Consider three totems of Republican politics: God, guns and grit.
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But what if these totems of negativity could be erased?
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It's knowing culture, totems, countries, and skin names — all in Marra.
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Totems and bones and skulls leer from the nooks between branches.
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Good luck totems can carry a skater only so far, though.
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They are corporeal, but also metaphysical — totems for resistance and transcendence.
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Yet those cultural totems sustain them, easing a separation that spans decades.
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In her practice, Urrea examines symbols and totems prevalent in Latino communities.
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But I keep a few actual books on the nightstand as comforting totems.
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Be it his abstract totems or his kings, their expressions are hauntingly bereaved.
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To fight this time demon, the Legends need to track down six magical totems.
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At the climax of the rite, altars, stages and giant totems were set ablaze.
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But distraction from the totems of news is the essence of an autocrat's survival.
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We were there with lobsters and whales and the totems of the preppy experience.
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Does Sony really need brand totems so badly that it would continue to tolerate losses?
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You can count such transcendent wardrobe totems on one hand: the Sans-culottes, the Brownshirts.
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There were no lip brooches or skeleton dresses; none of the totems Elsa made famous.
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What divides here in Northern Ireland is culture and identity, the two totems of populism.
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There were no lip brooches or skeleton dresses; none of the totems Elsa made famous.
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Dixon, and DJs of his ilk, are totems of cultural conservatism—safe choices for safe people.
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It's a New World but the people carried their totems and tokens along as they came.
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Yet on closer inspection, I saw that they had zeroed in on certain totems of power.
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Our totems, our songlines, our sacred ceremony sites that remain ... our very existence is under threat.
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We asked attendees for their opinion on the Her Forest campground and scouted the most creative totems.
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Every once in a while, there was a burst of color — wooden totems wrapped in colorful ribbons.
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The prevailing composition here is of two figure-like totems facing forward as if standing at attention.
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We cannot domesticate the otherness of Winkfield's images, what I have been calling his totems and personnages.
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Celine's has been fuzzier than most, granted — it doesn't have the same logo totems or design iconography.
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In other parts of the novel she focuses on objects, totems of usage and one's habitual applications.
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These goddess figures, sometimes colored with gold leaf and stoneware, resemble ancient totems from a matriarchal civilization.
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The Immigrant Yarn Project, a fiber arts collective, crafts and sells knitted totems to benefit immigration aid organizations.
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There was a lot of playing somebody else's serious cultural totems [that are] dear to them for laughs.
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As two people who were born in the mid-80s, what's your understanding of the decade's cultural totems?
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That style has returned again, and by coincidence or inevitability, so have many other style totems of Mrs.
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As totems of wealth and power, Mr. Pul's installation had all the showiness of a typical Indian politician.
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Photographs of gleaming ice samples from various depths and ages are installed like totems on the gallery walls.
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It's designed to look like a lodge in Namibia, with incongruous African totems overlooking meadows, wildflowers and mountains.
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Quentin Tarantino's film is filled with references to TV shows, movies and other totems of midcentury Los Angeles.
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Most tribes just have what are called guides, totems, messengers, or in the case of my tribe, gods.
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It speaks to an emptiness in their lives; they're using these totems to try and feel more alive.
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Many trans people, like me, hold on to their surgery scars as totems of their travel and accomplishments.
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And on the county's outskirts, apartment blocks stand empty, totems to the debt that looms over China's financial system.
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These images are matter-of-fact, and to a modern viewer they may feel like totems of the 1940s.
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We pause in front of African totems for stretches and a Medieval suit of armor for the lunge portion.
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As with women in the real world, the characters' nails are totems they can use to signify their personalities.
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The black, green, violet, and yellow bands bordering the rectangles frame the totems as well as underscore their separateness.
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I am also reminded of the private symbolism of David Smith's totems and the imaginary worlds of Odilon Redon.
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Unexpectedly NYRB books, which sell for around $15 apiece, have also become design objects and totems of intellectual status.
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In every European city, there are cafés, bars, and restaurants that stand as totems to a youthful cosmopolitan dream.
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They are fascinating figures, hushed totems of solitude, but also of a strangely introverted kind of deep, deep joy.
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Rawlings said he personally finds the monuments to be "dangerous totems," but a task force would ensure a productive conversation.
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But the colorful pigment prints of Pearlman's totems reflect the life rather than the death of those whom they commemorate.
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And whereas Britain's first generation of towers became synonymous with poverty, many of the new ones are totems of wealth.
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My Twitter feed will become less scannable as huge blocks of text stand like totems among shorter, more pithy tweets.
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Mr. Thomas, who was trained as a photographer, has diversified into artistic forms like African tribal quilts, totems and sculptures.
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Those posts were intended to be totems of triumph, emblems of the new life that his music was affording him.
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To boot, there have also been plenty of totems — platinum hair, a golden plátano and a Mensch on a Bench.
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Adorned with tiki umbrellas, pineapple chunks, and festive straws, drinks are served in mugs shaped like skulls or glaring totems.
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That Evangelion simultaneously holds such antipathy toward otaku culture and is one of its greatest totems is a strangely fitting irony.
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Voters don't care about deficits as anything other than culture-war totems; they care how they and their communities are faring.
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Now that these monuments have become totems for a resurgent white nationalist movement, the case for their removal is more urgent.
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As the sixties unfolded, Sottsass became fascinated with totems of various kinds and began creating large sculptures comprised of ceramic cylinders.
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The chairs he is amassing in Jody's store belonged to people who just died; they are totems of snuffed-out lives.
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To hammer the point home, the Obamas will fill the seats tonight with totems of the president's progressive principles and accomplishments.
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Related: Giant Fluorescent Totems Rise in the Nevada Desert Land Art Animations Piece Life Itself Together The Healing Scars of Land Art
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Funds raised by the sale of IYP totems will benefit RAICES and IRC, organizations that provide invaluable legal aid and free resources.
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It's no surprise then, really, that the life and times of David Bowie have been honored with one of the blue totems.
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These totems serve useful purposes, but they do not convey anything literal about 9/11, the Iraq war, Katrina, or anything else.
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Totems to either side frame the scene: a tall nude on his far left and a faceless grandfather clock to his right.
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The wailing figure from Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," itself long ago turned to dust, appears on sporadic signs near these totems.
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The recent 2009 Pollock exhibition in Paris at the Pinacothèque pushed this shamanistic connection by hanging his paintings beside American indian totems.
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The animals stare at us across the glassy, mirroring water; the bears, especially, up on their hind legs, resemble silent, accusing totems.
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In Dallas, Mayor Mike Rawlings described the city's Confederate statues as "dangerous totems" and asked the City Council to settle their fate.
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And here, at once, are the two totems of this book, the wonder of the literary imagination and the authority of fact.
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But placed tightly together, Birnbaum reliquaries more so resemble a dense copse of naked trees or a group of stark, monotone totems.
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On exhibit are two bodies of work: funky, rough-hewn totems composed of driftwood, textiles, nails, feathers, and odd Joseph Cornell-like constructions.
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Aw. A regular feature in the forest, totems like these inviting wandering spirits to join them are always a welcome and heartwarming sight.
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Here, Shechet wedged her scrumptiously glazed ceramics into blocks of wood, between concrete tablets, or atop one another to build seemingly precarious totems.
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Exhuming old cultural totems is risky: Overdo the nostalgia, and it becomes cloying; ignore the show's legacy, and core fans might rebuke it.
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All these aerodynamic metal-and-glass structures presented before us are sculptures, totems dedicated to an irrational pursuit of unique performance, speed, and aesthetics.
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So far, 15 shoe shops in Europe have Totems installed, and he expects the devices to be in several hundred stores in China soon.
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The toys were considered totems of protection and sympathy in grief, such as the black bear produced in 1912 to memorialize the Titanic's victims.
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And it has particularly resonated among men for whom the observance offers totems of heroic masculinity in lives that might not otherwise incorporate it.
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"A lot of them are advertising totems with a telephone handset on it," said John Walker, the director of planning for Westminster City Council.
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There isn't much explanation for their meaning alongside the less conceptual passports, but they feel like totems of the same optimism driving that project.
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Unaffiliated with a political party, Sisi draws his authority from the totems of the state — generals, judges and security chiefs — who are increasingly powerful.
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They were quarried and skillfully carved out of a porous volcanic rock called toba, beginning around A.D. 1000, to serve as sacred ancestral totems.
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The current media climate has felled such publications while chasing others — including my twin totems, Spin and The Village Voice — into web-only purgatory.
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Next, she turned to images she clipped from magazines, showing totems of war: fighter jets, atomic explosions, a view of Hiroshima after the bomb.
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The same discomfiting sensuality can be applied to the freestanding totems, each of which embodies a different take on the casual defiance of gravity.
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We meet, again, hardscrabble poor folk and ambitious politicians; we find, again, creepy totems left at the crime scene and intimations of the occult.
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Like totems portraying moments of crisis, expressions of anguish and defeat are carved into oval shapes with a palette knife alongside heads with horns.
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But the difference between their understanding of it and Indonesia's lies in contrasting practices and assimilation of local spirits, demons, magics, totems, and so on.
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Made of repeated units superimposed onto a vertical spine, as in "Untitled" (1955), the asymmetrical, segmented forms are inspired by insects, machine parts, and totems.
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Sometimes, I leave her on while I edit — if she can make the tough calls, then so can I. Writers need their totems, their altars.
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It was a down-market counterpart to her 21968 work "The Kennedy Family," which made the first family look like a set of tribal totems.
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Together, the works repurpose old objects, present new totems and geometric forms, and ultimately reveal the enormous diversity of ways to work in sculpture today.
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They stand as timeless totems of quality while the rush of existence moves past them, and even when context has eroded away entirely, they remain.
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Related: Exploring Yugoslavia's Mysterious Abandoned Brutalist Monuments Monumental Totems for the Modern Pagan A 45-Ton Sculpture of Kafka's Head Is Glitching Out in Prague
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This may be a great advancement in museum practice, a way to open up the fetid atmosphere of too many glass vitrines and enshrined totems.
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The sculptural pieces have a reverent aspect — some by allusion, suggesting totems and altars; others literally, for instance a medicine bundle with sage and tobacco.
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They also demonstrate his ability to make the most everyday plant appear alien, as in a photograph of three chestnut twigs arranged like gnarled totems.
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Mr. Kim Sok, the commentator, said the sticky-rice cake and other monumental totems of power were depressing reminders of Mr. Hun Sen's authoritarian reach.
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That calls for a subconscious exercise: She sketches "totems," which stem from "a primitive stage of the mind, something that's fluid and rapid," she says.
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Vought and Barrett are certainly not the only nominees awaiting confirmation, but their nominations have become totems for the anti-religious crusade of the left.
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Maybe he had accepted that he could not emulate Seve Ballesteros and José María Olazábal, his country's golfing totems—each of whom won the Masters twice.
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Rarely has the world been as gripped by chess as it was that year: Fischer and Spassky were seen as intellectual totems of their respective superpowers.
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On the adjacent wall are arranged four "totems," all from 1983 — not carvings but salvaged wood pieces painted over in bright acrylic colors evoking cartoon strips.
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His résumé included ambitious art-rock totems, easy listening schmaltz, TV theme songs, incendiary folk-rock, Phil Spector's "wall of sound" and Steely Dan's smooth softscapes.
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The company has a large booth with a variety of "totems"—their word—each of which advertised various Microsoft or partner products on a big screen.
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And while Trump spent an interminable amount of time complaining about unfavorable media coverage, he paid barely any attention to some of the totems of modern conservatism.
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Because Trump rose to power as Obama's antithesis, their respective regimes will be held up against one another as totems of competing visions of the country's future.
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Related: Spooky Drawings of a Monster Photographer | Monday Insta Illustrator Illustrator Jose Mertz Revives Monsters from Japanese Mythology Creepy Totems Drawn from Normal Objects | Monday Insta Illustrator
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As you look at these ambiguous figures — which may be humans, animals, hallucinations, or magical totems, their genders and number unclear — they look at you, stridently so.
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From futuristic, levitating digital sculptures by Admiral Potato to Phoenixpen's crocheted tree facsmile and Will Kim's low-fi illustration, here are totems of holiday cheer that live forever.
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Cope dedicates these totems to the memory of his neighbor and neighbor's mother, and documents the power of the objects' excavation in a video that accompanies the installation.
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Salmon are totems of the sport: Like the paddleboarders, they fight the current to get to their finish line and breach the water in a burst of energy.
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As has now become an annual tradition, we traversed some seriously trippy terrain in search of the most magical, memorable and downright ridiculous totems from throughout the weekend.
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But we hear his name again and again: Brenton Butler, which hangs over the story like others — Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray — that have become totems and rallying cries.
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These days, designers making reference to hustlers and showgirls tend to equate the totems of the trade as expressions of self-assurance — a kinky variation on power dressing.
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All boats are totems of self-sufficiency; the superyacht might be a billionaire's way of convincing himself that he is alone in both his labor and his leisure.
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Like her interchangeable sculptures, these futuristic concepts or indigenous traditions are pieced together to create new totems of meaning, and in the process, offer alternative pathways to connection.
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In the midst of Cope's phenomenological studies stand two totems: sculptural pieces that stack items found within the home of a recently deceased neighbor and friend to the artist.
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Themerson maintained her focused on illustrating the human world, but these later paintings are much more cryptic, stitching together features so they overlap, or stacking them like eccentric totems.
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As Mukherjee's confidence and skill with fiber grew, her works crept off the walls and began to stand as totems, usually affixed to the ceiling to keep them upright.
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The images take the viewer on a outlandish journey featuring flying turtles in fedoras, strange totems, rocky, fiery, landscapes shaped like guitars, and more bizarre creatures, also in hats.
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Especially for an election year, there were surprisingly few politically-charged totems; it would seem most attendees were happy to abandon America's civic circus sideshow for a few days.
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"Bill's frogs were totems or talismans that he believed brought him luck," said Martha Montello, his friend and a lecturer at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School.
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Mr. Proana's home is packed with cherished totems from a bygone era — racks of sneakers, Bolt Thrower patches, rare Demolition Hammer T-shirts — that spill over into his shop.
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For the Met, though, he has shifted gears to remix the museum's own collection, absorbing well-known objects from the galleries downstairs into mashed-up totems and table displays.
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A grove of Sottsass's looming ceramic totems, built from cylinders glazed in many colors, are in a gallery painted marigold yellow, alongside tiny Indian stupas with similarly stacked structures.
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Totems, are, of course, still part of some Native American tribes' ceremony and belief, and I'm not trying to make light of that by suggesting we adopt a similar idea.
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A horse that might still be kicking 1,000 miles away, some mountains that I can't picture anymore, and a yearly package of customized return labels are not exactly powerful totems.
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It should be said: Yes, the song faded out before its third verse, the one that bad-mouths Elvis Presley and John Wayne, still-sacred totems of white American virility.
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Strange totems, like a talismanic horseshoe McKay clutches for dear life, come and go, and a psychiatric hospital with the calming name of Lavender Memorial might be anything but therapeutic.
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Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia's playful, yarn-wrapped totems juxtaposed with Masami Teraoka's Hieronymus Bosch-like triptych, "Hideous Ugliest Orange Toad's Last Bolero/Viagra Falls," to create a vibrant if deceivingly sinister scene.
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A more modern design by LA-based landscape architect James Dinh centers on five triangular, translucent totems to be etched with terms like "sacrifice" and "valor," which will illuminate at night.
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Subs often have to earn dignified totems or positions from their doms, like a collar or patch, but with chastity, the dom has to earn the responsibility of holding my key.
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" She says her business is a social enterprise that "creates Bhutanese fine fashion, classic designs, bespoke pieces and Buddhist totems" and hopes to "make a meaningful and sustainable impact in Bhutan.
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We're witnessing the beginning of this as Facebook in particular and social media in general move to emphasize fleeting experiential content like Live Video over more solid, static totems like photographs.
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Likewise, the intertwining of shelter, historical record, kinship marker, and ornamentation that actual, situated totems signify is alien to most modern and contemporary western art practices — and it remains alien here.
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The motifs in Akinnagbe's chairs, as in Shonibare's work, are potent: They're icons of pride, if you assume they're domestic products, or totems of postcolonial globalization, if you recognize they're not.
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The commercial genius is to create totems for it and, in the process, democratize what we historically called "luxury goods," a phrase too haute and hoary for the party he's throwing.
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" But he also understood the danger lurking in this hip racism, that "after a while this casual, even ironic embrace of the totems of bigotry crosses over into the real poison.
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Speaking of trash-to-treasure, Cholnoky's work pairs beautifully with Mitch Cope's Garbage Totems: Zen and the Art of Garbage Hunting and the Protectors of the Refuse, in David Klein's second gallery.
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While people have been wearing these ancient symbols and motifs since the beginning of time, the totems are seeing even more popularity this season — let us offer the mythological Ouroboros as proof.
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Look at his social media presence, and you'll see the totems of his pursuit: Rihanna, Mariah, the woman from a Hooters on Peachtree, who he doomed to a brief period of notoriety.
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WM: Right, because I think so much of what we're talking about is the ways in which identity are bound up in totems of, of nationhood, but then by extension, also selfhood.
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Santangelo found additional sculptures buried among the boxes, including some work that now sits in his living room, totems of a great cultural movement and the grubby glory that was Greenwich Village.
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Both artists provide a sense of dimensionality, an almost inhabitable space, employing strategies used by the Surrealists — painted illusions, inexplicable totems, shifting landscapes — to construct and then disrupt a sense of identifiable place.
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Her work is an ethereal backdrop for a brigade of stark-elegant bronze and carved wood totems — one is titled "Depression Woman" — by Louise Bourgeois, who had her first museum retrospective at 71.
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What art cars are to Burning Man, totems are to Electric Forest, which took place June 23-26 in Rothbury, Michigan, and featured headliners like Bassnectar, Major Lazer, and The String Cheese Incident.
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"The Theater of Disappearance," as the rooftop project is called, features seven vertical sculptures, all uniform black, which unite multiple figures — Met statues in some cases, human models in others — into bizarre totems.
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As much as we venerate our totems and the pasts they are linked to, sometimes, as Rakim says, we also need to kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, and then jet.
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Spaces like Seiwa Market are simultaneously totems of our current dystopia; where, a couple hundred miles south, hundreds of families have been separated and detained for no other reason than their point of origin.
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The totems vary in palette, technique, and content, but all of them formulate yarn-based work into roughly columnar form, collectively creating a bright forest bristling with the industrious handiwork of hundreds of contributors.
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On the National Register of Historic Places, Pasaquan's treasures include six major structures, more than 900 feet of masonry fence, painted totems, sculptures and more—all bearing artwork St. EOM created over 30 years.
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Entering "Voyeur Voyager Forager Forester," Birnbaum's installation of 16 of these totems at Denny Gallery on the Lower East Side is intended to feel, then, a bit like walking into a dense, humming forest.
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For a very different but no less stellar display of clay, visit Geary Contemporary's booth, where the powerful and prickly totems and tangles of glazed ceramics by Heidi Lau are a delight to behold.
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At last fall's London Design Fair, she presented pastel-colored totems made of Jesmonite — a composite substance made from gypsum powder and acrylic resin — and five species of lichen embedded directly onto their surfaces.
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By concentrating on the decorative arts, the monstrous vases and the whittled totems, the Art Institute's show starts to map an approach to contemporary studies of Gauguin that goes beyond that balance-sheet rundown.
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In most cases she depicted these women upright, flattened out into simple two-dimensional totems, and relied on color — especially runny reds and pinks, which stain the paper like blood — to provide the jolts.
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There is as much affection for found totems of saccharine girlhood as there is anger or rejection, as much unsatisfied yearning in her distorted images of conventional femininity as there is trauma or shock.
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Like Ms. Di Santo, many designers abandoned the provocative cutouts, plummeting necklines and transparencies they once favored for high collars, covered arms, bodice-concealing wraps, hooded capes, gloves and other totems of bridal decorum.
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In this engagement — inspired by the music of John Coltrane, one of his primary totems — he'll lead a working quartet with the guitarist Paul Bollenback, the bassist James King and the drummer Francisco Mela.
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Kari Cholnoky: Semi Lucid Steaks and Mitch Cope:Garbage Totems: Zen and the Art of Garbage Hunting and the Protectors of the Refuse continue at David Klein Gallery (1520 Washington Blvd, Detroit, Mich.) through March 12.
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But I think the idea of how women operate in this society — going to Las Vegas, which is like the apotheosis of the pornified universe, you see these totems of objectified women on their knees.
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Five of the totems that comprised the Menhir, Ziggurat, Stupas, Hydrants, and Gas Pumps (1965–66) project (first exhibited at Galleria Sperone in 1967) are shown in a group, inside an egg yolk–yellow room.
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Including the totems, Zana's collection consists of some 30 Sottsass works, ranging from late '90s pieces — including a spittoon-shaped brass vase, unexpectedly sliced flat on one side — to rare 1960s and '70s prototype ceramics.
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He embraces, and propagates, the idea that fashion is not about clothes, but rather totems of community, and that the uniforms of various youth subcultures have a legitimate place in the temple of the elite.
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When even Vaquera, the outsider brand that's a dab hand at messing with the twin totems of authority and the everyday, suddenly starts playing around with banker striped shirting, you know something is going on.
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"Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology" (1981), which she edited, traced the emergence of the field from its beginnings at the American Museum of Natural History in the late 19th century.
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The allusion to totems, though, is particularly fitting as Voyeur Voyager Forager Forester feels like a tribute to the refrigerator of yesteryear and the cheesy design aesthetics now replaced with modern, sleek exteriors and interiors.
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A certain amount of self-reflection as he recovered reinforced Sottsass's feeling that his objects—perhaps all designed objects—should contribute to a symbolism perhaps lacking in western society; in other words, they should be totems.
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As music festivals serve as a place where we can create the culture and cultivate the vibes we most deeply desire, totems are the symbols and taglines that dot the sky and help set their tone.
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"My affection for frames is not just aesthetic but as totems of a community of people I've been involved with since I was a kid, in junk stores, antique shops and flea markets," Mr. Rips said.
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The image of a black woman, heading to church or some other event, enveloped in her fine fur, remains one of the most enduring and affecting totems of resilience and glamour in the black urban landscape.
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These plastic totems are part of the city's multimillion-dollar campaign to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on landfills, and to turn food scraps and yard waste into compost and, soon, clean energy.
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Mr. Hood, a professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges upstate, found that totems of who belongs and who does not still exist, despite the diffusion of power and the blurring of class barriers.
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He grabs his "personal totems" from a messy pile on his desk, holding them in outstretched hands: a brass slug ("They are quite beautiful despite how people despise the poor creatures") and a frog ("I leap").
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There are statues for worship of Santa Muerte (the Saint of Death), or Malverde (the Saint of Narcos) as well as totems, potions, herbs, and dolls for the practice of Shamanism, Black Magic, or White Magic.
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Instead of synthesizing these disparate elements into things tidy and deliverable, however, felted ceramic totems (his Once upon a time there were human beings series) and the aforementioned steel sculptures ( We Have Agency) exalt their differences.
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An example: A hundred yards from my partner's new address, to my giddy delight, sat Schaller & Weber and Heidelberg Restaurant — side by side, the twin totems of what was once the mighty German-American stronghold of Yorkville.
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The work demands patient observation without surrendering to the grander works in the room, such as Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's "Neo Totems" (2018) or Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds's commissioned "Surviving Active Shooter Custer" (63).
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What forces have catapulted NME's fifth best track of 212 back into relevance above all other totems of the past, causing it to once again to reside among the most lucrative hundred songs of the moment in 249?
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From totems bearing the face of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to an actual owl trainer, we sent Toronto photographer EI to capture the sights and sounds of WayHome 2016, and she came back with the below images.
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Along with the "Demoiselles" and the Faith Ringgold, Ms. Temkin had requested a wooden sculpture from the early 1950s by Louise Bourgeois — a grouping of five totems, painted white and light blue, symbolizing the artist and her family.
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If your preferred holiday flavor is more dry Martini than eggnog, consider celebrating the season with the cabaret diva Meow Meow, who channels Ute Lemper, Édith Piaf, and other totems of jaded glamour in her mascara-heavy persona.
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BOOTH F4, PIER 90 Stacked ceramics by Eric Croes in the Focus section of the fair — which has a large number of African artists — suggest the totems and towering sculptures of art from various regions on that continent.
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Resembling the elongated faces of Native American totems and the childlike figures of the deities of Indian folk art, Mondal's rigorous, line-filled works reflect his obsessive interest in form and tendency to depict couples alone but together.
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Often made from found wood — carpentry tools alternate with wooden relica — those works are painted entirely black or white so their minutiae coalesce and, fully integrated, the objects ascend like postindustrial totems or statuary for a bygone religious sect.
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Macron's place in the government had become increasingly awkward after he repeatedly criticized left-wing totems like France's 35-hour work week and created his 'En Marche' (Forward) party in April, casting it as leaning neither left nor right.
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His most popular cabinet member, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, is a former investment banker who converted Hollande to supply-side economics and has openly attacked Socialist totems such as the 26-hour week and public sector jobs for life.
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If that sounds like it is skating across the surface — not the environmental initiatives, which are laudable, but the fashion interpretations of the national totems — that's also how it looked: polished, easy to wear, but lacking depth and soul.
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His totems and masks made with athletic wear are certainly his most famous work, but here it is accompanied by other fantastic creations (like the whale skeleton made of plastic chairs) that suggest a wider frame for his vision.
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But said cohesion might just as easily be explained by the way the movie uses familiar Star Wars totems like the Millennium Falcon, or Lando cheating at cards, or Chewie's yowl, as signposts along the road its story travels.
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Or, for that matter, than Krasinski's, as the actor deals in Americana as opposed to just America, in flags and farms and family values and threats being made against them, without acknowledging the degree to which these things are political totems.
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Now 25 of the Golden Gate Park totems are available for sale through the Immigrant Yarn Project website, to help raise funds for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
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"The Art of Tiki" exhibition, at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz, is showcasing everything from Tiki-style furniture and totems to modern art, based on cultural artifacts from Polynesia and Melanesia.
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For the album itself, I think he and his A&R discussed this idea of the general idea of him being like a mythological beast or entity, so we kind of came up with the idea of these little totems.
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Toogood, who began her career as a prop stylist at The World of Interiors before branching out on her own in 2008, wanted the flat to feel thoroughly English, but without leaning on familiar totems like club chairs and wood paneling.
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But they have the moral one, especially when their gesture is dignified, considered and silent (even if I also think it's mistaken); and when the N.F.L. has aggressively blurred the lines between its commercial interests and the totems of American patriotism.
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But those totems of normalcy disappeared this week, or seemed to, as Mr. Trump suddenly signaled troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan, Mr. Mattis resigned in protest, the federal government headed toward a shutdown and the stock market fell sharply.
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In one room, you can recline on a white beanbag-like chair, or roam the speakers set up against walls spiked with white-foam wedges, two tall totems of speakers at either end completing the dimensional sensation of the space.
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And while unions are at their weakest membership levels ever — representing just 8 percent of the work force — they can still thwart big changes to totems like the length of the workweek, or measures that would undermine their own power.
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Instead of waiting in line, you tap the device on digital totems at slide entrances; that holds your place in a "virtual queue" and you can sunbathe or swim or whatever until the device flashes that it's your turn to ride.
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Nataliya Chernakova, a Venice-based Russian artist who spent six months in Pietrasanta last year to learn the art of marble-carving alongside the artisans here, showed off lemon-shaped totems named "Her," each tipped with a nipple and labia.
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Aside from Post Malone in his pink suit covered in rhinestone stars and Leon Bridges in his custom-made mustard Bode covered in personal totems, the men, who have been peacocking their way through the Hollywood awards season, were relatively restrained.
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Whereas the original aim of the project was to create a beautiful and tangible representation of generational immigrant relationships, rendered in yarn, IYP is currently concerned with translating the totems into a resource that can offer material aid to assist immigrants in crisis.
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When my canine companion and I arrived, a group of tourists were taking selfies in front of the sunset, while a woman in a thick coat prayed, leaning her head against one of the totems that stand at the base of the rock.
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But the action of the collaborators is seen as part of an inevitable human comedy in which honor and dishonor, cowardice and courage—even erotic against empathetic love—are terms to be interrogated every day rather than to be blindly treated as totems.
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So integral, in fact, that even people who know Mellor's cutlery — his Sloane Square shop has been a fixture since it opened in 1969 — are unaware that the designer, who died in 2009, is responsible for many other quotidian totems as well.
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I've been a public defender, and If I were a poor kid rotting in a New Orleans jail and found out the Lee statue was down, I'd still prefer to have a real, adequate public defense to a city free of Confederate totems.
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Piccioli, who radiates a warm intelligence and quiet authority, is dressed in a black Valentino tracksuit, an item the designer, a dreamer described as passionate and simpatico by those who work with him, has turned into one of the brand's unlikely totems.
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In parallel fashion, van Gogh, working in sparsely populated regions of southern France, reconstitutes the French countryside into distinct, de-centered fields of color within which traces of human life are seamlessly integrated, so that even simple objects seem totems of art.
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The show was on vacation, but we came back early to talk about Charlottesville and why the violence there isn't surprising, what it means to remove totems of the American Confederacy and what a verbal apology from President Trump is really worth.
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Hollande's economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, a 38-year-old investment banker whose place in the government had become increasingly awkward after he repeatedly criticized left-wing totems such as the 35-hour working week, resigned last week, clearing the way for an anticipated presidential bid.
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Enthralled by their once-legendary great-uncle and the wonder of McDuck Manor, the triplets and Webby learn of long-kept family secrets and unleash totems from Scrooge's epic past, sending the family on an adventure of a lifetime to the Lost City of Atlantis.
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Also featured are more recent totems of New York wealth, like Richard Meier's ultramodern 173 and 176 Perry Street buildings (2002); Robert A.M. Stern's 7653 Central Park West, a limestone-clad crib for extreme capitalists (2008); and Rafael Viñoly's cloud-piercing 432 Park Avenue (2014).
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In "Genesis" (2009), the pioneering body artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge wears a necklace whose charms echo the hanging pendants and small totems in "Rainbow Altar (Spring into Summer)," from 2019, while one of her tattoos mirrors the placement of a dangling pink ribbon.
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And he had a very public falling-out with Calvin Klein management after two years over the way the ambitious direction of his designs — an attempt to redefine American sportswear with totems from Andy Warhol to the badlands of South Dakota — had disrupted sales.
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In "Lucy" (2011), Whitten creates a streamlined female version of earlier carved totems, undulating subtly with hips and waist and breasts of chiseled mulberry, combined with modern materials, like the bits of metal, wire, and glass that function like hair on the top of her head.
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The lack of interior walls and the frenetic quality of some of the pieces made for an overwhelming viewing experience, as Phyllida Barlow's brightly-colored timber and foam construction competes with Lara Schnitger's vaguely S&M-inspired totems and Abigail DeVille's plywood and debris installation, "Intersection" (2014).
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But like the vinyl reprints that became totems to Gen X-ers, all of this cultural action was retrospective: There were good things happening everywhere, but a certain story was now over, or being celebrated for its historical role, like the British craze for Dixieland jazz.
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Unwittingly (though the allusions to mass culture could be generously read as commentary on the loss of the sacred), these "totems" are located in the degradation of a community-based art form of the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw and Coast Salish peoples into mass produced tourist tchotchkes.
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The show, which was also one year shy of Missoni's 65th anniversary, was the first time the Italian label combined men's and women's styles, and it included recognizable totems of the brand including interpretations of its colorful zigzag pattern and lots of sparkly party-ready Lurex.
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Tung's son said his father appeared in a dream and told him he wanted his memorial to be "hilarious," according to CNN affiliate SET TV. The procession featured the dancers, traditional totems, drummers, imported luxury cars, and flag bearers -- an homage to the politician's apparent love of crowded places.
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Founded in 2017 by artist and activist Cindy Weil, the Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP) is a fiber arts collective that creates large-scale public totems from yarn-based squares, pompoms, and blankets collected from hundreds of immigrant makers who have come to the United States from around the world.
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Mr Macron and to a lesser extent Mrs Merkel will engage Mr Orban and Mr Salvini in swordfights over cultural totems such as the role of Islam in European society, as well as policy quandaries such as migration, the rule of law and the future of European integration.
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At 40 years old, Saar began her foray into assemblage — the aggregation of objects into the shrine, totems, and sculptures that she is best known for — after a visit to the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), where she first encountered the sculptures of Joseph Cornell.
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Reading John J. McKay's "Discovering the Mammoth," an unabridged version of the history Kolbert artfully condenses, one learns that for almost as long as they've been extinct, mammoths and their cousins have been to us figures of mystery, totems of the unknown and invitations to fantasize about the past.
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This is reflected by the flat-screen monitors in "YAMA," which show Warlpiri faces alongside the stickers, corporate totems, emoji, motifs, and templates that define our times: Angry Birds, Mario and Luigi, Michael Jackson, President Obama, the Eiffel Tower, snow at Christmas, a leopard, and a beach sunset with palm trees.
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When Mr. Galanos was given a career retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1997, his work was reviewed by art critics, a sign of how successfully he had bridged the gulf between the fine and applied arts in creating designs that demanded to be taken seriously as cultural totems.
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His eclectic references are also seen in his sculpture "Endless Column, 22 Totems" — with 22 painted resin soccer balls, stacked on top of each other and pointing toward the sky — which will be on display in the annual summer exhibit in Frieze Sculpture Park in Regent's Park in London through Sunday.
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The totems of the line are still rooted in almost-classic suiting and shirting, but never without a discreet signifier of willful rebellion: a pinstripe button-down's sleeve's hidden slashes, a pair of navy wool schoolboy shorts piped with leopard print; pleated black pants at once inflated, cropped and tapered.
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The occasion was the opening of "Future History," a collaborative exhibition by Virgil Abloh, the American designer behind Off-White, and Takashi Murakami, the Japanese fine artist whose menagerie of adorable cartoon monsters have become pop totems (and the guest stars on a best-selling line of Louis Vuitton accessories).
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And then there are the sort of cultural totems that I feel obliged to share with them, like that Picasso show, or Giacometti at the Guggenheim, where a part of me is hoping to implant a kind of "aha" moment that they might be able to recall years from now.
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This ground-breaking exhibition, curated by Katy Siegel and Kelly Baum, presented decades of never-seen-before sculptural works created in his summer studio in Crete, full of totems, guardian figures, icons, and memorial reliquaries made from carved wood, marble, stone, acrylic, fish bones, plastic credit cards, photos, handwritten letters, and random scraps.
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Located in a 20143th-century building at the top of Rue das Flores, where the city's gold and jewelry dealers have clustered for the past few hundred years, Traça is a laid-back spot decorated with the international totems of hipsterdom — wall-mounted antlers, hanging pendant lamps — that serves traditional comfort food.
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After all, the last time the financial world was so loudly derided — during the recession of 2008 and 2009 — there was a knock-on effect in the men's wear world, and certain obvious totems of Wall Street style (the broad, structured shoulders; the patterned ties; the Ferragamo shoes) fell out of favor.
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People have argued that the pop stars he skewered on his earlier albums were also soft targets, but Britney Spears and NSYNC were massive pop cultural totems at least on par with his level of fame, and at that point Em seemed to be in tune with the prevailing winds in American life.
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The fact that the basic agenda of the alt-right is making America a safe space for white men and that its major political activity is whining on the internet when someone disrespects its cultural totems are only two signs of many of how this crowd projects its own insecurities onto others.
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Wooden bowls of every shape and size — some made over the years by Mira's now adult children, others gifted by Nakashima devotees — form totems on the back of a baby grand piano, watched over by a bronze nude, "Following My Feet," sculpted in 2007 by the contemporary indigenous Tewa artist Roxanne Swentzell.
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Sarah Sze's expansive "Blueprint for a Landscape" unfolds across 96th Street, Chuck Closes's towering "Subway Portraits" loom over pedestrians at 863th Street, Vik Muniz's life-size figures stand like totems of New York diversity at 72nd Street, and Jean Shin delved into photographic archives to remember the demolished elevated tracks at 63rd Street.
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They hand-carved a 15-piece series of sculptural handles and pulls from African mahogany, cherry, ebony and black hyedua — one is fluted like a trumpet, while several others echo the undulating totems of Constantin Brancusi — and affixed a 10-inch set to a fridge that they paneled with black- and Bauhaus-red-colored Formica.
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In the 1980s, Sottsass' own design firm, Sottsass Associati, began releasing a Bitossi-produced line of totems, but the original 2 still stand as symbols of the designer's rebellion against the sober gestures of Modernism, as well as his idiosyncratic take on such progenitors as ancient Vedic diagrams and the Vienna Secessionist Josef Hoffmann.
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" The episode features a jaw-dropping list of baseball stars—Wade Boggs, Ken Griffey Jr., Ozzie Smith, Roger Clemens, Steve Sax, José Canseco, Don Mattingly, Darryl Strawberry, and Mike Scioscia (the latter six aren't in the HOF [though a cartoon character now is])—and fuses two irreplaceable totems of Americana: baseball and "The Simpsons.
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And as if they were closing an argument, there are other drawings that reiterate the artist's sculptural forms while adding a cast of characters — blue-suited men (Murphy, Robert, and the Apprentice, cited above), bandaged mummies, skull-topped totems, copulating dogs, and onanistic baboons, among others — who use those forms as a setting for often unpleasant acts.
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But the twist in the episode's final moments — in which Shelby first discovers a ring of scary, Blair Witch-y forest totems, then witnesses Bentley's band of woodland cultists doing some friendly neighborhood scalping (yes, scalping) — suggests that AHS season six will at the very least deliver on the over-the-top ridiculousness and boundary-pushing habits the show has become known for.
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Gemini, which is out today on LA's forward-thinking electronic label Alpha Pup and which you can stream in full below, is Martinez's most nuanced effort yet: a blissful fusion of indie guitar licks, dream-pop vocals, and bass-heavy R&B/house beats, in which the travails of love are hashed out and personal landmarks become totems for intimacy.
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Mr. Ratelle, 31, arrived in this country from Honduras at the age of 8, the product of a punishingly austere religious upbringing, he said, that allowed him little access to outsiders, to say nothing of the magazines, TV shows and other pop totems of the day, For him, the church, a Christian revivalist denomination called Branhamism, was an insulating fortress.
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A parade of silhouettes, and freestanding totems, introduce visitors to 75 individuals that influenced the city, including artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, anarchist Emma Goldman, writer and activist Wong Chin Foo, Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, founding father Alexander Hamilton, poet Walt Whitman, hip-hop artist Jay Z, and a beaver, whose fur made for a very significant industry in the colonial era.
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Mr. Margolies, who died on May 26, at 76, was considered the country's foremost photographer of vernacular architecture — the coffee shops shaped like coffeepots; the gas station shaped like a teapot (the Teapot Dome Service Station in Zillah, Wash.); and the motels shaped like all manner of things, from wigwams to zeppelins to railroad cars — that once stood as proud totems along America's blue highways.
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This massacre is addressed by Berlin-based artist Stephen G. Rhodes, who installed four sculptural poles around the park that harken to the shamanistic association of totems — a form of tribal medicine practice by, for example, a Fox medicine man who is, according to Sinacori, buried in an unmarked grave on Peach Island, a small Canadian island visible from the park's lookout on the river.
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In its broadly ambitious songwriting and reshuffling of black pop history, Dirty Computer takes recent acclaimed totems like Beyoncé's Lemonade (2016) and Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) as its model, but it won't join their ranks in the pop canon, partially because Monáe lacks those artists' star power, but also because the sweeping coercion of the consensus attached to those albums was a product of the Obama era.
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Lately, in my ongoing research about contemporary drawings, paintings, and sculptures that have been produced in various abstract modes, I've bucked up against artists who have carved boats out of large blocks of Styrofoam; hurled paint at sheets of clear acrylic; "drawn" with malleable, thick-gauge aluminum wire; carved totems from fallen tree trunks with chainsaws; conjured up monumental forms with little more than plain pencils on paper; or concocted mixed-media assemblages using everything from old candy boxes and shopping carts to toilet seats.
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One expects Karuizawa to look and feel the same as all the other villages on the route, but despite its totems of contemporary Japan — the tidy, utilitarian concrete train station; the ubiquitous bright-lit convenience stores selling ice cream and compression socks — it feels not of Japan, but of elsewhere: a pretty, bourgeois commuter's hamlet in central Europe or New England, the kind of place where a character in a John Cheever story might disembark on a Friday evening, his gray suit jacket folded over his arm.
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