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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Newly Renovated MoMA Is Museum of Modern Arguing
From our Beaten to Death with Croutons desk Here’s what everyone can agree on: New York’s Museum of Modern Art will unveil its four-month, $450 million, 47,000-square-foot expansion on October 21st. Beyond that, it’s strictly an art critic slapfight. Let’s … Continue reading
Trump Is a Chump™ (WSJ Trump Hotels Advertising Edition)
First, let’s stipulate that Donald Trump is the least self-aware U.S. president since post-stroke Woodrow Wilson. Let’s also stipulate that the Cheeto-in-Chief is more transactional than your neighborhood ATM. As one observer noted, Trump has no standards and no principles … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheeto-in-Chief, Donald Trump, post-stroke, Trump Hotels, Wall Street Journal, Woodrow Wilson
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Dead Blogging ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’
Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Coolidge Corner Theater yesterday to see the documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (through September 26) and say, I get the same chills from her singing as I did 50 … Continue reading
Ric Ocasek NYT Obit Runs Same Day As Wife’s NYT Ad
Tip o’ the pixel to The Missus September 15th Jon Pareles New York Times obituary of Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. Ric Ocasek, New Wave Rock Visionary and Cars Co-Founder, Dies at 75 A Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, he wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomingdale's, Cars, Jon Pareles, Just What I Needed, New York Times, Paulina Porizkova, Ric Ocasek
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Sharpiegate Rumpus Misses the Real Scandal at NWS
Yes, Donald Trump is an idiot for mobilizing his entire sadministration – including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service – to back up his chronic moronic claims that Hurricane Dorian would ravage Alabama, even … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, All Things Considered, Ari Shapiro, David Folkenflik, Donald Trump, Hurricane Dorian, Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik, Michael Lewis, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, NOAA, NPR, NWS, Rachel Martin, sadministration, Sharpiegate, The Fifth Risk, Yellowhammer State
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Rafa! Rafa! Rafa! Nadal’s Signature Victory at the US Open
Rafael Nadal’s monumental win over Daniil Medvedev in yesterday’s U.S. Open men’s singles final was pure Rafa: Dominance, happenstance, hesitance, dominance. Highlights: The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay – as always – captured it perfectly. Let’s be candid … Continue reading
The Arts Seen in NYC (Pierre Cardin Is Totally Brilliant Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to spend some time a-museuming and say, it was swell. After navigating the usual midtown Manhattan mishegas to get to our usual hotel, we took the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Dürer, Andrew Carnegie, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story, Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Berthe Morisot, Brooklyn Museum, Cai Guo-Qiang, Carrie Mae Weems, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Elizabeth Cleland, Francisco Goya, Franz Kline, From Expressionism to Surrealism: Highlights of Modern Art from the Collection, Garry Winogrand: Color, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Guggenheim Museum, Henri Matisse, James McNeill Whistler, Jenny Holzer, Jewelry for America, Joan Miro, Joseph Beuys, Julie Mehretu, Käthe Kollwitz, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Max Ernst, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, New York Times, Non-Brand, Pablo Picasso, Paul Chan, Peter Plagens, Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion, Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance, Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper, Richard Prince, Roberta Smith, Sport and Leisure: Sailing on the Sound, The Bauhaus Spirit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Vasily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Wadsworth Atheneum, Wall Street Journal
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Campaign Outsider Book Club™: Anna Burns’s Novel ‘Milkman’
I could not recommend this book more highly. But don’t take my word for it – Milkman won the prestigious Man Booker Prize last year and the Orwell Prize for political fiction this year. Patrick Radden Keefe, whose best seller Say … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Harlem: In Situ’ at Andover’s Addison Gallery
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover the other day to catch the current exhibitions at the Addison Gallery of American Art and, say, they were uniformly swell. Don’t let the “gallery” designation fool you – the Addison … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s–1950s (Harlem), 4 x 4, Aaron Siskind, Addison Gallery of American Art, Beaumont Newhall, Carl van Vechten, Chase National Bank, Dr. Walter O. Evans, Elie Nadelman, Harlem Document (1935), Harlem Heroes, Harlem Heroes (1930–1960), Harlem: In Situ, In and Out of Place, Jacob Lawrence, John Goodman: not recent color, Kissing the Moon, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucien Aigner, Paul Robeson, Romare Bearden, Roy DeCarava., Seated Woman, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1984), Twisted Planes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Winslow Homer
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Donald Trump Asked Campaign Outsider What He Should Do!
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk Here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters, the hardworking staff has gotten used to receiving missives from the ATM wing of the Republican Party, having once subscribed to the late, lamented Weekly Standard, which clearly … Continue reading
