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arty

[ahr-tee] / ˈɑr ti /


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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

What obviously matters to Stewart is the totality of experience and “The Chronology of Water,” arty and naturalistic in equal measure, is no toe-dip into directing — it’s deep-end stuff from start to finish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

When I told his agent that it was a very short, tight shoot, his agent said, “There is no project too small or too arty for David.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

It has always seemed so arty to me.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

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

Gregory, however, says he understood Dickinson’s artier touches on a personal level.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

The premise is similar to the one of “Awake,” but “Toxic” is a lot artier than that woeful Netflix effort.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

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 with Sutcliffe, the artiest Beatle, that Kirchherr connected most deeply: the two soon became lovers and moved into a loft space in her mother’s house.

From The Guardian ● May 19, 2020

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




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