Tag Archives: The Met

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aloïse Corbaz, American Folk Art Museum, Anna Zemánková, August Klett, Augustin Lesage, Bard Graduate Center, Ben Shahn, Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence, Bicycle Wheel, Bill Traylor, Billie Tsien, BODYWARP: Casting Series, Burke Prize 2019, Cabaret, Charles Sheeler, Charlie Willeto, Company, Dr. Valerie Steele, Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art, Edouard Manet, Edouard Vuillard, Emery Blagdon, Ethel Barrymore, Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet, Fiddler on the Roof, Fish and Shrimp, FIT Museum, French Fashion/Women/and the First World War, Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques, George Abbott, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Arnhold’s Meissen Palace: Celebrating a Collector, Herbert Muschamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm, In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection, In the Company of Harold Prince, Indira Allegra., Jacob Lawrence, John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, Laura Jacobs, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Les Nabis, Lindsay Pollock, MAD, Madame Manet, Making Marvels: Science & Splendor at the Courts of Europe, Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum, Marcel Duchamp, Martín Ramírez, Martin Filler, Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Modern Art, N.C. Wyeth, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York Times, Norman Rockwell, Norton Simon Museum, Paris Capital of Fashion, Pierre Bonnard, Power Mode: The Force of Fashion, Printer of Disquiet, Rachel Feinstein: Maiden Mother Crone, Readymade in Paris and New York, Robert Johnson, Robin Pogrebin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Stephen Sondheim, Stuart Davis, Sweeney Todd, Swiss Army Wife, Sydney Franklin, Terry Teachout, The Architect's Newspaper, The Frick Collection, The Girl With the Gallery, The Last Knight: The Art Armor and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Met, The Morgan Library & Museum, The New York Review of Books, The Phantom of the Opera, The Ragpicker, The World of Anna Sui, theObjectified, Thornton Dial, Tod Williams, Vallotton Intimacies, Vanessa Friedman, Wall Street Journal, West Side Story, William Butler Yeats, William Edmondson, Winston Churchill, Yasuo Kuniyoshi | 2 Comments

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

Dead Blogging ‘Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec’ at Currier Museum

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Granite State over the weekend to catch The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Museum of Modern Art (through January 7) at the Currier Museum of Art and say, it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andy Warhol, Currier Museum of Art, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, lithography, Museum of Modern Art, The Met, The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Museum of Modern Art | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aelita: Queen of Mars, African Princess clock, Alexander Rodchenko, American Folk Art Museum, Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, Andy Warhol, Arkady Shaikhet, Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet, artinery, Émile Zola, Becoming Jewish: Warhol’s Liz and Marilyn, Ben Brantley, Catalan Noucentismo, Clive Owen, Collection de l'Art Brut, cubism, Dead Treez, Douglas Hodge, Ebony G. Patterson, El Lissitzky, Elizabeth Taylor, Evan Cabnet, Eve Best, Harold Pinter, Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey 1934–1954, Jacqueline de Ribes The Art of Style, Jean Dubuffet, Jean-Baptiste-André Furet, Jewish Museum, Joaquín Torres-García, Keira Knightley, Kelly Reilly, Kongo: Power and Majesty, MAD, Marilyn Monroe, Max Penson, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Modern Art, Neo-Plasticism, New York Times, Old Times, Picasso Sculpture, Roundabout Theatre Company, shabbes elevator, Soldier Spectre Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War, Studio 54, Thérèse Raquin, The Luxury of Time, The Met, The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography Early Soviet Film, The Red Flame, Time Has No Shadows, Ultraism-Vibrationism, Unorthodox, Valeska Soares, Wendell Castle, Wendell Castle Remastered | Leave a comment

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

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

What We Caught In The Big Town

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town for most of last week, and here’s a taste of the arts seen there. Wednesday After an uneventful, if costly, drive to the City (seriously – they’re raising the extortionate … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe, Boston Globe, Ellen Barkin, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, Frick Collection, George Bellows, Guggenheim, Madeleine Martin, Mare Cunningham, Matisse: In Search of True Painting, Museum of Arts and Design, New-York Historical Society, Picasso Black and White, Picnic, Portrait of a Peasant, Regarding Warhol, Rosalind Russell, Sebastian Smee, Sebastian Stan, The Art of Scent, The Met, The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, The Whitney, Vincent Van Gogh, Weekly Standard, William Holden, William Inge, WWII & NYC, Yale University Art Gallery | 4 Comments

Arts Seen In The Big Town (Lonely, I’m Not Edition)

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

So the Missus and I trundled Uptown to do some Met/gallery-hopping, and here’s some of what we saw (sorry, no visuals or links – we’re iPadlicked): THE MET ALMOST ALWAYS MEETS EXPECTATIONS The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Domenico Gnoli, Francoise Gilot, Gagosian Gellery, Lonely I'm Not, Luxembourg & Dayan, Pablo Picasso, Schiaparelli and Prada, The Met, The Steins Collect, Topher Grace | Leave a comment