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"protean" Definitions
  1. able to change quickly and easily

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Both an artist and a writer, Brainard was remarkably protean.
Arya has returned to Westeros a protean dealer of death.
It also reflects the protean nature of the show itself.
I'm drawn to the human brain, its unforgiving and protean nature.
Mr. Trump's protean character has also played out unpredictably in Israel.
He had protean diversity, Renaissance versatility, titanic energy — and bipolar extremes.
In his definition, Islam is a protean human phenomenon, rife with contradictions.
Canons are protean, reformed throughout generations by those with access to them.
And the blithely protean ensemble offers many charming acts of instant metamorphosis.
Populists in the Jackson tradition, political theorists say, are protean in character.
Beyond such violence, defining anti-Semitism is harder because it is so protean.
The symptoms of neurosyphilis are protean, varying widely from one individual to another.
A protean, adventurous performer, he advanced constantly into new territory and unexpected collaborations.
Panahi has long explored the protean space between these modes, testing their boundaries.
But suddenly, near the end, he begins to celebrate the man's protean talents.
Protean illustrations and animations offer vibrant visual analogies to the dancers' fluid, shifting states.
Those who follow Mr. Vongerichten know the chef to be a protean shape-shifter.
Protean means ever-changing or variable (like the water god of Greek myth, Proteus).
But he's still under the institutional radar, a protean artist awaiting rediscovery and appraisal.
Only two years later, Friedman, its protean composer, died at 41 of complications from AIDS.
This room is a condensed exploration of how protean and adventurous reductive aesthetics can be.
And also to remind our readers (and ourselves) of the miraculously protean character of movies.
But with his protean, cross-disciplinary energy, Burle Marx needed no warming up or filling out.
Hopefully it will help you fall in love with the most powerful and protean of instruments.
The protean, stubbornly unclassifiable Machado was born into poverty, the mixed-race grandson of freed slaves.
"In sum, Roe's jurisprudence has been characterized by Delphic confusion and protean change," the lawmakers wrote.
The difficulty is not simply that Khodorkovsky has had a protean presence in Russian public life.
And Mr. Larraín's eye for the rugged beauty of Chile's protean landscapes implies a similar argument.
I guess the most important is the protean genius Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), the peripatetic German artist.
Superb portraits of the arranger and composer Hall Overton and the protean saxophonist Zoot Sims figure here.
The protean nature of loyalty and truth proves to be at the center of this week's story.
Protean shapes and surfaces evolve as the viewer examines and moves around Kate Matthews three-dimensional paintings.
"He was just as magnetically protean in his performances on film as he was onstage," she says.
Last week, to celebrate his 69th birthday, Helen Green, an illustrator, captured Bowie's protean career in one GIF.
The resulting basketball is frictionless and protean and futuristic, but it is also clearly a delight to play.
A cosmopolitan and protean filmmaker, Pabst (19613-1967) was attracted to naturalism as well as to big issues.
Word of the Day : taking on different forms _________ The word protean has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.
On the recent mixtape "Famous Cryp," he's vibrant but protean, still figuring out the boundaries of his skill.
At times she seems protean, changing shape again and again in his arms as if to elude him.
Although he never achieved broad stardom, his legato playing and protean harmonic flow influenced a generation of guitarists.
Indefatigable and protean, Clinton read the disaffected landscape and adapted in her characteristic style—with a policy agenda.
Today, Mr. Trump's brief ownership of the Plaza is one of the least-known chapters of a protean career.
He was a little thick around the waste, and certainly refused to change with protean fads in the culture.
Moyer's new acrylic paintings, exuberant and protean, revel in color and visual pleasure, scrambling distinctions between abstraction and representation.
The ghost story shape-shifts because ghosts themselves are so protean — they emanate from specific cultural fears and fantasies.
And a potent section of one of his final symphonies (subtitled "Hallucination City") captures some of his protean energies.
It was a short program of works by the protean Italian modernist composer Sylvano Bussotti, organized by Luciano Chessa.
Mickey Mouse is a protean expression of the qualities, values, and dreams of the man and country that spawned him.
Unlike The Life of Pablo, which is a messy, protean album, everything about the video for "Famous" feels obsessively deliberate.
The unclothed moldie looked like every other moldie: a bulbous-limbed, vaguely anthropomorphic, protean shape that quivered with internal tides.
Protean in her ability to create instantly vivid characters, she fails at this only, and interestingly, in depicting her father.
Dylan's protean identity seems to have inspired Scorsese to fold fictional characters in "Rolling Thunder Revue," including a supercilious director.
And the title "Changeling" surely is connected to the protean nature of this solo: He's constantly changing shape and character.
A "protean talent" best known for his takes on jazz standards, Mr. Harris flaunts his musical showmanship for the stage.
Bloomberg, a billionaire who was a protean politician while in office from 2002-2013, has concentrated on philanthropy since leaving office.
Popular music is a protean and ever-evolving thing, and it can be counted on to yield fresh objects of satire.
In it, Appel seems unafraid to render perspectives that recall the protean charge of our insanely complex and connected contemporary existence.
Other companies that supply the bits and pieces to Olli include Bosch, Goodyear, Protean and Eastman, to name just a few.
An esteemed soprano saxophonist and N.E.A. Jazz Master, Mr. Liebman, 70, has recently been working with Expansions, a spry, protean quintet.
Lacking seasonal fruit beyond rhubarb and the first strawberries, pastry chefs reach for that time-honored staple: the humble and protean egg.
If the protean Mr. Kelly has had one recurring theme through the years, it is the shaping of the self through art.
The event was the brainchild of MAGA3X, a protean social-media organization that spent the presidential campaign trafficking in pro-Trump memes.
Like the earlier film, Loro relies heavily on the gifts of Toni Servillo, Sorrentino's brilliant and protean muse, who stars as Berlusconi.
As for Mandarin itself, the once-artificial construct is now showing signs of becoming a living, protean thing—witness the fun around duang.
Even for a writer as protean as Bissell — I would especially recommend his 2012 essay collection, "Magic Hours" — "Apostle" is a quixotic project.
All these protean meanings can get confusing, and Churchwell has a tendency to corral the unruliness of her material by overstating her case.
Though the protean actors, all first-rate, endow their roles with a zestful individuality, their characters are far more than their separate stories.
Donald Trump's populism may be protean, but look for it to move both conservatism and the Republican Party closer to their former selves.
Goethe was a man of protean talents, interests, appetites and achievements who lived through a particularly tempestuous period of wars and revolutions in Europe.
But life is protean, and so is Fort Greene, a part of northwest Brooklyn that has seen staggering changes in the last several years.
While the protean "Cyphers" moves the audience around and through the dancers, "Autarcie," for four women, finds possibilities in the limitations of a stage.
Throughout, the best part is the band's protean interactivity — stirred up by Ms. Melford, and given extra buoyancy by Stomu Takeishi's acoustic bass guitar.
You begin to get the sense that Dolores, on some level, though protean and brilliant and almost post-human, is attached [to her body].
Levin reveals her as a scammer so protean that she had gone by at least eight different names by the time she was 22.
And the company's secret ace is the protean Jack Sochet, whose several roles include Jericho's pal, Tynk, an amusing criminal who isn't above murder.
Five writers on what made the protean Bernstein, born 213 years ago, one of the most indelible figures in the history of the arts.
Flesh-eating zombies continue to rampage across big and small screens, protean symbols of everything we fear we might (or have already) become. (A.
Transparency is one of them: when your e-mails are leaked, or your hot-mike blunders are unearthed, your "protean" personality becomes a vulnerability.
When "Barry" débuted, last spring, Hader's protean qualities were well established, from eight years on "Saturday Night Live" and a gallery of vivid film roles.
It is a theological rift: Is religion founded in submission to unchanging principles or is it a protean revolutionary force, a tool of self-empowerment?
Ray Thomas, a founding member of the protean British rock group the Moody Blues, died on Thursday at his home in Surrey, south of London.
Opinion ____ Five writers on what made the protean Bernstein, born 100 years ago, one of the most indelible figures in the history of the arts.
In 214, the poet emigrated to Italy and later converted to Catholicism, but his early ideas on drama were protean and could serve many masters.
It's a potpourri of experiments, balancing the frayed energy and funky sparring of his 1970s fusion records with layers of synthesizer and protean harmonic movement.
I've always been interested in people in revolutionary or protean times, when a lot of shifting is happening, who get left behind by that moment.
This fluid conception has propelled Als to become his own protean person: photo editor, graphic designer, music and theater critic, essayist, curator, and visual artist.
In "Albatross," the ensemble appeared to coalesce into a single protean wind instrument, the sound's fuzzy dry contours filled out by diaphragm-tickling low brass notes.
Those hours paid off on "Aquarius," Tinashe's bold, protean label début, as will a decade of dance study, when she storms Webster Hall, on March 12.
Over the course of a protean half-century career in film, television and theater, Mr. McCowen's greatest triumphs were on the stage, often in classical roles.
The near-universal presence of bacteria in nature—from the deepest layer of the Earth's crust to the upper atmosphere—is reflected in their protean applications.
An art critic and dance critic talk about two Kirstein shows — and how his protean diversity left its mark on the arts, most productively on ballet.
But it is also a film preoccupied with image, appearance and surface; how they are created and maintained, and their importance in fashioning history from protean events.
The strategy used protean computer programmes that would automatically sell index futures when markets fell, in theory protecting a fund's downside in return for a modest premium.
At the same time, "What to Send Up," which features a protean cast of eight expertly directed by Whitney White, is inevitably, in part, about white people.
Compared with the output of a protean force like Frank Lloyd Wright, Kahn's body of work is tiny, and by Lesser's estimation includes just 14 great buildings.
They were joined after World War II by Japanese imports like Godzilla and then by H.R. Giger's tireless and protean Alien at the end of the '70s.
The basketball that the Warriors are playing—the flex and velocity of it, the protean warp and invention of it—is more awesome than it is involving.
Khrushchev bitterly condemned his public "disfiguring" of Soviet people, but that was not what he was doing; he was showing how Protean and enduring a human being was.
At Belly, a shrine to the protean appeal of the swine, pork might as well be its own syncretic religion, celebrated in multitudinous forms through intertwined culinary traditions.
A former Breitbart editor and a self-proclaimed "Internet supervillain," he was known less for his arguments than for his combative one-liners and protean, peroxide-blond hair.
To remain free, to act in good faith, is to remain the undefined, free, protean creatures we actually are, even if this is an anxious way to live.
It was more that the Warriors, skipping and glitching and playing their giddy protean game, made the greatest basketball player of his and maybe any era seem insignificant.
Should a drummer offer a sturdy baseline underneath him, or would it be wiser to match the leader's protean improvising with a dance of cymbal flutters and toms?
The girls' witchy exploits are a thin pop-culture borrowing, and teen-agers are so protean to begin with that their identity crises lack the power to unnerve.
The world and its inhabitants are protean and surprising, but also almost unbearably fragile, and you feel the pull of gravity even in the film's most lighthearted passages.
They also looked to African American educators who had developed protean versions of no-excuses philosophy in their own classrooms and schools in the 1980s and early 1990s.
After a 130-mile journey, I entered a hushed space where other visitors were submerged in the protean matter — fuzzy, ethereal, soupy, psychedelic — emanating from Turrell's light installations.
As she developed her art, she found that she admired artists with wide-ranging sensibilities and a protean quality, especially Pablo Picasso, Joseph Beuys, Alberto Giacometti and Robert Rauschenberg.
To get to the core of a person as protean as Andrew, I suppose you have to identify the desire that makes him shape-shift in the first place.
But they have taken quickly to his unique form of jazz, brilliantly lodged between tradition and the open road, as easy to love as it is protean and unbounded.
Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan.
But alongside the institution-builders like Buckley and Ailes, the conservative-media landscape has also produced a class of rowdy entrepreneurs who wield their influence in more personal, protean ways.
She has rearranged Ms. Carson's original text so that the play now begins with Mr. Whishaw uttering the ancient Greek word τις, which he explains is a highly protean pronoun.
The core lineup coalesced in 2006 with the arrival of Shelley Burgon, a harpist and sound artist, and Miguel Frasconi, a protean musician whose arsenal includes glass objects and electronics.
The sound bite-resistant answer is refracted across a protean British-American cast, most notably by the younger and older Evanses posited by Christian Camargo and Danny Huston, in turn.
Allan Holdsworth, a self-taught guitarist whose protean, virtuosic style was a source of amazement even to his more famous peers, died on Saturday at his home in Vista, Calif.
He said that the authorities were confronted with a "protean" terrorist threat involving not only highly organized and coordinated attacks but also isolated acts by individuals receptive to Islamic State propaganda.
While Zappa's protean catalogue can be idealized as an awesome, unitary composition, individual works, for all their raucous energy, can pale in comparison to those of the modernist icons he revered.
She turns out to have been a scammer of historic proportions, a woman so protean that she had gone by at least eight different names by the time she was 22.
At 77, Ms. Stewart — still a competitive business woman of "protean competence," as Joan Didion once wrote in The New Yorker — walks a little slower, albeit in five-inch Prada booties.
Jimmy Spicer, who in the protean era of recorded hip-hop released a handful of songs that would become part of the genre's bedrock, died on Friday in a Brooklyn hospital.
He described a movement of protean adaptability, whose methods resembled those of terrorist groups and criminal organizations; they framed opponents by planting evidence or blackmailed them with information gleaned from wiretaps.
Because events, on the whole, are more protean than people, leaders grow less satisfying with time, as the stories they're ready to tell diverge from the stories we want to hear.
"The materials that are now available to everyone with access to the internet manifest the protean, interdisciplinary nature of Noguchi's work," Museum Direction Brett Littman says in the museum's press release.
"It is intriguing that something as transient as the activity state of a neural circuit could have such a major physiological influence on something as protean as life span," Yankner said.
As do subsequent Public Image enablers, the protean producer and bassist Bill Laswell and the genuine classic rock drummer Ginger Baker — Mr. Lydon's roster of collaborators over the decades has been eclectic.
After more than a decade at the helm of the protean Puerto Rican group Calle 13, the incisive Spanish-language rapper and producer Residente recently split off in search of new frontiers.
It is indisputable that we are at the dumbest moment in our (honestly always kind of dumb) nation's history, but the shape of that dumbness can be protean and hard to know.
She slowly discerned that Kentucky was a strange and abundant place, half-mad with a restless and protean geology, secreted away under a cloak of limestone and swaying seas of timothy and bluegrass.
Dover Street Market has opened in Los Angeles, and when the protean Rei Kawakubo gives her official stamp of approval to a city, you know it has reached a certain zenith of cool.
In typical Kingdom Hearts fashion, the narrative justification for this is both transparent as a means to rewrite old material and entirely consistent and natural as a direction for the game's protean lore.
As a rapper, he's similarly protean, augmenting his usually sly, mocking flow with several other discrete cadences — an anguished scream, or a pretty, burbling Auto-Tuned squeal — while slipping between characters and voices.
"They are simply statements that want to happen": That's how the multi-instrumentalist, composer and radical pedagogue Karl Berger describes the gently protean piano music he has written over the past several years.
These physical motions haunt each painting as it anticipates the viewer who will come alive to its flow of color, at once grand and granular, and awaken color itself to its protean life.
At the time, R. Kelly was known as a protean pop auteur who'd produced the uplifting megahit "I Believe I Can Fly" — and also rougher R&B tracks filled with innuendo and raw sexuality.
"Clinton was always protean and a devoted mystery reader," Joe Klein, the political columnist and author of the novel "Primary Colors" and "The Natural," an account of Mr. Clinton's presidency, said in an email.
The moments are psychedelic and spiritual, and "Blue Planet II" collects them into a saga pulsing with sea serpents, multi-armed beasts, protean freaks, photogenic anemones, legends of kelp forests, and cnidarians named for Gorgons.
Over the last several years, however, critics and curators have started to pay more attention to Morrisroe, whose protean production in many ways pioneered the interdisciplinary mode of the artist as a performance of attitude.
Not in the modern sense, though an idea of female power as a protean force was central to her thinking, as it was to the writers she loved: Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot.
And in Harlem, I learned about the incredibly protean world of black hair and how the women taking charge of it may represent the future of custom wigmaking — an intricate, and otherwise possibly dying art.
Mr. Becker, who died on Sunday at 211, founded Steely Dan — which was more of a protean studio project than a band with any set personnel — with Mr. Fagen, his perennial musical partner, in 260.
Yet the fact remains that people like Richardson, for all that they knew about the problems facing them, had no way of knowing how certain sociohistorical currents were set to waylay even their protean efforts.
Lepage's production design is unforgettable, and the giant machine that serves as its centerpiece is distinctive enough to seem like its own character — a protean behemoth that moves and changes form with slow but inexorable energy.
The protean actress and playwright has spent her career interviewing and then embodying people of different races and divergent points of view — "chasing that which is not me," as she put it in a recent interview.
His earlier motto natura magistra, "nature his mistress," or "nature his teacher," indicates the way nature, with its protean character, acts as a guide for the artist/intellectual to rise above the fray of current upheavals.
But the black figure that looms amorphously in the background over the whole view composition feels like the unnamed narrator of the Ralph Ellison novel Invisible Man — so protean he can only ever be partially recognized.
The researchers argue that not only are mealworms probably capable of digesting a wide range of plastics, but that the protean nature of their gut bacteria should allow them to specialise in a particular sort relatively quickly.
To appreciate his art fully, you have to go to the gardens themselves, but a visit to the compact Jewish Museum show gives you a full sense of his protean work as designer, painter, sculptor and collector.
To appreciate his art fully, you have to go to the gardens themselves, but a visit to this compact Jewish Museum show gives you a full sense of his protean work as designer, painter, sculptor and collector.
Bill Etra, an artist and inventor who, with a partner, created a video animation system in the early 20113s that helped make videotape a more protean and accessible medium for many avant-garde artists, died on Aug.
Yet while Mr. Odedra came across as a protean creature on Friday, the evening as a whole suffered from a sameness of tone — dark, stormy, lonesome, yearning — that amounted to a flat portrait of a multidimensional artist.
" When it came to the movie's protean tone, he said, "All I can tell you is that we were very conscious of it, we knew it was challenging and indefinable — and we knew it had to be.
"The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" builds on Robin's previous book, "The Reactionary Mind" (2011), which depicted conservatism as a counterrevolutionary and protean force committed to a hierarchical order, even when it cloaks itself in a rowdy populism.
But David R. Collens and Nora Lawrence, who organized the exhilarating show "David Smith: The White Sculptures" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ogden's foundational acquisition, made Smith's protean and brilliant use of the color their theme.
Long known as an adventurous and visionary glass artist, doing unprecedented things with the protean material and suffusing it with all sorts of driving ideas, his art extends into other mediums, including paintings, which are prominently featured here.
"The portrait that emerges is that of a protean talent who has pungently projected the nightmares of his unconscious into his creative work but who is impressively at peace with his personal demons," our reviewer, Ben Dickinson, said.
It's an approach that, along with her oeuvre's protean, cross-disciplinary character and her status as an ambitious female artist working in historically male-dominated genres, helps account for why she has been under-appreciated in her lifetime.
There's an interesting detail, too, in the opening title cards, suggesting that the film was inspired by Bram Stoker's "Dracula's Guest," a fascinating fragment that some scholars think was a chapter excised from the author's most protean 1897 novel.
Consistent in quality, protean in practice, SFMOMA and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts showcased five decades of productivity that included photographs, video, installation, texts, maps, recordings, sculpture, actions, and more, much of it done in collaboration with others.
By this point in his career Broodthaers—poet, painter, sculptor, filmmaker, collector, and ever the protean provocateur—was devoting himself to projects related to his idiosyncratic Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles, of which he was founder and curator.
Esparza, dressed in street clothes, wears none of the garish makeup that has come to be associated with Brecht stagings, and it is thrilling to watch his mobile face shift with protean speed from clownish indulgence to fury to deceptive vacuity.
"Nutrition evidence is protean; it changes as we learn more," said Dr. David Jenkins, a professor in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto whose research played a key role in the development of the glycemic index.
"Trollhunters," the new series he created for Netflix (based on a book he wrote with Daniel Kraus), signifies two firsts that both seem suited to Mr. del Toro's protean imagination: his first work in animation and his first project for children.
Directed by Saheem Ali, vaguely set in coastal Florida and sprinkled with Spanish, this frantic staging does offer some amusements — chief among them, David Ryan Smith as a wonderfully prissy Malvolio, and Donnetta Lavinia Grays as a teasing, protean Feste.
Of course, Vegas is also endlessly protean and mutable: A time-lapse of the Strip from Prima's day through the present might look something like the intro sequence to Game of Thrones, structures rising and falling and being replaced over and over again.
In 1789, James Madison persuaded the first president to abandon his tedious and defensive 75-page Inaugural Address, which the protean Madison sliced to less than 1,500 words and then secretly drafted not only Congress's gracious response, but also Washington's own rejoinder.
Robert Rauschenberg, the most protean artist since Picasso, became so obsessed with dancing in the fifties and sixties, when he was creating sets and costumes for Merce Cunningham's company, that he choreographed and performed in several extraordinary dance works of his own.
In an interview with FADER, the producer said the track is like when "you're crying tears of vindictive joy" and "everything is blurry but somehow more vibrant in color," and in that uncanny, protean vibrancy it finds its profound space of unfolding.
"Sexuality" follows these sad threads through the following centuries, when Christianity demonised all non-reproductive sex under the protean capital crime of sodomy, and women were alternatively viewed as either insatiable temptresses or meek creatures "not very much troubled by sexual feelings of any kind".
While Rauschenberg has illustrated other writers' texts, as in Thirty-Four Drawings for Dante's 'Inferno' (1959-60), as far as I know, the layout pages for Stoned Moon Book are unlike anything else in this protean artist's wild and extensive oeuvre, which is saying something.
Bob Dylan's protean career has created many entry points for a diverse audience: You may know him as a folk activist or an electric trickster, a country-western outlaw or a born-again preacher, an American Songbook interpreter or a Nobel Prize-winning poet.
The contradictions continue: Now this champion of fastidious French tradition is returning to the United States in a partnership with Stephen Starr, the protean Philadelphia-based restaurateur who has the reputation, fair or not, of being more a blockbuster crowd-pleaser than a mentor to culinary brainiacs.
The suite laces gnarled horn arrangements and spoken tributes to Ali over protean rhythms, drawing on influences as varied as Count Basie's big band and the drum-and-bass of 27s London; the music emulates the rugged grace and mercurial power of Ali in the ring.
They included such protean theater figures as Charles Ludlam and Robert Wilson; the poets John Ashbery and Anne Waldman; critics like Vince Aletti and Fran Lebowitz, who were also close personal friends; and drag performers like Jackie Curtis and later — repeatedly — the endlessly versatile Ethyl Eichelberger.
The ants' unusual mix of genetic uniformity and wildly protean conduct offers a powerful tool for cracking the old nature-versus-nurture conundrum, and the Kronauer researchers have been mapping out the interplay between genes and environmental cues in shaping essential behaviors like reproduction and sociality.
This reimagining of the world of the court rises up on cables only to be reconfigured as the forest of Arden — a liberating milieu that allows for the protean cast to reassemble in time as, wait for it, a herd of sheep, eliciting purrs of delight from the audience.
"Love, Love, Love" is a none-too-subtle indictment of a generation from the protean British author of more ambitious (and better) works as varied as the brilliant future-history play "King Charles III," and the ruthless "Cockfight Play," which presented the romantic triangle as a gladiator fight.
The man who finally got it done, of course, was Lyndon Baines Johnson, and in this time of gridlock and division, Johnson has come to be seen more and more as a protean figure, a man who, for all of his faults and grotesqueries, could make things happen.
It is too new to name, and too protean to describe, but it seems safe to say that it is grounded in a refusal to accept things as they are, and in the belief that they could be remade in some other way with sufficient and sufficiently stubborn belief.
Schneemann died from breast cancer on March 5, 2019 at the age of 79, and the art world that once criticized her has lauded her a pioneer, a brave visionary, and a protean artist who helped define contemporary avant-garde, an influential feminist force to be reckoned with.
Members of the seduction or pickup artist (PUA) community take inspiration from all over the zoo: peacocking, or trying to stand out with a visual display; protean behaviors, or sending mixed signals; and sarging, the act of going out looking to score, named after pickup guru Ross Jeffries' tomcat Sarge.
Like much of hip-hop in its protean era, Rammellzee conceptualized his work in terms of resistance — against the world at large, but also, in his case, against the frameworks that were fast beginning to congeal on the trains as well as in the galleries newly flirting with street art.
Written in English and Japanese, directed by Mr. Jesurun (who is also responsible for the striking video and set design) and performed in English by a nimble cast of five, the play is woolly and protean but verbally seamless; Mr. Kawamura's contributions, translated by Aya Ogawa, are indistinguishable from Mr. Jesurun's.
More insidiously, these technologies, in their many protean purposes, have the capacity to undermine individuals' trust in a stable social order — in the belief that people are who they say they are or that as inhabitants of a single country, we all share a set of fundamental beliefs and a baseline reality.
In Lamas, he'll face one of the division's top wrestlers; a protean athlete who backs up his wrestling chops with a growing arsenal of submissions and an ever-diversifying stand-up attack; a competitor with wins over top-flight foes like Cub Swanson, Erik Koch, Dennis Bermudez, and most recently Diego Sanchez.
Today, she is a striking figure to rediscover and embrace — a prolific, protean talent, with over 30 films to her name, and, at a time of heated discussion over the discrimination against women in the film industry, a reminder that such prejudice can hide behind prestigious titles, as veiled as it is systemic.
Three of the set's films, "David Golder" (22006), skillfully adapted from Irène Némirovsky's precocious best seller; "Poil de Carotte" ("Redhead," 193), a sensitive story of an unloved child; and "La Tête d'Un Homme" ("A Man's Head," 219), an atmospheric policier based on one of Georges Simenon's early Inspector Maigret novels, all starring the protean, unglamorous Harry Baur, are exceptional.
No team in the league won more games during the '01-02 and '02-03 seasons, and no team won them more wonderfully; in a league that was still bogged down in grunty, old-fashioned stylistics, the Kings played a fast, protean, unselfish style of basketball that seemed somehow to have more basketball in it than any other team's.
It came to pass, in New York, with "Monogram" (21966-269)—goat, tire, and also paint, paper, fabric, printed matter, metal, wood, shoe heel, and tennis ball—which is now on view at the Museum of Modern Art, in "Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends," an immense retrospective of the protean artist, who died in 29, at the age of eighty-two.
The young dealer Mike Egan has piloted this enigmatic, protean gallery through a choppy decade for both art and real estate, and presented its ambitious exhibitions in a crumbling basement, an Upper East Side penthouse, a cave in Puerto Rico — and, now, a 17,000-square-foot warehouse floor in industrial Bushwick, Brooklyn, with a view of both refulgent skyscrapers and an infernal scrap-metal recycling plant.
Some of the artifacts in the collection display other sides of Mr. Hoffman's protean personality: a sober term paper he wrote at Brandeis University about "Internal Group Conflict in the Jewish Community of Worcester, Massachusetts," for which he received an A grade; a stub of a $150 ticket to Madison Square Garden for the 1971 so- called Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali; several letters defending his authorship of "Steal This Book" in the face of charges from an East Village buddy that he had stolen the text from him.
Starting with the large figurative fresco and related drawings from 1916, to the cacophonous street scenes he did while living in New York, to his toys and small notched, abstract figures with rearrangeable parts, to his collages and one-of-kind books, to the painted wooden constructions he did from the 1920s until the end of his life, and the eclectic works of his last decade, the viewer realizes that Torres- García was a protean artist who conflated his religious beliefs with the idea that art was a universal language understandable to anyone.
The moment I keep returning to comes toward the end of the collection, in a poem called "Prying," where words detonate, one after the other: your life depends on what says the disappearing air, the dis- appearing vein, surveil me here, in solitary, entertain me mise-en-scène, hear me chain of command, touch me, stain-free middle class American female subject starting downtown on the drip line, on the gleaming staff of this protean sentinel, its silver rod held up, torchful of forgetfulness, streaming, translucent, give me your mass, your teeming cell-dividing mass—give me your poverty, your every breath is screened, your every cell We find the speaker once more in the middle of her treatment, this time with drugs in her veins.
But while those protean figures are experiencing a renaissance in the public imagination, their works have, in fact, ossified or become commercialized — in New Mexico, De Maria's "The Lightning Field" (1977), consisting of 400 sharpened steel poles, is run by the Dia Art Foundation as a sleepover site; Heizer's "City," begun in 1972 as a mile-and-a-half-long excavation set to be one of the largest sculptures ever made, won't be visitable or photographable until at least 303; "Spiral Jetty," the mammoth pinwheel of mud, salt and rock that Smithson finished in 1970, has spent most of its existence underwater — whereas Zittel's experiment has, since she conceived it, moved from the theoretical to the vividly animated in a way that few utopian art projects ever do.

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