Mark Rothko at Tate Modern

Mural for End Wall (Untitled), Mark Rothko, 1959 /NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON Another reason for my trip to London last month was to catch an early look at the show of Mark Rothko’s late works that just opened at Tate Modern. This is an exhibition built mostly around the series of paintings that Rothko [...]

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Corporate Press Release Theater: The Clone Wars, A Hit It Is

Turning away the disdain of TV critics like so much Sith lightning, The Clone Wars tapped into the cortexes of America’s younglings and delivered big numbers for Cartoon Network on Friday: The Force is with Cartoon Network as Star Wars™: The Clone Wars™ Blasts Off as the Most-Watched Series Premiere in Network History Fresh from [...]

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Easy Money: Where Credit Is Due

Hephner and Metcalf make it look Easy. / Lewis Jacobs /The CW You might be surprised to hear that the best new network show of the fall season may well be on The CW, shunted onto a throwaway night that the network turned over to an outside production company to fill with programming. Because The [...]

Auction House Follies

Two interesting bits of market related news in recent days. Over at Modern Art Notes, blogger Tyler Green has been calling attention to the report that the University of Iowa Museum of Art has prepared for the University’s board of regents concerning the possibility of selling the Museum’s most important possession, Jackson Pollock’s great Mural. [...]

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Mad Men Watch: Father Knows Worst

AMC SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, run away to a neighbor’s playhouse and watch last night’s Mad Men.

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The Morning After: Palin vs. Palin

What will Saturday Night Live do when the election is over? For that matter, what will they do if Sarah Palin and that other guy lose? Saturday, SNL kept the Alaskan gravy train running with yet another skit, this one clocking in at a plus-sized eleven minutes and change. As a comedy bit, this didn’t [...]