Tag Archives: Christie’s

The Nude York Times (Instagram Secret Scroll Edition)

From our Grey Lady pearl-clutching desk The hardblushing staff has long chronicled the growing willingness of the New York Times to bare all in the name of art – or commerce – in its advertising. Representative samples include this ulp-skirt ad from … Continue reading

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The Nude York Times (‘An American in Paris’ Edition)

From our Grey Lady pearl-clutching desk The hardblushing staff has long chronicled the growing willingness of the New York Times to bare all in the name of art – or commerce – in its advertising. Representative samples include this ulp-skirt ad … Continue reading

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The Nude York Times (Lucian Freud ‘Monumental’ Edition)

From our Grey Lady pearl-clutching desk As the hardblushing staff has dutifully noted for the past handful of years, the New York Times is increasingly willing to bare all in the name of art – or commerce – in its … Continue reading

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New York Times: All the Nudes That’s Fit to Print

As the hardblushing staff has noted on previous occasions (see here and here), the Grey Lady has been opening the kimono more and more of late, from an ulp-skirt Louis Vuitton ad several years ago to this eye-popping Christie’s ad last fall. … Continue reading

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The Nude York Times

As the hardblushing staff has noted, the Grey Lady has slowly been opening the kimono in its print pages, starting with this ulp-skirt Louis Vuitton image a couple of years ago.     Then there was this Gagosian Gallery ad a … Continue reading

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New York Times Goes Native with Russian Nesting Ads

From our State of the Cuisinart Marketing desk As the hardtracking staff noted last year, the New York Times has taken to running print ads promoting the native advertising its T Brand Studio creates for marketers. Representative sample:     … Continue reading

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Auction House Bakeoff in NYT!

It’s art auction season in the Big Town, and the Big Houses are having a swell donnybrook in the ad pages of the New York Times. What follows is a representative sample from Sunday’s Grey Lady. Start with Southeby’s.       … Continue reading

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The War of Art in NYC’s Auction Houses

It’s auction season for the arterati, and yesterday’s New York Times was the Antietam of tony gavel houses in the Big Town. There was, for instance, this Christie’s ad in the A section:     Which sends us to this video presented by Loic … Continue reading

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Correction o’ the Day (Wait – What? Edition)

From our Scratch Your Head desk This correction ran in Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Huh? So the hardclicking staff went back to the original Globe piece and found this: Also being featured in Christie’s Jan. 24 sale is “Favorites From the … Continue reading

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That’s Just So Stupid! (Jeff Koons ‘Balloon’ Payment Edition)

Full-page ad from Friday’s New York Times: Seriously? Thirty-five million dollars for a tired, lame-to-begin-with koncept? That would make history alright. Historic idiocy.  

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