In the British newspaper The Guardian Frank Gehry posted a few reflections today about his upcoming new Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi. The most interesting part is this:
“Abu Dhabi does throw up some very particular issues for the Guggenheim and the display of art. I don’t think we’ll be allowed to display nudes, and there are all sorts of
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OK, so if I told you there is a YouTube video of someone drawing John Locke’s face on an egg using his computer, would that be worth a post? OK, maybe not. Suppose I told you that video was the third most-watched video of the day on YouTube as I write this? Still not so much? OK, how about the fact that there exists an entire genre of …
After maintaining silence on the questions raised by the disclosure of MoMA Director Glenn Lowry’s wonderfully intricate compensation package, MoMA’s Chairman Robert Menschel and President Marie-Josee Kravis have spoken up by way of a letter to the editor in last Saturday’s New York Times, though not one that does much to clarify the …
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Was able to catch the purportedly sacrilegious Discovery documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus last night, after a brief outage in one of my TiVo tuners that I must take to be the work of an angry God. It takes more than divine intervention, however, to stop the Satanic force that is television criticism.
I can’t say, I have that much to …
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WARNING: If you haven’t watched last night’s Battlestar Galactica and don’t want it spoiled, go the frak away.
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It’s a strange experience watching sci-fi shows on advance screener DVDs. Because so many scenes contain effects that are added in postproduction at the last minute, the episodes are often
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Any given season, there are at least a couple series that I watch, loyally and attentively, even though they are not, in any aesthetically defensible sense of the word, good. This year, that award has to go to Jericho, CBS’s postapocalyptic drama set in Kansas after a multiple nuke attack cripples the U.S. The
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Who’s afraid of YouTube? Viacom may be, but not Her Majesty’s broadcasters. The BBC has just announced a deal to launch three channels on YouTube, which will carry BBC news, documentaries and clips and video diaries from programs including Doctor Who. The broadcaster says it has worked out a …
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My Culture Complex column in this week’s Time looks at the Lost Tomb of Jesus controversy as an example of the love/hate/love-to-hate relationship between Hollywood and Christianity.
Just to be clear: I’m not taking a side on the accuracy of the documentary, or for that matter the New Testament; you want to hear from someone who …
A Brit weighs in on the New York street art splatterer.
(I think I may have just wanted to put up a post that consisted almost entirely of links. Blogging is an art form too!)
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[Before anyone gets all exercised, the title refers to this. Clip made relatively SFW by bleeping, sadly.]
It’s always a pleasure to discover that a series I’ve favorably reviewed actually stays good after the opening episodes. That’s the case with The Sarah Silverman Program, which I’ll be watching
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It wasn’t bad enough that guerilla marketers ripped off street art ideas to panic the whole innocent city of Boston. Now the New York Times is reporting about another development that’s had street art people buzzing in New York for a while. Somebody is going around Brooklyn and lower Manhattan and trashing their work with paint …
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Virginia Heffernan over at the New York Times blog mill has one of those wish-I’d-thought-of-it-first posts, about YouTube as a parenting tool. I thought of her post this morning as the Tuned In brood shared a light media snack of the OK-Go treadmill video. (The panda sneeze is another favorite, and a favorite pastime is doing random …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched Lost yet, avert your eyes before you get struck by a meteor. Or an asteroid. I don’t know the difference.
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Last night, Lost got back to the core of what the show is all about. Not the characters, or the mystery, or the numbers, or the relationships, or any of that. I’m talking about …
