Tag Archives: MOMA

The Arts (Not) Seen in NYC (Félix Fénéon at MoMA Edition)

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Campaign Outsider

In a world without coronavirus, the Missus and I would be trundling down to the Big Town in the next week or two to go a-museuming. And one of the places we’d certainly have gone is the newly reopened Museum … Continue reading →

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The Arts Seen in NYC (New! Improved? MoMA Edition)

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town to go a-museuming for a few days and say, it was swell. Just our luck, we arrived on an official Gridlock Alert Day, which meant it took us fully … Continue reading →

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Newly Renovated MoMA Is Museum of Modern Arguing

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

From our Beaten to Death with Croutons desk Here’s what everyone can agree on: New York’s Museum of Modern Art will unveil its four-month, $450 million, 47,000-square-foot expansion on October 21st. Beyond that, it’s strictly an art critic slapfight. Let’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American People Series #20: Die, Eric Gibson, Faith Ringgold, Holland Cotter, Les Damoiselles d'Avignon, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York Times, Pablo Picasso, Wall Street Journal | 2 Comments

The Arts Seen in NYC (Joan Miró’s ‘Birth of the World’ Edition)

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town to go a-museuming this past weekend and say, it was swell. Having successfully fought our way down a Friday I-95, navigated the obstacle course from the FDR Drive crosstown … Continue reading →

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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

Donald Trump Is Our First Cubist Presidential Candidate (Because He’s on Every Side of Every Issue)

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Seriously, could Donald Trump be any more scattered in his policy positions? Handy clip ‘n’ save graphic, compliments of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury. Now come the latest examples of Trump’s Fractured Fairy Tales. Exhibit A (via Mediaite), after Trump … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill O'Reilly, cubist presidential candidate, Donald Trump, Donald Trump chaos, Doonesbury, Fractured Fairy Tales, Garry Trudeau, Georges Braque, Hillary Clinton, IRS, Mediaite, MOMA, Mr. Deportation Force, NBC News, O'Reilly Factor, Pablo Picasso, tax audit, The Hill, Watergate | 3 Comments

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 →

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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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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