Trump plays on, in such exaggerated form it's cartoonish, the media's worst instincts ― its love of sensationalism, its desire for sound bites and its weakness for manufactured controversy.
The paintings depict images that comically and drolly make reference to human nature and everyday life, and they do this by playing on the visual forms of Op art (but, of course, with added tomfoolery).
As a clothing designer, for instance, Ayala creates pieces that investigate the role that clothes themselves play on the human form – as he puts it, "trying to understand the economies of the body itself and also its relation to space".
Mr. Wurtz plays on the endless suggestiveness of existing forms.
So from then on he plays with the form of the book, very successfully, to keep it buoyant, always finding different ways of boiling all the information down.
Launch from Earnse Point – at the northern end of Walney Island – on a flooding tide, and then gain sea-room, so you have the choice to either avoid or play on the surf that forms over Duddon Bar.
Time and again he takes enormous care over balance and colour, and the Bayreuth orchestra plays on top form for him.
These sculptures aren't nearly so good as Sarah Lucas's writhing, involuted plays on intestinal form, never mind Louise Bourgeois's carvings or, dare I say, the works of Moore himself.
New York did shit on the play, in the form of a disappointed New York Times review, which praised the minimalist, comic-inspired set design and dismissed everything else, describing the play's actors as "even more uncomfortable in their skins than the characters they portray".
And he chose the Handy song to play in a spangled, arpeggio-stuffed but still somehow relaxed Art Tatum style, to demonstrate how it is possible (as he put it) to play "fancy" on the blues form.
