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Several weeks into its new season, and The Office has finally figured out what to do with its PB&J combo: split them up. Well, not break Pam and Jim up romantically, but give them some physical distance and each their own storyline.
First, Jim, who was shanghaied into the A plot by Michael and Dwight, who were out to seek prank-filled …
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Well, the Democratic Party and liberal Hollywood finally joined forces to stick it to Stephen Colbert. First came word, delivered to Colbert on The Colbert Report itself, that he had been rejected from the Democratic primary ballot in South Carolina:
Then the Writers’ Guild announced that it was going to go on strike, which will most …
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Here’s your spot to discuss last night’s TV, including what–though I won’t spoilerize it for you–had to be the most hilarious Survivor elimination of all time. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go pry off the wainscoting. There might be something valuable there.
Maroon/Martin Puryear, 1987-1988 Photo: Milwaukee Art Museum
Before we get back to things in London, let’s wrap up that interview with Martin Puryear, whose retrospective opens this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art.
LACAYO: You’ve spoken about how the most impressive things you saw while in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone were the …
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The South Park Imaginationland trilogy concluded last night, and I have only one question: why wasn’t this the next South Park movie that Matt and Trey keep saying they’d only make if they had a big enough idea?
Really, what idea could be bigger than an extended disquisition on the difference between real and imaginary beings, and which …
Lever #3/Martin Puryear, 1989 Photo: McKee Gallery, New York
Here’s a continuation of that interview with Martin Puryear on the eve of his MoMA retrospective.
LACAYO: I think of your work as post-Minimalist in the way of Eva Hesse’s. She started with the simplifications of form that Minimalism offered but saw a way to use simplified …
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TV and movie writers’ contract deadline passed at midnight; no strike yet, though one could be called any day. The LA Times has the deets.
The Writers’ Guild dispute–and strike, if it comes to that–is about a lot of things, but in a nutshell the biggest is: how TV and movie writers get paid when their work is distributed in the form …
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The good news: Joss Whedon has a seven-episode deal to make a new series, starring Eliza Dushku (Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Faith).
The bad news: it will be on Fox, the same people who brought you, then immediately started doing their damnedest to un-bring you, Firefly.
Let’s savor the good news for now, though, shall we? The series, …
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Monty Brinton/ CBS
I don’t need to explain it to you: I put up this post, you use it to comment on any aspect of last night’s TV you care to. So instead, I’ll leave you with the Kid Nation quote of the week: “Bill Gates has so much money! He made Microsoft and no one complained about that!”
Seriously, an hour of children shooting eggs …
Horsefly/Martin Puryear, 1996-2000 — Photo: MOMA
Richard Serra is a hard act to follow. But if there’s any American sculptor with a body of work to compare with his, it’s Martin Puryear, whose career retrospective opens Nov. 4 at the Museum of Modern Art. A few weeks ago, as he was installing the show at MoMA, I sat down with …
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In my Halloween-TV post earlier today, I mentioned local horror-movie hosts and yet inexplicably omitted The Ghoul–
— Detroit’s (and OK, Cleveland’s) premier bizarre horrormeister of my youth. (Apologies, Sir Graves Ghastly.) The Ghoul and sidekick Froggy, my Midwestern readers may be glad to know, are now kicking it online, with a …
Shibboleth/Doris Salcedo/2007 — Photo: Tate
One of the first things I did in London this week was head over to Tate Modern, where the newest site specific work in the Tate’s vast Turbine Hall, the Superbowl of contemporary art, is Shibboleth, by the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. It consists of a crack that runs the length of the …
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Is there any doubt that Halloween is the greatest holiday of the year? It combines the greed of Christmas with the gluttony of Thanksgiving in one paganistic package, celebrating terror, evil and death. Yet TV doesn’t go nearly as hog-wild on this most theatrical of holidays. I’ve already given a shout-out to It’s the Great Pumpkin, …
