Unidentified/ 1950s — Photo: National Gallery of Art
Incredibly, I’m back on the road again, again. (Didn’t I just get home?) I’ll be checking back in tomorrow. But before I leave town I wanted to offer a comment or two on “The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978,” a new show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which …
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“We ask a lot of love.” –May
HBO photo: Doug Hyun
Only time for a quickie today. That’s what she said! Sorry, I couldn’t resist. That’s what she–
OK, seriously. You can’t really write about Tell Me You Love Me without having sex on the brain, and this episode was a reminder of how much the series is about the consequences–and the …
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Push, Nevada no longer holds the record as most disastrous show ever set in the Silver State. CBS, Variety reports, has already canceled Viva Laughlin. Laughlin aired two episodes, so it doesn’t beat ABC’s Emily’s Reasons Why Not–axed after one–but on a sheer debut-to-cancellation scale, it’s impressive: killed a mere …
Kimbell Art Museum/Louis Kahn — Photo: Kimbell Art Museum
I’m back from Dallas with a couple of final thoughts from my trip there.
1. First, about “The Future of the Past, ” the conference I attended at Southern Methodist University. Most of it was focused on the split between archeologists on one side and museums, dealers and …
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I’ll admit, when I first heard that Stephen Colbert was running for President, my reaction was: Oh, Stephen, you can do better. Colbert, I thought, was too much of an original to be reviving a stunt that’s been done for generations by TV comedian and cartoon character alike. But as with so much about The Colbert Report, having a …
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Frank Micelotta / FOX
So did anyone else watch The Next Great American Band (i.e., “We Wish We Could Air American Idol Twice a Year”) Friday night? While it doesn’t look like the travesty that American Juniors was (before it launched Lucy Hale to Bionic Woman semistardom), I was surprised the quality of the bands in the two-hour debut …
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WARNING: People who get offended by things will get offended by the following videos.
I usually TiVo South Park and watch it too late to blog about it, but I finally watched this week’s part 1 of the Imaginationland trilogy. And watched it again. And might watch it one more time. Oh. My. God. If Parker and Stone keep it up at this …
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Bob D’Amico / Disney Channel
In this week’s shiny-paper edition of TIME, I have (with the help of Amy Goehner and Rebecca Winters Keegan) looked into the fearsome heart of the pop-culture force that is Hannah Montana. For those of you (like me) without tween daughters, Hannah Montana is a Disney Channel show starring Miley Cyrus (yes, …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, load up your Kodak Carousel and watch the Mad Men season finale.
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So despite the warnings of the industrialized world’s largest force of trained television critics, did you watch Viva Laughlin anyway? Time to chime in on that or any other of last night’s TV. The Office was nice and poignant, though I’m eager to get back to the half-hour format, while 30 Rock absolutely killed. …
A brief report from the first day of that conference on “cultural property” I’m attending at Southern Methodist University in Dallas:
On the question of how to deal with antiquities, there’s a big division in the artworld. On the one side are the archeologists, who think art collectors and museums should all but stop buying ancient …
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I’m usually hesitant to link to Time Inc. sister sites because it looks like shameless corporate whoring. And yet it never manages to do anything for the share price. But I think you’ll be interested in this. In an excerpt from an upcoming book, David Chase talks to Entertainment Weekly about That Last Scene:
There are no esoteric clues
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The New York Times’ erudite and funny TV/online-media critic and The Hills booster Virginia Heffernan has a new blog, or a new version of her old blog. The Medium is the new iteration of her blog Screens, which was one of the best things out there critiquing anything involving little pictures that move. (I’ll update my blogroll link …
