Tag Archives: Alexander Calder

Dead Blogging ‘Fabricating Modernism’ at the Currier Museum

Posted on November 21, 2023 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Granite State over the weekend to check out the newly installed exhibits at Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art and say, they were swell. We started at Fabricating Modernism: Prints from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al Held, Alexander Calder, Currier Created, Currier Museum of Art, Ernest Hemingway, Fabricating Modernism: Prints from the School of Paris, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Gertrude Stein, Heart of a Museum: Saya Woolfalk, Henri Matisse, James Baldwin, Jim Mooney, Joan Miro, Joan Mitchell, Josef Albers, Keith Spiro, Kurt Sundstrom, L'Echo, Marc Chagall, Michelle Peterson, Pablo Picasso, Sam Francis, Sanaa Gateja: Selected Works, Sonia Delaunay, The Bead King, Toward the New: A Journey into Abstraction, Woman Seated in a Chair | Leave a comment

Steve Mnuchin’s Dad Ran an Ad in the New York Times

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Well the hardworking staff was leafing through the New York Times yesterday and what did we come across but this quarter-page ad in the A section. Of course that got us to wondering: Mnuchin Gallery – any relation to Treasury … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, Government Sachs, Jeff Koons, Jerry Saltz, Joshua Green, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Rothko, Medium, Mnuchin Gallery, New York magazine, Reds, Steve Mnuchin, Upper East Side Patch, Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama | Leave a comment

Travels With The Missus On the Côte d’Azur (Encore!)

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

After dinner I walked down to the bay one last time. I stood in a soft rain next to the bust of homeboy Jean Cocteau alongside the chapel he renovated in the 1950s, and looked one last time at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Aldous Huxley, Alexander Calder, An Affair to Remember, Anita Pallenberg, Arman, Aubrey Beardsley, Avenue Prince Ranier III de Monaco, Basilique Saint-Michel, Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild, Billetterie SNCF, Billie Holiday, Blue Angels, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Cannes, Catholic Eye Candy, Côte d'Azur, Côte d'Azur Card, Cesar, Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, Chapelle des Pénitents Noirs, Chapelle Saint-Elme, Chapelle Saint-Pierre Des Pêcheurs, Charlotte Salomon, Château-Musée Grimaldi, Christian Estrosi, Cimitière du Vieux Château, Citadelle Saint-Elme, Cocteau Chapel, Collection Roux, Cornell West, David Foenkinos, Edouard Dermit, Emmanuel Pontremoli, Enfants Terribles, Exile on Main Street, Festival de Cannes, Film Festival, Find a Grave, flâneur, Fondation Maeght, Fondation Musée Volti, Francine Weisweiller, Frank Sinatra, Garibaldi Square, Goetz-Boumeester Museums, Grace Kelly, Gratia Patricia Principis Ranierii III Uxor, Guy de Maupassant, Hector Barbosa, Hotel Messugues, Jean Cocteau, Jewish Museum, Joan Miro, Keith Richard, La Citadelle, La Perle de la France, Le Café F, Le Cannet, Le Huffington Post, Le Jardin Animalier de Monaco, Les Univers de Jean Cocteau, Life? or Theatre?: A Play With Music, Lignes d'Azur, Mediterranean Sea, Menton Death March, MentonTourisme, Michael Eric Dyson, Modern Art Consulting, Musée Bonnard, Musée D'Art Moderne et D'Art Contemporain, Musée de l'olivier, Musée de la Castre, Musée Jean Cocteau Collection Séverin Wunderman, Musée Océanographique de Monaco. Prince Albert 1er, Musical Fountains, Nice Vieille Ville, Niki de Saint Phalle, Nissa la Bella, On Sharks and Humanity, Palais Princier de Monaco, Paris Review, Pierre Bonnard, Place Masséna, Promenade du Paillon, Rambo, Ranier Grimaldi, Rocky, Rolling Stones, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Salle des Mariages, Samuel Johnson, Séverin Wunderman, Service Compris Standoff, Square Bourdet, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, Suzy Solidor, Sylvester Stalone, Tamara Lempicka, Théodore Reinach, The Bourne Identity, the Citadel, The New Republic, Tina Turner, Tippi Hedren, To Catch a Thief, Videomuseum, Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Villa Kerylos, Villa Nellcôte, Villa Santo Sospir, Villefranche-sur-Mer, WBGO, WHRB, Yves Klein | 11 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Calder and Abstraction’ at PEM

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem yesterday to catch Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic at the Peabody Essex Museum and, say, it was swell. Alexander Calder’s abstract works revolutionized modern sculpture and made him one … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Burgess Meredith, Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, Creative Salem, Herbert Matter, IMDB, Jed Perl, Jeff Koons, John Cage, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York Review of Books, On Redefining Sculpture, Peabody Essex Museum, PEM, Stephanie Barron, The New Republic, The Penguin, Whitney Museum of American Art, Works of Calder | 2 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Circus’ at RISD Museum

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to Providence yesterday to catch Circus at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and, say, it was swell. For starters, there was the exhibit itself. The spectacle of the American and European … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Alison Chang, August Lehrecke, Chifferobe Events, Circus, Design the Night, Dizzy the Clown, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot, Kristen Minsky, Kylie Why, Marc Chagall, Matthew Muller, Max Beckmann, Paul Carpentier, Pneuhaus, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, The TropiGals | 6 Comments

The Art Seen In New York (Magritte/Balthus Edition)

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and say, it was swell. (After, that is, we crawled our way through the Mother-in-Law of All Traffic Jams: From the New York City line to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 59E59 Theaters, Al Hirshfeld, Alexander Calder, All That Fall, American Modern, Balthus: Cats & Girls, Barneys New York, Calder Shadows, Cezanne, Charles Demuth, Dennis Freedman, Designing Modern Women, Dubuffet Frayeur, Eileen Atkins, Eykyn Maclean Gallery, Gauguin, I Saw the Figure Five in Gold, Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, Lincoln Center Library, Magritte, Malkine Untitled 1927, Marcel Duchamp, Matisse, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Gambon, MOMA, Mother-in-Law of All Traffic Jams, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York Times, New-York Historical Society, Nude Descending a Staircase, Picabia, Picasso, Robert Indiana: Beyond Love, Roberta Smith, S.J. Perelman, Samuel Beckett, Surrealism and the Rue Blomet, The Armory Show at 100, the Big Town, The Line King, The Met, The Missus, Van Gogh, Venus Over Manhattan, Westward Ha!, Whitney Museum, WWD | 6 Comments

What I Caught

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I went to the Big Town and here’s what we took in (sorry for the goofy graphics, but I can’t get them straightened out): WEDNESDAY Any day that Page One of both the New York Times … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Caravaggio, David Smith, George Segal, Grandma Moses, Joseph Beuys, Maira Kalman, Man Ray, Marina Abramovic, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Miroslav Tichy, MOMA, Red, Remembering Mr. Maugham | 4 Comments