Tag Archives: the Big Town

The Arts Seen in NYC (Backwards Museum Mile Edition)

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to see what we could see and say, it was . . . cold. But the artwork was swell. We hit the city around three o’clock … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Access + Ability, Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s, Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, Claude Monet, Cooper Hewitt, Edward Gorey, George Balanchine, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, Gorey's Worlds, Grant Wood, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, Lilies of the Alley, Louise Nevelson, Mel Bochner, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, Museum Mile, Museum of the City of New York, Neue Galerie, New York City Ballet, New York on Ice: Skating in the City, New York Silver Then and Now, Norell: Dean of American Fashion, Parc Monceau, Peter Schjeldahl, Pockets to Purses: Fashion + Function, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, Quicksilver Brilliance: Adolf de Meyer Photographs, Rod Keenan, Scenes from the Collection, the Big Town, The Body: Fashion and Physique, The Joys of Yiddish, The Met, The Museum at FIT, The New Yorker, The Red Flame, Wadsworth Atheneum, Whitney Museum | 1 Comment

WSJ and NYT Agree: John Lithgow Totally Gets Ring Lardner

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

For years now, the hardworking staff has expressed not fulsome (which means “effusive, excessive, or insincere praise”) but full-throated admiration for the work of Ring Lardner, who is either a minor major 20th century American writer or a major minor 20th … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged “How to Write Short Stories—With Samples”, Haircut, Jesse Green, John Lithgow, New York Times, P.G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, Stories by Heart, Terry Teachout, the Big Town, Uncle Fred Flits By, Wall Street Journal | 3 Comments

Big Town v. Bean Town (Guggenheim Fellowship Edition)

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Every year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards fellowships “to assist research and artistic creation.” And, as is its wont, the Foundation ran a full-page ad in the New York Times to announce its 2014 recipients. Massachusetts artists, scholars, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brooklyn, Christopher Castellani, Elena Ruehr, Five Boroughs, Grub Street, Guggenheim Fellowships, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Leading Men, MIT, New York, New York Times, no promo, Patty Chang, Roomful of Teeth, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Sven Hedin, the Big Town, The Wandering Lake, The Wandering Lake: Into the Heart of Asia | 2 Comments

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 | 5 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

Hark! The Herald! (Preview Edition II)

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Walt Whitman desk The Boston Herald will be doing some celebrating itself and singing itself tomorrow, thanks to a return trip to The Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages hit parade. Opening Week Look no further than today’s front pages to find out … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Herald, Daily News, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, New York Post, New York Yankees, the Big Town, The Newseum, Top Ten Front Pages, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

What I Caught

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

So the Missus and I went down the Big Town for a few days and here’s what we took in: • A charming Gauguin-and-his-influence show at the Wildenstein gallery. (Campaign Outsider Bonus Quote®: “When you see a Gauguin, you think, This … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Burtonauts, Burtonistas, Eero Saarinen, El Museo del Barrio, Man Ray, MOMA, Nexus New York, the Big Town, The Missus | 3 Comments