The end of the day is party hour at the Biennale. Last night there was a choice between another gathering at the Guggenheim Museum on the Grand Canal and a party for the Tate on the yacht of Ella Fontanals Cisneros, the founder of Miami Art Central, the contemporary art museum . I talked with her for a while about the challenges still …
Venice: More on What’s in (Rob) Storr
At the press conference for the Biennale media previews, Rob Storr observed that “we are living in pretty terrible times.” He also said that his big international show, which takes up the enormous main building of the Arsenale, has in it “reflections of that history.” To put it mildly. In fact, the first half or more of his group …
The Big Show
Venice in the pouring rain. Forget the Venice of Caneletto and Monet. Think Turner and Whistler. Sometimes it stops for a while. The birds chirp tentaively. Then the skies open again. Myself and the rest of the Migratory Art Herd all huddle under our umbrellas, trying to keep our catalogues dry.
The Biennale was founded in 1895 as …
The Venice Biennale: On Your Mark, Get Set
The migratory art herd is all here. (That of course includes me.) Lots of women in Prada. Lots of guys in Dieter Sprocket gear. (Shaved head, glasses, black suit — hey wait; that describes me, too.) And though this isn’t a sales fair, lots of shop talk. Coming up in a few hours, the press conference to open the media preview …
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Lost Discussion Group: Who's On the Boat?
Late in last week’s Lost summer seminar thread, Chaddogg put forth a plausible, and kinda creepy, season-4 opening scenario:
I really think the opening of Season 4 will be upon Naomi’s ship, and probably in the “captain’s” office/room. He’ll be seen (his body, that is, not his face) pouring himself a whiskey (maybe the same brand that
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It's Alive! (Last Traffic-Pandering Jericho Post. For Today.)
It’s official: Jericho has been resurrected by CBS, seven episodes for next season. Says this afternoon’s memo from Nina Tassler (read the whole thing at the CBS Jericho board, and thanks for the link, Becca):
To the Fans of Jericho:
Wow!
Over the past few weeks you have put forth an impressive and probably unprecedented display of
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JPTV Jr.: Lost for Kiddies
Regular readers of this blog know that Tuned In Jr. and Tuned In Jr. Jr.–like the good alternaparent progeny they are–are fans of They Might Be Giants, and that we have a regular ritual of cruising for TMBG videos on YouTube. In the course of surfing, we’ve come across a strange genre: the burgeoning field of amateur videos for …
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Jericho Update: Jericho Gets Jerichoed with a Jericho by the Jericho. Jericho!
Excuse the hed, but we’re all about search-engine optimization here, and apparently mentioning “Jericho” is all you have to do to get a rush of traffic to a TV blog.
The news: The LA Times gets confirmation of the Jericho-resurrection talks from the producer.
The bad news: The deal would be for only eight episodes at midseason.
The …
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Test Pilot: Viva Laughlin
CBS
This is the first installment of Test Pilot, a semiregular feature this summer sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But, premature …
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Jericho: The Nuts May Have Won This One!
TV Week is reporting what would be a stunning turnaround if it pans out: Jericho may be un-cancelled after all. Fans of the show, infuriated by the postapocalyptic serial’s cancellation in mid-cliffhanger, have bombarded CBS with complaints, as well as box after box of peanuts, in order to persuade the broadcaster to bring their show …
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The Decency Police Lose Their Day in Court
I’m on deadline for the print TIME today–busily cutting down tiny little trees and fashioning them into words for the magazine–but I wanted to point you to yesterday’s appeals court decision striking down FCC indecency fines, which is a potentially huge step in reversing the FCC’s post-Janet indecency campaign. While the case …
On the Road Again
Hope to have this lemonade stand back up and running by late tomorrow. Where am I headed this time? Well, it’s a place that been called “the thinking man’s Disneyland.”
Though lately, it’s also been turning into artworld Wrestlemania.
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A Day at the Museum Media Center
Interesting item in today’s New York Times about a small but telling change at the Museum of Television and Radio: it is no longer a museum, much less one of television and radio. Beginning today, the midtown Manhattan institution is being rechristened as The Paley Center for Media.
You can quibble with the new name, which to me sounds …
