Sam Wagstaff & Robert Mapplethorpe by Francesco Scavullo — © Francesco Scavullo Editions
Over the weekend I caught a screening at the Tribeca Film Festival of Black White + Gray , a debut documentary by James Crump about Sam Wagstaff, the wealthy curator and photo collector who was mentor and lover to the photographer Robert …
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While I’m away this week, I thought I’d set up a daily discussion post at Tuned In, kind of like a color-coded set of frozen dinners for you to thaw and reheat in my absence. Herewith, the first of your freezer-burned treats:
A week from today, the broadcast networks announce their fall schedules at the upfronts in New York City. Which …
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I’m away this week, traveling to a family wedding. (I know! I just took a week off in April! We’re like the French here at Time Inc., except less well-dressed.) So posting will be lighter than usual. You’re welcome.
You’re not entirely off the hook, however. I’ve set up the RoboPoster 3000 machine to post some daily discussion …
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As a man in my late 30s, I know all about what it’s like to be a teenage girl with problems. The world seems confusing. Your body and emotions are changing. Society is sending you confusing messages. When it’s all too much to take, there’s just one person you want to turn to: the actress from Saved By the Bell and Showgirls.
Or at least my last word. For now. Or until my review of the Boston MFA’s Hopper show appears next week in Time.
While going through the show last week I was always aware of Hopper’s dark foliage, his way of indicating trees with a feathery mix of green and black, which makes the woods seem both beckoning and mordant. A few of the …
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There’s no Arts section proper this week in the print Time, because most of the issue is given over to the Time 100, in which I sing the praises of Tina Fey. Fey is one of several TV-related honorees, who also include America Ferrera, Simon Fuller, Rosie O’Donnell, Shonda Rhimes and Brian Williams.
I didn’t make the call to put any of …
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Gilmore Girls is dead. The CW network announced the show’s cancellation, after its May 15 finale, today. Variety has the news.
I feel a little sad and a little guilty, because I watched the show avidly for several seasons, then almost completely lost interest after Rory’s first season or so at Yale. Was I wrong? Feel free to leave your …
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I don’t really have anything to say about last night’s American Idol vote-off, except that America is a wise and discerning country. (I thought we’d get one or the other of Phil and Chris, not both.) But clearly you have something to say, judging by the free-for-all yesterday’s post incited in the comments, including: Bon Jovi’s merits, …
While making my way through the catalogue for the Edward Hopper show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts I came across a reproduction of this Caillebotte in Judith Barter’s essay on Hopper’s Nighthawks
Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877/Gustave Caillebotte — The Art Institute of Chicago
Barter cites the Caillebotte to contrast the position …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Lost yet, go to Hell. Or watch the episode, after which you’ll realize why I just told you that.
ABC/MARIO PEREZ
How much did I love this episode? I loved it so much I wanted to take it behind the Black Rock and get it pregnant. I loved it so much I wanted somebody to slip me an IV of …
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One more post in the spirit of ’80s Rock Day:
Among the technological archaisms I’ve had to explain to the Tuned In children–what a “record” is, why they call it “dialing” a phone, the fact that, once, you couldn’t rewind TV shows–is the fact that, a long time ago, musicians used to make little movies of their songs, and people …
Room in New York,1932 /Edward Hopper — Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln UNL-F.M. Hall Collection
I headed up to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts last week to catch an early look at the Edward Hopper retrospective that opens there on May 6. ( I’ll have more to say about it in an upcoming …
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My American Idol reviews are posted, and reading them over–yikes!–it would appear I do not care very much for the work of Mr. Jon Bon Jovi. Cue the angry e-mails from the Garden State! Seriously, though, if this is the best remaining choice we’ve got to represent rock on American Idol, then I greatly look forward to Poison Night next …
