+Looking Around | 1565 days ago

Penn Central

By Richard Lacayo

Glazier, Irving Penn, 1950 /IRVING PENN/CONDE NAST The news that the Getty has purchased a complete master set of Irving Penn’s series The Small Trades — 252 portraits of working people that he made in the 1950s — reminded me of one of the pictures in the show of Penn portraits of artists and writers [...]

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Tuned In+Advertising | 1565 days ago

Diversity Lesson of the Day: Mocking Chinese More Offensive Than Mocking Indians

By James Poniewozik

Gung Hey Fat Choy! Salesgenie.com is celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year by pulling its Super Bowl ad, featuring pandas speaking in exaggerated Chinese accents, because it turns out that people get offended by that sort of thing. Exaggerated Indian accents, though? Not so much. The company has no plans to retract its other newly-debuted ad, [...]

+Looking Around | 1565 days ago

Home Away from Home

By Richard Lacayo

Toxic Schizophrenia/Hyper Version, Tim Noble and Sue Webster / MCA DENVER I see that the first American site specific commission for the British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster is Toxic Schizophrenia/Hyper Version, the largest yet variation on their signature heart and dagger motif. It recently went up in front of the new Museum of [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1565 days ago

Woke Up This Morning, Got Yourself Arrested

By James Poniewozik

Eight months later, it still makes me a little sad to see a headline like this and then realize I won’t get to see how David Chase will work it in to The Sopranos.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1565 days ago

Success and the City

By James Poniewozik

Lindsay Price, Shields and Raver. / NBC Photo: Andrew Eccles Tonight, NBC debuts Lipstick Jungle, its entrant in TV’s burgeoning story-about-rich-and- powerful-women-in-Manhattan-from-someone -associated-with-Sex-and-the-City genre. ABC’s Cashmere Mafia came from SATC producer Darren Star; Lipstick was created by Candace Bushnell, who wrote the column SATC was based on, and wrote the book Lipstick is based on. [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 1565 days ago

It's 2008. Do You Know Who Your Reporter Is Voting For?

By James Poniewozik

Writing about election coverage, I have disclosed, probably to the point of tediousness, that I voted for Obama. I think it’s a good thing for you to know, but I really do it for me. It’s important to me that I have enough perspective to critique campaign coverage whether it works for my candidate or [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1565 days ago

The Morning After: Fashion Week Edition

By James Poniewozik

It’s Fashion Week in New York, so I would be remisss if I did not post a Project Runway discussion thread this week. As usual, I haven’t watched yet, so I’m sticking my fingers in my ears, but do your worst. Tomorrow, incidentally, the finalists hold their runway show in The Tent at Bryant Park. [...]