And in my hometown of Chicago, there are students learning traditional Mexican art forms.
But as time passes such novelties become uncontroversial, and eventually some of them are elevated into art forms.
That said, I've also noticed that different art forms typically elicit different responses.
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One measure of its approach is that it develops all art forms - from Bollywood dancing to Greek tragedies.
"Film posters are one of the very few truly indigenous art forms of our country, " the property developer said.
Benanti: We're just trying to take two typically incongruous art forms and bring them together in a way that feels meaningful.
Eventually, the press led to all sorts of novel ways to present printed information, and even art forms such as the novel.
The alternative creative scenes in China are still young, they say, and China needs a greater history behind these art forms first.
As art forms, hip hop and video games are both very direct.
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In the 1930s it was chic to argue that America had produced two new art forms of its own: jazz and Walt Disney.
And I want you all to hear from people who have struggled, who have worked, who built up careers and art forms for themselves.
Then, they need to use other art forms: film, drama, literature.
However the spokesman stressed the chief purpose of the Royal Opera House remained "to increase awareness and enjoyment of the art forms that we specialise in".
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Africa by Africa, an exhibition of photography at the Barbican Art Gallery, leaves the visitor in little doubt of Africa's ability to assimilate supposedly western art forms.
But like comic book and animation aficionados who have seen their pet art forms taken over by cute, anthropomorphic animals, artificial intelligence geeks must be getting anxious.
Clothes with everyday designs are worn regularly in business and academic settings, while special varieties are incorporated into celebrations of marriage and pregnancy and into puppet theatre and other art forms.
Facebook business info page, on profile pages for networking organizations you belong to, on your printed bio, mentioned in press releases, added to resumes, and use them to make veritable art forms of Linkedin profiles.
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Before Mr Khatami's election, the government had frowned on innocent-seeming pleasures like the theatre, western music and novel-reading, fearing that such art forms would subvert the austere Islamic order established in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution 20 years ago.
It is telling that Pearson resists the impulse of true scholars and intellectuals to probe the cultural contexts and social meanings of art forms that demand the world's attention in the way hip hop has over the past quarter century.
All of us have some notion, whether we can articulate it or not, about just what it is that we look for in art that allows us to skip among art forms and genres and over the apparent contradictions in our taste.
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"The Arts Development Council did a survey on the audience and the programme numbers of different art forms, and Chinese opera is one of the most popular arts in Hong Kong, " said Louis Yu Kwok-lit, executive director, performing arts of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, who is planning the Bamboo Theatre festival.
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Art simply forms new shapes, fills new pedestals and finds new canvases.
Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.
The early 20th-century anti-art movement of Marcel Duchamp and Man-Ray rejected conventional forms, declared that art is dead and took a deliberately absurdist approach.
Generally speaking, copyright law protects forms of art, but not items that are predominantly functional, like shirts and pants.
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As we all know, marketers align themselves with popular entertainment (sponsoring shows with ads) and occasionally with forms of art.
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Underneath it all, however, the same spirit animates all forms of art.
They serve as functional items, not as forms of art, making it a lot harder to obtain a copyright law to protect them.
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