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BSG Watch: Nobody's Perfect

SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather a group of no more than twelve associates and watch Friday’s Battlestar Galactica.

If you assume, and it seems pretty hard not to, that Battlestar Galactica was among other things an echo of America after 9/11, then what’s going on now seems pretty much …

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The Morning After: We're Back!

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I’m back from hiatus, as is much of the primetime TV schedule. Last night I caught my first episode of Aliens in America in several weeks. The show remains my favorite new sitcom of this season, and the episode—in which the Tolchuks befriend a convicted sex offender (so convicted for sleeping with his current …

Talking About: Spanish Painting

Ronni Baer co-curated “El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III”, the new show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A few weeks ago we sat down to talk about what she wanted that show to accomplish.

LACAYO: Art historians usually treat the reign of Philip III as a kind of so-so interregnum between his father Philip II, …

Thinking About The Gross Clinic

The Gross Clinic, Eakins, 1875 /Image: THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

They have finally tied up the last of the loose ends in the succession of deaccessions required to keep Thomas Eakins’ mighty canvas The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia. This is a sale that’s been wrapped into the larger uproar over schools like Fisk University and …

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The Morning After, Robo-Edition: Open Topic

This is Robo-James. The Morning After is the thread in which all humans may discuss recent television transmissions in the absence of Flesh James.

Suggestions this morning—free for all! NBC’s Thursday night comedies. ABC’s Thursday-night dramedies. Save your comments on Lost, however, as Flesh James has promised to prepare a Lostwatch …

Heeere’s Johnny!

I paid a revisit Thursday to the Courbet retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan. I’ll have more to say later, but for now I just want to offer this to Hollywood. If you ever make a Courbet bio-pic….

Self-Portrait (The Desperate Man), Courbet, 1844-45/ Image: COURTESY CONSEIL INVESTISSEMENT ART, BNP PARIBAS

…I know

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Vacation Robo-Post: What TV Show Should Become a Movie?

A vacation or two ago, I believe I robo-asked you which movie you’d like to see adapted to a TV show; this time I’m reversing it. There’s the reconception movie, in which a series like The Brady Bunch (or the forthcoming Get Smart) gets updated for a new generation. (Actually, I’m not sure Get Smart is as different stylistically or …

Late Titian: The Big Muddy

The Flaying of Marsyas, Titian, 1575-76 / Image: STATE MUSEUM, KROMERIZ

The late works of Titian were the subject of the big temporary show that just closed at the Accademia in Venice, where I caught up with it last week in its final days. Actually, it wasn’t that big, 28 canvases from the last decades of Titian’s long life, when his …

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Vacation Robo-Post: What's Your Make or Break TV Show?

A little explanation: this is not necessarily your favorite TV show. This is the TV show that, for some reaason, connects with you on a deep personal level, the show that gets you—the show, therefore, that you can use as a litmus test in determining your personal relations. If another person does not like this show, they cannot be your

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The Morning After, Robo-Edition: American Idol

This is Robo-James. The Morning After is the thread in which all humans may discuss recent television transmissions in the absence of Flesh James.

Today’s suggestion: American Idol! Which human’s cacophonous expulsion of air through its flesh-larynx did you find least objectionable? Robo-James believes season has gone downhill since …

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