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The Arts Seen in NYC (‘Modigliani Unmasked’ Edition)

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to see what we could see and, say, it was swell. We hit the city Friday afternoon and headed right over to the Fashion Institute of Technology … Continue reading →

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The Arts Seen in NYC (Long Day’s Journey Edition)

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and, say, it was swell. Except for the drive to get there, of course. We hit four – count ’em, four – major traffic jams on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Anton Raphael Mengs, Antwerp, Arthur Miller, Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Ben Brantley, Ben Wishaw, Charles Perrault, Chartres, Ciarán Hinds, Comme des Garçons, Cooper Hewitt, Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play, duquesa de Huescar, Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Eugene O'Neill, Fairy Tale Fashion, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Gabriel Byrne, Hans Christian Andersen, Human Head Cake Box Murder, Ian Volner, Isaac Mizrahi, Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History, Jessica Lange, Jewish Museum, Job Smeets, John Dillinger's Feet, John Gallagher Jr., Long Day's Journey Into Night, Manish Arora, Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective, Marie Antoinette, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Shannon, MOMA, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New Republic, New York Times, Nynke Tynagel, Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Roundabout Theatre Company, Saoirse Ronan, snaphappy hordes, Sophie Okonedo, Studio Job, Studio Job MAD HOUSE, Terry Teachout, the Brothers Grimm, The Crucible, The Frick Collection, The Little Mermaid, The Met, The Met Breuer, Thierry Mugler, Thom Browne Selects, Train Crash, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France, Wall Street Journal, Walter Kerr Theatre, Weegee | Leave a comment

The Arts Seen in NYC (Fabulous Picasso Sculpture Edition)

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other week and say, it was swell. Our artinery: Friday We started out at the Museum of Arts and Design and – yes – we were MAD about the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aelita: Queen of Mars, African Princess clock, Alexander Rodchenko, American Folk Art Museum, Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, Andy Warhol, Arkady Shaikhet, Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet, artinery, Émile Zola, Becoming Jewish: Warhol’s Liz and Marilyn, Ben Brantley, Catalan Noucentismo, Clive Owen, Collection de l'Art Brut, cubism, Dead Treez, Douglas Hodge, Ebony G. Patterson, El Lissitzky, Elizabeth Taylor, Evan Cabnet, Eve Best, Harold Pinter, Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey 1934–1954, Jacqueline de Ribes The Art of Style, Jean Dubuffet, Jean-Baptiste-André Furet, Jewish Museum, Joaquín Torres-García, Keira Knightley, Kelly Reilly, Kongo: Power and Majesty, MAD, Marilyn Monroe, Max Penson, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Modern Art, Neo-Plasticism, New York Times, Old Times, Picasso Sculpture, Roundabout Theatre Company, shabbes elevator, Soldier Spectre Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War, Studio 54, Thérèse Raquin, The Luxury of Time, The Met, The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography Early Soviet Film, The Red Flame, Time Has No Shadows, Ultraism-Vibrationism, Unorthodox, Valeska Soares, Wendell Castle, Wendell Castle Remastered | Leave a comment

The Arts Seen in NYC (The Divine Patti LuPone Edition)

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to catch one thing and another and say, it was swell. First, of course, there was crosstown traffic, which takes roughly 30 minutes to navigate. Official Campaign … Continue reading →

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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 | 9 Comments

The Arts Seen in NYC (Picasso Everywhere! Edition)

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town for the weekend and, say, it was swell. (Not to mention All Pablo All the Time.) Here, in roughly chronological order, is some of what we caught. FRIDAY • Picasso & … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Delicate Balance, BBC, Beauty Is Power, Ben Brantley, Carrot Nose, David Korins, Dora Maar, Edward Albee, El Museo del Barrio, Elaine Stritch, Firdous Bamji, Gagosian Gallery, George Grizzard, Gerald Gutierrez, Glenn Close, Helena rubenstein, Hortense Fiquet, Jacqueline Roque, Jean Dubuffet, Jed Perl, Jewish Museum, John Golden Theatre, John Lithgow, John Richardson, Julian Bell, Lee Krasner, Lindsay Duncan, Mac Conner: A New York Life, Madame Cézanne, Making Pottery Art, Man Ray, Marisol, Martha Plimpton, Mike Nichols, Museum of the City of New York, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Norman Lewis, Pablo Picasso, Pace Gallery, Paul Cezanne, Picasso & Jacqueline, Picasso & the Camera, René Magritte, Robert A. Ellison Jr., Robert Gober, Romola Garai, Rosemary Harris, The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, The Hour, The New Republic, The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec, Three Tall Women, Vincent Canby, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | 2 Comments

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

Harry Houdini And The Boston 1600-Pound Sea Monster Post

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Web Moves in Mysterious Ways desk About a year ago, the hardtrundling staff (and the Missus!) went down to the Big Town and caught a Harry Houdini exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum. We then duly noted our … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston 1600-Pound Sea Monster, Harry Houdini, Houdini: Art and Magic, Jewish Museum, Worldwide Web | Leave a comment

Arts Seen In The Big Town (Rapture, Blister, Burn Edition)

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The Missus and I trundled uptown again and here’s some of what we saw: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART’S 4th AND 5th FLOORS MIGHT FLOOR YOU MOMA hit Shuffle on its Permanent Collection, and the results are eye-opening. DID YOU … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Edouard Vuillard, Jewish Museum, MOMA, Playwrights Horizons, Rapture Blister Burn | 3 Comments

Why The Wall Street Journal Is A Great Newspaper (Man Ray Edition)

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Fascinating Wall Street Journal feature on the state of Surrealist Man Ray’s artistic estate: The Surreal Selling of Man Ray How a Long Island family with an auto-body shop wound up controlling the artist’s legacy. The $20 million collection in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alias Man Ray, Dada, Eric Browner, Jewish Museum, Juliet Man Ray, Man Ray, Surrealist, Wall Street Journal | 5 Comments