By A Waterfall

Eliasson, Freedman and Bloomberg at yesterday’s press conference / All Photos: RICHARD LACAYO They opened the faucets yesterday for The New York City Waterfalls, the industrial strength art project by Olafur Eliasson at four locations along the city’s eastern waterfront. Each of them consists of a steel scaffolding between 90 and 120 ft. high, about [...]

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More With Less

It’s not as if cuts in newsrooms are exactly surprising news anymore. But one of the latest in a long line of newspaper downsizings has a life-imitates-art angle for Tuned In’s fans of The Wire: The Baltimore Sun is expected to cut 20 percent of its newsroom staff. Watch your back, Gus Haynes.

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From Deadwood to Damages for Olyphant

The “Hire a Deadwood Vet” public-service campaign continues to bear fruit, as Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood’s Sheriff Bullock, joins the cast of Damages for next year’s season 2. Sez FX: Olyphant’s character will become tangled in the life of Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) as she deals with both her recent personal loss and the escalating conflict [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Locke Box

Bend it like Bentham. / ABC So Locke is dead. Or “dead.” Or… do we need to coin an adjective for the sort of dead-but-possibly-not, well-maybe-actually-dead-but-nonetheless-having-a-big-part-in-the-story state of being that is becoming common on Lost? Dëd, maybe? In any case, we can all agree that the producers will not be foolish enough to deny Terry [...]

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The Morning After: I Love the Present

The warning of U.S. Retro Secretary Anson Williams was a few years off, but it has finally come true: we have run out of past. Last night, VH1 aired I Love the New Millennium, one of its trademark specials wallowing in nostalgia for, um, a few years ago. Remember Jayson Blair? Remember McGriddles? Remember William [...]

Bag Man

Last year the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art decided that its Takashi Murakami exhibition, now at the Brooklyn Museum, required a Louis Vuitton boutique within the show as an actual gallery, not just as a gift shop. This was supposed to illustrate the way that Murakami straddled the world of art and merchandising. Why [...]