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“The New Abnormal” had a handful of compact songs that channeled the band’s ultra-cool early influences—think arty garage-rock like the Velvet Underground, the Stooges and Television—but “Reality Awaits” leans into experimentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The maze of shadowy streets around the New York Stock Exchange has been rarely associated with elegant, arty escapes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
“Network Operations” is a little slice of the arty anarchy that defined Coachella’s early, pre-influencer era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
Last year they were seen in a rather arty black and white picture, showing them together as a family, but also with a style that owed something to an upmarket jeans advert.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
It changed owners a few years ago and now sells all kinds of arty things: pots, plates, clay animals.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Structurally and tonally, it’s a far cry from the crowd-pleasing American blockbusters of the 1980s, yet it is a box-office success and reflects that audiences were ready for artier movies as mainstream entertainment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
She says the success of artier efforts such as Hereditary, from studio A24, and crowd pleasers from horror specialists Blumhouse.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
Oldenburg’s first blaze of publicity came in the early ’60s, when a type of performance art called the Happening began to crop up in the artier precincts of Manhattan.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Just as “Easy Rider” offered an elevated, artier version of the illicit thrills in “The Wild Angels,” so “Race with the Devil” is like “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” but with a sublimely devilish twist.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2019
Unlike its artier French contemporary cinéma vérité, in which the filmmaker’s hand was always evident, direct-cinema filmmakers practiced a non-interventionist mode, in which the director was a fly on the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2019
Describing the "dirt in the face" burial scene as the most challenging part of the shoot, Stone added: "Was it the artiest thing I’ve done? I guess so."
From Reuters ● May 5, 2022
It was a double whammy unprecedented even for the artiest of art-pop groups.
From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018
In the artiest touch, English lyrics tumble across the screen as Vargas sings of loss, loneliness and solitude.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2017
The Royal Monceau is one of the artiest, having attracted guests from Maurice Chevalier to Ray Charles to Madonna since opening in 1928.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2011
John Frankenheimer's 1966 sci-fi psychodrama Seconds starring Rock Hudson, one of Hollywood's bleakest and artiest artefacts, was a perfect fit.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2011
