as in assortments
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
my scrapbook is just a collage of articles, pictures, cartoons, and observations that I have deemed worth saving
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Recent Examples of collages
New designs are layered on top of old, creating accidental collages between eras.
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Clio Chang,
Curbed,
22 June 2026
Hockney’s paintings and drawings, as well as his later photo collages and digital works, invariably had a playful, exploratory, interrogative relationship with perspective, light, scale, framing, rendering—the basic components of picture-making.
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Mark Rozzo,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
In the 1980s, Hockney would embrace Polaroid collages and would later use an iPad to create a series of digital paintings.
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Alex Ritman,
Variety,
12 June 2026
In the ’80s came his extraordinary multi-image photographic collages of friends including Isherwood and Bachardy and such landmarks as the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Canyon and Pearblossom Highway.
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Barbara Isenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
Quotidian sounds such as traffic, bleeping devices, or pop music overheard in crowded spaces make up much of the source material for her expansive sound collages.
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Levi Dayan,
Pitchfork,
9 June 2026
Since the early 1960s, her drawings, watercolors, acrylics, and collages have run like scenic byways along the whooshing turnpike of contemporary art.
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Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
The exhibition’s denim collages — cacti, mountains, fences, car keys — frame AI as the latest version of an old American sales pitch.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
26 May 2026
There will also be talks and children’s workshops, jewelry and accessories label Le Monde Béryl, and artist Kathryn Maple, who will work on collages inspired by London’s green spaces.
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Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
22 May 2026
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
22 June 2026
Hockney’s paintings and drawings, as well as his later photo collages and digital works, invariably had a playful, exploratory, interrogative relationship with perspective, light, scale, framing, rendering—the basic components of picture-making.
—
Mark Rozzo,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
In the 1980s, Hockney would embrace Polaroid collages and would later use an iPad to create a series of digital paintings.
—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
12 June 2026
In the ’80s came his extraordinary multi-image photographic collages of friends including Isherwood and Bachardy and such landmarks as the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Canyon and Pearblossom Highway.
—
Barbara Isenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
Quotidian sounds such as traffic, bleeping devices, or pop music overheard in crowded spaces make up much of the source material for her expansive sound collages.
—
Levi Dayan,
Pitchfork,
9 June 2026
Since the early 1960s, her drawings, watercolors, acrylics, and collages have run like scenic byways along the whooshing turnpike of contemporary art.
—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
The exhibition’s denim collages — cacti, mountains, fences, car keys — frame AI as the latest version of an old American sales pitch.
—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
26 May 2026
There will also be talks and children’s workshops, jewelry and accessories label Le Monde Béryl, and artist Kathryn Maple, who will work on collages inspired by London’s green spaces.
—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
22 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collages
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Where assortments were once strongly driven by trends, today the starting point is the customer.
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The assortments give shoppers a chance to try several scent profiles without committing to one full-size luxury bottle.
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
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The wines nod to both Rhône and Bordeaux varieties grown across three estate vineyards in the Rocks District and Yakima Valley, with room for quirks such as Picpoul and the Portuguese Tinta Cão that grow almost nowhere else in the country.
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The bakery will offer more than 150 varieties of breads, pastries and desserts.
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Lowlights included uninspiring medleys.
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For the elder millennials, the bittersweet spot was the medleys of older Kanye cuts released from 2004 to 2016 (think The College Dropout to The Life of Pablo).
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The future montages of these incredible, come-from-behind Knicks will show the players who became household names and the celebrities who could afford to sit courtside at MSG or fly to San Antonio.
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Eleanor Williams portrayed Rachel Nickell in the flashback moments and montages about her tragic murder.
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The result is that the females—suddenly surrounded by, say, five litters of newborn pups—have no idea whose kids are whose.
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Supporters argue the policy would help address the root of the problem by preventing unwanted litters and reducing the number of animals that end up back on the streets.
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Instead, we were greeted by patchworks in which trees that had perished and trees that had been only partially burned commingled with those that appeared completely untouched.
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There are a few patchworks, a few mistakes, and this is what this body’s showing.
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