Tag Archives: New York Review of Books

Donald Trump’s Hooded Father Got Busted at a 1927 Klan Riot

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

From our Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree desk As the world wonders whether the president of the United Staes is a racist, the hardworking staff was reminded of Adam Hochschild’s piece in the New York Review of Books last … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1927, Adam Hochschild, Donald Trump, Felix Harcourt, Fred Trump, Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s, Linda Gordon, Mike Pearl, New York Review of Books, New York Times, snopes.com, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, Trump racist, Vice | Leave a comment

NYT’s ‘New York City Haiku’ Has Nothing on Félix Fénéon

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

A few months ago the New York Times ran a New York City in 17 Syllables contest, soliciting haikus (three lines of five, seven and five syllables) about the Big Town. For National Poetry Month, The New York Times asked … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Colette, Félix Fénéon, French War Office, Georges Seurat, haiku contest, Henri Matisse, Huysmans, James Joyce, Julian Barnes, Laforgue, Le Matin, Les Illuminations, London Review of Books, Luc Sante, Mallermé, National Poetry Month, New York City Haiku, New York in 17 Syllables, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Northanger Abbey, Novels in Three Lines, Revue Blanche, Rimbaud, Times Haiku, Verlaine | 1 Comment

More Brutal Treatment of Paul Rudolph’s Architecture

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has previously noted the beleaguered buildings designed by midcentury modernist architect Paul Rudolph, which include two local landmarks: the old Blue Cross Blue Shield building at 133 Federal Street and the Government Service Center. Now comes the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 133 Federal Street, After You Left/They Took It Apart, Art & Architecture Building, Blue Cross Blue Shield building, Chris Mottalini, CURBED, Gene Kaufman, Government Service Center, Julie V. Iovine, Martin Filler, Michael Kimmelman, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Orange County, Orange County Government Center, Paul Rudolph, Renzo Piano, Steve Belkin, Steven Neuhaus, The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, Timothy M. Rohan, Tommy's Tower, Tuskegee University Chapel, Wall Street Journal, Yale University | 2 Comments

The Ruins of Paul Rudolph’s Architecture

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has long admired the architectural work of Paul Rudolph, especially his Blue Cross Blue Shield building at 133 Federal Street in Boston. (Our 2008 WGBH commentary here.) But not everyone does. So we read with interest in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 133 Federal Street, After You Left/They Took It Apart, Art & Architecture Building, Blue Cros Blue Shield building, Chris Mottalini, Martin Filler, New York Review of Books, Paul Rudolph, Renzo Piano, Steve Belkin, The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, Timothy M. Rohan, Tommy's Tower, Tuskegee University Chapel, Yale University | 14 Comments

Starkitect: The Two Facades of Frank Gehry

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Frank Gehry is the Rorschach test of modern architecture. And his latest creation – Fondation Louis Vuitton – is the ultimate inkblot. From Joel Henning’s mash note in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: A New Art Palace Sets Sail in Paris As you approach Frank … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bois de Boulogne, Boulevard Raspail, Bulgari, David Lynch, Dior, Donna Karan, Eiffel Tower, Eisenhower Memorial, Fendi, Fondation Cartier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Foucault's pendulum, Francis Bacon, Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gehry's Folly, Givenchy, Grand Palais, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Guillermo Kuitca, Jean Nouvel, Joel Henning, LMVH, Martin Filler, Moet Hennessy, Montgolfier balloon, New York Review of Books, Patti Smith, praeterition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Spirit of St. Louis, Vija Celmins, Wall Street Journal, Walt Disney Concert Hall | 6 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

Dead Blogging ‘Calder and Abstraction’ at PEM

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem yesterday to catch Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic at the Peabody Essex Museum and, say, it was swell. Alexander Calder’s abstract works revolutionized modern sculpture and made him one … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Burgess Meredith, Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, Creative Salem, Herbert Matter, IMDB, Jed Perl, Jeff Koons, John Cage, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York Review of Books, On Redefining Sculpture, Peabody Essex Museum, PEM, Stephanie Barron, The New Republic, The Penguin, Whitney Museum of American Art, Works of Calder | 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