Let’s finish that conversation with Jill Medvedow, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, where the Shepard Fairey retrospective continues through Aug. 16.
LACAYO: There’s a presumption sometimes that business messages are legitimate even if the businesses haven’t paid for the canvas. Do advertisers have to buy …
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I recently spent a week’s vacation home with my kids, who were off for spring break. That meant a lot of visits to museums and the like, which, if you are a parent, you know means repeated exposure to the message that they, you and the rest of humanity are a plague on the Earth. Aquariums, zoos, natural history museums—every visit …
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It was Disco Night on American Idol, in which we learned that Donna Summer was the most important musical artist of the 20th century, accounting for three of the seven performances. The threat of a double elimination tomorrow kept the singers on their toes. (I’m calling curtains for Lil and Matt, but Anoop could be in danger too.) And …
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Dust off the catwalk: Project Runway will make its debut on Lifetime August 20, the network announced today. The date is a bit curious—usually Runway seasons are timed to climax around spring and fall Fashion Week, but since this season’s final competition was held way back in spring Fashion Week, it’s not an issue this time.
Debuting …
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Add to the list of Things I Would Have Done Sooner But for Vacation: let you know that former time.com Work in Progress blogger Lisa Cullen (who took a buyout at the end of last year) has a new blog. Lisa writes to me:
[T]he blog is on this new site called True/Slant, which in essence is a blog platform for writers like me who like to
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First rule of Tuned In: the amount of time that I take for vacation will be roughly equivalent to the amount of time thereafter making excuses for work that I have not done, because I was on vacation.
Therefore: I am not ready to review the pilot of BSG prequel Caprica—released today on DVD—because the preview screener came in …
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Table for 12 is my new favorite of TLC’s big-family reality shows. It’s a little weird saying that you have a favorite big-family reality show, because it’s like saying that you like one family better than the others. Well, I’ll say it: I like Table for 12 because I like the Hayes family better than the others.
Of course, when I say I …
If you’re a magazine writer, you’re not eligible for the Pulitzers, which are strictly a newspaper prize. (Except obviously for books, plays and music.) So we magazine types regard them much the way that cats must look upon the Westminster Dog Show — nice show, other species. All the same I was gratified that this year the prize for …
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I don’t have a sense of the timeline, or how much of this report is solid vs. wishful, but Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a Hulu app is coming, within “a few months,” to the iPhone, allowing streaming of the TV-website’s videos over the mobile device. If this comes to pass, Alec Baldwin’s eating my brain will be a small price to …
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Britain’s Prince Charles had inserted his Royal Self into the plans for a proposed apartment complex in London designed by Richard Rogers’ firm. Charles objected to Rogers’ modernist design for the apartments, which are to go up across from Christopher Wren’s late 17th century Royal Hospital. In …
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Having been on vacation, I believe I am the last pop-culture writer in America not to have expressed an opinion about Susan Boyle. During the last week, the Britain’s Got Talent contestant has gone through a full-media cycle, and then some.
Like almost anyone else, I loved watching her TV-debut video, her silencing the sniggerers in the …
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* CNN fell behind not just Fox News but also Ashton Kutcher.
* But neither of them was as big as Susan Boyle.
* Fox News, meanwhile, served tea across the country on Tax Day. And at least one CNN correspondent was not going to take it. (Getting whipped by Ashton Kutcher probably didn’t help.)
* The SAG board approved a new …
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In the issue of TIME that went on newsstands Friday, I have a page on the biggest—arguably the only—network-TV hit of the 2008-09 season:
We all know by now the problems with major-network TV. There are too many other channels, other media, other diversions. The audience has been sliced and diced into confetti, and it is no longer
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