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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

They were exotic — not merely English, but thanks to the influence of their arty German friends Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann, they were continental.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2024

"I was never really an arty person," he said.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2024

A prep school kid, a touch arty, wearing an old man’s suit and no doubt reading Camus or Kerouac.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Sound & Color,” which came out in 2015, was somewhat artier but met with even greater success, topping Billboard’s album chart and winning three Grammys.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

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

To date, it has involved a lot of leather in outsize blouson proportions and knitwear in clingier, artier forms.

From New York Times Feb. 18, 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

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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