Tag Archives: Guggenheim

The Arts Seen in NYC (#StraightWhiteMen Preview Edition)

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus trundled me down to the Big Town for my birthday last weekend and, say, it was swell. (It also marked the start of a year’s worth of my saying, à la Raymond Chandler, that I’m pushing 70 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Anna D. Shapiro, Annette Arm, Armie Hammer, Bill Cunningham, Chaim Soutine, Château de Versailles, Clara Driscoll, Color, Conflict, Constantin Brancusi Sculpture, Cooper Hewitt, David Copperfield, Diego Rivera, Fashion Institute of Technology, Fashion Unraveled, FIT, Flesh, Fondation Giacometti, Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Harry Houdini, Heavenly Bodies:Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, James Gardner, Josh Charles, Like Life: Sculpture Color and the Body (1300-Now), Louis Comfort Tiffany, Louis XIV, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miles Malleson, Mint Theater Company, MOMA, Morgan Library, Museum of the City of New York, New-York Historical Society, Paul Schneider, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, pushing 70 hard enough to break a wrist, Raymond Chandler, Scofield Thayer Collection, Second Stage Theater, Stephen Payne, Straight White Men, Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection, Terry Teachout, The Jewish Museum, The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection, The Met Breuer, The Met Cloisters, The Weekly Standard, Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs, Visitors to Versailles, Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, Wall Street Journal, Wearing Memories, Young Jean Lee | Leave a comment

The Arts Seen in NYC (Central Park Edition)

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town over the weekend and say, it was swell . . . weather. It’s not so much that what we caught at the museums was bad. But what we caught outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, Act One, Andrea Martin, Belvedere Castle, Bill Cunningham: Facades, Central Park, Charles James: Beyond Fashion, Cindy Sherman, Daniel Goodman, Editta Sherman, Gauguin: Metamorphoses, Guggenheim, Italian Futurism, Jewish Museum, Jonathan Galassi, Judith Thurman, Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art 1948–1988, MAD, Masterpieces and Curiosities: Diane Arbus’s Jewish Giant, MOMA, Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, New-York Historical Society, Re:Collection, Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum, Strawberry Fields, The Black Fives, The Met, Tony Shaloub, Weekly Standard | 4 Comments

What We Caught In The Big Town

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town for most of last week, and here’s a taste of the arts seen there. Wednesday After an uneventful, if costly, drive to the City (seriously – they’re raising the extortionate … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe, Boston Globe, Ellen Barkin, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, Frick Collection, George Bellows, Guggenheim, Madeleine Martin, Mare Cunningham, Matisse: In Search of True Painting, Museum of Arts and Design, New-York Historical Society, Picasso Black and White, Picnic, Portrait of a Peasant, Regarding Warhol, Rosalind Russell, Sebastian Smee, Sebastian Stan, The Art of Scent, The Met, The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, The Whitney, Vincent Van Gogh, Weekly Standard, William Holden, William Inge, WWII & NYC, Yale University Art Gallery | 4 Comments

Arts Seen In The Big Town (Whitney Biennial Edition)

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Good day in the Big Town for me and the Missus. Some of what we saw: * “Impact: 50 Years of the Council of Fashion Designers of America” at FIT (through April 17). If a camel is a horse designed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alice Neal, Benny Andrews, Bob Thompson, Charles Green Shaw, FIT, Guggenheim, John Chamberlain, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Spanierman, Whitney Biennial | 3 Comments

What You Can’t See In The Big Town

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The Missus and I caught last call at the Guggenheim Museum’s “The Great Upheaval: Modern Art From the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918.” (Sorry, no links or graphics – I’m iPadlocked.) Some critics dismissed it as a mere basement-and-attic exhibit, but we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged basement-and-attic exhibit, CARTON Manifesto, create inside the box, Guggenheim, iPadlocked, Manifestos, The Great Upheaval, unreelism | 2 Comments

The Arts Seen In New York

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Well, the Missus and I went down to The Big Town for a few days, and here’s some of what we saw (not counting Eliot Spitzer on the Upper East Side after a run in Central Park – his, not … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 50 Years at Pace, Abstract Expressionist New York, Chaos and Classicism, Chim, Gerda Taro, Guggenheim, ICP, Liao Yibai, Matisse, Mike Weiss, MOMA, Real Fake, Robert Capa, Spanish Civil War, The Mexican Suitcase, The Pitman Painters | 1 Comment