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New York Times Has a ‘Manifesto’ for Boston’s MFA
The other day the New York Times ran a big takeout by art critic Holland Cotter on what major U.S. museums should be doing nowadays with their time and money. For Big Museums, It’s Time to Change As the Metropolitan … Continue reading
The Arts Seen in NYC (Pierre Cardin Is Totally Brilliant Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to spend some time a-museuming and say, it was swell. After navigating the usual midtown Manhattan mishegas to get to our usual hotel, we took the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Dürer, Andrew Carnegie, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story, Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Berthe Morisot, Brooklyn Museum, Cai Guo-Qiang, Carrie Mae Weems, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Elizabeth Cleland, Francisco Goya, Franz Kline, From Expressionism to Surrealism: Highlights of Modern Art from the Collection, Garry Winogrand: Color, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Guggenheim Museum, Henri Matisse, James McNeill Whistler, Jenny Holzer, Jewelry for America, Joan Miro, Joseph Beuys, Julie Mehretu, Käthe Kollwitz, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Max Ernst, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, New York Times, Non-Brand, Pablo Picasso, Paul Chan, Peter Plagens, Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion, Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance, Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper, Richard Prince, Roberta Smith, Sport and Leisure: Sailing on the Sound, The Bauhaus Spirit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Vasily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Wadsworth Atheneum, Wall Street Journal
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The Arts Seen in NYC (‘Summer with the Averys’ Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to check out this that and the other thing and, say, it was swell. After the usual funhouse ride through Six Flags Over Midtown Manhattan, we headed … Continue reading
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Tagged Almeida Theatre, Bertie Carvel, Bruce Museum, Bryant Park, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Donald Margulies, Dora Maar, Edmund de Waal, Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection, Elie Nadelman, Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News Channel, Gagosian Gallery, Ink, James McNeill Whistler, John Richardson, Jonny Lee Miller, Larry Lamb, Lincoln Kirstein's Modern, Long Lost, Man in the Open Air, Manhattan Theatre Club, March Avery, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milton Avery, Minimalism/Maximalism, Pablo Picasso, Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee, Philip Johnson, Picasso's Women: Fernande to Jacqueline, Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rupert Murdoch, Sally Michel, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Sharks! Myths and Realities, starchitect, Summer with the Averys [Milton | Sally | March], Susan Sontag, The Art Newspaper, The Frick Collection, The Met Breuer, The Mirror, The Museum at FIT, The Red Flame Diner, The Sun, Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection, Yoga Night
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Purdue Pharma Opioid Ads Keep Trying to Dull Sackler Pain
As the hardworking staff has resolutely noted, OxyContin pusher Purdue Pharma has been spending millions of dollars in an attempt to 1) adwash the Sackler family’s responsibility for hooking millions of Americans on opioids and 2) minimize the current blowback … Continue reading
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Tagged adwash, American Museum of Natural History, Berlin Jewish Museum, Chris Christie, Christopher Glazek, Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Esquire, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford's Ashmolean, Oxycontin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Peking University, Purdue Pharma, Royal Academy, Sackler, Sackler Courtyard, Sackler family, September 11th every three weeks, Smithsonian, Tate Modern, Temple of Dendur, The New Yorker, Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Arts Seen in NYC (#StraightWhiteMen Preview Edition)
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
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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
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Purdue Pharma’s Opioid Ads Keep Trying To Dull America’s Pain
As the hardtsking staff has previously noted, the fabulously wealthy Sackler family, which unleashed OxyContin on an unsuspecting American public, played a key role in the country’s current opioid crisis. Adding insult to devastating injury, the family’s corporate arm, Purdue … Continue reading
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Tagged American Museum of Natural History, Berlin Jewish Museum, Chris Christie, Christopher Glazek, Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Esquire, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford's Ashmolean, Oxycontin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Peking University, Purdue Pharma, Royal Academy, Sackler, Sackler Courtyard, Sackler family, September 11th every three weeks, Smithsonian, Tate Modern, Temple of Dendur, The New Yorker, Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Arts Seen in NYC (Backwards Museum Mile Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to see what we could see and say, it was . . . cold. But the artwork was swell. We hit the city around three o’clock … Continue reading
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Tagged Access + Ability, Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s, Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, Claude Monet, Cooper Hewitt, Edward Gorey, George Balanchine, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, Gorey's Worlds, Grant Wood, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, Lilies of the Alley, Louise Nevelson, Mel Bochner, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, Museum Mile, Museum of the City of New York, Neue Galerie, New York City Ballet, New York on Ice: Skating in the City, New York Silver Then and Now, Norell: Dean of American Fashion, Parc Monceau, Peter Schjeldahl, Pockets to Purses: Fashion + Function, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, Quicksilver Brilliance: Adolf de Meyer Photographs, Rod Keenan, Scenes from the Collection, the Big Town, The Body: Fashion and Physique, The Joys of Yiddish, The Met, The Museum at FIT, The New Yorker, The Red Flame, Wadsworth Atheneum, Whitney Museum
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Opioid-Pushing Sacklers Administer Advertising Methadone
Let us now speak of the Sackler brothers – Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond – patriarchs of the pharmaceutical-fueled family that has made billions of dollars from the sale of OxyContin, the marketing of which has undeniably triggered America’s current opioid … Continue reading
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Tagged American Museum of Natural History, Berlin Jewish Museum, Chris Christie, Christopher Glazek, Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Esquire, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford's Ashmolean, Oxycontin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Peking University, Purdue Pharma, Royal Academy, Sackler, Sackler Courtyard, Sackler family, September 11th every three weeks, Smithsonian, Tate Modern, Temple of Dendur, The New Yorker, Victoria and Albert Museum
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