08:54Z

“It was the most beautiful,” she said of the walls, whose ornate carvings reveal the intermingling of Eastern, Western and Byzantine motifs. Berlin’s Museum Tours in Arabic Forge a Bridge to Refugees 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Although flecked with uplifting motifs, the music's predominant character was downtrodden. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

They played the roles of harem wives and servants in theater productions and commissioned boudoir furniture with turban motifs. Antiques: Artist?s Heroic Struggle to Make Heroic Paintings 2011-06-02T22:41:34Z

Visual motifs from Europe and South Asia, and from the Jewish and Islamic Middle East show up in various combinations. Indelible Impressions From 3 Shows in Washington 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Neumeier manages it through strangled gestural motifs and absurdly arduous lifts in which the women’s full skirts continually threaten to suffocate their laboring partners. Dance Review: Dreams of a Dying Courtesan 2011-06-05T22:09:55Z

Instead of keeping the flower motif as an accent to later looks, the designer surprisingly dropped it in favor of all-white ensembles. Special Report: Fashion: Taking Charge at Kenzo 2011-03-07T19:23:37Z

Over the entrance door into one of the earlier funerary chambers, a Greco-Roman triangular tympanum illustrates the gradual penetration of Hellenistic motifs. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z

Gone were the signature Marant motifs; as were the embellishments, apart from the odd set of studs on a belt or a black jacket. Simons in confident Christian Dior style evolution 2013-03-02T00:08:15Z

Davis wasn’t borrowing old motifs because he was mindlessly repetitive; he was creating an ever-evolving variation on a set of earlier themes. Stuart Davis=jazz: An equation that doesn’t explain this chilly modern master 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

In one watercolor, believed to be from the 1950s, soft-edged triangles of navy and plum jostle with floral motifs in thickly daubed black. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

He and the chorus begin with a gestural motif, waving their hands in their air, palms facing the audience, in a strikingly specific jazz reference. Astaire The Artist, Even in Blackface 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

“La Flora,” a sextet for winds, strings and percussion by Alvin Singleton, swelled from hushed three- and four-note motifs into a primordial dance of chaos and design. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-02-03T20:17:59Z

Musically, Zeidel's forte is swaddling barbed, acidic lyrical motifs in sumptuously mellow chords, an iron fist in a velvet glove. Keren Ann ? review 2011-04-10T21:15:00Z

Mr. Escaich uses snippets of the Bach as motifs in his new piece. Review: With Bach as a Catalyst, Thierry Escaich’s Lavish Concerto 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The family coat of arms, with ship and rope motifs, was installed at some point amid carved dead birds and fish over the black marble fireplace. Antiques: Rooms With a View of British History 2013-05-02T20:02:50Z

What the pairings are really, and effectively, based on is morphology, shape, form, visual motif — this-is-like-that — which immediately pulls the eye into play. In ‘African Origin’ Show at Met, New Points of Light Across Cultures 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Moran’s improvisation was somewhat glitchy: a series of recycled motifs that then turned into unaccompanied solo, lovely and languid — then atonal and percussive. A night of ‘Jason+’ includes Mason Bates and jazz stars 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The future is embodied in one recurring motif, a small boy trapped behind the bars of iron security doors, utterly mute. ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

The illustrations with ballet motifs are by the dancer Javier Rivet. This Cookbook Raises Money for the Ballet 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

And one of the revelations of this exhibition is the degree to which Duchamp motifs were picked up by the four New Yorkers. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z

Inside, the rest of the work ranges widely in media and touches on other shared motifs, including global origins, political issues and record collecting. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores the dissonance between humanity and the world 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The falling tear motif, probably not Dowland's own idea, given the fashion for musical displays of sorrow and weeping at the time, occurs repeatedly in the sequence for five viols and single lute. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z

Against fields of powdery blue, drenching orange and ethereal lilac, Klint set circular or spiral-shaped motifs, looping letters and diagrammatic signs in an array of harmonious yellows, greens, whites and blacks. Review | Hilma af Klint, the woman who painted the future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

They show a range of quasi-abstract motifs resembling trees, fences, rows of flowers and — strangely — little sketches for Wiener Werkstatte broaches. Cy Twombly, Redefined by His Drawings 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

For example, the machine had to learn how Beethoven constructed the Fifth Symphony out of a basic four-note motif. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

I'm thinking it's going to be lyrical, probably piece-y, there are probably going to be metaphors or motifs that repeat. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johannsson took this motif and built on it, adding in more instrumentation, more texture as the piece continues. Composing 'The Theory of Everything' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Alabama-based artist remakes traditional decorative motifs in unexpected media, rendering fabric patterns in 3-D form as cast cotton paper or kiln-formed glass. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

In a recurrent visual motif that deepens the atmosphere of wistful regret, flocks of Canada geese are shown taking flight. Movie Review: ?The Dish & the Spoon,? From Alison Bagnall 2012-02-09T22:43:43Z

Other motifs from past work have been similarly recycled. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

This heavy-metal motif appears at key moments, reflecting the family's own downward spiral. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

On one level, it’s a funny nightmare about writer’s block; on another, it’s a horror story that harmonizes with the novel’s major motifs — control, captivity and loss of self. Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Race in America has been a motif throughout Ken Burns’s nearly four-decade filmmaking career, in documentaries about the Civil War, baseball, jazz and more. Ken Burns to Discuss Race in Jefferson Lecture 1456-10-04T05:00:00Z

Basinski’s composition included sustained tones that recalled the “heavy organ” versions of Bach popular in the late 1960s, and hymnlike motifs emerged as the piece turned quieter and more melodic near its end. Review | William Basinski’s tranquil tunes stirred listeners — and got a standing ovation — at U Street Music Hall 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

The crisp, clear-cut patterns, as well as the sharply contrasted color scheme, were radically different from the blurry motifs and toned nuances of the Song age. Review: Groundbreaking Picture of China 2010-11-19T12:36:00Z

The finger-pointing introduced by Jules Bakshi, a more focused performer, sharpens the material, but the work gathers real force only when three or four of its motifs are going at once. Dance Review: Emily Faulkner Wind-Up Dances at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-06-17T22:10:42Z

Most of the spoken dialogue has been jettisoned, as have several subplots, and there is a clearer focus on recurring musical motifs. Paul Simon?s ?Capeman? in Central Park 2010-08-17T22:01:00Z

There are many details that will register far more precisely to those acquainted with Indian culture: I recognized the physical motifs associated with Shiva and Krishna. Review: The Profound Eloquence of Odissi Dance 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

The quartet faded to a whisper with a questioning motif. | Washington Square Ensemble: Washington Square Ensemble Make Waves at Merkin Hall 2010-04-08T22:43:00Z

One could explore, for example, the endurance of Christian motifs of suffering, which the atheistic Giacometti and numerous other Europeans drew from to express the horror of the Holocaust. Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ferrer’s career is one of peripatetic consistency in which ideas, motifs and even materials continually circulate among different mediums or phases. Art Review: Rafael Ferrer at El Museo del Barrio 2010-06-10T21:56:00Z

This migratory motif also appears in a group of six ingenious video “paintings,” each spanning two LCD screens butted against each other. Michal Rovner charts ghostly migrations 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The nature-derived central motifs dominate the compositions, yet the distinction between foreground and background is, well, fluid. Review | In the galleries: Zenith celebrates 40 years with two exhibitions in two spaces 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

And on the familiar “Adagio — attaca,” they found, in the layered harmonies and rising motifs, stray poignant hesitations as if the whole intensifying tissue of sound were about to falter. Seattle Chamber Music Society summer fest ends on high note 2013-07-27T21:19:21Z

The music is to 10 of Mendelssohn’s 48 “Songs Without Words,” all very charming, covering diverse moods; the title, “Words,” might lead you to expect some of Mr. Morris’s mime gestures or expressionistic motifs. Mark Morris’s ‘Words,’ a Premiere at Fall for Dance 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Control, and its relinquishment, is a constantly recurring motif. 'Chely Wright: Wish Me Away' follows country singer's coming out 2012-07-05T20:49:06Z

Donatello found an outlet for his vision in the “spiritelli,” the naked winged children that he used as decorative motifs and subjects on their own. Donatello Gets His Due 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Zimmer and Wallfisch only quoted an actual Vangelis motif once in the score, but they rooted the music in his vintage synthesizer palette. How to compete with the original ‘Blade Runner’ score: Pay homage to it 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Those materials include background on each author, a book overview, themes and motifs, reading tips, discussion questions and suggestions of similar books to read next. The Black Book Club Takes It to the Next Level 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Rowe was not your customary outsider artist, an isolated genius who often became known for one style or motif reproduced with consummate control. Nellie Mae Rowe Breaks Down the Wall Between Insider and Outsider Art 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Once I recognized this, her presence — and the couple’s combination of geometric and organic motifs — made itself clear throughout the home, and at every subsequent Mackintosh destination. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

These death-haunted predecessors give a surprising new sheen to another major Cubist motif: the newspaper, sometimes painted and sometimes pasted, whose mastheads and headlines collide with tables and slide into wine bottles. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The mom of four runs her own custom-clothing business and expected her youngster to select a sporty motif inspired by his interests in basketball and football, she wrote on Facebook. Boy, 6, wears special shirt to fight bullying at school: 'I will be your friend' 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

The highest notes of his solo in an opera overture were, in fact, a transposition of the opening motif of the piece. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

A snake motif garnishes fireplaces, rugs and furniture. Review | ‘Mexican Gothic’ is a creepy, intoxicating mystery that’s almost impossible to put down 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

After settling on an angular, deco motif, building began in November. Golden Globes 2015: Months of planning for one dream dinner party 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

Interspersed with the narrator’s journey is a constellation of discrete stories that share rhyming motifs and certain turns of phrase. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Yet it remains a towering presence on the city’s skyline and each night on goes its large beacon, a recurring motif for Lovecraft, including, menacingly, in his “Haunter of the Dark” story. How to Find the Spirit of H.P. Lovecraft in Providence 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

But it’s the Greeks who used the motif with abandon, hence the reason we most commonly refer to it as the Greek key. This pattern keeps popping up in design, and it’s even older than it sounds 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

This symbol of Brandon’s isolation and his desire for escape, is a recurring motif throughout the movie. Kicks: sneaker violence gets its own movie 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Their world felt both subterranean and luminescent, thanks to Clifton Taylor’s lighting scheme — towering trapezoids of light on the black backdrop — and Ms. Weare’s motifs of creeping walks and ritualistic stomping. Juilliard Students Star in ‘New Dances: Edition 2014’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Even when the music whips up complex, noisy nimbuses of competing motifs, the fast, finely judged changes within the dense activity are preparing you for variations on the weather. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Most of Lee-McCann’s paintings place a blue-and-white vessel amid a mountainous vista, but she also made a few pictures of everyday contemporary objects, such as staplers and tape dispensers, embellished with classical Chinese decorative motifs. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits explore the many meanings of blue 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

The Florence-based designer, known for his leather-fringed dresses in animal prints, said he was inspired by floral motifs by 16th century painter Caravaggio for his classic collection. Italian designers celebrate sartorial craft at Milan shows 2013-02-23T17:38:32Z

I've been listening to his soulful songs a lot during this current bout of Seattle snowfall and traffic gridlock, and have noticed a bit of a snow motif in his music. Snow jams by Renton producer 10.4 Rog 2010-11-23T21:57:00Z

Isolated gestures — women hitch up black petticoats to the hip, a dancer extends a foot just off the floor — are recycled as serious motifs whose meaning is never developed. Dance Review: BalletX’s ‘Last Glass,’ at the Joyce, Has Music by Beirut 2013-08-08T22:45:44Z

"It's not about models wearing gold crowns, `' Armani said, taking a jab at Sunday's Dolce&Gabbana show with its Byzantine princess motif." Milan designers propose assertive winter looks 2013-02-25T20:38:10Z

“There’s this idea of geometry, which felt significant to me. I started to play with this circular piano motif. This looping ostinato that is woven into this tapestry.” Composing 'The Theory of Everything' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Here’s an all-American, juicy rosé, right down to the flag motif on the label. Perspective | The 12 best bargain wines of the year will set you back as little as $10. How can you resist? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The 1950s brought sinuous motifs, soft lines and free-form compositions, especially for the quivering jewelled flowers. Gems Fit for a Screen Goddess 2010-12-20T12:10:04Z

Both works use a motif of a “romantic vintage song playing on a record player inside the laboratory”, the suit says. Playwright's family sues The Shape of Water film-makers over works' similarities 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but that is a kind of motif in my fiction—looking for something and finding it, but it’s not a happy ending. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Certainly it’s more challenging than the garden-ornament sculptures upstairs, some sporting smiley faces and all covered in dots: her most frequent self-obliteration motif, though one that too often becomes cute and tame. Kusama Arrives. Is It Worth Your Time to Wait in Line? 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

It's a tricky endeavor, trying to highlight objecthood and aesthetics while also highlighting connections of tradition, ritual, or motif across geographic and temporal thresholds. SAM's 'Luminous' sheds light on Asian treasures 2011-10-13T16:07:04Z

Also on the bill: The Mint Collective's "Daughters of the Air," a spacey evocation of mermaids, with shimmering lighting and film motifs, and a musical meshing of live and electronic sounds. Reviews: Mischief and attitude in dance, theater pieces at OtB's Northwest New Works showcase 2010-06-07T18:52:00Z

Outside the kitchen is a Big Green Egg cooker, set into a tiled framework that draws heavily on folk motifs from the Vasquez brothers’ native Guatemala. ‘They’ll have to carry me out of here in a box’ 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Tiny Zehnder persuaded town elders to weave the Old World motif throughout the city. Thanksgiving in a Town Built on Lederhosen and Limitless Meals 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

This October, he once again returned to the gangster motif, calling Trump a “gangster president” at the premier of a film in London. Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

This strangely fascinating trove featured nautical and religious motifs, as well as spoons made from shells and animal horns, or boasting mechanical parts, such as miniature windmills with moving blades. A foodies’ tour of Paterson, N.J., the city (sort of) founded by Alexander Hamilton 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Would this motif be something that mainly you selected? Wife complains about husband's Taco Bell-themed home office, gets slammed online 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

She ordered a gold-plated bar cart and organized our liquor bottles by color, choosing not to display my rare bottles of mezcal and Japanese Scotch because they didn’t match the motif. Discovering Manhood in Soapy Bubbles 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Fur was a recurring motif for the artist, most famously with her 1936 “Object,” a fur-lined teacup, saucer and spoon that became one of Surrealism’s landmark works. TEFAF New York, a ‘Little Jewel Box’ of a Fair, Carves Out Its Own Niche 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Some might spotlight the chords as the harmonic tension builds, others the high violins hammering at the symphony’s main motif. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

Federal police said Tuesday that the 76-year-old man forgot the jug featuring Picasso’s famous owl motif when he changed trains in the western city of Hamm on Feb. 15. Man forgets valuable Picasso ‘owl jug’ on German train 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Many of her designs, which incorporated Persian, colonial and modern motifs, are now part of the collection of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The concerto’s powerful march opening, deceptively simple in its orchestral unison, contains the five-note motif that unites the themes across its three movements. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

He also threads “The Present” with a motif of sightlessness. Art In Review: PAUL GRAHAM: ?The Present? 2012-03-08T22:17:51Z

Among the artist’s motifs are clocks that dwarf and occasionally even impede the tiny beings. In the galleries: Art that’s coolly conceived, rigorously made 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

To this day, many design elements considered quintessentially Chanel are in fact descended from imperial Russian motifs. The Shock of Chopping Up a Chanel Bag 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Their colors were drawn from the landscapes of their respective locations, and the patterns are interpretations of those seen in the Cooper Hewitt as well as recurring motifs in Adjaye's own work. Architect David Adjaye Designs Fabrics for KnollTextiles 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Duane Allman fell in love with a tan deerskin shirt with a motif of a forest and a mountain stream running down the side. North Beach Leathers Is in Business Again 2012-07-25T21:01:13Z

“Dietland” sums up its inspirational motif in a line one character delivers to Plum: “We are too smart for the lives we thought we deserved. We are special.” “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Patterns she incises into areas of flat color suggest decorative motifs seen on kimonos. Review | In the galleries: At cultural center, art that’s tethered to South Korea 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The focus on family tensions, a class divide and a crisis-menaced kingdom resembles the coverage of those motifs in “Henry IV.” A play packed with action, pathos, romance and supernatural goings-on 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

This grain, enhanced by a matte-brown stain, was the main source of inspiration for the squiggly motifs that punctuate his furniture. Art Review: A Marriage of Design, Aged in the Wood 2011-01-06T22:47:38Z

In “Sub Rosa,” as this show is titled, Ms. Snyder is digging beneath or perhaps going further into the rose, one of her longtime motifs. Review: From Joan Snyder, a Profusion of Flowers at Franklin Parrasch 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

At the Met, a single, heart-stopping gallery contains six large paintings with musical motifs, and in all of them the parties ache with a worldly regret. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

These arrangements in gold and black distill the motifs of Buddhist temples into stylish abstractions. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Staggered entries of droning pitches steadily created complexly sour motifs that tended to plunge downward. Long Play Rises to the Top of New York Classical Music Festivals 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Money is the underlying motif of this event-filled episode — chasing it, laundering it, suing over it. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 9: Miscalculations 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

But the artist also inserts realistic botanical motifs such as leaves, vines and blooms, while evoking a sense of place derived from her training in traditional Chinese landscapes. In the galleries: Small universes and a large cosmos at Greater Reston Arts Center 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

A recurring motif in "Wild" is Strayed's massive, overstuffed backpack, nicknamed Monster by other hikers on the trail. Reese Witherspoon has a lot invested in 'Wild' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

With Wordsworth’s poetry a motif throughout the trilogy, Mansour examines the sustaining psychic power of a beloved landscape — a home that one may leave but must be able to revisit. ‘The Vagrant Trilogy’ Review: Palestinians in Exile, Yearning for Home 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

The egg-and-dart motif became a stalwart of late-Georgian decoration, and the famous Palmyrene rose began to appear on the ceilings of many a grand English country house. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

These added elements accent the methodical way the paintings are built up, for example with mirroring Rorschach-like motifs. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The motifs of those ruins had shown up in bits and pieces in his early designs, but after the murders they began to reshape his architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Taking his cue from her love of nature, Bennison cocooned the drawing room in one of his own floral fabrics, a glorious tree-of-life motif with a subtle pink background. A New Book Explores the Work of Geoffrey Bennison 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Halfway through, some little synthesizer motifs arrive, enough of them to have constructed an electro track of their own. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

You will be primed for that motif early on, when Daniel tells a class of high schoolers that he has “been called the Venus Williams of solitaire,” and you think: Venus, really? ‘Patience’ Review: At the Top of His Game, and Lonely 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

For “Orange Is The New Black,” the “end of men” isn’t just a soundbite, but one of the motifs of the show. Hanna Rosin on her book’s cameo in “Orange is the new Black”: It’s really funny to see it distorted in this paranoid world 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

One motif consists of two or more horizontal lozenges stacked , placed atop one another on a vertical canvas. Flower beds? Body parts? The compelling abstract paintings of Lily Stockman 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

The checkerboard motifs that he incorporated into many pictures bear a resemblance to the basketry and embroidery that he saw in his youth. The Inventive Chef Who Kept His 700 Paintings Hidden 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The group build expectations with patience and precision, from quiet, dripping-water motifs propelled by soft mallet sounds that swell and recede, to folksy Mehldau-like themes that release flows of Jarrett-like inventiveness, or hip Cuban groovers. Andrew McCormack Trio: Live in London – review 2012-12-13T22:18:01Z

That her unflinchingly bright motifs were hand-drawn added a noticeable optical wobble. Harriet Korman: ‘Line or Edge, Line or Color: New Paintings and Drawings’ 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

When we asked if the black-and-white motif was alluding to a flashback or something else, Spencer said he thinks Brooks was playing with “a little bit of a ‘Breaking Bad’ homage. Exclusive 'Ant-Man No. 1' cover reveals an Evil Scott Lang? 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Despite the energetic and witty performances and the finely honed aesthetic of Aleksandra Pavlovic’s set design, this remains a modest production that operates within a small web of themes and motifs. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Davies cited “a similar use of materials” — for example, two- and four-note motifs — played out over “extreme lengths of time.” Critic’s Notebook: Philip Glass’s ‘Spuren der Verirrten’ Has Debut in Linz 2013-04-17T21:39:00Z

The soundtrack moves quickly through moods and motifs, following the action of the film. New Music: Air, Of Montreal and the Jim Black Trio 2012-02-13T23:57:44Z

Pink, indeed, was a central motif — pink phone, pink bedding, pink table. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: The nhowHotel in Berlin 2011-05-27T18:55:00Z

Visually, there was nothing especially radical about the Convention, little pro-wrestling flash, no Trumpian gold leaf: just the usual fusty podium, with the usual flag motifs—plus shots of empty seats. Watching the Republican Convention 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

While Chang used nametag-style stickers to illustrate her “I Wish This Was…” project, Change By Us uses a post-it note motif. The Web for the neighborhood 2012-07-04T14:05:00Z

Her shop, which opened in 1989, sells an array of china decorated with motifs ranging from floral to fish and game. It’s a Fine Time for Fine China 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Especially notable are two chalice palls — or covers — about 7 inches square whose plant motifs are very bold in scale. Lace, That Most Coveted Textile 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

The motif of an innocent child banished by his parent, but surviving in secret thanks to the compassion of a caretaker, is common in legend. In eSe Teatro production, ‘Oedipus’ gets an L.A. makeover | Theater review 2012-12-10T22:17:46Z

Celestial bursts of vaporous reds and cobalts float across an astral plane as stylized atoms — one of Mr. McGurr’s persistent motifs — dance and carom. Futura, a King of Graffiti, Returns to His Roots 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

“From Greek mythology there are a mother and daughter based on Demeter and Persephone as a central motif,” said Paulus. Women are the stars in Cirque’s new ‘Amaluna’ 2013-01-28T20:35:45Z

With its Spanish and Mission-style motifs,  it wasn’t afraid to lean on a largely mythologized sense of regional history and architectural lineage. The battle of the ballparks: Cubs vs. Dodgers and the lost history of L.A.'s own Wrigley Field 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Pared-back versions of her trademark tribal motifs are finished off with carefully selected palettes of stones, from champagne diamonds to sapphires. | Pamela Love’s Finer Things 2014-02-21T15:00:13Z

Even in his Blue and Rose periods, Gimenez said black, white and gray is a recurrent motif. It's all black and white in new Picasso exhibition 2012-10-04T21:10:28Z

Victorian ceramics from the collection of Sarah Whittingham, whose book on fern motifs came out last month. Antiques: Fern History, Fry Glass and a Militiaman?s Sword 2012-03-15T21:37:47Z

Aside from an updated version of the movie’s title track — a recurring musical motif throughout — the songs mostly navigate a fluid zone that is not entirely vintage, not entirely modern. In This ‘Grease’ Prequel Series, Pink Is the Word 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Inside the grand ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, tables were adorned with centerpieces of red and burnt orange roses, while a color motif of blue and silver brought at least a hint of “Tron.” Early Golden Globe for Christian Bale in ?Fighter? 2011-01-17T02:25:41Z

The growling, sighing motif from instruments playing in the lowest registers ably limns the drama’s grim close. Review: Great Expectations for a New Opera, Dashed 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z

Despite the motifs that recur in both his rap and comedy videos — bottles of liquor, consistent references to “kush” — Brian doesn’t smoke weed and rarely drinks. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Another motif found his swaying hips accentuated by turned-out toes, bent knees and plies, all smoothly melding with a haunting soundtrack. A hip-shaking evocation of the last Hawaiian queen 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Meat and animal carcasses, Mexican motifs, money, the degradation of the environment, the beauty of insects and the frequent use of texts were common elements of his visual production. Review | The Smithsonian censored him in 2010. Now, the Whitney is celebrating his grandeur. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Her piece for the current show at the Textile Center in Minneapolis weaves Black Lives Matter newspaper headlines and other motifs into bold red, white and black geometric patterns. Gone but Never Forgotten in a Quilt 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

The trees are repeated, eerie motifs, that for me evoke Renaissance woodlands by Uccello and Botticelli. David Hockney: the outsider who sees, and paints, the bigger picture 2011-08-26T10:48:43Z

No matter how many times motifs from this Allegretto reappear, even within the same movie, the music’s gloomy refinement prevents anything like diminishing returns. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

It is a weird and magnificent sequence that distills many ideas and motifs in Ferrante’s novels, her vision of motherhood as life-giving, comforting, terrifying and deathly, all at once. Elena Ferrante’s Picture Book Embraces the Dark Side 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Painted diamond and circle motifs, called stockades, represented the tribes’ increasingly cramped living quarters. Antiques: Antiques Dealers on TV (Casting Calls Posted) 2011-03-24T21:17:07Z

The piece is held together by a scattering of recurrent motifs – froggy squats, territorial stamps – and by the riveting detail of its phrasing. Scottish Dance Theatre ? review 2011-03-22T19:15:01Z

Elsewhere, motifs seem to have just materialized in the process, like the suggestion of a brown face wreathed in laurel and the pizza slice in “Outline.” Joe Bradley Begins Again 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The team created 18 loftlike contemporary suites with kitchenettes using a bold global palette of materials: bathrooms of gray Italian marble, walls of mirrored French tile and laser-cut floral motif headboard panels. Hotel Rooms With Charm, Off the Radar 2012-10-11T22:02:13Z

Sibelius spoke of “deep logic, which requires that all its motifs must be linked to each other.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Continues an Exploration 2014-03-13T22:40:45Z

Another from the series is “Tee Pee Shearling,” a red coat adorned with beaded patterns emulating American Indian motifs. Isaac Mizrahi Unbound at the Jewish Museum 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Geometric patterns, including Greek key, modern hexagon, art deco arches or a simple chevron, work well with busy landscape and floral motifs, because their structure offsets the fluidity of those designs. How to incorporate 7 popular patterns in your home, according to experts 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Her every leap from the shadows is a hilarious, sidesplitting motif. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Many of the pictures feature simple forms, obsessively repeated motifs and muted colors, especially gray. Review | In the galleries: Art that thrives in natural light 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Blossoms and fruits were popular motifs, or at least convenient ones. Art Review: ‘Foiled: Tinsel Painting,’ at American Folk Art Museum 2012-12-13T22:31:45Z

David Bowie’s androgynous appearance, his interstellar motifs, and his mind-bending visuals set standards that an unsuspecting public didn’t notice were being set. David Bowie and the Return of the Music Video 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Thai designer Linda Charoenlab added edgy motifs to colorful tartan outfits and complemented the looks with facial jewelry that dangled from models' ears to their mouths. Daring designs lead looks on Tokyo catwalks 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The new design elements are based on a study of the center’s underlying motifs of Islamic architecture. City Center to Embark on $75 Million Renovation 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z

Mark came up with the idea of this motif to bring everything together with a triangular pillar, and built that into every set. How “High-Rise’s” orgy scenes got made on a budget: “‘Game of Thrones’ has pumped the per-person cost of nudity through the roof” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Among the motifs that Lee Sung Jin weaves through “Beef” is hunger. ‘Beef’ Review: Mad in America 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

The result is a painting that melds artistically conservative landscape with renegade billboard motifs. 5 pieces in the Broad collection that highlight Pop art history 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Together they illuminate some of the recurring themes explored in the sculptures, but also some of the very structures of these works, which began appearing as motifs of her paintings in the mid-1940s. Louise Bourgeois, Celebrated Sculptor, Unsung Painter 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

In it, his radiating architectural motifs frame an uncharacteristically soft Edenic landscape that includes several trees, one spouting a rainbow of leaves. The Outsider Fair Once More Confirms That Art Is Everywhere 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Often divided into diptychs, the drawings pit one side against the other, and orderly motifs against disruptive elements. Review | In the galleries: Juried competition puts regional artists at center stage 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

If “Become Ocean” tries to lull you into a reflective state, “Deserts” tries to rile you up with gritty blasts of dissonance, spare motifs and sputtering rhythmic figures. Music Review: Seattle Symphony Explores Nature at Spring for Music 2014-05-07T21:12:37Z

The music dances, and the 41-minute video, using its own set of recurring motifs, stays in constant motion through Mali’s streets, clubs and recording studios. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

While the dancers, barefoot, variously suggest pastoral nymphs and swains, friends of Acis and Galatea, they increasingly demonstrate central motifs of the musical drama. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z

The series quickly developed a core of expertly juggled recurring motifs, including American history, technology, nostalgia and its trademark cautionary tales. ‘The Twilight Zone’: Here’s Why We Still Care 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The motifs, featuring more than 120 instruments, are then "plugged in" to the 3D survey of the forest and "played" by it responding in real-time to the time of day and the weather. Wildlife orchestra performs symphony 2014-05-05T10:27:50Z

The text’s early pages are replete with gilding, floral motifs and other Gothic Christian staples, while later pages exhibit the tightly woven geometric patterns that are one of the hallmarks of Islamic aesthetics. An Illuminated Hebrew Bible Has a New Home 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Despite the lure of open spaces, Mr. Markus never let his fascination with Western motifs define his career. Kurt Markus, Photographer of Cowboys and Models, Is Dead at 75 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

Another skit, "Put A Bird On It", mocks "crafting" shops that transform bags and clothes by simply sewing a bird motif on to them. Portland, the US capital of alternative cool, takes TV parody in good humour 2012-02-11T16:28:31Z

The crux of "Blue Bloods" is this kind of intrafamilial tension, which amplifies during a Sunday roast in Frank's Staten Island home and looks to be one of the show's recurring motifs. "Blue Bloods" a welcome return for Tom Selleck 2010-09-24T06:30:00Z

And even though she says customers “always, always gravitate toward holiday patterns,” Paper Source is better known for its nontraditional offerings: bold fuchsias, plant-inspired motifs, and papers with maps of D.C., How to take gift wrapping up a notch without going full Martha Stewart 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The use of a heart as a central motif in the drawing, and the placement of the hands atop the heart like horns, also pointed toward images associated with a particular gang, he said. Sticker yanked, but not without pain 2012-02-09T04:54:00Z

Mr. Morris makes sure that we register his motifs — they often come like punch lines, more staccato and end-stopped than the musical figures they illustrate — after which his reiterations are more than we need. Review: Mark Morris’s New Pastoral Says Less Than Its Music 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Juxtaposition is a common motif in Simpson’s work, one that the artist often uses to present her subjects in ways that evade the white patriarchal gaze. The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

“It goes with the revival of 19th-century-inspired trends, such as mustache motifs or hearty materials” — like logs and tweed. A Swirl of Cloaks: Now That?s a Wrap 2011-10-05T22:44:13Z

Skeletons will be a dominant motif at museum craft workshops, too, where children can paint and embellish plaster versions and create pendants from foil skulls, left. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

What this means in practice is eclectic decor — rose quartz in the Mandala room, a Buddha fresco in the Nirvana room and peacock motifs in the vivid Shringar room. An Oasis in Mumbai: Le Sutra 2010-08-26T08:35:00Z

Yet, he added, as the group rehearsed it with the virtual acoustics, a pattern of repeated undulating motifs built up rippling momentum until, as he described it, “the sound essentially achieved liftoff.” How a Historian Stuffed Hagia Sophia’s Sound Into a Studio 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

But in the orchestra, sliding motifs followed by clicking and popping sounds paint the food’s progress down Agnès’s throat and into her digestive system. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z

"The White Lotus" introduces a defining motif of its Italian season, the Testa di Moro, shortly after the new arrivals have checked into their suites. "The White Lotus" returns with an Italian dream of a second season that's molto bene 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

It’s an instrumental with a vaguely Asian keyboard motif, drum syncopations that clarify and recede into quiet thuds, one-syllable vocal snippets, rhythmic breathing and a constantly recalibrated sense of tension. The Playlist: Calle 13’s Residente Goes Globe-Trotting and Slowdive Cruises Back 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

None are more imposing than the Palais de Justice, or central courthouse, a ghastly mash-up of Baroque, classical and Assyrian motifs that sprawls over more than six acres of the capital’s heart. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Referring to a beloved ’60s design motif, he added that he couldn’t do another rainbow “if my life depended on it.” Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I Love NY’ logo, dies at 91 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

A distinctive, if not singular, motif in Bada’s painting is the empty center. In the galleries: Out of nothingness — art 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

He employs a singular, combative image, more an act of aggression, really, as signature motif. Same Planet Different World elevates collisions to an art form 2011-03-11T16:28:57Z

The mask is part of a multipart artwork that fuses motifs from Moore’s life with images from Noh, the Japanese theater tradition. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Crucially, that movie was scored by Philip Glass, whose soundtrack unified the three stories as lucidly as the motif of “Mrs. Dalloway” did. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Stephen Sondheim once said that “Groundhog Day” was the one movie he’d want to adapt, and it’s fascinating to think what the puzzle master might have done with it, repeating and refracting musical motifs. The Tao of “Groundhog Day,” Onstage 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

That motif is built on accordionlike layered string chords from which the clarinet emerges almost coyly, with a veiled sound and sinewy flutter. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Two of its walls are given over to “Sixteen Amulets for the Road,” a series of small watercolors that borrow motifs from Mughal miniature painting while simplifying its jewel-toned palette. Francesco Clemente Retrospective at Rubin Museum 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

On his own pieces Mr. Evans tends to subject a single concept or motif to kaleidoscopic variation. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z

Having developed a deeply meditative, highly controlled approach to drawing, Despont uses compasses and other drafting tools to render wildly intricate motifs on antique ledger paper. Bright Prospects: Louise Despont 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

He takes a motif of five notes from his model, and proceeds to quote it in every measure of the final composition — 46 of them, at every modal pitch available to him. The Renaissance’s Most Influential Composer, 500 Years Later 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Dov’s words touch on stirring and sobering motifs: betrayal, dread of death, perplexity in the face of life’s mysteries. Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In the main dining room, though, the tavern motif explodes in a whiteout. Restaurant Review: Tavern on the Green 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Some whales and seahorses also made appearances, as a motif on jackets and the hem of a gray skirt. On the Runway Blog: Thom Browne in His Bauhaus Period 2012-09-10T23:42:20Z

The style’s streamlined forms and geometric motifs were inspired by new technologies — ocean liners, airplanes, automobiles, movies — and by everything from Cubism to Egyptian imagery. Discovering Mumbai’s Art Deco Treasures 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

An image of inadequate shelter in collapse, these miniature homes suggested another motif, seen again in a one-walled tent, whose wire struts were bowed like a cello. Performa 17: Absurd Times, Absurd Acts 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

His exploration of motifs—in paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture—propelled 20th-century art into a host of avenues, including pop art, conceptualism and minimalism. Jasper Johns Isn’t Done Yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

That was the case with Pamela Z’s “Thank You So Much,” which relied on her practice of looping, editing and phasing samples of someone’s recorded voice — here, Tendler’s — to create motifs. Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

For Payne, it is a key motif: that one tragedy cannot stand apart from all the others, that we live at the mercy of a heritage, a history, we can never fully understand. David Payne's 'Barefoot to Avalon' avoids easy answers in a tale of two brothers 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Later, Spratling’s work began to echo pre-Columbian motifs, an approach that tied in with his collection of pre-Columbian art. An American in Mexico 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Swarovski sent more than 200 different types of stones, including a newly developed “special motif for the organza butterfly wings, which combines crystals in three blue hues,” said Nadja Swarovski, the company’s communications head. Christian Lacroix Puts Opulence into a ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Ballet 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The rock motif continues in a piece that expands Tague’s trademark series of images derived from U.S. currency by adding Kiss’s face makeup to the engraved portraits of Lincoln, Hamilton, Jefferson and Grant. Review | In the galleries: Zenith celebrates 40 years with two exhibitions in two spaces 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The hostlessness must become a motif, to be mocked and teased in postmodern fashion. The Joyous, Fragmented, and Slightly Anxious 2019 Emmy Awards 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Made with the help of Big Ink, a New Hampshire company whose portable press allows printmakers to work on a monumental scale, “Stupor Mundi” is an abstraction that suggests Persian, Islamic and Celtic motifs. Review | In the galleries: Contemplations on the memory of personal spaces 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Precious fabrics further enriched by hand-printed or hand-painted decorative motifs, sophisticated embroideries, unusual and enchanting color harmonies — these are the same characteristics that made Venetian dresses icons of style for centuries.” In Venice, Capturing the Brio of Festivities Past 2013-04-23T05:49:12Z

Allured is our favourite, though, showcasing Rivas's Lykke-ishly lovely, tremulous voice and featuring an aching chord sequence as well as a keyboard motif that approximates the sound of a trembling heart. New band of the day ? No 1,055: Elephant 2011-07-05T16:56:17Z

There are also elaborate headdresses of hammered gold with sinuous snakes, eagles, stags and tiger motifs. In Transit Blog: In Hong Kong, a Glittering Exhibition 2014-01-07T01:00:22Z

An outpost of a small Indian clothing chain, this sliver of a shop sells brightly colored long- and short-sleeve T-shirts for men, women and children adorned mostly with Indian motifs. Foraging : A New Delhi Market for Savvy Shoppers 2014-01-31T18:53:06Z

A motif of rectangles that evokes Josef Albers’s “Homage to the Square” suggests infinite regress. ‘Isabella’ Review: Audition of a Lifetime 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Such was the case at the Gotham Independent Film Awards when she slipped into an offbeat white lace cocktail dress with a sequin floral motif. Red Carpet Watch: Natalie Portman 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

They contain some of Magritte's most instantly recognisable motifs, including his most famous, the bowler-hatted man. Magritte on Magritte: letters reveal surrealist Damien Hirst 2011-02-06T17:57:02Z

On Friday that motif turned heavy-footed when it was given over to trombones. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

The trophy is embossed with motifs of swamp plants that thrive near Marathon, a Greek town. Antiques: Olympics Memorabilia in London Auctions and Museums 2012-07-12T22:41:56Z

The performance of death and its rituals is a recurring motif of this series, an obsession of its characters, perhaps, because they were denied it when their loved ones disappeared. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Some dance motifs — like a marked transfer of weight onto alternating feet — draw attention to aspects of the accompaniment. Dance Review | Mark Morris Dance Group: Cheekily Defying Expectations 2010-02-24T22:46:00Z

The production benefits hugely from Jesús Díaz Cortés’s gorgeous, often gold-steeped lighting, which heightens the narrative’s fable-like aspects and underscores the motif of dreams. Review | In GALA’s ‘Life Is a Dream,’ freewheeling ideas but stiff storytelling 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

Architecture as tool of propaganda is a long-established motif, but instead of the bombast, Moore chooses to focus on the relationship with power, not from the perspective of client, but of architect. Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z

Asked to choose a page from the Fifth’s score, Blomstedt went for the first, which announces the four-note motif that dominates the symphony’s passage from darkness to light. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Visitors at the opening of Jake and Dinos Chapman's End of Fun, which caused controversy with its use of Nazi motifs. Hermitage instils shock of the new with contemporary art wing 2012-11-28T19:47:24Z

Its lyric introduced a Crosbyesque motif: posing questions that had no answer. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

By adding motifs that reappear throughout the concerto, Davis made it a substantially more cohesive work. 'Concerto for a Genius' shows promise, but needs more fire from the piano 2011-01-16T15:56:00Z

For the Dubai sale, Christie’s chose pieces with Middle Eastern references, including a 1920s Cartier bracelet and brooch set decorated with a pierced Moorish geometric motif. Special Report: Jewelry: Rarity of Art Deco Work Keeps Prices Buoyant 2010-05-20T13:30:00Z

After a moment, I identified it as an element coming from Annie Gosfield’s laptop — and the piercing coloratura motif as a sample from her own recent operatic adaptation of “The War of the Worlds.” Review: A Tour Through the Hyperactive World of John Zorn 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

A similar situation arose with the album’s lead single, “Break My Soul,” which is indebted to the central Korg motif from Robin S.’s pop-house hit “Show Me Love.” Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Embodies Decades of Dance Music. Here’s a Guide. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

A moon shone from the backdrop of human figurines - the doll is a recurrent motif in the Dutch designers' repertoire - adding to the clothes' darkly feminine and sleepy mood. Paris fashion channels past, escapes present woes 2012-03-04T02:31:04Z

The amalgams of brushstrokes that dominate each work — usually in the form of a centrifugal central mass — are painstakingly derived from the motifs of 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century European paintings. Art in Review: PIETER SCHOOLWERTH: ?Portraits of Paintings? 2010-12-16T23:41:37Z

There was more softness in cashmere coats and silk chiffon gowns, though even these were sequined in a Bauhaus-inspired motif that lent a bit of flint to dressy flou. Fashion Review: Coach and Hugo Boss Show at New York Fashion Week 2014-02-14T00:33:16Z

Tectonic serpent skin style, which Leon said evoked the temples' bricks and serpent motif, looked great on boxy jackets or flat tulip skirts. Givenchy, Kenzo, Chloe get tough, Celine delights 2013-03-04T02:31:05Z

But while the many technology references also seem meant to remind the reader of Thomas Pynchon’s use of similar motifs in “Gravity’s Rainbow,” Mr. McCarthy’s reliance on them feels both derivative and contrived. Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll 2010-09-05T21:34:00Z

The custom-designed tuxedo jacket, embroidered on the lapels and down the length of the back with motifs of New York City, included an image of the Chrysler Building and the arches of the Brooklyn Bridge. The ‘Swagger Mayor’ Attends His First Met Gala 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

The Piano Concerto in F deftly assimilates the impressionistic motifs of Debussy and the luxuriant orchestration of Rachmaninov; yet the spontaneous impulses are entirely Gershwin's own. RLPO/Wilson – review 2013-04-08T16:27:14Z

This motif of reinvention hits home for Ms. Bishop, who spent more than a decade bouncing around Nashville and the touring circuit before she hit a wall. Review: Bonnie Bishop Returns With ‘Ain’t Who I Was’ 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Six lively prints rediscovered from her archives, among them a bouquet motif, are splashed across dresses, skirts, blouses, and swimwear showcased against walls covered in the same designs, creating fantastical, spirited vignettes. See the Striking Windows at Carolina Herrera’s Madison Avenue Store 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Uematsu fills his work with symbolic references to common Japanese artistic motifs: enlightenment, nature, music, patterns. At BAM, bamboo works that are anything but traditional 2012-12-27T21:11:56Z

They also pointedly hint at Latin American motifs. Art in Review: Eamon Ore-Giron: ‘Smuggling the Sun’ 2013-06-27T20:05:41Z

Although the emphasis is on jewelry made in the last 10 years, you'll see evidence of pre-Columbian beliefs and decorative motifs. Review: Language of adornment spoken at BAM Latin American jewelry exhibit 2011-06-02T20:20:16Z

“People are making things that are quite shocking, with commonly found objects and motifs.” Swans. Pineapples. Angel wings. How the novelty pool float conquered Instagram. 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

He chose to ground the score in a four-note motif that appears throughout the opera, which lasts about an hour. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

One recurring motif is a seemingly moronic figure seen in profile with a single large foot, variously shod. Art in Review: Michael Williams: ‘Paintings’ 2013-12-05T21:41:16Z

They will, at least, be able to latch onto a couple of strong motifs that demonstrate the importance of brush-writing through the centuries. Art Review: ‘Brush Writing in the Arts of Japan’ Shows Detailed Efforts 2013-08-29T22:03:18Z

Here is a work in which Mr. Morris’s motifs, rhythms and structures fall into perfect balance. Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z

The orchestra overture depicts the “Representation of Chaos” in the cosmos through daring music that at times evades stable harmonic zones and is run through with passing dissonance, like stray motifs in search of cohesion. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z

I had to fight like hell to get that motif going. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

The bridge of the tune modulates two times, and that conclusion motif is present throughout. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

This is a motif throughout this episode, as characters use diplomacy and calming rhetoric to advance their goals. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 4: Strange Magic 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

A visual motif in which McNamara and Oswalt’s favorite film, “The Creature From the Black Lagoon,” is used to represent submerged menace is employed three or four too many times. Review: A Killer, a Writer, and the Questions Both Left Behind 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

A motif common in southern New Jersey, it is known as “the Towering Ladies of Cape May.” Iolani Palace in Hawaii Is Recovering Its Looted Furnishings 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

And there are passages of needlessly awkward instrumental writing, with woodwinds, for example, asked to play breathless repetitive motifs. Recordings: A New Recording of Philip Glass?s Opera ?Orph?e? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z

He hand-painted many watercolor designs displayed on the accessories, from a floral motif to geometric shapes on oversized bags and floppy hats. Isabel Toledo brings tropical dresses to Miami 2011-10-20T17:11:13Z

One recurring motif throughout Fitzgerald’s title sequences is the close study of crowds, particularly the way human bodies maneuver within them. Pillow Talk to Bonnie and Clyde: the greatest Wayne Fitzgerald main titles 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

There are two motifs in the play that, in combination, suggest its scope and its improbable combination of the clarity we all hope for and the ambiguity in which we mostly live. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z

The recurring poetic motifs include a tall woodpile, based on the one in which Joan and Charlie perch as children to imagine their future, that is recycled too industriously. Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Certain motifs recur; techniques and paint surfaces change; two astounding canvases reflect a new interest in green and the Vietnam War. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

A wistful affection for newspapers, and sorrow for their declining fortunes, is one of the book’s motifs. Book-It brings Jess Walter’s ‘Poets’ to the stage 2013-06-05T22:44:20Z

At his studio in Rochester, N.Y., he set aside artworks with his typical ribbon and shard motifs for that future organization’s collection. Albert Paley Selling a Sampling of His Metalwork 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z

“It’s fascinating how similar motifs and starting points conceived during different times form a good dialogue,” Mr. Demand said. Inside Art: An Artist Shows His Train of Thought 2011-07-14T22:23:08Z

Ariel Pink, meanwhile, uses a merry-go-round motif to illustrate the repetitive patterns in a relationship. Readers recommend: songs about fairgrounds ? results 2012-02-09T15:01:12Z

The form and decorative motifs of an octagonal gold cup — musicians and dancers with long hair and billowing robes — suggest Central Asian metal wares. Museums: Ancient Arab Shipwreck Yields Secrets of Ninth-Century Trade 2011-03-07T13:30:06Z

The momentum built through each movement until the glorious Finale burst forth, brimming with crunchy rhythms and sparkling motifs. Review: Chamber-fest concert nourished body, mind and soul 2010-07-15T20:56:00Z

Each story gets at least one, a wordless, full-bleed double-page spread that illustrates, extravagantly, either a large motif or an offhand moment from its story in richly textured paint. Showing the Indelible, Imperiled Bonds Between Animals and People 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The motifs are haunting — as when a dancer looks fixedly up at one wrist while swinging the other arm behind him — like clues in a mystery story. Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z

It’s a motif, as the wall label notes, that goes back to prehistoric Japanese pottery, but here it’s presented with a Deco élan that remains fresh even after a century. ‘Kimono Style’: A Beautiful Painting You Can Wear 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Different decorative motifs proceed down the tapered legs, which resemble inverted obelisks. Gouthière at the Frick: Gilding the Lily (and Everything Else) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

But more important, it helped establish many of the characteristics and motifs we think of most when we consider the best TV today. Binge Your Way Through 99 Days of Summer 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The series features modern geometric patterns inspired by the punchy motifs found in ancient batik textiles. New Batik rugs by Niba Rug Collections 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The single-page score consists of 53 short musical motifs, which the musicians play in order. Review: Sasha Waltz’s Action Painting Swirls to ‘In C’ 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

We encounter Sontag as a series of masks, motifs, symptoms and symbols, with her biographer presenting a set of master keys that might explain her behavior. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The Italian fashion house’s “V” motif logo featured heavily on bags and was emblazoned on the chests of tracksuit jackets and sweaters. Miniskirts, power shoulders and top models for Versace Fall/Winter 2020 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Many of his recurring motifs — of alienation, of queerness, of distrusting certitudes, of a life shaped in the margins — still feel startlingly modern, 90 years after his death, in 1933. Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of ‘Future Generations’ Whose Time Is Now 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

It’s devoted mostly to “The Secret Life of Toys,” a series that juxtaposes classical motifs and plastic figurines. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Small formats, elemental motifs and muted hues are among the attributes that link much of the work in Long View Gallery’s multi-artist “Holiday Group Show.” In the galleries: Phantom people make a statement — a beautiful one 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The nude, or almost nude, female form is the cycle’s repeated motif, the erotic emblem, as bright as a light beam, you can spot from wherever you stand. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

“It incorporates motifs and artistic ideas that are part of the canon of Islamic art — geometric and floral designs, arabesques and also embedded text — but it’s very contemporary,” Komaroff says. At LACMA, the horror of 9/11 through the eyes of a Muslim artist who found a different path 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Not long after, that vintage melody slips underneath new Composition No. 220 motifs. Anthony Braxton Composes Together Past, Present and Future 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The cigarette is a recurring motif of war photography not just because soldiers often smoke, but for the same reason that theater directors use cigarettes onstage: to make things more believable. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

Along the sides, metal tubing was employed as support, somehow evoking the construction of an ocean liner — a strange motif for a public building in landlocked Central Europe. Cultured Traveler: Exploring Czech Functionalism in Brno 2012-06-15T18:42:49Z

His quotations from Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train" periodically punctuated the proceedings, a silvery little motif serving as a way for listeners to try to get their bearings. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

If so, Deccani otherworldliness is nowhere more apparent than in the intense colors, dreamy moods and inexplicable motifs of many of their paintings. Review: ‘Sultans of Deccan India,’ Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age, at the Met 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Mainly in browns and faded black, with burnt orange and violet, the motifs had a rough quality that suited Ms. Karan’s urban aesthetic. | Fashion Review: Spring?s Colorful Runways - Review - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T22:30:37Z

The light and landscape of the Mediterranean, poetry, history and mythology all became frequent motifs of his art. US artist Cy Twombly dies at 83 2011-07-05T22:25:19Z

Now, the spirited motifs are splashed across West Elm’s furniture, bedding, rugs, and accessories in a new collaboration that feels fit for a sunbathed Saturday. Check out West Elm’s new collaboration with Kate Spade Saturday 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

It begins with a sole cello, soon joined by another, playing short motifs that coalesce into yearning themes and intertwining lines. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z

Also not helping matters: A running action motif where the main characters follow “directions,” which plays out like an inadvertent advertisement for Waze. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

At the evening’s end, a more somber and resolute unity recurred as the dance motif for the title song, which marries the velvety smoothness of soul to a cry against brutality. “What’s Going On”: Dance tribute to Marvin Gaye offers comfort and defiance 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Fluttering trills unfolded over lone piano notes; bell-like descending piano chords were echoed by gently ascending viola motifs. At the Stone, the Flux Quartet Flexes Its Muscles 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

When taken in conjunction with other signatures that include qualifiers also formed on Khorasan city names and with the typically Khorasani motifs, this makes it clear that the pot originated in this eastern Iranian province. Auctions: Century-Old Vandalism of Islamic Art, and Its Price 2011-04-15T12:00:27Z

What are your thoughts about this and other horror motifs? Why horror flick "The Night" is the first American film to be released in Iran in four decades 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

No explanatory text panels will be hung in the rooms, and visitors will be encouraged to come up with their own interpretations of the motifs. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z

As a theatrical design motif a row of askew arches is becoming a little trite. Music Review: A New ‘Werther’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-02-19T11:01:44Z

The program opened with Vaughan Williams’s dark-hued Symphony No. 6, completed just after World War II. Mr. Botstein conducted a vigorous interpretation, with the sardonic brass fanfares and eerie string motifs boldly executed. American Symphony Orchestra Samples the 20th Century 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

He was so prolific that by 1882, a newspaper critic was already complaining about repeating motifs among Chase’s “now many marines.” James Jebusa Shannon’s Portraits Rescued From Obscurity 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

In San Antonio, while touring the local missions with the homeowners, they noticed how pomegranates appeared as a decorative motif, recurring frequently in plaster and adobe ornamental flourishes. T Magazine: The Secret Gardener 2012-10-05T14:00:44Z

A majestic account of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances concluded this programme of European exiles: if the final, falling motif bore a passing resemblance to the Captain Blood theme it was almost certainly coincidence rather than piracy. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-04-14T14:12:00Z

One dancer vibrates his hands as if holding down some unseen object; then different hand flutters become a motif around the other dancers. Review: Vail International Dance Festival Celebrates Meter 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

But Bowling was interested in painters like Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Morris Louis, whose influences he synthesized into his own distinctive style, incorporating zip motifs and dreamy color fields. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

Johnson's riff on racial identity starts as a scene, turns into an episode and morphs into a motif that never lets up. 'Loving Day's' examination of race is handled with candor, wit 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Slowness is another motif Wilson returns to, with Walking's snail's pace sternly enforced by the angels. Robert Wilson takes a walk with angels in Norfolk 2012-08-22T17:00:01Z

His most beloved motif was the reclining female figure, like that of Old Flo. Art world shivers at sale of Henry Moore statue 2013-03-24T11:53:04Z

The flip side features motifs that evoke the Indigenous people who were displaced when the area became the capital of a country whose possessions would stretch from the Caribbean to the Pacific. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Very often Beethoven’s materials and themes are banal, very simple, not very interesting, but he made huge artworks out of these small cells, small motifs. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

At three minutes in, the beat drops with a sparkling rhythmic motif for the harp, cheerfully punctuated by what sound like cellphone vibrations. Recording reviews: a Glass harpist, arias for Farinelli 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The billowing sweep of the work, which evokes certain recent efforts by Mr. Metheny, unfurls with intuitive logic: Melodic motifs flutter in and out of the picture, returning later in alternate form. Review: Antonio Sánchez With 2 Albums, ‘The Meridian Suite’ and ‘Three Times Three’ 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

There were big musical themes in here: sometimes the layers of sonic texture made room for a short, huge and simple melodic motif, a rock-opera kind of thing. Music Review: Amon Tobin?s ?Isam? at Brooklyn Masonic Temple - Review 2011-10-27T22:39:39Z

Another motif, an unsettling slide down a semitone, recalls one that Mahler used in his symphonies to indicate destiny. ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Florists crafted 20 towering tributes—up to 65 feet long and 32 feet tall—imitating colors, motifs, and imagery from Van Gogh’s paintings, including several iterations of his famed self-portraits. Van Gogh Is Celebrated by His Hometown in the Flower Parade 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

With his right hand, he hit a series of quick stabbing chords that, on the recording, add a sense of dramatic rise-and-fall behind the repeating bass motif. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

It first became popular after World War I and was a reaction to art nouveau’s whimsical ornamentation and floral motifs. What’s driving art deco’s resurgence? It could be today’s political climate. 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Most guests showed up in Pucci yoga pants, a mismatch patchwork of archival motifs. Pucci Returns to Capri 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

Twitter lends itself to another club motif — the air of exclusivity. Social media changing the nightlife 2010-07-14T21:19:00Z

It's the kind of motif you expect to find in Shostakovich, depicting the advance of the Red Army and the destruction of Europe some half a century later. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z

By the time he wrote the wistful Two Landscapes Op 27, depicting the hills of Judea and spiced with Hebraic motifs, he was fully immersed in his adopted homeland. Paul Ben-Haim: Chamber Works – review 2013-07-20T23:05:22Z

How is the South a type of character and also a motif? Comics writer Jason Aaron talks “Star Wars,” “The Punisher” and “Southern Bastards”: “The Confederate flag has no place flying over the state capital” 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

That's the purpose of the Liszt piece, which recurs like a motif, even giving the novel its title: "Le mal du pays" is part of a suite called "Years of Pilgrimage." Haruki Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki' paints haunting picture 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

"Succession" is many things, but a prime motif is the seesaw of overestimation and underestimation of various parties. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

The impact of the contacts with Iran is reflected in the Macedonian adoption of Iranian royal motifs as early as the mid-sixth century B.C. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

Christie’s made the most of the Lyons Demesne motif — house sales traditionally gave furniture and other objects a halo that substantially enhanced their commercial value. Auction: Buyers Lose Their Taste for 18th-Century Art and Furniture 2011-07-22T12:00:06Z

Two of the show’s most recent works, abstract “Blot” paintings from 2014-15, exploit Warhol’s late-career motif of giant Rorschach ink blots. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The interior features local wood paneling, painted Indian tiles, and hand-carved stone motifs. Island Homes for Sale 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Murakami is an avid listener and collector of music ranging from classical to jazz and rock, and it serves as an important motif in many of his stories. Library devoted to Japan novelist Murakami to open in Tokyo 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Instead of quickly fostering a riot of competing rhythms and motifs, this composition deals in repetitive material for long stretches over its approximately 45-minute length. Review: A Sublime New Direction for Andrew Norman in Los Angeles 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Self-protection is another of the many motifs running through this book. Books of The Times: ‘All the Light We Cannot See,’ by Anthony Doerr 2014-04-28T21:39:45Z

But more often they indicate his real-world inspirations, especially when he describes the colors of his Homages and other motifs in terms of weather, buildings, water and times of day. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z

Xie traced and retraced his own drawings too, aiming not at raw realism but at developing a lexicon or visual vocabulary of standard motifs from which to construct larger pictures and paintings. 2010-02-15T06:00:00Z

A zippered track jacket bore the ghostly image of a military medal surrounded by the swirling mercurial patterns that are a recurring motif at the label. Menswear on the European runways 2011-01-24T19:08:53Z

His misfires become a comic motif in the novel, though the laughs are never cheap because each instance is suffused with an intensity of feeling and a disarming, highly sympathetic honesty. Karl Ove ­Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Several of its isolated fragments of melody seemed designed to morph and spin away from the opening motifs, the quicker the better. Review: Nate Wooley’s Festival Delivers a New, Idiosyncratic Repertoire for Trumpet 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Other motifs recur, notably a winged or swimming arabesque, where dancers balance on one leg with arms outstretched. Review: Scottish Ballet Finds the Poetry in ... Poetry 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

The motif recurs, considerably tightened up, in the 1967 “G.I. Christ,” where the cross is red rived with black, a marvelous swollen form that might almost be a bloody cross-section of flesh. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Dada and Surrealism were the twin motifs for a party at the downtown club Don Hill’s on Saturday night, guests turning up in gargoyle masks and gangster suits. Shien Lee Presides Over Peripatetic Costume Parties in New York 2010-04-21T22:42:00Z

Origami, cherry blossoms and Japanese fans are inevitable motifs, as are the dove and the mushroom cloud. In the galleries: Melding sound and art 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

A repeat motif has evening bleed into night, and "That Woman", one of the best poems in the book, maps the uneasy and precarious relationship between polished surfaces and "dark undersides". Everything Begins Elsewhere by Tishani Doshi - review 2012-06-01T21:55:01Z

Within the realm of art, eggs are a complex motif due to their significance in both Christian cultures and international mythology. Poached or painted: A closer look at how eggs became a complex motif in countless works of art 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

And Raf Simons, the creative director at Calvin Klein, used classic American quilt motifs throughout his fall 2018 collection, including in dresses, men’s shirts and gloves. This Old Thing? Quilts Hit the Catwalk 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Many speakers explained that the insect motif was a reference to Harold, the plastic cockroach that Mr. Buatta kept in his pocket and delighted in using to upstage fancy dinner parties. Book Party Anxiety, Writ Large 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

That both films divide the characters visually this way may be a coincidence, a motif of Francis’s or simply a principle of smart image composition. Do Cinematographers Have a Signature? Let’s Try a Test 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

It was moody for sure — a detective story whose unease came from efficient musical motifs and natural, if plain spoken, recitative. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

She says she has seen a huge demand for vintage crewel work and embroidered framed pieces that have motifs such as butterflies or daisies. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Ultrasonic” is a collection of stand-alone essays, but there are motifs. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

LACMA's tender composition is even based on a traditionally Christian Holy Family motif. LACMA purchases long-lost masterpiece, once kept under a couch 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

“At first I used to drive around, scouting for the motif, and then I realized the motif is right here — just open the door or look out the window,” said the painter. Her Views From Close Up Are on Everyone’s Radar 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Certainly Franz often gave the viola part its own nimble little motif. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

Dark, confrontational motifs lace her lyrics, the frenetic, zig-zagging saxophones, and wailing, siren-backed choruses seem to build up and release emotional pressure. Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on life after lo-fi 2011-04-07T21:29:00Z

The women went without point shoes, and the first piece’s motif of slides along points seemed to be replaced by gliding drops into wide pliés. Dance Review: From Emery LeCrone, Two Dances to One Bach Partita 2014-03-25T21:50:23Z

To make sense of life’s chaos, we look for recurring motifs. The Three Chairs That Define Childhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

The Sibelius concerto has such a strong sense of motion with the ostinato, that repeated motif in the orchestra — almost like telephone poles against which you can measure the speed of the soloist. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

In addition to the motif of a “sacred, healing powers of a mysterious place,” there were numerous nods to Australia, a significant continent in “Lost” lore. 'The Leftovers' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Do You Believe in Miracle? 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

In these elegant prints, the motif is the message. Review | In the galleries: Artechouse’s ‘Infinite Space’ has waves of natural influences 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Here pared-down handmade objects and raw materials strung or spilling from steel tripods suggest a turning back to art history not just to grab motifs but also to transform them. Museum & Gallery Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

In Mozart’s Andante, it was a stuttering motif in the left hand that turned unexpectedly eloquent at the very end. Review: Evgeny Kissin the Curator Illustrates His Breadth 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The symbolic power of motifs such as peeled potatoes and broken umbrellas. Melbourne international film festival 2013: 10 things to see and do 2013-07-24T02:23:00Z

Decorated with cream and cherry-colored stripes, with walls of silk velvet in plum and magenta and borders of sea green, all of it embroidered with floral motifs, it would have cost a fortune. Review | ‘Peacock in the Desert’ offers a rare look at Indian art and a royal court 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

It's a portrait of a situation, rather, to use a word that recurs almost as a motif through the film. 'The Homestretch' on PBS: Homeless teens struggle for independence 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

During the prelude, as the orchestra plays the mysterious and transfixing motif of the Rhine, it comes alive, undulating like the moving waters. Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T09:16:00Z

During “Burn,” the bandleader arranged kinetic motifs for strings, percussion and bass clarinet alongside chattering vocal pyrotechnics — all while fostering a paradoxical sense of ease. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

The local contractors who built them drew upon the interior floor plans of traditional Chinese courtyard homes and local decorative motifs. Shanghai Dwellings Vanish, and With Them, a Way of Life 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Only one motif looks out of place: the name “Maiku,” rendered in a phonetic Japanese syllabary. In the galleries: Art that expresses the feel of Foggy Bottom 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

But programmers deemed his three-year run on Radio Belgrano a popular flop, with pieces veering too far into dissonance and classical motifs when mass audiences wanted dance and background music. Horacio Salgán, Argentine tango composer and musical pathbreaker, dies at 100 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Parts of “The Hard Nut” are constructed intricately around dance motifs that spell out meanings in ways that deserve extended analysis. Dance Review: A Playfully Roasted Old Chestnut 2010-12-12T23:28:00Z

Yet, despite the technique and the bold snake motifs, the clothes were not inspiring. Fashion Review: Haute Couture: The Fine Line 2012-01-25T22:09:21Z

In an adjoining room are pieces by Jasper Johns from 1982 to 2014 that recycle his familiar motifs like letters, numbers and silhouetted figures. 51 Contemporary Artists, but Just Three Women 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It helps that Mr. Costa picked a second object, a religious woodcarving of the Roman Catholic “bleeding heart” motif, which merges with the quilt’s Tree of Life pattern in his final design. Art Review: In ‘Folk Couture,’ Fashion Designers Buck Constraints 2014-02-27T23:02:24Z

It is the terrible motif of her life. The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

And when Swift, in a one-legged bodysuit embroidered with a snake motif, performed selections from “Reputation,” she showed just how wrongly maligned that album was upon its release. Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Throughout the house, the capital of each column features a different floral motif. Cultured Traveler: Barcelona?s Other Architect, Dom?nech 2010-12-21T21:13:48Z

Fans who dug the band’s old sound might cringe at its unabashed radio-readiness and robot-love motif, but it could also serve as an “indie” gateway for new mainstream listeners. Ra Ra Riot’s new album is a pleasing radio-ready departure 2013-02-07T23:24:56Z

Part of the charm of ikats is the way different sections of cloth were sewn together, so that motifs almost but don’t quite align, created a thrilling optical buzz and shiver. Review | Are these the most beautiful textiles in the world? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

The motif, she explains, is a tribute to “special feelings in your heart ... colorful feelings.” Design Notebook: Your Chair, Mr. Aalto. Yes, It Now Has Eyes. 2011-06-29T22:29:21Z

In Beethoven’s “Spring” sonata, there was a wonderful, growling collision of motifs in the first movement, the two artists jostling for attention. Kavakos and Eschenbach combine to put on an inspired recital 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Stark lines, repeated motifs, found objects — these might not be what gallerygoers associate with artistic extravagance, or with a show titled “Too Much of Too Much.” Review | In the galleries: Even when extravagance is the theme, less can be more 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Burri also starts applying his surgical skills, sewing pieces of fabric together; stitches of varying sizes become a recurring motif, at once structural and visual. Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The following shot sets up a minor motif in the film suggesting that the toys actually play – and play with each other – when their owner is absent. How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

In a palette of greens, browns and dusty blues, he painted and etched the clay with geometric, animal and foliage motifs reminiscent of folk art, Asian calligraphy and African scarification patterns. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z

One of her motifs was the theme of the current show: figures falling or flying through abstract space, which is often painted with expressionistic jags and bright swaths of color. 2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Smith often introduces the kind of picking motifs that, in Explosions in the Sky, usually gather themselves into grand processionals and thrilling buildups. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z

I even did a motif of crossed lacrosse sticks on one this year.” Trading Up: The Pedigree, Knitted In 2010-12-01T23:27:00Z

She first visited the site last October and quickly struck upon the lead crystal motif, in part thanks to some imposing chandeliers in the palace. An Invisible Artwork Reminds Austria of Its Nazi Past 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Its focus on the star motif ends up reaffirming the restlessness of this painter’s progress and his underappreciated engagement with new technologies of design, fabrication and display. In Frank Stella’s Constellation of Stars, a Perpetual Evolution 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

His latest purchase, sadly not on display in London, is a 1969 Chevrolet Impala adorned with Day of the Dead motifs. London show views death through artists' eyes 2012-11-14T14:31:10Z

Impasto doesn’t even begin to describe the raised filigrees of flowers and other motifs layered over tinted photographs of tender young men, taxidermy stags and barren landscapes. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Urban gay bars adopted country-western motifs, attracting a clientele of urban "wannabe" cowboys and rural transplants looking for a community that reminded them of home. How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

It will draw inspiration from the Tree of Life motif that is already part of the Grade II listed building. Whiteread to make gallery frieze 2012-02-09T15:45:28Z

Symmetry is a constant design motif, evident in the pervasive harmony of proportions, color and balance. James Hayward's monochromatic installation delivers contemplative bliss 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The ballet, whose title is both an abbreviation of the composer's name and a musical motif, features a leading couple, a trio and an ensemble. PNB introduces a big ballet talent to the Northwest: Alexei Ratmansky 2011-03-12T00:38:59Z

Yet now the motif is weakened and halting, and it leads to quizzical, unresolved harmonies. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

There's a horse saddle and lots of equestrian motifs. Happy Hour: A bit of England in Post Alley 2011-09-27T23:34:04Z

Throughout, those masterpieces would pop up and then disappear in a welter of fancy boleros, obi motifs, kimono bathrobes and toreador pants. Ending on a Grace Note 2012-07-04T17:30:51Z

Nate Grace’s constrained singing is a central motif; often it sounds as if he were being pulled down a hallway away from the microphone, his attempts at words doomed to fail. Critic's Notebook: Going Into the Haze in Their Debut Albums 2011-07-12T22:59:41Z

Loose jackets made of washi paper and silk in vivid greens and blues were paired with sassy shorts and flowing, floor-length sundresses printed with a sunflower motif. 'Cool Japan' struts the runways at Fashion Week in Tokyo 2013-10-18T03:44:53Z

Borrowing motifs from magazines, calendars, comic books and much else, these images depict the Virgin of Guadalupe, lowriders, loved ones and sometimes criminal activities, which become increasingly phantasmagorical as you proceed around the gallery. Art Review: ?Testimonios,? Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio 2012-02-09T23:48:36Z

Then, on cue, their helical contraptions sank to the ground, revealing Mr. Browne's short-pants suits in Easter-egg plaids, with whale and lobster motifs. On the Runway Blog: Paris Men's: Lanvin and Thom Browne 2012-07-01T22:54:48Z

The cockerel is a popular motif in modernist art, symbolising regeneration, awakening and strength. Rocking child takes plinth 2011-01-14T12:05:53Z

Its opener was “Critical Path,” a tune with a cascading melodic motif, in buoyant, polyrhythmic waltz time. Music Review: Enrico Pieranunzi Trio at Village Vanguard 2012-03-28T21:59:28Z

Because his raga motifs are not mere embellishments but are imbedded into the very structure of the song, “Within You and Without You” appears seamless. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Confinement, isolation and cardboard are among the show’s motifs. Review | In the galleries: Sequence of photographs creates a graphic continuity 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

The segments flow into one another without pause, except for some written rests, and unfold organically, each little motif introduced then recurring in a new guise. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Molds of false teeth also appear in two other photographs here, and the recurrence of that motif suggests that we are meant to understand these images as a group. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Those gold blankets, provided to people who cross the Mediterranean to Europe, are a motif in recent art about perilous migration from Africa and the Middle East. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

There was a whiff of San Francisco in the 1970s about a leather body suit, with inserts of folk motifs. Special Report: Haute Couture: Mix-And-Match 2010-07-05T17:36:00Z

Ms. Kusaka approaches her medium with a Process artist’s deliberation, combining and recombining abstract motifs, marking techniques, pale glazes, clay bodies and vessel shapes with a consistent sparseness. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

This was no high school dance, though, unless the motif of hand over mouth was meant to represent teenage travails. Dance Review: Juilliard Students in ?New Dances? at Sharp Theater - Review 2011-12-16T22:41:32Z

“Assassin Beetle – The Dream Is Ending” loops through the motifs touched on earlier in the record, but traps them in a thick, eerie flow. The Flaming Lips Play Around with the Ender’s Game Score 2013-11-01T13:00:58Z

A wide array of dance motifs returns throughout the work: A tilting stance with hands meeting overhead becomes a classically statuesque image of withdrawn meditation. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Four Quartets’ Hits Poetic Heights 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

That opening motif seems to be plucked on the strings of an instrument that no human ever played, because in a way it is. The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Then she called out, a cappella, “And the heat goes on . . . and the heat goes on”—establishing the call-and-response motif that is the key to her interpretation of “Remain in Light.” A Brilliant Return for a Talking Heads Album 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Themes and motifs that echo across his books — survival, mortality, the perils of power and the possibility of rebirth — are amplified and refined. ‘The Bone Clocks’ Is David Mitchell’s Most Ambitious Novel 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

And in the other thematic galleries here, with such cheery themes as “Nocturnes” or “Sickness and Death,” we see Munch repeat motifs of regret and isolation over decades. Naked and Aflame or Considering Death, Munch Rarely Screamed 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The concluding passages quote, in a harmonically unconventional way, the motif from Beethoven’s song cycle “An die ferne Geliebte,” a theme that also appears in the Fantasy’s first movement and unifies the work. Review: Denes Varjon, a Hungarian Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

They may be right on some scores, since The Shining is full of things hidden in plain sight, like the recurring Native American motif. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-03-30T05:59:01Z

The meaning of the painting’s motifs and iconography are explored through works from Germany and the library. Long Before Twitter, Martin Luther Was a Media Pioneer 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

“The closet is natural, it’s the closest thing to man, because of what it conserves inside, various motifs tied to life,” he explained. The spirituality of Jannis Kounellis 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

That kind of predictability is practically a motif in “Squid Game,” so much so that it feels intentional. Haven’t Watched ‘Squid Game’? Here’s What You’re Not Missing. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Yet to apply platitudes such as épater la bourgeoisie as either a dominating motive or a defining motif of Roth’s work is to fall into undercooked language. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

This second rash of local murder from the 15th series of Midsomer finds its motif on the chessboard, taking its title from the Sicilian defence. TV highlights 09/01/2013 2013-01-08T20:00:01Z

Twirling feathers and colored lights are recurring motifs; wheels of all kinds are constants. Jean Tinguely’s Kinetic Sculptures at Gladstone Gallery 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

After a promising start, he wrote, Waugh abandoned his usual comic motif for a “mere romantic fantasy,” shot through with “shameless and rampant” snobbery and characters both “implausible and tiresome.” ?Brideshead Revisited,? 30 Years Later 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z

The image of an old coffee can, repurposed to contain a dozen-plus paint brushes, is one of the artist’s crowning motifs. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Over ghostly, circling piano motifs, the songs on “Weather Alive” meditate on longing and memory, connection and solitude, nature and time. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

He establishes patterns of motifs and notes, then alters them melodically and rhythmically over long stretches. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

This is not the only case of an “enginer hoist with his own petard,” as Shakespeare would put it; this becomes something of a motif in the novel. Inside the Mind of an Islamic Extremist 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Something of the angular, unnerving opening theme bears an uncanny resemblance to the upward, four-note motif that George Gershwin used for the words “I got rhythm.” Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The score shifts into a variation on “Hedwig’s Theme,” the motif — also composed by Mr. Williams — for the Potter films. Movie Trailers: ‘Rogue One,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and the Franchise Challenge 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Others, preferring more straightforward, recognizable patterns and vivid colors, have been critical of the design, saying the architecture isn’t Indigenous enough and should include motifs and shapes such as turtles or eagles. How an Indigenous Architect Came Out of His Shell 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

The work also includes a recurring motif of a paint can, which is meant to symbolize the Whitney’s intention of bringing art to its future location. Inside Art: The Whitney Heads for the High Line 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z

“If you look closely, it’s not just a seascape, ” she said recently, speaking via Skype from her Rio studio, “but parts of angels, and other historic Baroque motifs, all fragmented, reordered and turbulent.” Waves of Dark History Break on an Olympic Pool 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Rising runs and, soon, a persistent yet varying five-note motif keep spiraling forward. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

This is one of Mr. Morris’s most tightly woven compositions: it would take many viewings to analyze satisfactorily the repetitions and multiplications of its many motifs. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z

Fashion favorites Christopher Kane and Vivienne Westwood also drew inspiration from nature, playing with appliquéd motifs of buttercups, carnations and orchids, huge floral corsages and printed fabrics featuring traditional floral paintings. London designers step into spring with floral fashions 2013-09-17T13:20:43Z

They employ, but often tweak, traditional clothing, architecture and decorative motifs. Review | In the galleries: Contemporary images cast a striking new light on the Arab world 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The next night’s program explores folk motifs in music in works by Villa-Lobos, Stravinsky and others. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 30-Oct. 6 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

There is no Log Lady here, no easily mimicked motif of really good pie and over-sexualized teen girls. 'Fortitude' features polar bears and cold-blooded murder 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Magazines and their images are part of everyone’s childhood experience, but that’s especially the case with artists, who often mine them for motifs, materials and memories. Creators Inspired by Ebony and Jet 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

The poems, at times wry, sardonic and surrealistic, were set to musically eclectic gestures, like the agitated piano motifs accompanying Virginia Woolfe’s appearance in a fancy detox clinic alongside a “Liberace look-alike.” Music Review: ‘Pierrot Lunaire,’ at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-06-09T21:17:20Z

She had brought along boxfuls of her forebear’s work, representing his favorite motifs like buffaloes, elephants, snakes and panthers. Antiques: Giving a Craftsman His Due 2012-09-27T21:56:26Z

"Graphic motifs and engineered prints, rope and rickrack, pearls and macrame, mules and moccasins, structured and bohemian ease." A bigger, badder DKNY and black and white at Vera Wang 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The delicate motifs provide an intriguing contrast to the sculpture’s burly forms. In the galleries: Artist Francie Hester’s pieces show allure of the old

The marching-band pants and varsity stripe motifs were echoed in the men’s and women’s clothes. Gender Fluidity on the Runways 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

“Pre-Columbian Remix” includes work by four midcareer contemporary artists who borrow images, objects and motifs from the Incan, Aztec and Mayan peoples who lived in Mesoamerica before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. | Westchester: A Review of ‘Pre-Columbian Remix’ Exhibition, at the Neuberger Museum 2013-05-11T00:37:55Z

Traylor’s surfaces suggest an artist alive to every mark and line who placed his motifs with acute spatial wit. Art Review: Bill Traylor Finally Gets a Spotlight in New York 2013-07-04T23:46:01Z

What is it about psychedelic motifs that so inspires you? Samya Arif, a Pakistani Artist Aiming to Go Beyond Ornamentation 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Ofili’s fleeting motifs reveal themselves to include images, set amid tropical settings, of a hanged figure, soldiers brandishing bayonets, and a black man surrounded by white policemen. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

You may be wondering why swashbuckling outlaws like 18th-century pirates, most of whom lived in fear of capture, should have chosen to identify their ships with such distinctive motifs. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z

This is an exuberant rehearsal of various curses around the thief-of-the-heart motif. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z

From elevated extensions of successful collections such as Black Jade and Pois Moi, to intricate horticultural motifs adorning the Garden Collection, this season’s anthology features something for everyone. Roberto CoinVoice: Inside BaselWorld 2015: The Best From Roberto Coin 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

This jauntily mythic motif suggests the Norse equivalent of Northwest Coast art while also evoking the primordial modernism of Kandinsky, Klee and Marsden Hartley. Alexander Tovborg: ‘Eternal Feminine’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

There is no doubt that the powerful, oversize shapes and bold, often discomforting prints have become a motif of the house and have helped to bring Givenchy from polite to powerful. Lanvin Tops Summer 2013 Men’s Collections 2012-07-01T15:12:47Z

Without spoiling it, I’ll just say the resurrection motif gets stronger as it goes. Review | ‘The New Pope’ has all of the style but none of the substance that ‘The Young Pope’ had 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

While they all operate according to the same logic — high contrast, repeating, monochromatic patterns — their variety is astonishing, ranging from geometric motifs to organic textures to corporate logos. Turning the humble quilt into a powerful symbol of choice

Several of this style’s motifs — Klansmen included — would be reprised in late Guston. Philip Guston’s About-Face, in a Bracing Show at Hauser & Wirth 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

This tale of robots yearning to live like men is a motif soldered throughout the group’s multimedia career. Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories is Sleek, Bold 2013-05-22T14:35:33Z

See More » To provide alternatives to mass-manufactured goods in the early 1900s, European designers revived ancient and medieval motifs for handmade fabrics and furniture. A Buddhist Deity Returns to Boston 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

As Joanna Robinson of Vanity Fair points out, a major motif in the book that has been largely left out of the show is a blue rose. 10 Reasons Jon Snow and Daenerys Might End Up Together on Game of Thrones Even Though It’s Kind of Weird 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Music-making remains central to Stewart’s work, but it’s not the only motif of “Time Capsule,” a retrospective at Gallery Neptune & Brown. Review | In the galleries: ‘Time Capsule’ retrospective highlights jazz’s influence on Frank Stewart 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Linear looks included new Armani geometry, as in brief vests, narrow shirt collars, gingham checks and geometric motifs — all adding up to a collection with just that tiny fraction of idiosyncrasy. Special Report: Armani Sees the Light 2010-06-22T15:10:00Z

Yet, Hays Code or no, women who not only survived as outsiders but thrived remained the central motif of West’s work. Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sánchez sometimes gives Mexican cooking classes with a strong etymological motif. Smoke in the Mexican Food and Fire in the Mezcal 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

There is also a recurring motif of the newcomers in their monochromatic attire walking around Antelope, where they co-opted the government and much of the real estate. Review: On Netflix, a Wild Story of Guns, Sex and a Guru 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

“We took six different laces and we found different motifs on each,” she says. Exploring the Grace in Lace 2012-04-16T10:46:20Z

A few movement motifs were steadily recycled, but they also evolved, bringing new motifs into the mix. Dance Review: Symmetry, Motion and Divergent Aesthetics 2012-07-02T22:15:33Z

They form a quasi narrative, loosely linked by recurring, often Afro-centric, materials and motifs, in which race is the central concern, expanded by references to history, décor, personal identity and art. In ‘Fly Away,’ Rashid Johnson Keeps the Focus on Race 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Despite the hint in the title and the repeated suicide motif, neither critic seemed to get that Oblivion was even slightly about depression. The shadow over David Foster Wallace's The Pale King 2011-04-05T11:39:47Z

Ms. Akerman’s movies are unmistakably personal in the rigorousness of their formal design but also in their motifs, with each informing the other. Review: ‘No Home Movie,’ of Love and Melancholy 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The “door” panel at the bottom, the dragon motif along the sides, even the corners where fragments of brocade appear stitched together, their patterns not quite matching up—all of it is trompe l’oeil painting. ‘Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia’ Review: The Very Fabric of Asian Societies 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

It wasn't until two years later that the mystic-loving artist decided that his black square motif, which was "done unconsciously", was now an important work. Malevich: Master of the avant-garde 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

A repetitive major third played as a falling or rising interval is the insistent, jokey main motif of “Motormouth.” Ode to Meredith Monk From American Composers Orchestra 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

Every family has secrets, and often those secrets hide in plain sight — indeed, that motif is a mainstay of literature. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

For the elements of Gauguin's mystique are apparent enough: a portentousness of pose or motif, a figure catching one's eye with a look of grave interrogation, a woman foursquare and impassive as an oceanic statue. Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

Not unlike the hybrid works of the late Richard Artschwager, for whom baskets were also a prominent pictorial motif, these peculiar sculptures loosely suggest furniture. Elad Lassry turns to sculpture, but still asks the same question 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

For starters, the safari-themed jackets and khaki jumpsuits reflected not a style so much as the freedom to use those motifs in a less predictable way. Fashion Review: Milan Fashion Review: Prada, Versace, Etro, MaxMara 2012-09-21T23:37:54Z

Throughout, Adès marvelously distorts the Dies Irae motif that has been used throughout the history of Western music as death’s awful sound. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

He married vocals and motifs from Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” to a thunderous version of the “Stranger Things” theme in the lead-up to the second volume of the show’s fourth season. Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Miyake has taken inspiration from a variety of cultures and societal motifs, as well as everyday items — plastic, rattan, "washi" paper, jute, horsehair, foil, yarn, batik, indigo dyes, wiring. Tokyo museum exhibits Issey Miyake's constant innovations 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

They looked a little like cherry blossoms, which have long been a motif in her work. D.C. parking tickets are a scourge. This artist wants to turn them into something beautiful. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

It uses suitcases as a visual motif with the same aplomb that Seagull uses umbrellas. New Edinburgh act of the day: Idle Motion 2011-08-10T13:08:44Z

The motif of videotape static has been with the show since the beginning thanks to the opening credits, but it’s being deployed more and more in the narrative. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Destructive Secrets 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Blizzards of brushwork usually in shades of pink fill her surfaces, through which recognizable motifs and fragments are intermittently visible: animal forms, nude models, the windows of a studio. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

How does that banal motif accomplish these lofty goals? Children's book author Jon Klassen and the morally ambiguous universe of hats 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Surely the museum would deny it, but surfing celebrity taste is the exhibition's bland motif. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Borrowing aesthetic motifs from earlier art, like medieval and Renaissance painting, Ms. Bruguera’s tableau vivant asks you to “stop looking and start thinking” about politics, history and violence. 16 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

It’s an appropriate motif: you have to get on the train and keep riding no matter how odd it gets. Patriot: part Homeland-style fable, part stoner spy comedy 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Considerable differences separate the footed cup with geometrical motifs of a kind seen on painted pottery from Afghanistan and other bowls with animal figures wrought in the repoussé technique. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

But the show does include many pieces with similar motifs and a kindred style. In the galleries: Katrina and a tempest of symbols 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

And the showdown is a classic Western movie motif: facing off in the middle of the street — in this case a highway. 'Justified' Series Finale Recap: We Are Gonna End This 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

These worlds mimic, but are fantastically separated from, our realities just like a circus, one of Martin's motifs. Review: James Martin's weird, wondrous works at Foster/White 2011-02-17T21:33:15Z

And she wore clogs adorned with a quirky Fendi motif, a string of triangles resembling a row of chomping teeth. Fashion designers are extending their talents (and brands) to hotels 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Dylan posted the track on his website, employing a surprisingly delicate vocal on the hyper-romantic ballad based on a central musical motif from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Bob Dylan posts 'Full Moon & Empty Arms' track from new album 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Between these, Gavin Bryars explored repeating motifs in different surroundings in the gently ironic The Ride Cymbal and The Band That Caused the Fire in the Sycamore. Scottish Ensemble/Smith/Burgess/Brannick 2010-04-27T21:15:00Z

He sees the Roaring ’20s as a decadelong party in which hedonism undermined Prohibition, an era replicated in the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll motif that began in the ’60s. ‘American Fun’: diligent worker bees vs. party animals 2014-04-02T23:33:12Z

The circling becomes a motif, an apt representation of resistance, of minds in flight. Dance Review: ‘Summer’s Different,’ at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater 2013-04-30T21:02:54Z

The overlapping male bonds, the echoing motifs—a hand placed on a face, the older lover “holding back”—hint at Aciman’s formal ambition, as he drops hints about “destiny” and the looping nature of time. “Find Me” Is a Shallow Sequel to “Call Me By Your Name” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Munch painted several starry night motifs seen from Munch's veranda at Ekely, west Oslo. In Pictures: Edvard Munch exhibition 2012-06-27T07:25:37Z

On first listen, you hear some of the musical motifs that animate this multifaceted composer-lyricist, and in some vital ways, he has found rhythms to match the characters’ personalities and neuroses. Review | If you loved the movie ‘Tootsie,’ then you’ll be delighted with the new Broadway show 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

In one of my favorite sections, a series of jittery, rising two-note motifs convey the unsteady steps of the hikers as they traverse a glacier. Music Review: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Conducted by Semyon Bychkov 2012-10-15T22:03:59Z

The dress is a cotton candy cloud dotted with sequined strawberry motifs by Lirika Matoshi, 24, a fashion designer in New York. The Strawberry Dress That Ate TikTok 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

The first of the quartet’s two movements is fueled largely by a mere seven notes of Beethoven — a nervous, tapping motif that under Adams’s microscope squirms and spins off in endless aggressive, pulsating patterns. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

The designer said the clown motifs were influenced by Italian director Federico Fellini's film "The Clowns," and David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" video in which the singer is dressed as a clown. Feline frenzy meets Fellini on Gaultier's Paris catwalk 2013-07-03T19:38:43Z

Underpinning the piece is the impatient rhythmic motif from the scherzo of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Review: John Adams Wrestles the Ghosts of His Musical Fathers 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

The motif is almost hieroglyphic, repeated again and again. Luchita Hurtado: The Elusive Artist Portrays Herself 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

A recurring motif in “The Glorious Heresies” is the problem of the unintended or unwanted child conceived out of wedlock — “the Magdalene anguish,” as the author calls it. ‘The Glorious Heresies’: A nasty world of faith and vice in 21st-century Ireland 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

In Chinese history, Taoism was forever a work in progress and forever ready to integrate alien creeds and motifs. A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z

The zipper, sometimes tasseled, was the motif taken from the skiwear at the heart of Moncler and used to fasten the front of mini coats and dresses. Special Report: Fashion: From Down to Desert Madness 2010-10-05T17:55:00Z

But for many restaurants, integrating their menus, motifs and music is not a specific effort to drive sales or influence customer behavior, but to help create a larger brand identity. The sound of great food _ curated restaurant music 2012-06-01T14:27:14Z

High-style maritime details abound, including ceiling lights dangling from rigging ropes and floor tiles with an evocative wavy motif. Malibu Welcomes a Stylish New Restaurant to its Storied Coastline 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

They merged into ball and dot motifs on long coats and pant looks, with raised '30s hairstyles that evoked Katharine Hepburn. Actors and seamstresses the stars of Chanel's Paris couture 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

After prayers and Bible readings, the séance would begin and the women would collaboratively record their experiences in journals and in automatic drawings that include motifs later explored in af Klint’s “Paintings for the Temple.” In Search of Hilma af Klint, Who Upended Art History, But Left Few Traces 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

From its spacious opening, with the descending violin motifs that unfurled elegantly here, No. 39 is the most lighthearted of the three, its sunny character aptly revealed in this gracious rendition. Music Review: Louis Langrée Leads Mostly Mozart Festival’s Grand Finale 2013-08-25T19:36:27Z

He used these motifs and his wonderful voice to show us beauty.” ‘Thank You, Mr. Bowie. You Changed Our Lives.’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Thanks to often-descending melodic motifs and stark rhythmic eruptions, the work evoked some of the weightiness of its title, which references both the Book of Ezekiel and a William Blake poem. Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Most of “Double” is on that level; I hardly think of motifs while I watch the seamless mystery of the unfolding chain of events. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, patterned abstraction was the new motif — often geometric, sometimes derived from symbolic sources such as the Hebrew alphabet and occasionally alluding to nature. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Quakers from England preferred sunburst motifs on red backgrounds, while German Lutherans and Calvinists specialized in polka dots and stripes on black vessels. Antiques: Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman?s Legacy 2010-09-02T20:39:00Z

Two pieces are woven Kanga fabric whose motifs and hues are similar to those of the works on paper, some of which depict traditional foodways. Review | In the galleries: Many works in ‘Spring Solos’ form a chorus of concern for the environment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

On Aug. 3, at Northeast Auctions in Manchester, N.H., a metal filigree banner vane with arrow and snake motifs brought $5,400, and a spiky iron serpent encrusted with rust cost $9,800. Antiques: Meret Oppenheim’s Works at Martin-Gropius-Bau 2013-08-08T20:49:46Z

His repeated motifs of huddling parasitical lovers or bedside bereavement are looked at cinematically. This week's new exhibitions in pictures 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

“Other times a client will bring in a photograph they just took on their vacation in Spain, and we present them with a rug design that incorporates the motif.” Textile Design Showroom Studio Four NYC Expands 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Stripes pair well with fluid motifs, such as florals and chinoiserie, but they also work with busy geometric patterns. How to incorporate 7 popular patterns in your home, according to experts 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Other pieces feature fabric-like motifs that recall those of batik or, well, quilts. Review | In the galleries: Rejuvenating the obsolete into unconventional art 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

They seem inspired by tribal motifs — carvings, ceramics, textiles — but amp up such sources with bright, sometimes fluorescent colors. Art in Review: MARGRIT LEWCZUK: ?Art Work? 2010-12-02T22:13:00Z

Morris’s willingness to revisit compositions, techniques and motifs from earlier works betrays her rigorous and near-athletic dedication to honing her craft. Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

But you should know that fighting over kids is a recurring motif in the scripts of David Loucka, who wrote Dream House. Review of Dream House, starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz 2011-09-30T20:05:00Z

With its folk motifs, two spellbinding pas de deux and galvanizing group sections, “Violin Concerto” remains playful and soulful in startling ways. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

The British author J. G. Ballard is a central influence, in particular his recurring motif of “a figure who’s adapting their psychology to fit within a radically changing landscape,” Mr. Rivers said. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z

Similarly, many riddles rely on the same motifs, and once you start seeing a theme used one way, you can’t help seeing it again and again. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Trust and confidence are the motifs here, in a play that cautions against bankers promising "wealth without end". Caledonia 2010-08-22T14:41:00Z

But he zeroed in on the motif in the summer of 1889, after suffering a mental collapse and voluntarily entering the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

From a graphic diamond motif and a painterly polka dot to Robshaw’s signature elephants wearing gold and jewels, the collection features youthful riffs on his exotic-yet-refined classics. John Robshaw’s Eclectic Textiles Come to Uniqlo 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Carol added many motifs from her voluminous knowledge of the fey, vampires, and other mythological realms," says Slonimsky, who contributed "financial bits and pieces from my hedge fund manager background. Family romances: When relatives write together 2010-09-24T12:02:00Z

Built on familiar tropes and repeated melodic motifs, “Into the Woods” is deceptively welcoming; thanks to the 2014 movie and innumerable school performances, it is probably Sondheim’s best-known work. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

More important to her in “Maa” are the images of doors, gates, windows, water, journeys, remoteness and yearning: natural archetypes for an expatriate and by now familiar motifs in Ms. Saariaho’s works. Exploring the Magic of Seven 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z

He wanted to recreate the look, making it more luxurious in cashmere, and added the Fair Isle motif for a heritage feel. Front Row: How Cold Is It? Enough to Make Long Johns Stylish 2011-01-12T20:10:43Z

He defended himself by saying that all the repetitions were an act of memory – a continuous struggle with the motif – a continuing work of art. Edvard Munch: the ghosts of vampires and victims 2012-06-22T21:55:13Z

Taped on the keyboards are sound labels like “pour,” “cork,” “type” and “ding”; there are also keys that signal crowd noises from a bullfight, a major motif in Hemingway’s book and in the play. ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? and Its Sound Effects 2011-09-09T14:41:20Z

The Embassy of Argentina recently hosted an exhibition of mixed-media paintings with an arboreal motif. Eran Riklis’s latest film illuminates the experience of Israel’s Arab citizens 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The garden motif was in full effect, with greenery hanging over the tables. | MoMA Garden Party 2013-05-22T22:12:27Z

But really, that motif of the cleaver slicing through a Christmas tree bauble? Last night's TV: Christmas with Gordon; Come Dine with Me: Celebrity Christmas Special; Jimmy's Food Factory; Nigella Kitchen; Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers 2010-12-23T07:59:01Z

There was a Middle Eastern flavor to the opening of Ms. Beglarian’s “Far-Off Country,” with a keening motif in the cello that was repeated and subtly altered in increasing layers of sound. Music Review: Maya Beiser in ‘Elsewhere’ at BAM 2012-10-18T21:51:15Z

What's more, dialogue isn't Stew's strong suit, so it's a relief when the characters turn to song even if the songs don't so much advance the story as dilate on a motif. 'Family Album' confirms Stew and Rodewald's musical instincts 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

They include isolation, poverty, recurring visions — Bess said that he merely copied motifs that had appeared to him in dreams since childhood — and even self-mutilation. Critic?s Notebook: Forrest Bess Paintings at Christie?s and Whitney Biennial 2012-03-22T21:35:57Z

Although Lifetime recently announced a brand pivot, “Mary Kills People” nevertheless aligns with the channel’s classic “women in peril” motif without engaging in a mote of exploitation. “Mary Kills People”: An agile drama about the risky business of delivering a good death 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

The plunging motifs of Tomeka Reid’s “Volpaning” and the aggressive energy of its climax, seem to depict a flying object finding its preferred momentum only as its journey is concluding. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The melody rode above a stealthy pianistic motif that connected the song to the theme from James Bond movies. Music Review: Barbara Carroll Opens an Engagement at Birdland 2014-02-11T21:34:44Z

Like most of Mr. Morris’s works, all three of these have their own specific motifs: some are gestural and delivered with staccato mime-timing; others are dance steps or mini-phrases. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z

In one of the most striking motifs they rapidly fan their ring-bearing hands in front of their faces, simultaneously coy and attention grabbing. Dance Review | Keigwin & Company: At Joyce Theater, Pop Sensibility and Quirky Flair 2010-03-17T21:48:00Z

All feature variations on an enclosed, linear, somewhat hieroglyphic motif, usually rendered in thick black lines. Art In Review: CHUCK WEBSTER: ‘Paintings’ 2012-05-24T20:26:40Z

Other pirates added macabre motifs such as skeletons, daggers or spears. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z

Some of these tattoos are meant to serve as a reminder of the year gone by, depicting motifs around toilet paper shortages, social distancing and other pandemic-related messages. Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world — and also to colonialism 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

This was universally taken to be a sign, since Khan's hair had previously been styled around motifs of wilderness, madness, rebellion. Natasha Khan on still being 'badass' 2013-02-16T09:00:00Z

Questions about various recurring motifs that run throughout Prelude, as well as the Bounty series that followed, and the most recent videos for songs from her forthcoming Kin album, are all politely rebuffed. Ethereal girl 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

A telephone appears in her work as a recurring motif. 7 female artists you don’t know — but should 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Throughout the ballet, the music is the chief element of interest, as it weaves together the folk and classical sequences and Hungarian motifs with great feeling and invention. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ comes slowly to life 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Instead, they said, “the photograph evokes themes of greed, innocence and the motif of the cherub in Western art.” Lawsuit Accusing Nirvana of Sexually Exploitive Imagery Is Dismissed 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

From the beginning, it silently establishes a predominant visual motif: photographic portraits of African-Americans, singly and in groups small and large, in fields, yards and forest clearings, on church lawns, school steps and front porches. Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Many muralists, especially women, have incorporated motifs from Rohingya textiles and other traditional crafts into their work, from henna and embroidery patterns to images of elephants and other animals that recall woodworking artisanry. For Rohingya Survivors, Art Bears Witness 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

From a distance, the pictures center on simple, curving and sometimes overlapping motifs that suggest those in the paintings of noted local artist Steve Cushner. Review | In the galleries: Studies in ‘anti-landscapes’ and seeing the unseen 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

The ambitious piece spins on six imagined myths, each with a Jungian, divine/demonic feminine motif. Review: Dance piece, offbeat comedy are horses of a different color 2011-05-18T20:16:05Z

In a handsome production by Christopher D. Betts, all of it takes place on a grassy expanse stretching into the distance, with a spiritual, “Fare Ye Well,” as a solacing aural motif. ‘In the Southern Breeze’ Review: A Dark Night of the Soul 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The equivalent improvisation at Bargemusic was more insistently rhythmic and spiky, driven by an invention-like motif that popped up everywhere and led to beautiful flights of harmony and some restless, agitated episodes. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

This motif appears in two of the Chinese melodies on the Guinness box. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z

Work is an important motif that he returns to repeatedly. ‘Scarlet’ Review: A Father and Daughter Endure 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

In this case, Stravinsky’s influences were Russian folk tunes and motifs, revealed here in a beautiful and effective presentation that was almost like a musical pageant. Seattle Symphony gets thunderous applause performing a piece that caused a riot years ago 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Webster puts his motif through its paces, milking it for various associations, exploring different figure-ground relationships and adjusting paint handling, color and spatial depth, always guided by a generous, enlarging impulse. Art In Review: CHUCK WEBSTER: ‘Paintings’ 2012-05-24T20:26:40Z

But Walker’s signature feel for contrast — including alternations between motifs that ring out and peremptory chordal bursts — is still evident. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Delores' "I need my pain" motif echoes the much maligned Star Trek V. And speaking of echoes, that discourse on pain has me even more convinced that Bernard is some sort of uber-host. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

How do we think about the motif of this European fantasy and what it says about race, and politics and gender in this moment with the rise of Trump and the so-called "alt-right"? "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

So the same motif represents an exotic father in each opera. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z

With consummate vitality the assorted motifs of the gouaches and the fabrics variously revisit, amplify and presage much of the history of modern painting. Art Review: Swatches Illuminate a Painter?s Other Art 2011-03-17T22:16:56Z

Denim decorated with patchworks and native American motifs gave way to velvet trousers with intricate crystal decorations and suede embroidered with roses. Patchworks and denim in Cavalli's Milan show journey 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Takashi Murakami rocketed to international fame in the art world for his Pop Japanese anime-inspired characters and motifs that proliferate playfully and menacingly across paintings, sculptures and a line of commercial products. Takashi Murakami Teams With a Professor to Explore the Historical 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

There are waltz motifs, naturally, but there are others too, such as intricate midlift footwork bestowed on two leading women. 'Merry Widow' by turns intoxicating and flat in romantic outing 2011-02-17T14:49:00Z

But I find that his personal life and behind the camera activity is reflected in the morality, the themes and the motifs — and all facets of his persona — in his films. Chris Kyle is a stand-in for Clint: The author of Eastwood’s controversial biography on his new edition, including “American Sniper” and more 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

The most charming was “Juno,” which Mr. Fleck named after his young son, a two-note melodic motif with a series of playful modulations. Chick Corea and Béla Fleck, Reveling in Their High-Wire Interplay 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

We get motifs instead, grist for a dozen stimulating term papers: the inheritance of historical trauma, the unresolved repercussions of Partition, vivid examples of Bakhtin’s theory of the carnival. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

On Sunday only, from 2 to 4 p.m., they can also make silk-screen prints with holiday motifs. For Children Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Steele also incorporates bits of text and blocks of color, either atop the drawn motifs or adjacent to them. In the galleries: Collaged drawings that zig and zag at Adah Rose

One of the great motifs of the ancients was that the gods were just as, uh, human, as the rest of us. Video Game Review | God of War III: In ?God of War III? Spartan Soldier Battles Zeus 2010-03-29T22:24:00Z

It's hard to know where to look first, so busily sumptuous are the motifs designed by Giovanni da Udine, a student of Raphael. 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

In the first scene, a chimpanzee goes berserk on the set of a sitcom, a moment of absurd, bloody terror that becomes a motif and a thematic key. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

The Lodge is outfitted to look like its namesake, with barrels, wood motif and taxidermy. The Lodge Sports Grille in Kirkland boasts 56 beers on tap 2012-10-02T21:18:04Z

In the plant’s administration building, arched doorways, dentil molding and detailing in the classic egg-and-dart motif remain. Meet the latest tourist attractions: Abandoned factories 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Selected from 100 works that the artist made at the rate of nearly one per day for four months, the pieces in the show exhibit recurring motifs of a meditative, almost devotional quality. Matthew Ronay: ‘Wavelength’ 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Three manuscripts here display a common Christian motif in 15th-century Italy: the Virgin with a unicorn on her lap, defending it from a hunter. Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z

The production was especially effective at establishing moods and atmospheres, and carrying through motifs like mirrors and shadows. Review: 3-D Enhances An Enigmatic New Opera 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Her story introduces a motif that runs throughout “Glassworks” — the split self. A Sweeping Family Saga of Breaking and Mending 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dundas, in one example, showed a butterfly motif on several dresses, as a print and an embroidery. Front Row: Resort Collections Offer Peek at September Shows 2012-06-13T16:25:21Z

If some of the main motifs sounded a bit simplistic, it didn't take long before Mazurek and friends transformed them with considerable melodic variation and harmonic complexity. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z

Yet it turned out that endless jiggling was not the key motif of the two global stars known for fine control of their hindquarters. Review | J-Lo and Shakira shake off boundaries, put on a ferocious master dance class at the Super Bowl 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

The motifs of nature that Smiley has so carefully constructed are in clear danger from capitalism run amok. ‘Golden Age’ review: Jane Smiley brings America into the age of terror 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Ritual objects from North Africa and the Middle East have motifs of Moorish arches and domed pillars that resemble minarets and mosque interiors. Showcasing Jewish Antiques and Their Stories 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

As for patterns and motifs, there will be examples of log cabin, wedding ring, Hawaiian flag and Dresden plate, and a few examples of crazy, including equestrian crazy and crazy patch. The Week Ahead: May 8 ? 14 2011-05-06T19:26:23Z

As it happened, the designer was considering a floral motif for her dress for this year’s Met gala, which celebrated camp in fashion. A Designer Who Makes Impossibly Lifelike Flowers From Everyday Materials 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

On his CD the piece “Pegasus” is scored for quartet and wind ensemble, opening with a delicate searching motif in the piano. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Trills and brushy arpeggiated motifs conjure the Bach suites at the center of the cello’s repertory, as the solo line goes back and forth from anxiously repetitive riffs to serene, expansive lyricism. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

The design makes a clear effort to steer clear of classical references — or any recognizably European motifs, for that matter. Design for Obama library and museum off to surprisingly somber start 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The novelist Rick Moody, an eminent Sebaldian — owing to both his love of Sebald’s work and his own similarly melancholy tendencies — displays a chart of the book’s interlocking motifs. Movie Review: ?Patience (After Sebald),? a Documentary 2012-05-08T22:32:23Z

It didn’t take long to spot some common motifs: finger-shapes that formed no hands, faucets that had no pipes and machines that could do no work. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z

Fans will recognize some of the motifs here — cats, wind, strong women — as well as her exploration of the intersection between soul and body, the knowable and the unknown. Review | Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poems and other best collections to read this month 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Instead, he takes Parker riffs and motifs and uses them as thematic cells. Review: ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ Uses Opera to Tell a Jazz Story 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

But the lyrical feeling of Smith’s motifs was also immediately identifiable. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The musicians highlighted the mysterious and brooding character of the first movement, which opens with a questioning cello motif. Music Review: London Haydn Quartet Brings Its Gut Strings to the Morgan 2014-01-22T20:26:03Z

Composer Alexandre Desplat really gets a workout here, dexterously blanketing the film with ever-changing tempos and motifs to suit the moment and propel the action. Review: 'Guardians' a lively 3-D storybook spree 2012-11-19T22:31:05Z

Octopuses, famously brainy, are a frequent motif of Ms. von Bonin’s, and the stuffed one here is composed of a dozen fabrics, from floral patterns to neon-printed flags acquired in Japan. ‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Between them, Mr. Schnabel’s vibrant “Hope,” from 1982, conjures a diffuse existential unease grounded in European motifs. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Insistent themes resurfaced throughout the tranquil, arresting work, with delicate, ephemeral motifs repeated with increasing intensity, until a fiery outburst shattered the serenity. Music Review: Contemporary Solo Piano Music at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-05-31T19:17:00Z

The repetition of small, bashful musical motifs and pious invocations of noble sentiments created a lulling haze that dissolved any potential message about the common experience of national identity. Review: Pérotin and Lang, 800 Years Apart, at Trinity Church 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The strings continue their unspooling, repeating motif as the harmonies transform, sometimes taking on a touch of tang, sometimes shadowed by a dark cloud of dissonance. Review: Traces of Anachronism in an All-Steve Reich Evening 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

They also easily conflate European, Japanese, Southeast Asian and Mesoamerican motifs, which Gauguin would have studied/stolen from new photographic reproductions as well as colonial expositions. Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

The dining room is quietly and unobtrusively stylish, blending a midcentury look with East Asian motifs. Cha Kee Is a Beacon in Chinatown’s Revival 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

It will be the same for Piers Atkinson’s giant cherry motif. Hat Makers With Attitude 2011-10-03T18:23:15Z

And that motif fits cozily with the obvious theme of the power the outsider, the oddball and the stray possess if they only realize it’s there. ‘Extraordinary’ Review: The Power of Powerlessness 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

This show worked because he recognized an opportunity to exaggerate the motifs, even parody them, rather than merely borrow a bit of Chinese texture. Fashion Review: Jason Wu, Peter Som, Richard Chai, Kimberly Ovitz - Review 2012-02-11T00:19:47Z

But even here the musicians took care to highlight little unsettling details, like the motif in the first movement that sounds like a startled bird. Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan Balance Power and Nuance at Zankel Hall 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Some of the motifs — for example, a stride while shaking the head from side to side — are eminently resistible. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z

One of her recurring motifs is snakes with human breasts. The Origin Story of the Depressingly Good “BoJack Horseman” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The idea of studying one motif under changing conditions was something Monet used again in his other series showing Rouen Cathedral and haystacks. A sublime trio 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z

True, the choreography reiterates motifs to the point of shtick. Dance Review: Kaplow?s Farewell at New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T22:14:00Z