After five years the PBS series Art: 21 — Art in the Twenty-First Century is still the most enjoyable attempt to show a TV audience what contemporary artists do. It’s just about the only one, at least the only multi-part series, though there’s always the occasional documentary on cable and sometimes even a mini-festival of art docs. …
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Gourmet: A Magazine TV Show Sans Magazine
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The Mountain Goats Ascend Mt. Colbert
There was a collision at the intersection of Funny and Awesome last night as The Colbert Report hosted John Darnielle and his band The Mountain Goats. Darnielle’s music can be haunting, disturbing and beautiful, but the last thing I’d expect it to be is topical. And yet the band’s new album, The Life of the World to Come, whose songs are …
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The Morning After: Fallen Stars
It was widely reported enough yesterday that I doubt it qualifies as a Dancing with the Stars spoiler, but avert your eyes if you want to avoid them anyway: Tom DeLay ended his Cinderella bid for the DWTS crown yesterday, citing injured feet. (Another contestant was eliminated, but I’ll skip that spoiler here.)
You know well that I’m …
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Your Town, Too, Can Host a Bravo Show
This morning’s e-mail brings the unsurprising word that Bravo is expanding its Real Housewives franchise, picking up its previously announced Real Housewives of D.C. for a full series order, as well as a second season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
In other Bravo news, the network officially announced there will be a seventh …
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From the Comments: The Definitive Word on The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.
One thing I love about blogging, and my commenters, is that every once in a while a new and amazing comment will straggle in on a post I put up long ago. Over my last vacation, I posted an obscure, little-read remembrance of an obscure, little-watched kids’ show from the 1970s: The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. And just now, someone posted a …
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HIMYM Watch: The Professor of Desire
Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
The New Barnes
Last week I blogged pretty continually about The Art of the Steal, the new documentary about the long, sad struggle over moving the collection of the Barnes Foundation from its home in Merion, Pa. to downtown Philadelphia, a struggle which is pretty much over.
The first set of renderings for what will be the new home of the Barnes on …
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Letterman's Mea Culpa, Take Two [Updated]
After having said he wouldn’t have much more to say about his sextortion case and his relationships with women on his staff, at tonight’s taping, David Letterman did say more, including offering an apology to his wife and his staff members. Here’s a preview excerpt (from CBS, which took down YouTube video of Dave’s original …
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Letterman, the Monday After: You Still Watching (If You Ever Did)?
Today, David Letterman tapes his first Late Show since his revelation, prompted by an extortion attempt, that he’d had sexual relationships with female employees over the years. The post I put up the morning after that drew plenty of opinions about Dave’s behavior.
What I’m curious about, though, after the news has had a weekend to sink …
Ben and Zaha and Frank in Chicago
Okay, after all the text-heavy posting of last week, a rambling picture-heavy post today. I was in Chicago two weeks ago to appear on a panel and to catch up on developments since my last visit in May. One of those developments was the completion of two temporary pavilions in Chicago’s big outdoor showroom, Millennium Park. One is by …
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The Morning After: Sein, Sealed, Delivered
It’s days like this when the universe proves it has a sense of timing: within 24 hours, not only did Don Imus debut a TV show in the aftermath of a racial scandal, but Michael Richards returned to TV in the aftermath of his racial scandal. (If you’re David Letterman, by the way, are these comebacks a reminder of how mighty entertainers …
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Imus Debuts on Fox Business; Talks TIME, Drinking With Beck
Fans of cowboy-hatted angry scarecrows doing radio shows on TV had reason to rejoice this morning, as Don Imus returned to the air on Fox Business Network, after having left MSNBC following his “nappy-headed hos” scandal. (In the meantime, his show was carried for a period on RFD-TV.)
I’m not among those fans, so I don’t see myself …