Ms. Bitner resuscitates one of modern art's most hackneyed subjects: the circus.
Yes, it's a hackneyed phrase, but politics is the art of the possible.
I remember that at the time I rather rigidly thought that the marionettes conveyed a pronounced and hackneyed theatricality that repels rather than entices art audiences craving the avant-garde that Dennis struck me to be abandoning.
It wasn't good enough for RISD, and it's certainly not good enough for your stepfather, Aaron Segura, the beloved art critic who called the lilies diorama "hackneyed and juvenile".
And yet even the most beautifully art-directed of mothers can't escape the most hackneyed of subjects forever hovering over the stroller set.
But these barriers did exist for a purpose, and we're now seeing the tawdry result of their dissolution - for one, the use of art in advertising just makes the whole thing seem a bit hackneyed, a bit Mahler-on-the-Castrol ad.
Art critics, too, bemoaned what they called the hokey designs and the hackneyed puns in the titles.
It's a film that seemingly feels indebted to solve mysteries from both the original Alien film and Prometheus a film of hackneyed ideas in which the notion of exploring them is indistinguishable from the dubious art of "worldbuilding".
Hwang avoids the hackneyed ups and downs of most bio-plays, setting offhand scenes in Lee's martial-arts classes, or on a car ride during a location-scouting trip in India.
With its hackneyed story, stylish action and Hong Kong setting, Stranglehold is most reminiscent of the 2003 martial arts game Rise to Honor, which is exactly the kind of game this new entry turns out to be: pleasant and forgettable.
Like all great art, it is many-sided, and the preoccupation with the links between Wagner and Hitler has become hackneyed.
