have artistic merit

But many feel that immigrant art makes a powerful statement and often has artistic merit.

Under very restricted conditions, some graffiti may have artistic merit.

Other critics concurred that the film had artistic merit. "

He estimates that about half have artistic merit, and in recent years he has had bad luck making more pictures.

I told them that this festival would have artistic merit, promote international amity and be good for the city."

Nor has it been about the music industry's discretion in honoring work that it believes to have artistic merit.

The design dated (I learned later) from a time in which every chirpsithtra tool had to have artistic merit.

Critics say some have artistic merit, but most are unappealing and even repulsive works of Socialist Realism.

He later argued in his own defense that his rat drawing of the South Korean president has artistic merits.

The Mapplethorpe exhibit evidently includes a number of nonpornographic photographs that do have artistic merit.

Ideology aside, Mr. Gillies said the winners would have projects that have artistic merit, not simply shock value.

But a few films have artistic merit even now, Rick Prelinger, a historian of nontheatrical films, said in a telephone interview yesterday.

In Mr. Russell's view, Mr. Addams's work had artistic merit, too.

In reality, it was only asked to decide whether the blueprint violated Spain's Law of Historical Patrimony and not whether it had artistic merit.

And Ms. Rau, like Mr. Rhodes, contends that the 1940's version has artistic merit of its own.

The work has also renewed a debate that started with performances of John Williams's score for "Star Wars" over whether a movie soundtrack can have artistic merit.

"Every product manufactured overseas that comes in a box can use this approach if their boxes are found to have artistic merit, and that has grave implications for consumers.

And does Ebert really trust the MPAA to distinguish between films that have artistic merit and those that don't?

Picasso was a conman - he would paint silly, childlike paintings and claim they had artistic merit, and foolish rich people would pay him a fortune for them.

Toplessness is less controversial in entertainment, fashion, and the arts than it is in society as a whole, especially when it is perceived to have artistic merit.

Doris O'Neil, then the director of the photographic collection, and the photography dealer Lee Witkin separated from the files photographs they deemed to have artistic merit.

In a letter to community services commissioner Donald M. Gordon, Drynan wrote: "I am sure that the statue has artistic merit and needs to be preserved.

Ottavio's designs, which combined multi-coloured zigzag, stripe, check and wave patterns in unexpected colour combinations, were highly influential, and were recognised as having artistic merit.

But in the clas sical music market, many of these discs are offered for sale as though they might be commercially viable, perhaps because many of them do have artistic merit.

Described as "England's answer to Guy Bourdin" and with influences including Helmut Newton, Lee's images have artistic merit, consistently showing high production values and a strong narrative.