His name is Mark Rothko, and I think you'll find his remarks about the way the art world is going provocative - even though he made them, in a speech accepting an honorary doctorate from Yale University, in 1969.
It went from provocative to disrespectful of any international boundary".
The VMAs have gone from provocative and shambolic in the 80s and 90s to a cloyingly sweet, backslapping circle jerk, so Minaj's sore-loser honesty felt refreshing.
Time will tell whether these types of studies establish worth that goes beyond provocative one-offs.
"I am proud to have been a young communist, but when you aspire to be president of a country like Spain, you have to let go of certain provocative attitudes," he said Sunday night in a television interview.
Behind the scenes is more difficult, we forced a bulge in the pipeline and that is always going to be provocative, but without being provocative you don't create change".
In a 50-year span, the 94 African-American photographers whose provocative works go on view on Friday at the Brooklyn Museum of Art have used their cameras as instruments of social commentary and artistic exploration.
While Johnson's judgments are often provocative and go against the grain — the rough treatment of Franklin Roosevelt is one of several hundred examples — this audacious book is a magnificent achievement.
Kramer's provocative statements go a long way toward shaking us out of our complacency.
Appearing in skits with the pair or without then, Huffman, Burns and Barber vivaciously go about their comically provocative business.
