While anxiety and angst are often interchangeable, anxiety foregrounds a feeling of suffering (also present in angst), while angst foregrounds dissatisfaction, a complaint about the way the world is.

As if echoing that theme, this adaptation foregrounds transformations of a theatrical kind. Scurrying impishly around throughout the play, for instance, is a chorus of mischievous elfin beings ...

Rachel Cusk’s new novel, “Parade,” is an experiment that foregrounds theme, striking its notes — on gender, artmaking, motherhood, freedom, death — with force. Like a musical composition ...

For filmmaker Erica Tremblay, “Fancy Dance” has already achieved the highest of honors. After screening the film for an audience of Cayuga-language speakers in Toronto this past year, one of ...

Jie Shi, a current student and curatorial intern at the Smart Museum, co-curated a mini-exhibition, Signed and Sealed, which foregrounds “situations in which words and images interact with each other” ...

While this technique works primarily with wide-angle lenses, you can add foregrounds with either wide or telephoto lenses by using the compositional trick of “framing.” Framing is just what it ...

FOREGROUNDS like SAUGUS SERIES is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities The most visceral of these prints a rotating boulder occupying half of the screen over a slow ...

It’s been nearly a year since Amalie Bruun shook the metal world with M, her debut LP, and more importantly, her formal unmasking as the black-metal phenom Myrkur. Originally framed as a ...