A pandemic simply foregrounds what's already true of our condition.
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In the foregrounds, a peaceable kingdom is on the move.
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The camera is normally positioned in a way that foregrounds the food.
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The Spanish director Emilio Sagi's minimalist production foregrounds the characters' emotional life.
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Foregrounds and backgrounds often overlap; verses and choruses aren't always clearly demarcated.
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As such, the exhibition foregrounds two important questions: Are such dramatizations culturally insensitive?
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While the exhibition foregrounds this affiliation, it is hazier about Munch's personal politics.
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In Mexico foregrounds Höfer's images as records of a site's architectural and sociopolitical history.
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Our pasts do not form neat foregrounds and backgrounds, or whole and linear stories.
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Her work is both secular and sacred; it foregrounds spirit over matter; life over material.
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Blunt—who's a native of London's Hackney neighborhood—foregrounds the Union Jack on record's cover.
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In practice, this means children's poetry foregrounds the art form's acoustical elements: rhyme, rhythm, stress.
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Mostly, Lee slowly foregrounds the uneasy violence that flickers through the Murakami to stunning, devastating effect.
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Adam McKay's movie foregrounds Dick Cheney's role in America's military campaigns during President George W. Bush's tenure.
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It is an idyllic setting that foregrounds the kids' perspectives rather than those of the adults in charge.
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"Remember" is a late-summer slice of R&B nostalgia that foregrounds his versatile vocals and easy melodicism.
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Mr. Sherman acknowledges those somber elements but foregrounds his story with brighter hues in a more impressionistic style.
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You become more aware of Ms. Kalman as a miniaturist of action painting, especially in backgrounds and foregrounds.
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It stumbles with its coverage of collectives and often foregrounds blue-chip work whose thematic relevance is obvious.
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It also has a new LED flash with "Slow Sync," which helps create more uniformly lit backgrounds and foregrounds.
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The subjects and people Özgen often foregrounds, we are reminded, are people with their own stories, hopes, and dreams.
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The three perspectives may diverge, but their overlap foregrounds the facts necessary to understand how these events impacted Chan.
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But since many flight attendants still unfortunately have to meet certain physical requirements, the uniform foregrounds the fantasy appeal.
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Suspiria foregrounds that corporeality, mixing it with elements of the inexplicable, and the result is horrifying, maddening, transfixing, transcendent.
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Wood and Macdonald are considering developing their project further, possibly by expanding it into an installation that foregrounds these potentialities.
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Declaration provokes its audience with challenging art that foregrounds provocative social questions, but it also carefully advances related, underlying themes.
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It comes across as a gift of thanks that foregrounds beauty, laughter, and powerful joy over the lurid and usurious.
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Everest, the peak, is named after a bureaucrat of the British Empire, a choice that itself foregrounds man over nature.
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In Acierto's version, the child's body has been ghosted out of the frame — an erasure that foregrounds the colonialist violence.
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The term identifies similarities among Chinese artists who made work between the 1980s to early 2000s that foregrounds unconventional materials.
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At the core of the Democratic rejoinder to Trump is a vision of American greatness that foregrounds diversity and inclusivity.
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She foregrounds the oddest and minutest of details but lingers attentively, and with narrative feeling, as each man approaches his end.
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La Horchata Zine also foregrounds vital topics being discussed among Latinx activists today, like internalized racism and colorism in Latinx communities.
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If the backs of her books always hid from view any mention of her family past, the new book foregrounds it.
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The show at the Frick Collection foregrounds the artist's inventive portraits, which are not as well known as his religious paintings.
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Where the first film withheld the big meta reveal for the end, Lego Movie 2 foregrounds it, without expressly spelling it out.
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The actor Sam Heughan smartly foregrounds Jamie's shell shock; something inside of him is frozen as the world tries to move on.
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As an ethical framework, communitarianism foregrounds reciprocity, interdependence, and shared responsibility, and seeks to secure equal freedoms for everyone within a collective.
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Their rich browns, pinks and yellows combine deep vistas of pristine lakes and mountains and glowing sunsets or sunrises with busy foregrounds.
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She is a self-abandoning virtuoso who foregrounds the emotional authenticity of her characters, eschewing the ostentatious posturing of most cinematic chameleons.
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LinkedIn's 2017 State of Salary Report foregrounds high-paying entry- and mid-level jobs that require only one-to-three years of experience.
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But the exhibition takes a clear stance against sensationalizing rumors, and foregrounds the fundamental values of the organization: devotion to both community and faith.
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In the next room, a copy of Variety from April 2016 foregrounds Donald Trump's puffy, Cheeto-colored visage, also showing him from the side.
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Hartman's kaleidoscopic book foregrounds the stories of young, poor black women in New York and Philadelphia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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It "foregrounds a hidden text within the text," argues Durant, revealing an alternate reading of the pre-revolutionary circumstances of a free black community.
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"Jessie Bites" foregrounds the child's anger as well as her need of the maternal support provided by an unenthusiastic adult arm with bite marks.
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She foregrounds the extraordinary heroism of ordinary Syrians, both those who are trapped in the country and those who struggle to make new lives.
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Perhaps Sasse foregrounds his idyllic Nebraska childhood because the rest of his biography doesn't gel quite as well with the brand he wants to project.
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The title of this series foregrounds the problem with omnibus films: It's difficult to come away from one feeling all your time has been rewarded.
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Iduma, a graduate of the SVA's MFA Art Writing program, foregrounds the question of what good writing about art is and what it can become.
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The teaser also appears to feature a few aesthetic throwbacks to Poppins classics like "Jolly Holiday" and "Chim Chim Cher-ee," but foregrounds the original track.
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Declaration, the first show at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth Institute, foregrounds work dealing with social justice, belonging, and the erosion of time.
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In Als's curation, which foregrounds Neel's portraits of people of color, the writer's and the painter's shared abiding fascination with other human beings shines and inspires.
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But this self-titled effort is a little different—it foregrounds his singing voice and intimate lyrics sung in Spanish on most of the 12 tracks.
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Lanier's lawsuit reminds us that images are not neutral — nor is the daguerreotype — and foregrounds the continuation of slavery's violence through their circulation, ownership, and display.
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Josh Perelman, chief curator and director of exhibitions and interpretation at Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH), foregrounds the importance of his museum's education initiatives.
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A striking sequence in Come Coyote foregrounds Sheila's spread legs and vagina, as she receives a vaginal injection from Dani, whose blurry figure hovers in the background.
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Soderbergh continually holds a wide depth of field, keeping subjects, backgrounds, and foregrounds alike in focus and pushing the audience to warily scan each frame for details.
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But it's about reducing your work to your gender in this way that foregrounds the fact that you're a woman in a field that is predominantly male.
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The cross foregrounds the varying layers of shadows, which drape around a woman arranging goods in a stall of religious wares, silhouetted to the point of unrecognition.
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Framed to exclude horizon lines and foregrounds, images like "Fleeing from a Force Eight Gale" (33) ensnare the viewer within nature, while refusing to offer stable footing.
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As the film slowly reveals how the village's veneer of civility is built over a foundation of treachery, the darkened foregrounds suggest conspirators hiding in plain sight.
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But, that said, Malech's effort still foregrounds the beauty and power of what form — and the willingness to follow it without knowing the end result — can achieve.
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"Rio Nido" (1987), for instance, is virtuosic in its play of layers and textures; backgrounds intrude into foregrounds, the paint surface switches abruptly from brushy to smooth.
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Drexler foregrounds her compositions with figuration, isolating people within abstracted color fields as if she'd plucked them from their lives and placed them into voids of paint.
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On my initial visit to A Studio Odyssey, I questioned why the wall text for many of the images foregrounds the artist's sexuality as something he's "struggled" with.
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It also reinforces her approach to privacy, foregrounds her interest in recording herself, and hints at where she would go with her savvy image-crafting: more event television.
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The Stage Builder doesn't just stick to two dimensions either; players can work in layers to create fully realized designs with backgrounds and foregrounds to aid their visions.
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It shows her curiosity about the natural world and human labor and foregrounds the natural historian and public historian present in all her diaries but never better exposed.
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The document explicitly foregrounds its central intent as supporting educators to engage with the challenges faced by British Columbians including climate change, waste emissions and mass species extinction.
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But even as it properly foregrounds Wilson's dialogue — few playwrights have approached his genius for turning workaday vernacular into poetry — "Fences" is much more than a filmed reading.
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For the first writing practicum in the MFA Art Writing Program, Emmanuel Iduma foregrounds the question of what good writing about art is, and what it can become.
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By contrast, this production foregrounds that grief, though perhaps that's more reflective of my current mentality that I'd rather escape the politics of 2018 than be reminded of them.
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Zoe's film critically foregrounds this connection between the scripted working bodies of scientific management and the prescriptive archive of gestures that pathologized certain mental afflictions, especially in female bodies.
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It's no wonder that the number of thinkpieces on Trump supporters spawned this apt satire, which expertly foregrounds how thinking in terms of abstract identity politics yields necessarily abstract identities.
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Evoking yet sliding by multiple influences, from powwow outfits to kachina figures, "Come Alive!" foregrounds the contemporaneity and complexity of indigenous identity, putting historic works into conversation with the present.
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His depiction of the issue foregrounds alarmist and inaccurate renderings of Mexicans as rapists and marauders who threaten the integrity and the purity—really, the racial purity—of white America.
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For his debut exhibition, Nowhere, painter Sidar Baki foregrounds children within Gazi, an inner city neighborhood 22016 kilometers from Istanbul's core, where many Alawites live alongside internally displaced Anatolian youth.
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Meir says the budget feature is generating around a 30 per cent reduction in costs for users just because the platform foregrounds what is a "fair budget" for a given trip.
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She foregrounds the human voice for the first time on the stunning "Arrow of Time," a sign that there are still new horizons ahead for one of the genre's boldest voices.
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Because he foregrounds the human rights crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, Sanders is facing heightened attacks on this issue, including from the so-called pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC.
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By making him and Jackson into mismatched partners on a crime-solving mission, the movie foregrounds generational conflict, which brings a sense of the actual change that eludes Men in Black: International.
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And that's why this issue is intrinsically bound up with Facebook — because it foregrounds the vast power the platform wields, and the commensurate lack of regulation in how it applies that power.
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An accomplished novelist, Rash in his verse foregrounds minor characters with names like Silas Broughton and Nolan White whose stories unfold in obscure places like Dismal Gorge, Parkson's Cove and Wildhog Ridge.
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Although the intermittent percussion effects crunch nicely, Jewel foregrounds the highest and most linear synthesizers above all, which convincingly recalls rain while also pointing the album's textural palette toward thin, bleepy attenuation.
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Ms. Surya smartly foregrounds all that comeliness and every so often folds in a long shot that turns the characters into doll-like figures, a downsizing that gestures toward a nature vs.
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Reimagining urban "sacrifice zones," a term for wholesale environmental devastation originating from nuclear fallouts during the Cold War, he foregrounds the youngest generation as they process life in a 21st-century city.
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By creating an animated space of play through the presentation of inexact repetitions, Piffaretti foregrounds the importance of the shared space of viewership, and requires that we actively look and interpret the work.
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Four years later, she has completed a studio debut, "Take Me Apart," which foregrounds her cool, charismatic vocals over production from her longtime associate Jam City and the envelope-pushing Björk collaborator Arca.
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What's more, however old-fashioned it may be for anybody tired of singer-songwriters expressing themselves, this approach also foregrounds her lyrics, and given her affinities for pop songform, she's honed her verse.
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It foregrounds, at every moment, the fact that Jimmy and Kim are Up To Something, but it never once lets you know precisely what they're doing, leaving you more or less in Chuck's shoes.
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And Roy Lichtenstein's vibrantly colored 1990 sculpture "Mobile III" pops in a sunny, skylit corner of the gallery — and foregrounds his preliminary colored-pencil sketch for the same work, mounted to the wall nearby.
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The restaurant is a longtime favorite of Trump's; it has a dress code, and it foregrounds its celebrity associations, like a monument overshadowed by its own gift shop, or a midtown Mar-a-Lago .
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In "S & M School," Swann amusingly foregrounds a bondage slave emerging from a snail shell amidst the vaulted halls of what might be a church, haloed by the glow of a full harvest moon.
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After building marvelously for five minutes, the it segues into a slower, wispier section in which chimes ring and strings flutter, followed by yet another discrete section that foregrounds the squeak of his vocoder.
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I'm thinking of Bruce Nauman, who dragged his knee through clay and then cast it in bronze, or did a video of himself walking back and forth in the studio, where he foregrounds the body.
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But Mr. Nyuade's satirical approach, mingling hilarity and horror, suits the show's preference for polemical indirection, just as his semiabstract style, which foregrounds color and texture, sustains a prevailing focus on traditional studio formal skills.
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Highlights include Joey LaBeija, a D.J., producer and member of the storied ballroom house from which he takes his surname, and BbyMutha, an underground rapper whose music foregrounds her experiences as a mother of four.
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To that end, Paounov foregrounds the extent to which Christo has collaborated in his career, not only with Jeanne-Claude, but with hundreds of others playing various roles in the execution of these public artworks.
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The work reveals more about their intent as messaging than as popular images, and their medium, interchangeable stencils that reappear with different backgrounds or foregrounds, emphasize and point at the illusion, another layer of facsimile.
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The trailer foregrounds the question of whether K himself is a replicant, prominently recreating the first film's famous intro shot — an opening eye — and showing off his strangely reflective eyes, which are hallmarks of replicant identity.
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Dangeli not only foregrounds indigenous language but invites viewers to consider the works not as objects, but rather as ceremonial beings which should be understood as living beings that animate through ceremony when worn and danced together.
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She foregrounds musical elements that code exotic (oud, kazoo, Asian percussion, high, squiggly keyboard) and fit in harmonically, as suits an album whose songs concern, dwell on, or simply project signifiers relevant to borders, refugees and othering.
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So, whenever the Revised Core Set comes out, and you think that a card game that foregrounds the struggles that we see every day both online and off sounds fun, I think you should pick one up.
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The second section of the book foregrounds the responses to the AIDS crisis in the '80s and '90s, the most dramatic and fundamental chapter in the queer community's history, investigating anger as a medium to express dissent.
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If the machinery in a McNally restaurant slows down too much, people may start to notice that his template foregrounds his habitual strengths while sweeping weaknesses, such as the occasional spottiness of Augustine's food, into the shadows.
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The foregrounds' moat-like bodies of water reinforce this sense of distance between spectator and conflagration, which partly accounts for why the two fire paintings without bodies of water are less convincing ("Burning House" and "Fire," both 2019).
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Masturbation, in St. Vincent world, is something regular and normal, and in making it so in her music, she foregrounds female sexuality as a natural part of life, rather than something that exists solely for the male gaze.
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Although bodies are always implicit in the invisible systems that Levant maps –– from global trade to humanitarian aid –– this exhibition foregrounds the extent to which systems are embodied through the twin cycles of growth and decay, consumption and waste.
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The latter Veblen was a critic of capitalism who coined the term "conspicuous consumption," and his idea foregrounds many of the former Veblen's struggles in the book, though the relationship between the two is never heavy-handed or obvious.
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In shifting to the early days of the trial, "Samson and Delilah" foregrounds the whodunit aspects of the show, which means revealing new information on Naz and offering some more suspects who may or may not be red herrings.
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ANTI foregrounds the same set of parallels between post-internet, satirical fascist modulations of cultural propaganda, transhumanism, far-right overidentification, and corporate aesthetics, on such an epic and theatrical scale of shit not seen since the 29th Berlin Biennale.
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At first, we see the murder happen in the background of a shot that foregrounds a young woman in the front of the bus who is oblivious to what's going because she's blasting "Tainted Love," and it's played for humor.
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Accordingly, the exhibition foregrounds how the problems of cultural identity and the past are playing out in the present, at the same time underlying how tensions between art, ideology, and geopolitics are causing intense divisions within Poland and Europe more broadly.
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Later we see — in the icy blue tones of France — how this connects to Riad's love of cartooning, and even his talent: A panel shows him drawing Conan amid lopped-off body parts, as the book foregrounds his burgeoning artistic ability.
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Along with Douglass, seen giving speeches but also alone, ruminative, in a forest and along a windy shore, the work foregrounds the women in his life: Anna, as ever in the home, and the white British women who supported his work.
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" The actress Anya Taylor-Joy, who brought a dark streak to the doe-eyed innocents she played in "The Witch" and "Thoroughbreds," foregrounds Emma's objectionable qualities — after all, this is the heroine Austen said "no one but myself will much like.
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A Signet Giant edition — 35 cents in the mid-'50s — depicts Winston in profile and foregrounds his love interest, Julia, heavy-lidded and seductive with a uniform unzipped to her sash (and a prominent ANTI-SEX LEAGUE button on her chest).
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A Signet Giant edition — 35 cents in the mid-'50s — depicts Winston in profile and foregrounds his love interest, Julia, heavy-lidded and seductive with a uniform unzipped to her sash (and a prominent ANTI-SEX LEAGUE button on her chest).
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Before you x out this tab in disgust, you should know that Songz is a gifted singer, and this sparse piano-only arrangement foregrounds his skills as an interpreter and the genius ear for melody the late great Space Oddity blessed us with.
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The style of the protest foregrounds the themes and materials of Mendieta's art: the sheet with the body print alludes to her series Silueta, while the paprika sprinkled on the ground in front of the arc of hand-holding protesters echoes its color.
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" But the site also foregrounds her views on war and peace, arguing that "Tulsi has been a leading voice fighting to end regime change wars and instead focus our military efforts on defeating the terrorist groups that attacked and declared war on the United States.
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" Much of the writing on Friday Night Lights' greatness foregrounds the marriage between Coach Eric Taylor and his wife Tami: As a New Yorker review from 2007 put it, "there is no better depiction of married life and married love on TV right now.
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In reaffirming Farber's vision even in the minutiae of his classroom preparation, the book also crucially foregrounds the influence that Patricia Patterson (his second wife and long-term collaborator) had on him, both in his painting and as a co-writer of his criticism.
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And while there are existing digital services making scientific literature searchable via keywords, such as Google Scholar, there are fewer options for navigating digital content in a way that automatically foregrounds related and relevant research to take some of the legwork out of the process.
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The young people are "data labelers," people who sit in front of computers for eight hours a day and click on dozens of photos, outlining backgrounds, foregrounds, and specific objects, all according to the specifications of a client who is working on artificial intelligence.
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At times outspoken and bombastic, especially in his critique of the squad's shortcomings, Marshall's confident personality combined with his backstory (sexually abused, bullied) allows the show to comment on the place of gay men in cheer, and his talent for dance foregrounds cheer's performative aspects.
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The boldest and (dare I say?) most realistic attempt of the bunch is Ohad Hadad's Israeli-Palestinian combo flag [posted at the top of this post], which foregrounds the white silhouette of the Star of David on a backdrop segmented into the colors of the Palestinian flag.
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He insists that he does not want to be understood as a flâneur or to be described as an observer, instead Akinbiyi foregrounds the importance of wonder; he attempts to grasp what is happening in the city while acknowledging that it is impossible to fully comprehend it.
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The challenge of identifying these many hats foregrounds the Stedelijk Museum's major exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art, curated by Leontine Coelewij and Sara Martinetti in cooperation with the Stichting Egress Foundation, which is the first attempt to present so many of his diverse activities at once.
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Camille, for instance, is a solid reporter, but the series doesn't suggest that she's unusually gifted at her job, à la Don Draper; instead, it foregrounds her depression — the sad plastic bag of alcohol miniatures, candy, and cigarettes she dumps out on a motel room bed — like a challenge.
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As Hopper contemplates the circumstances of her spinster life—among them fraught cohabitation, seeking out a sperm donor (see the incisive and metaphorically hilarious essay "Moby-Dick"), and assembling a care team for a friend with stage four cancer—she foregrounds a claim that ought to be obvious.
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As a project that foregrounds a repetitive process, the series is necessarily open-ended, and Hamilton is quick to stress that she is uninterested in establishing boundaries or neatly tying up the loose ends, which is why approaching her work with a question is the most rewarding path.
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There is the difficulty of her own proximity to and distance from the people she helps and writes about, a fact that she foregrounds by topping and tailing her book with her own beginning and ending: an application for a green card, and her receipt of the precious document.
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From the SXSW Interactive Festival, I spoke with Wyatt about why Captive State foregrounds its aliens in the opening moments, how Chicago's racial divides play into the film, why it isn't specifically a look at Trump-era America, and how it compares to Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
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What is more to the point is the force with which the black ground isolates and foregrounds the lines and shapes, even those articulated by less intense colors, to such an extent that they read not as compositional conventions but as an idea of line and shape — abstract ideals floating in Platonic space.
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Her work was hybrid before hybrid was a thing: It balances her skills as a reporter (avid, nosy attention) with those of a scholar (writing about anything, it's clear she's read everything), a literary critic (tuned to how language, written or spoken, foregrounds its maker's gifts and faults) and, above all, a storyteller.
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And sometimes the antique and the modern briefly conjoin, as in a passageway that foregrounds a vitrine containing a silver Egyptian statuette from 610-595 BCE (borrowed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art), while a cluster Modigliani's carved limestone heads rises on pedestals behind it — one of the most sublime sights in the show.
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The Freemuse report foregrounds how artists in Turkey associated with the illegal Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), or the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), have all come under threat, leading to a widespread culture of censorship and repression in the country, which remains one of the most censorious in the world.
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Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" is so iconic, and yet the extent of its elaborateness also foregrounds the complexity of its making; that is, there are so many components and materials and ideas at play, it's almost impossible to look at it and not think about the incredible amount of work, collaboration, and strategizing that went into its making.
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Emma Tammi's "The Wind," showing on Friday and scheduled to open on April 5, is not, as cinephiles have speculated, in any meaningful sense of a remake of Victor Sjostrom's 1928 silent masterpiece "The Wind," but a horror film that nevertheless — like that Lillian Gish classic — foregrounds a female protagonist (Caitlin Gerard) against an unforgiving landscape.
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This, finally, is the one unfortunate way that It's So Easy… is a lot like other music docs: it obsessively foregrounds personal struggle, particularly the salacious details of fame-fueled addiction, leaving McKagan's actual art—the very thing that gave him a life worth writing an autobiography about and making a movie about, in the first place—in the dark.
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Yet the HBO series places all three in supporting roles to the women, whereas Doomsday Clock remains resolutely male in its focus—even the finale, which ostensibly speaks to Superman's empathy and the importance of his parents in his upbringing, focuses on his father's influence at the expense of his mother's—and foregrounds the legacy characters to a far greater extent.
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Discussing decolonization in the arts often centers settler colonialism as the singular structure or event that Indigenous artists must continually respond to, return the gaze back upon, or subvert and critique; in its best iterations, decolonizing the arts necessarily foregrounds the dismantling or structural transformation of institutions, the repatriation of stolen objects, and the creation of access and resources for Indigenous curators and artists working within arts institutions.
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Post-apocalyptic novels often resemble modernized, cynical variants on the Western, parables about society told at the scale of hardened individuals roaming inhospitable terrain — but VanderMeer's foregrounds the revolutionary potential of caring for others, focusing on the relationship between Rachel, a woman who survives by scavenging a city ravaged by the activities of a nefarious biotech company, and the motile, plant-like, vase-like creature that she finds on one of her expeditions.
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Combining stills and reproduced screenplays from six of her films — including "DAMELO TODO," 2010, centering on the story of an El Salvadorian teenage refugee who finds sanctuary in L.A.'s transgender community, and her documentary "Wildness," 2012, which profiles the habitués of Silver Lake's legendary trans bar the Silver Platter and was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial — "Not in My Language" foregrounds Tsang's interest in communities and subcultures often relegated to the margins of society.
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Still, I am pretty confident that if she were with us in 2020, Baker would be on the side of the growing racial and social justice movements that are decentralized and engaged in mass direct action tactics: the climate justice movement, the immigration rights and antiwar movements, the Poor Peoples' Campaign, and the groups that comprise The Rising Majority coalition; all of them doing work that foregrounds the interests and voices of members of the most long-suffering and marginalized sectors of our society.
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