Abu Dhabi Dilemma

In the British newspaper The Guardian Frank Gehry posted a few reflections today about his upcoming new Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi. The most interesting part is this: “Abu Dhabi does throw up some very particular issues for the Guggenheim and the display of art. I don’t think we’ll be allowed to display nudes, and there [...]

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Now Can YouTube Tell Us How He Got In the Wheelchair?

OK, so if I told you there is a YouTube video of someone drawing John Locke’s face on an egg using his computer, would that be worth a post? OK, maybe not. Suppose I told you that video was the third most-watched video of the day on YouTube as I write this? Still not so [...]

Letter Imperfect

After maintaining silence on the questions raised by the disclosure of MoMA Director Glenn Lowry’s wonderfully intricate compensation package, MoMA’s Chairman Robert Menschel and President Marie-Josee Kravis have spoken up by way of a letter to the editor in last Saturday’s New York Times, though not one that does much to clarify the questions about [...]

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Finding Jesus, Or Not

Was able to catch the purportedly sacrilegious Discovery documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus last night, after a brief outage in one of my TiVo tuners that I must take to be the work of an angry God. It takes more than divine intervention, however, to stop the Satanic force that is television criticism. I [...]

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BSG: Also Sprach Kara Thrace-stra

WARNING: If you haven’t watched last night’s Battlestar Galactica and don’t want it spoiled, go the frak away. SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal It’s a strange experience watching sci-fi shows on advance screener DVDs. Because so many scenes contain effects that are added in postproduction at the last minute, the episodes are often swiss-cheesed [...]