Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

U.S. Trusts Donald Trump Over Religious Leaders, News Media

Posted on January 21, 2020

(With apologies to Herman Melville) Whenever the hardworking staff finds itself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in our soul; whenever we find ourselves involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cheeto-in-Chief, Donald Trump, Gaston Legorburu, Glue IQ, Herman Melville, Ishmael, MediaPost, New York Times, news media, religious leaders, Tiffany Hsu | Leave a comment

The Arts Seen in NYC (New! Improved? MoMA Edition)

Posted on December 30, 2019

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town to go a-museuming for a few days and say, it was swell. Just our luck, we arrived on an official Gridlock Alert Day, which meant it took us fully … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aloïse Corbaz, American Folk Art Museum, Anna Zemánková, August Klett, Augustin Lesage, Bard Graduate Center, Ben Shahn, Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence, Bicycle Wheel, Bill Traylor, Billie Tsien, BODYWARP: Casting Series, Burke Prize 2019, Cabaret, Charles Sheeler, Charlie Willeto, Company, Dr. Valerie Steele, Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art, Edouard Manet, Edouard Vuillard, Emery Blagdon, Ethel Barrymore, Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet, Fiddler on the Roof, Fish and Shrimp, FIT Museum, French Fashion/Women/and the First World War, Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques, George Abbott, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Arnhold’s Meissen Palace: Celebrating a Collector, Herbert Muschamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm, In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection, In the Company of Harold Prince, Indira Allegra., Jacob Lawrence, John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, Laura Jacobs, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Les Nabis, Lindsay Pollock, MAD, Madame Manet, Making Marvels: Science & Splendor at the Courts of Europe, Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum, Marcel Duchamp, Martín Ramírez, Martin Filler, Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Modern Art, N.C. Wyeth, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York Times, Norman Rockwell, Norton Simon Museum, Paris Capital of Fashion, Pierre Bonnard, Power Mode: The Force of Fashion, Printer of Disquiet, Rachel Feinstein: Maiden Mother Crone, Readymade in Paris and New York, Robert Johnson, Robin Pogrebin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Stephen Sondheim, Stuart Davis, Sweeney Todd, Swiss Army Wife, Sydney Franklin, Terry Teachout, The Architect's Newspaper, The Frick Collection, The Girl With the Gallery, The Last Knight: The Art Armor and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Met, The Morgan Library & Museum, The New York Review of Books, The Phantom of the Opera, The Ragpicker, The World of Anna Sui, theObjectified, Thornton Dial, Tod Williams, Vallotton Intimacies, Vanessa Friedman, Wall Street Journal, West Side Story, William Butler Yeats, William Edmondson, Winston Churchill, Yasuo Kuniyoshi | 2 Comments

Three-Way Tie in New York Times ‘Year in Pictures’ Bakeoff!

Posted on December 18, 2019

One of the cherished holiday traditions here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters is the annual Running of the Photographers in the New York Times’s Year in Pictures special section. (Past bakeoff winners, if you’re keeping score at home.) From the Times … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Celeste Sloman, Elizabeth D. Herman, Erin Schaff, JR for the New York Times, Lam Yik Fei, Madonna, Nancy Pelosi, Notre-Dame de Perish, NYT Year in Pictures 2019, Thomas Goisque | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging Ballets Russes Photos at Russian Icon Museum

Posted on December 9, 2019

Well the Missus and I trundled out to Clinton over the weekend to catch Emil Hoppé: Photographs from the Ballets Russes (through March 8) at the Museum of Russian Icons and say, it was swell. Emil Otto Hoppé and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adolph Bolm, Alicia Markova, Anna Pavlova, Ballets Russes, Emil Hoppé, Emil Hoppe: Photographs from the Ballets Russes, Masha Goncharova, Michel and Vera Fokine, Museum of Russian Icons, Sergei Diaghilev, Tamara Karsavina, The Making of Markova, Vaslav Nijinsky | Leave a comment

South Boston’s 02210 Lands on Wall Street Journal’s ‘Rich Zips’

Posted on November 30, 2019

For the past several years, the hardworking staff has been largely disoriented by Boston’s Waterfront development. Every time we venture there, it seems three new high-rises have sprung up and three dozen parking spaces have disappeared. Still, we were a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Bloomberg, Brian K Sullivan, Charlie Baker, Chuck Watson, Enki Research, Fan Pier, Fort Point, General Electric, Marty Walsh, Prashant Gopal, Reebok, Rich Zips, Seaport, South Boston, Trader Joe's, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Rafael Nadal Makes History, Roger Federer Makes $neakers

Posted on November 26, 2019

This past weekend Rafael Nadal led Spain to its sixth Davis Cup championship, winning all eight of his matches (five singles, three doubles) without dropping a set. Nadal’s 6-3, 7-6(7) victory over Canada’s Denis Shapovalov that clinched the title on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2019 Davis Cup, Elizabeth Paton, Kevin Mitchell, Laver Cup, New York Times, On, Rafael Nadal, Roger Dodger, Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Sunday Styles, Tennis Warden, The Guardian | Leave a comment

Springfield Museum Ghosts Contributors of Works to Exhibits

Posted on November 18, 2019

Well the Missus and I trundled west the other day to check out the – five, count ’em five – Springfield Museums and say, the exhibits were swell. But their attribution? Not so much. First we went to The Michele and Donald D’Amour … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Abraham Kamberg, Alma Kamberg, BAUHAUS: 100 Years Later, Edward Steichen, Elliott Erwitt, Family of Man, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Museum of Modern Art, Oskar Schlemmer, Richard Coplan, Springfield Museums, Sweet: A Tasty Journey, The Art of Observation: The Best of Photographer Elliott Erwitt, The Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Wood Museum of Springfield History | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging ‘Hans Hofmann’ at Peabody Essex Museum

Posted on November 15, 2019

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem this past weekend to take in Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction (through January 5) at the expanded Peabody Essex Museum and say, the exhibit was swell although the #newPEM part was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged #newPEM, Associate Curator of Exhibitions and Research, BAMPFA, Boston Globe, Curator of Fashion and Textiles, Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction, Iris Apfel, Lance Esplund, Lydia Gordon, Mark Feeney, Nancy Putnam, Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker, Peabody Essex Museum, Rare Bird of Fashion, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Zippy the Pinhead Misses the Boat on Boston’s Lobster Mickey

Posted on November 12, 2019

The hardworking staff yields to no man in our respect and admiration for Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead comic strip. But today’s strip in the Boston Globe is, well, kind of chuckleheaded. Notice the caption lower right: “Real Statue in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Atlas Obscura, Bill Griffith, Boston Globe, Breanna Rowlette, Lobsta' Mickey, Lobster Mickey, Zippy the Pinhead | 2 Comments

GateHouse Media’s Free-Rent Sweepstakes a Gate-and-Switch

Posted on October 23, 2019

Imagine the hardworking staff’s delight when we received an email from GateHouse Media with the subject line Win a Mortgage-Free or Rent-Free Year! Excellent! (We’ll pass over in silence the inconvenient fact that up to $15,000 would … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apollo Global Management, Cox Enterprises, FCC, Gannett, GateHouse Media, Journal Star, New York Post | 1 Comment