Tag Archives: Boston Globe

Dead Blogging ‘Regarding America’ at the Addison Gallery

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover yesterday to wander around Phillips Academy’s Addison Gallery of American Art and say, it was swell. The major exhibit there right now is Regarding America: 19th-Century Art from the Permanent Collection (through July … Continue reading →

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How ‘King Tut’ Exhibits Have Evolved Over the Past Fifty Years

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

About a week and a half ago, the Boston Sunday Globe featured this full-page ad in the Arts section. The BeyondKingTut website touts the Boston opening this way. WORLD PREMIERE Opens on July 8th at SoWa Power Station in Boston … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1977 King Tut exhibit, Beyond King Tut, Boston Globe, Chicago Field Museum, Cincinnati, Prince of the Queen City, Riverfront Times, SoWa Power Station, Treasures of Tutankhamun, Tutmania, WTTW | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging ‘Real Photo Postcards’ at Boston’s MFA

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to The Fenway the other day to catch the big Turner’s Modern World exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts and say, it was meh. (Then again, you can judge for yourself with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Eastman Kodak Company, Jason Farago, Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive, Murray Whyte, Museum of Fine Arts, New York Times, postcard camera, Real Photo Postcards: Pictures from a Changing Nation | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging a Tour of the Magnificent Eustis Estate

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to Milton the other day to take a tour of Historic New England’s Eustis Estate and say, it was spectacular. Start with the exterior, a stunning medley of multi-colored stone, multi-patterned brick, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Artful Stories: Paintings from Historic New England, Boston Globe, David Lyon, Eustis Estate, Fine Art Connoisseur, Historic New England, Nancy Carlisle, Patricia Harris, Peter Trippi, W. Ralph Emerson | 4 Comments

Boston City Hall: ‘A Building People Love to Hate But Shouldn’t’

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

The other day the hardworking staff stumbled upon this Architectural Digest post headlined “10 Buildings People Love to Hate but Shouldn’t: Reconsidering Brutalism, architecture’s most argued-over style.” Immediately we thought, Boston City Hall has got to be one of them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Architectural Digest, Boston City Hall, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Globe, Boston's Brutalist Boondoggle, Campbell Aldrich & Nulty, Government Center, Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, LeMessurier, Robert Campbell, Sarah Schweitzer, Sasaki | Leave a comment

WSJ Ghosts Boston Globe CEO Linda Henry on WNBA $$$

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

The Boston Globe’s Michael Silverman dutifully reported yesterday that Globe CEO Linda Henry was part of an investment group that pumped $75 million into the WNBA. Linda Henry part of $75 million investment in WNBA Ever since her young daughter … Continue reading →

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Remembering Anne Rice (Biting Tom Cruise’s Neck Edition)

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Popular and prolific author Anne Rice died last week at the age of 80, as Neil Genzlinger noted in this New York Times obituary. Anne Rice, Who Spun Gothic Tales of Vampires, Dies at 80 She wrote more than 30 novels, including … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ad Hoc, Advertisements for Myself, Anne Rice, bloodsucking staff, Boston Globe, Brad Pitt, Cindy Crawford, I-vertising, Interview With the Vampire, Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, Norman Mailer, Richard Gere, Song of Myself, Tom Cruise, unique sell-out proposition, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

Revisiting Boston Garden, ‘The Old Barn on Causeway Street’

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

The building was forty-one years old [in 1969]. Hard years. In a cramped and shopworn corner of the city, one flight up from the train station, surrounded by elevated subway tracks and an elevated highway that kept sunshine and clean … Continue reading →

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So to Conclude: The Red Sox Were Not the Team o’ Destiny

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

But the Atlanta Braves still might be. First, the sad demise of the Crimson Hose, as narrated by the Boston Globe’s resident darn-those-Sox scribe Dan Shaughnessy. Red Sox ran out of karma, and it all started after the wristwatch taunt … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 NLCS, Allman Brothers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, Dan Shaughnessy, darn-those-Sox, Hot 'Lantanas, Los Angeles Dodgers, Swat Caroline, Team o' Destiny, World's Serious | 1 Comment

Dead Blogging ‘Hans Hofmann’ at Peabody Essex Museum

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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