arty
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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 film will have English-language subtitles, which Evans said was no longer "such a weird and arty thing".
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
The filmmaker’s 2015 debut feature, “The Witch,” was a landmark in elevated horror, and his remake of the original arty vampire movie, “Nosferatu,” arrives at Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
I guess you had to show you were smart before being allowed to take an "arty" course.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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
Jones created and wrote the series with the experimental playwright Tim Crouch, and it’s as if his character from the wonderful “Detectorists” had been dropped into a darker, artier sitcom.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020
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
Put one onstage and the artiest notions immediately dissolve into Instagram moments.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 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
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
