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We tend to write about big TV here at Tuned In: Lost, American Idol, The Sopranos, etc. Time is a big magazine, after all, and when I write about Travel Channel shows I love, the world does not exactly beat a path to my door.
But I love my little TV too. If I didn’t review shows for a living, I’d spend far more time surfing elitist …
Just a few more quick thoughts on the Louise Nevelson show that just opened at the Jewish Museum in New York.
The lead catalogue essay by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, who organized the show, makes a lot of Nevelson’s practice of redeeming junk she found in the street by incorporating it into her art. But for some reason Rapaport doesn’t …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you have not yet watched Lost, secure your gas mask. It’s going to get ugly.
This was not the best episode of Lost to be watching, on vacation, at my mother’s house, without benefit of TiVo. There were plenty of scenes I’d have liked to have paused, freeze-framed and rewound. Anyway, I’ll keep it brief(ish) and let …
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Here at Tuned In headquarters, I have limited access to our traffic statistics, which are overseen by the wizards behind the curtain at time.com. That means I have only a vague sense of what kind of posts people are most interested in reading. The comments-section activity is a vague guide, and sometimes a post will surprise me, such as …
Sky Cathedral Presence, 1951-64 — Collection Walker Art Center Minneapolis
I got an early look last week at the Louise Nevelson retrospective at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. Nevelson was already 60 when she had her breakthrough in the 1959 MoMA show Sixteen Americans that also featured Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg and other …
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In my absence this week, the editors of time.com have decided to do something really crazy with out weekly American Idol reviews and have them done by someone who actually knows something about music: Josh Tyrangiel, editor of time.com, Time magazine music critic and, after all the rounds of corporate cost-cutting we’ve done here, …
With Elizabeth II all the rage in the U.S. this week — look, she looks just like Helen Mirren! — the time is right for a quick check of news from the U.K.
And the news is — the four nominees for the Turner Prize were announced yesterday.
But the problem is — I doubt that the Turner carries much weight for most Americans. A …
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As mentioned yesterday, the broadcast networks announce their new fall schedules next week. What’s missing from primetime now that you’d most like to see added? (I’ll start: primetime musicals! I’m hoping CBS picks up its pilot Viva Laughlin, a remake of the British miniseries Viva Blackpool, a musical mystery involving a sleazy casino …
Sam Wagstaff & Robert Mapplethorpe by Francesco Scavullo — © Francesco Scavullo Editions
Over the weekend I caught a screening at the Tribeca Film Festival of Black White + Gray , a debut documentary by James Crump about Sam Wagstaff, the wealthy curator and photo collector who was mentor and lover to the photographer Robert …
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While I’m away this week, I thought I’d set up a daily discussion post at Tuned In, kind of like a color-coded set of frozen dinners for you to thaw and reheat in my absence. Herewith, the first of your freezer-burned treats:
A week from today, the broadcast networks announce their fall schedules at the upfronts in New York City. Which …
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I’m away this week, traveling to a family wedding. (I know! I just took a week off in April! We’re like the French here at Time Inc., except less well-dressed.) So posting will be lighter than usual. You’re welcome.
You’re not entirely off the hook, however. I’ve set up the RoboPoster 3000 machine to post some daily discussion …
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As a man in my late 30s, I know all about what it’s like to be a teenage girl with problems. The world seems confusing. Your body and emotions are changing. Society is sending you confusing messages. When it’s all too much to take, there’s just one person you want to turn to: the actress from Saved By the Bell and Showgirls.
Or at least my last word. For now. Or until my review of the Boston MFA’s Hopper show appears next week in Time.
While going through the show last week I was always aware of Hopper’s dark foliage, his way of indicating trees with a feathery mix of green and black, which makes the woods seem both beckoning and mordant. A few of the …
