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Last night was the latest round in America’s electoral free-for-all, a round that, depending on your perspective, was gripping and decisive or a meaningless beauty contest. I speak, of course, of the Omaha audition rounds of American Idol. A couple audition …
It appears that it wasn’t just California museums gaining from the work of Robert Olson, the alleged smuggler of Asian and Native American art who got five of them into hot water recently. In this morning’s Los Angeles Times, Jason Felch is reporting that it appears Olson also did significant business with Barry McLean, a major …
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I admittedly have been watching a lot of non-news-related TV for work the past few days. But judging by the post-South Carolina, post-Kennedy-endorsement election coverage, it seems worth asking: is the political media in the midst of a post-Iowa-style Obama swoon again?
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Here at Tuned In, we subscribe to the philosophy, Never write a post when your commenters will do it for you for free. Here’s Jonathan from yesterday’s LDG thread:
You haven’t said much, James, and I salute you for that (don’t want to be spoiled) – but can you at least tell us if you liked the first two eps? Quality-wise, were they on
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Even the mighty Sepinwall, who blogs with the strength of ten men, throws up his hands at the thought of blogging In Treatment every night, so I’m not going to try to be a hero about it, either. But I want to hear what you thought about it—keeping in mind that I thought the first night was the weakest—so if any of you disregarded my …
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I’ve gotta go straight to the press release on this one. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you myself:
(Monday, January 28; Washington, DC)–PBS confirmed today the title of its first-ever animated primetime series, a spin-off of Tom and Ray Magliozzi’s hit NPR show “Car Talk.” …
The ten 30-minute episodes of CLICK & CLACK’S AS
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(Apologies in advance for the longish post, but I watched 10 hours of HBO’s newest series only to write about 60 freaking words in the print TIME–that’s 10 minutes a word, folks–so I’ve gotta get my verbiage on here.)
HBO’s new series, In …
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So… ABC gave critics the first two episodes of Lost season 4. [Smirks.] Just thought I’d mention that.
What can I say about them? ABC sent the screeners with a vast list of spoiler-y type items that they ask critics not to mention–at least a few of which seem to be fairly common knowledge in the Lost Discussion community. But they …
Let’s wrap up that conversation with Jim Cuno, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, who’s forthcoming book is Who Owns Antiquities? In the part I posted yesterday Cuno explained that he’d like to see a return to the system of partage, which was once the rule for archeological digs. Under that system, source nations — meaning …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this edition of Wire Watch, look up the definition of “collegial” in the unabridged dictionary.
Wow. A lot happened last night, but all I really feel like doing is talking about that …
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I’m not usually in the habit of checking out the Screen Actors Guild Awards, but I watched a while last night, only because, well, the strike’s still on and I may as well get a look at what actors look like while I have the chance. The most notable thing I ended up seeing, though, was the daffiest commercial I’ve seen in a long time: a …
James Cuno, director of the Art Institute of Chicago, was in New York last week. He arrived with the architect Renzo Piano for a press luncheon about the new wing for modern art that Piano has designed for the Institute. Before lunch I sat down with him to talk about a different topic, …
To coincide with this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, TIME’s International edition asked me to write a brief essay/feature piece on the exceptionally large arts-related base of the New York City economy. I spend a fair amount of it talking about the chief threat to that economy, the phenomenally high real estate …
