Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

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

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Campaign Outsider

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 by Campaign Outsider

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 by Campaign Outsider

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 by Campaign Outsider

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 by Campaign Outsider

(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 by Campaign Outsider

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 by Campaign Outsider

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 | 1 Comment

Dead Blogging Ballets Russes Photos at Russian Icon Museum

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 by Campaign Outsider

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 by Campaign Outsider

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