Derek Buckner is a Brooklyn-based artist who draws his inspiration from the beauty within the seemingly banal settings of suburban houses and intersecting freeways.

But as directed with gentle precision by Joe Mantello, "Lillian" is mostly an immensely appealing work that finds an ordering poetry in the seemingly banal.

Choosing to focus on such seemingly banal and insignificant features, Zhang Enli does not make any grand statement to politics or immortality.

What follows is a staged impromptu puppet show for all ages that strives to reveal the potential for life in every seemingly banal object or job.

Larry Sultan's photographs of homes used for pornographic film sets are seemingly banal.

Nearby, I stared at a seemingly banal piece of jagged rock jutting up from the level wall.

But if new research is correct, this seemingly banal truth may also explain a long-running mystery: why small-capitalization value stocks tend to beat large-cap growth stocks.

Many of the paintings are tightly cropped studies of seemingly banal corners of suburbia.

Elmer does everything he can to not offend Rupert, but unwittingly fails at the simplest, seemingly banal tasks.

You have to pay attention to the subtle shifts, even seemingly banal ones, because they are a commentary on the times.