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Monthly Archives: January 2011
King Philip IV of Spain Was A Pinhead
Sunday’s Boston Globe features a Sebastian Smee piece on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s restoration of Diego Velázquez’s portrait of Spanish King Philip IV. Old canvas: Restored canvas: Inevitable conclusion: Pinhead.
More Non-Disclosure By NYT Public Editor
Turns out New York Times Public Editor Arthur S. Brisbane omitted more than one relevant fact in his latest column. As the hardworking staff noted earlier, Brisbane wrote this in his piece about the challenges the paper faces in a … Continue reading
No Disclosure By NYT Public Editor
In his latest column New York Times Public Editor Arthur S. Brisbane catalogues some of the major reader complaints and journalistic challenges the paper faces in a new-media world. Brisbane starts with the blending of opinion with news, moves on … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur S. Brisbane, Floyd Abrams, New York Times, Public Editor, WikiLeaks
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What To See In The Big Town (con.)
As promised, more from the New York mu-see-um scene: • Charles LeDray: Workworkworkworkwork at the Whitney An amazingly ingenious and inexhaustible survey of LeDray’s handiwork. From the Whitney’s website: Over the past twenty years, New York-based sculptor Charles LeDray (b. … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Paul Levy Edition)
Saturday’s Boston Herald front page: Saturday’s Boston Globe front page: Nuf ced.
Why We Need ‘Penelope’s Law’
Friday’s Boston Herald buried the story in its News in Brief section: Snake on a train? Watch out, Charlie Where’s Samuel Jackson when you need him? The MBTA halted service on a Red Line train yesterday afternoon as a passenger … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Melissa Moorhouse, Penelope's Law, WBZ
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What To See In The Big Town
Well the Missus and I came down to the Big Town for a couple of days and here’s some of what we caught: – Irving Penn Archaeology at Pace MacGill A fabulous exhibit of gravity-defying photographic arrangements of bones, skulls, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Ledray, Charles Rohlfs, Edward Hopper! Paul Thek, Irving Penn, Joan Miro, John Baldessari, Pace MacGill, The Met, Whitney
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