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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
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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Donald Trump Is Truly America’s First Cubist President
From our Pablo Picasso desk Last fall the hardworking staff noted – Exclusive! – that Donald Trump Is Our First Cubist Presidential Candidate (Because He’s on Every Side of Every Issue). We even provided this handy clip ‘n’ save graphic, compliments of … Continue reading
Donald Trump Is Our First Cubist Presidential Candidate (Because He’s on Every Side of Every Issue)
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
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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
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Dead Blogging ‘Picasso to Warhol’ at Lowell Textile Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Lowell over the weekend to catch Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol at the American Textile History Museum and, say, it was swell. From their website: The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts … Continue reading