Sentence examples for passes for art from inspiring English sources
Directing "Amour": Michael Haneke's rigid and conspicuous precision passes for art; the subject passes for important.
In new books each updates favorite ideas, promotes a select few artists, mixes in autobiography and expresses contempt for most of what passes for art these days.
The "Gates" project and the Bush administration share a common trait: one passes for art and the other passes for politics.
But unruly, even annoying, though it is, "Black Romantic" willy-nilly offers up some persuasive art and raises genuine, important issues: why wouldn't some of what passes for art in Chelsea be interchangeable with what's here?
Annoying though it partly is, "Black Romantic" nevertheless willy-nilly offers up some persuasive art and raises genuine, important issues: why wouldn't some of what passes for art in Chelsea be interchangeable with what's here?
Much indecipherable prose of the sort that often passes for art criticism and analysis (see the show's catalog) has come to surround him, along with the attributes of celebrity.
I thought most of what passed for art in Gaza wasn't very good, truth be told, but quality seemed beside the point.
A very well-dressed, well-coiffed -- especially when it comes to the sideburns -- detective, played by Tommy Lee Jones, says, "I think it's really tragic that this is the kind of junk that's passing for art these days".
Amid all the nonsense, impostures, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in the 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity.
With the annual shows giving journalists and other writers a chance to take the yearly measure of artists, the first faint currents of what passed for art criticism began to emerge.
The predominant media are film and photography, with a preponderance of documents – newspaper cuttings, passport photographs, historic letters and even, in the case of the German pavilion, an entire edition of a Nigerian magazine reporting the recent election, every spread presented in glass cases as if this could possibly pass for art of any sort, let alone actual thought or imagination.
