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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
Ralphs’ songwriting and guitar work in that band helped move rock ‘n’ roll out of the psychedelic ‘60s and into the struts and arty pomp of ‘70s glam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
At arty moment the UN vehicle would come, and I would have to leave him.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
Rob, you’ve spent the past decade working with directors like David Cronenberg, Claire Denis and the Safdie brothers on smaller, artier films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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
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
