It's an arresting and original image from an arresting and original mind.
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Olivia Wilde's directorial debut is an arresting piece of filmmaking.
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De Keersmaeker's staging began with an arresting coup de théâtre.
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"Ants Among Elephants" is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir.
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Onscreen or off, Seberg was an arresting mash-up of contradictions.
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Bennett gives an arresting, calibrated performance, playing Hunter as a modern Stepford wife.
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In such instances, the mere expression 'tools at hand' becomes an arresting thought.
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Berran's new paintings manifest an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while also showing their fangs.
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The People's Climate March on Saturday was an arresting demonstration of fear and angst.
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"Landscapes" also features an arresting backdrop of changing images by the artist Robert Longo.
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It's an arresting scene to come upon, no matter which show you're there to watch.
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It is an arresting still life of Lenny Bruce's death, by morphine overdose, in 1966.
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Under his influence, Ms. Mendieta developed an arresting style of what she called body performances.
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The men are especially assertive — none more than David Adrian Freeland Jr., an arresting newcomer.
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Without context, the reader who is hooked by an arresting lead may feel left dangling.
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The book contains as much autobiography as portraiture, and it begins with an arresting anecdote.
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Davis' film, an arresting Vietnam documentary called "Hearts and Minds," was nominated for best documentary feature.
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Cousins repeatedly returns to an arresting photograph, more candid than posed, of Welles in his twenties.
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The terrace restaurant, which serves pesce crudo and grilled octopus, also promises an arresting view. siracusaresort.
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If the movie plays marginally better now, it still lacks an arresting perspective on its subject.
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It's an arresting visual metaphor for existences reduced to ashes by people who can't help destroying themselves.
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He recognized the power of an arresting image to capture people's attention and even change their behavior.
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The tenor saxophonist Burnett is, like O'Farrill, an arresting improviser with an idiosyncratic, confrontational approach to composition.
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Those are among the big joys of "All Can Work," an arresting new album from the ensemble.
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Her language, her humor, and her flair for an arresting image and a telling scene have remained constants.
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The quartet then played the premiere of Derek Bermel's "Intonations," an arresting 20-minute work in three movements.
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In an arresting passage in her book, she describes the day he taught her to hunt for chanterelles.
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The Learning Network's daily Picture Prompt series often includes an arresting image that it invites students to interpret.
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It's an arresting picture since, in reworking the monochrome image, Theaster Gates has turned the water an orangey-red.
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The 13m children that have been displaced globally by conflict form an arresting and inevitable part of his work.
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With Mr. Gilbert conducting, Mr. Hanick then gave an arresting account of Ligeti's idiosyncratic Piano Concerto, completed in 1988.
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Its climax is built around an arresting image of an animal in distress, one of Hunt's many haunting visions.
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But it offers an arresting dramatic spectacle, with a stage-filling set showing a late 18th-century British warship.
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Heralding the 2010s scary movie renaissance, The Babadook is an arresting exploration of grief as unshakable as its namesake.
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I mean, "Lemon" would've been an arresting song even without the stroke of genius that is a Rihanna verse.
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The activism of young people can sometimes have an arresting effect on Americans, breathing new life into divisive issues.
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Because of its short runway, planes need to be decelerated by an "arresting wire" that is laid across the deck.
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"Cosmic Spectrum" (pictured, above), a new work that opens the exhibition, similarly combines an arresting idea with a visual spectacle.
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Or maybe I just liked it because it was an exciting new filmmaker announcing his arrival in an arresting way.
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It was an arresting and disturbing sequence, an excellent dramatization of Game of Thrones' fundamental theme that war is hell.
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She released an arresting series of new designs in July that draw inspiration from traditional Peking opera and wild animals.
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Did the state permit a person to disclose possession of a needle to an arresting officer to avoid criminal prosecution?
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Early in my journey, a colleague and I stumbled across an arresting recreation of the World Trade Center subway station.
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A judge in Baltimore exonerated Edward Nero, an arresting officer accused of lesser offenses in the case of Freddie Gray.
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Her Susan is an arresting presence for sure, a vision both trenchant (those cheekbones!) and blurry (those soft-focused eyes!).
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Calvin Toney, 24, died Monday night after an arresting officer shot him, according to a state police statement issued Tuesday.
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Von Tunzelmann begins her yarn with an arresting anecdote related by Anthony Nutting, a minister in the British Foreign Office.
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The quasi-primitive style is offset by the detail, creating an arresting tribute to the things and people Jackson loves.
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They have a strong message, an arresting aesthetic and a short but sweet back catalogue that's both infectious and experimental.
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This comes in an arresting two-page spread, with a bold composition and contrasted palette of light and dark shades.
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Full of landscape imagery, queer love intimacy, violence, and flowers, this is an arresting collection from a poet worth watching.
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As in Beethoven's later "Fidelio," there is an arresting chorus of prisoners emerging for their daily hour of fresh air.
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Shortly after he announced his bid, a television interview on "CBS This Morning" produced an arresting volume of notable remarks.
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Ten years later, "Sphere" had drifted to the edge of civic consciousness, though it remained an arresting stop for visitors.
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Erik Andrade, the fired officer, was one of eight officers on the scene, but he was not an arresting officer.
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It starts unexpectedly, with an arresting arrangement of orchestral percussion and plucked violins that dances dizzily around a slow kick drum.
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One exception is an arresting poster-sized photograph of the 16-year-old dance student Kelly Devine in a deep backbend.
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Amazon's new series, "I Love Dick," has a lot more than an arresting title to recommend it, our TV critic writes.
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"Summer's End," R. D. Skillings (2016) An arresting portrait of the author, barefoot, painted by the artist Jane Kogan in 1969.
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His news conference Wednesday was an arresting contrast to President Barack Obama's farewell address in Chicago a little over twelve hours earlier.
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It's an arresting image, all the more so at that scale, and I wondered if O'Toole wasn't tempted to enlarge other images.
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Meryl Streep's speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday was an arresting, heartbreaking testimony and a historic call-to-arms — for some.
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She made the announcement Wednesday via Instagram, posting an arresting image of herself cradling her belly against an oddly funereal floral display.
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His duo "Viola, Viola," brilliantly played by the violists Katherine Green and Peter Kenote, is an arresting and organic nine-minute piece.
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"The Joke" is a reassuring follow up to her 2007 song "The Story," an arresting folk-rock ballad about falling in love.
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He also excels at drawing compellingly acted performances from a strong cast, starting here with the soprano Christine Goerke, an arresting Brünnhilde.
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It's an arresting idea, but it doesn't dominate the story the way you think it's going to when you hear about it.
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In an arresting aside during the proceedings, Mr. Rouhani attributed much of the economic troubles to street protests that began on Dec.
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There's an arresting sequence of extracting caviar from sturgeon in China and some fairly banal chitchat with François Hollande, France's former president.
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Six largish paintings (and one tiny one) manifest this new idiom with an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while a couple show their fangs.
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In an arresting scene, Getty Sr. climbs atop the table that holds the plastic model of the museum and he destroys it.
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This equipment looks a bit comical, but its presence is as much a declaration of ethical principles as an arresting visual joke.
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THIS summer, when the battle over honouring Confederate leaders was at its most fierce, the Polish embassy in Washington had an arresting solution.
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But Byzantine images of the scene, though coming centuries later than the figure from Dura-Europos, bear an arresting formal resemblance to it.
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John Bel Edwards, says there's no such thing as "consensual sex" between an individual and an arresting officer, because of the power imbalance.
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Past her front door was an arresting shrine to the Black Madonna, whom she called the patron saint of misfits and the oppressed.
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Fairchild has an arresting beauty — it's crystal-shop Sharon Stone — and a flair for tragedy that reminds me of Cassavetes-era Gena Rowlands.
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The credit largely rests with the way Fisher navigates this film: Her face and body language are tools she wields for an arresting experience.
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It is an arresting work with an overall sunny mien, yet she subtly suggests potential distress with dark flecks and soft flashes of red.
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It was an arresting image that conveyed immediately how the X-ray could pass through skin, but not metal, and reveal this anatomical world.
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It visualizes, in an arresting scene, the source of many of our anxieties: odor, after all, is the invisible result of bacteria breaking down.
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You can see them on this 2017 video giving an arresting performance of Bartok's Third String Quartet, my favorite of that composer's six quartets.
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And Carter can still create an arresting visual or two, as when he depicts the sad fate of the alien who crashed at Roswell.
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His input shows: Like Margiela's best designs, the curation of the show has a sly cleverness, and an arresting ability to invite unforeseen connections.
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London (CNN Business)An English-language Ukrainian paper called the Kyiv Post made a splash on social media on Friday with an arresting front page.
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It has a hydraulic door with a laser-perforated metal screen, smooth white terrazzo floors, white floating stairs and an arresting view of the ocean.
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It's an arresting, almost macabre commentary on how artists' work — a part of themselves — are valued for so little in the current pop-culture machine.
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In cases where an arresting officer is later referred to the Internal Affairs Department, Mosby said the suspects' cases may be postponed or dismissed altogether.
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Arctic sea ice is melting at an arresting pace today, with Greenland's ice sheet melting six times faster than it was just 40 years ago.
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As of Monday, there had been zero so-called bolters, when the aircraft misses an arresting wire and must circle the carrier for another attempt.
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"Trio A With Flags" begins with an arresting gimmick: The dancers are naked but for American flags tied around their necks like calf-length bibs.
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It was undeniably an arresting sight, and was much documented on social media and in various press outlets, thanks to the reach of the NCAC.
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He said the bruise had followed a "rough arrest," adding that he was not beaten deliberately, but fell on the knee of an arresting officer.
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The new Robots exhibition at London's Science Museum begins with an arresting sight: a baby, pinned to a wall, gently grasping at the air around it.
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Where else in the world could you find such an arresting word for a lucky windfall—hvalreki [spoken], a beached whale that offers months of food?
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LONDON — As commuters boarded the London Underground on Monday morning, they were met with an arresting change from the usual adverts emblazoned on the carriage walls.
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A black man lynching a white man in the American South in 1968 is an arresting image, except its power is undercut by the game's pace.
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Suddenly, an arresting image lit up the wall above the Citibank: Anita Hill's face, during her 1991 testimony against the then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
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Alongside Titian's religious paintings, as well as an arresting 1559 drawing of Gabriel melting into a cloud of charcoal, the Richter portraits appear far less ironic.
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In it, the Lebanese-Canadian director of the Théâtre de la Colline cast 18 students from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art as an arresting chorus.
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He adored almost everything Joni Mitchell did, until the late 22008s, when the sociomystical dimension of her songwriting acquired an arresting new depth — and lost him.
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An arresting photocollage from Gustav Klutsis, a great Latvian graphic artist who was executed on Stalin's orders, features a hammer and sickle atop masses of workers.
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Called "Trans Liberation: Building a Movement," it's an arresting photograph, nearly 8 feet high by 5 feet wide, which was acquired by the museum last June.
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After years of movies where even the most mediocre heroes appeared to be invulnerable and indomitable, it's an arresting jolt — and exactly the film the franchise needed.
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To Avinash Tiwary's credit, he sinks his teeth into the role and has an arresting screen presence that makes it difficult to take your eyes off him.
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At home, Nisha (the newcomer Maria Mozhdah, in an arresting performance) speaks Urdu and diligently maintains her grades so that she might one day become a doctor.
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A second, much larger hand scroll, by the contemporary Beijing painter Hao Liang (born 1983), came to the collection just this year, and it's an arresting sight.
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Each piece uses an arresting image from a news or feature story, summarizes it quickly, then poses questions about it and links back to the original story.
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A nod from Mr Trump seemed to allow that this might be the case, which would in itself have been an arresting evaluation of another head of state.
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On the other hand, bringing Pepper in is an arresting way to demonstrate contemporary tech, and if the robots limitations are fully explained, it could be very informative.
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In May of last year she staged an arresting piece titled An Ode To at the Guggenheim Museum, which expanded her latest album into an evening-long performance.
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In the early going, that is most evident in a character known as Tip (Jordan Loughran, who makes an arresting impression), a youth being treated — or held prisoner?
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In many a Saariaho piece, an arresting sonic statement is presented at the start, big in impact but full of small voices that subtly fragment, bloom, or disappear.
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The artist Kerry James Marshall, acclaimed for huge paintings that are fantasias of black life and history, has created an arresting "Porgy and Bess" banner that hangs outside.
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It's an arresting sequence, composed shots of the riot of humanity (peaceful, but you know something's coming) and all the landmarks that are synecdoche for that great city.
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Their hand-thrown, hand-glazed earthenware had an arresting look — moody hues, mottled surfaces, signature shapes — but it put off buyers used to glossy glazes and standard forms.
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It was an arresting image for many in a country still scarred by the 1975-1990 conflict which left more than 100,000 dead and almost 1 million displaced.
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Hours later, Baton Rouge police found him wandering the streets "naked and running around … hollering and cussing at imaginary people" and tearing down mailboxes, an arresting officer wrote.
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This month Ms Anena recited those lines on the stage of the National Theatre in Kampala, melding drums, dance and poetry in an arresting evocation of love and war.
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In nearly dying, however, Monks and her bandmates found their way to Heaven: an arresting comeback album featuring their most naked, dynamic, and uplifting (yes, uplifting) music to date.
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She also replaced the "standard-issue Home Depot-style" light fixture in the living room with an arresting sculptural piece — one of the few large objects she arrived with.
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His trademark static direction conceivably could have supplied an arresting departure for this frenetically vital opera, but that would have required vibrant colors like those of other Wilson productions.
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"This is an opportunity for an arresting, truly memorable performance by an actress, as Glenda Jackson delivered with 'Elizabeth R,' or Helen Mirren in 'Prime Suspect,'" Ms. Eaton said.
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The concert's second half included the Prelude to "Parsifal"; the premiere of an arresting, broody orchestral song cycle, "Reminiszenz," by Wolfgang Rihm; and the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth.
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But it was an arresting miasma — one that raises the question of how much new insight into spatial audio may yet come from composers who are also virtuoso improvisers.
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In 2000, shortly after the release of an arresting album, "Guachos II," Mr. Klein left behind weekly engagements at two of the city's finest clubs to return to Argentina.
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Ramiken's first Brooklyn show, "Nobodies," goes to Andra Ursuta, whose six remarkable glass sculptures, resting on cinder-block plinths, create an arresting tableau of sex, stress and self-portraiture.
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Though her moldy fruit works are turning heads at the moment, they are clearly not the only part of Ryan's multifold art practice that manages an arresting balance of opposites.
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A very disconcerting thing happened while I was reading You by Caroline Kepnes, an arresting thriller recently turned into an equally arresting Lifetime drama: I began thinking like Joe Goldberg.
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That meant an arresting contrast of exposed, Dior-branded elastic strapping brassieres and panties, like those often flashed in the '90s by Marky Mark, under otherwise straightforwardly pretty tulle dresses.
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At Juilliard, this divertissement will have a hellish look, with images inspired by Egon Schiele; an arresting moment comes when a chorus of infernal divinities suddenly joins in the dance.
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As a stylist, Moss deploys an arresting third-person stream-of-consciousness perspective to great effect, affording the reader a better understanding of her characters, particularly the very private Ally.
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Those two genres are fused together with an arresting artfulness, woozy and dreamy interludes mixing with the talky technical stuff to create a film that is broadly enlightening and piercingly intimate.
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By juxtaposing troubling images with enlightening interpretative texts from the curators and Wendy Red Star, an indigenous artist, the exhibition offers an arresting examination of non-Native depictions of Native cultures.
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That showed Sunday night, when Gaga sat at a piano for an arresting performance, accompanied by a crowd that stood next to her with words like "survivor" written on their wrists.
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WASHINGTON — In 2012, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, made an arresting offer to Senator Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican whose 2010 special-election victory had upended President Obama's agenda.
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The style is ornate and layered, syntactically complicated, and it sometimes preens right up to the edge of overwriting before pulling itself back with an arresting image or self-deflating observation.
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On a later wiretap, the law enforcement official said, he was heard telling an associate that he started working in prostitution in 2008 — not as an arresting officer, but as a player.
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But Obama was an unusual figure, a graceful writer with an arresting story of being an African-American with national political ambitions growing up in the turbulence of a race-torn nation.
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It is an arresting scene, the dangers unimaginable: Firefighters clad in yellow and green flame-resistant uniforms, battling a wind-whipped and fast-moving blaze with what amount to farming and logging tools.
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Visually, it makes for an arresting sight, as the side skirts present on other hypercars disappear into nothing on the 001, which looks very much like a Formula 1 car from the underside.
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I find the shows moving for another reason as well: It's here that the industry announces not just to itself, but to everyone watching, what it thinks an arresting woman looks like now.
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José Luis Chavez, a native of Peru who was raised in Venezuela, works out of an open kitchen in this stylish restaurant, which has an arresting wall sculpture of a black sea bass.
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Yet Gattie's sentiments—and the fact that they went unexposed for so long, evading review on the merits—amount to an arresting demonstration that racism can and does seep into the jury system.
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Ms Le Pen is an arresting speaker, injecting flashes of humour into her delivery and pausing in the right places; unlike the other leaders she appeared to forge an emotional bond with her audience.
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The solitary walk through the arid landscape in overalls and helmet, before being collected by a scooter, was an arresting sight — and also typical of a driver with 'Iceman' tattooed on his left arm.
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But was there any artistic moment that felt more that way than Beyoncé's performance, an arresting live medley from Lemonade that, if anything, might have been even more technically impressive than its source material?
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It's almost as if the series is testing just how little you actually need your TV show to have an arresting story, so long as everything else looks and feels like a million bucks.
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We begin long ago when there were no dogs, only — as we see in an arresting two-page spread of furry beasts leaping forward against a white background, fangs bared, yellow eyes glinting — wolves.
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That is the real importance of Naipaul's talent as a writer: to find in deceptively simple prose, an arresting syntactic rhythm that fixed for his reader an image of the world as it was.
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It's an arresting thought, and when I took a leak and made the mistake of peering into the Dantean hellhole of the chemical toilet, I nearly heaved––and that was only on day two!
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Phil Klay, a former US Marine officer, turned his experiences from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into an arresting collection of short stories that earned him the 2014 National Book Award for fiction.
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This bullring is a holdover from Portuguese occupation of the territory, and Mntambo cuts an arresting and graceful figure, as she displays the traditional red cape that beckons for conflict with an unseen opponent.
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Ms. Wao, with her lithe body, long stems and swinging ponytail, makes for an arresting presence as Velma, seething in irritation as she is forever being outmaneuvered by her rival for Billy Flynn's services, Roxie.
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It was an arresting moment, the weight and near-absurdity of the scene kicking into full gear in my mind, watching one of my heroes grapple with the same familiar narratives spiraling down through generations.
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Antonella Silvio and Carmelo Nazzaro opened Pisillo almost three years ago, as a white-tiled homage to Silvio's home town in Italy, Sant'Agata de' Goti, an arresting stone bastion nestled in the hills above Naples.
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That made for an arresting cliffhanger at the end of the episode, at the cost of providing a clear sense of what the show would be (or how it could possibly keep moving at that pace).
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Compiled from five petabytes worth of data captured by eight telescopes around the globe, the image is a scientific feat, a marvel, an arresting glimpse into a part of the universe never before seen by mankind.
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The sculptures were hard to miss at the 22016 Art Show in the Park Avenue Armory — an arresting line of ceramic female busts with rosette heads and raffia torsos, both majestic and ethereal, figural yet abstract.
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One of the changes Slentz made was to bring in a cross deck pendant, also known as an arresting wire, just like ones used to slow aircraft landing on carriers, as a footrest on the bar.
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She produced work in an arresting variety of mediums and registers: silly, surreal lamps; a famous series of photographs of chewed gum; cast-resin "tumors," made after she was diagnosed; and heartbreakingly vulnerable self-portrait busts.
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The Palestinian issue has been another enduring concern, as epitomized by "Sabra and Shatila Massacre" (143-214, on display in Doha), an arresting mural evoking the killing of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon in 21980.
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An arresting image of a "mummified" dinosaur went viral this weekend after National Geographic…Read more ReadBrown, along with a team of international researchers, has now completed the first extensive analysis of this extraordinary three-dimensional fossil.
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The result is an arresting first-person narrative that begins with Frank's first punk show (X at the Whisky a Go-Go), but quickly becomes more about beat-downs and murders than a love of punk music.
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Tejal Rao is just back from Kenya with an arresting story about kuku paka, a coconut-chicken dish from Mombasa that is made all over the country in home kitchens and restaurants, though rarely the same way.
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This is Aguilera's third major public appearance in the past few months: she was a spirited guest-judge on the season 10 premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race and went bare-faced on an arresting cover of Paper Magazine.
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If you're a comic book fan or a Daredevil fan, you'll get what homage we're making, and if you're not, it's still just an arresting, beautiful image of this guy completely beaten to shit being surrounded by nuns.
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The first film, an arresting science fiction classic that starred Charlton Heston, won an Oscar for its prosthetic make-up effects and was a critical and commercial hit, but the subsequent movies struggled to replicate the original's success.
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"Repulsion" had an arresting feminist subtext, in which the persistent onslaught of the male gaze drove Catherine Deneuve over the edge; "Darling" doesn't bother with such commentary (though there is a hapless male victim, played by Brian Morvant).
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He also acquired a selection of Man Ray's iconic images, such as a woman's bare back decorated with the f-holes of a violin, and an arresting portrait of the iconoclastic (and psychologically tormented) theater artist Antonin Artaud.
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In December 2017, with the help of students at Ohio University, Mr. Sappington produced an arresting two-minute campaign video that included drone footage panning over Nelsonville, with its handsome town square lined with semi-abandoned brick buildings.
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Modern and minimalist, the restaurant's gray walls and dark wood floors could be the backdrop of an elegant Crate and Barrel photo shoot — save for an arresting pink mural of Frida Kahlo that instantly sets the room apart.
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But perhaps nowhere else in California is the alienation felt more keenly than in the far north, an arresting panorama of fields filled with wildflowers and depopulated one-street towns that have never recovered from the gold rush.
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"An arresting dancer, Mr. Molina at times performs with some of the outrageous panache of Rudolf Nureyev," Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times wrote in a review of a Bailes Españoles performance at Carnegie Hall in 22008.
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Quashing worries that job growth is flagging, the government on Friday reported that employers increased payrolls by 287,000 in June, an arresting surge that could reframe the economic debate just weeks before Republicans and Democrats gather for their conventions.
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The cast includes a mix of faces old (Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson) and new (Henry Cavill, looking pretty super even without the cape; and Vanessa Kirby, an arresting femme fatale, following her breakout role in "The Crown").
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Jumping further down the rabbit hole that night was a bill featuring the dilated shoegaze of San Francisco's LSD & the Search For God, prior to an arresting late set from the ear obliterating psych/noise/punks from Arizona, Destruction Unit.
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The mosaic image is an arresting way station in a new exhibition, "Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity," that opened last week in Manhattan at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, an affiliate of New York University.
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With an arresting young cast (featuring Sofia Buenaventura, Deiby Rueda, Julián Giraldo, Sneider Castro, Paul Cubides, Karen Quintero, and Moises Arías) and a gritty, jarring cinematic style, Monos is less likable than admirable, an achievement with a clear, apocalyptic vision.
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"Shape of Faith" (2018) in the Renaissance Gallery is an arresting figure, with a metallic dress under a sheer black habit adorned with a constellation of imagined saints, which seem to have stepped directly from the gilded religious portraiture on the surrounding walls.
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The reveal is what's tripping me, and apparently her, up: her hair—typically a lighter shade of brown than her companion's, spilling past her shoulder in thick waves—is now an arresting short, platinum, Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface bob (sans the bangs).
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"Western Flag" (2017), a video by John Gerrard at Thomas Dane, is an arresting meditation on the 1901 Lucas Gusher in Texas, the world's largest oil strike at the time, which initiated the precipitous rise in carbon emissions now endangering a human future.
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It made an arresting tableau: four former surgeons general, aged 68 to 85, all in their blue admirals' uniforms, together on stage like four grizzled Civil War veterans rehashing their biggest battles, and how they were treated afterward by the President and Congress.
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Wars of the last three "empires" to invade Afghanistan coincided with the age of photography, leaving a rich record of their triumphs and failures, and an arresting chronicle of a land that seems to have changed little in the past two centuries.
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The Iranian-born, US-based artist and former Deep Dish producer closed out the second night with an arresting audio-visual show in which he appeared housed in a cube-like structure, directing synced visuals, and firing lights and smoke guns off the stage.
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Opening with an arresting image of Kennedy cruising through California in a convertible, the first installment proceeds to chronicle his privileged youth, work on behalf of brother John and evolution on the issues that became central to his campaign: Vietnam, civil rights and poverty.
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On Tuesday at Alice Tully Hall, Mr. Kalish, now 83, took part in an arresting performance of "Summer Evening" that concluded a two-part tribute to Mr. Crumb in honor of his upcoming 90th birthday, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
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Bernard Giudicelli, the president of the French Tennis Federation, which puts on the French Open, had just vowed to ban outfits like the great, black, full-body compression suit, with short sleeves and an arresting red waistband, that Williams had worn there in the spring.
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An arresting, full-scale statue of St. Jerome, made of painted wood and credited here to Donatello and Bertoldo working together, embodies the hermit priest as a lithe but wretched penitent, face pained and abdomen collapsed as he strikes his chest with a rock.
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Friday's program featured a Deer Dance from the Yaqui Tribes of southern Arizona and New Mexico; Jingle Dress and Grass Dances from the Northern Plains people; an arresting Hoop Dance performed by Maria Poncé, a dancer of Cherokee and Taino descent; and many others.
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The Hudson Studio at the Standard High Line also offers bathers an arresting panoramic view, that of uptown Hoboken, but it pales in comparison to the mise-en-scène of the master bathroom of 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge's Riverhouse Suite, located in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
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"White Privilege II" might make a better documentary than a song: It's puzzling why a track shot through with Black Lives Matter protest audio and testimonials from blue collar whites balking at the idea of privilege didn't arrive with an arresting visual to tie it all together.
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These excellent Israeli players offer richly characterized, stirring performances of these six pieces, their burnished sound notable in sections like the opening of No. 3 in D. They render No. 1 in F with a gracious charm and No. 4 in C minor with an arresting tension.
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Some did this better than others, including Phillip Thomas's installation "His-Sis in the Garden of Heathen" (2017), which allegedly grew from the painting at its center — an arresting portrait of a character who's festooned with medals and has camouflaged hair like some fantasy cartoon general.
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The thing about that timing — the thing that makes this stark and quiet play such an arresting portrait of trauma and its aftermath — is that Honoka (Yuki Kawahisa, in a beautiful central performance) died happy, still caught up in the exhilaration of having survived that calamity.
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At the Betty Cuningham gallery on the Lower East Side recently, I noticed an arresting painting: It showed a nude woman curled against a window, asleep, with the old New Yorker Hotel and Empire State Building in view and a fish above her, hanging or floating.
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This is Olson's fourth book dealing with Britain and World War II, but in "Last Hope Island" she argues an arresting new thesis: that the people of occupied Europe and the expatriate leaders did far more for their own liberation than historians and the public alike recognize.
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Galvanized by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who gave an arresting speech at the United Nations' first-ever Climate Action Summit on Monday evening, kids like Zayne are rallying their parents, and other adults in their lives, to step up and take these issues more seriously.
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Thomas Harvey, Mr. Watson's lawyer, said Mr. Goodman had refused to drop the charges despite what he called problems with evidence, a number of errors made by the prosecutor's office, and an arresting officer who, according to state records, has a history of beating suspects and falsifying reports.
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When you turn from Water Street onto Washington Street and the bridge suddenly rises up, it's an arresting, pulse-quickening sight, like the scene in sci-fi movies where you first glimpse a little — just a little — of the huge monster or alien as it scuttles between buildings.
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Mr. Barker, who has spent much of his non-Blink downtime in cross-genre collaborations that treat him like a tattooed curiosity remains an arresting, versatile drummer, and on this album, his vitality is the thing that rescues the band when it threatens to let the maudlin creep too far in.
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Though you would have thought the game had become obvious after the four songs by Berg and the 16 by Schumann, a sprinkling of listeners started to applaud after "Dichterliebe," only to be squelched by an arresting gesture from Mr. Goerne and an immediate leap into the Wolf by Mr. Trifonov.
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We was friends, me and this old manLike desperados waiting for a train For the brooding title track of his 1995 album, "Dublin Blues," Mr. Clark used an unlikely juxtaposition of images to effect an arresting shift in perspective — in this case, casting an old mountain folk song in a shimmering new light.
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Size: 2362,22000 square feet Price per square foot: $22000 Indoors: Whereas many homes in Arizona are on a single level, taking advantage of the large amount of available land, this house is on two levels and incorporates a north-facing glass wall in the great room that frames an arresting mountain view.
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Last year, Touma collaborated with filmmakers Floor van der Meulen and Thomas Vroege in turning the footage into 9 Days - From My Window in Aleppo, an arresting documentary short on the civilian experience during the five-year long Syrian Civil War, which won Best Short at the 2016 European Film Awards this past December.
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The African paintings by Lily Yeh, an artist who worked with survivors in Rwanda and elsewhere, and the quilt series, crafted by Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, a Holocaust survivor, are twin centerpieces of an arresting new exhibition, "Esther and the Dream of One Loving Human Family," on display at the American Visionary Art Museum here.
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Bernard Akoi-Jackson staged an opening night performance in the installation he created; in the small, tapering gallery behind that, German-Ghanaian artist Zohra Opoku has an arresting display of mixed-media sculptures and video; and in the main gallery, an entire two-story wall of the Broad is dominated by "Post No Bill" (2015), a multimedia installation by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama.
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The anonymous New York Times op-ed detailing resistance to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE from within the administration is an arresting document.
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So when it came to joining in for a remix of Anuel AA's "Quiere Beber," one of this summer's big hits, Romeo studied the turf — lush, pillowy reggaeton-lite production; a vocal pattern that congeals like taffy — and arrived with an arresting stream-of-consciousness flow full of bright spots and winks, for a performance that's smooth as whole milk.
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Where we might turn to cartoons to feel nostalgic for a time when we were innocent and loved, Aggretsuko serves an arresting wake-up call, using cute imagery to convey a hard truth: Life is an endless series of mundane and cruel tasks and we're trapped in a fucked-up system built to keep us vulnerable and therefore easier to exploit.
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Anyone in the Midwest who missed the run of 6323 Americans at the Detroit Institute of Arts could drop in on Us Is Them for an encounter with many of the same artists — including an arresting array of works big and small by Wangechi Mutu — but the Pizzuti Collection is also engaging in its points of departure from the established mainstream of contemporary art.
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Any people can cheer an Eisenhower, a MacArthur, a John Glenn, a Neil Armstrong; it takes generosity of spirit to suffer the Weathermen who hated L.B.J., the Birchers who baited J.F.K., the Liberty Leaguers who heckled F.D.R." Manchester opened his saga in the Hoover years — the years of a burning White House, of crash and of enveloping crisis, with an arresting image: "In the desperate summer of 1932, Washington, D.C., resembled the besieged capital of an obscure European state.
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The trio formed, in 2007, as New York college students whose musical interests drifted between lo-fi folk, brainy electronica, and slow-burn R. & B. In 2013, they stirred those three disparate sounds into an arresting self-titled E.P. On its four tracks, the lead vocalist and songwriter, Kelly Zutrau, sings about heartbreak, dishing out honeyed, first-crush platitudes ("My baby, he don't love me no more") over the ruminating laptop compositions of her bandmates, Joe Valle and Marty Sulkow.
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