Tag Archives: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adrián Villar Rojas, American Airlines Theatre, Christopher Benfey, Elizabeth McGovern, Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical, Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme, FASHION AND SATIRE: The Drawings Of Orson Byron Lowell And Charles Dana Gibson, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Florine Stettheimer, Force of Nature, Jewish Museum, Met Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modigliani Unmasked, NYRB, Olivetti Valentine typewriter, Red Flame Diner, Roundabout Theatre Company, Sara Berman's Closet, Society of Illustrators, The Bruegel of Bendel's, The Met Breuer, The Theater of Disappearance, Time and the Conways | 1 Comment

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 | 1 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 | 1 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 | 5 Comments

Tom Mashberg Is Still Trying to Catch a Thief

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Search Party desk Former Boston Herald reporter Tom Mashberg has chased the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art snatch from March of 1990 to, well, three days ago. From Sunday’s New York Times Arts section: Still Missing After … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anthony Amore, art heist, Boston Herald, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Degas, F.B.I., Geoff Kelly, George A. Reissfelder, Hubert von Sonnenbburg, Irish Republican Army, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Manet, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Myles Conner, New York Times, Rembrandt, Tom Mashberg, Vatican, Vermeer, William P. Youngworth III | 2 Comments

Ban the Museum Selfie Shtick!

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

William Grimes’s front-page piece in Sunday’s New York Times pinpoints one of the great tragedies of our times. Museum Rules: Talk Softly, and Carry No Selfie Stick In a famous lab trial, a chimp named Sultan put two interlocking sticks … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Gothic, Art Institute of Chicago, Grant Woods, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Jeff Koons, Katy Perry, Koons Is Great for Selfies!, Magritte, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Times, selfie sticks, Sree Sreenivasan, Temple of Dendur, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Grimes | 1 Comment

The Art Seen In New York (Magritte/Balthus Edition)

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and say, it was swell. (After, that is, we crawled our way through the Mother-in-Law of All Traffic Jams: From the New York City line to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 59E59 Theaters, Al Hirshfeld, Alexander Calder, All That Fall, American Modern, Balthus: Cats & Girls, Barneys New York, Calder Shadows, Cezanne, Charles Demuth, Dennis Freedman, Designing Modern Women, Dubuffet Frayeur, Eileen Atkins, Eykyn Maclean Gallery, Gauguin, I Saw the Figure Five in Gold, Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, Lincoln Center Library, Magritte, Malkine Untitled 1927, Marcel Duchamp, Matisse, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Gambon, MOMA, Mother-in-Law of All Traffic Jams, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York Times, New-York Historical Society, Nude Descending a Staircase, Picabia, Picasso, Robert Indiana: Beyond Love, Roberta Smith, S.J. Perelman, Samuel Beckett, Surrealism and the Rue Blomet, The Armory Show at 100, the Big Town, The Line King, The Met, The Missus, Van Gogh, Venus Over Manhattan, Westward Ha!, Whitney Museum, WWD | 6 Comments

The MFA Gets Postcards, The Met Gets Picassos

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

An object lesson in the difference between The Hub and The Big Town: Last month the hardtrundling staff noted art-lover Leonard Lauder’s lecture about the wonderful collection of more than 100,000 postcards he’s donated to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Yesterday the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cubist painteings, Leonard Lauder, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, New York Times, postcard collection, the Big Town, The Hub, The Met | 5 Comments

Fine Art, Well Met

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a new ad campaign with the theme, “MY MET. MY WEEKEND” that features celebrities from Hugh Jackman to Marc Jacobs highlighting their Met favorites (Village Voice Q&A with Met director Thomas Campbell here). … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Hugh Jackman, Marc Jacobs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, My Met. My Weekend, New York Times, Seth Myers, Village Voice | 2 Comments

Ada Louise Huxtable: MFA’s American Wing Fails To Take Flight

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal devoted a full page of its Leisure & Arts section to the new Art of the Americas Wing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. And – no surprise here – the paper’s dual reviews featured dueling ledes. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, American Wing, Art of the Americas Wing, Foster + Partners, Malcolm Rogers, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MFA, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment