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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
NYT’s Marie KONDO-19 Puff Piece Should’ve Been 86ed
Let’s stipulate that the New York Times has done a terrific job of covering the coronavirus crisis in its news and opinion pages. But did we really need this Like a Boss feature about kiss-it-goodbye queen Marie Kondo in yesterday’s Business section? … Continue reading
U.S. Trusts Donald Trump Over Religious Leaders, News Media
(With apologies to Herman Melville) Whenever the hardworking staff finds itself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in our soul; whenever we find ourselves involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear … Continue reading
Rafael Nadal Makes History, Roger Federer Makes $neakers
This past weekend Rafael Nadal led Spain to its sixth Davis Cup championship, winning all eight of his matches (five singles, three doubles) without dropping a set. Nadal’s 6-3, 7-6(7) victory over Canada’s Denis Shapovalov that clinched the title on … Continue reading
Newly Renovated MoMA Is Museum of Modern Arguing
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
Ric Ocasek NYT Obit Runs Same Day As Wife’s NYT Ad
Tip o’ the pixel to The Missus September 15th Jon Pareles New York Times obituary of Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. Ric Ocasek, New Wave Rock Visionary and Cars Co-Founder, Dies at 75 A Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, he wrote … Continue reading
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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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Juul Labs’ Vape-and-Mirrors 21+ Advertising Campaign
Juul Labs, which owns 75% of the e-cigarette market and is valued at over $38 billion, has been running a series of full-page ads in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that are at best misleading – and … Continue reading
