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Xavier University Students & Alums Say ‘We’re Number 330!’
The Wall Street Journal’s College Rankings came out on Friday and – no surprise, really – Harvard came up number one. The hardworking staff, however, was more concerned with how our alma mater Xavier University (class of ’71) fared in … Continue reading
South Boston’s 02210 Lands on Wall Street Journal’s ‘Rich Zips’
For the past several years, the hardworking staff has been largely disoriented by Boston’s Waterfront development. Every time we venture there, it seems three new high-rises have sprung up and three dozen parking spaces have disappeared. Still, we were a … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Hans Hofmann’ at Peabody Essex Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem this past weekend to take in Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction (through January 5) at the expanded Peabody Essex Museum and say, the exhibit was swell although the #newPEM part was a … Continue reading
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Tagged #newPEM, Associate Curator of Exhibitions and Research, BAMPFA, Boston Globe, Curator of Fashion and Textiles, Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction, Iris Apfel, Lance Esplund, Lydia Gordon, Mark Feeney, Nancy Putnam, Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker, Peabody Essex Museum, Rare Bird of Fashion, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Wall Street Journal
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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
Trump Is a Chump™ (WSJ Trump Hotels Advertising Edition)
First, let’s stipulate that Donald Trump is the least self-aware U.S. president since post-stroke Woodrow Wilson. Let’s also stipulate that the Cheeto-in-Chief is more transactional than your neighborhood ATM. As one observer noted, Trump has no standards and no principles … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheeto-in-Chief, Donald Trump, post-stroke, Trump Hotels, Wall Street Journal, Woodrow Wilson
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Rafa! Rafa! Rafa! Nadal’s Signature Victory at the US Open
Rafael Nadal’s monumental win over Daniil Medvedev in yesterday’s U.S. Open men’s singles final was pure Rafa: Dominance, happenstance, hesitance, dominance. Highlights: The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay – as always – captured it perfectly. Let’s be candid … 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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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
WSJ’s Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Amazon/Big Town Edition)
From our Peggy Noodnik desk Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan filed a totally clueless piece in yesterday’s edition about Amazon’s folding like origami in the face of predictable opposition to its proposed headquarters in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, CNBC, Elizabeth Schulze, HQ2, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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