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Monthly Archives: April 2013
While We Were Out (The Art Seen In New York)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last week and here’s some of what we saw. For starters, a couple of galleries in Chelsea. (Sign o’ the Times: A billboard for a storage facility that said, … Continue reading
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Tagged Against the Grain, Ai Weiwei, Chelsea, Chim, Claes Oldenburg, DC Moore Gallery, Duane Michals, Edwardian Opulence, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gagosian Gallery, German Expressionism 1900-1930, Giovani Boldini, Helen Frankenthaler, ICP, International Center of Photography, James McNeill Whistler, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Laura Roth, Leonard Lauder, Met, MFA, MOMA, Museum of Art and Design, Museum of Modern Art, Neue Galerie, Painted on 21st Street, Roman Vishniac, Ron Lauder, Société Anonyme, The Painted Photograph, The Street and the Store, Wear it or Not, Yale Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art
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Front (Page) And Center In the Marathon Bombers Manhunt
Interesting crisscross for the front pages of today’s local dailies. Here’s what landed at the hardreading staff’s doorstep this morning. Boston Herald: Boston Globe: But here’s Page One in the electronic editions of the two papers . . . Read … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, manhunt, Marathon bombers, Page One
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A Jason (No So) Gay Ol’ Time (Bill Rodgers Edition)
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay paid a melancholy visit to Boston Marathon icon Bill Rodgers in the wake of Monday’s tragic bombing. ‘Boston Billy’ Won’t Stop Running I wanted to go see Bill Rodgers, because when I was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Rodgers, Boston Billy, Boston Marathon, Gay Ol' Time, Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal
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Globe Has Memorial Ad-vantage Over Herald (II)
So the reporting on Monday’s Marathon bombing has gotten a little ragged, yeah? Helpful Boston Herald tick-tock of yesterday’s rumpus: That last item is: “7 p.m. FBI cancels press conference.” A fitting end. Regardless of the helter-skelter nature of the news … Continue reading
Producer Joe Boyd Gets Nick Drake’s Boston History Wrong (II)
As the hardworking staff promised, we got in touch with the creative director of the 1999 Volkswagen commercial that featured Nick Drake’s Pink Moon: This all got started when Drake’s producer Joe Boyd said the following in an NPR … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Pafenbach, Arnold Worldwide, Joe Boyd, Lance Jensen, Nick Drake, NPR, Pink Moon, Shane Hutton, The Church, Volkswagen, Weekend All Things Considered
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Hopper! Thou Shouldst Be Living At This Hour: Boston Hath Need Of Thee
From our William Wordsworth desk It was the Missus who pointed out that Wednesday’s Boston Globe front-page photo looked like an Edward Hopper painting. Close-up: Just like Hopper: Bleak, ambiguous, ominous.
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Tagged Boston Globe, Edward Hopper, John Milton, Marathon bombing, The Missus, William Wordsworth
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Producer Joe Boyd Gets Nick Drake’s Boston History Wrong
NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered on Sunday included a conversation with Joe Boyd, “[who] produced Nick Drake’s first two albums back in 1969 and 1970, and since Drake’s death has organized concerts in which a dozen or so musicians gather to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Worldwide, Joe Boyd, Nick Drake, NPR, Pink Moon, The Church, Volkswagen, Weekend All Things Considered
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Boston Globe Can’t Keep Story Straight
From our Make Up Your Mind Already desk Today’s Boston Globe sends out conflicting messages on the ultimate effect of Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. From the Globe’s Sport page: Interestingly, on the web Christopher Gasper’s column is headlined, “Marathon attack … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Marathon bombings, Christopher Gasper, Jeff Jacoby, never be the same
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Globe Has Memorial Ad-vantage Over Herald
First off, both Boston dailies have acquitted themselves admirably in their coverage of the Marathon bombing, each playing to its particular strengths. And today both the Globe and the Herald feature full-page ads from sympathizers and well-wishers in the wake … Continue reading
Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads In The New York Times (Norman Lizt Edition II)
Last year we introduced “[a] new feature tracking individuals who buy full-page ads in the Times, several of whom the hardworking staff has noted before but is too lazy to look up right now.” Today we have a repeat customer: Norman … Continue reading
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