Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

Amazon Delivers News Packages to Compliant Media Outlets

Posted on May 26, 2020

Call it Prime-ing the news pump. In the runup to today’s annual shareholder meeting, Amazon has tried to disinfect its COVID-battered image with a video produced in the form of a news report and distributed to local TV stations around … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Courier, COVID-19, New York Times, Prime-ing the news pump, propagambit, Todd Walker | Leave a comment

GoFundMe Won’t Give Funds to Boston North End Bookstore

Posted on April 16, 2020

No question that fundraising platforms like GoFundMe have done a world of good all over the world. Exhibit Umpteen (via the New York Daily News): Tom Moore, known better as “Captain Tom,” will turn 100 later this month. To celebrate, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC, Boston's North End, Captain Tom, Claire Kirch, GoF--kMe, GoFixIt, GoFundMe, I Am Books, New York Daily News, NHS Charities, Nicola Orichuia, Tom Moore | Leave a comment

New York Times Has a ‘Manifesto’ for Boston’s MFA

Posted on March 24, 2020

The other day the New York Times ran a big takeout by art critic Holland Cotter on what major U.S. museums should be doing nowadays with their time and money. For Big Museums, It’s Time to Change As the Metropolitan … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alice Neel, Ancient Nubia Now, “Why Are There No Great Women Artists?”, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Holland Cotter, Linda Nochlin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Times, Women Take the Floor | Leave a comment

NYT’s Marie KONDO-19 Puff Piece Should’ve Been 86ed

Posted on March 23, 2020

Let’s stipulate that the New York Times has done a terrific job of covering the coronavirus crisis in its news and opinion pages. But did we really need this Like a Boss feature about kiss-it-goodbye queen Marie Kondo in yesterday’s Business section? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, Marie Kondo, New York Times | 4 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Gordon Parks: The New Tide’ @ Addison Gallery

Posted on February 12, 2020

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover this past weekend to check out the new exhibits at the Addison Gallery of American Art and say, they were swell. We started off with Man Up! Visualizing Masculinity in 19th-Century America … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in 19th-Century America, Addison Gallery of American Art, Come As You Are: American Youth, Ella Watson, Expanding the Narrative: Recent Acquisitions, Farm Security Administration, George Bellows, Gordon Parks, Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott, Gordon Parks: The New Tide Early Work 1940–1950, Langston Hughes, Lewis Wickes Hine, Man Up! Visualizing Masculinity in 19th-Century America, Office of War Information, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Roy Stryker, Standard Oil (New Jersey), Thomas Eakins | Leave a comment

How Corporate Gunsel Rick Berman Bit One Watchdog Group

Posted on January 31, 2020

Actually, the headscratching staff has no idea how megabucks lobbyist Rick Berman – who sets up fog-machine front groups for the fast-food industry, the tobacco industry, the liquor industry, and any industry fighting minimum-wage increases – managed to hijack the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Berman and Company, bermanexposed.org, Center for Consumer Freedom, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CleanFoodFacts.com, Jordan Libowitz, Rick Berman | Leave a comment

Fast Food Industry’s Sneak Adtack on Plant-Based Meat

Posted on January 29, 2020

The hardtsking staff has noted on numerous occasions the antics of Rick Berman, corporate America’s go-to gunsel for subverting labor unions, public-health advocates, and consumer, safety, animal welfare, and environmental groups. (Helpful Rachel Maddow interview with Berman.) Here’s the first graf … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Berman Exposed, CBS 60 Minutes, Center for Consumer Freedom, Center for Media and Democracy, Center for Union Facts, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CleanFoodFacts.com, CREW, Dr. Evil, plant-based meat, Rachel Maddow, Rick Berman, SourceWatch | 3 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Flora in Winter’ at Worcester Art Museum

Posted on January 24, 2020

Well the Missus and I trundled out to the Worcester Art Museum yesterday to catch Flora in Winter: Epic Bloom and say, it was swell – and smelled great too! One of the region’s most anticipated events of the year, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Art in Bloom, Bostom Museum of Fine Arts, Flora in Winter: Epic Bloom, Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman, WAM, Worcester Art Museum | Leave a comment

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