Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue3, Robert Irwin, 2007 — Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Yesterday I posted about Richard Serra’s 1974-75 piece Delineator. Blogger Tyler Moore got in touch to point out that for the ongoing Robert Irwin retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Irwin has produced what might …
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Cain, center, within Pegasus’ heart of darkness. SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal
Note: Friday’s a work day for me–at least, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it. But since I suspect it’s neither a work day nor much of a blog-reading day for you, posting will probably be light, and I thought I’d post this early:
In Battlestar …
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An interesting bit of speculation buried in today’s New York Times story on the writers’ strike: what if the strike, like many a TV show, went on hiatus?
Here’s the thinking. We’ve discussed the short-or-long theory of the strike before. The writers’ hope is that, by shutting down TV productions fast, they could hurt the studios more …
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Jamie Traceblood /The CW
I’ve pretty much been AWOL on Tuesday night reality TV this fall: Beauty and the Geek (used to love it, but triage issues), Dancing with the Stars, The Biggest Loser (how long is each episode now, like five hours?). What am I missing? Anything to say about The Bachelor: After the Final Rose? I understand it had …
San Francisco Federal Building, Morphosis, 2007 — All Photos: Richard Lacayo
Ever since I came back from San Francisco in September I’ve been meaning to post about the new federal building there by Thom Mayne’s firm Morphosis. While I was out there I got a tour of the place from Brandon Welling, the project architect, and Maria …
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LEE MENDELSON PRODUCTIONS,INC.
Why are there not more Thanksgiving holiday specials? (I’m not talking parades or football, but specials aired before the holiday.) It’s no Christmas, maybe, but it’s no slouch: a four-day weekend holiday of Americana and overeating. Is it a market-driven thing? No one gives Thanksgiving presents, so the …
In Greece last month I had a kind of deja vu experience that it took me a while to trace to its source. I would find myself underneath the architrave of some ancient temple — this doesn’t happen to you much in Manhattan — and feeling I had had this experience before. (Don’t worry, I’m not going to go all Shirley MacLaine here and …
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We haven’t talked about the Lost Missing Pieces webisodes, have we? Probably because there’s not so much to talk about. In the first installment, Jack gets a watch, and another heapin’ helpin’ of daddy issues. The second is more appealing, simply because we get to meet Neil Frogurt and discover that he something of a d-bag. But if we …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch last night’s Heroes. And FINISH YOUR CEREAL.
In this very special episode, a major character dies… for an entire commercial break!
Oh, right. That’s what a good episode of Heroes looks like.
There’s been a lot of hashing over this season about Heroes’ plot problems–storylines that …
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Monty Brinton/CBS
‘Tis the time to convene about last night’s TV, and since the clock is running down on its remaining pre-strike episodes, this is a good time to look at How I Met Your Mother. Despite–or perhaps because of–the fact that this season has backed off the meeting-your-mother premise, it’s been on a tear lately. I’ve …
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NBC Photo: Justin Stephens
Question of the Day: Which reality show is more badly misnamed–Dancing with the Stars (a.k.a. “Dancing with Where the Hell Is She From Again?”) or The Celebrity Apprentice?
The list of Donald Trump’s, ahem, celebrities–whose show debuts January 3–was released today, and is herewith reproduced and …
Brillo Boxes, Andy Warhol, 1969 — Norton Simon Museum © 2005 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
The Moderna Museet, Stockholm’s modern art museum, has determined that six Andy Warhol Brillo boxes in its collection are fakes. They were turned out by carpenters three years after Warhol’s death, at the request of the late …
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After spending nearly, like, a whole entire week as a web-only series, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick’s quarterlife has been signed up on NBC as a TV series to start in February.
The big irony here, as I robo-wrote last week, is that Herskovitz wrote an impassioned L.A. Times editorial earlier this month that aligned the hyperearnest …
