The backdrop is a row of Christmas trees flanked by a cardboard menorah and a Kwanzaa candle set. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Enormous screens stretching from floor to ceiling line the walls, as well as the backdrop of the main stage, rotating through an animatic of each Warcross team. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We looked like a cult on our way to the beach, where Mom was convinced we’d find the perfect backdrop somewhere among the dunes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sahil was immediately drawn to a cyclorama—a curved backdrop—of a landscape that had a moon painted on it that looked like it was screaming. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Raising his chin toward the backdrop, he said, “So, you want to check that out?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I get to the top, Hilda is posing for Angela, who is taking pictures with the miles and miles of rolling green hills as the backdrop. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Tall, heavy white drapes cover the backdrop of the entire stage, which is ready with microphones, three music stands, and a black baby-grand piano. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I point at the drawing behind her, a beautiful picture of lungs, flowers pouring out of the inside, a backdrop of stars behind them. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A different, more ominous-looking forest backdrop had been unfurled, and an actor dressed as a young girl in red cape and hood entered, carrying a basket. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In their expeditions, Tally and Peris had always stuck to the waterfront, where vegetation and the dark backdrop of Uglyville made it easy to hide. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The London Eye managers have fixed a camera into position, so that a good shot of everyone is possible against a backdrop of Big Ben. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generose pressed Play on the VCR, and the screen came to life with the blurry images of a Catholic choir from Congo, singing hymns outdoors against changing backdrops of mountains and green forests. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Global news commentaries now became the backdrop in my room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baker Stream was really a river—broad, clear, and shallow—and very beautiful in the glow of a summery evening, with a backdrop of overhanging trees and the last rays of sunlight sparkling its surface. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jackson would provide a ladder to set up behind the backdrop for Charlotte to appear from above. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The band of reporters reassembled at the front gate, and I watched the attractive newscasters flipping their hair and fastening microphones to their collars, using the backdrop of the Dakota for their on-air reports. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The countryside becomes breathtakingly beautiful, rolling hills dotted with outcroppings of limestone rock against the backdrop of the Nan Ling Mountains. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A stool posed in front of a backdrop painted with shades of swirling gray. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It shows Sciola standing, gaunt and Dantesque, against a black backdrop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s way more nerve-wracking for gymnasts to perform our death-defying routines against a backdrop of silence. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Earth is our moving platform from which we observe the motion of the other planets against the backdrop of distant constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was a way bigger gift than this backdrop even was. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It is critical to note that Washington's crusade took place against a backdrop of terror and intimidation in which the genocide of black people in America appeared a very real possibility. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, it was time to get to work painting the main backdrop for the play. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The New Palace arched across it, as fantastical as a painted backdrop in a fairy play. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Not only her eyes and all her senses but also inanimate things seemed to exist because of him, backdrops to his presence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And with that, he vanished completely, leaving behind him nothing but his murky backdrop. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had been the backdrop for a thousand imagined battles—between demons and wizards, fairies and goons, trolls and giants. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Photographic blowups of Fischer and Spassky adorned the windows of almost every shop, with black-and-white checkered displays serving as backdrops for huge papier-mâché chess pieces. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like the painted backdrop to a movie, not like anything real. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday, these weapons might be used in war, but now they only served as the backdrop for a waking nightmare. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had been imagining the scene of a crime, a Gothic cathedral, whose flamboyant vaulting would be flooded with brazen light of scarlet and indigo from a stained-glass backdrop of lurid suffering. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Everything else is a faded backdrop to that. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Indeed, against the backdrop of scientific endeavour and machine-like precision there was a very human emotion that enriched every note of Handel’s solo arias in opera and oratorio: compassion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He saw, again, the red cloth spinning against the backdrop of gold. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

As we pulled in, crowds of butterflies burst into the air, swirling and settling in flecks of color against a backdrop of vivid green. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This is perfect,” I said, and I wasn’t just talking about the backdrop. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few hundred yards beyond the summit was a campsite with a wooden shelter in a big grassy clearing against a backdrop of dark trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I went down the back steps and out the basement door, then over to Commons—its red brick facade flat as a stage backdrop against the empty sky—and called Henry from the pay phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I tucked it behind my ear, blinked, and slowly swiveled, the carousel music creating a perfectly surreal, magical backdrop. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the screen is a school portrait, a blue backdrop with an American flag on one side. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This became the backdrop for the montage of nostalgic childhood memories that played in my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller’s use of the phrase Black Power—against this backdrop of contention and violence—stirred a hornet’s nest in both the white and black communities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s trolling for government funds took place against the backdrop of a fierce battle in Washington over legislation to bring atomic energy under civilian control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Before them was a forest, or rather a painted backdrop of a forest, but a convincing one. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The Bureau employees move the camera in closer, so that the Hancock building is just a black backdrop behind Marcus’s and Johanna’s torsos. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And there in front of me was the backdrop. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A tune similar to the one from her living room, preaching “lean on the Lord,” filled the car, this one with a creepy organ backdrop. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t, because I was unable to distinguish between the fictional story and the factual backdrop. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sit down on the small stool in front of the backdrop. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Among all that stagey scenery, too beautiful, like a cardboard movie backdrop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was the backdrop to the night on which the city council was to vote on forming a Human Relations Commission. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us was a huge backdrop of the Red Planet, Mars. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Adele was married on a hilltop, with a view of Kigali stretching out below, a stunning backdrop of red roofs and green hills. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Their names whole and vibrant against the backdrop of black sadness. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I said, “Set against the backdrop of America in its final days, it’s the high-spirited story of their love together, it’s laugh-out-loud funny, really heartwarming, and a visual feast.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were in those seats, you could see the play’s set and backdrop through an increasingly translucent man shape. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, the US Supreme Court took scarcely any time to reach its decision on Buck v. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Against the stage’s backdrop is a towering screen with an ice-blue dragon’s head breaking out through it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Grover stood framed in the doorway against a backdrop of pouring rain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’d taken a picture of an ancient redwood tree standing solemnly against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Over it hangs a glossy painting called Three Oaks with three trees floating in the air against a yellow backdrop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Here, the mountains and woods were just backdrop—familiar, known, nearby, but no more consequential or noticed than the clouds that scudded across their ridgelines. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

George climbed up the ladder to appear above the backdrop, in full view of the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The morning sun lit the island like a painted backdrop from an old Hollywood movie, all greens and golds, pinks and blues. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He could just make out her small red figure against the backdrop of gray sky. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the pictures, we had a simple white screen for a backdrop, and people could sit or stand for their portrait, whatever made them feel comfortable. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone agreed that it would be a fitting, middle-of-America backdrop for what we hoped would be a different kind of campaign—one led from the ground up, largely by people new to the political process. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was made from two flat bedsheets sewn together, and would be their backdrop. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was still aflame, only now against a backdrop of Illinois shanties. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was, for instance, a photo of two young women posed before a not-terribly-convincing painted backdrop of the ocean. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

What happens if it can’t be fixed isn’t clear.They can’t play a scene in what is meant to be a school locker room against a backdrop that looks like a living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dri pointed to a shadow against a backdrop of moonlit water, but by now I had found Stef too, by her screaming. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon enough there will be sorting and dispersing, but now it’s the museum backdrop for the exhibition of grief. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was talking about the curved backdrop with the evil moon. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For he recognized that Jackson Park had something no other city in the world could equal: the spreading blue plain of Lake Michigan, as comely a backdrop for a fair as anyone could hope for. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The backdrop is a brightening sky with flamelike streaks bursting from the sunrise. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It shows the river rolling lazily between meadowy fields dotted with trees and farms, against a distant backdrop of sere hills, notched with a V where the river passes through. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

To add to the confusion, there were all the new properties and painted backdrops our hired men had constructed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He clearly didn’t want to talk about it, and I didn’t want to be the Titanic, so I nodded and walked up to the backdrop. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, diversity-driven affirmative action programs seem to be the epitome of racial justice purchased on the cheap. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You can do the lighting. You can paint the backdrops.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The set was styled after a New England farmhouse, with mock Shaker furniture and antique farm equipment, pitchforks and so forth, hanging from the clapboard backdrop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But already our supplies from home seem to represent a bygone world: they stand out like bright party favors here in our Congolese house, set against a backdrop of mostly all mud-colored things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cottonwoods along the river stood out like pillars against the gray backdrop of the sky, their white bark shining in the sudden sun. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The road rose again, to a scene like a painted backdrop. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out a postcard of a moose against an autumn leaf backdrop and used the field guide as a table. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The May 31 discussion unfolded against that backdrop. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of the mountains, they seem out of place, a little shrunken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Racism existed as a backdrop to our relationship, and I did not want to experience the humiliation of being rejected because I was black. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Once again Dicey was surprised to see the backdrop of water that lay at its foot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landing capsule was still in the planning stages, but there was a lot of backdrop to be painted: midnight blue with silver stars and Earth glowing in the distance. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Behind them was the backdrop of dark woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Momma stepped out of the truck with dusk as a backdrop. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the backdrop: Buck’s Peak was theirs and it camouflaged them, so that when I saw them there, surrounded by the loud, sharp relics of my childhood, the setting seemed to absorb them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His last election night was on the wide-open stretch of Zilker Park, against the backdrop of the Austin skyline. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I see my friend against a backdrop of green. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Sinking Sand,” produced by locals from Savannah and Georgia, is a suspense thriller set against the backdrop of Savannah. Savannah back in Hollywood spotlight 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

The 1930s Spanish Civil War forms the backdrop for her new novel, in which a pregnant young widow named Roser reluctantly marries an army doctor who’s also the brother of her dead love. The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

The town, the second largest in Crete with 57,000 inhabitants, instantly charms with its alleyways, mountainous backdrop and ocean views. Goodbye Summer: Off-Peak Crete 2011-02-03T14:15:00Z

The current pandemic has provided him with the perfect backdrop, offering so many echoes of an earlier apocalypse. ‘It’s a Sin’: Sex, Adventure and Loss in 1980s London 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Instead of philosophical and cinematic ambition, there is a diverting, somewhat familiar story about friendship, loyalty and competition set against a picturesque animated backdrop. ‘Luca’ Review: Calamari by Your Name 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

These images are often taken against a backdrop of coercion and the threat of distributing them is a means of control. ‘There’s no end and no escape. You feel so, so exposed’: life as a victim of revenge porn 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” with its soft pastels and spacious backdrops, is a virtual meme generator. Good News for MTV’s V.M.A.s: Music Videos Matter Again 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Big Little Lies, a show with the roaring backdrop of the Pacific Ocean, has always been about what lurks beneath still waters. Big Little Lies: has season two really been a screaming great flop? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

Brick on the wall serves as an ideal backdrop for the hood's patina. 20 Idea House Kitchens 2010-03-04T02:03:00Z

Pipian is the shyest, with a backdrop of pumpkin seeds, a few workhorse serranos and jalapeños, and a faint trace of licorice from yerba santa. Hungry City: La Morada in the South Bronx 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Most often, what mobile devices seem to inspire is a desire to position dancers against the backdrops of many places. The Next Wave of Dance Films, Made on Your Phone, Is Here 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

But, when they finally showed me the footage, I instantly recognized the backdrop for Sly and thought, “Oh God, this really did happen.” With ‘Summer of Soul,’ Questlove Wants to Fill a Cultural Void 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

The most obvious way to look at the Chanel show, with its backdrop of a modern cityscape framed by a decrepit Paris theater and Mr. Lagerfeld’s clever 3-D embroideries, is as a pre-emptive strike. Fashion Review: Review of Couture Fashion Week: Raf Simons, Dior, Versace and More 2013-07-03T19:39:15Z

It’s also a major departure from the Greek columns that formed the backdrop for Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Design for Obama library and museum off to surprisingly somber start 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Bernal likes to choose films with a strong political message – his last project was Jon Stewart’s Rosewater –and here, the backdrop is land grabbing and the exploitation of the jungle for commercial gain. Gael García Bernal: ‘I feel hopeful and naively optimistic for the future’ 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

However, I don't think it's about a 'native' stereotype, but tapping into the cultural, spiritual backdrop that Mexico offers. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

She transitioned to "Revolver," as she and her background dancers held guns and bullets appeared on the backdrop. Madonna to US fans: Appreciate your freedom 2012-08-29T09:46:03Z

The visuals are striking against the backdrop of Paige Hathaway’s clean, pale set, composed of slightly askew building blocks that suggest both the playfulness of a child and the geometric mind of a mathematician. Review | ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is up to some new and mesmerizing tricks 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing, a chant that sounds like no, no. Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

“It’s important that these African-American characters are not always seen as scenery, or the backdrop to somebody else’s life,” she said. ‘Mockingbird’ Opens on Broadway 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

They picked out swimsuits, posed alongside a scenic backdrop of trees and waterfalls — and one woman, Victoria Fuller, was chosen to adorn the magazine’s March cover. Cosmopolitan Changes Course on ‘Bachelor’ Contestant Cover 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

That said, it’s brilliant how good and evil intertwine in Saul and Dar Adal’s final dance this season, set against a backdrop of ambient inauthenticity so complete that even the black ops specialist feels betrayed. 'Homeland' Recap: In the Finale, Carrie's Suburban Fantasy Is Dashed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Not the harsh social landscape of modern Britain — which functions as a convenient, familiar backdrop rather than a fully imagined environment — so much as Mr. Considine’s wearying reliance on the link between misery and authenticity. | 'Tyrannosaur': ?Tyrannosaur? With Peter Mullan - Review 2011-11-17T22:48:28Z

A walking bass line, and then a swinging jazz trio, give Belafonte a backdrop for brash, syncopated, trumpet-like phrasing. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Such works once served as backdrops for Pardeh-Khani, performances in which narrators told stories depicted in the canvases. Shoja Azari Puts New Faces on Islamic History 2010-05-20T20:28:00Z

And he shared his thoughts on the backdrop of the confessionals, which now bathe the women in amber light. Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

It’s perched on a hill overlooking the concrete sprawl of today’s Plovdiv, with the green backdrop of the Rodopi Mountains. Next Stop: In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Roman Grandeur East of Italy 2012-10-12T18:41:24Z

Indian families tucked into naan and curry in the restaurant while tourists of other nationalities took photos against the backdrop of the facade of St Paul's, a Jesuit church that burnt down in 1835. Casino hub Macau shows all its cards, from egg tarts to fireworks, to draw tourists 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

But a few months later, they were chosen as the backdrop for a rather different event: the auction of Finley’s slaves. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of Haiti’s natural beauty, Ms. Irving witnessed political turmoil and lived through her family’s own strife. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Missionary’s Daughter in Haiti 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

The backdrops for the food at Nasime reflect a chef who likes to collect beautiful objects. Review | At Nasime, an intimate dining room delivers big personality 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Muñoz describes the album as a “rite of passage” and imagines Cuco’s base playing the joltingly vulnerable songs in the backdrop of their lives. Cuco went from nerdy kid to indie-music hero — and shattered Latino stereotypes in the process 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

The desired image, projected against a backdrop of veldt and dust, is always one of determined respectability. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review 2013-03-22T09:01:01Z

And I loved standing at his upstairs vantage point, where I could so easily make out the Alpilles hills that are the backdrop of most of his landscapes from that time. An art lover’s Impressionist video trip to Provence and the Riviera 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of haunting, pianissimo strings, which move at a glacial pace, Mr. Rouse imposes short bursts of fast, angular flute figures, darkly mysterious contributions from lower-lying woodwinds, and sudden bursts of fortissimo brass. 2010-02-11T23:34:00Z

We ordered an assortment of food and drinks to enjoy on the batela, with the sunset and a half-dozen other rowboats filled with imbibing Venetians as our backdrop. In Venice, Navigating Like a Native 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The color schemes, which often pit pink, red or yellow highlights against black or dark green backdrops, suggest fall foliage. Review | In the galleries: The grid is the primary motif but subject to subtle change 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

She was in a white blouse, her long hair woven into a braid, her outlines crisp against a summery backdrop of green foliage. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Lower Dens plays against a backdrop of black clouds, the rain having passed--for now. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z

In one of his pictures, a stack of cutdown trees and a couple of rusted-out cars provide a backdrop for a few men who seem almost as worn down. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

"The Descendants," from Alexander Payne who directed the Oscar-winning "Sideways," brings a familiar blend of comedy and tragedy set this time against a Hawaiian backdrop. Toronto film fest builds buzz, but business is off 2011-09-13T19:17:04Z

At one point, I reach out and touch an empty brick wall to remind myself that the physical world exists not just as a container or a backdrop. Perspective | Welcome to the metaverse, where the art is virtual but the headache is real 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

King, 48, also said she’d love to act in love story with the backdrop being World War II or another historic event. Outtakes: Regina King on white lies, directing and ‘227’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Its backdrop was a two-story wall of lights, constructed from recycled water bottles, that flickered with geometric patterns as if enclosing the band within cybernetic space. Critic’s Notebook: Bonnaroo Festival, With Radiohead, Phish and D’Angelo 2012-06-11T22:47:19Z

“I agree. The stunning picture against an iconic backdrop,” another lamented. Tourist searching for people in 'historic' Notre Dame Cathedral photo taken one hour before fire 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Unlike many `60s period films, the decade's historical events are a backdrop, not the foreground. After 'The Sopranos,' a bigger screen for Chase 2012-12-17T19:26:08Z

With the studio portraits, he liked to alter the backdrops by changing the set, either replacing the décor in a sitting room or inserting a new surrounding by combining two negatives. A Landmark Photo Archive of Black Life in New York Comes to the Met 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Gordon Parks shot more than 200 performers in front of the brownstone that was the backdrop for the 1958 picture “A Great Day in Harlem,” in which photographer Art Kane memorialized 57 jazz greats. Perspective | Nicki Minaj and a stack of pancakes? These rare images capture another side to hip-hop. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

With the river as a backdrop, Modern Woodmen Park is arguably the prettiest modernized ballpark in all of professional baseball. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z

Start with a warm gray backdrop that complements taupe and beige furniture. House Calls: From an ascetic to aesthetic master bedroom

Rather than surround a crib, though, the simulated sky is the backdrop for an array of tiny abstract canvases. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Upstairs is given over to white outfits against a white backdrop. Style: Rodarte Steps Up to a Widening World 2011-03-31T00:29:42Z

It’s a story that unfolded against one of the most dramatic backdrops in history. Review: ‘Looking for “The Stranger,”’ the Making of an Existential Masterpiece 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Ken Laser’s backdrop, a green curtain draped over a black wall, looked hastily assembled. Dance Review: ‘Vestigal,’ by the Wendy Osserman Dance Company 2014-04-01T22:40:01Z

Yet here, amid this curious scene, are hints of backdrops that are altogether more beguiling. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z

Schrader’s unmoving camera captures a man quietly thinking, writing in his journal and embarking on thoughtful conversations with parishioners and colleagues, against a spare backdrop of echoing rooms and wintry countryside. ‘First Reformed’ will shock you. Thank God for that. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

A city’s urban history as a backdrop for social unrest. Roundup: Dallas urbanism and the shootings, a graffitist apologizes, essays on gentrification 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The performance wears everything on its sleeve: Stagehands conspicuously walk set pieces such as movie theater seats and wobbly cutout palm trees into place, and backdrops are noisily unfurled. Classic antics of ‘Laugh’ an uphill climb in Beth Henley’s latest 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The music felt intentionally wan, a sparse backdrop for Mr. Merritt’s lyrical convolution. Music Review | Magnetic Fields: A Folksy Palette of Despondency at Town Hall 2010-03-11T23:10:00Z

The result is a series of Etch-A-Sketch-like patterns, printed on paper or brushed silver and set off by bright, single-color backdrops. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’

The close of summer lends both a backdrop and a metaphor to Jason Aldean’s new single, in strong rotation on country radio. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Returns Lovelorn, and Zack de la Rocha Returns Furious 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Seen in silhouette against the backdrop of a full moon, a man is stabbing someone already slumped in his arms. Review | Jacqueline Winspear’s latest novel reminds us why we love Maisie Dobbs 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The color exploding at Issey Miyake was as shimmering as the mirrored backdrop and even more dramatic when flame red licked at coal black, as though a volcanic explosion were taking place on the runway. Fashion Review: Raf Simons and the Heart of Art 2014-01-16T15:13:02Z

As a backdrop, no detail has been ignored. Review | A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

The rugged terrain of China’s Tibetan areas forms the backdrop for two of the country’s three competitors: “De Lan,” by the director Liu Jie, and “Soul on a String,” by Zhang Yang. Tibet Stands Out in China’s Entries at Shanghai International Film Festival 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Gourmet food proved to be the new rock ’n’roll at a weekend festival in London where 10 acclaimed chefs, three of whom hold Michelin stars, demonstrated their culinary prowess against a backdrop of live music. Chefs take spotlight at London debut music-and-food fest 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

With dramatic jungle and volcanic backdrops, the property features 11 luxurious bure, or bungalows, built from natural materials using traditional techniques and decorated in indigenous style. Fiji's Rainbow Reef 2011-06-30T08:55:00Z

Privilege, boredom and murder set against the southern gothic backdrop of rural Alabama are the elements of the latest and hotly anticipated podcast series, S-Town. Alabama murder mystery could be the new Serial 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Playing music in the presence of Moki’s creations revealed to Drake that they were beyond mere cover art or concert backdrop. Don Cherry is a deserving giant of jazz. Now his wife, Moki, gets her due as his visionary collaborator. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Letters From the Big Man” started as a broader story that played out against the backdrop of the controversial salvage logging operation that followed a devastating wildfire in 2002. ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z

Against this backdrop, the desire for a big, bold, new cultural tourism strategy that would help develop those parts of the island most suffering, creating jobs and boosting takings in the process, is growing. A few miles from the caviar coast, the 'real' Sardinia sings a sad song of lost opportunity 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Worse, for much of the night he confines the action to a small area in front of the ugly backdrop, and Oram's dull-toned period costumes blend into the set. Review: One dull `Don Giovanni' replaces another 2011-10-14T19:06:15Z

Meanwhile, William McKinley High seems a far more interesting backdrop to hear the songs of Katy Perry and Bruno Mars. Let's stop this Top of the Pops revival in its tracks 2011-03-30T15:05:07Z

She used brightly colored and patterned backdrops to highlight her anonymous, black-and-white figures of businessmen and brides, politicians and television-show characters, all appearing in arrested motion. Idelle Weber, Who Stretched the Meaning of Pop Art, Dies at 88 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

With the Suez crisis as a backdrop, the stylish drama weaves thriller and newsroom drama together. Cometh The Hour: BBC newsroom drama hits screen 2011-07-15T18:08:31Z

Oyono was born in the village of N'Goulemakong, ; the cocoa plantation and lush vegetation of his youth served as a backdrop to his fiction. Ferdinand Oyono obituary 2010-06-30T17:41:00Z

The Jerusalem setting is deliberate for the initial run because it's Raff's hometown and because it provides ancient, exotic backdrops. USA Network is hoping for gold with its event series 'Dig' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

The fantastical premise of “The Shape of Water” is set against the backdrop of Kennedy-era America with an emphasis on the attitudes of the period. ‘The Shape of Water’ Takes Top Venice Film Festival Prize 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

More interestingly, religion offered both gaudy backdrops for stories and interesting ideas from which stories could grow. Science fiction probes at religion 2011-07-11T16:02:01Z

The city is ever-present, as backdrop and foil, as Miss Brodie walks her charges across the Meadows or takes them to tea in Cramond, talking, always talking. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

In one portrait, two pampered, glossily groomed Cavalier King Charles spaniels sit on a riverbank against a backdrop of rolling green woods. Books of Style: Turning the Pages on 2010 2010-12-18T00:19:28Z

The book has all the simple ingredients for a great puppet show: exotic forest backdrops, fun animal characters and of-course Elmer, the patchwork elephant; he would make a glorious puppet. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

It's nothing to do with "care" or "care in the community" – it's a backdrop rather like selling paper was the backdrop to The Office. Ricky Gervais: 'I've left behind the veil of irony' 2013-02-02T20:00:01Z

Against that backdrop, it is jarring to hear one of Freier’s daughters discuss her dream of being a brain surgeon – “nine years of college and then residency”, she says – when she grows up. 93Queen: the incredible story of the all-female Hasidic emergency service 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of contemporary Hollywood at its worst, "I Met Someone" is written as a thriller — although it takes about 100 pages for the plot to gain steam — with a Hitchcock-meets-Ellroy reveal. Satirical rant against Hollywood goes over the top in 'I Met Someone' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Lisa thought of it as the backdrop to a scene from Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” His Three Loves: Photography, Art History and Lisa 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

A landscape that has been the backdrop to the entire history of a culture that has gone from minority to mainstream in less than 40 years is surely something worth preserving. Skating on the South Bank: my nights getting wrecked in the undercroft 2013-07-29T15:25:55Z

The backdrops are basically one hue but mottled and sometimes mutating. Review | In the galleries: A confection of a show that draws on the richness of Vermeer 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Steady keyboard arpeggios and a moody backdrop of strings carry the album’s first single, “Breathe You in My Dreams,” a confession of solitary longing that crests in an urgent call and response. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z

Throughout most of the show Usher stands before a simple brick backdrop with six doorways through which his thoughts pass in and out. ‘A Strange Loop’ Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

It's icy and spacey, a perfect backdrop for Lil B's stream of consciousness raps. Music Monday: Slowwave, Yuk, Lil B 2010-12-06T18:18:00Z

It was the only local theater big enough for the work’s video screen backdrop, as Dance Place founder Carla Perlo told the audience Saturday. Framing a difficult past with sequins and hip-hop

Against the backdrop of their home movies, the couple’s many duets — including “Drunk in Love” and “’03 Bonnie and Clyde” — raise the bar on power-coupling. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Ruby also lives in Compton, a city directly southeast of Los Angeles and probably best known to most Americans as the backdrop for gangsta entertainments. Movie Review: ‘Middle of Nowhere,’ Directed by Ava DuVernay 2012-10-11T23:09:07Z

But little gestures — a heaving take on Joni Mitchell’s “River,” the harmless beatbox backdrop on “Let It Snow” or the silky R&B harmonies on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” — land like sprinkling snow. Holiday Hits, Christmas Comebacks and Some Jingle Bell Schlock 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Soon, everyone was a momentary celebrity; the audience also used the red-carpet entrance, photo opportunities included, against a backdrop of logos. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

The original “Upstairs” was stately, frothy fun against a backdrop of exciting historical events. Television: Rose, Fetch Her Ladyship a Sequel 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z

Over Christmas I was given a sweatshirt depicting the prime minister riding a horse, set against a backdrop that included a rainbow and waterfall. Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau: A Very Canadian ‘First Lady’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Bonus eye candy: an attractive backdrop photo of the destination, such as the U.S. How long is the airport security wait? We test the apps that tell us the time. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

It was worth the wait for the backdrop of nearly cloudless skies, which turned from blazing to pale blue as late afternoon heat gave way to dusk. Review: At Wave Hill, Trisha Brown Dances Fit Right In 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

But the real spine of the narrative is the deeply researched historical backdrop against which these private dramas play out. Review | Ken Follett returns once again to Kingsbridge in ‘A Column of Fire’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

In a traditional sculpture garden, lawns are the green equivalent of a gallery’s white walls: a neutral backdrop for art that’s fundamentally separate from its setting. Review | In the galleries: Two outdoor exhibits where sculptures take vegetal forms 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

The designer Bruno Frisoni put the summer shoe and bag collection against a backdrop of palm trees and woven baskets. Special Report: Fashion: Stripes and Cuffs 2010-10-03T17:04:00Z

With her team, she investigates crimes threatening national security against the backdrop of Hawaii. What to watch on Monday: ‘NCIS: Hawai’i’ premieres on CBS 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

I’m not wild about the way Mr. Millepied places largely black costumes for the Cunningham MinEvent against a black backdrop with dim lighting. L.A. Dance Project Has Vivid Performers and Fine Repertory. There’s Just One Problem. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Fort Punta Christo in Pula is one of the better backdrops, hosting the Dimensions Festival which has its launch event in Leeds. Clubs picks of the week 2013-04-20T05:00:21Z

She would Skype me, looking miserable in a sari in front of cinematic backdrops. A Forbidden Relationship, From the Other Side of the World 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Finishing the race with the Colosseum as a backdrop is a memory I cherish. Balancing a marathon — and constant gelato stops — in Rome 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

A stark-white modern lobby connects the two buildings, where contemporary art and high-tech amenities exist against a backdrop of Old World architecture. Looking to dodge Amsterdam’s crowds? There are three remarkable towns a short train ride away. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

He won an Oscar for co-writing Good Will Hunting, which used the Massachusetts' Institute of Technology and Harvard University as its backdrops. Ben Affleck rules out Senate role 2012-12-27T09:53:01Z

Some people think of the roof garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with its great views of Central Park, as but a backdrop for boozy summer date nights. Art and Bacchanalia on the Met Roof 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

BUT Mr. Tommasini added: “The music sometimes lacks urgency. Stretches of the score pass by, beautiful, yes, but lacking in profile, just orchestral backdrops for the singer’s reflections.” Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Sir Trevor clearly doesn't lack any pation because he notices lots of things – the opulence, the sense of history, the beautiful backdrop of the Côte d'Azur. TV review: The Secret Mediterranean with Trevor McDonald 2011-01-05T08:00:05Z

Indeed, the event drew Anna Wintour and a crush of celebrities, with an august museum as the red carpet backdrop. Scene City: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art + Film Gala Draws Celebrities 2012-11-05T22:37:08Z

The parallels between the King-Riggs match and the 2016 presidential debates were not lost on Karpman and Collins, who wrote the bulk of the libretto against the backdrop of the presidential election. Why it took two women to write 'Balls,' the opera about Billie Jean King's 'Battle of the Sexes' 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

If the backdrop, done up like a cartoon version of her store, was any indication, fall was going to be pure, classic Anna Sui. | Proenza Schouler Wins! 2011-02-18T03:07:29Z

Former President George Bush and other politicians made campaign stops there, and it has been the backdrop for a number of movies. Denver: Red Rocks venue safe after rocks injure 7 2011-09-12T18:48:08Z

Their hectic lines convey the chaos and complexity of a life where addiction is a backdrop. A Brave Graphic Memoir of a Childhood Shadowed by a Parent’s Addiction 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

He is not playing a dramatized version of Leonardo; rather, he soliloquizes this artist and inventor’s notes against various shaded backdrops. Peter Capaldi Narrates ‘Inside the Mind of Leonardo in 3D’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

“The Two Popes” isn’t altogether neutral in this debate, which takes place against a backdrop of scandal and crisis. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“Most Wanted,” which opens January 27 at White Cube in London, features 10 larger-than-life oil paintings of celebrities over luxury label backdrops. | Richard Phillips's 'Most Wanted' 2011-01-19T17:25:32Z

An all-male trio performing before a projected backdrop of flames in the “Sinner Man” passage created such a noticeable energy shift that the audience began whooping and clapping, as if at a rock concert. Paramount audience communes with Alvin Ailey company 2014-04-12T17:44:21Z

“In the backdrop of corporate America, he flew off the page,” she said. Her Superhero, Even at Comic Con 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

The use of a set-up/rewind structure works to great stylish and dramatic effect and the performances are involving and beautifully understated against the backdrop of the London blitz and its horrors. TV highlights 12/07/2011: The Night Watch 2011-07-12T08:04:16Z

Mangueira’s metal roof was retractable, and when it opened, like cracking a lid to let the steam out, it revealed Mangueira’s backdrop, a hillside favela that envelops the school on three sides. In Rio, the Work Goes In Before the Party Goes On 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

But a recent blistering joke by Mr. Buress about Mr. Cosby raised the stakes, providing a charged backdrop for their shows on back-to-back nights this weekend. Bill Cosby and Many Others Hit the New York Comedy Festival 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

The BBC's main wrong note, though, came with the jingoism and sentiment that provided the backdrop to almost every day's play. Wimbledon 2013: how the BBC got its coverage wrong 2013-07-08T14:03:37Z

This, then, is the opaque backdrop for the Boston bombing: an all-too-common family immigration history, six months of loose talk by one brother and a few offhand comments by the other. ‘The Brothers,’ Masha Gessen’s Book About the Boston Marathon Bombers 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Against that political backdrop Emanuel was tapped as keynote speaker for Iowa's Democrats. Emanuel pumps up Obama in Iowa pitch 2011-11-20T05:09:00Z

They were the backdrop to her mutable voice, changing from dreamlike musings to moans and shrieks as she plunged into memories and sensations: “I wish that every time you touched me left a mark.” ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Wild Girls in Control 2012-06-08T00:45:55Z

Madeline Best’s beautiful lighting, shifting from a neutral glow to sky blue behind the backdrop, suggests a world beyond this enclosed one. Review: A Choreographer Who Excavates Misalignment 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

With a simple set by David Reppa, the opera is played atop a platform of gray stones in the shape of a cross, against a black backdrop. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z

The opening credits, written in cursive scrawl against a backdrop of floral wallpaper, beneath the sound of a swooning symphony, are a good first hint. Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti on Baseball and Parenthood 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

He employed them as photographic models in a variety of staged activities set against the backdrop of the “promised land.” Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

In Kurdistan, against the backdrop of the snow-capped Qandil Mountains, a frenetic frontier economy is being driven by the promise of petrodollars from the region's estimated 25 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. A Facelift for an Ancient Kurdish Citadel 2010-07-29T07:50:00Z

A mile away, a lay-by serves as the scenic spot of the painted 'Welcome to Twin Peaks' from the show's opening sequence, with hill peaks in the backdrop. Misty peaks, verdant trees, fresh cherry pie: the real 'Twin Peaks' 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s music scene, Franny and James develop an unexpected relationship and face the realities of their lives. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

Against a backdrop of golden-hued murals, two dancers in black — one male, one female — tussle spryly with each other, moving their limbs in slices, arcs and liquid pivots. Review: 'Home' is a sweet place that can't be nailed down in Scott/Powell Performance's sumptuous performance 2010-05-21T17:12:00Z

The Atlantic Ocean as a backdrop against the sand dunes was a truly magnificent sight. What a trip: Namibia’s scenic landscapes, fit for a king and queen of the desert 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Jess's sister's wedding provides the backdrop for the film, showing Jess what life would be like if her mother's vision came true. Beyond brown shame: Refreshing "India Sweets and Spices" moves past struggles of hyphenated identity 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

In 2010, with the success of Twitter and Facebook’s social feeds as a backdrop, the service carved out its own space for sharing news and life updates. Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

And it’s not just pixelated heads floating against a digital backdrop. Review: ‘Touch of the Poet’ is a Powerful Study in Toxic Pride 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Set among the backdrop of the family’s Edwardian English country home, the show’s 52 episodes revealed the nuances of an era in which the aristocracy defined life in England. ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Is on the Way 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

The Seattle duo’s dreamy, dark, pop would provide the perfect backdrop for David Lynch’s noirish film of mysterious goings-on in the dank forests of the Pacific Northwest. Golden Gardens’ ethereal tunes come Thursday to High Dive 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

He will face the audience, and his finger and footwork will be projected on a backdrop. Cameron Carpenter: rhinestone cowboy 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z

Against the backdrop of a stormy night at Trump Tower, he contrives to run for the White House. For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of Harlem Renaissance bigwigs calling for positive depictions of high-achieving Negroes, Hurston unpacked the lives of everyday black people doing everyday things. The Harlem Renaissance Through Zora Neale Hurston’s Eyes 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

June's will see artist Stella Vine create a huge new painting that will serve as the backdrop for a concert by the rising local band Chapman Family. Stella Vine and Chapman Family get together at mima 2012-06-19T06:00:00Z

Grab a coffee and a doughnut from Sluys Bakery and head over to the water to see sail boats drift against the backdrop of the 8,000ft Olympic Mountains. 10 of the best small towns in the US: readers’ travel tips 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The next era brought fewer models and more actresses, standing against a solid-color backdrop. At Cosmopolitan Magazine, Data Is the New Sex 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Londonfieldworks Taking Inverness-shire as its backdrop, this arts festival draws inspiration from the geological fissure that runs through the area. This week's new events 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

“Half of a Yellow Sun” I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, which takes place against the backdrop of the Nigerian civil war, after I was offered to play a role in the movie. John Boyega Won’t Let Go of ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Coming to America’ 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

The City of Edinburgh Council has teamed up with Marketing Edinburgh to set up a media center at the Apex Hotel, where views of the castle make a perfect backdrop for pieces to camera. Yes or No, Edinburgh hotels and bars win big in Scottish vote 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

So there had to be a certain frisson for that black-tie, first-night crowd encountering Bach, Vivaldi and Handel against a semi-psychedelic backdrop.  The connection between Gordon Davidson and Neville Marriner, and what it means for modern-day L.A. 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Thinking of last season’s extraordinary menswear — Art Nouveau printed suits disappearing into a matching backdrop — was to be reminded that Mr. McQueen was not only deeply creative but an exceptional showman. Special Report: Bottega's Fashion Fusion 2010-06-20T16:23:00Z

Since Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, an American painting has served as a backdrop during the inaugural luncheon, at which members of Congress play host to the newly installed president. The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Blue-grey water, which serves as a steady, bleak backdrop in the series, is an apt metaphor for the show's progression. "The Investigation" eschews salaciousness for a bleak yet poignant Scandi noir take on true crime 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

“The loss is the same because architecture, high or common, forms the backdrop of everyday life.” A 21st-Century Renaissance for Ford Foundation Landmark 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The rounded stones of its columns look like pebbles against the backdrop of the Royal Arches, while exposed rafter tails and wooden shutters display a lovely arts and crafts asymmetry. Visit Yosemite’s stunning Ahwahnee, but stay in the less crowded, less pricey Wawona 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The sky and commanding sun had shrunk, willingly transformed into a backdrop for a figure who was striding — or pacing — in front of the choir in a white shirt and tie, holding a microphone. Obama as folk hero: To be what he’s trying to be — black, idealistic and president — is nothing less than superhuman 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

Probably the most visible museum in the Basque region , the Guggenheim in Bilbao opened against the backdrop of conflict. As Culture Capital, San Sebastián Weighs the Theme of Peace 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Still, the lush backdrop, rather than signs of human habitation, is what dominates the scene. A contemporary photographic look at Gauguin's Polynesia 2012-02-23T21:29:05Z

All told, it’s a beautiful backdrop for both industry insiders and curious passersby to converse, problem-solve, and dream up the future of design together. The Van Alen Institute unveils its new street-level space 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Less shocking is its social media popularity: The nonreflective aluminum surface serves as a built-in backdrop for a tumble of caramelized carrots, burnished roast chicken, a cheese-smothered mess of anything. The (Surprising) Rise of the Sheet Pan 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Built in part with cargo containers, the setting for this spirited food is one of the area’s more alluring backdrops for Mexican. Review | La Puerta Verde review: True Mexican spirit in Ivy City 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

In "Killers of the Flower Moon" stars Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro enrapture the audience from start to finish with bone-chilling performances with real-life archival footage from Osage history as a backdrop. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

There are even rhythmic nods to the new wave funk of Police and Talking Heads, which gives certain songs a spry backdrop that's seamless. Billy Joel’s “River of Dreams” at 25: Why his most personal work was a perfect last record 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

The photographer and his crew are furiously painting a backdrop in time for the photo session, but they needn't have worried. Destiny's Child: 'We wear nothin' with our butt cheeks out, our boobs out' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-04-24T15:46:07Z

In the years before conflict erupted in the late 1980s, it served as little more than a tourist backdrop for romantic dance numbers. ‘Haider’ Angers Hindu Nationalists but Excites Film Critics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

While they lend a cheerful edge to Lewitzky’s precise, geometric movement, his too-obvious backdrop is grating: an enlarged musical score covering the back of the stage and even the wings. Review: L.A. Dance Project Celebrates Female Choreographers 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

Roaming musicians ply their trade for tips against a backdrop of restored art nouveau buildings. Belgrade: Not only dirt cheap, but a chic party spot 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of repurposed wood, exposed pipes and sustainable practices, in a converted house across from the First United Methodist Church, the late-morning crowd reveals a creative class that’s migrated into town. A Small-Town Gem Near Nashville 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

To many here, interest in the backdrop of “Game of Thrones” signifies, as Mr. Robinson put it, an emergence from “the dark days of the past into a new era.” Following ‘Game of Thrones’ to Belfast and Beyond 2013-07-05T17:34:29Z

She is a belter, with a pleasingly serrated voice that cuts through even the thickest of digital backdrops. Sure, Daya Wants to Visit the Club. But She Doesn’t Want to Live There. 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Some explicitly brand themselves as museums, and others shy away from the term, but they’re all exhibits of sorts that are also mostly a series of backdrops for Instagrams. The Museums of Instagram 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Most of the track is a busily looping, pattering, burbling electronic backdrop for her whispery voice, which eventually advises, “It’s gonna be OK/Just make it through the day.” Foo Fighters Begin a New Chapter, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

I can still see her standing against a backdrop of speckled white laminate countertops, teaching me to make the crust for her fried pies. How the Women of the Jemima Code Freed Me 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The photos are shot against a deep-blue backdrop, like that of a yearbook photo, as if to remind the sitters that adolescence, too, is something they’ll graduate from. What Teen-Age Girls See When They Look in the Mirror 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

The two-floor space offers backdrops of roses, funky murals and more. 7 hidden-gem attractions to check out at Seattle’s Pike Place Market 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of hills tumbling with fog, my 6-year-old daughter took her first horseback riding lesson from an instructor who wore socks branded “dressage.” Seduced by Tuscany in Winter 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The painting hangs like a backdrop for the performance of some unknown rite. Commanding work on an unconventional canvas by a tribe of two 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

When asked his opinion of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” he told CNN that the military should not be “a backdrop for social experimentation,” which he believes would result from gays being allowed to serve openly. Mike Pence is even worse than you think: Trump’s VP pick has a long, disastrous record of opposing LGBT rights 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

Our city is filled with backdrops like this, picture-perfect settings for family memories. Dazzling Lights of Kansas City 2010-12-01T17:39:00Z

The backdrop, created by Glenn Ligon, is an image from a Ku Klux Klan rally. Abraham.In.Motion’s choreography is ambitious, yes, but rightly so

In my mind, it had become like the view of Emerald City just before Dorothy and the gang run through the poppies: a faux backdrop. Los Angeles on $100 a Day 2010-11-15T22:21:00Z

Instead of conventional white and gray modernist backdrops, Mr. Edmonds photographed the objects against shimmering gold cloth. John Edmonds and the Allure of Africa 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Standing 7 feet, 9 inches tall, the statue’s prominent brow and deep-set eyes are the backdrop for thousands of tourist selfies every year. British Museum Kept a Statue for 150 Years. Now, Easter Island Wants It Back. 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

His The Odyssey examines London from the skies against a backdrop of Olympian expectation and politics, like these two were fighting it out to be the prevailing winds over the city. Trailer trash 2012-07-21T23:05:58Z

Robert Bordo's set is spare: several low balustrades, sheets of black hanging cloth and a backdrop that's an abstract map of Aeneas' journey. Mark Morris' 'Dido and Aeneas' an exuberant spin on ancient epic 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

And there is little in the way of hi-tech staging: a photo-montage backdrop of London landmarks and a levitating platform are your lot. One Direction – review 2013-02-24T17:00:01Z

In that image, the queen appears to be in Westminster Abbey, but Beaton actually photographed her after the ceremony, in front of an artificial backdrop at Buckingham Palace. King Charles’s Photographer Wanted a ‘Little Piece of Theater’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

“Rather than a single, enduring definition of whiteness,” Painter writes, “we find multiple enlargements occurring against a backdrop of black/white dichotomy.” Whiteness and “Making a Murderer”: Manitowoc, the “one-branch family tree” and the sinister race science of “degenerate whites” 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Early filmmakers often resorted to putting their logos on the backdrops of their sets to discourage piracy, Loughney said. 'Essential' film copyright protection turns 100 2012-08-24T18:02:12Z

Saint-Saëns thought this biblical story of a fateful love affair, set against the backdrop of enslaved Israelites and their Philistine oppressors, would best be presented as a stirring concert oratorio. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Beamish’s unfortunate attempt explores the world of Matisse with a backdrop evocative of his cutouts. Review: Diane Coburn Bruning and Ashley Bouder Stretch the Rules of Classicism at the Joyce 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Providing an aural backdrop to the zaniness is traditional liturgical and religious-themed classical music, with the stage manager frantically fiddling with cassette tapes to match music to mood. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

"In Her Hands" documents Ghafari's "fight for survival against the backdrop of her country's accelerated unraveling as Western forces announce their retreat and the Taliban start their sweep back to power." What's new on Netflix in November, from "The Crown" and "Blockbuster" to "Wednesday" 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

While it skimps on atmosphere — a backdrop of a blown-up photo of the Cotton Blossom more or less has to haul the whole freight — this version does feature many songs that are not always included. New York Philharmonic Stages ‘Show Boat’ 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The recent Superman film "Man of Steel" was criticized, for example, for showing the demolition of huge swaths of a city as mere backdrop for a fight. Have Aurora, Newtown affected screen violence? 2013-07-16T22:27:49Z

As the months wore on, performers found more venues and variations: virtual backdrops, multitracked videos, studios, parks, and even their familiar clubs and concert halls. All Alone With a Microphone 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

“My Companions” shows three women against a backdrop that is luminous up above and more shadowy below. 3 Seattle gallery shows to check out in January 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

The grand backdrop sets the stage for even more grandiose props like horses, dromedaries, and even lions, depending on the opera. In Transit: Opera and Ballet, With Roman Ruins as Striking Backdrop 2011-06-02T10:00:39Z

There were impressive stretches where the orchestra provided a supple and elegant backdrop to Ms. Batiashvili’s lovely playing, especially during the searching violin lines in the development of the first movement. Music Review: Revisiting an Annual Rite of Beethoven and Sibelius 2011-03-01T22:13:44Z

Dark brown, undulating hills served as a backdrop. Frugal Traveler Blog: Texas Road Trip, Part II: Art, Natural Beauty and Quietude 2012-02-21T17:55:52Z

Across the South Fork, the backdrop of sea and sand, pine barrens and oak forests assumes a more chiseled beauty. Hamptons’ True Colors Show in Autumn Off-Season 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Diana's wedding provided an important backdrop to coverage in the former British colony of Hong Kong, where the wedding was telecast in the late afternoon and early evening. Television brings wedding pageantry to world 2011-04-29T13:52:25Z

Then the problem is to find the vehicle, to find the story and the characters and the backdrop, because they're going to be the vehicle for this idea. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z

A camera, lights and a dark backdrop sit near the film box, ready for the next setup. Review | In the galleries: Artists sport their chops with prints on the cutting edge 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Sam Mertens The smell of cement dust and freshly caught fish wafts through the harbour of Marseille, to a backdrop of pneumatic drills and high-pressure hoses. Marseille's £6bn Capital of Culture rebirth 2013-04-01T16:59:40Z

For those candidates at the top of the polls, the clothing was more backdrop than identifying feature. Perspective | Kamala Harris embraced black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

These young women were serious about the garden that flourished in beds of blooms as the backdrop. Special Report: Fendi Takes the Long View 2010-09-23T18:09:00Z

Tokyo One leg of the World Grand Prix is set in Tokyo, providing a lively design backdrop. Global Auto Racing and Spy Chasing 2011-06-17T23:13:01Z

There’s pointillistic syncopation from marimba, glockenspiel and pizzicato strings, with a backdrop of sustained chords: the ticktock of everyday minutiae held together by the promise of constancy. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Hladky’s layered constructions are too assertive to settle for being backdrops. In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Yet if the stables seem a fitting backdrop for an altercation between Richard and Jack—and they do—it’s for metaphorical reasons. HBO’s “Silicon Valley”: The Gayest Straight Show on TV 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Ideas were exchanged against the backdrop of tumultuous politics, states of emergency, roadblocks and political arrests. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z

The Vuitton show was presented on a set replicating the Alphabet City backdrop of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” video and Mr. Jackson was the stated inspiration for the collection. At Louis Vuitton, Michael Jackson Forever 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Which is why a period drama like Mad Men may be an ideal setting for telling that kind of story, because it sets stubborn personalities against a recognizable backdrop of change. TV Weekend: Mortality (and Reefer) In the Air for Mad Men’s Return 2013-04-04T16:43:30Z

Spare, evocative backdrops by Ben Shahn conjure private corners of the city. Dance Review | Juilliard Dance: Juilliard Dances Repertory: Robbins, Cunningham, Taylor 2010-03-29T05:02:00Z

Similarly, India Evans’s set design contrasts stark, empty spaces with huge, shifting collages on a scrim backdrop. | 'Salome': Best Way Not to Win a Pious Man?s Heart? Dance of the Seven Veils 2011-07-15T23:40:06Z

But Mr. Andriessen’s accent emerges quickly as the chord progression takes unexpected turns, the harmonies grow increasingly dense, and a singing, attractively chromatic melody is spun out over this thorny backdrop. Music Review: Louis Andriessen Series Continues at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-19T21:58:00Z

“Sarah’s reconstruction in her book of the lighting and set and backdrop were so true to my memories,” Karen recounts. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Delighted children and teenagers lie next to the model, against a skylike backdrop, and look up into the large, angled mirror positioned over it. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop Rockwell was accused of purveying an artificial and squeaky-clean view of America, which remains a criticism of him today. Rockwell Paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 2010-07-01T16:28:00Z

Oh, what a set it is: Marvelous backdrops that evoke the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius in the distance, 18th-century gardens and courtyards and moonlit vistas that conjure up Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Review: 'Pulcinella Vendicato' is puppet opera at its magical best 2010-04-27T00:45:00Z

Granada, a well-touristed city, sometimes makes for a picturesque backdrop, especially in a faded-looking opening montage that promises an elegance that the film doesn’t deliver. ‘Granada Nights’ Review: Growing Abroad 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Make that “black silver,” for a metallic finish appeared everywhere from the runway backdrop to shiny trousers or a silvered tank top above purple pants. Special Report: Fashion: Rodarte, Oscar de la Renta and Narciso Rodriguez continue refreshing the dress 2011-09-14T16:32:57Z

In Part 1, which features 11 dancers, the striking backdrops include the beach, an arrangement of green picnic tables and a sun-dappled trail in a hilly field. Note to Dancers: ‘Drop Your Self-Consciousness’ and Get Into It 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

But Wilkie Branson's new show, blending dance and film, confounds such expectations with its range of moods and dance styles, and an emotional backdrop that is tender and beautifully staged. White Caps | Theatre review 2010-04-04T21:00:00Z

It slips into mawkishness once, on a reprise of The Birds that sets an elderly vocalist against a cooing choral backdrop, an idea that rather overdoes the album's theme of the passing of time. Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys! ? review 2011-03-03T15:30:01Z

The scene itself looks as delicious as a pastry — warm lighting and the decadent backdrop of a Pinterest-worthy space. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

"If those metal curtains are not the memorial, then why should we spend lots of money to create an expensive backdrop?" she said. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z

The apparent point is to confirm that, yes, a painted movie backdrop and the mansion are both real, born of the same era, in case we mistook either one for an illusion. Alex Israel spells everything out at the Huntington 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

She appears in Mr. LaChapelle’s surreally kaleidoscopic image with arms outstretched, gazing skyward and floating against a backdrop of primordial looking greenery. Model Mom 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

When the dancer, standing in profile against a black backdrop, lifts his heels and hands in the same rhythm, the effect is unsettling because so much of the body is near-invisible. Dance Review: An Evening Revisits Mark Morris Hits (Along With a Few of Chopin?s) 2010-09-26T22:13:00Z

“A beautiful backdrop is an aesthetic luxury, same as shelves of books and music lessons and trips to museums on weekends,” she writes. Patricia Lockwood Is a Priest’s Child (Really), but ‘From the Devil’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

At one point during the shutdown, two scenic backdrops fell to the ground. The Fate of the Met Opera’s Fall Season Lies in Its Orchestra Pit 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

She handles the larger-scale period backdrop of “Till” and sprawling cast with confidence, using her expanded tool kit prudently and without sacrificing the intimacy that helped distinguished “Clemency.” ‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

The looming threat of World War III serves as the backdrop to the A-plot, a story comprised of many smaller tales and plots told from various points of view. “Watchmen” is a brutally provocative reckoning of alternate history 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

The East River at sunset will be the backdrop. Spare Times for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

SP feels festive year round and it seemed to the the appropriate backdrop for our holiday. The Best Comes in a Bun at Salvation Burger and Spotted Pig 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, it is perhaps unsurprising that plans for a new museum of 20th-century art in Berlin have met with skepticism. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Saura chooses the Seville Expo ’92 pavilion as his studio for capturing an array of discrete performances by older and younger artists against painterly stage backdrops. Sara Baras in Carlos Saura’s ‘Flamenco, Flamenco’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Massive golden scrolls decorated with elegant Asian designs form a grand backdrop for the almost bare stage on which a potter's wheelbarrow is silhouetted. 'A Single Shard': The tale of an orphan who dares to dream big 2012-03-07T20:35:04Z

But the most attention was paid to the stage, where a wood-paneled backdrop resembles a 1940s radio. Boîte: Finding Harlem Culture and Music at Ginny’s Supper Club 2012-05-23T15:22:57Z

"It's set against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan's first presidential campaign," said Landgraf, who added that the show will be focused on the theme of "the war coming home to America." TCA 2015: 'Fargo' Season 2: Sprawling, more laughs and Ronald Reagan 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

But its backdrop is World War II and the pacifist times leading up to it. Questions of truth circle Oscar favorites 2011-01-26T12:16:04Z

Against a marble backdrop, a single mannequin in a black dress is dominated by a loveseat-size set of red lips, and a single eye dangling from the ceiling. On the Runway Blog: Pucker Up for Pucci 2012-11-13T22:23:05Z

This week, on its one-year anniversary, she released “Make Hay,” a finished outtake with a twinkling backdrop of celeste, piano and Wurlitzer. The Playlist: Shakira Takes Charge and Protest Rap Is Still Alive 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Fritz's player is from a culture where the old simply cease to be visible, and retreat to "a faint/ shadow in the backdrop". Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z

A few miles inland, the dusty little downtown of Todos Santos boasts a clutch of sophisticated galleries against a backdrop of brick colonial buildings. Next Stop: Traveling to Todos Santos, Mexico 2010-04-10T02:56:00Z

The crimson backdrop isn’t the only clue that Lewis is something other than an observer of pretty scenes. Review | In the galleries: Black women artists collaborate on innovative book project 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Reports and photographs hint our heroes will ride a kind of alien horse through a backdrop of well-to-do citizens wearing the space equivalent of black tie formal wear. Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII – everything we know so far 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

In addition to a big, purple backdrop, the Supernatural Dating Society homepage presents viewers with a photo of an older gentleman wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a pinstripe suit, his chin resting on his hand. 9 of the quirkiest online dating sites 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

In this opening pair of episodes – part two airs tomorrow – there's a dubious death in the hotel room of a businessman, against the backdrop of corporate wheeler-dealing. TV highlights 10/01/2013 2013-01-09T20:00:01Z

Surging, seething and breathtakingly tender, the overwhelming force of this orchestral backdrop befitted an opera in which fate plays puppetmaster to its hapless characters. BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-11-09T16:51:45Z

“In the Year of the Pig” — a movie in which politicians, generals, journalists and academics posture and declaim against a backdrop of battle scenes and patriotic pageants — was described by de Antonio as “political theater.” In the Heat of Battle, ‘In the Year of the Pig’ 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

In the backdrop of his weighted lyrics are beats that challenge listeners to just dance, as Madison Square Garden did for two hours. Stromae in New York 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Viktor & Rolf literally opened their show, as a medieval door on the backdrop was let down as a drawbridge. Special Report: Fashion: The Discreet Return of the Bourgoisie 2011-03-06T18:55:47Z

Exploring a new country as a young woman should be more interesting than as a backdrop for improbable romance. ‘Finding You’ Review: A Fiddler Falls in Love 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

And the Chicago audience seemed delighted when, in a later scene, the spacious lobby of the city’s historic Palmer House was depicted with huge glittering backdrops. Music Review: Can?t Help Seeking That Middle Ground in ?Show Boat? 2012-02-29T23:43:57Z

Mr. Taylor, who, with Jasper Johns, helped to paint the backdrop of Cunningham’s “Summerspace,” said he chose it because “it’s dance-y. I guess it’s closer to what I do.” Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The high school production of “Romeo & Juliet” served as the backdrop for some of the most awkward familial interactions in season 1 of “Arrested Development.” What TV and movies think school plays are like 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

His striking portraits situate divinely decked-out dancers against dilapidated urban backdrops, acts of self-transformation juxtaposed with circumstances that are harder to change. French and American Dance Festival, All Around New York 2014-05-06T15:05:13Z

Set against the backdrop of the 2008 crash, it's proof positive that Bender's acclaim is well deserved. 'Refund' burrows into what's right, wrong about 21st century America 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

He has lately been showing his women’s wear collections against the plein-air backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. If He Can Make It Here, He’ll Make It Anywhere 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

New York was the backdrop for my earliest triumphs and stupidities. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The play turned out to be a one-woman show, accompanied by the mournful bow of a single cellist, set against a plain, blood-red backdrop. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

He also provided a backdrop of harmony at home, something Ms. Quiles’s past relationships had lacked. Their First Date ‘Felt Like Christmas’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

But the lack of any other context, along with the contemporary Zoom-room aesthetics of most backdrops, underlines the sometimes uncanny sense that these historical figures are, in fact, appearing on television right now. The Sound in Their Ears? Black Thinkers Sharing ‘Lessons in Survival’ 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Opener “Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks On You” starts with a gurgle of synths and quicksilver drum rolls, Gay’s voice purring against the teeming backdrop, as nonchalant as a murmured bossa nova. Blues, jazz, electronica. It all flows through Ben LaMar Gay. 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The films combine a focus on nefarious schemes, deadpan delivery and persistent politeness — all set against the backdrop of bombed-out post-World War II London. In London, a Look Back at Ealing Classics 2010-08-24T10:00:00Z

But the very fact of the event established a supernatural backdrop to this drama. ‘The Leftovers’ Series Finale Recap: Over There 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

The most challenging backdrop for those who like to move, however, was in front of the stage during a set by veteran rock band Steely Dan. Coachella 2015: Steely Dan meets EDM — an experiment worth watching 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

The backdrop for “The Queen of Basel” is a party celebrating Art Basel, an annual art fair in Miami. Review | Two new plays want us to think about power and art. You may be thinking about where to eat afterward. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

The backdrop of her newest work, a one-off, is the ocean. At Rockaway, Dancing for the Sea, the Sky, the Sand and the Birds 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

“I thought it looked fantastic, this electric blue screen behind him, and I suddenly imagined Patrick Stewart’s face in front of such a backdrop,” he said. Patrick Stewart, in Starz’s ‘Blunt Talk,’ Plays a TV Journalist 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Tsui directed and co-wrote an iconic work of the New Wave, which was defined by vernacular Hong Kong Cantonese slang, gritty urban backdrops and an unblinking look at modern society. Movies: Bringing a Wealth of Cinematic Knowledge to the Screen in 3-D 2011-07-11T13:00:05Z

The current crop of novels handles the dark subject matter more delicately, focusing on character development and relationships against the backdrop of a global calamity. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of naked winter trees, this Sleeping Beauty plays out in a nightmarish, monochrome landscape, the half-light alleviated by no more than a flash of gold or a blood-red dress. Sleeping Beauty – review 2012-12-12T18:16:01Z

“They’re the newer version of paying extra for the laser backdrop in your school photo,” he says. Is it an art space or a backdrop for selfies? Does it matter anymore? 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

While the largest Parade Grounds stage sat atop a bluff overlooking Puget Sound, water views were mostly clipped by fences, buses and trees, blocking what might have been Western Washington’s most spectacular festival stage backdrop. THING review: How successful was the first year of the intimate festival created by the founder of Sasquatch? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

With emotional delicacy and a lightly expressionistic visual style, Rockwell brings both Inez and New York to life, skillfully setting one woman’s hardscrabble personal story against a larger political backdrop. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

That backdrop is gone for now, but the customary soft sand stage floor is in place, to be traipsed across by spectators on the way to their seats. ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed Lovers 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

Some of these modestly scaled pictures are set off by near-black backdrops, shiny with thickly applied graphite. In the galleries: Brentwood Arts Exchange filled with flora 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Backstage, Firth told reporters King George's tale was "a story of quiet dignity ... set again a very broad stage -- something very, very personal against a very broad backdrop." Broadcast critics click on "Social Network" 2011-01-15T05:58:25Z

The house near Abiquiu, N.M., that she saved from ruin and her stunningly situated Ghost Ranch, 16 miles away, figure both in some of her best-known paintings and as photographic backdrops. Georgia O’Keeffe, Stylist and Curator of Her Own Myth 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

This epidemic supposedly fosters a fragile-flower climate, cosseting and infantilizing young adults while punishing dissent and discouraging free speech, all against a backdrop of almost comical histrionics. Gene Weingarten: A mea culpa (no offense to the Romans!) 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Now, in the hands of most, such a concept would likely result in a dull, meandering homage, but for Barnes and Co., it’s the perfect thematic backdrop. Of Montreal Breaks Genre Barriers on New Album 2013-10-11T12:00:49Z

Here, the city isn’t a backdrop, but the world’s greatest, gloriously cacophonous backup band. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

His challenge was delivered against the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Terrible tragedies, such as the attacks on Paris, are appropriated by people thousands of miles away and used as a backdrop to showcase their sensitivity. Me! Me! Me! Are we living through a narcissism epidemic? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

And with each year that passes the format grows mustier, a vehicle for worn-smooth memories of Legs & Co and Jocky Wilson backdrops. Tom Ewing 2010-12-23T22:14:01Z

“Step” manages to tell both stories in under 90 minutes, with a city rived by the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody as its fraught backdrop. Review: In ‘Step,’ Baltimore Teenagers on the Cusp of Womanhood 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The city’s conflicts and contradictions serve instead as elements in a static, ready-made backdrop, occasionally distracting attention from the drama at center stage. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The backdrop of the lovely rich red damask curtain imparts a stateliness. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

The roads chosen by different women, one with means and the backing of parents, the other a single mother with two children, offer a backdrop for compromises made in this era and others. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Jumping Into an Ice Cold Lake 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

“It’s going to be a wonderful wedding and not a backdrop for a murder,” he said, and gave a playful wink to Ms. Higgins Clark. Worthy of a Romance Novel, With a Touch of Mystery 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Sycamore leaves San Francisco for Seattle twice — first, briefly, in the 1990s, and again in 2012, amid the supercharged growth and displacement that serve as a backdrop for this memoir of sorts. In a Gentrifying Seattle, a Queer Activist Works to Blur Borders 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

But they rented out clubs and insisted on caddies and a buggy, which seemed incongruous against the backdrop of ancient temples. Trip Tips: Amidst ancient temples, golf grows in Myanmar 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Toward the lobby entrance, Don Jr. was taking photos with fans against a backdrop of logos for his new book, titled “TRIGGERED: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.” After a bumpy ride, Donald Trump Jr.’s book tour arrives at a safe space 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Think of dark pants — or a simple black dress or skirt — as your backdrop. How to create new looks from one basic piece 2011-03-15T18:35:43Z

And in Act II, when a cholera epidemic has broken out, the backdrop is a panorama of sickly, ghostly faces in garish reds and yellows that change color with the stage lighting. Music Review: A Daring Production of 'Lulu' at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-03T20:47:00Z

Suddenly, the answer to the question, “Where is Ryden in all this?” lands with a slap as one last backdrop is lowered onto the stage. Mark Ryden's foray into set design is a fantastical ballet of candyland delights 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The formal setting is an appropriate backdrop; Renoir may have been influenced by the classical myth of the judgment of Paris and biblical imagery of Eve. Home & Design: Yard art, Washington-style, including a Calder and a fiberglass cow

A cold, tranquil, lush estate serves as the backdrop. “The Handmaiden” and the Freedom Women Find Only with One Another 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Like “It Follows” and “Buzzard,” “Lost River” uses bleak Michigan scenery as the backdrop for a form of horror film. Review: In ‘Lost River,’ by Ryan Gosling, Surreal Scenes of Urban Decline 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

I first wore the suit to the N.Y.U. pool, where its comparative jauntiness, against a backdrop of collegiate Speedos and board shorts, was galvanizing. Does This Swimsuit Make Me Look Fat? 2011-06-08T20:34:03Z

Other pieces — like “Mood Board” which simply pins large photo fragments to a backdrop of white photo corners — are less satisfying. 3 don’t-miss art exhibitions in Seattle, April edition 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

He placed them in the studio and on location in Chicago, Paris and New York, using realistic scenes and the city as backdrops. Lens Blog: A Look at Gordon Parks's Fashion Photography 2012-11-30T10:00:13Z

The images, blown up larger than their original print sizes, show Fula, Malian and Voltaic teenagers and twentysomethings posing and wielding props in a studio decorated with backdrops painted by artists from Ghana. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

I think it’s the perfect size when it comes to cities: it’s big without being overwhelming, yet there are pockets that make it feel small, each with incredibly diverse backdrops and experiences. The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

The dancers, performing in sneakers, with the backdrop of the sky and brick buildings, get to take up space. For a Young Choreographer, Bed-Stuy Is Home and a Stage 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

If they're stirring ancient ingredients like frankincense and honey and almonds for one of the holiday flavors, the backdrop may be the somber, runic ballads of a Danish singer named Agnes Obel. Who's rocking to the music? That's the chef 2012-04-26T04:30:48Z

The bombing right after Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester, England, in May 2017 is one inevitable backdrop to her fourth studio album, “Sweetener.” Ariana Grande Sails Above Sorrow on ‘Sweetener’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Her Helen drapes herself into languid poses across every backdrop and speaks in a voice throbbing with emotion as she blasts David with her charms in the hope that he'll rewrite her part. 'Bullets Over Broadway' makes up for its lack of new music with strong choreography and acting 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The stately fiddle-accented dirge becomes a backdrop for stories of bravery, treachery, desperation, until all disappear beneath the black, icy ocean. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z

The wallpaper here, patterned mostly with gold security cameras, provides a weak backdrop. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Found objects, often metal, substitute for fins, tails and eyes, while colorfully patterned backdrops suggest motion through psychedelic seas. Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

"Add to that some iffy performances, gloomy backdrops and a lamentably slow start, and you have the makings of a notable West End flop," added Letts in the Daily Mail. Spice musical leaves critics cold 2012-12-12T10:39:20Z

A backdrop of mirrors at this Nina Ricci show allowed the audience to glimpse the women from different angles. Special Report: Fashion: Lanvin Under the Willow Tree 2011-03-04T19:17:10Z

But his more derivative work, with its jagged shapes and dramatic black backdrops, is more powerful. In the galleries: From primal and primordial to political commentary 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Readers are in for intricate world-building, engrossing adventure and stunning backdrops. Fall reading: 12 books to keep you occupied for the rest of 2020 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

There were a few video backdrops, none of them spectacular. Review: Prince, in Baltimore, Nods to Unrest 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

For starters, everyone, it seems, played up the contrast between new and current designs against the historic backdrop of the city. | The Top 10 Moments at Milan Design Week 2014-04-15T15:00:55Z

Allen's novel unfolds against the backdrop of the last years of slavery — Tom was born 12 years before the onset of the Civil War and lived to see the 20th century. 'Song of the Shank' gives poetic voice to a unique American musician 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Amal was supposed to have a picnic with local children, the monasteries a scenic backdrop. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Images of dueling starships flashed across the massive eye-shaped backdrop before its doors parted and Perry emerged on an elevated star platform rocking a Jedi-chic red jumpsuit. Katy Perry’s trippy pop spectacle at Tacoma Dome overshadows growing pains 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

The archetypal tale of Tony and Maria's tender, taboo romance, which ignites a lethal gang showdown, is propelled smoothly against the vivid backdrops of James Youmans. Revamped 'West Side Story' still powerful 2012-01-12T03:01:05Z

The later sections of the novel can feel a little rushed, in part because the backdrop is so huge. Review | It can’t match ‘Wolf Hall,’ but ‘Love and Fury’ captures an English figure with bravura 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

The difficulties of venues have always made me wonder why more artists don't take their shows outside and use the natural beauty of Edinburgh as backdrop. Edinburgh festival: day five at the fringe 2012-08-10T12:33:02Z

In “Path to the Sea,” the road leads through dense banks of trees to a view of gray surf that reads at first like a tear in a painted backdrop, or a porthole. A Final Rhapsody in Blue From Matthew Wong 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Right across the American South, from Houston to the Roden Crater, minimalist artists have chosen to show their work against a backdrop of the natural world. Call of nature: when art imitates life 2011-08-24T11:21:17Z

Everywhere he shows crowds surging and protest banners held aloft against a backdrop of stones and mosques. Smuggled out of Syria to show London, the art of war 2012-11-23T12:17:17Z

Görlitzer Park provides the backdrop to the Berlin version of Shakespeare in the Park. Shakespeare finds a summer backdrop in Berlin 2012-08-15T06:00:02Z

Solomon Hughes, who plays Abdul-Jabbar, said that “the uniqueness of that professional sports team in the backdrop of Hollywood really just changed how we how we look at sports.” ‘Winning Time’: When the N.B.A. Went Pop 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

It’s ambiguous whether its backdrop is a landscape or seascape, yet it’s utterly direct in conveying an unmoored state of mind. September gallery highlights: From Antarctic ice to apocalyptic flames 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

A New York City photographer claims one of her images is being used without her consent as a backdrop in the Tony award-winning Broadway musical "Fela!" NYC photographer sues 'Fela!' producers 2010-07-28T14:25:00Z

It’s as much soundtrack as song, the backdrop for a fashion promotion choreographed by Benjamin Millepied that revels in vertiginous camera angles, then immediately deconstructs them. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

And “Wùlu” tells a gangster tale against the backdrop of Mali’s military coup. What’s on TV Monday: Sports Documentaries and ‘Wùlu’ 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Against that backdrop, Ms. Morgan said, it is “all the more vital that Dia retain its significance in terms of its relationship to living artists.” Dia Art Foundation Appoints a Tate Modern Curator as Its Director 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Art museums, already stuffed with pictures and relentlessly promoted as destinations for cultural tourism, have become a favorite backdrop for this new selfie culture. Art as a mirror of selfie culture? That's 'Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life' 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Getty rebuilt the crumbling villa as a sublime backdrop to his extensive art collection. 11 Hotels to Visit in Your Dreams 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

In the back of the room, Icelanders and tourists took seats at tables with folding chairs in front of a roomy stage with a red-curtain backdrop for the weekly open mike called “Come Talk Funny.” Laughter Under the Midnight Sun 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

“Music for Ensemble and Orchestra” retains much of that piece’s structure and adds a slight harmonic backdrop from the orchestra. Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Yes, it mattered that the company staged those brilliant Act 2 showpieces against the backdrop of a giant pretzel that looked like prison bars. In a season full of 'Nutcracker,' the brilliance of Balanchine shines through 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

The group started backstage, then went above the stage to understand the complex rigging system that “flies” set pieces, backdrops, and scrims on and off the stage. Before his final bow, a Kennedy Center veteran hands out one last backstage pass 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

There wasn’t the cultural upheaval and the backdrop. ArtsBeat: ‘The Woman Who Can Bring Don Draper to His Knees’: Linda Cardellini on Her ‘Mad Men’ Role 2013-06-10T15:00:30Z

His album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan had just been released and Mr Tambourine Man provided the backdrop for myriad eye contacts, a prelude to seduction or not, as was often the case. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z

Matthew J. Fick’s rolling cabinets flip open to reveal beds, pantries and other backdrops, and what at first seems nifty becomes cumbersome. Theater Review: ‘Different Animals’ at Cherry Lane Studio 2013-05-15T20:20:54Z

His challenger, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., emerging from his quarantine campaign — his home-garden backdrop replaced by a traditional line of flags — gave an address calling the presidency “a duty to care.” As Images of Pain Flood TV, ‘Where Is Our Leader?’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

He started to speak to our group with the prison as his backdrop and the road to Albany a sliver of tar in the distance. His first run outside: 27 miles from prison to home 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

A small stage was set up and festooned with balloons and a simple backdrop hung behind it. Pass the Popcorn and Shhh! The Wedding Is About to Start 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

Visitors pose against the rusted backdrop, beneath a metal sign that reads #MilesToMagnolia. Waco, Tex., needed fixing. Luckily, Chip and Joanna Gaines had the tools. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Set against the backdrop of the second Sino-Japanese War, “The Wasted Times” has the outward appearance of being a sweeping gangland epic. Review: ‘The Wasted Times,’ a Hopscotching Shanghai Crime Tale 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The cakes, punctuated with crisp prosciutto, get a vivid red backdrop of tomato sauce sharpened with coriander seeds. A world of D.C. brunch options, no passport required

That “Skyfall” includes a sequence on a train — a passenger one, no less — suggests that this may be very much like your granddaddy’s Bond, even without the bikinied backdrop. Movie Review: ‘Skyfall,’ With Daniel Craig as James Bond 2012-11-07T19:59:51Z

Accidentally bump into a Senegalese music festival right in the heart of Sultanahmet, with the Blue Mosque as a backdrop. Frugal Traveler: $100 Weekend in Istanbul 2011-07-06T15:13:09Z

Lighting designed by Nicole Pearce has the marvelous effect of transforming the geometrically patterned backdrop from sunny yellow to nocturnal blue, and back again. Review: The Unraveling Fantasy of John Heginbotham’s ‘Fantasque’ 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Ben Affleck's current Oscar contender Argo, which is set against the backdrop of the Iran hostage crisis, was on the list just two years ago. 2012 Black List unveils best unproduced screenplays 2012-12-19T13:40:21Z

The set will also serve as a backdrop for complex computer-controlled projections, showing the waves of the Rhine, flames around Brünnhilde’s rock or a snowstorm swirling about Hunding’s hut. For New ?Ring,? Met Reinforces Its Stage With Steel 2010-06-07T18:50:00Z

That photo-shoot backdrop looks awfully similar to the one they used on the red carpet at the film's screening party earlier this week. All the ways Gisele Bundchen's Chanel No. 5 ad confused us 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

"The room, a library in its original incarnation, was the perfect backdrop for our mix of furniture and accessories." Meet the Winner of Our Living Room Showcase Contest 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gomez strutted through an arena spectacle with spiky sets and a busy video backdrop. Review: Selena Gomez, a Disney Graduate, Majors in Angst Onstage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Framed against a backdrop of “Merry Christmas” wrapping paper, both subjects appear confused, but content. A Reconsideration of Santa’s Lap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

After the resolution was blocked, Brothers Osborne released their music video for “Younger Me” using the steps of the state capitol building as the backdrop. Brothers Osborne bring message of inclusivity to CMA stage 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Over the past year, the buildings were transformed into the backdrop for “The Burnt City,” a retelling of the fall of Troy that is the latest show from the British immersive theater company Punchdrunk. An Immersive Show Taps ‘an Oracle’ for a Spin on Greek Myth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

For many touring shows, that means scaling back the set’s grandiosity, with less furniture on stage or soft backdrops instead of hard ones because they’re easier to disassemble. 'Hamilton' hits L.A.: Behind the scenes of the landmark musical's arrival in Hollywood 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, Art Keller is called out of retirement to wage one final battle in a war he can never really win. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

But the show is also known for being a backdrop for drama, and the scene of a few protests. What to Watch For at the Brit Awards 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The tour also includes the iconic Deadvlei, a salty clay pan backdrop to blackened, dead acacia trees; mist approaching from the sea of the Skeleton Coast; and a starlit scene showing the Milky Way. 10 of the best virtual tours of the world's natural wonders 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

But in a manner that might make for a neat twist in one of Ms. Roberts’s novels, the obsession with divorce is playing out against a remarkable backdrop: actual divorce is plummeting. Family Matters: The Joys of Vicarious Divorce 2010-08-27T19:16:00Z

Bracey kept the backdrops from those films at Gods Own Junkyard in Walthamstow, where he also housed discarded shop signs, religious statues and many other items. Neon designer Chris Bracey dies 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

"The backdrop was the inspirational and majestic countryside of Northern India," said the statement, which did not provide any further details on the ceremony. Brand, Perry wed at tiger reserve in India 2010-10-23T21:23:00Z

The piece, "Grand Canyon Illusion," certainly is puzzling to the eye, blending the visitors who pose in it with a scenic, infinite backdrop. Artist brings 3-D pavement art to Grand Canyon 2012-07-16T17:49:12Z

Lebanon’s summer music festivals, set against the backdrop of its most impressive monuments like the Roman temples at Baalbak and the Crusader castle of Byblos, are an important feature in the country, Nora Jumblatt said. Descendent of Arab musical legend brings nostalgia to Lebanese... 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

Yet when the world’s great metropolises can feel like a succession of Instagram backdrops, these pictures of lived-in cities feel not just handsome but restorative. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

It's not a bad metaphor for mid-century Los Angeles; the city's gimcrack glamour is both inspiration for and backdrop to The Drowned Man. How Punchdrunk breathed life into The Drowned Man 2013-06-05T17:00:00Z

The black lines are drawn with ink atop spray-painted fluorescent backdrops, heavy on yellow and orange, that suggest graffiti and skateboard design. In the Galleries: Music and art collide with a pop

“I didn’t want to use Barcelona as a backdrop,” he says. The bestselling literary sensation you may struggle to name 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

I felt that they used the oil spill as a backdrop. Viva Vogue Italia? Oil-inspired spread stirs muck 2010-08-10T19:22:00Z

Against a metallic backdrop, the short, graphic silhouettes were fun and young. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z

The squeaky, echoing musical backdrop is by not-very-well-known Portland producer Jacks Green, who's done great work with Sol before. Friday Favorites: Mr. Hill, Sol, Made in Heights 2011-01-21T21:16:06Z

In her large rooftop rehearsal studio, whose sides are open to the elements, thunder and the whoosh of monsoon rains are part of the musical backdrop to her daily practice. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

However, "The Hurting" especially continues to resonate with younger generations, judging by the abundance of TikTok videos using songs from the album as a backdrop. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

The musical “La La Land” has been a favorite for its charismatic stars and the ways in which it employs Los Angeles as backdrop. Essential Arts & Culture: NEA threats, the Lucas museum vision, minimalist music and the return of Zubin Mehta 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

The bartender is set against a curtain backdrop. Munich: So much more than beer and bratwurst 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Picture the scene: the band's plotting a comeback tour involving a lavish stage show featuring a replica of the monument as a backdrop to their pomp rock classic, Stonehenge. Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z

The sparkly backdrop is a little trite, and the costumes by Katherine Roth are likewise glossy pastiches of period classics, slick suits for the men and silky wrap dresses for the women. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z

Today, the assassination provides the backdrop to Mr. Berney’s new crime novel. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

The women’s bodies appear as soft, undulating curves, as if they are fabric backdrops hung to present their beautiful and monstrous creations. The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Hundreds of transitions switching backdrops, edging us forward in the routine, the occasional fresh adventure. Disneyland with my invisible guest 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a terrific idea for a drama series, but it works even better as a subliminal backdrop to present-day talk of mass incarceration, unwarranted arrests, police brutality and other disturbing symptoms of modern racism. WGN’s thrilling escaped-slave drama ‘Underground’ is overdue — and right on time 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

Producing the publication, due out in a few weeks, cost “significant six figures,” Mr. Cunningham said in a recent interview in his apartment, against a backdrop of Zimmermann copper bowls and a spidery iron candelabrum. Antiques: New Study of Marie Zimmermann, Metalsmith 2011-11-17T22:32:18Z

She estimates half are local and half – about 200 couples – fly over for shoots with backdrops such as the Opera House or St Mary’s Cathedral. The fantasy world of pre-wedding photos: inside China's billion-dollar industry 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The Best Moment Of the Night: Lady Gaga and R. Kelly performed their hit song, “Do What U Want,” with a backdrop that was supposed to be the White House. Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake Win Big: The Best Moments of the American Music Awards 2013-11-25T06:03:51Z

Against a backdrop of rippling light projected through water, the two women leaned on each other. Review: Communicating With the Spirit World Through Dance 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

The studio backdrops will change primarily through projected images and lighting, not cumbersome set pieces. Channel 13 to Open Lincoln Center Studio 2010-04-12T21:42:00Z

There is a long tradition, most recently upheld in the “Harry Potter” movies, of treating boarding schools as backdrops for coming-of-age adventures. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Glasgow is a classic British postindustrial city with some amazing architecture from that period — we really use that as a backdrop to the festival,” says Katrina Brown, the festival director. | Next Stop Glasgow 2012-04-20T15:09:12Z

Photo: SMG PC Plods with complexions like desiccated farm slurry apprehend sundry local "characters" against a backdrop of porridge-grey Glasgow drizzle. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis ? the television shows that won't die 2011-08-12T23:11:04Z

“But against the backdrop of brutal events it was very difficult to focus,” he said. For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Set against the backdrop of a single night as McEnroe wanders the streets of his hometown of New York City, "McEnroe" begins like most documentaries do: at the beginning. Tennis bad boy or perfectionist? Showtime’s “McEnroe” is a candid exploration of a complex star 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

But one fact was indisputable: Rome, as the film’s seductive backdrop, was gorgeous. What to Do in Rome 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

And, of course, Seattle is the immeasurable muse, the backdrop, backbone, the foundation to how we all get down. Shabazz Palaces enters unconventional partnership with Sub Pop 2010-09-02T15:41:00Z

Warm gray paint, such as Benjamin Moore’s Collingwood, provides a neutral backdrop. Making room for hobbies in an Arlington living room 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Only "Memphis," a 1950s interracial romance set against the backdrop of the rhythm 'n' blues explosion, and the much-maligned "Addams Family," based on the macabre New Yorker cartoon characters, fit the bill. Star megawattage could shine in the 2010 Tony noms 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z

With the bridge as a backdrop, he got down on one knee and asked Ms. Gul to marry him. Not Quite Dating, but Certain About Forever 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Unfolding over the span of just a few days, “Song Lang” renders the two men’s brief encounter, heavy with unspoken longing and connection, against a lambent backdrop of golden-green light and swirling dust. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The backdrop is usually the bright gray or depthless black of the ocean. From the Highest Heights to the Lowest Depths, in Photographs 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

She was so happy with how she looked in there that she used the bathroom as the backdrop for a series of 365 self-portraits that she shot daily a few years ago. Bathrooms: Pretty in Pink, Again 2010-12-30T00:05:36Z

It’s the very grit that gave life to so much late 20th-century culture; the same grit “Vinyl” tried to harness as a narrative backdrop. ‘The Get Down’ is a lavish remix of hip-hop history — and a big mess of a TV show 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

As the film shifts its backdrop to gushing waterfalls, the dancers take chugs from water bottles and, with their mouths, spray the liquid onto each other and the stage. Review: A Pina Bausch Trip to Brazil Overstays Its Welcome 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

With this huge tree rising across the backdrop of a faraway lake, Tubbecke comes across as a master of the Surreal. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z

Here’s the plan: airing a super low-budget promo of himself wearing a shark costume superimposed against an ocean backdrop. Hannibal Buress kicks off Shark Week early with a hilarious low-budget promo 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

On “Heavy in Your Arms,” that band’s lead singer, Florence Welch, belts lyrics perfectly suited to the story line, over a backdrop that grows almost symphonic in scale. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z

This provides a solid backdrop for incongruously dark swivels, sometimes accompanied by the kind of shimmies Steph Curry does after hitting a shot near half court. Taylor Tomlinson: A Comic With the Confidence of a Star 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

THE tobacco and textile industries left their imprint on Durham long ago, but now the historic brick mills and repurposed factories form the backdrop of North Carolina’s re-energized Bull City. 36 Hours in Durham, N.C. 2013-01-17T18:19:54Z

“The Help” relegates the turbulence of the civil-rights era to a chaste backdrop for the vibrant liberations of its affluent housewives. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Thinking about the possibility of losing something you value shifts it from the backdrop of your life back to centre stage, where it can deliver pleasure once more. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z

The dry tartness serves as a backdrop for unusual flavorings like zesty lemon peel, grassy green tea or fresh raspberries. Foodie favorites among Berkeley’s warehouses 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

The new set, with a dramatic Manhattan skyline backdrop, befit its Rockefeller Center location. Jimmy Fallon takes helm of 'Tonight Show', brings it back to New York 2014-02-18T05:03:20Z

A forested mountain forms the backdrop at Vail Dance Festival’s open-air amphitheater. This Summer, Get Invigorated With a Live Cultural Performance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Set against the backdrop of the Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum's Sky Church, Tomten was the first wild-card finalist to win the underage battle of the bands in its history. Seattle band Tomten wins EMP's Sound Off! battle of underage bands 2011-03-06T21:11:04Z

But the family said it is still concerned about the “scope and scale” of woven metal tapestries that will serve as the backdrop to the memorial. ArtsBeat: Eisenhower Family Welcomes Some Proposed Memorial Changes, Rejects Others 2012-05-30T19:46:30Z

The festivities continue in Cannon Beach, Ore., about 40 minutes south of Astoria and the backdrop of several coastal scenes from the film. Celebrating ‘The Goonies’ in Oregon 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Anchors mostly travel to war zones and disaster areas to show the flag and mark the story’s magnitude; wars, disasters and presidential visits serve as backdrops. Brian Williams’s War Story 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

"It’s a group of people, a group of heroes, and as it’s set to the backdrop of a Chinese story so there are lots of Chinese heroes." Matt Damon defends role in 'Great Wall' against charge of 'whitewashing' 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

The score evolves in a flow, sometimes barely audible, of isolated instrumental gestures and fragments against a near-continuous backdrop of rumbles, hums and pedal tones. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z

With a glass of white wine in hand and against the backdrop of a harbor, the instructor, Laura Rubin, led a discussion about the group’s preconceptions of the practice. Trying to Process Your Q3? Journal About It. 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

These mistakes became the backdrop for his musings on communication — whether in business or in romance, you can’t always assume the other person knows what you’re trying to say. David Henry Hwang, the Man Who Can Make Bruce Lee Talk 2012-11-10T14:39:45Z

The case plays out against the backdrop of the Margaret Thatcher years in Britain, and the series weaves in connections. ‘Des’ Review: Depravity, Brought to You by David Tennant 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

With this backdrop, it is unsurprising that a poll undertaken for the Museums Association found 80% of respondents saying they did not trust local authorities to safeguard the collections. Hands off our local museum collections 2011-01-14T18:30:38Z

Set against a backdrop of mountain peaks, the home takes full advantage of its dramatic site, with broad window walls and myriad outdoor entertaining spaces. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Her depictions of African American subjects are meticulously finished, with the figures set against brilliantly colored but mostly blank backdrops. Perspective | Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make works ‘to rest your eyes.’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

It is all played out against the backdrop of what Ms. Greensfelder calls “the wallpaper of Washington”: politics. Air-Kisses and Sniping on the Real Housewives of D.C. 2010-06-18T19:20:00Z

The connection is of course boilerplate art history, but to see it made with real-life art and artifacts against the rich backdrop of this exhibition is something else. Art Review: The Heart That Beats, Heats, Chills and Whips 2010-09-19T22:42:00Z

The emotional concentration that a single actor might bring is missing, and Breuer's attempt to direct our emotions using backdrop projections of rain and angels is just tacky. The Gospel at Colonus 2010-08-22T14:51:00Z

The apartment itself is the perfect backdrop to their collection. Peek Inside Zöe and Joel Dictrow’s Art-Filled Home 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Pop stars perform until past midnight, with the city’s skyline and Bayfront Park as the backdrop. What’s on TV Saturday: New Year’s Eve 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

"I keep it under lock and key the rest of the year, but Christmas provides the perfect backdrop for it," she says. Plaid scarves, fleece-lined boots and pea coats won't do 2011-12-05T17:18:31Z

But the movie adaptation reaches beyond its source to broaden its backdrop and evoke resonant depths of mood, context, history, and perspective. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Reviewed: Melissa McCarthy Finally Gets the Dramatic Role She Deserves 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The ribs of lighting that formed the show backdrop ushered in not-so-casual coats and jackets, with a block of orange as a shot of color. Special Report: Fashion: Sportswear Rules 2011-06-27T16:00:21Z

It is as if London only matters as a backdrop to the main narrative – namely whether or not special agent Gerard Butler can manage to extract US President Aaron Eckhart. London Has Fallen: can city siege movies survive the age of terror? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Even in earlier, more personal novels such as “The Black Dahlia” — which serves, in part, as a memorial to his own murdered mother, Geneva Hilliker — the social backdrop is meticulously drawn. Review | James Ellroy continues his examination of the corrupt and powerful with ‘This Storm’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Against these backdrops, his characters engage in bad behavior, making poor moral decisions — frequently having to do with the transport and disposal of bodies — on an epic scale. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Journalism played an especially vital role during the Trump era, which was the backdrop of most of this show. Saying goodbye to “The Bold Type”: “Happily ever after” looks different for all women 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Such cultural intermingling occurs against a dramatic backdrop of Alpine mountains that border the city on three sides, clutching this delicate urban cord in their collective palm. Sarajevo’s Enduring Optimism 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

They liked the “bizarre backdrop” of Vegas as a “manifestation of American excess,” Bill says, videochatting from the brothers’ office in New Orleans. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

“I’m trying to understand the backdrop I’m working in. That seems really important. The idea that art in L.A. is new or of the last five years — that’s pretty crazy.” New Main Museum in downtown Los Angeles reveals 'Beta' plans — and focus on art in L.A. 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

No matter his chosen backdrop, it's Ellis' vocals – subtle, refined, yet bleeding with hurt – that take centre stage. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … modern country music 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

For any child of 15 or younger, their whole life has been conducted against the unfolding backdrop of the Potter phenomenon: the book launches; the film premieres; the will-he-won't-he of Harry's battle with Voldemort. The age of Harry Potter draws to a close 2011-07-06T10:02:42Z

On one hand, to make a story credible and entertaining, the more realistic the backdrop that you depict, the more willing someone’s going to be to believe it. Q&A: The Real Forensic Psychiatrist Behind Side Effects 2013-02-08T15:00:26Z

Unwin renders the tray as a flat white spray-painted series of circles, oblongs and squares, while the backdrop is a mesh of midnight blues and dirty oranges, like passing landscapes. Artist of the week 121: Phoebe Unwin 2011-01-12T15:42:42Z

Heather Lockard has designed piquant period costumes, and Jason Aufdem-Brinke’s deft lighting turns simple backdrops into tapestries for the castle scenes, complementing the set’s few furnishings. Review | Bravo for reviving the play that scandalized Jane Austen’s world 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

“The whole city seems to exist as a backdrop for FIAC,” Ms. Flay said. At 44, a Paris Art Fair Is Gaining Even More Steam 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Over the years, the city has been the backdrop and incubator of some of the nation’s most heated racial tensions and class uprisings. The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

It appears her Trump news channel is produced by his reelection campaign as Lara is speaking against the backdrop that promotes his campaign website – DonaldJTrump.com. Trump’s daughter-in-law pushes his propaganda: Lara Trump launches “real news” show to praise the president 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The scene features the two of them at a candlelit table — she in a stunning rose-colored gown, him in a flawless suit, with the Empire State building lit up as a backdrop. “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

And it serves its purpose as an uncluttered backdrop for a highly cluttered story. ‘Fortress of Solitude,’ Now With Musical Numbers, at the Public Theater 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Its dueling thematic backdrops were two movies released in June 1966, “The Naked Prey” and “Born Free.” ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: The Intersection of Individual Hells 2012-04-23T06:34:16Z

One of the show’s most elaborate backdrops simulated a club in Lisbon. Madonna Is Still Taking Chances 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

The bridge in "Selma" is the backdrop, of course, for political struggles that predate the Internet Age. 'Citizenfour's' paranoid spaces echoed in other Oscar nominees 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

The same Palladian circular temple stays at the center of the backdrop, flanked by the same Claude Lorrain-like harbor views in Act I and a hundred years later in Act III. Dance Review: David Hallberg at Bolshoi in ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-11-22T00:00:10Z

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

And second, as a photo backdrop, once it was relocated to the ballroom at the Langham hotel in Pasadena, Calif., for their 450 reception guests. A Huppah Just for You (Your Style, Personality and Budget) 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the distorting backdrop of the sculpture, but the scene took on a dreamlike quality. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

And that's how Iñárritu knew whom to call last year when he was contemplating a very different kind of sonic backdrop for his Fox Searchlight film. Antonio Sanchez's soaring beat takes flight in 'Birdman' 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

When Hollywood began relying increasingly on green screens, Johnson stood out, larger-than-life, against muddy digital backdrops of crumbling cities and candy-colored jungles. ‘Red Notice’ Review: When the Stars Don’t Shine 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

But even the best new schemes tend to see public spaces becoming the backdrop to commercial activities, with heavy security usually just in the background. Glasgow's welcome stand against the '21st-century square' 2013-01-28T10:30:01Z

"Friendship, loyalty, betrayal, power, class and jealousy - just set against a very modern backdrop." Face to face 2011-02-14T08:34:09Z

A word about the arresting photo backdrops in the James Youmans set: these projections of the Boston skyline are like a sociological Google map, pinpointing the geography of the haves and have-nots. ‘Good People’ portrays the haves and have-nots 2013-03-16T16:53:55Z

The store has of late become a backdrop for social media photo shoots, despite the laminated sign reading “Please limit browsing. No photos of the content.” Casa Magazines Has Seen It All 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

It's a small room with a small stage and a predictable brick wall that serves as a backdrop. Meet the inscrutible, electric Hannibal Buress 2011-06-15T21:32:00Z

The viking theme is a welcome backdrop, and exploring as a female character in a Nordic, male-dominated digital universe is fun. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Lodging for the first few days will be at the Ion Luxury Adventure Hotel, set against a backdrop of mountainous lava fields and home to the Silfra Restaurant, which specializes in Nordic cuisine. Trout Fishing in Iceland 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The presence of a serial killer at work in Venice doesn't so much turn the film into a psycho-thriller as contribute to the backdrop of watery gloom. Don't Look Now: No 3 best horror film of all time 2010-10-22T10:52:00Z

Even Woody Allen has left town, preferring London as a backdrop over his native New York in recent years. New York's faces: `Law & Order' showed 'em all 2010-05-15T21:01:00Z

McCartney made good use of the video backdrop, ranging from vintage photos to "Rock Band" avatars. Paul McCartney thrills L.A. crowd with hits, tales 2010-04-01T00:20:00Z

The narrator's family exists almost as a backdrop, but also somehow as the most important thing in her life. Teen book club: Sara Zarr's Top 10 family dramas 2012-10-05T08:42:52Z

The backdrop is a black sky, thickly studded with stars. Dance Review: From Japan, a Reminder That We Are Dust, and to Dust We Return 2010-10-06T21:44:00Z

For nearly four decades Anne Perry’s riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era. ‘Murder on the Serpentine’: The end for Anne Perry’s Thomas Pitt? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

And they are mostly happy to be remembered, even as the backdrop for someone else’s story. ‘Argo,’ as Seen by the Iran Hostage Crisis Survivors 2012-10-16T16:33:06Z

The ballad's piano and acoustic guitar provide the perfect backdrop for Potter's tender vocals. Grace Potter & the Nocturnals release a powerful new album 2012-06-11T21:01:04Z

It recalled another film using American disintegration as the backdrop for myth, 2009's Winter's Bone; together, they suggested a new sub-genre, the American Exotic, shaping flinty myth from forays into the American subcontinent. Brits in Spandex and girl power: movie trends that will keep us talking in 2013 2013-01-03T16:35:05Z

On the backdrop, a single large crescent moon is stationary, whereas in City Ballet’s production it changed and traveled. A Robbins Rarity, ‘Watermill,’ Reimagined as a Chamber Piece 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The children and the quartet, as a small chamber orchestra, play a lilting performance of "Autumn", 13 Stations of the Cross as backdrop. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

Against a cutout backdrop that splits like a jagged puzzle, a massive sun of coiled wires floats across the stage. Review | In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ a searing indictment of the Taliban’s treatment of women 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Still, beans and rice are all you need as a backdrop for the churrasco, and are both improved by a spoonful of farofa, a crunchy dust of toasted manioc flour mined with crumbled bacon. Churrasco That Rises Above at Paladar in East Harlem 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

As the literal “face” of Chanel, Ms. Qualley is on offer as another consumable commodity, positioned against backdrops designed to convey global sophistication, refinement and indulgence. The Cinderella Myth We Can’t Quit 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

A semi-exposed kitchen is backdrop to a casual, cacophonous bar and dining room drenched in tawny light from vintage fixtures. Six new restaurants vie for your attention this spring 2012-04-26T20:08:04Z

The books trace the lives of two women from their childhoods in poverty in Naples into the middle class against the backdrop of Italian postwar history, exploring the complexities of female friendship. Who Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals His Answer 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles filmmaker Michael Brewer said it's an effort to humanize the trans community against a backdrop of media that, more often than not, sensationalize or poke fun. 'In Full Bloom' spotlights transgender community 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Everything was deep green, and against the backdrop of fog and clouds the world became shape and shadow. My Return to Nepal, in Memoriam 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

When I arrived, fog hung in the oak-covered hills that border the city, providing a lush backdrop for the Western-style storefronts downtown. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Nearly everything now billed as world music involves some degree of crossover and packaging, even video backdrops. Music Review: Sounds of the World, Sousaphones Included 2011-01-10T22:56:20Z

Yet, in the midst of this pandemic, that backdrop seems especially attractive. From Fashion to a Fantasia in Stone 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Video images of Pennsylvania farms and farmers will be the backdrop for performers on the main stage. Behind the music, Farm Aid's work helps farmers 2012-09-20T22:34:09Z

The backdrop was untamed vegetation, a rusted dock and railroad tracks. Rich in Surprises and Secrets, There’s a State Park Waiting for You 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

The show is part of a 15-concert stand and combines live performance, video reenactments, archival concert, op-art backdrops and psychedelic lighting. Review: The Rascals find a fountain of youth 2013-04-17T00:31:13Z

"The rest is really just a backdrop," Netzer told reporters, stressing that it is "a very universal story" and that "corruption is not something which is only taking place in Romania." Romanian movie `Child's Pose' wins at Berlin fest 2013-02-17T00:01:04Z

The sweeping staircase is also a popular backdrop. Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

The audience sits on the stage, too, watching the play from a kind of reverse angle, with a view of the empty auditorium as a haunting backdrop. - NYTimes.com 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Ever-changing backdrops and increasingly challenging situations involving trap doors and sliding platforms keep children interested. Travel Apps and Games for Children on the Go 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

“In the past couple years, I’ve done a lot of work on myself,” says one of the most distinctive voices in comedy, as a black screen transitions into an empty backdrop of a stage. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

He is currently a Stegner fellow at Stanford University, and his first novel, “99 Nights in Logar,” was an interconnected series of stories with the war as a backdrop. The Echoes and Echoes and Echoes of War 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

A mobile photo studio has been temporarily abandoned, the box camera waiting in front of a backdrop of the Taj Mahal. William Gedney’s Travels in India 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

One of them, “Backdrop: An Invisible Art,” features the backdrop of Mount Rushmore used in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic, “North by Northwest,” one of my favorite films. In Los Angeles, a new museum celebrates the art of moviemaking 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Highclere Castle, west of London, made famous as the backdrop for the PBS series “Downton Abbey,” is a sought-after site for weddings. A Fairy-Tale Wedding, Castle Included 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

In a Bushwick studio, Collins and her assistants created mockups of the natural settings, spreading sand on the floor and installing painted backdrops. The Female Gaze of Petra Collins 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Abstracted green parks, roads, bars and an aerial view of the landscape created a backdrop for men and women. 2010-01-18T09:24:00Z

Wheeldon gives the score’s moment of transfiguration to the backdrop, letting both the dancers and us gaze at it in wonder, as we might behold a glorious dawn. Review: City Ballet Holds Steady as an Old Guard Meets the New 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

This was the backdrop against which my parents met at a Catholic university in Milwaukee in the 1960s. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

Both sadhu and runaway are fascinating because we see their idiosyncratic paths against the backdrop of the crowd mentality. ‘Faith Connections,’ About the Hindu Festival Kumbh Mela 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The backdrop to it all is the slow decompensation of Will’s mother as she attempts to find her son, alternately by law enforcement or by communing with the spectral realm. Review: 'Stranger Things' Is Nostalgia That Works 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The whipping post, the auction-block, the backdrop of Jefferson’s designs for campus buildings: The violent scene described on the gallery wall is one that played out in an undeniably architectural setting. Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

The arrangements provide a plush, tuneful backdrop for lyrics that proffer sympathy but also twist the knife. Reviews: New Albums From Big Sean, Emile Haynie and DRKWAV 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

From Windhoek, we drove four hours through an alternating backdrop of featureless plains and undulating hills before taking a break. 7 Days, 1,500 Miles in Namibia 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The set designer, Marsha Ginsberg, offers a long, shallow stage with a white backdrop sloping sharply to the floor. In ‘Love in the Wars,’ Achilles Battles an Amazon Queen 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

Graffiti was an undeniable part of the backdrop of city life in 1980s New York. Filling In an '80s Comic With Real Graffiti Tags 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

I painted the backdrops so people who act in front, act in paintings. Paolo Ventura Designs a ‘Carousel’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

He hung strips of red ribbon across the backdrop to help the eye register speed. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

There's a brewing crisis in this rustic sanctuary, which scenic designer Tom Buderwitz brings to life on a rotating bed-and-breakfast set that is placed against a backdrop of storybook tress. In 'Casa Valentina,' cross-dressing men show their feminine side 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

There was even a feisty performance, with six female singers wearing jeans and forest-green T-shirts, of the “Ride of the Valkyries” ensemble, against a dream-come-true Wagnerian backdrop: a real forest. Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

That it takes place against the backdrop of the American Southwest makes it even more accessible as a cracking piece of popcorn entertainment. 'Kites': a star-crossed love story, Bollywood style 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z

Several songs reference the personal and emotional ramifications of political strife, while "Famous Last Words" uses apocalyptic imagery as a backdrop for praising the importance of personal connection. From the Beatles influence to personal strife, revisiting Tears for Fears' complex "Seeds of Love" 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

And yet Germany’s Holocaust and self-destruction are always the backdrop, if never quite forming an integral part of Aryan Germans’ experience. Fate and furies 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s a story about mutual understanding with the backdrop of a war. There’s no part of ‘Devotion’ that really wants to celebrate war.” A Cast and Crew’s Commitment to Making ‘Devotion’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

For the next free evening, on Aug. 16, “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” will be shown on the flight deck, with the city’s skyline as a backdrop. Things to Do With Kids in N.Y.C. This Summer 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

There’s some quite clever dancing in and out of a movie backdrop, and then some skipping with tablecloths. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

At La Palosa, near Stintino at the northwest tip of the island, a picturesque ruined stone tower was the backdrop as my son played with the other toddlers and parents on the blindingly white sand. Personal Journeys: A Return to Sardinia?s Maddalena Archipelago 2011-10-14T18:55:02Z

In a corner stood a white backdrop covered in company logos. Citizen Kushner 2011-06-24T21:35:16Z

From the very first frame, the movie’s concern with deception is signaled as a bikini-clad exhibition model feigns water-skiing against a painted backdrop. ‘The Mercy’ Review: Sailing Around the World, or Maybe Not 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

He “MacGyvered” a studio in his apartment complete with lighting, backdrop, multiple cameras and a computer. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

The film features Oswald in an ice hockey game against a winter wonderland backdrop and has surreal touches with the rabbit at one point removing his ear to make a balloon. Lost Walt Disney film discovered in British Film Institute archive 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

We would be able to experience Brazilian beach and party cultures, but with an entirely different backdrop — deep within the Amazon– that threw them just a bit off their axes. Frugal Traveler: Nightlife and Beaches in Brazil, for Less Than the Cost of Rio 2011-03-08T21:15:24Z

These are unprecedented times for manufacturers of night-time cityscape backdrops for TV studios. 'Satire has had a busy year': how to laugh at the year that was 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Inspired by 19th-century Beaux-Arts proportions, the walls have simplified Classical cornices and dados, creating a sense of the grand, domestic proportions that were the original backdrop for many of these canvases decades ago. Metropolitan Museum Completes American Wing Renovation 2012-01-05T23:11:11Z

The social uprising makes for a chaotic backdrop, but its forces don’t seem to be what drives the pair apart. ‘Will You Come With Me?’ Review: Love in the Age of Revolution 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

In her letter to the National Film Preservation Foundation seeking funding, she described the “rare and historically significant primary source depictions of segregated Mississippi against the backdrop of violent opposition.” Right Out of Hollywood, a Witness to History 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

But singing was at best a backdrop, maybe even an obstacle. The accidental opera star: 'A lot of the purists, they don’t believe my story' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

However, “A Girl in Exile” — set in the 1980s against a backdrop of interrogation, exile and thwarted lives — also offers a more incandescent tale. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Chinese artist Liu Bolin, known as "the invisible man" for using painted-on camouflage to blend into the backdrops of his photographs, says his latest project aims to put the spotlight on China's air pollution problem. Artist Liu Bolin live streams Beijing smog to raise awareness 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Reykjavik's Midnight Sun makes for a breathtaking backdrop to the #DisneyMagic. Disney announces new cruises and destinations for 2020 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

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

“Traditionally, the island has always served as just a backdrop for this overheated social activity,” he said. Is the Party Over on Fire Island? 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

For most, though, the primary function of Lake Tahoe in winter is as a breathtaking backdrop. Explorer: Kayaking Lake Tahoe in Winter 2011-02-25T21:55:00Z

The hive of worker bees buzzing on the video backdrop, swelling and separating in mesmerizing movement, signaled the designer’s inspiration. Fashion Review: A Game of Checkers 2012-10-04T07:21:21Z

So it was no surprise that music was the backdrop for their proposal in 2016. Perspective | A musical connection led this couple to a lifelong love song 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

This much is true: so why not explore that world’s treatment of women, rather than have it as a decorative backdrop, huge breasts and ballet-dancing holograms included? Is Blade Runner 2049 a sexist film – or a fair depiction of a dystopic future? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

Climate may be the big slow-moving backdrop, but weather is what happens here and now, to our settlements and landscapes, to us. The unpredictable power of nature 2013-02-15T18:01:01Z

Against this complex backdrop, art seems to be just one more feather in his cap. Art Review: James Franco?s ?Dangerous Book? of Art 2010-08-19T22:00:00Z

Phylicia Rashad will direct the 1982 drama, set against a backdrop of Jim Crow racism, in which a 1920s Chicago recording session by the great blues singer and her band turns explosive. Taper's 2016 season features Pulitzer winner and 3-hour Civil War epic by Suzan-Lori Parks 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

As contemporary pop’s preeminent nocturnal overlord, the Weeknd’s music has always been the backdrop to a lifestyle no one should lead — he even warned “this ain’t nothing to relate to” on “Kiss Land.” The Weeknd’s decade of dystopia 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Concrete and tile flooring, exposed brick walls, and original floor-to-ceiling French doors that lead to the dining terrace provide a backdrop for leather and tweed upholstery, wood tables, and walnut, brass, and blown-glass light fixtures. Nina Compton Opens Compère Lapin in New Orleans 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

In “Estancia,” set on a ranch with dancing wild horses, Mr. Calatrava contributes the sort of painted backdrops that are becoming obsolete. Dance Review: Rosy Sunsets, Silver Caves and Three Divergent Works 2010-09-27T23:31:00Z

His large-format studio portraits from the 1940s to the 60s are of individuals, families and suited professionals, and he often used ornate backdrops and extravagant props such as Vespa scooters and flashy cars. Self-publish or be damned: why photographers are going it alone 2010-06-04T11:50:00Z

A world where the struggle for status and the great erotic campaigns of early adulthood are pictured obliquely against an autumnal backdrop and a mood of poignant fade-out. Review | ‘The Tale of Genji’ is Japan’s most revered book, and likely the first novel ever. This exhibition takes us into its enigmatic world. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The eroded apartment complex that links them is the backdrop for unbearable pain as well as the promise of transformation and reconciliation. A must-read list: The enduring contributions of African American women writers 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

It’s against this backdrop that Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette becomes just Colette, a transition that Willy hastens, including by lying about his serial infidelities. Review: ‘Colette’ and One Woman’s Lust for Life 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

I’m also seeing narratives where characters aren’t necessarily singing the songs but the music forms the backdrop of the story. 'Evan Hansen,' 'Great Comet,' 'Come From Away': Tony contenders gather to hash it out 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Seoul is an important backdrop because I wanted to represent the clash between generations,” Ms. Shin said. Seoul’s Hundred Faces 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The portraits are formally staged, with a pleated curtain as a backdrop and with decorative props, but there’s a casual jauntiness about many of them that is appealing. Lost and Found Photos from a South African Portrait Studio 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

The rest, including his portraits, often look like ornate tableaux where the eye is constantly drawn from the subject to the backdrop and back again. Dennis Hopper: actor, director and ? yes ? brilliant photographer 2010-04-28T12:17:00Z

The mooncake, a bright, warm, golden confection against the backdrop of deep night and stars, entices Little Star, who nibbles on it a bit every night. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The friendship they develop together — and their covert dairy operation — is explored against a forested frontier backdrop. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘First Cow’ and ‘The Line’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

This is the arresting concept behind “SKĒNĒ,” Majoli’s New York gallery première, named for the backdrop in an ancient Greek theatre—the dividing structure between preparation and performance, behind which actors change masks and costumes. Alex Majoli’s “SKĒNĒ”: The World as a Photojournalist’s Stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

But as Amir ascends from the river to the bridge, walking past the ancient stone stairs, the picturesque streets, the backdrop of musicians in the bazaar, he has another task. Is This the World’s Most Picturesque High Dive? 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Some of Williams’s abstractions are very nearly landscapes, or at least include such hallmarks of the genre as horizon lines and sky-blue backdrops. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Actresses wear the striped outfits of concentration camps against a backdrop of images depicting camp entrances, gas chambers and empty sleeping quarters. Romania’s Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

Donovan's locations – pedestrian subways, industrial backdrops, East End streets – are fascinating in their own right. Terence Donovan Fashion edited by Diana Donovan and David Hillman – review 2012-12-16T00:05:04Z

Both video and still photos will serve as an illustrative backdrop to the music. Celebrating a subdued kind of blues 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Pacific Place is showing two Chinese productions opening this week: "My Kingdom," a drama set against the backdrop of Shanghai opera, and the romantic comedy "Love in Space." A Skolimowski series ? and 'Stand By Me' is 25 2011-09-08T20:35:04Z

The puppets came from a finger-puppet book, the houses were made from building blocks and the backdrop was downloaded screen savers. Previews of the 3 Minute Masterpiece winning films 2011-05-18T19:56:10Z

Ms. Shallenberg’s lighting brings many marvels, with brightness or shadow passing up, down or across the backdrop in dramatic ways. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z

The installation was the backdrop to a cocktail party celebrating the budding relationship between Saks and Dior. Karlie Kloss, Ruth Bell and Rebecca Hall Celebrate Dior at Saks Fifth Avenue 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, what ambitions do the hosts have for the show? Can a Podcast Save the U.K.? Crooked Media Takes on British Politics 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

I was writing a condition-of-England novel set against a backdrop of the collapse of the steel industry and the miners' strike. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

At other times, on the station I was watching, the cameras turned to frame him, sitting against a pitch-black and cavernous backdrop. The non-roar of the invisible crowd: Stage design at the first Trump-Clinton debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

The Johnny Cash Project: "Ain't No Grave" Nominated for: Best Short Form Music Video An intimate, ambitiously crowd-sourced video makes a fitting backdrop for the late Man in Black's hauntingly gorgeous rasp. Ten Grammy nominees that don't suck 2011-02-12T17:10:00Z

Together with children from other marriages and one from their own, they confront environmental disaster and their fear of mortality against a colorful backdrop of ’80s logos. Winter Movies 2022: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop Boccaccio gathers 10 young Florentines – seven women and three men – who retire to the countryside until the plague passes. A brief survey of the short story part 31: Boccaccio 2011-02-09T12:31:30Z

The place is a mess, but the backdrop is spectacular. A contemporary photographic look at Gauguin's Polynesia 2012-02-23T21:29:05Z

Happily even the kebab and pizza place backdrop has disappeared since 2009 in favour of the Royal Opera House and Covent Garden. The Baftas are so British, and no one blubs when they win 2012-02-12T14:30:01Z

“Sippin’ lean, takin’ E, Percocets, Purple drank, Xanax, everything sound the same,” he rapped against the backdrop of an animated rapper with slot-machine eyes flashing a variety of drugs and jewels. Review | Joyner Lucas has a heavy-handed message, but makes it look good 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

It's not in a plum slot – it's too noisy to function well as a dinner backdrop and on too early for the sherry haze. Tom Ewing 2010-12-23T22:14:01Z

The 1945 version is a primo Warner Bros women's picture in noir tones, adding a murder mystery that wasn't in the novel and subtracting all reference to the Depression, which forms Cain's detailed economic backdrop. Bong Joon-Ho's tormented Mother has a lot in common with the film noir classic Mildred Pierce 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

But in her very history-making presence on that stage in Wilmington, Del., against a backdrop of American flags and in front of a socially distanced few, there was the fresh wisp of hope. Perspective | The warning from Kamala Harris and the convention’s third night: Our house is on fire 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

“One of my character’s roles is to kick off the action,” Jagger explains, noting that until he shows up, the audience might think they’re in for a steamy romance set against a fabulously romantic backdrop. Perspective | Mick Jagger is a movie star again, and it’s about time 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The set designer Robert Israel’s boat turned and twisted on the stage to show itself from every possible angle, while video projections at the back of the stage created a dreamy fantasy-landscape backdrop. ‘Florencia in the Amazon’ with Goerke: An ephemeral dream in first WNO outing

And the film demonstrates that it is against this backdrop that people of color are expected to survive and thrive in America. BlacKkKlansman: the grim topicality of Spike Lee's 70s-set KKK film 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

To a sequence of recorded country-flavored tunes that scarcely vary in beat, six dancers stride in steady time, upstage and down, in front of a rainbow-striped backdrop. Review: A night at Northwest New Works ? playful men with verve, serious women on the verge 2010-06-06T16:59:00Z

Fishing and hunting serve as both backdrop and metaphor in these tales. Alaska books: Bearing down on hope, survival 2011-12-01T00:43:04Z

Flanking the bag, five prints on stretched fabric float from wires like high-concept backdrops. E. Jane Signals a Vibe Shift in What ‘Performance’ Means 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of worries over a “feminized” Miller Lite beer, Don finds his manly independence threatened. 'Mad Men' Recap: On the Road Again 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

It was here that the kid got a feel for the docks that would provide the backdrop to Rocky. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Dev deftly weaves themes of family and friendship into a beautiful romance, setting the story against a backdrop of a massive Indian American wedding, all while tackling issues of mental illness, family expectations and celebrity. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for October 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

Their original production used a pub, that Irish temple to music, as a sort of spiritual backdrop to the story. At SCR, the musical 'Once' raises its hopeful voice 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gilot said she was greatly looking forward to seeing her painting as a backdrop, after a painstaking large-scale re-creation from the original canvas, which was kept at hand for color and textural comparison. Teaming Up to Pair Art and Ballet in American Ballet Theater’s ‘AfterEffect’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

This favoured sector of the Cape Winelands dishes up some lush scenery, with row upon row of gnarled vines as a foreground and the abrupt Groot Drakenstein Mountains as a backdrop. Top 10 bike-friendly wine routes 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

North Korean state TV this week showed performers dressed as Minnie Mouse, Tigger and other characters dancing against a backdrop of footage from Disney movies, an unusual departure for the isolated nation. US chides NKorea over unauthorized Disney display 2012-07-10T19:07:09Z

The metropolitan backdrop, which included professional women, he says, provided a refreshing alternative to the usual stereotypical narratives about the South. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

"Manhattan," filmed on location on the outskirts of Santa Fe, about a half-hour drive from Los Alamos, is using all that as a backdrop for the story behind the story, however. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

And while it is artfully rendered against a white backdrop, the performances convince viewers that they have seen the entire episode. "Flux Gourmet" is an absurdist adventure in pretentious performance art made from food sounds 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

His backdrop was a window onto a dark forest; videos showed plants blossoming, predators pursuing prey and ravaging storms. Music Review: Two Bands Ascending to Falsetto: A-ha and Jonsi 2010-05-09T22:35:00Z

The reviewer criticizes the film for using the Israeli occupation as a backdrop. Julian Schnabel Discusses His New Film, a Palestinian Story 2011-03-22T17:11:02Z

Alsop’s stately, more conventionally beautiful approach offered an incongruous backdrop to Zukerman’s leaner, more rhetorical interpretation. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit

When that set becomes the backdrop to a viscerally exciting fight, all the red abruptly evokes the spilled blood that this otherwise squeaky clean series insistently elides. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

A crew was untangling ropes of cherry blossoms to form the backdrop of Madama Butterfly’s house in Nagasaki. The Met’s Herculean Task: 4 Operas in 48 Hours 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The choice of a medical backdrop remains somewhat obscure. A Doctor Checks Up on a New 'Allegro' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The drama of this moment is heightened all the more as it is clearly set against the backdrop of the French city and the Casbah – two worlds forever locked in mutual antagonism. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z

And the closing stages don't even try to be funny, as Toksvig addresses the grim Boer war backdrop to her novel. Sandi Toksvig – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T17:00:15Z

Part of the house is intact, and the ruins are a romantic backdrop for the landscape. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

But of course the design wonderland is just a backdrop for the savory food. | In Madrid, An All-Organic Menu Meets Striking, Surrealist Design 2014-04-24T20:05:17Z

But it played out against the backdrop of the Biafran war, with a stark clarity that automatically gave it gravitas. Books of The Times: ‘Americanha,’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013-05-19T20:26:59Z

It owes this success mainly to the viral success of "mannequin challenge" videos that feature people frozen in place, often with the hip-hop duo's music as a backdrop. Tribe Called Quest tops Billboard chart for first time in 20 years 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

The action takes place against the impressive backdrop of the ruins of St Mary's Abbey, which, like the original Mystery Plays themselves, was closed down during the Reformation of the 16th Century. Mystery Plays resurrected in York 2012-08-09T09:20:01Z

They keep their voices high, small and tremulous over a brusque beat topped with quasi-Baroque keyboards and strings, a genteel backdrop for deep neediness. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

A patch of golden thread blossoms alongside the trail mustered a streak of color against the dark green backdrop. Restoring Acadia’s Trails 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

If you want people to concentrate on the clothes, the ideal fashion show backdrop is probably not a giant parachute in orange spandex with a dozen people squirming, thrashing and wiggling underneath it. Daisy Lowe, human blob cap Rio fashion week 2012-01-15T01:46:09Z

For almost four hours their lonely, depressing lives are slowly woven together against the backdrop of a stifling society and an indifferent world and. What’s on TV Monday: ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’ on Criterion and a PBS Documentary 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Their backdrops are hilarious: Basically all of the corporate drama in the book happens around fire pits, at themed bars or twee espresso spots, in hot tubs and at Lake Tahoe. Scrolling Through the Rise, and Takeover, of Instagram 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

How well the local economy is faring against the backdrop of public-sector cuts depends on who you talk to. What would you cut? Durham council asks residents to find £100m savings 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

But like the deliberate banality of Magritte's backdrops, these familiar settings are always charged with something less ordinary. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z

In the end, a backdrop rose to reveal the theater’s windows and a sign designed by James Vance — “Honk if you love Dancenoise” — overlooking the West Side Highway. Review: Dancenoise Brings Biting Commentary (and Fake Blood) to the Whitney 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Models walked with the city skyline and train tracks as a backdrop, wearing oversize nylon and neoprene coats with wide shoulders from which delicate transparent dresses and tulle skirts peeped. Prada brings Milan to its feet, with a collection of bold lines and... 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The novel “Lost Children Archive” unfolds against this very backdrop of crisis: of children crossing borders, facing death, being detained, being deported unaccompanied by their guardians. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

You may even read Jason Sherwood’s set as a sneaky comment on the writing style: The backdrop is a black-and-white photograph of a plantation’s facade, slightly cantilevered so it looms over the playing area. Review: Fixing a Dispassionate Stare on Slavery in ‘Southern Promises’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

It defined both their lives: for Mr. Roderick, it was the backdrop for a remarkable career as a journalist covering China in the Mao era. Minka: A Farmhouse in Japan 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Pip becomes an Indian village boy whose encounter with an escaped convict leads to a startling change in his life, lived out against a backdrop of Indian caste and English class obsessions. This week's new theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z

He’s used the city of Florence as a backdrop, filming some scenes connected to the artist portrayed — like the visit to Tchaikovsky’s old home — and knitting them into the livestream. Live from Italy, Hershey Felder tells stories, helps others 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Because the music was the backdrop for a dance, it seems, it didn’t count. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sharp’s ponderous words — delivered as sighs, as much as singing — took a reflective tone over the unerringly bouncy backdrop. Pop Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Barker-Frayland said she wanted to cast their story against the backdrop of Brooklyn's vibrant music scene. Music takes on different guises at Sundance Film Festival 2014-01-16T02:25:01Z

Dawn Whitmore uses black-and-white photos of her life between ages 20 and 30 as backdrops for full-color compositions that feature vividly realistic images of plants and fruit. In the galleries: A debate between red and blue at Charles Krause

The exterior backdrops tend to be overtly artificial, the skies so streaked with orange that you half expect to see Scarlett O’Hara shaking her fist at the heavens. 2010-01-15T04:07:00Z

Mr. Indiana’s set, which he designed in 1998 when Mr. Wulp staged the play in Maine, consists of a simple backdrop advertising the various meats available in the store. For ‘Red Eye of Love’ Musical, Curtain Will Finally Rise 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

When the stage empties, and the lights intensify on the simple backdrop — gray on top, white on the bottom — we could be looking out at the horizon. Review: This Sublime New Dance Work Embraces Wonder 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

It concerns a starlet and an obsessive fan, with Comic-Con as a backdrop. Sandra Tsing Loh's new play is one of five premieres in SCR season 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

What makes the song is what surrounds the strum: a smooth yet constantly changing backdrop of instruments and voices, with a neo-psychedelic lead guitar or a folksy harmonica sometimes floating to the surface. The Playlist: The War on Drugs and Lana Del Rey Deliver Two Kinds of Reveries 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Yesterday it was confirmed that the disgraced former MP had returned to Northern Ireland to discover that her stranger-than-fiction life has become the backdrop for a play opening in Belfast this month. Iris Robinson's homophobia 'inspires' play 2010-09-20T06:30:00Z

She jumps around in time a bit, shifting forward and back as she surveys the terrain, fills in the backdrop and introduces a range of survivors, heroes, scientists and activists. ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Review: Some Say the World Will End in Fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

None of us anticipated, of course, that six years later our conversations about cultural appropriation would take place against a vastly different backdrop. Stuff white people like: Yoga, tacos and pretending the white supremacy that fuels cultural appropriation doesn’t exist 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

The backdrop to the entire evening’s performance was an archway, illuminated around the edge with bulbs, like a dressing room mirror. The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The Play Lawn is a gigantic field with a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline’s skyscrapers and high-rises. On New York’s Governors Island, the living is mellow and the water is every shade of blue

Blending walk, performance and architectural installations, the piece is part of a growing trend to tap into perambulation and creativity and to use the natural landscape as a backdrop for theatre. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-17T23:05:38Z

She uses neutrals as a backdrop for bold accent colors to create a fun and visually interesting space that blends in with the other side of the room. Creating a work and storage space that’s anything but office-sterile 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Use the foundation wall as a backdrop for lanterns and art, bringing some life to an otherwise dark corner. House Calls: A patio with coastal style

The fashion shows were set against elaborate backdrops that were perfect for the era of Instagram and social media. Perspective | Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a signature design — but he invented a new kind of designer 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

In the living room, Farrow & Ball’s Sap Green is a backdrop for bird-themed artwork and birds’ nests collected by Ms. Meacham. A Southern Home That Embodies Oh-This-Old-Thing Elegance 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

"Against a backdrop of gray clouds, the two blue Corsairs dived toward the snowy mountains," Makos writes. 'Devotion' gets into cockpit of 2 U.S. pilots who bond in Korean War 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

I hear the Cars as the backdrop to our privileged adolescent drama and gossip: Someone got busted drinking before the football game. Perspective | Ric Ocasek showed us a way out of the ’70s. We repaid him with a zillion Friday nights. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Something in its obdurate difference – not England, not anything other than England – made it unspeakably poignant, a place that doesn’t change the backdrop to a love that doesn’t. 'My romantic holiday’: the good, the bad and the calamitous 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

It looks delicious, with Persian-miniature style, jewelled satin and organza costumes set against abstract backdrops of raspberry-coloured damask and curving, speckled mirrors. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

Black light reactive slacks, spontaneous limbo and a venue filled with smartphone-worthy backdrops. Renwick Gallery lights up the night with its ‘Wonder at Night’ bash 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Nothing says “gravitas” like a backdrop of local volleyball teams, out-of-town visitors and intoxicated sports fans waving signs and shrieking like Pavlov’s dogs whenever a camera red light goes on. Is KING courting Sodo with its vision of must-see TV? 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of cliff and sky, some hundred and fifty helicopters and several dozen motorboats clog a couple hundred yards of canyon—it’s gridlock in “Heli Alley.” The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

More prosaically, it has been a favored backdrop for zombie films and the video game Grand Theft Auto. How Much Hip Can the Desert Absorb? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Use your arrangement as a backdrop for cards you receive during the season. Create an Easy Holiday Mantel 2010-12-01T17:40:00Z

The film drew online protests for using the real-life disaster as the film's backdrop. "Men in Black" sequel powers past "Avengers" 2012-05-28T17:02:15Z

The ocean itself provided a wonderful backdrop to the finished film but, like the actors, was moody and unreliable. Pat Jackson obituary 2011-07-12T18:12:54Z

And the jumpsuits — if demanding — were impeccably cut, slightly roomy and a fine backdrop for chic accessories. Special Report: Fashion: A 21st Century Woman 2010-10-03T17:10:00Z

Exquisitely detached from his surroundings, as well as from his characters, he spent much of his life on the move; such distinctions hardly mattered in Tangier, the Moroccan port that became his backdrop. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Add to that the gothic atmospherics of Bauhaus and his ongoing love affair with country, and you get a chilling soundscape for the backdrop to a small-town murder ballad. Daughn Gibson: 'I just want to see the weird' 2013-06-20T15:30:02Z

His plain, palette-cleansing wall created a clean, well-lighted backdrop for art and performance, one that privileges the mural above by framing it from below. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

The presentation was held in a national storehouse for furniture and against a backdrop of projected tapestries from state collections, and before it, Ms. Nichanian spoke to some journalists about her intended “dandy effect.” Fashion Dispenses a Happy Little Pill 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

A central backdrop lifts to reveal a gaggle of them, chatting about their next dinner — children in Turkey. ‘BFG’ is a fun puppet adventure for parents and kids at Imagination Stage

Financial journalist Maha Khan Phillips made her debut with "Beautiful from This Angle," a satire set against the backdrop of honor killings in Pakistan, and thinks many novelist wannabes may be lurking in media offices. From finance to fiction in India and Pakistan 2010-12-17T18:00:09Z

Set against the backdrop of a catastrophic illness — Shen Fever, which results in a “fatal loss of consciousness” — the novel draws a circle around the lives of Candace’s office cohort and the fever-stricken. The End Is Near in Two Dystopian Debut Novels 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s enough to say that against this backdrop, Fforde seems interested in blurring the boundary between reality and dreams, and in the power of our minds to create and transcend certain types of barriers. A Brilliantly Funny and Slightly Bonkers New Novel From Jasper Fforde 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

It has you in its cool grip from the opening shot of a shambolic-looking Keys standing in suit and tie before a flat, blurred backdrop of jungle greenery. ‘Azor’ Review: A World on Fire, Discreetly 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Weldon’s early writing reflected an era that saw the rise of feminism in Britain, which provided the backdrop to much of her fiction. Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Thus does crime beget crime, played against the bleak backdrop of a city in distress. AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’ is a dark portrait in a dark city 2013-08-07T21:59:48Z

On one, M/M's best-known character, Agent, appears in double against a rainbow-colored backdrop. | 'Carpetalogue' at Libby Sellers Gallery 2012-10-12T19:00:53Z

“Crust,” a one-man show starring the juggler Guillaume Martinet, made delightful use of the event’s backdrop. A Last Taste of Summer Theater, as Paris Heads Back to Work 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The wall painting serves as backdrop for other paintings, a sculptural mobile, and video works, some of which explore glassmaking as an important and debated medium in the region. New curator of Seattle University art galleries focuses on innovation, engagement 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

But unlike your run-of-the-mill coming-of-age story, this all occurs against the backdrop of a changing nation. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘Summer Palace’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

The backdrop for many of her photographs were shelters run by friars and nuns, where she captured migrants in rare moments of respite. Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Drawing inspiration from a 2015 film documentary of the same name, Graham sets their increasingly barbed exchanges against the backdrop of a tumultuous summer. Review: In ‘Best of Enemies,’ a TV Duel Becomes a Theater Gem 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

Rasmussen also employs the vocabulary of commercial photography, with its seamless backdrops and flat lighting, further suggesting that the body is an object or a product. How many legs in this photo? The strange, surreal photography of Heather Rasmussen 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

Feminism, protests against the Vietnam war, a social conscience and communal spirit were more than a backdrop. Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side 2011-03-02T21:30:01Z

Drink is better used as the backdrop to a poem, rather than in the creation or recital of it. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z

Then he jumped up again and ran to the other side of a large backdrop covered in feathers and salt suspended from the ceiling. The Bay Citizen: Eiko and Koma Talk About ?Fragile,? Their 2012-03-16T06:25:40Z

The whoosh of the water cascading over the rocks in the waterfall and the melodic birdsong provide a soothing backdrop for visitors sitting on wicker chairs in the pavilion. Like it was ‘made in heaven’: a secret garden in the suburbs offers an Asian-style landscape

The images, for all the labor devoted to their adaptation, are mainly just illustrative—a sort of visual backdrop and temporal space-filler, stretched and condensed to suit the soundtrack. “They Shall Not Grow Old,” Reviewed: The Indelible Voices in Peter Jackson’s First World War Documentary 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

The backdrop would be an idyllic Connecticut town full of oddballs and eccentrics, and the tone would be a blend of character-driven comedy and drama, all set to a screwball pace. Why ‘Gilmore Girls’ Endures 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Those collective yelps, cued by an autobiographical monologue by Ms. Muz, become the aural backdrop for Beauty’s first journey through the dangerous forest. Theater Review: Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser Reinvent a Fabled Couple 2014-03-17T21:31:47Z

Or, at least, with the ever-inviting greenery of Regent’s Park providing a natural backdrop that no amount of money and scenic ingenuity could buy. Review: Playing Sondheim in the Woods 2010-08-24T16:00:00Z

With the aid of modern wetsuit technology, these pioneers are journeying to the planet's frozen fringes and finding new backdrops where classic point breaks peel in splendid isolation. Dancing on waves 2010-12-26T00:05:03Z

Significantly, one story nicely uses Berlin as a backdrop to talk about the refugee crisis. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

When not playing with a straight-ahead quartet, he favored chunky, percussive backdrops that offset his tuneful improvising. Arthur Blythe, Jazz Saxophonist Who Mixed Sultry and Strident, Dies at 76 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Why did you choose that particular backdrop for this narrative? This Week in Fiction: Ann Beattie on the Estrangement of Old Age 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

Harder to place in a spiritual context are Melissa Jessell’s lovely pastel abstractions; Victoria Ridgway’s collages of old snapshots; and Sue Wrbican’s video of a sculpture in motion before a glistening backdrop. Review | In the galleries: At U-Md. space, “UN/Sustainable” contemplates the environment 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

The backdrop behind the band and modest light show is the cover image from Plant's new album: a clown holding a cushion on which sits a ring of gold, lambent. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

“Football is definitely a backdrop for these characters to exist in this world,” said Mohammed. Underdog soccer series ‘Ted Lasso’ finds itself the big dog 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

While the text arises out of a backdrop of “new and unfolding science,” the Rosicrucian myth is crucial to the shape that it took. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The Army and the war provided the grand backdrop for my father’s dramatic episodes of bad luck, but he did not fit in there. My Absent Father 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

In their wide lapel suits, sporty leather jackets, fur-collared coats and cardigans, they looked like characters drawn from the fast-track crowd on the video screen backdrops. Milan Designers Fusing Sporty and Formal 2012-01-16T18:52:22Z

Many memorable moments in “Dear Los Angeles” derive from seeing familiar persons against unfamiliar backdrops. Los Angeles Through the Centuries, Glimpsed by Kerouac, de Beauvoir, Waugh and Others 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

With plenty of foaming bottles, a dozen people in togas, two young boys dancing and the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings as backdrops, the video for “Ya Hey” is urban and enigmatic. Vampire Weekend’s Evolution in ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ 2013-05-08T12:00:18Z

In “Carne y Arena,” whose virtual-reality component runs about seven minutes, traditionally photographed landscapes provide the backdrop for digitally rendered performers. Iñárritu’s ‘Carne y Arena’ Simulates a Harrowing Desert Trek to a New Life 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Karol Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3, though written against the backdrop of Polish cultural assertion, sounds like an unworldly hallucination fueled by readings of Persian poetry. Composers Struck by Homeland Fever 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

He shot Lemon sitting on a skateboard on his balcony, his neighborhood as a backdrop. ‘Kings & Queens in Their Castles’ is an intimate look at LGBT lives 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

He brought the twin brother of his boyfriend, a prop stylist, to be his assistant; on set, they had to watch a YouTube video to learn how to hang a seamless backdrop. The Covid Nurse Turned Polaroid Portraitist 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

He often made his voice the backdrop to his guitar playing. Music Review: Chris Cornell, Solo, at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-23T23:03:46Z

Set over three floors of a historic building with exposed brick walls and typically Scandinavian light wood floors, the warehouse space provides a stunning, stark backdrop to the brands’ heavy-hitting mix of midcentury designs. Carl Hansen & Son and Rud Rasmussen Open a Joint Showroom in London 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

As tunes from Lil Uzi Vert and Crime Mob blared, models sat for makeup on the stage and posed in front of white backdrops and lighting umbrellas. Yes, It Was a Quieter Fashion Week. But the Party Must Go On. 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

His set lacks glitz — it’s just a table, two chairs and a black backdrop — and his audience is far from the size of Bill O’Reilly’s. Civility? Depth? One host’s radical approach to TV talk in a troubled time 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Or Michael may find himself in the alternate version in which he and Rex are trying to feel out their strained relationship against the backdrop of Hannah's death. We dare you to snooze through 'Awake' 2012-03-01T00:04:04Z

The mountain regularly appeared as a backdrop in stories and songs about unexplained happenings. Explorer: Near Qingdao, Hiking a Magical Mountain 2013-08-21T21:04:17Z

As a backdrop for superb art and a lively young family, a neutral palette deployed with a discerning eye and subtle hand is anything but bland: it is intelligent, sophisticated and rather cozy. T Magazine: The Reinvention of Beige 2013-12-05T20:16:25Z

Set designer Donald Eastman’s stark white backdrop of a slanted facade of Harlem flats nestled against the dark black tiled flooring, both looming large around a minimalistic concept that dwarfs the performers in the space. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The rustic screens serve as a backdrop to the woodsy furniture in the gazebo, left, and were chosen to enhance the privacy of this outdoor space while allowing air and light to pass through. Stylish Screens 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vox Lumiere — The Phantom of the Opera The classic 1925 silent film serves as the backdrop for this show that blends drama, music and dance. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 14-21: 'Low Hanging Fruit' and more 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Vodret theatrically opened the curtain on the painting in a Jesuit church in Rome, revealing a canvas dominated by the figure of the St. Lawrence being grilled to death, his three executioners in the backdrop. Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled 2010-07-27T12:25:00Z

One screen shows an empty backdrop and she calls the home to check her client is all right. Virtual visits: how Finland is coping with an ageing population | Sarah Johnson 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

The backdrops were pretty amazing, too — library walls as if from some old English house and another room of smoked mirrors. On the Runway: At Met Costume Gala, McQueen Reigns 2011-05-03T04:54:35Z

Here, they sign off with an installment that captures all the sensory joys of the movies — delicious food, dazzling backdrops — as well as their poignant subtexts. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of high-tech gizmos, the story revolves around the hunt for a fugitive Englishwoman suspected of working with the East Africa-based al-Shabab militant group. Director Gavin Hood on the nature of (and the need for) modern warfare 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

A Black backdrop is just a system being systemic. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Across eight episodes, all of which are now available, their relationship develops against the backdrop of coffee and cocktails, ramen and sake, ice cream and croissants. What’s on TV Monday: ‘CMA Best of the Fest’ and ‘Foodie Love’ 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

There's a historical backdrop of Australia's discrimination against its Aboriginal natives, but first-time director Wayne Blair keeps the tone light. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-03-21T00:23:11Z

As his mileage mounts, a panoramic portrait emerges, not of the breathtaking alpine backdrop or of the author’s endurance but of the emotional landscape created by the fellowship of hikers. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

But the backdrop and underground textures are alive with fitful figurations, rhythmic shards and thick-textured, pungent harmonies. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z

Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian With a few vigorously applied sweeps of a brush, the backdrop to Japan's best-known landmark is taking shape. A dying art? Work dries up for painters of Tokyo bath-house murals 2011-07-07T17:18:19Z

The producers of “Slow Down,” with its punk-funk backdrop, appear to have listened to a Gang of Four album, or at least one by the Rapture. Critic’s Notebook: The Diverging Musical Paths of Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus 2013-07-24T21:18:26Z

“Magic Mike,” though set in and around Tampa, treats the setting like a backdrop, providing plenty of mood and tone but no dramatic particulars. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

It is against that backdrop that the company is seeking significant concessions from its unions for the first time in decades. Not Over Till Overtime’s Due? Met Labor Strife Bares Secrets 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Against the eerily empty backdrop, he looks, Hanks rightly says, as if he’s in “a witness protection programme. But here I am, bowing to the needs of Apple TV.” Tom Hanks on surviving coronavirus: 'I had crippling body aches, fatigue and couldn't concentrate' 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Even if you spoke the language, it didn’t fully make sense, but it felt at home against Boulbon’s arid, otherworldly backdrop. A French Festival Focuses (Timidly) on English 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

Booming percussion and sustained electric guitar tones give her a spacious backdrop as she observes a partner who’s scaring her by “eyeing all the exits”; her reaction is to think about writing a country song. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The festival’s most obvious attraction is its alpine setting, and neither the mountain backdrop of its main stage nor the starry nights that frame most performances are exportable. A Rocky Mountain Dance Festival Makes its Way to New York 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

And a circus tent skirt that doubled as a puppet show set — with painted black velvet backdrops and puppets decked out like Mexican revolutionaries. Astrid Hadad, 'Lady Gaga of Nixtamal,' is part of thrilling start to PST's performance fest 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

It might not sound like the ideal backdrop for a holiday. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Lien tries to conceive more than a backdrop for the actors, she said. What makes set designer Mimi Lien a genius? Take a look 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

New York is the backdrop, but you don’t hear the city in the accents or see it in the hustle. | 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn': Melting-Pot Musical With One Foot in Comedy, One in Tragedy 2011-03-22T22:21:31Z

Otherwise, this was a snappily produced programme, with lots of atmospheric detail: creaking doors, jaunty music as a backdrop to the sillier quotations, and rich visual clues from casual asides. Radio review: Almanacs ? The Oldest Guide to Everything 2010-07-23T05:45:00Z

Most of the shows, apart from a change in backdrop, looked pretty much identical. Fashion Review: Take One Last Look 2010-09-18T02:18:00Z

In the lobby, attendees wait in line for portraits in a high-backed ivory cushioned chair placed in front of a red curtain backdrop. This marijuana-smoking, Confederate flag-burning Senate candidate is having a ball 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

And he came to understand that for many of the people who work at Rand, the art is more than a backdrop. Inside Rand Corp.'s impressive art collection 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

This was all against a backdrop of violence and deprivation in west London estates, the stresses of which he channelled into his lyrics. Ones to watch in 2013: Scrufizzer 2013-01-01T10:00:04Z

A recorded track offers sounds of the city as a backdrop before giving way to a solemn recitation of victims’ names. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

Marble floors, felt-covered furniture, plywood fixtures, and gunmetal finishes create a unique backdrop for the company’s ready-to-wear looks, handbags, leather goods, shoes, jewelry, and accessories. Reed Krakoff Opens in Manhattan’s SoHo Neighborhood 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

The backdrop to many photos may mimic a western setting, for instance, but 90% of Chinese people don’t have passports. The fantasy world of pre-wedding photos: inside China's billion-dollar industry 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

In the art center, the drawings hung in simple frames against a backdrop that featured certain pieces from each category blown up to the size of a mural. Tatiana von Furstenberg Curates an Exhibit of Art From Inside Prisons 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Still, he said, successfully penetrating the foreign backdrops that feature in many of his best films is often difficult going. Director Ang Lee touts diligence as key to success 2013-05-09T10:45:08Z

The anodyne backdrop, decorated only with the poster of her new film on an easel, is evidence Delevingne was involved at a press junket 3000 miles away in New York. Cara Delevingne should be cut some slack – TV interviews are seldom fun 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

In one of the smaller rooms, a recent big work, entitled Paragrand, features three silhouetted figures playing cricket, each one receding more into a vivid, indeterminate backdrop where sand, sea and foliage merge into one. Peter Doig: the art of the foreign 2013-07-27T21:00:01Z

It’s one of many moments when Mr. Hooper turns the vast blue Texas sky into a terrifying backdrop. In ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Sympathy for the Devil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Against this troubling backdrop, an entirely black cast being granted three hours of airtime on a major network feels meaningful. Why 'The Wiz' Is NBC's Best Live Musical Yet 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

A series of paintings clusters blue-green leaf forms on fiery backdrops. In the galleries: A ‘Homage to Hillary’ is repurposed 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

A piece of the stage backdrop will be up for auction April 26 in New York City. John Lennon's artwork coming to NYC auction 2014-03-24T13:05:19Z

They serve a version here at Twede’s Cafe, the restaurant about 30 miles east of Seattle that played a backdrop as the Double R Diner in David Lynch’s quirky 1990s television series. Another ‘Twin Peaks’ Puzzle: How to Make That Cherry Pie 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

The romantic action film, which opens worldwide on Friday, sees Depp's math teacher character falling for Jolie's femme fatale as she spins a web of mystery amid a backdrop of Paris and Venice. A Minute With: Angelina Jolie, femme fatale and busy Mom 2010-12-09T14:35:00Z

The faded squares, hilly streets and clanging old cable cars of the Portuguese capital are a somehow natural backdrop to the haute hostel movement. Haute Hostels Put to the Test in Europe 2013-04-26T16:24:14Z

His thousands of acres aren't pastoral, so much as the backdrop to the hulking modern machinery that drives his small empire, one fed by genetically modified seeds that he aggressively sells to other farmers. Review: 'At Any Price' doesn't register 2013-04-24T22:52:09Z

Yet while the larger backdrop is the religious war, the battle that consumes so much attention onscreen is that between wife and husband. | 'The Princess of Montpensier': Pawn, Prize and Beauty, So Submit She Must 2011-04-14T22:43:40Z

“I’m an advocate of keeping a great backdrop and letting artwork bring heart and soul into the house,” she says. Renters: White walls are your greatest decorating asset 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

For backdrops, colored paper or a blank wall. A Photographer’s Elaborate Transformations in His Childhood Bedroom 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

The Remonstrance is displayed there in an anteroom off the rotunda, which is dominated by a timely and towering backdrop that evokes its provenance: a 40-foot-high facade of a 17th-century gabled Dutch canal house. Document That Inspired Bill of Rights Goes on Display in Manhattan 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

At Times Square-42nd Street, Roy Lichtenstein’s mural of a teeming metropolis is mounted up on the platform pillars and is the perfect backdrop for the masses on the thoroughfare below. Art installations make New York’s subway stations galleries on the go 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

So many of us seem to view our surroundings only as a backdrop to our personal portfolio. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Treat your other half to the Cupid Capsule or a variety of Valentine specials on the London Eye, or just enjoy love songs by the Vernon Sisters set against a suitably romantic backdrop. This week's new events 2011-02-12T00:05:47Z

“Detroit ’67” focuses on a pair of Motown siblings and is set against the backdrop of that city’s race riots. Studio Theatre’s new associate director brings a bit of the Irish 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

More typical are Pat Coates’s large fruit arrangement with shiny green apples, and Kathleen Carroll’s equally vivid green grapes, set off dramatically by a black backdrop. In the galleries: Small universes and a large cosmos at Greater Reston Arts Center 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Television producers and ad agencies seeking a mountain backdrop are also regular visitors. Fortress Resort in Alberta Slowly Catching Its Breath 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Unfolding against the picturesque backdrop of the East Bay Hills will be a summer season that is classical if not exactly conventional. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

Each features a symmetrical crest or heraldic figure, rendered in bold, black strokes against a pale but busily textured backdrop. Range of works by Seattle artist Juan Alonso explores the depths 2010-08-23T23:53:00Z

As a backdrop to this autobiographical coming-of-age story, Naples is at turns fantastical and decadent, sunny and unpredictable, comfortably familiar and ultimately confining. Naples, a City of Contradictions, Is Once Again a Home for Cinema 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Though Gandhi’s projects are dramatically different in form, such consideration of their remote, subarctic backdrop connects them to one another — they “look like they could only be in Nova Scotia,” he says. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

In the first, “Dead Fire,” it is black, covered with wispy white leaves beneath the backdrop of a full moon and snowy mountain peaks. ‘Wild Grass,’ by Beijing Dance Theater, at Next Wave 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Until the pandemic, Ms. Her predominantly shot intimate and vibrantly colorful portraits of Hmong immigrants and first-generation Hmong Americans, often among plastic flowers — common in Hmong portraiture — or against fake backdrops of Laotian landscapes. A Minnesota Exhibit Framed Around Longing for Home 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

In a peculiar way, those flipped-up seats are more striking than the backdrops and razzle dazzle you might expect from an in-person production in ordinary time. Covid, the Musical? Jodi Picoult Is Giving It a Try. 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

Robert Stevenson's film, set against the backdrop of the Blitz and starring Angela Lansbury as an incompetent witch, looks somewhat dated in the digital age. Clip joint: films you watch over the holidays 2012-12-28T12:18:08Z

The cold vacuum of space is such an inhuman backdrop. Clip joint: islands 2010-07-14T09:11:00Z

This includes the wrapping paper from a gift from her husband she still uses as backdrop almost daily. 'It sounds dorky, but it's really fun': inside the cosy world of bookstagram 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

In most historical novels, the history part is backdrop for the novel part. What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

One of the first to abandon painted backdrops, Gibbons created a vast space for Garbo’s character’s sleek grand salon. Design Hollywood 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against that backdrop, says Canady, SROs should be considered dedicated professionals who play a key role in protecting young people and often expressly choose to be assigned to the schoolhouse beat. Can more armed guards keep our schools safe? 2013-05-07T21:17:00Z

A few of the prep-school kids, mostly white, went to Lakeside, which is the tony backdrop for much of "The Hustle." 'The Hustle': Black, white and playing basketball in 1980s Seattle 2010-12-30T20:27:04Z

The backdrop swarms with cutout yellow butterflies, providing a strong color contrast as well as a warning of potential extinction. Review | In the galleries: Autobiographical pieces prevail at the Trawick Prize 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

She allowed five filmmakers to interpret her work, showcasing her clothes against such backdrops as an empty theater and an industrial factory full of metal ductwork and pressure meters. Perspective | Fashion shows are now 12-hour live streams. Or movies starring mermaids. Or mailed to you in a box. 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

They also have a new element: Their backdrops are often the streets of Baltimore, his current home. In the galleries: ‘Strictly Painting’ is anything but 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

The room will be presented by the curator Martin Chapman as a complete environment, furnished as it originally was when new, rather than simply as a backdrop for important objects. | If These Walls Could Talk 2014-03-19T17:10:25Z

It offers true love divided by nationality, fake love divided by the intent to illegally immigrate, and ingenious concealment techniques, all against a backdrop of crumpled people who aren't really in the mood. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z

Like Terrance Hayes, Parker draws on pop culture, current events and history to inform these poems, providing various backdrops and foils that help her challenge stereotypes and define her own complex, nuanced ideas. Review | A portrait of America in three gritty, candid and imaginative collections 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The corgi folks set up a castle backdrop for Lord to pose for photos with her subjects, like a mall Santa Claus for lovers of stubby, oblong dogs. God save the corgi 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Elements of romance, comedy and kitchen-sink realist drama combine and refract against the backdrop of Dakar — its poor and wealthy neighborhoods, its commerce and its traffic. ‘Atlantics’ Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Injustice in Senegal 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The head shots happen in the back, where customers can choose from 14 colored backdrops that unroll like yoga mats. A Head-Shot Truck Comes to New York 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

The photograph shows an attractive Olympic volunteer blissfully soaking in the sun in Sochi against a backdrop of snow. Doxxing Internet babes: “She wanted it” 2014-02-23T00:00:00Z

The artist was soon opening up these backdrops to stretches of azure sky flecked with fleecy white clouds, tracts of verdant hills and majestic mountains. Ode to Cima From Conegliano 2010-04-09T13:55:00Z

“Fedora,” a verismo opera set against the backdrop of anticzarist uprisings in Russia in the 1880s, was a hit when it debuted in Milan, praised for its lush score and fast-paced drama. Met Opera Takes On ‘Fedora,’ Neglected Tale of Murder and Love 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Sawa’s loud red and pink wigs leap off the screen against drab backdrops. ‘Kite’ Is Based on Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 Anime 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Even so, it was hard to view Sundance’s opening film, a documentary about the television legend Norman Lear, without the Academy outcry as a backdrop. Sundance Officially Sidesteps Oscar Controversy, but Its Opening Film Doesn’t 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

The live audiences for Michel Herrera, 36, a saxophonist known all over Cuba, are smaller now that he performs on his rooftop for elderly neighbors, with Old Havana as the backdrop. Cuba's artists make music and dance on rooftops during lockdown 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Writing is thought to be a solitary enterprise: Picture Ernest Hemingway, sleeves rolled up, banging out manly sentences at his desk against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains. How David L. Ulin and Paul Kolsby co-wrote their satiric earthquake novel, 'Ear to the Ground' 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

That backdrop sets the tone, too, for the two pieces in the program’s first half: “When the Wolves Came In” and “Hallowed.” Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion Echoes a Max Roach Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

A former ceramics factory in the Corso Magenta area, the whitewashed space serves as a neutral backdrop for the couple's collection of midcentury furniture and objects. | Caroline Castiglioni 2012-11-26T20:36:09Z

Her meeting with Koma is momentous, with the pool’s two gargantuan Henry Moore shapes serving as their backdrop. Dance Review: Into the Pool, Slowly but With Feeling 2011-07-31T22:14:39Z

She captures the historical backdrop with fascinating details at the same time that she presents a startling array of Lowells, remarkable for their grit, intelligence and dedication to this country. Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Jessica Trent, a publicist and event planner who has hosted events at Sowden House, said it makes for a stellar backdrop. CBD Mogul Revives an Architectural Gem in Los Angeles 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

He brought the same melody-driven approach to the suites’ dance movements, spotlighting one line while creating a painterly backdrop with the others. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

And anyone who caught their sold-out Showbox sets on the full-band “Bloom” tour likely remembers the backdrop — four custom light boxes, dimming and brightening in sync with the music — as vividly as the performance itself. Beach House brings dream pop to the Paramount — and a ‘secret’ gallery show 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

What seemed to bother viewers most was the trailer’s almost exclusive focus on Americans, signaling that the film might reduce Lebanon’s complicated, sectarian civil war to a flashy backdrop for Mr. Hamm. ‘Beirut’ Trailer Was Supposed to Thrill. Instead It Offended. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Board of Education, in 1954, forms the backdrop to Gilbert King’s superb new book, “Beneath a Ruthless Sun.” How a Racist Sheriff Railroaded a Disabled Teenager and Got Off 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

“Predictions and Sortileges” is a series of canvases, executed in white acrylic on brightly painted backdrops, about fortune telling. Shaped by Mérida’s Artistic Soul 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

And after her first two releases, Barnard will not be using Bradford as a backdrop. The Selfish Giant seeks Bafta boost 2014-02-13T01:53:31Z

The “boom” took on special relevance in the United States against the backdrop of the Cold War. ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Evelyn’s Cafe Bar, in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, has capitalised on the modern customer’s desire for a photogenic backdrop. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Angels,” Johnson’s 1983 debut novel, was similarly revelatory — making the homely backdrop of a Greyhound bus journey suddenly appropriate to the highest American literature. Denis Johnson’s Death-Infused Last Stories 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

The family, dressed in sequins and satin, stands against a cityscape backdrop. How ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Changed Everything 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

A snowy Chicago or a sunny Tucson might be the backdrop. How to fit in some fitness amid the holiday hustle 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

The theater, especially the technologically sophisticated Paris Opéra, offered aspects of both — heightened moments of great dramatic conflict and sumptuous visions of landscape in its backdrops and stage effects. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Their nuanced authority — and the vibrant Manhattan backdrop — make the trip worthwhile. Review: ‘Don’t Worry Baby’ and a Case of Uncertain Paternity 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Krakauer’s terse, cogent solo on “Body and Soul” came against a backdrop of radio towers, microphones and “on air” signs — because the film in play was Mr. Allen’s “Radio Days.” Music Review: ‘The Big Picture,’ Movie Music at the Museum of Jewish Heritage 2014-01-30T23:53:10Z

She acknowledged, as well, the complicated situation that was the backdrop for the festivities. Why Soft Power Is in Style in Qatar 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

They set it apart from everything else, as if on an altar, in a niche-like west-facing window, with open sky and the Hudson River as backdrop. Through Catastrophe, and in Community, the Art of Daniel Lind-Ramos 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Whether this Canadian setting was the backdrop to the manuscript for the fifth in the series which the writer was working on, or was intended for the unwritten fourth instalment is shrouded in mystery. Stieg Larsson had 'nearly finished' fourth Millennium novel before his death 2010-10-11T14:31:00Z

Even as a youngster, I remember thinking, “Wow, that’s an interesting backdrop, because you have a very unlikely mix of people.” Stephen Merchant Is an Unsmooth Criminal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Now, along with articulate singing bodies that sweep on and off the stage as if caught in sudden gusts of wind, there is the ominous backdrop of the present. Review: The Sophisticated Simplicity of a Mark Morris Masterpiece 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

During my childhood in the ’60s, riots, protests, violence, racial tension, political corruption and upheaval, as well as the tragedy of the war in Vietnam, were a daily and inescapable backdrop to American life. Perspective | Ask Amy: This husband can make but not take a joke 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

A host of interlocking dramas play out against the backdrop of the fictional White Lotus resorts, the most beautiful, exclusive vacation franchise in the world. He's the biggest villain in "The White Lotus" season 2 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Presenting three images – of chips, a steak and a burger – against stark white backdrops, there is only one thing missing. Sauce material: how Mad Men wrote the new Heinz ads 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The show's status as an American cultural institution was solidified when Clark donated Bandstand's original podium and backdrop to the Smithsonian Institution. 'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark has died 2012-04-18T20:02:17Z

The Connecticut suburbs are the backdrop for this new satire following three couples, anchored by an upscale school with a megalomaniacal headmistress. 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

This room is the backdrop to our video conferences. My Thanksgiving panic 2012-11-22T00:30:00Z

Because, against a pristine backdrop of sparkling cocktails and smooth jazz and miles of immaculate white carpeting, our handsome leading man is an inveterate commitment-phobe. Riff: What Don Draper and Christian Grey Have in Common 2012-06-22T21:48:00Z

A quarter-hour stop-motion animated comedy centered on plastic action figures going on adventures against the backdrop of all the classic adventure environments like the Old West, the deep blue sea and space. These Are All the New Adult Swim Projects 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

From the 1910s to the 1930s, the Viennese-born architect Joseph Urban created sumptuous theater sets for Manhattan impresarios, filling backdrops with jeweled gardens and the occasional zeppelin aloft. What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The volcano’s hulking gray mass looms in the distance, making for a dramatic backdrop and quite a contrast to the hardy plants erupting everywhere around it now. Take a wildflower hike among the volcanic St. Helens landscape 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Amid an opulent backdrop, the series takes a stab at examining how traditional, patriarchal expectations fit within the family's lifestyle. From a fertility doctor with a god complex to "Wonder Woman," here's what's on HBO Max in December 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

I ask him whether he was a good sportsman; cricket, football and now boxing have served as backdrops in his plays. Roy Williams: Confessions of an uncool kid 2010-06-07T20:31:00Z

The scenery of the Tibetan plateau is breathtaking: arid steppe crisscrossed by frozen rivers, with a backdrop of snow-covered peaks. 18 of the world’s best rail journeys 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

And so it was at Roland Mouret , where a grid of neon lights as a backdrop emphasized the angular lines of a collection tightly focused on day wear. Fashion Review: A Graphic View of the '80s 2012-09-28T17:28:20Z

You almost never need to do anything with the money you earn, and so the city becomes merely a backdrop for driving from one mission to the next. Video Game Review: It?s the Same Old Mob, Now Sampled for Gamers 2010-09-05T21:52:00Z

There’s something about her foliage-filled backdrops, bright hued pumpkins and autumnal decor that are incredibly enticing. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z

The shops face inward around a series of walkways leading to open-air commons, framed by the pastoral backdrop of low wooded hills. Woodbury Common: Bargain Hunting in the Fashion Afterlife 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

An end-of-summer party is the backdrop for the story of four famous siblings trying to reckon with their upbringing. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

The local artist’s style is photorealist, so the white wisps and azure backdrops are rendered exactingly. In the galleries: Blasts from the past 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Meditative guitars lead into billowing, multitudinous vocal harmonies sustaining the song’s title above an orchestral backdrop. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Set against the backdrop of the neighbors’ gated driveway — and framed on the left and right by more verdant sections of the garden — “Small Stages” was most compelling when it stuck to the small stage. In ‘Small Stages,’ Ellen Cornfield Sets Up a Tiny Platform 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

These simple pieces helped define us as a family and created the backdrop of our life. What I Learned From Purging Most of My Stuff (and Why I Wish I Hadn't) 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Increasingly the function of a florist’s installations is not merely a pleasing backdrop for showcasing wares; they serve to echo and amplify the impact of the clothes on the runway. By Arrangement, Fashion’s Florists 2014-03-02T20:44:24Z

In the photo, she appears casually dressed against a millennial-pink backdrop; her smile is not only one of happiness, but also of carefree ease and approachability. Review: The Uninhibited Joy of Caroline Shaw’s Music 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

The fourth season of “House of Cards” begins with the presidential primaries still in progress, a backdrop that could overshadow these 13 episodes or make them feel extra-relevant. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 1: Is Claire Out of the Woods? 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Lacrosse has an image problem, deservedly or not, and it is against this fraught backdrop that Mr. Rabil has emerged onto the scene. Can This Man Make Lacrosse Sexy? 2010-10-13T21:24:00Z

For ambiance, special backdrops — maybe a sun dappled vineyard or an underground wine cave — are supplied to liven up blah conference optics. Raising a Glass, Remotely 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Perfect road trip: The Pacific Northwest, home of “Twilight,” would make a fitting backdrop for this moody ghost story. 15 podcasts perfect for summer road trips 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

The beautiful carved wooden backdrop by Jack Magaw lends a timeless, Middle Eastern air to the contrasting views clashing onstage. Review: ‘The Who & The What’ by Akhtar is vibrant 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

She too was talkative and serious, especially about politics, a major theme of “In the Wake,” which is set against the backdrop of the Bush years. Pushing the Spotlight Away From Herself 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Shot around tiny Ottine, Texas, where the filmmaker grew up, the forest, fields and swampland that serve as backdrop for Will's journey look like the 1800s. 'Retrieval' a trek through dilemmas of slavery, manhood 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

But the former elevated railway, once overgrown and abandoned, is now so groomed and urban-chic that it’s a ready-made backdrop for Instagram. Andrea K. Scott: A New Sculpture Exhibition on the High Line 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The scenic design by Ian Wallace has junked up the ambience with milk cartons, seemingly discarded video monitors and graffiti everywhere, conjuring an exquisite backdrop of dilapidation and squalor. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

“If You Are the One” from 2008 was a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of entrepreneurial wealth. Review: In ‘Youth,’ the People’s Dance Troupe, in Love and War 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

But Detroit at this moment proves an all-too-apt backdrop, an even-more-accommodating setting than even the show’s creative team might have planned. AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’ is a dark portrait in a dark city 2013-08-07T21:59:48Z

It can take roughly 10 seconds for some backdrops to fall the full 45 feet of the Met proscenium. Metropolitan Opera Embarks on $60 Million Renovation 2012-12-05T23:10:28Z

The music on “Born This Way” is inseparable from its arena-tour backdrop; Lady Gaga sings to, about and for the fans. Music: Even Offstage, Lady Gaga?s Ready for the Stage 2011-05-18T13:02:40Z

With spare sets by Michael Yeargan and evocative lighting by Robert Wierzel, the cool, airy design provides a tranquil backdrop for the stormy emotions played out against it. ?Madama Butterfly,? Monteverdi?s 1610 Vespers and Gerald Finley 2010-03-21T23:42:00Z

In Birth, the muted colours of the opulent Upper West Side setting in New York conveyed a cloistered world that was polite but bloodless – a perfect backdrop for the story's messy, unruly emotions. Harris Savides 2012-10-12T13:11:36Z

Here, too, the more or less hellish world of the near future is mostly the backdrop for the existential questions of its human tenants. Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere in his exhibition, Shaw will display painted plywood cutouts of figures conflating humans and technology, like a man-electrical tower hybrid, placed in front of hand-painted, fantastical backdrops that the Masons used in ritual performances. L.A.'s Marciano art museum will debut May 25. But first: A sneak peek 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Because augmented and mixed reality formats use the real world as backdrops, inserting an apparition of the future on devices puts a phenomenological experience into the hands of the individual. 12 Artists On: Climate Change 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The setting provides a very hip urban backdrop to the city. This aperol spritz from “Cocktail Italiano” is destined to become your new favorite summer be... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

This season, living dolls were back on the runway: the models in their A-line dresses threaded with chiffon ribbons, walking through a backdrop of a gigantic pleated “skirt.” Fashion Review: Stella McCartney 2011-10-03T18:27:47Z

People who see the city as a backdrop of fashion plates against which they can strike physical and intellectual attitudes, or those for whom urbanism is just another wanky trend? Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z

The stage backdrop was a flat, empty prairie, and the songs were just as desolate: mostly slow, mostly in minor keys and almost entirely bleak. Music Review: Jakob Dylan at Town Hall, Bleak and Somber 2010-04-22T21:42:00Z

Fey's star turn Martin's best performance was back in 2003, when the backdrop of the Iraq war gave him a genuine tightrope to walk - which he did both brilliantly and hilariously. In-jokes 2010-03-08T06:14:00Z

They learned to embrace moss, using it as a backdrop for shade-loving perennials. Woodinville garden tour full of beautiful ideas 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

An epic friendship begins which brings them to the Duke Of Buckingham's palace to La Rochelle amid a backdrop of political wars, friends and foes are made, and yet their relationship remains solid. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - review 2011-08-04T10:58:26Z

But after signing the papers for a cabin in his home state, Indiana, in the early 1990s he learned that it had been the backdrop for a deadly love triangle a half-century earlier. Stephen King and John Mellencamp?s ?Ghost Brothers? Musical 2012-04-01T04:17:15Z

The show isn’t performed on a traditional stage: The production requires merely a backdrop and chairs on three sides of a square space. Review: In ‘Amours (2),’ Love Hurts 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

These grounds, at the historic Boscobel House and Gardens, are a soothing setting for pre-performance picnics and a gorgeous backdrop to the stage in the open-air tent as sunset turns to night. A Guide to Theater Festivals in New York and the Berkshires 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

He uses it as a suspenseful backdrop for characters’ personal discoveries. In ‘Warlight,’ Echoes of Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Positioned before black backdrops and dramatically lighted, the photos show a respect for nature but also a sense of mastery over it worthy of the Enlightenment’s intellectual confidence. Galleries: ‘Alive and Present, ‘Enduring’

Against the backdrop of life in the favelas or Brazilian political history, it would be easy enough to draw parallels between the lives of these young people and those of Shakespeare's characters. Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain? 2012-05-19T11:00:01Z

There were flickering lights — dashes of red, purple and blue — against a backdrop of splitting bodies and pulsating eyeballs. Flying Lotus takes audience to the limit and to the great beyond at Lincoln Theatre

Charles Emerson's oil-on-canvas "Trajectory of Angels" evokes the essence rather than specifics of angelic beings making fiery, ethereal traceries across a backdrop of autumnal colors. Sisko Gallery scares up some 'Creatures of the Night' 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z

The Richmond artist’s “Standing on Rugs With Goose,” also at IA&A, is a sort of nursery filled with soft backdrops and plush toys. Review | In the galleries: The first exhibition of contemporary Portuguese works in the U.S. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The treehouses serve as his home and as an alluring backdrop for advertisements for himself. Escape to Bro-topia 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

There are “big Greek themes running through it”, and it is set against the backdrop of the late-60s race riots. Alessandro Nivola: The Sopranos film was one of the few times I was first choice 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Spiritually, the director Paul Feig’s version of the city resembles the backdrop to a late-night talk show, full of lights and absent of people. The Gentrified Ghostbusters of 2016 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

How to cook chicken seems at once a minor detail against backdrops of racism and economic struggle, and a key to finding a foothold among strangers. Heritage and Food in ‘The Search for General Tso’ 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

The Palais Garnier might have been designed for an extravagant party, its wide stairs created to be bedecked with flowers, its sumptuous gilded framework and ornate statues a perfect backdrop for posing in couture. At Paris Opera Ballet’s Gala: Champagne, Chanel, Contemporary Dance 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

The tranquil bay with a natural, undeveloped backdrop, is like a vast, shallow paddling pool and you can hire kayaks and paddleboards from local operator Menorca en Kayak. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Baskets, a Moroccan rug and orange accents add color and texture to the neutral backdrop of the room. A living/dining area that can stand up to kids and pets 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

It was “G” for geometry at Marni , where the chic severity of the tunics and skirts melded with the linear backdrop. Special Report: Fashion: Surface Attraction 2011-02-27T17:05:09Z

The walls around the counter are lit by votives whose backdrop appears to be gold leaf; early evenings might find Pink Martini on the soundtrack. Conosci review: Michael Schlow’s crudo concept is a hidden gem 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

This year’s Asia Week also appears against a backdrop of major events. Highlights From Asia Week 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Around the same time, and within the same downtown Manhattan milieu that served as a backdrop for “Desperately Seeking Susan,” a nightclub called the Knitting Factory sprang up on East Houston Street. Weekend Miser: ‘Desperately Seeking the Exit’ Memorializes a Flop 2014-03-20T22:02:59Z

Its aim is to make Seattle an art destination by using the city as a backdrop for art, much the way New Orleans does when it hosts Prospect 3, a contemporary-art biennial. Frick Collection Acquires Murillo Self-Portrait 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of resurgent feminism, Black Power, Puerto Rican pride, and the Stonewall Riot, he produced "All in the Family," a sitcom that changed television forever by holding a mirror up to America. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

Worth noting in this power play is how the realm of reproduction, "the lynchpin for the survival of the species," serves as the backdrop. Ann Patchett's 'State of Wonder': searching for answers in the Amazon 2011-06-08T20:48:04Z

Onstage, Bussang’s productions are also slicker and more aligned with the standards of publicly funded French playhouses — leafy backdrop aside. This Theater Brings Nature Right Into the Drama 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Touted as a cross between Gossip Girl and Dynasty, Revenge's campy melodrama and conniving plans are set against a backdrop of glitz, glamour and inexhaustible trust funds. Six to watch: TV's rich list 2012-05-29T14:42:01Z

And “A United Kingdom — with its David Lean-esque landscapes and backdrop of international politics — is hugely different from “Belle,” which takes place in drawing rooms and the smaller streets of London. Director-writer Amma Asante finds her groove in the political love story. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

His new film, London Town, is a coming-of-age tale with a late-70s punk backdrop – but the thing’s not quite finished and is being sold in the market. 'I don’t want a publicist': Dougray Scott on film, fame and his father's war stories 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

For another piece, he paints on a large scenic backdrop from a Kabuki production. New and unimproved: the spectacle of Julian Schnabel 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Here she is showing a two-panel work that, uncharacteristically, features a white backdrop. Review | In the galleries: A visual guide to a shrinking arts scene 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

It somehow became the de facto photographic backdrop for all family photos. Family life 2012-12-01T00:05:33Z

But the events that characterized Wall Street in the 1980s were a lot more than a backdrop. Film: When Did Gekko Get So Toothless? 2010-09-24T14:38:00Z

Yule logs and other fireplace-based features have served as seasonal backdrops. When TV Goes Right Past Meditative to Vegetative 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Kurkov’s novel “Grey Bees,” which was recently translated and published in English, is set in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, against the backdrop of a long-simmering conflict between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. An urgent mission for literary translators: Bringing Ukrainian voices to the West 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Oversized 3D polka dots reoccurred on everything from backpacks to buttons on pockets and the collection’s colour contrast of slubby browns and creams against the pink backdrop was an Instagram-friendly touch. Marc Jacobs at New York fashion week: army fatigues with a luxe edge 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

And despite gorgeous interiors and impressive backdrops, the show as a whole doesn’t have the sweep or grandeur that would let you overlook the glibness and superficiality of the script. Review: Helen Mirren Wears the Crown (This Time, Russia’s) 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

The score and backdrop amounted to a curtain rising on the second act of Ms. Hadid’s career, as operatic as any since Frank Lloyd Wright’s. Building Zaha Hadid’s Bold Afterlife 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The couple made plans for a civil marriage on March 21, then a religious ceremony in June, both in France — all against the backdrop of Britain’s divorce from the European Union. Minutes Before a Lockdown, a Civil Ceremony in France 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

There it was, perched on the hillside, against a backdrop of Welsh mountains: a perfect humble little tower, built by Prince Llywelyn the Great around 1230. Top 10 forgotten British beauty spots 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

In 1957, Prince did “West Side Story,” a modern-day version of “Romeo and Juliet” told against the backdrop of New York gang warfare. Towering Broadway director and producer Hal Prince dead 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The book was especially comforting as impeachment became the backdrop to my nights. New & Noteworthy, From RuPaul to a Nine-Dish Meal 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

The impressive backdrop almost made up for cold temperatures. Naomi Biden, president’s granddaughter, is married at the White House 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

Here, two books that use the library as a backdrop, and one that chronicles the rise and fall of the Medici family, whose commitment to literature left an imprint on a nation. A Literary Tour of Italy’s Libraries 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

In Mbue’s big-hearted novel, set against the backdrop of the American financial crisis, a Cameroonian family makes a new life in Harlem. 9 Great Books to Start Off September 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

A. I wanted to make a film noir, and you need a good tragedy and a good crime scene that can serve as a backdrop. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z

What is missing from this film is any sense of history or politics, except as a ready-made backdrop for sumptuous images and flights of make-believe suffering. Movie Review: ‘Twice Born’ Stars Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch 2013-12-05T22:27:14Z

Ri Chun Hee, North Korea's Fiona Bruce, sat in a pink kimono before an orange and brown backdrop and beamed the news with the pride of a parent announcing a birth. North Korea through western eyes 2010-09-30T07:00:00Z

Frequent visits to the zoo and museums and vacations in the countryside inspired the backdrop to many Potter stories. She’s More Than the Creator of Peter Rabbit 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

The windy, snow-capped mountains of Bhutan served as a compelling backdrop, and the foundation of the collection of highly technical mountaineering gear, all executed with impeccable tailoring. T Magazine: Paris Top 5 2013-01-21T21:54:14Z

Against the backdrop of the London shows, one impression that stuck was seeing Plum Sykes in her perfectly fitted black McQueen day dress. The McQueen Memorial: More Impressions 2010-09-21T15:02:00Z

Covington offers a familiar, clichéd backdrop for representing a white South on screen that continues to appeal to many viewers. Whiteness and the Hollywood of the South: On TV, small-town Georgia upholds white pastoral fantasies 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

The play takes place entirely in the hospital room, but a succession of backdrops are projected through the window as Lucy reaches different points in her story. Her Name Is Lucy Barton. Their Job Is Ushering Her to the Stage. 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

The New York advertising industry provides the backdrop for personal and domestic dramas to be slowly played out. AUDIO: What will be next for Mad Men? 2012-02-16T19:01:31Z

On the main floor the team created a neutral backdrop: Traditional plaster walls are coated with the same white lime used on the exterior, and floors are rustic white oak. A Colonial home marries high-end design with laid-back style 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

An English garden-like setting replete with rose trees and overstuffed settees and couches acted as the backdrop. | Bulgari's Secret Garden 2011-03-10T21:11:07Z

He filled the screen with sleek cars and gorgeous European backdrops, “getting rid of as much of the chaff of the ’60s without losing any of the character.” Guy Ritchie Cracks the Spy Genre with 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

“The backdrop to this story was a time that was very chaotic and dangerous,” he told reporters. Actress or spy? Gong Li unveils hidden layers in 'Saturday Fiction' 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

She stands against a leaf green backdrop bisected by a spill of pink curtain, colors meant to evoke her Howard University sorority, caught in what seems like mid-laugh, hands clasped together at her waist. Why a Vogue Cover Created an Uproar Over Kamala Harris 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Scott's "Blade Runner" is also striking for its stylized apocalyptic and dystopian backdrops and fashion in a world in which only the unfortunate masses — and the corporations whose neon signs are ubiquitous — remain. "Blade Runner" and the lesson Roy Batty’s Replicant rebellion has to teach us 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

This river often served as the backdrop for romantic artist Francisco Goya. Different strokes: wild swimming in Spain 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

All these changes came amid gridlock in Washington, a political backdrop that had left many feeling hopeless. A guide to a hopeful 2016: a Guardian list of things to look forward to 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Sheep grazed on the grounds, and chickens strutted, unconscious of their awesome backdrop. A Turkish Idyll Lost in Time 2011-07-08T19:03:11Z

And faded glory is still a visually interesting backdrop to filmmaking.” Chicago News Cooperative: Gary Lures Hollywood With a Bounty of Decay 2011-08-21T05:33:02Z

The backdrop and ambiance of the show were reportedly designed to evoke the iconic “Billie Jean” music video set as well. Louis Vuitton nixes Michael Jackson-inspired items after 'Leaving Neverland' backlash 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The martyrs of that crime are mostly lost to history, while Rivera’s murals are now the backdrop for crowds of well-heeled art lovers passing through a museum of cultural treasures. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, the manuscripts project is reassembling Darwin’s notes as he originally wrote them. From 25,540 Paper Fragments, How Darwin Himself Evolved 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The backdrop to this rake’s progress is a New York City that was a legendary ferment of creative and social energy. Moby describes his rise from small town to stardom 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Case in point: Prospect New Orleans, an international art biennial that uses the entire city as a backdrop for work by more than four dozen contemporary artists. Prospect New Orleans saves room for city’s homegrown artists

Mescal’s viral clip appeared against the backdrop of the so-called Green Wave — also affectionately referred to as Ireland’s going Oscar Wild. ‘Bursting Proud’: Ireland Cheers Paul Mescal for Embracing Irish Language 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Set to Bach, it featured majestic location images — of Colorado and New Mexico — as its backdrop, settings that were austere, lonely and even a little wild. Review: A ‘Punk Ballerina’ Turns to Film and Fashion 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

For Loewe’s fall 2015 collection, designer J. W. Anderson found a new kind of minimalist backdrop. Loewe Stages Its Paris Fashion Week Show at an Isamu Noguchi–Designed Garden 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Below, we spoke to the production designers of those movies about how they created such solemn, living backdrops. When Production Design Plays a Supporting Role 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Two of the other sculptures include sections of twisting vine, painted unnatural hues and mounted atop backdrops of synthetic-looking planks. Review | In the galleries: Natural order, and natural disorder, at VisArts at Rockville 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The 2012 festival took place against a charged political backdrop with campaigning underway for elections in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh state where there is a large Muslim minority. Drop Salman Rushdie supporters, Jaipur literary festival told 2013-01-21T17:48:28Z

Even with frank testimony filmed against a gleaming money-and-power New York backdrop, as a documentary whodunit “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of ” is not much of a mystery. Film: Client 9 and Other Interested Parties 2010-10-23T02:33:00Z

With the mountains of the Cordillera Central as a backdrop, the springs were lovely enough by day but even more magical at night. Caribbean islands: readers’ travel tips 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

It added to the euphoric mood that the winning gallery shows occurred against a backdrop of outstanding monographic museum shows devoted to women, especially on the Eastern Seaboard. Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

The video backdrops often returned to images of the Who in its prime, its members posing like mates or smashing instruments onstage in bygone days. Music Review: The Who Plays ‘Quadrophenia’ at Barclays Center 2012-11-15T22:51:25Z

The visuals, projected on a giant backdrop, are stunning at points – a cubist horse rearing towards the crowd, kinetic silhouettes that mirror the music's energy. The Chemical Brothers 2010-05-21T21:00:00Z

Hong Kong and China plays an important backdrop in the latest installment, another indication of China’s growing importance to Hollywood. Cast changes give ‘Transformers’ a fresh start 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere — in Mr. Talbot’s “Motion Detector,” for example — she seemed to be creating the backdrop live, using a pedal to record and play loops of cello figuration, and building them into a dense texture. Music Review: East Meets Farther East When the Aural Mirrors the Visual 2011-03-14T23:00:14Z

It uses colorful animated drawings of geometrical forms and lines, swirls and curlicues that are digitally projected onto the curtain and stage backdrops to form an ever-shifting accompaniment to the action. 'Nixon' headlines SF Opera's summer season 2012-06-15T18:03:09Z

As he scrawls phrases over the white backdrop, taking suggestions from the audience and their texting friends, Drummond creates the illusion of happy chaos. Empty | Theatre review 2010-03-16T22:45:00Z

And while, for many events, the location is simply a nice green backdrop for the bands, bars and chemical toilets, Truck's local connections run deep. Truck festival 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z

The black community of Chicago's Southside serves as a backdrop to the story. Obamas' first date inspires romantic movie 'Southside with You' 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Besides the bee film, there were a few other video backdrops: a cluster of triangular shapes for “Gavotte” and taxis, bridges and subways for “Rumble Seven,” breaking into split-screen images and finally fragmenting. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z

Audu distills the forms of masks, headdresses and hairstyles to planes, angles and curves, and positions them on white backdrops that emphasize the images’ seeming three-dimensionality. Review | In the galleries: The grid is the primary motif but subject to subtle change 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

The Aegolius Club’s recruitment effort, though positioned as a pivotal plot point, never emerges as more than backdrop. Vampire novel ‘The Quick’ has rich Victorian details but too many characters, plots

"A United Kingdom" was one of several true-life tales exploring race at this year's Toronto film festival, against a backdrop of heightened racial tension in the United States. 'A United Kingdom' tells historic tale of love defying prejudice 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the drama sees the character caught up in an international conspiracy. Gyllenhaal to star in BBC thriller 2013-06-28T10:59:31Z

Stroik leaves bare areas on the wooden panels on which she paints building details and contours, sometimes outlined on sky-blue backdrops. Review | In the galleries: Two photographers focus on the pastoral beauty of Arlington 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Here, the candle connects to Thomas Dunn’s scenic and lighting design, especially to curtains that partially descend and a ragged painted backdrop with a hole in the middle. Review: The Dreamy Precision of an Everyday Surrealist 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

She rejected the division between architecture and landscape, and the idea of landscaping as “shrubbing up,” as she sometimes put it: providing a beautiful backdrop for buildings. Diana Balmori, Landscape Architect With a Blending Philosophy, Dies at 84 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Made in China, the bowl is decorated with Western sailing ships under construction, probably taken from technical drawings, but with a delicate, inescapably Chinese landscape backdrop. Special Report: Asian Art: How Maritime Routes Led to Cultural Exchanges 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

But we felt the story was really about abortion access and those elements of living on the border and these intersecting issues were a backdrop for our characters already. "On the Divide" profiles three people at a Texas abortion clinic and asks: "What does choice mean?" 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Then they ran out of money remodeling the place — after stripping paneling from the walls — and decided to leave bare brick as the backdrop to its tiny stage. Silver Saundors Friedman, Who Helped Found the Improv, Dies at 90 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

This small electronic festival has an idyllic grassy setting with a forest backdrop and views of the sun setting over the Oslofjord. 20 great boutique music festivals Europe summer 2019 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of skyscrapers, and Grand Central, here was a computer-animated red robot and green monster waging an air war against flying metal animals. Avengers Spoiler Alert: All Sound and No Fury ? Or How Marvel Botched a Nuclear Apocalypse 2012-05-07T10:45:29Z

A dystopian screed against misogyny and capitalism unfurls against the backdrop of plastic seas and furry sunsets, but “S He” isn’t merely an exercise in symbolism. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Parents, huddling under umbrellas, had pushed the chairs aside, determined to get photographs of their children performing a traditional Filipino dance against the backdrop of the U.S. The term ‘Asian American’ was meant to create a collective identity. What does that mean in 2018? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

While the vinyl backdrop was digital, he said painting the court proved a challenge, “just trying not to step where I’d already painted.” March Madness Brings Vibrant Art and Energy to Indianapolis 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

On this November day, three fashion photography crews were using the beach as a backdrop. 44 Islands and 42 Bridges: A Florida Keys Road Trip 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

But the clothes served as a plain backdrop for a new range of softened-up bags in the brand’s iconic Damier print. Special Report: Fashion: Mad Men! Romancing the Suit 2011-01-21T18:31:16Z

The honeyed melody coming from Mr. Mamo’s instrument provided a perfect backdrop for the strong, clear tenor of Girma Negash, a legendary singer from the old days. In Ethiopia’s Capital, a Resurgent Jazz Scene 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

“It’s very important to me, and to the curators, not to treat galleries as pretty and expensive backdrops — that’s not what we do,” she said. Knights in Shining Opera, at the Met 2014-02-25T22:58:12Z

The piece, which features a haunted figure in front of a red backdrop, is one of the most recognisable images in the world. Munch's The Scream to go on sale 2012-02-21T13:59:17Z

Along with the Waldorf paintings, his other major commissions surviving in New York are 1920s murals of tawny animals facing off against foliage backdrops at the Astoria Center of Israel synagogue in Queens. Antiques: Back When Theater Was Simply Unrolled 2010-12-02T22:24:00Z

Mr. Young’s slapdash style, which suggests a Roger Corman movie crossed with dinner theater, extends to the clanking sound effects and flagrantly fake backdrops. Review: ‘Human Highway’ and ‘Muddy Track,’ Whimsical ’80s Artifacts From Neil Young 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

With stark strobe lights flashing and Swim's artwork projected in multicoloured hues and crazy patterns on a creased white backdrop, the likes of Hannibal and Lalibela take on a even more hypnotic feel. Caribou ? review 2011-02-24T18:12:57Z

Tatum, who stars in his first leading animated role in "The Book of Life," said "I jumped at it right away, it seemed so punk rock to do a film with this backdrop." 'The Book of Life,' 'Kingsman' lead Fox's eclectic Comic Con peeks 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

He added later, “The picture needed New York proper, and not just backdrop.” In ‘Sully,’ New York Is Clint Eastwood’s Latest Star 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Easier to articulate, perhaps, are the layers of need that drive his efforts, resulting in images that he views as "backdrops for a more submerged psychological drama." 'Gregory Crewdson': Zooming in on photographer's 'dramas' 2012-11-21T22:34:09Z

While the backdrop of the book is the exploitation of Africa by unscrupulous westerners, the development of Salvo as a thinking person and as an African is the real story. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

Unfortunately, Rapture is being turned into a backdrop rather than being portrayed as an environment that is shaped by the games’ players. Video Game Review | BioShock 2: Making Another Dive Into Evils of the Deep 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z

This is an important backdrop for considering the ways Austen’s novels handle lawbreakers and wrong-doers. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

“Bored to Death” was a warmly satirical take on hard-boiled themes, set against a hipster Brooklyn backdrop. Brooklyn Man Finds New Life in Crime (Writing) 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

As the album’s producer and chief instrumental multitasker, Mr. Leventhal creates a series of tasteful backdrops, softening and mellowing most of the songs. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z

He’s also working with an exquisite musical backdrop designed by Carlos Franzetti, a longtime collaborator originally from Buenos Aires. Trey Songz, OOIOO and Rubén Blades Release New Music 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The latest offering, on Friday, was Woody Allen’s “Manhattan,” with the Philharmonic playing the Gershwin favorites that form the musical backdrop to this 1979 comedy filmed in black-and-white. Philharmonic Shines in Live Unison With Films as It Kicks Off 175th Season 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Here’s a list of the 10 best places to order cocktails against scenic backdrops in Seattle and Kirkland. A weekend preview for Bumbershoot haters 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Maltagliati, named for its ragged appearance, serves as backdrop for sweet crab and pulsing heat. Casolare review: A little piece of Puglia moves into Glover Park 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

As in previous years, there was dance right on the sand with the Atlantic for a backdrop. Taking a Dance Vacation at Rockaway 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

The Dinaric Alps, which held many of the events from the 1984 Winter Games, form a dramatic backdrop to a city with an abundance of ethnic and architectural diversity. With the Olympics Over, Six Former Host Cities Worth Visiting 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

And because this is Pixar, you can expect this story to play out against a truly stunning animated backdrop. The Full Trailer for Pixar's 'The Good Dinosaur' Is Finally Here 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

His famous mosaic style is often influenced by images from popular culture, but the backdrop to his latest work is his home city of Lahore. VIDEO: 'Paksitan's most successful artist' 2011-04-05T20:16:26Z

I like a backdrop of coldness, or at least neutrality. Lydia Millet: By the Book 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Though used only as a fleeting backdrop, the photography in Kenya is the film's visual high point. American youngster best part of Italian "World" 2010-12-29T23:52:31Z

Each of Kane’s compositions is illustrated on a torn-out page of The New Yorker, which acts as a narrative backdrop to her entire collection. Seattle’s SOIL Gallery, run by local artists, speaks to the issues of our time 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The video backdrop was a bright, kaleidoscopic “light show” collaging religious imagery, classical paintings and highly irreligious imagery. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Scrawled pages from his diary flashed across a backdrop behind the principal singers and large chorus. A Descendant’s Daring Homage to Pushkin 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

A ramshackle stage set with the artist’s signature — Josh Smith — scrawled in paint on its canvas backdrop implies that the object is the absent artist himself. ‘Displayed’ at the Anton Kern Gallery 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

But according to people familiar with the arrangement, both scenarios had been agreed on in advance, from clothes to backdrops. Why a Vogue Cover Created an Uproar Over Kamala Harris 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

The film is suffused by the sounds of the ocean and shots of rippled, moonlit waves, offering an often stunning backdrop for the characters’ quiet moments of rebellion. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The two fall in love, and they trade witticisms, jabs and flirtations with aplomb against the beautiful backdrop of the South of France. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

There are artful backdrops of urban decay, congruent with the rural poverty in “Justified,” and the largely Black cast of characters deals with injustices that parallel the hardships of the original show’s poor whites. ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Redux 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

He performed it against the backdrop of footage from rallies organized after his 2017 incarceration — a reminder that Meek, who remains on probation, still isn’t 100 percent free. Review | Meek Mill’s sold-out show at the Anthem burned with ardor 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The production used one fixed reveal: four full-height double doors opened and closed against various backdrops. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z

A semi-opaque screen forms the backdrop of the production, and at several points, Sagnier is required to strip to her underwear and assume a puppetlike pose as she delivers lines in silhouette. In Paris, First-Person Trauma Jumps from Page to Stage 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Among the highlights are “La Bonne Aventure,” a 1937 painting by Magritte that depicts a giant nose set against a Surrealist backdrop, which includes a seascape, cloudy skies and, in the distance, a tiny tree. Inside Art: T. J. Wilcox Panoramic Film to Show at Whitney 2013-05-16T18:41:50Z

Give the room a warm but neutral backdrop that doesn’t conflict with the colorful rug. Designing a family room around an inherited Oriental rug 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

The book’s grifters, oddballs, protagonists and Tom Clancy-esque tech backdrop are capably and invitingly handled by the author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short.” ‘Flash Boys’: skimming fortunes on a rigged Wall Street 2014-04-04T20:58:57Z

But the movie isn't about the political events, rather they form the backdrop against which Larrain tells the story of two outsiders, completely extraneous to history, whose story unfolds amid the violence. 'Post Mortem' exposes autopsy of Salvador Allende 2010-09-05T17:24:00Z

Even music videos starring Haitian gangsta-style rappers look foreign, with lots of bling, babes and luxurious backdrops in Miami and New York. The TV Watch: In Haiti TV Tries to Educate, With Mixed Results 2012-07-11T21:54:55Z

In a series of pictures taken by Reuters photographer Baz Ratner sap surfers appear suspended in the shot, with the hazy skyline merging with the still waters against a misty backdrop. Sap surfing on the Mediterranean Sea 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Talking Heads' shimmering funk provides the backdrop for David Byrne's existential crisis, and best-loved rants. Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z

In the 16-photograph sequence, "Rotation," a Seattle industrial landscape provides the backdrop. Seattle photographer Chris Engman tricks the eye and the mind in 'Dust to Dust' 2010-12-02T21:37:00Z

One reason I was drawn to this book was because I thought it’d be interesting to read against the vexed backdrop of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Framed by the black backdrops, the pieces are solemn, yet are sometimes punctuated by brightly colored bars and blocks. In the galleries: Heading home 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Manhattan itself has been central to the show, lending an ever-evolving backdrop to the lives of the show's characters, but Los Angeles will become a key element in the upcoming season. Don Draper at odds with changing world of 1968 as 'Mad Men' returns 2014-04-07T19:07:42Z

The soaring ceiling and Gothic wood paneling made a splendid backdrop for a L’Wren Scott collection that had an elegiac vision of Old England. Fashion Review: As New York Fashion Week Ends, a Crisis of Identity 2012-02-17T17:58:42Z

On Tuesday morning, the Center for Science in the Public Interest released a send-up of the advertisement, removing the romantic backdrop of the original ad and replacing it with the harsh sterility of a hospital. “I’d like to buy the world a Coke” send-up highlights how terrible soda is for you 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Alpert says that the show “highlights the intense interpersonal moments that Korean dramas capture so well, and sets them against the epic backdrop for which Skybound has become known.” A Korean Television Show About the Power of Pop Culture 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

The first show, back in late August, was outdoors, against a backdrop of New York Harbor, Statue of Liberty and setting sun that both glorified the dancing and competed with it. Erasing Borders Festival Takes a Modern Turn 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, some Duke University research is both deeply disturbing and strangely heartening. Perspective | The future of local newspapers just got bleaker. Here’s why we can’t let them die. 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

He orchestrated the whole idea of a movement, and really it was a backdrop for his own daring imagination. Here's to the YBAs, and the best 25 years in British art history 2013-04-30T13:46:42Z

“This Is Not Berlin” so wants to evoke a time and a place that the backdrop engulfs the characters like a supernova. ‘This Is Not Berlin’ Review: A Teenager Learns to Let Loose 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

And it’s the backdrop for Sarah Hall’s new novel, “Burntcoat,” about a pandemic and an artist, which shows the ways that social catastrophe can shape the creative imagination. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

He was surrounded by a gathering of animals, rendered in ghostly white outlines, which ambled onto the dark backdrop. Dance Review: Grappling With Grief, And Then With Bodies 2010-10-15T22:57:00Z

Applying ghoulish special effects and atmospheric slow pacing, the film also maintains a dark palette of blacks, browns and ash grays, the better to serve as a backdrop when the blood starts spattering. ‘Rigor Mortis,’ a Hong Kong Horror Film From Juno Mak 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

This is the backdrop for the movie, which routinely casts an eye at the big political picture but prefers to narrow in on the more personal story of Trumbo’s struggles at home and at work. Review: Bryan Cranston in ‘Trumbo,’ as a Screenwriter in a Hollywood Under Siege 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Even her band was concealed by a white backdrop until halfway through her set. Review: Ariana Grande Asserts Herself With Stilettos and a Soaring Voice 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Performer Patrick Coker faces the backdrop, then turns to greet the audience like a host, with upturned palms, a phrase he repeats several times. Jessica Lang's vision is far-reaching in company's program at Irvine Barclay Theatre 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The internet era may have made music accessible to all, but only on TV can songs be given the kind of emotional backdrop to unite such a broad audience at once. How Adele conquered the world 2011-04-05T23:05:05Z

Donald Trump, of course, wanted his backdrop to be gold, so he pulled Bill Clinton’s gold curtains out of storage and replaced the red ones. Mr. Smith Went to Washington … With Dimmers 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

“I cannot breathe I swear/It’s torture/And I miss my brothers,” overlapping voices declare, in what could have simply been a despondent mope-rock anthem, complete with an orchestral backdrop. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

In Douglas J. Cuomo’s “Only Breath,” inspired by Andalusian vistas and Sufi chant, Ms. Beiser played keening lines over an electronic backdrop created with samples of her breathing and playing. Music Review: Maya Beiser?s Multicultural Harmonies at Poisson Rouge 2010-04-18T22:55:00Z

A Prince fan poses with a large photo backdrop of the late Prince as fans gather outside Xcel Arena Thursday, Oct. The Latest: Wonder, Khan wow crowd at Prince tribute show 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

And so a woman wears a marbled dress, an elephant fights with a horse against a dramatically marbled backdrop and a religious ascetic rides an emaciated marbled horse. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The backdrop for all this is the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, one of the world’s most photographed hotels. Singapore’s colonial heritage, immaculate streets and food-vendor delights 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of missiles raining down on Ukrainian cities, devastating hospitals, theaters and apartment buildings, releasing Russian-language music that did not reflect on these events felt wrong. A Pop Star Tried to Reconcile Russia and Ukraine. War Ruined That. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Like "Cabaret," the stakes are raised by setting the entertainment story against a backdrop of tense social and political change. Five music business tales told onstage, at the movies, or both 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

Both artists employ a colorful palette on mostly light backdrops, although Carlson is more likely to allow bright white to shine through. In the galleries: The stars and planets align for ‘hyder flares’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

As with Havasupai Falls, towering red cliffs provide a picturesque backdrop to the flowing waters. Havasupai Falls is crowded and visiting will get more complicated. We have an alternative. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

On Sunday, it will provide the backdrop for Broadway’s biggest night. As the Tonys Head Uptown, Step Inside the United Palace ‘Dream World’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

With a fishing village as our backdrop, it was the perfect place to take a dip in the crystal-clear waters. A chartered sailboat breezes by a cruise liner as the best way to hop the Greek islands 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Objects or people placed within this space can use the painting as a defining backdrop. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z

A potent mix of war, wuxia and male bonding, "The Warlords" uses a large canvas — the Taiping Rebellion in 19th-century China — as the backdrop for a small personal drama. 'The Warlords': big battles, small personal drama in 19th-century China 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z

Sets and costumes were lent by the Birmingham Royal Ballet, with the second-act backdrop, a nocturnal forest, borrowed from Frederick Ashton’s “The Dream.” A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Dorothy Dietrich, the First Lady of Magic, stood alone on a compact stage, her blond hair stark against the backdrop of heavy red curtains. At the Houdini Museum, in Scranton, Pa., indulge in a different kind of escape 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

In this view of marriage, set against beguiling backdrops from France to Hong Kong and placing the couple firmly within a sophisticated set, the alchemy of opposites is neither good nor bad. 'I Married You for Happiness': the mystery of a lasting marriage 2011-09-14T21:52:04Z

Lang was at her most musical when syncing movement to a soundscape of gurgling, dripping and plopping noises that accompanied a cinematic backdrop of roving ink blots. Fresh moves from Jessica Lang Dance at Lisner 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Here was the painted backdrop, 30 feet high and 39 feet wide, of Mount Rushmore that Alfred Hitchcock used in “North by Northwest.” A Big Hollywood Premiere That Was a Long Time Coming 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Images of the Music Center were flashed on a backdrop. Music Center's 50th-anniversary gala amps up energy to a fault 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Her voice shines against the stripped backdrop to form one of the album’s most bare and vulnerable moments, though she doesn’t wallow in it for long. Summer Walker’s Sex-Positive R. & B. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Tan walls provide a neutral backdrop for a more sophisticated look. House Calls: A bold basement makeover

Brandt has been filming tributes from fashion and art luminaries since 2003, many shot on locations that once served as backdrops for Bourdin's sinister and erotic shoots: "Swanky hotels, down-at-heel cafes, deserted cemeteries," says Brandt. Guy Bourdin: Vogue legend 2011-03-21T22:00:01Z

The story, set against the backdrop of warring royal houses in 13th-century Sicily, is a melodrama of the type Bellini’s audiences savored. Review: A Soaring Soprano Helps Bel Canto at Caramoor Say Farewell 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of a white wall — blank except for a door and a flickering fluorescent light — the opera house stage feels particularly vast. Review: Making an Epic Visual Impact With Minimal Means 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

When Godspeed performed this music live, it was against a backdrop of scratchy films of desolate wastelands, or electricity pylons looming against grey skies, interspersed with a single word, HOPE, beaming in the darkness. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z

Riding through Dyckman Fields, abuzz with softball leagues, I paused where a fisherman relaxed against the backdrop of the Hudson River. Urban Athlete: Oh, the Places You Could Bike by the Harlem River 2010-06-24T22:22:00Z

But for “Carousel” the backdrops look almost exactly like the paintings. Paolo Ventura Designs a ‘Carousel’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

By night, the art serves as a backdrop for a carnival atmosphere replete with bustier-wearing bottle girls and performances. Bo?te: W.i.P., a Nightclub in SoHo 2011-12-14T19:04:59Z

Doughtie built a surrealistic landscape in black, gray and white, as if turning a “Krazy Kat” backdrop into its own little world. At the Corner Store, Goertel’s photos make a splash without the flash 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The backdrop painting is back in my husband's studio. T Magazine: Trad and True 2012-09-20T19:33:37Z

Crisp images of the front row of the theater, juxtaposed with smoky backdrops and ghostly lighting, make the audience appear on the same level as the performer, creating unusually striking images for stand-up comedy. In Chris Rock’s New Special, a Humbler Master at Work 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The pencil drawings also have white backdrops, but they focus on one incident and at most a few people. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

“Buck,” an acrylic on panel, depicts a hybrid creature — half man/half deer — against a stylized “starry night” backdrop. Some eerie, startling work at Prographica’s ‘Figures & Faces’ 2013-12-26T20:43:44Z

A crucifix, with a bleeding Christ on it, appears against the same backdrop and is also beset by busy ants. See it for yourself: Seattle art venues show controversial Wojnarowicz video 2010-12-20T23:25:10Z

We’re made aware of these great heroes, but then there's all this violence going on as the backdrop. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

And a historic architectural home serves as a backdrop for paintings about architecture. Datebook: Ideas of 'Home' at LACMA, Andrea Zittel in L.A. and the desert, and the diagram to end all diagrams 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The conversation takes place against the backdrop of ongoing discussions about the representation of Asian-Americans and the whitewashing of Asian-American roles in Hollywood. What Know About the Hawaii Five-0 Equal Pay Controversy 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

I grew up in New York City and understood the backdrop and how Holden’s mind worked. How ‘Catcher in the Rye’ Influenced Lenny Kravitz’s Memoir 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

That’s true of the Fire Island Dance Festival, with its stage against the Great South Bay and its backdrop of sea, sky and sometimes sunset. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t yield heat so much as roundness, filling in the backdrop. At Suki, Patience Seasons the Curry 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

In Mbue’s bighearted debut, set against the backdrop of the American financial crisis, a Cameroonian family makes a new life in Harlem. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

With a view of the skyline as a natural backdrop, Dr. Kulshrestha dropped to one knee and surprised Ms. Hofford with a diamond ring. First a ‘Little White Lie,’ Then a Solid Commitment 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

The pair spoke for a few minutes before rejoining the party, and then found each other again, talking for an hour against the backdrop of karaoke. Cemetery Was the Right Vibe for a Glamour Goth Wedding 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

At Judson, “Map” will be performed in the round, which means that its original scenery, a colored backdrop covered with hand-painted numbers, lines and arrows inspired by Mr. Shen’s composition notes, cannot be used. Shen Wei Revives ‘Map,’ a Work from 2005 2014-04-11T21:47:13Z

The institutions that formed him, bade him don A tin hat at Suez, shimmer like elegant, gauzy backdrops Floating down from the flies. ‘Selected Poems,’ by Mark Ford, Covers a Career 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

The city of Florence was also projected on the backdrop of Scervino's catwalk, where models wore masculine grey flannel coats cut close to the waist to add femininity. Italian designers celebrate sartorial craft at Milan shows 2013-02-23T17:38:32Z

After using the Suez Canal crisis as the backdrop for its first six-episode season, “The Hour” moves ahead a year for Season 2, to 1957 and the launching of Sputnik 2. Television Review: ‘The Hour,’ With Dominic West, on BBC America 2012-11-27T23:57:23Z

The industry machinations mostly served as a glass-walled backdrop for relationship dramas. With ‘Younger’ and ‘The Bold Type’ Ending, Will TV Turn the Page? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

She was evacuated on a stretcher against a backdrop of smoldering rubble. Perspective | Stories of birth in wartime are hopeful and heartbreaking 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Opening this weekend is “Art of the Fugue,” a ballet at the Royal Opera House for which she created the backdrops and costume designs. | Tauba Auerbach on Book Fairs, Knitwear and the Grateful Dead 2014-02-07T23:13:47Z

But last week, on the eve of the inaugural Arab Fashion Week Riyadh, the backdrop was very different: Sandstorms and thunderstorms loomed, and missiles fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen sailed overhead. Saudi Arabia Just Had Its First Fashion Week 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Aside from the interludes that separate her monologues, in which her violin plays mournfully against pre-recorded electronic rustles and samples, she mostly relegates music to a backdrop for her stories. Laurie Anderson: Dirtday! – review 2012-08-05T17:57:31Z

With the instrumentation’s newfound clarity, swelling shoegazey riffs provide a backdrop for his gossamer vocals on songs like album opener “Malison.” Hibou turns anxiety into music on his new album, ‘Something Familiar’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

The novel reimagines the story of Paul Bunyan against the backdrop of race and immigration in the period following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mount Otemanu, a remnant of the volcano, rises nearly 2,400 feet on the island and serves as the backdrop of many photos. Bucket-list trip to Bora Bora: It’s not just for celebrities 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The day I visited, a bride and groom were using it as a backdrop for their wedding photos. On the Trail of Gustav Mahler 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

She performs against a black backdrop for the full 75 minutes and wears a single costume of red and gold silk. Review: Aparna Ramaswamy, Solo and Symbiotic at the Joyce 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

With this perspective as a backdrop, here are five songs, followed by a playlist that I share with my students. The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

The story of the V-2 rocket furnishes the backdrop to another swiftly paced World War II thriller from the author of “Enigma,” “Munich” and “Fatherland.” New in Paperback: ‘Chasing Chopin’ and ‘V2’ 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

Against that backdrop, Obama sought to assure at a town hall meeting Thursday that he still strongly opposes the policy, but that it must be ended in an orderly way in a time of war. Obama courts youth vote in latest town hall 2010-10-14T20:34:00Z

The production poured on everything: dance troupe, horn section, band, singers, D.J., futuristic video backdrops, pyrotechnics. Usher Shows Superhuman Precision at Madison Square Garden 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

Each artist has enough room to strut his signature stuff against an illuminating backdrop of his 10 compatriots. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

A high-ceilinged, white room full of studio lights, soft boxes and large reams of seamless backdrop paper, Platt’s in-home photo studio is just off the kitchen in his Northwest Washington home. Making art fun to learn

She’s a babe, with a backdrop worthy of a cabinet minister. Blind date: ‘I hope my lockdown haircut didn’t count against me’ 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

The textiles are like abstract paintings in their own right, not mere backdrops for the clothing. Review: Feelin’ groovy with Marimekko at Nordic Heritage Museum 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

On this spring evening, Dallas Garcia, the children’s 19-year-old nanny, was barefoot in the kitchen making lentil soup and chopping carrots and celery against a backdrop of the Santa Monica Mountains. The ‘Kidbutz’ of Topanga Canyon 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

A recurring strand of the film follows rural Peruvians who are receiving international aid with growing potatoes, which yields some eye candy through their colorful traditional clothing and the mountain backdrops. Review: ‘Seeds of Time,’ a Documentary on a Crusader for Crop Diversity 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

And with the city below as the backdrop ... Comedian John Mulaney is the throwback kid 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

Here, against a backdrop rich with imperial and Communist history, young people sporting Herschel backpacks ramble among cultural locales like the offices of the independent TV channel Dozhd. A Sweets Factory in Moscow, Now Hot 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Food is a recurring theme while scenes of brutal torture, rotting flesh, blood and sickness provide a shocking backdrop to the story. How the Man Booker short-list contenders shape up 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

He respected and followed both fine-art and vernacular traditions, taking the mottled gray backdrop of early studio photography and making it his own. A Spotlight on the Season’s Top Photography Books 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

The director Michael Mayer creates an appealing twinkly backdrop for holiday shenanigans. ‘Single All the Way’ Review: Cookie Cutter Christmas 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Between the warm, cerulean water stretching out to the horizon and a backdrop of lush forests filled with palms, a wide swath of powdery sand sits tantalizingly undisturbed. 36 Hours in Phuket, Thailand 2010-03-19T03:19:00Z

His rich use of color, chiaroscuro, slow motion and fades seems to suspend faces and bodies against the inky backdrops and twinkling city lights. Khalik Allah’s Movie Captures Harlem Faces and Voices by Moonlight 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Tradition is an enormously important backdrop for these artists. At BAM, bamboo works that are anything but traditional 2012-12-27T21:11:56Z

Until the 1950s, the normal method for film credits was to present names and titles on cards, or against an unmoving backdrop. Saul Bass's film titles celebrated in Google doodle 2013-05-08T00:16:17Z

Taking into account the experiences of both women and black men against this backdrop is a tricky feat to pull off successfully, but it mostly works. How ‘Dear White People’ Season 3 Unpacks Race and #MeToo 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Follow it up with an afternoon swim in what’s arguably Ochi’s most immaculate beach: white sand, supernaturally cerulean waters and a backdrop of waves striking rugged cliffs. 36 Hours in Jamaica 2014-03-27T18:33:52Z

These new episodes lack the first batch’s director, Sam Esmail, but it remains a visually stylish and character-driven drama, using conspiratorial paranoia as the backdrop to a study of loneliness and belonging. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in May 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Some of the stronger moments are the quieter ones: Hongi communing with his dead grandmother against a handmade-looking starry backdrop, or a soliloquy in which the warrior rages helplessly against his inner demons. Review: In ‘The Dead Lands,’ the Maori Fight for Survival 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Set in the late 1970s, with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet as backdrop, the narrative grows increasingly savage as the story plays out. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Against the finely drawn backdrop of small-town life, they each surrender to longing, warily circle disruption and choose instead to soldier on together for reasons neither chooses to articulate. TV Picks: 'Olive Kitteridge,' 'Elementary,' 'Death Comes to Pemberley' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The music remains a decorative backdrop, and never gives dramatic shape to what is a modest, sincere piece of theatre. The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T22:40:00Z

Its towering main atrium, punctuated by concrete balconies once used for transfer of wartime supplies from train to ship, looks like a dystopian backdrop from “Brazil” or “Metropolis.” ‘Doomocracy’ Puts the Politics of Fear on Display in Brooklyn 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

She is working on a "Magic Tree House" book set at a panda reserve against the backdrop of the 2008 earthquake in China. "Magic Tree House" film premieres in Japan 2011-10-24T06:56:38Z

“They were the perfect backdrop buildings, minimalist pylons signifying nothing in particular—unlike the heroic Empire State Building—but serving always as inscrutable signposts.” When the Twin Towers Quietly Commanded the New York Skyline 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a scenic backdrop ripe for theatrical metaphor. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The effect recalls one of Ms. Dean’s reference points, Robert Smithson’s Great Salt Lake artwork, “Spiral Jetty,” which can feel like a curve drawn onto a watery backdrop. Movie Review: Mary Frank and Tacita Dean Shape Two Documentaries 2014-04-15T22:43:26Z

With all these grim geopolitical conditions serving as backdrop, the foreground action is as elemental as that of a thousand old Hollywood Westerns. Review: ‘Rover’ an intense look into near future 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

It is the "blankness" of Antarctica that appeals to Francis's imagination, "the absence of worn paths or cultural memories", "a whitewashed primordial backdrop against which ideas, memories, ambitions, regrets, could be examined without distraction". 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney – review 2012-11-22T08:00:01Z

Light tan floor tiles provide a neutral backdrop for dark couches. House Calls: A sleek, modern family room

Against that backdrop enduring questions arise: Who am I? Review | Marriage, feminism, politics, love: The best new poetry explores our passions 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

She came up with the idea of using fabric and beads left over from shows they were working on that were paused or canceled to make the clouds and rest of the backdrop. Designing Doesn’t Stop, Even When Stage Shows Do 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Her spring collection made the perfect backdrop for a post-show chat. On the Runway Blog: Crafty Talk With Sarah Burton 2011-10-27T18:24:58Z

His new book, "Running With Lions", is a more light-hearted romp, however, a story about teen romance with a backdrop of a youth soccer league. Queer young adult fiction grows beyond the coming out story 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, Mr O’Gorman’s celebration of the wonderful eccentricity of human nature is both refreshing and necessary. Did I lock the back door? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

By the late ’60s, rock bands had been tinkering with rudimentary special effects, like the oily projections the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane used as psychedelic backdrops. How concerts shifted from songs to spectacles

Anne Kidd plays Jessie, against a backdrop of audience and lost property, in Manchester Lines. Manchester Lines – review 2012-06-23T23:05:45Z

It takes place against a backdrop of an upsurge in violence in the Kashmir valley. Security tight as conductor Zubin Mehta faces the music in Indian Kashmir 2013-09-05T12:14:07Z

Early in its 90-minute, 11 p.m. set, the English trance trio Above & Beyond posted a textlike message on the mammoth Gorge backdrop: “Look around you: This place is full of your future friends.” Paradiso 2014 off to an earthshaking start | Concert review 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

And though New York may be the backdrop for “Happythankyoumoreplease,” the title was inspired by Los Angeles. How I Met Your City, the Real One 2011-02-25T20:09:52Z

At the university I called home my freshman year, fraternity row was a tree-lined street full of Southern style mansions, against a backdrop of the poor urban ghetto that surrounded the school. Fraternity Misogyny Goes on Long After Graduation 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

"Painting a panto backdrop is basically Michelangelo in reverse," he says. Behind the scenes at York Theatre Royal panto 2012-12-17T18:49:46Z

He ultimately left the country after starring in “The Wound,” a film that set a gay love plot against the backdrop of the traditional initiation ritual for Xhosa boys. For Nakhane, Songs Can Be Painful and Dangerous. His New Album Is a Balm. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Alternately, maybe it’s a sign that the dystopia of desperation and mob anarchy is not just the backdrop of sci-fi pulp set in the distant future — it’s already creeping into our daily lives. Don’t blame commercialism for your shopping madness 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z

Her backdrop is a vintage American flag that she bought in college. On camera at home, TV personalities provide a peek at their book collections, wallpaper and cats 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

“I’ll think of the menu, and then I’ll build the backdrop into the menu. But when I’m thinking about the menu, I’m thinking about color.” How Six Different Cooks Set Striking Thanksgiving Tables 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

As they sit for close-ups in front of a swirly blue backdrop, gone are the Georgetown and Stanford sweatshirts, and the hopes they once represented. ‘Accepted’ Review: Reaching for the Stars, Seeing Them Dissolve 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

What Dante saw gave a raw physicality to his “Divine Comedy,” setting the backdrop of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

They pose for “selfies” dressed in traditional garb against the backdrop of the ruins. Venerating the past, traditional costume fever grips Thailand 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

Those violins and cascading treble guitars which duck and weave out of the chorus provide a nice backdrop to the band's quieter moments and slight Arcade Fire stylings that mesh together so well. August's best music from across the MAP 2012-08-15T08:00:00Z

His use of chiaroscuro is charged with symbolic meaning – the shadows of Naples's peeling courtyards and the brilliant sun without – as is the ominously constant backdrop of either Vesuvius or indigo raincloud. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z

Keen as mustard The globe that glowed on a backdrop screen was perhaps a message that Paul Smith had gone global. Special Report: Fashion: Hats Off to Easy Elegance 2011-01-24T18:21:28Z

But like the brutal, brawling sport that provides Mr. O’Connor with a backdrop, a storehouse of metaphors and a pretext for staging some viscerally effective fight scenes, “Warrior” possesses surprising poetry and finesse. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z

The rigor of the formal dress also helped Mr. Etro to steer clear of flights of fancy — literally in this show, where a giant Icarus was on the backdrop. Alexander McQueen Adding a Made-to-Order Line of Men?s Wear 2012-01-16T18:58:07Z

In Anthony M. Sannazaro’s gorgeous video backdrop of floating clouds, I started seeing or imagining the eyes of some kindly disposed god. 'Timepiece' is an absurdist throwback 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

She also is fastidious with secondary elements such as the handsomely heathered backdrops. In the galleries: Watercolors reveal a forceful vision at Touchstone 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The drama, which pays tribute to the golden age of Hollywood, is set in the late 1960s against the backdrop of the Manson family murders. Box Office: 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Starts Strong With $40... 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z

Pamuk’s usual themes are on display: the East-West dialectic, the tensions between modernity and tradition, the relationship between secular and sacred, with Istanbul as both a backdrop and muse. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The plague barely emerges as more than a backdrop because it is a vehicle of fate, not society. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Their story unfolds against the backdrop of an August 2008 climbing accident in which 11 people died. Facts rule: 8 great nonfiction books 2013-06-14T17:29:09Z

But the trappings — Weimar-era garb, corrupt show folk addressing the audience, the backdrop of grand historical evil — will be familiar to theatergoers who’ve seen Kander and Ebb’s “Cabaret” on stage or screen. | 'Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now': ?Hypnotik? at Theater for the New City - Review 2012-01-01T22:18:00Z

Kraftwerk played their greatest hits including Autobahn, The Model, Trans Europe Express and Tour de France against a backdrop of 3D projections. In Pictures: Latitude Festival 2013-07-20T11:09:09Z

This is why the set is virtually nonexistent here, and is mostly just projections on the towering stone backdrop of the Felsenreitschule, the word “INTOLLERANZA” written across its broad stage. An Opera Screams for Human Dignity 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

He is so honest, he protests, as he strikes poses before a backdrop of Greco-Roman statues. The Big Chill 2011-08-07T11:53:31Z

These elements — the controversy surrounding the mill, Buck Ferris’s murder, Marshall’s subsequent investigation — form the outer, public face of the novel and are set against a painstakingly created backdrop of complex, often painful personal relationships. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

And before a giant backdrop of a Roman frieze, he seemed to argue with the sky and the floor beneath his feet: in the absence of Jay-Z, perhaps his only two reference points. Critic?s Notebook: At Coachella, Every Note Is Writ Large 2011-04-18T22:38:19Z

Climbing effortlessly through whole tones, on the backdrop of baritone blues shouts, we levitate into ethereal pleasantries. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

With countless marks of colored pencil, Seattle artist Amanda Manitach outlines achingly candid, witty, or poetic phrases against romantic, filigreed backdrops. With colored pencils and confessional phrases, Amanda Manitach’s art speaks to many 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

The backdrop was simple sheeting with a single vertical line, and golden light rays hit the stage from high above — altogether simulating a prison cell or monastic space. L.A. Dance Project delivers mesmerizing debut at the Wallis 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

War was a constant backdrop to daily life, more mundane than frightening at times. Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Using winter as her backdrop, Bush delivers a sparse, beautiful and ultimately pure album Revisiting older work on this year’s Director’s Cut gave Kate Bush a chance to review aspects of her canon so far. Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z

Gone are season one’s gloomy credits, which depicted figures, in the style of a Renaissance painting, being ripped from one another’s arms to the strains of a mournful violin backdrop. Reboots done right: How “The Affair” and “The Leftovers” played to their strengths and wiped out their biggest flaws 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Driving through the region, hopping between farmers’ markets and viewpoints, it was impossible to forget the tragic backdrop to my visit. In Australia, Diving Right Into Summer 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Against a cool gray backdrop, bright contemporary artwork pops at Le Méridien Columbus, the Joseph. An Artsy Hotel Brightens the Scene in Ohio’s Capital City 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

With vast numbers of Americans isolated at home and on their devices 24/7 against a backdrop of escalating unemployment and rampant stress, the climate is ripe for tech abuse. ‘Revenge porn’ was already commonplace. The pandemic has made things even worse. 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

A record-breaking California drought is a fitting backdrop. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Juxtaposed with the gold, these suggest felt or velvet backdrops for golden relics, whether the crowns and chalices of Europe or the sacred figurines of Asia. In the galleries: Nature’s serenity 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The orchestral tracks provide a panoramic backdrop of sustained strings and swirls of harp, while the big-band horns punch up songs grounded in Chicago blues. Albums by Neil Young, Bette Midler and Miguel Zenón 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

It is centrally located, offers spectacular backdrops in every direction and acts as a magnet for all manner of people. 2010-01-12T14:25:00Z

There's even a pilot for a TV series set against the backdrop of the war, from one of the executive producers of ABC's hit drama "Lost." Hollywood takes on the Civil War 2011-05-04T20:19:19Z

They depict Jesus, saints and angels against backdrops of streaky skies, wearing jeweled headdresses and robes made of milky glass layers. 2010-02-12T00:03:00Z

The museum, in addition to hanging Goncharova’s huge stage backdrop, is showing her sketches of flowered peasant outfits, her costumes embroidered with sea creatures and a Cubist caricature of Diaghilev she drew. Antiques: A Ballet?s Costumes Take Center Stage 2010-09-23T21:11:00Z

Set against the beautiful but scarred backdrop of Montana, the documentary Dark Money opens like a political thriller. Dark Money: how a documentary became a political thriller 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

They are spoken by Cate Blanchett in a tour de force performance of changing characters and accents, with Berlin’s architecture as a frequent backdrop, and co-star. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

With a backdrop of street violence, the film is a searing exploration of family rifts, growing up and masculinity. Clip joint: British shorts 2013-02-07T16:11:03Z

I sat on my floor for days, fitting tubes and poles into various holes, eventually building a structure with two large clips holding a fabric backdrop and a set of four professional television lights. Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, against a backdrop of geopolitical unrest, the monthslong circuit has felt, to whiskered campaigners, especially frivolous. Trump Era Invites a Bolder Hollywood Red Carpet 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Italy in general and Florence in particular seem a perfect cultural backdrop for the intricate workmanship of this original and imaginative American brand. Fashion: Fash File: Umit Benan, Pitti Uomo, Rodarte 2011-06-13T12:28:39Z

Unlike “I Am My Own Wife,” which played against a floor-to-ceiling backdrop of shelves filled with Victrolas and period artifacts, this production takes place on a largely bare black set that resembles a burned-out room. Why Just Play Scrooge When You Can Play Everyone? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

That was the backdrop when he was nominated for “Schindler’s List,” the Holocaust drama about a German businessman who saved more than 1,100 Jews from Nazi death camps. Oscars Rewind: The Last Time Jane Campion and Steven Spielberg Went Head-to-Head 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

It helps, when the spy-story mechanics become a little too obvious, that the show is shot on location in Berlin, which provides an endless variety of intriguing backdrops. Review: ‘Berlin Station,’ the Hunt for a C.I.A. Whistle-Blower 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Frank Gehry, a longtime friend of Shorter’s, designed the set, with a looming, shimmery backdrop that seemed to harmonize with the saxophonist’s vaulted arrangements. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Seaside cliffs and vibrant green headlands create the perfect backdrop for sampling Montenegro’s hiking trails. Dubrovnik’s Dothraki-like hordes make Montenegro’s Bay of Kotor appealing 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

In the piece, Mr. Kristensen’s fresco acts as a backdrop for the opera and plays a critical role in the narrative, as the characters interact with it. Steinar Haga Kristensen Is One of a Wave of New Artists Reviving the Norwegian Capital 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Now that same space feels anxious and claustrophobic, recast as a site of potential infection and a backdrop for violent confrontations between neighbors, captured by trembling cellphone videos. The Grocery Store of the Mind 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

The service took place against the backdrop of covid-19, something that once seemed so strange and rare and now seems to have faded into the background like readily ignored white noise. Perspective | George Floyd was an ordinary man. His memorial was a reminder of that simple, powerful fact. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Working with some of the most innovative producers around, Kelela often places her voice within eerie electronic backdrops, creating unexpected intimacy in virtual realms. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

The White Mountains form a spectacular backdrop to the three-hour walk round the park and your reward is an outstanding restaurant, specialising in local produce. 10 great botanical gardens around the world: readers’ tips 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

With its falling snow backdrop and pearly lighting, “Solo Echo” is atmospheric and skilfully constructed. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

It’s the neon blur out a car window, a sun-baked backdrop. Review: ‘Gemini’ Finds Murder in a Movie-Soaked Los Angeles 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The only such film to take the war on terror as its explicit backdrop, it was also the most purely escapist blockbuster of the genre. Iron Man 2: the first superhero film of the Obama era? 2010-04-28T13:33:00Z

The backdrops are mostly black, while the highlights are often a harsh white. In the galleries: Reclaiming cultural identity 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

“We need new people, especially people that understand what life is like today,” he said at a town hall in Carroll, Iowa, before a backdrop of taxidermied animals and cowboy boots hanging from the ceiling. Marco Rubio is just the guy to win the youth vote. Or so the old folks think. 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

In the starkly militant “Steps in the Street,” two rotating thickets of wavy white lines, projected on the backdrop, moved toward and away from each other like jousting ships. Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

She took many of the photos at the Friday Harbor Marine Lab on San Juan Island and positioned them against a white backdrop. ‘Spineless’ a look at our undersea neighbors 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Recently, the historic Catacombs of Paris has become a popular destination for adult filmmakers, models, and photographers, who are heading sixty feet underground to shoot against the backdrop of millions of human skulls and skeletons. Porn shoots in Parisian catacombs? Mais oui! 2013-03-15T17:38:00Z

An illustration of two flowers, one slightly larger than the other, with their stems twisted around each other, against a blue backdrop. Audiobook of the Week: Kate Mara Reads ‘Gone Tonight,’ by Sarah Pekkanen 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z

The mountains are also a backdrop to the morning yoga, which is held in the red-tiled outdoor pavilion. Next Stop: Pokhara, Nepal, Becomes Nepal?s Top Yoga Destination 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z

The result is a destination that encompasses history, art, culture and a vibrant dining scene, all under a canopy of sunshine with a backdrop of postcard-worthy views. Next Stop: A Comeback on Chile’s Coast 2013-06-28T18:55:55Z

Against that backdrop, the strength and solace she finds by sharing her story with Abrams and Lumet remains one of the most memorable scenes in the film. A Documentary for the #MeToo Era 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

The room was empty save for a few chairs and tables and other seemingly storage-bound items haphazardly strewn about and a backdrop depicting a walking bridge in the woods in the early fall. Grateful for a Wedding in Prison 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

And Dr. Wallack began to distill what he loved about Ms. Zhou: Against the backdrop of beauty, youth and intelligence she presented, there was sophistication. The Bride, the Groom and the Elephant in the Room 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Behind her was a backdrop of five American flags. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s new reality 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

After some missteps, they settle into an apartment in Harlem, where she grew up and which becomes an instructive, mirror-like backdrop. ‘A Thousand and One’ Review: A New York Love Story 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

Painted backdrops, reused rear-projection footage and intentionally bad continuity are thrown in, though never as sharp or dense as in the superior spoofery of, say, Black Dynamite. Casa de Mi Padre – review 2012-06-07T21:30:01Z

It was, after all, the backdrop against which a group of collections was viewed. Burn It All Down 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the lighting turned red, and the waves on the backdrop surged angrily, at the right moments. Production inspired by Portuguese poem whips up a storm 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

And it captivated the editors of Women’s Wear Daily, who were prompted to used the space as a backdrop for a fashion shoot. On the Runway: 'Sleep No More' Is a Feast for Style Fanatics 2011-05-20T21:24:29Z

Ms. Prada’s show featured full-cut suits and silk tropical prints, shown on male and female models, against a painted backdrop of jungle fronds disturbed by a helicopter rotor. Fashion Review: Prada, Jil Sander, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Neil Barrett, Zegna and Calvin Klein Show Spring 2014 Collections During Milan Men’s Fashion Week 2013-06-26T21:45:04Z

Video backdrops of New York City and New England countryside shot for this production by Mike and Jeff Billings help differentiate the song shifts in location and time. Why love didn't work, from each party in 'The Last Five Years' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Today, open-air concerts and events are staged against this backdrop. Peeling back layers of history in Evora 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Washington, Congress and the White House have always provided provocative backdrops for Hollywood. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Capable of moving between myriad personas and sonic backdrops that cut through hard-core rap, pop fluff and sticky dance floor bangers, the always provocative Nicki Minaj makes us stop and pay attention. A guide to BET Experience shows that are worth catching 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

As on the album, Mr. Plant squared the silvery burr of his singing voice against an expertly adaptable backdrop, courtesy of the mostly English backing band he calls the Sensational Space Shifters. Robert Plant With Led Zeppelin Hits and More 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The collective’s “loosely narrative spectacle” blends video, backdrops, costumes and props. The Buzz 2011-05-11T21:32:55Z

The reservoir is stunning, a dark-green oval stretching beyond our view, with the eastern hills as a backdrop. In Jamaica, Running in Usain Bolt’s Footsteps 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a sentimental story about love, work and friendship, meaningfully set against the backdrop of gaming — a subject which fiction too often treats as a narrative gimmick, objective correlative or some other transient device. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

More recently, the hills appeared as backdrop in parts of “Gladiator,” “Iron Man” and a fantastically melodramatic Meat Loaf video. Rugged Country, Rugged History in California?s Owens Valley 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z

Each performance is free, with the New York Harbor at dusk as the backdrop. Battery Dance Festival to Kick Off Aug. 15 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Whitewashed steeples, covered bridges and the preserved 18th-century buildings of its downtown rise against the mountainous backdrop that characterizes the Monadnock region. High & Low | Peterborough, N.H.: ?Our Town? Is Yours, Too 2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

While  is today mostly celebrated as a musical event, it was as much a visual one, with a shocking flat-footed dance, a stage set featuring an eerie painted backdrop, and grim folkloric costumes. Stravinsky goes digital 2013-05-30T20:32:00Z

Against a backdrop of escalating chaos, Tremblay quickly homes in on two characters — one a victim, the other a caregiver — whose stories reflect the sheer human cost of an unchecked epidemic. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Along the way, in specific places, works appear onscreen against the backdrop of your surroundings. Apple Transforms Central Park Into an Augmented Reality Gallery 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

It was staged with prisoners breaking chains and African-style drummers and dancers against a bonfire backdrop, ending with the name of Mr. Lamar’s hometown, Compton, superimposed on a silhouette of Africa. At the Grammys, Big Voices, Pretty Faces and Bitter Truths 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Being away from the same backdrop, day after day, Neil and I found we were sleeping more soundly and laughing like we used to. Have vaccine, will travel: How a road trip served as a needed jolt from the blahs at home 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

The city where she first met Harry was the backdrop for her TV series “Suits” and the subject of many of her now-deleted social media posts. Cheese shops to day spas. A look at Meghan Markle’s Toronto haunts 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The Big Picture, adapted from a Douglas Kennedy novel of the same name, sets the story of an extramarital affair against the striking scenic backdrops of moneyed suburban Paris and Montenegro. Heartbreaker 2011-07-16T23:05:12Z

The Hollywood sign in the distant hills provides a backdrop. Hollywood sculpture censored after the Harvey Weinstein scandal has been returned to view 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of racism and violence in 1950s Missouri, the pupil of the brilliant ragtime pioneer Scott Joplin hunts for a lost journal. Crime fiction from the world's hot spots, from Beijing to Sedalia, Mo. 2010-06-09T23:59:00Z

There is a backdrop of rustling sounds and breathing, some produced by woodwind players blowing through their instruments without articulating specific notes. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z

All the while, there is the backdrop of Zoe's home life. Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher - review 2013-05-03T11:00:00Z

The white silhouette of a galloping horse ripples across a rugged backdrop. Art band at On the Boards is a little cryptic, but still 'Awesome' 2010-04-23T20:21:00Z

A painting in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art is simply titled “10/27/69,” placing itself against the backdrop of a period of massive protests against the war in Vietnam. Sam Gilliam, Abstract Artist of Drape Paintings, Dies at 88 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Granted, Kelley’s art was often set against the backdrop of American working-class suburbs, while Wong’s work unfolds across urban Hong Kong. Wong Ping’s Candy-Colored, Taboo-Smashing World 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

However, her treatment of the trial is extraordinary just because it isn't rhetorical: despite that backdrop, the space she creates is real and not mythic. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z

The cast roll their eyes and stagger around making exclamatory gestures in front of painted backdrops. Orpheus – review 2013-04-27T23:05:39Z

In this production, Mr. Padmore’s Vere appears in this scene at the front of the stage against a shadowy backdrop, caught, in a sense, in bright cross lights from the wings. Opera Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd,’ From Glyndebourne to BAM 2014-02-09T22:34:46Z

The lushest of orchestral accompaniments produced a backdrop for the banality of evil, and he had the perfect cast for that. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

He said he combined his fantasy with a backdrop of an "isolated summer community" in an America that "no longer exists". AUDIO: Wes Anderson on his young romance 2012-05-17T08:24:04Z

Among Clark’s inspirations are the Roman abduction of Sabine women, long a subject for European painters, and photographs by Annie Liebovitz, which yield a series of collages atop pale pink backdrops. In the galleries: The fleeting beauty of birds, making their final flights 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Please list all of the materials you used: The backdrop is a beautiful interpretation of a Jan Weenix painting, created by my husband. T Magazine: Trad and True 2012-09-20T19:33:37Z

Nearby, another painting showed a model on a catwalk against a blue backdrop, on which was written, “Greece, next economic model.” In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis 2011-10-14T12:10:58Z

Still, with the stage backdrop, stools and other parts of the club soon to be shipped to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., the loss of this room is significant. Dave Attell Bids a Heartfelt (and Hilarious) Farewell to Carolines 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

Fohr explores every nuance in her voice, soaring and diving to unplumbed depths against a backdrop of her core band and an orchestra. Circuit des Yeux battles through grief to create an artistic triumph 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

In the main dining room, textured walls with restored exposed brick serve as a backdrop to an eclectic mix of green leather banquettes, rustic wood tables, and contemporary chairs. A New Restaurant Embraces Its Historic Surroundings in Charleston, South Carolina 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Moreover, as evidenced by the film's rubble-strewn and semi-derelict backdrops, the decline and decay that would so define the north's experience of the 1980s had already begun to take root. Get Carter: In search of lost Tyne 2011-03-03T22:00:01Z

For “Ocean’s Kingdom” Mr. McCartney wrote the entire story line, scene by scene, and made paintings to suggest the backdrop for each act, which will be projections, and the final tableau. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z

Benjamin Moore’s Sea Salt is a calming neutral backdrop for the mix of items in the room. Empty nesters want to reclaim son’s bedroom as space for guests 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

It is marring, though not ruining, the swimming at our home beach, but no matter: An entire island awaits, and with it a suite of tropical backdrops for family dynamics. A St. Martin vacation reminds parents they don’t really want to get away from kids 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

The designer celebrated his brand’s 30th anniversary by mounting his fall 2017 show in a decommissioned church in New York, with its Gothic altarpiece as his runway’s backdrop. Joseph Abboud’s suits aren’t hip, but they’re made in America. Can that make them cool? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

We first see Diana crafting her own bullets out of the same bronze and brass Mr. Barney uses in his sculptures, against the awesome backdrop of Idaho’s snow-covered mountains. A Lighter Matthew Barney Goes Back to School, and Back Home 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Hard-hitting Mexican crime drama set against the backdrop of three World Cups. The World's End, Breathe In, Wadjda: this week's new films 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

Because a lot of these images were taken on the fly, the backdrops were often anything but glamorous. Actors ready for close-ups in 'Styling the Stars' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

In your mind’s eye, you can now see designer Kathryn Kawecki’s spare set, which alludes to Calvino’s, and Chen’s, literary gamesmanship with a backdrop of documents pinned to wire mesh. Review | Hub Theatre’s ‘The Late Wedding’ is daring, but tends toward tedious 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

It's an odd situation, because the heavy metal aspect of the movie is just the backdrop. Anvil: 'Don't worry, we can go a lot louder' 2011-07-21T14:04:17Z

You don’t see the protesters at this point; I’m just hearing it behind the backdrop of a beautifully manicured lawn. ‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

But instead of using our regular backdrop, we asked selected Tony nominees to shoot a scene at a New York City locale that reflects the personality of their character and the spirit of their show. Video: Tony Awards: In Performance With Courtney B. Vance 2013-06-03T16:13:06Z

There are lunches, homework, chores — the usual — against the new backdrop of the surreal: soon I’ll be dead. Motherlode Blog: The Last Mother's Day 2012-05-11T14:08:27Z

We practically become food stylists when the first plate hits the table, grabbing candles and bottles as backdrops, insisting everyone keep their hands off. Perspective | My month without social media: Less hunger, more time — and who cares about food trends, anyway? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Designer Tony Cisek creates a geometric backdrop of a suburban house facade, a look that brings to mind a swath of family TV comedies, from “Bewitched” to “The Wonder Years.” Review | ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ as a sitcom? Call it ‘The Bardy Bunch.’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Her cottage was appointed in bright, saturated colors that leapt out from the monotonous backdrop of the Irish sky with the surreal quality of a pop-up book. Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Although Corpus Christi provides the backdrop to the story, the central knife crime plot was not based on experience. Tragic twist to author's knife story 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Visitors should bring their own video cameras; the museum will provide the backdrop, tips from a professional storyteller and a tour through the museum’s exhibits of famous families for inspiration. Spare Times: For Children, for Nov. 25-Dec. 1 2011-11-24T20:05:50Z

It’s the most powerful location for a theater I know of — the center of all the energy of the city, with the Castle as backdrop, and the sky for a roof. Surprises at the Delacorte Theater and Other Outdoor Spaces 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

And all against the backdrop of the Andes and some of the country’s 2,000 volcanoes. Learning to Fly-Fish, in Chile 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

A vivid red wall is the perfect backdrop for cardoons and Melianthus major, and marks the transition between the driveway and the more private gardens around the house. Once overgrown, island garden is airy and bright 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

A giant video backdrop showed splashy animated graphics and black-and-white road trip footage. Music Review: Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys at Madison Square Garden 2012-03-13T22:19:08Z

Upstairs is given over to white outfits set against a white backdrop. Style: Rodarte Steps Up to a Widening World 2011-03-28T14:00:05Z

He even designed a banner with heartfelt words for the backdrop of his proposal. Man proposes with 6 rings to let fiancée decide which she likes 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

The store has provided a backdrop for plenty of real-life drama, too. Another London must-see: Selfridges, the iconic luxury department store 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy. Oscars 2013: Argo wins best picture 2013-02-25T04:55:00Z

It is surrounded only by small bungalows, and the majestic Twelve Apostles mountains are its looming backdrop. The world's best hidden beaches: Cape Town 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Now, against the backdrop of the pandemic, the green burial industry is proliferating. An increasingly popular way to be buried: Become part of an artificial reef 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

When Raul returns to the ranch with a gorgeous bride to be, hearts flutter and forbidden romance blossoms against the backdrop of a war between DEA and drug runners. Casa de Mi Padre – review 2012-06-07T21:30:01Z

The production worked well in scenes in which the machine turned into a stationary backdrop, and the planks became a video screen. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z

Over the following decades, against a backdrop of political turmoil, he hopscotched across the spectrum of available styles, from conservative-modernist to extravagant kitsch to preening avant-garde. Review | Lucio Fontana slashed his canvases with a knife. Was it a gimmick or something more? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

If you’re hungry for more, “Country,” by the Irish actor and author Michael Hughes, is a propulsive, blood-flecked homage to the “Iliad” told against the backdrop of a fragile truce in 1996. Love and War in European Fiction 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

I’m playing western stories in the genre, but with a southern backdrop. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z

Disney World offered multiple social-media-ready, Pride-themed photo backdrops; and Disney Springs, a shopping area, has been festooned with dozens of “Share Your Pride” banners. After a Political Storm, Gay Days Return to Disney 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

The action, ably directed by Michael Gieleta, unfolded in front of an attractive wood-paneled backdrop, enlivened by the cast’s colorful Czech costumes. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Kiss’ at the Opera Theater of St. Louis 2013-06-23T20:56:36Z

The earthy cooking, the rusticated backdrops, the antique tableware, the children, the dogs, the wine — it all proved a bit too perfect for some. Médoc, From Grand Cru to Country Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

While Ms. Sui’s clothes often seem drenched in darkness, this collection emphasized natural daylight, with a backdrop of a cornfield and the dresses decorated with bird and floral patterns bringing nature into the foreground. Special Report: A Sunshine State of Mind 2010-09-16T15:40:00Z

But she juices up several images here by using brightly patterned fabrics as backdrops. Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

No one could invent a better backdrop for “making America great again”. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Against that backdrop, Merge is a shining beacon -- and one of the music industry's last, best models for survival. Can an indie label with great taste save the music industry? 2011-09-29T15:30:00Z

The family drama is set in Venice against the backdrop of mixed martial arts. DirecTV orders 20 more episodes of MMA series 'Kingdom' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop. Patagonia adventure: a voyage round Cape Horn 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

During the rehearsal on Friday, a huge image of a completely naked Nureyev briefly appeared as the backdrop to the performance. Russia's delayed Nureyev ballet to test Kremlin tolerance 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

Both projects were unveiled this week against the squealing backdrop of adoring fans during Milan Furniture Fair, which runs through Sunday. Kravitz adds designer to his creative credentials 2012-04-18T19:44:12Z

The glass-enclosed court is an important part of that wing, and it provided an attractive backdrop to a performance that the museum was videotaping. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings ?Songs of America? at Met Museum - Review 2012-01-23T22:49:28Z

So far, the white weirwoods in “House of the Dragon” are little more than a backdrop, a source of soothing shade in the godswood. Fantasy Face-Off: ‘The Rings of Power’ vs. ‘House of the Dragon’ 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Against this xenophobic backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for a final Passover seder in Los Angeles before the death of ailing matriarch Roz. “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Featuring sculpture, painting, photography and installation, the exhibition spans 40 years of his career and looks at themes of religion, poetry and philosophy against the backdrop of European history. In pictures: Anselm Kiefer retrospective 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

"You've got the backdrop of The Interview, the Sony hacks and the global issue of freedom of speech. It's the most topical one and I think it will win." British hopefuls ready for Baftas 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

It’s amazing how coherent this slice of family life feels, given how unstable its “architectural” backdrop is. ‘The Ghost of Architecture’ haunts Henry Art Gallery 2013-08-15T19:20:58Z

Her main backdrop is a semiabstract green-and-white landscape with hatched lines, flecked with red in ways that suggest both bloom and bloodstains. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z

So the following day I set up a portrait booth, with a large backdrop and studio lights, and people started queuing up to be photographed. Photographer Zed Nelson's best shot 2010-09-01T21:30:00Z

Lake Champlain offers a stunning backdrop for anything you do in Burlington, but to really appreciate its beauty you have to get out on it. 36 Hours in Burlington, Vermont 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

In “The Thin Place,” the backdrop is a rural New England town teeming with animals and with characters who drift between the natural world and a dream-like plane. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The self-imposed pressure on Mr. Connelly to create an unforgettable backdrop for their celebration in Canada was immense, he said. Theirs Was a Hollywood Beginning 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

Other artists add drama with black backdrops, giving their paintings an Old Master vibe, or with implied action; Donald Beekman Myer pictures fruit such as lemons and pears, tumbling like dice. In the galleries: An early spring is always welcome 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The challenges are held under a tent, against a backdrop of pastoral green, little Union Jack pennants bordering the work area. Review: A Sweet Take on British Identity Returns to PBS 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

To put it another way: China did manage to grow from 330 million people to more than one billion people, but it did so against a backdrop of 180 years of global population growth. Matthew Yglesias Thinks There Should Be ‘One Billion Americans’ 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

Though Mr. Kaplan’s backdrops are splendidly picturesque, the stage’s wings are designed like tawdry interior décor. Review: In Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Bayadère,’ Mostly Good Revelations 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Those participating held signs featuring white Oscar statues set against a black backdrop with #OscarsSoWhite scrawled in red across the top. 'There’s an elephant in the room': Oscar nominees weigh in on lack of diversity 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

The series is set against the backdrop of the Reagan administration. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Follow This’ on Netflix and the Season Finale of ‘American Woman’ 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The news formed a piquant backdrop to the arrival of Monsters in Britain's cinemas the next day. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z

Yellowstone National Park's wolf reintroduction program provides the backdrop for the gentle "Druid Peak," an environmentally conscious if overlong redemptive coming-of-age drama. Redemption and great scenery in 'Druid Peak' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

But the new tenants kept one reminder of the building’s previous life: the curved white infinity wall at the far end of the shop floor, which formerly served as a backdrop for portraits. A Store Where You Can Shop for Denim and Home Goods, or Take an Art Class 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

The clash of movie-world scandal with local politics gives the passionate affair a broad backdrop, as does Ray’s fervent depiction of fragile, high-strung artists caught between love and work. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

In outline it is an absolutely standard meet-cute romantic comedy, with the usual obstacles on the way to the central couple’s triumphant kiss, which takes place against a backdrop of fireworks and cheering crowds. Movie Review: ?Tonight You?re Mine,? Directed by David Mackenzie 2012-05-10T23:01:42Z

Six men gather before a striking black backdrop scattered with flowers that glow brighter as the tableau beneath them grows more grim. Review | The tragic beauty of Alvin Ailey’s politically charged dance programs 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The painted backdrop and the costumes feel simultaneously familiar and fresh. Out of the Spotlight, Still a Star: The ‘Backstage Diva’ 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Jilly Cooper set it in the Cotswolds, of course, which the Chipping Norton set have probably ruined as a viable backdrop for sexual shenanigans forevermore. Erotica: better reads than Fifty Shades of Grey 2012-05-29T19:30:02Z

Inside, the design is minimal, the wooden walls forming a warm backdrop to a few key pieces of furniture and Maskin’s art collection. Cabin fever: 'I was looking for a small, inexpensive fixer-upper' 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

What if the land were more than a "backdrop"? 'Sissinghurst ? An Unfinished History': Restoring the manor to a fruitful farm 2010-05-19T21:58:00Z

You won’t see any of his art here, except for a wall-size photograph of red curtains that cuts through the maze of an installation and makes a striking backdrop for the show’s three Magrittes. Art Review: Out-Magritting Magritte, or at Least Coming Close 2011-08-11T21:37:51Z

A dozen Marshall speakers were the stage backdrop; there were hyperactive strobe lights. Music Review: Sleigh Bells? ?Reign of Terror? Tour at Terminal 5 2012-02-19T21:34:52Z

Against a soothing blue-green backdrop, their smooth, muscular bodies looked graceful, peaceful — even a little vulnerable — and their large eyes were sad and somewhat vacant. In the Bahamas, Scuba Diving With James Bond’s Trainer 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Dozens of bunkers were built to stage exercises for machine gun crews, and the gray cement pillboxes squatting in the pastures provided a stark structural backdrop for the cattle grazing peacefully around them. “I don’t know who, or what, I’m married to anymore”: PTSD brings the war home 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

The setting The house and grounds were built by the Adams brothers in the mid-18th century and the rolling landscape of the Borders provides a scenic backdrop. Scotland's best classical music festivals 2012-05-25T21:45:07Z

The clothing was shown against a backdrop of a white sand beach scattered with umbrellas. Celebrities hail style heritage at Milan fashion week 2013-09-20T00:21:36Z

It’s just about impossible for this scene not to be adorable, but parents often spruce up the photo op with custom backdrops, outfits and balloons. What Bao Bao has in common with other 1-year-olds in D.C.

The fashion sense adds to the pleasure as this deft cast comically flutters and stings against Roper’s backdrop of looming national calamity. Review | ‘She Rode Horses’ gallops through the housing collapse 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Microcosmic vistas merge into the sweep of space in “Galaxies Spinning #7,” which spatters gold on a black backdrop as if the constellations are strands of cosmic jewelry. In the galleries: Looking back on a century of Iberian and Latin American works 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The Canadian poet Souvankham Thammavongsa, the daughter of Laotian refugees, draws on her family’s history for the emotional backdrop of her debut collection, which follows four books of acclaimed poetry. 7 New Books to Watch for in April 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

There’s some context against the backdrop of the insanity of the 2016 debates, a brief check-in with a number of the individual candidates, and a few bonus jabs at different personalities within the NBC family. Kate McKinnon already has her Marianne Williamson impression ready to go 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

The pivotal moments Pinter zooms in on in each scene come with their own emotional backdrops and irrational set of feelings. A week in radio: Harold Pinter's Betrayal 2012-07-19T20:30:02Z

The painted backdrop for the forest scene in the second act is an almost phantasmagorical explosion of color, quite unlike the demure landscape-painting-type backdrops of many a story ballet. City Ballet Usher Has Spotlight as a Designer for ‘La Sylphide’ 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

An attractively produced mix of quick-hit jokes, cartoons, fake advertisements, interviews, first-person essays and deep-dive satire, the magazine is united by an arch tone that provides a nice backdrop for its periodic descent into silliness. Titanic Still Afloat: The American Bystander Publishes Second Issue 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

It’s the august Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the paintings on the walls are more than just backdrops for her numbers. Review: ‘Revolution of the Eye’ Examines Art’s Influence on Early TV 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Every backdrop a canvas of pure white, tracked ever so delicately with gray veining! "Clean is never clean enough": Are white countertops good for obsessive cooks? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

The lockdowns, the economic stress and the isolation of quarantining, he thought, could be the perfect backdrop for one of his films. Doug Liman made the ultimate lockdown movie IN lockdown 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Each is depicted alone, sometimes enthroned, in the same generalised but anonymous space: a backdrop from the theatre perhaps or the grand traditions of painting. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

A summer of racial unrest is the backdrop for this Los Angeles crime thriller about two families — one black, one Korean — whose paths re-intersect decades after they were first linked by tragedy. July paperback releases: 14 books worth reading 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

But it was shape in its purest form that began Friday’s collection — against a backdrop of minimalist square paneling. Paris Fashion Week goes colorful, soft and underwater 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Maybe we’re paying for the presentation, on a slate backdrop, of the pie, slightly larger than a saucer and decorated with slivered red onion, fresh rosemary and Parmesan. White server jackets and signs of promise at RPM Italian 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Hashimoto’s prints depict what appear to be tiny paper kites, dangling with string loose and knotted, tacked to a faded, splintering wood backdrop. Jacob Hashimoto's work takes flight at Mixografia 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of the boarded-up police station, a legless man rolled past. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

Dusty streets and fly-specked shacks give way to beaches whose striated sandstone towers make striking backdrops for car chases through the sand. Review: A Classic Western Sheriff on the Other Side of the World 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

The natural shades of grasscloth wallpaper are the perfect backdrop for an organic decorating scheme. Rustic-Casual Christmas 2010-12-03T21:06:00Z

The era of social media and the smartphone has played out mostly with the Obama Presidency as a backdrop. There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

It stars Ralph Fiennes channeling Noël Coward, if Coward were a concierge, and is the first film in which Mr. Anderson has set one of his painstakingly selected fictional tableaus against the backdrop of history. Europe’s Painful Past Colors a Film Festival 2014-02-09T22:03:12Z

Cable TV news provides the apocalyptic backdrop for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s jarring new production of “The Arsonists,” a 1950s political warning that hasn’t burned out yet. Review | ‘The Arsonists’ at Woolly dramatizes the modern world on fire 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Exclusive restaurants, elaborate schemes and a host of cameos by real-world power players provided the backdrop for their battle. As ‘Billions’ Ends, Its Creators Discuss the Changing Face of the Ultrarich 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

The homes became a symbol of post-Katrina in New Orleans when they were featured as the backdrop of a poster promoting the television series. HBO's 'Treme' execs fight New Orleans demolition 2011-04-14T19:03:09Z

In her hands a painting could turn into wallpaper, which could serve as the backdrop for a performance; a beaded handbag and a geometric abstraction could provoke in equal measure. Seeking Historical Exhibits That Speak to the Here and Now 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

It was all too easy, lapping up the delights of Jungle Beach, to forget the backdrop of damage, both natural and man-made, during a trip to eastern Sri Lanka. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The game became a pleasant, thumping backdrop to our bookish conversations. Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Smallwood is not interested in a vaguely thrumming, elliptical backdrop of global anxiety, the kind of backdrop found in Jenny Offill’s “Weather” and other recent books. A Debut Novel With Prose as Lively as Its Heroine’s Mind 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Until recently it might have appeared that the fate of the school story, once so popular in its own right, was to become merely a backdrop to the series; an adjunct to the fantasy genre. Has public school fiction passed the test of time? 2011-01-04T14:53:11Z

Domestic drama serves as a backdrop for inventive thrills in this horror movie by the director Adam Randall. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Self Made’ and ‘I See You’ 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Binge all eight episodes now or slowly take in the lush, meticulous backdrop that captures the contradiction of grim, postwar Paris and the world of haute couture. What’s on TV Friday: Ricky Gervais on Netflix and Revisiting Anna Nicole Smith 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

It’s set against the fiery backdrop of racial unrest in Newark, and the tumult of the era. Don’t Stop Believing: David Chase returns to ‘The Sopranos’ 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

With stark walls and craggy cliffs, Langley and the Sierra Nevada embody the myth of the West, providing backdrops for Hopalong Cassidy B-Westerns and dozens of others, as well as adventure. Explorer: Facing Fear, With Family, in the Sierras 2013-09-05T13:00:28Z

For the scene outside Fotheringay, Macfarlane fills the stage with spindly trees barren of leaves and provides a painted backdrop that evokes a cloudy landscape. DiDonato a luminous Mary Stuart at Met 2013-01-01T09:46:04Z

The heartland surroundings of the reunion — gray wood houses, horseshoe games — become the backdrop for scandal anyway. Review: ‘Take Me to the River’ Immerses a Teenager in Scandal at a Family Reunion 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

So we are left with empty furniture and bare backdrops. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

Painted studio backdrops create even odder juxtapositions, as the “exotic” samurai pose in front of palm trees or what appear to be scenes of India or Classical Greece or Rome. Art Review: When Stoic Samurai Faced the Camera 2010-08-26T22:39:00Z

Everything has become a backdrop for a selfie for these influencers. HBO doc shows how it's easy to make "Fake Famous" influencers, whose job is to "make you feel bad" 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Aspire at One World Observatory, an events space at One World Trade Center, offered the perfect backdrop for Berta’s heavenly fall and winter 2020 runway show, which was held 102 floors above the city. What We Saw at New York Bridal Fashion Week 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Now they’re dialing in from home too, with backdrops furnished to accentuate their personal brands. Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

This fashion ode to Dolce & Gabbana’s heritage was summed up as words on the screen backdrop: “Sicily, Sartorial, Sensual.” Special Report: An Emotional Salute to Heritage 2010-02-28T18:28:00Z

The full-throated poems in this debut collection see the world whole, allowing daily intimacies against a backdrop of social injustice: “Neighbors chatting while sirens / gathered in volume, urgency.” New & Noteworthy Poetry, From First Peoples to Posthumous Ashbery 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Models sported looks in sparkling, shimmering golds and silvers, from strapless mini-dresses to embroidered, lushly embellished pant suits, with the backdrop of a glowing white cross. The Blonds find religion at New York Fashion Week 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Looking at the little objects that she brought home from work, against the backdrop of those giant buildings, the scale of this history becomes overwhelming. Watching New York City Take Shape at Windows on the World 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

For example, a facsimile of a knife-throwing wall transforms into a starry backdrop for a lyrical musical number. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The cabinetry, marble countertops, and backsplash create an off-white backdrop for bowls, trays, and dishware. Timeless Coastal Charm 2010-03-31T15:04:00Z

The one feature that distinguishes it from a business center at a Four Seasons hotel is the backdrop – a New York skyline made of miniature wooden skyscrapers. The TV Watch: Jimmy Fallon Debuts New ‘Tonight’ Show in New York 2014-02-18T06:42:54Z

One of the simplest segments captures a hand holding a series of cards with an animal drawn in different positions on them, held up against a Midtown Manhattan backdrop. Sun Xun’s Art Show Evokes His Upbringing in China 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

It’s refreshing to see New Mexico treated as something other than a backdrop for a Road Runner cartoon. Review | Netflix’s gory but glorious ‘Godless’ is the Western we’ve all been waiting for 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

GH: There’s this tension between the building’s past life, which was really industrial and felt anti-human, and its current use as a backdrop for domestic life. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

They had been pureed with a lot of water, making a beautiful orange backdrop for the chunky soup. Forget bone broth, if that’s possible. And say hello to sweet potato broth. 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

For the four months when kids aren’t frolicking in the fountain, it’s a cool backdrop to the nearby winter skating rink. Metro area parks offer a different kind of jet-setting 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Now’s a great time to meet your feathered neighbors: They look glorious against a backdrop of bare branches or snowy surfaces. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Hong Kong’s skyscraper-studded skyline is the backdrop for the film’s climactic battle sequence. Hollywood stars in HK for ‘Transformers’ premiere 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Its figures, standing under bare tree branches as they observe the ceremony, are in mix-and-match relationships with their backdrop of tree-trunks and sky. For February, 3 shows at Seattle galleries worth your time 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Instead of a pastoral scene of English hills and trees, there’s an abstract backdrop, the work of artist Sophie Fedorovitch: looping black lines on a field of yellow and green. Review | Washington Ballet’s ‘Mixed Masters’ program marks growth of company 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The most striking of his books is “The Stone Face,” a novel set in Paris against the backdrop of the Algerian war. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

Our passionate discussion of the future of the city, with a backdrop of crumbling homes, festive music, and Mardi Gras Indians, could have been a scene from the premiere. "Treme" feels like home to me 2010-04-18T15:01:00Z

When she turns up, the film becomes a triple-romance comedy of high anxiety against a backdrop of painful memories. Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Ballymaloe’s 100-acre organic farm provides a glorious backdrop, as well as all the herbs, vegetables and pork used in the class. | Journeys: In Europe, Cooking Classes for Every Palate 2011-09-30T18:55:00Z

When Hines and her fellow advocates reached the backdrop, they crowded around Don Jr. for the photo. After a bumpy ride, Donald Trump Jr.’s book tour arrives at a safe space 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

This is the backdrop to Mitchell's announcement of 4 September that he would release half the delayed £16m of general budget support. Relations with Rwanda must be urgently reviewed 2012-11-08T16:43:02Z

A dramatic visual backdrop for an announcement to an audience of one. “Hate is nature’s most perfect energy source”: Showtime’s “Billions” hits its stride in its return 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

These films, Mr. Schilling wrote, “expressed the loneliness, desperation and feral toughness of many men of his generation against a backdrop of general lawlessness.” Noboru Ando, 89, Mobster and Film Star in Japan, Dies 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

It’s not a terribly eventful movie, despite the backdrop of massive protests; perhaps that’s why it so successfully avoids the cliché of the white woman “finding” herself in a foreign land. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

As I prefer horses from a distance, we largely contented ourselves with the view from the hotel’s lovely pool, the armada of mountains providing a backdrop of surly majesty. An Unexpected Wine Sanctuary in Baja California 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, he decided to do the whole lot;to paint the whole backdrop, 21 metres by 11 metres, himself. Chris Ofili paints backdrop for ballet chief's final bow 2012-07-06T11:27:31Z

“They are fully aware of the step-and-repeat,” said Mr. Davis of Scene, referring to the end of the red carpet and backdrop where photographers gather. What Price Generosity? 2013-06-21T22:36:02Z

The drama culminates a scene where Jim operates on his wife to a backdrop of metallic, violent sound effects. Play predicts chilling future for Britain's prized health service 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Others live in disputed territories, eking out a life against the backdrop of active warfare or its devastating aftermath. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Those backdrops conjure the neoclassical obsession with ruins, the melancholy gaze on the past by artists like Piranesi and Hubert Robert. Review: France Once Fought Over This Opera. Juilliard Shows Us Why. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Appropriately dressed in a trim turtleneck and sunglasses, Bond appears right on cue to dispatch a bad guy, fire his pistol and strike a pose against the picturesque backdrop. 'Spectre': First look at Daniel Craig back in action as James Bond 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The trilogy from Del Toro and Hogan was written several years ago, before the current Ebola outbreak, but it sure does seem prescient against the current backdrop. 'The Strain': Anti-vampire forces unite in 'For Services Rendered' 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, it is tempting to read the scenario portrayed here as a none-too-subtle metaphor for creeping authoritarianism. ‘Lemons’ Review: A Fun Thought Exercise, Without Deep Thoughts 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

The barefoot blonde who sings against a fiery backdrop is a clear favorite ahead of Norway, Ukraine, Russia and Azerbaijan. ABBA in the air as 26 countries fight for Eurovision glory 2013-05-18T19:30:23Z

Oscar-winner Jolie provides the voice for Tigress, while Dustin Hoffman portrays Master Shifu, Po's mentor in a story set in ancient China against backdrops of lush forests, towering temples and crowded cities. Jolie, Black seek "inner peace" in Kung Fu Panda 2 2011-05-12T14:48:43Z

The picture language was a completely integral part of the action, not a mere backdrop: a brooding sky. The artists' artist: set designers 2011-07-20T21:31:01Z

Much of it is shot, authentic to the subtext, in Griffith Park, the backdrop for countless student films lost to time. TV Picks: 'Community,' 'Decker,' 'Empire,' 'iZombie' 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

And against this backdrop of disruption — nothing new? Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

While studying commercial art, illustration and photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, she began concocting video backdrops for bands, using films and slides. ‘Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,’ Deep in the Wilds of Video 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of tensions in Malaysia over the country’s harsh treatment of migrant workers during lockdown, many workers were left in a state of despair. A Close Look at a Fashion Supply Chain Is Not Pretty 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The account also offers a window into Watson’s and Rauzy’s unique aesthetic universe: an unusual but arresting mix of rustic designs and Louis XV furniture set against the backdrop of the house in Vallabrègues. A Beloved Provence-Based Wicker Workshop Comes to Paris 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Jove Meyer, the founder and creative designer of Jove Meyer Events in New York, noted that one couple plan to save a massive canvas backdrop from their wedding for their home. A Wedding or an Art Installation? A Little of Both. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

When The Sound of Music hit movie screens, the appeal of singing nuns and the lush Technicolor greenery of the Austrian hills made sense against the backdrop of the early 1960s. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

After all, despite the uneasy, increasingly desperate mood-state described in “The Bell Jar,” the first part of the novel is set against a backdrop of big-city glamour. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z

The second, which was also part of the free Battery Dance Festival, transpired early Monday evening in the heat and humidity of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, against the spectacular backdrop of New York Harbor. Broad Hints of Modern Angst at a Festival of Indian Dance 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The avant garde art scene of Detroit provides the backdrop for this fast-paced thriller in which a psychopath transforms into a supernatural artist bent on embodying people’s unspoken desires. Sci-fi & fantasy by Emily St. John Mandel, Robert Jackson Bennett, Lauren Beukes

Finally, the most important chapter of 20th-century American history has taken pride of place within the culture’s dominant narrative medium — not as context, backdrop or plot device, but the subject itself. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more

The suite of public rooms upstairs provide the backdrop for Wellington’s astonishing collection of paintings. Cultured Traveler: In London, Private Homes on Display 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z

The public art throughout the mall exists merely as an Instagram backdrop for after you’ve taken all your photos on the stairs. Hate on the Hudson (Yards): How bad can it be? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The path twists and turns, eventually heading across the Spree River and past the German parliament and the Brandenburg Gate, the backdrop for President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 “tear down this wall” speech. Where Berlin’s infamous wall once stood, humans and nature now flourish 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

A large galvanized horse trough planted with ‘Green Giant’ arborvitaes provides an evergreen backdrop for the bench. Backyard Beauty on a Budget 2010-05-26T17:49:00Z

These pictures show the artist at work painting a backdrop for a new ballet to be premiered on 14 July. Chris Ofili paints backdrop for ballet chief's final bow 2012-07-06T11:27:31Z

Most recently, Mixografia created a series of Jacob Hashimoto prints of colorful paper kites and tangled black string against a bamboo backdrop. Innovative printmaker Mixografia to premiere new gallery space 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Until Thursday, Xtranormal charged for special characters and backdrops, such as an animated version of pop star Lady Gaga or a prison cell setting. Xtranormal charges for formerly free cartoon tools 2010-12-28T13:16:04Z

No, he’s just hanging out in a flawed digital backdrop of Rio de Janeiro, trying to forget his blood-spattered résumé. Review: Jason Statham in ‘Mechanic: Resurrection,’ a Hit Man on Cruise Control 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The biggest is a green-screen setup where you can “appear” against a Pike Place Market backdrop, on the deck of a Puget Sound ferry and in other Seattle locations. Seattle moviemaking, movie-watching, past and present 2013-01-07T21:10:32Z

But set it against the backdrop of the network pilots for this fall, and it takes on a shine. Review: In ‘Sneaky Pete’ and ‘Casanova,’ a Fast Talker and a Smooth Talker 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

We leave the Bach and bring in the red curtain that is the backdrop for the fanfare that precedes ”Yowzie.” Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

More extended excursions into the forest see nature providing an arena for the elaborate performance of solitude, a backdrop to the drama of the self's encounter with itself. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z

Performers this year included children tumbling across May Day Stadium and students who create a huge moving backdrop of images set to music. NKoreans perform mass 'Arirang' with new Kim odes 2012-08-01T18:16:14Z

Upstate New York has served as the inspiration to the backdrop to my novel "Constellations of Eve," three incarnations of one love story, except I'm a few steps behind my characters. Sex in trees 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

Each picture of the landmark is identical; what differs is the backdrop on which it has been — what? In the galleries: The beauty of nature, in all its horror 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The usual backdrop, a cardboard sign illuminated with Christmas lights, was being repaired. ‘Live @ the Apt’ Comedy Shows Really Happen in Apartments 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

While the singing in the production is in some cases more competent than soaring, the six-person band — led by musical director Jake Null and mostly hidden behind the set’s New York–skyline backdrop — sounds fine. ‘Avenue Q’ remains true: Still off-color and impolitic 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Hall constantly reminds us this is a private drama of fathers and sons played out against a political backdrop of civil disorder. Henry IV Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-28T17:03:27Z

Glover tiptoed with the mice behind the stage’s backdrop, ushering them into place with a pat on their fur: “You’re so cute.” ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

A labyrinthine museum of industrial design in London forms the backdrop of this marvelously languid and bluesy tale about an horologist struggling to mend her broken heart while restoring a 19th —century mechanical swan. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z

Small-minded, suburban England also forms the backdrop for Grant Gillespie's The Cuckoo Boy – although this time the setting is contemporary. Debut fiction 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

The centerpiece of the show, "Grotto Installation," incorporates candy- colored video imagery playing over white stoneware set against a white crinoline backdrop, as well as faint tintinnabulations of sound. Paul Marioni, K?K? Cribbs at Traver Gallery 2011-12-01T22:01:08Z

The sea provides a surly backdrop, with none of the elemental ferocity or glitter of nature of Grimes. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z

Daniel Sandu’s film stays delicately balanced between both these possibilities, with the steep, stark setting providing an elemental backdrop for existential quandaries. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

It is against that political backdrop that Emanuel was tapped as keynote speaker for Iowa's Democrats. Emanuel makes debut as Obama surrogate 2011-11-19T20:59:00Z

Raw, bleak but vibrantly rendered, it exposed the faultlines of modern France – racial, generational, economic – against a backdrop of sterile housing estates and simmering police tension. Mathieu Kassovitz: 'I'm not proud to be French any more' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z

It all plays out against the grim backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

The latter saw the New Yorkers play against a backdrop of Austin's fast-sprouting skyscrapers, with new songs from album Angles and encore fireworks thrown in. SXSW: The Strokes, the Vaccines, Odd Future and the best of the rest 2011-03-20T22:00:02Z

Eerie sustained tones on the organ and pungent, soft cluster chords provide a backdrop to repetitive rhythms and twittering riffs for the large battery of percussion instruments. Music Review: Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Weltethos’ in England 2012-06-22T23:59:58Z

So the “Jeb!” logo emerged against the backdrop of more than a half-century of commerce among art and politics and visual representation. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

A dance of distrust begins between the cocksure Crawford and the lithe, charming Sophie across a vivid, widescreen backdrop of cars, clothes and coastline. Review: Allen casts a limp spell in ‘Magic’ 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

The studio or workplace, often cluttered with tools and works-in-progress, is nearly always the backdrop. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z

Once you start to use the machinery of the Holocaust as a backdrop—or, worse, as an excuse—for the deployment of digital japes, where the hell do you stop? Apocalypse Now: Bryan Singer’s New “X-Men” Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Gone were the friendly rounded white letters on the green backdrop, topped by a silhouetted white elephant balancing a globe. Animal Planet's monstrous makeover 2011-01-31T22:32:00Z

On stage at Carnegie Hall, Cepress said, the musicians are set in three distinct groups, against a white backdrop. Seattle designer Michael Cepress adds panache to SSO ensembles 2014-05-05T02:00:05Z

Posed before a calming gray backdrop, the 57-year-old Shields seems preternaturally well-adjusted and is an enthusiastic chronicler of her own career. ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Girlhood, Interrupted 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Yet Bavouzet’s incisive and nimble lines were set against an orchestral backdrop that was unfashionably heavy and rigid. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

After miles of dusty road, phone calls and character-revealing bickering, Behnaz and Jafar reach a village that becomes the backdrop for much of the story. ‘3 Faces’ Review: On the Road in Iran (and Off It, Too) 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

"It needed to be sort of minimalist chic, set against the rich backdrops of the Venetian buildings and colors," said Atwood of the film's simple, classic clothing. Who dresses Johnny Depp? Costumer Colleen Atwood, a Northwest native 2010-12-11T00:47:00Z

This provided his ultimate, successful proposal with a sandy backdrop, plus snow-dusted mountains in the distance. 'I started bawling my eyes out': how coronavirus wrecked marriage plans 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes it’s furniture set against a white backdrop with measurements, and you wonder, ‘What do those mean?’ More people are shopping for furniture online during the pandemic. Here’s what to look for. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

Projected backdrops, reminiscent of low-res screen savers, try to transport us. Review: Momix’s ‘Alice’ Is a Rabbit Hole (or 22) Too Far 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

But this week, against a backdrop of presidential impeachment hearings, Brexit and other geopolitical distractions, numbers at New York’s marquee fall sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art were significantly down. Fall Art Auctions See Significant Declines 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

The stories take place between the characters amid the energy and activity and backdrop of the live show. Urban Fervor: '30 Rock' Shares Details of Its Live Episode 2010-10-12T14:10:00Z

It opened a whole world of possibility of stories that can reflect back to me and my own people who we are as opposed to being in the backdrop of someone else's story. Cliff Curtis on his "slow burn" Maori cop thriller "Muru" and how it's like "Avatar" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Roiling clouds, breaking waves and swaying tops of trees provide the backdrop to a serpentine progress in and around the old moss-covered concrete fortifications. Seattle's Kinski brings a glorious musical howl to Jim Hobbs' 'A Clear Day and No Memories' 2010-12-22T20:00:11Z

At his New Year’s Eve concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Jimmy Buffett sang his hits about island life before a backdrop of virtual palm trees and Caribbean waves. After the Broadway Show, a Trip to Hamilton’s Grave 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Aberaeron harbour acts as the perfect backdrop for an epicurean weekend jolly. This week's new events 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z

It is a story about reconciliation, set against a backdrop of racism and resentments. Review | Nancy Johnson’s ‘The Kindest Lie’ is a layered, complex exploration of race and class 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

They carry cameras and equipment and often do live reports, known as “stand-ups,” amid crowds and newsworthy backdrops, making them easy targets. TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

All like vivid colors, white backdrops and recurrent patterns. Review | In the galleries: Creating a world of her own 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

Her funky six-member band — keyboard, drums, bass, three backup singers — played the opening notes to “All I Need,” as impatient fans’ tweets were projected onto the two giant screens that acted as a backdrop. You will miss her when she’s gone: Noname soars live 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

The gently moving backdrops, painted deep delft blue, looked like they had sprung from a sumptuous picture book. Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Seated before a white backdrop and surrounded by an array of plants, Tashna shared a selection of soulful, experimental R&B tracks. How to Throw a Dinner Party Like a Performance Artist 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Guests are welcome to participate in daily services and even help the monks with manual labor, all with a backdrop of stunning red rock views. For travelers, monastery stays offer peace and quiet, regardless of faith 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

But what they all share is that the play becomes a backdrop to the performance, which is no surprise considering that along with Iago, this is Shakespeare’s greatest villain. The Week Ahead: Jan. 8 ? 14 2012-01-08T19:54:49Z

The haunting, primordial arc of Ms. Bathgate’s cello line soared above the thick layers of eerie electronic sound, providing an enticing aural backdrop to Mr. Noguchi’s intriguing sculptures. Review: Ashley Bathgate Wraps Kate Moore’s Music Around Noguchi’s Stone 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Its aim is not simply to serve as a memorial, or as muckraking, but to capture Khashoggi’s career in all its contours and contradictions against a backdrop of changing geopolitics. ‘Kingdom of Silence’ Review: A Spotlight on Jamal Khashoggi 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The neutral palette creates a subtle backdrop for the impressive art collection, which highlights several Beijing artists through a vast array of paintings, photographs, mixed-media pieces, and sculpture. Rosewood Hotels Enters China 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Hillside pinot noir grapevines that may one day supply a house cuvée provide a pastoral backdrop for wedding photographers, who swarm the grounds on most weekends. Check In,Check Out: Hotel Review: Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg, Ore. 2010-10-15T19:26:00Z

The written-out parts of the piece provided a calming aural backdrop of chimes, slowly rising melodic lines in flutes and clarinets, penetrating low rumbles on the gongs, metallic flickers on small cymbals. Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z

We are, after all, taking these precautions against a backdrop of enormous loss, to prevent loss of an even greater scale. Review: In This Dance, Death Is Out in the Open 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

It forms the backdrop to several of these essays, and you examine it more closely in “Invisible City.” Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

For decades, it was merely part of my familial backdrop. Her uncle died with the French Resistance, and she had to visit the spot 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

The desert flora in the distance provided what everyone agreed was a pretty decent Instagram backdrop. The Bachelorette Party Comes for Scottsdale 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

With warbling swallows as backdrop, I nodded off before I’d even turned a page. Explorer: Your Own Private Idaho 2013-08-07T22:04:30Z

Be brown when the background is brown, green if the backdrop turns green. Gobsmacked 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

But the spirit of place in a novel is not just an inert backdrop or a straightforward illustrator of emotions; it is part of the humanity at the centre of the endeavour. Philip Hensher: The importance of place in fiction 2013-05-17T15:00:02Z

And while the characters interact against the backdrop of varying degrees of racism and socioeconomic stressors, they are not defined by them. ‘Uncorked’ Review: A Fresh Take on the Father-Son Drama 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

At the beginning, a lone performer turns in place against a backdrop of pelting rain, ushering in the first of several rhythmic spectacles. Review: In ‘Beyond Time,’ U-Theater Dances and Drums With Precision 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

The white beaches of the north shore are backed by undulating dunes, with the mountains of Harris and the islands of Pabbay and Taransay as a backdrop. 10 great walks on Britain's tiny islands 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z

But really, all the grim action was just a backdrop to the couple of minutes Eric Northman was on screen. 'True Blood' Recap: Jason Had the Best Dream... 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

The music world is a glamorous milieu, much the way the Colorado oil business was the backdrop of “Dynasty.” ‘Jane the Virgin’ Ends a Strong First Season 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

Irna also blogs about being British, Muslim and female in Bradford, setting her stories against a backdrop of classic Indian films. Bradford: city of Bollywood dreams 2013-05-17T12:04:43Z

Especially against the backdrop of this election, Mr. Thompson said, the project made a kind of perverse sense in 2016, the centennial of the birth of the Dada art movement. ‘Doomocracy’ Puts the Politics of Fear on Display in Brooklyn 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“What we do is basically try to approximate our normal life at home, but with a different — hopefully more beautiful! — backdrop.” 5 Rules for a Really Good Trip With the Kids 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

“Keep your gold, glory and glitter,” Cherry intones over a steadily unruly backdrop of percussion clatter and sax skronk. Album review: Neneh Cherry, 'The Cherry Thing' 2012-07-02T03:07:00Z

There was a wall of flowers as a backdrop, a seven-tier cake and a 224-foot marble table hoisted in by crane and put on a platform so all could see the stunning Florence skyline. Kim and Kanye: Tales of an uber celeb marriage gone wrong 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

They each dramatize a love affair set against the backdrop of Brexit, using the most universal and gratifying human experience to illuminate one of the most arcane and incomprehensible. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Protesters across the political spectrum have used the Roosevelt monument as a backdrop for their opinions on the topic. Theodore Roosevelt Statue Removal Begins at Museum of Natural History 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Her residences were featured in décor magazines and served as the backdrops for fashion shoots. Celebrating Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

It was filled with long tubes of backdrop paper, piled boxes of camera gear and random space heaters, which had yet to warm the room. Campbell Addy Up Close 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

“Nuclei” incorporates the patterns of printing screens into its jagged yet delicate composition, and “Mood Indigo” is a collage of monotype shards, torn and then assembled on a white backdrop. Galleries: ‘Kaleidoscope,’ ‘Aviary Wonders,’ ‘Interconnected,’ ‘Are You Gonna Eat That?’

Perhaps also reflecting the more sober economic backdrop, there were a greater number of visitors clutching cups of upmarket tea or coffee than the more usual champagne flutes. Chelsea Flower Show blooms defy drought and gloom 2012-05-21T17:07:45Z

His ripe, radiant, highly danceable composition gets going in darkness, which subsides when an urban skyline, roughly etched in white, imprints itself on the black backdrop. MalPaso Makes Its U.S. Debut at the Joyce 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Robert Rauschenberg’s backdrop — an abstraction of Monet’s Impressionist landscapes and Seurat’s pointillism, with contributions made by both Jasper Johns and Mr. Taylor himself — brought an immediate burst of applause. Review: Graham, Cunningham and Taylor, All Together Now 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The sharp identity politics in Durham’s anti-monumental sculpture today resonates against another backdrop of purposeful chaos, lately being manufactured in Washington. Jimmie Durham's art throws some well-aimed stones 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

It has simple, elegant costumes, designed by Farley’s wife, Cassia; no particular story line; and a bare-bones set including a stage and the natural backdrop of Wolf Trap. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Malcolm said a few words, then strode up the metal stairs on to the gantry adorning the blank backdrop. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

It was against this backdrop that Mr. Simons sent a parade of pale skinny white men parading through the shrubbery, bony limbs clad in shorts and shirts and jackets in an array of unnatural hues. Setting the Stage for Unreal Men 2010-06-20T15:15:00Z

One long, flowing dress in purple even drew gasps as the model disappeared into a matching amethyst backdrop. Chanel and McQueen entice fantasy in Paris shows 2012-03-07T03:01:04Z

In a recent PBS documentary, Tharp said that “Deuce Coupe,” famous for its Beach Boys soundtrack and graffiti backdrop, “turned out to be about the spirt and adventure of teenagers.” Review: Twyla Tharp Looks Back, With an Eye on the Future 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Sometimes backdrops are thick with painterly action, while figures in the foreground are suggested with outlines rendered with just a few strokes. In the galleries: Out of nothingness — art 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z