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New York Times Gives Blogosphere Props
For all the ripping off of blogs the mainstream media does (see Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub takedown of the Boston Globe last week), sometimes the MSM actually does the right thing. Exhibit A:...
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What I Caught (Picasso Edition)
So the Missus and I went to the Big Town for a Picasso-palooza and here’s what we took in: First Stop: the Museum of Modern Art for “Picasso: Themes and Variations,” a dazzling array of 123 prints from...
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What To See In The Big Town (con.)
As promised, more from the New York mu-see-um scene: • Charles LeDray: Workworkworkworkwork at the Whitney An amazingly ingenious and inexhaustible survey of LeDray’s handiwork. From the Whitney’s...
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Ada Louise Huxtable: MFA’s American Wing Fails To Take Flight
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal devoted a full page of its Leisure & Arts section to the new Art of the Americas Wing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. And – no surprise here – the paper’s dual...
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Fine Art, Well Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a new ad campaign with the theme, “MY MET. MY WEEKEND” that features celebrities from Hugh Jackman to Marc Jacobs highlighting their Met favorites (Village...
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The MFA Gets Postcards, The Met Gets Picassos
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...
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The Art Seen In New York (Magritte/Balthus Edition)
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...
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Ban the Museum Selfie Shtick!
William Grimes’s front-page piece in Sunday’s New York Times pinpoints one of the great tragedies of our times. Museum Rules: Talk Softly, and Carry No Selfie Stick In a famous lab trial, a chimp named...
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Tom Mashberg Is Still Trying to Catch a Thief
From our Late to the Search Party desk Former Boston Herald reporter Tom Mashberg has chased the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art snatch from March of 1990 to, well, three days ago. From Sunday’s...
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The Arts Seen in NYC (The Divine Patti LuPone Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to catch one thing and another and say, it was swell. First, of course, there was crosstown traffic, which takes roughly 30 minutes to...
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The Arts Seen in NYC (Fabulous Picasso Sculpture Edition)
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 Wendell...
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The Arts Seen in NYC (Long Day’s Journey Edition)
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 way, not...
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The Arts Seen in NYC (‘Modigliani Unmasked’ Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to see what we could see and, say, it was swell. We hit the city Friday afternoon and headed right over to the Fashion Institute of...
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Opioid-Pushing Sacklers Administer Advertising Methadone
Let us now speak of the Sackler brothers – Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond – patriarchs of the pharmaceutical-fueled family that has made billions of dollars from the sale of OxyContin, the marketing of...
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The Arts Seen in NYC (Backwards Museum Mile Edition)
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 and headed...
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Purdue Pharma’s Opioid Ads Keep Trying To Dull America’s Pain
As the hardtsking staff has previously noted, the fabulously wealthy Sackler family, which unleashed OxyContin on an unsuspecting American public, played a key role in the country’s current opioid...
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The Arts Seen in NYC (#StraightWhiteMen Preview Edition)
Well the Missus trundled me down to the Big Town for my birthday last weekend and, say, it was swell. (It also marked the start of a year’s worth of my saying, à la Raymond Chandler, that I’m pushing...
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Purdue Pharma Opioid Ads Keep Trying to Dull Sackler Pain
As the hardworking staff has resolutely noted, OxyContin pusher Purdue Pharma has been spending millions of dollars in an attempt to 1) adwash the Sackler family’s responsibility for hooking millions...
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The Arts Seen in NYC (Joan Miró’s ‘Birth of the World’ Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town to go a-museuming this past weekend and say, it was swell. Having successfully fought our way down a Friday I-95, navigated the obstacle course from...
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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...
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