Tag Archives: London

NYT Photog Sergey Ponomarev’s Page One Pic Is . . . Art

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

The hardlooking staff has long admired the photographic skill of New York Times shutterbug Sergey Ponomarev, who dominated the paper’s 2013 Year in Pictures review. Yesterday, though, Ponomarev outdid himself with this front-page photo. Close up: Man, that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brexit, London, New York Times, Sarah Lyall, Sergey Ponomarev, The Gherkin, Year in Pictures | Leave a comment

New York Times Gets Yahoodwinked by Toyota Ad Exec

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Fact #1: This Sunday, Yahoo will live-stream from London an NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars. Fact #2: Yahoo has sold ads during the game to over 30 advertisers. Fact #3: A Toyota advertising executive apparently (we don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged APM, Buffalo Bills, Good Grey Lady, Jack Hollis, Jacksonville Jaguars, London, Marketplace, Michael Leeds, National Football League, New York Times, NFL, Richard Sandomir, Temple University, Toyota, Yahoo | 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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC, Al Hirshfeld, Albert Maysles + David Maysles, Alexei von Jawlensky, All Or Nothing At All, America Is Hard to See, and Venice, Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans and Other Works 1953–1967, Arthur Dove, Bauhaus, Bing Crosby, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Bruce Museum, China: Through the Looking Glass, Christopher Kane, Crosstown Traffic, Cut Piece, David Leopold, Douglas Carter Beane, Ella Fitzgerald, Erich Heckel, Ernie Kovacs, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Everything Is Design, Everything Is Design: The Work of Paul Rand, Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Folk City, Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival, Fractured Fairy Tales, Francis Seymour Haden, Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola, Gabriele Münter, Gay Talese, Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift, Gilded New York, Global Fashion Capitals, Gothamist, Grete Stern, Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold, HBO, Heather Nolin, Horacio Coppola, IBM, James Gardner, Jerry Saltz, Jewish Museum, Jimi Hendrix, John Singer Sargent, José Luis Sert, Joseph Pennell, Léonide Massine, Le Tricorne, Lincoln Center, London, Marcel Breuer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mikhail Larionov, MOMA, Mortimer Menpes, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the City of New York, Natalia Goncharova, Neue Galerie, New York magazine, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New-York Historical Society, NeXT, One Club Creative Hall of Fame, Pablo Picasso, Patti LuPone, Paul Rand, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, Ringo Starr, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rorschach test, Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art 1907-1917, Sargent: Portraits of Artists & Friends, Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, Saving Places, Sergei Diaghilev, Shows Every Day, Shows For Days, Sinatra: An American Icon, Stettheimer Dollhouse, Steve Jobs, The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld, The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, The Weekly Standard, Tiffany & Co., UPS, Vasily Kandinsky, W. Graham Robertson, Walls of Color: The Murals of Hans Hofmann, Whistler in Paris, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono: One Woman Show 1960-1971 | 4 Comments

That’s Just So Sad (MBTA Edition)

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

It’s never good when Boston compares itself to major-league cities, especially in the rapid-transit category. But here comes the Boston Globe’s Derrick Jackson bragging on the MBTA’s planned Night Owl experiment in his op-ed column yesterday. The T’s chance to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barcelona, BART, Beverly Scott, Boris Johnson, Boston Globe, Derrick Jackson, Hamburg, Hindenburg, London, MBTA, Night Owl, Orange Line, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Stockholm, The T, The Tube | 4 Comments

Our Gala Women’s Olympic Boxing Edition!

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Next month female athletes will get their first chance to fight for Olympic gold, but even before that, they’ve adopted some men’s boxing traditions according to Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. Moving On From Cappy’s Ring As Women’s Boxing Debuts at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cappy Kotz, London, Marlen Esparza, Quanitta "Queen" Underwood, Rudy Silva, Wall Street Journal, women's Olympic boxing | 3 Comments

NYT: What Do You Wear To The Riot?

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From our You Can’t Be Serious desk: New York magazine’s The Cut blog catches the New York Times in an absolute brain freeze. STREET STYLE Youth Quake What do you wear when protest and mayhem rock your world? Reports from … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cairo, London, New York, New York Times, Street Style, Tahrir Square, The Cut, Youth Quake | 2 Comments

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même Murdoch

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Lede of an editorial in the Daily Telegraph of London: In the parliamentary debate on the new Broadcasting Bill, not enough attention is being given to a major issue of principle. We refer to the excessive concentration of ownership control … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged British Sky Broadcasting, BSkyB, Daily Telegraph, London, News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, Sky Television | Leave a comment

When A Man Is Tired Of London

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

It’s been 15 years since I was last in London. But here I am, sitting on a bench alongside the Thames with Big Ben, Big Ferris Wheel, and Waterloo Bridge to my right, the National Theatre directly across from me. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Big Ben, Dr. Johnson, London, NatIonal Theatre, Pravda, Waterloo Bridge | 2 Comments