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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Pricey Johns
You tell us: Is the art world out of control or not? From Friday’s New York Times: Planting a Johns ‘Flag’ in a Private Collection Less than two months before Christie’s will be selling one of Jasper Johns’s signature “Flag” paintings, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Flag 1958, Jasper Johns, New York Times, Steven A. Cohen
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Ansell Kiefer
From Friday’s New York Times op-ed page: THE SEASONS | ANSELM KIEFER Before Spring Anselm Kiefer, “Snow Melt in the Odenwald,” 2010, gouache on photographic paper. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York. Text on the work is translated as follows: Snow melt … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm Kiefer, Before Spring, Gagosian Gallery, New York Times, The Seasons
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New York Times Correction o’ the Day®
This is the best. A 65-year-old correction in Friday’s New York Times. In full: Corrections A caption on March 6, 1945, for a photograph distributed by The Associated Press that became one of the most widely published images from World … Continue reading
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Tagged Associated Press, Bataan Death March, corrections, New York Times
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Boston Herald’s Inside Trick
Given the libel lawsuit filed this week by rock band Boston’s Tom Scholz against the Boston Herald’s Inside Track gals Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa – which the Herald has not covered – is it just a coincidence that on … Continue reading
Trusty Trustee?
Fascinating Thursday New York Times front page report about the heretofore-largely-unremarked Judith Rothschild Foundation. Lede: Like the abstract painter who created it, the Judith Rothschild Foundation has never had a very high profile in the art world. Ms. Rothschild, who died … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvey Miller, Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York Times
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“Evacuation Day [Coverage] Unease”
Thursday’s Boston Globe Metro Page One headline: “EVACUATION DAY UNEASE” Subhead: In 1941, governor made the day green (Visual here at :44) Lede: A state archivist recently discovered some green ink in an unlikely place: the bottom of a bill … Continue reading
“The New News Landscape”
From the Pew Internet & American Life Project (via the Center for Media Research), this survey: Some 46% of Americans say they get news from four to six media platforms on a typical day. Just 7% get their news from … Continue reading
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Tagged Center for Media Research, Pew Internet & American Life Project
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Pat Sage-Act
A big fat letter from conservative bastion Hillsdale College poured into the Campaign Outsider mailbag Wednesday, and it contained: 1) The “2010 National Survey of 1,000,000 Parents and Grandparents on the American Leadershoip Crisis and the Purpose of a College … Continue reading
RomneyScare®
Former Massachusetts governor and soon-to-be perennial – no, quadrennial – presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been getting pummeled for his role in passing the 2006 health care reform initiative in the Bay State. The latest whack appeared on Wednesday’s Wall … Continue reading
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Tagged Grace-Marie Turner, h-e-double-hockeysticks, ObamaCare, RomneyScare, Wall Street Journal
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Headline o’ the Day©
From Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal A-Hed: How to Perk Up Passover’s Plagues? Twitter, Charades and ‘Jewpardy’ As the Holiday Nears, Many Jews Seek Ways to Make the Observance More Fun Sample copy: Building on a growing movement to add a … Continue reading
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Tagged Jewpardy, Passover, tweettheexodus, Wall Street Journal, Yahweh
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