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I think I'll wait for Jamie Lee Curtis' memoirs. Which should at least have more nude scenes.

FLASH! - Apparently Hailee really was thirteen at the time of filming... DOH!

I think I'd save my money Jim, and just buy a particular issue of either, if it looked really good. Same deal with the American/foreign mags. Why commit yourself to mags with manifest shortcomings?

I will go and see this one, although my hopes are not high. Maybe Clint is past it. Reports slam the thing. Those multi-plot numbers are tricky. Cecile is getting on and knows when to take the money. Sigh.

So how come he lives in Germany, now? I got the part that he was passive in the decision, but still, then he goes on about all the things he's not passive about, but we never get back to WTF he's doing there, wherever it is - somewhere in the German countryside (near Ludwigshafen?) For years he was ...

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It's pretty sordid.

I'm inclined that way about most theatre.

Although I still go...

No certainties, certainly.

Just overwhelming probabilities and propensities...

A painter of the same stripe as... other stripe painters.

Yep Uncle Sam.jackboot ready to move on undesireable domain names!



Obama, Obama, so much to answer for...

Trouble is, we're just not attracting enough contributors (unlike PNYC, which had a ripe crew). This may be because we're based in London and not NY (the same thing happened on LondonPainting), or it may be, as is often pointed out, that blogging peaked in 2007 (according to hits stats, advertising,...

Okay I haven't actually seen this new Clint Eastwood opus, just heard about it. Most importantly, it features Cecile de France speaking english! So already I yam in 7th 'eaven. Word is, it's one of those multi-plot episodic things, a bit like Iñárritu's Fable , if you can remember back that far, onl...

A pretty bitchy obit from Michael McNay in The Guardian.

But that's about par for the course.

http://whitehotmagazine.com/index.php

Loads of reviews and gallery goss from American trendy-wendies. Useful for peeking over at the sucky side of art.

Shouldn't this be under Randon Stuff?

Yeah I'm sort of fascinted how the Stez finally made the cut. In the age of Photoshop and morphing (mightily! rangers!) this stuff looks flat footed, luddite.

I think it's a kind of camp thing, on reflection. The old Hollywood sirens give it away a bit. Cherchez the homo insiders!

Sorry, when did Multiculturalism actually start? I think I missed that.

Although Motliculturalism works for me as well.

PaintersNYC was a blog dedicated to painting exhibitions in New York. At first, it dealt only in artists based in New York, later in artists from anywhere. It began in November 2005 and petered out in July 2008, for reasons never explained by its administrator, who used the tag of Painter. It was b...

I am not a kid. I am not in L.A. And I am not skinny.

So I'm alright.

The series did go on forever. I think that has something to do with HBO's programing formats. But the writers also had a quite a few axes to grind. The treatment of Benjamin Franklin is quite outrageous.

You're clearly a bitter man Jim. Tait may be a bit over-rated, but I don't see him as being in the same class as Condo. Nor is he as well entrenched in the market. I don't think it's worth specialising in the vastly over-rateds either. It's enough to call them on it as opportunity arises. My pet hat...

Those are pretty amazing hit stats JJ. But are they accurate? Hits counters in my experience being notorious variable (depending how and when a hit is counted) and frankly unreliable. Still I feel that way about stats generally.

I never saw the 1969 version, starring John Wayne (his only Oscar) so I can’t compare. But for a Coen Brothers movie , this is pretty good. Usually I find their stuff too clever and knowing by half, so much so, they usually end up shooting themselves in the foot, in terms of tone, pacing or resoluti...

Nope. Maybe try putting up notices at gallery/openings or something? It's going to have to be a word-of-mouth viral thing.

I've noticed that in coming up with a topic, the character limit or number of letters and spaces alloted is a bit short, JJ. You couldn't allocate say, another fifty characters, could you?

This is the title from Jonathan Jones' current blog @ The Guardian. Like almost everything Jones' says, I find it utterly wrong. The argument is that the critic (his example is Denis Diderot preferring Greuze to Boucher, then later, John Ruskin) is not obliged to be correct or right in passing judge...

Just your typical Hackney opening really.

Sorry can't resist sharing this one.

This is a terrible site that you will never want to go to. I'm only telling you about it because I know you would at least want to know about it.

It will be some consolation that posts there have dropped off in the past six months...



No my camera is not broken.

With a total membership at present of only 34, I'm wondering if it isn't time for a membership drive or something JJ...

Okay so I'm not the first one to notice the similarity.

Does it still count as TV if it's just a DVD? Well anyway, I was watching that HBO series of some years ago - John Adams - great revisionist American History - except for the wobbly camera operating. I don't know why they did that - the jittery style. I always hate it, except in newsreels. Whatever....

Or how U.S. law got corrupted by corporate lobbying. This review offers a preview to the little doc by Susan Saladoff at the Sundance Festival making waves. :o Well she's only dealing with food franchises like MacDonalds, that have engineered benign ceilings for customers suing over harm from corpor...

The blending of cartoon with vigorous gesture is a recurring ideal in painting. I date it to Rauschenberg’s early 50s collages, but maybe further back to Schwitters, who preferred to just tear them kurtly to schwitters. Anyway Saul started out trying it, Guston ended up trying it, de Kooning glimpse...

Like Contemporary Art Daily, this blog covers shows across the U.S. and Western Europe, although my impression is it looks more at Paris than CAD. It also has the advantage of sub-dividing its posts into painting, sculpture, prints, installations, etc. But also like CAD, you go to it for high qualit...

Here is a picture of George and wife Anna at the opera . There's another cute picture of him somewhere with Cecily Brown, but I can't find it just now. Come to think of it, I'm sort of annoyed my stuff isn't as expensive as Currin's, as well.... Something I didn't see too much of in the New Museum s...

True, they're slack. It's the same with Show of The Week, I'd recommend it, but posts are more like Show of every second or third month. Not enough!

Still, that's blogging these days. They're not old school like you and I, JJ.

Okay so it’s not really fair to label him as late Neo-Ex, when New York painting proceeds by 1978’s New Image Painting and Bad Painting (the Marcia Tucker version – a New Museum show, naturally) to arrive at its own idle caricature and parody. And the East Village trend (of 1983-4) is mainly for ‘Ba...

Contemporary Art Daily has excellent coverage of shows at NY, LA and many German galleries. It allows comments, but prefers them to be positive. When they get too pointed (even when not personal) they delete them. Worth looking at, but don't go there for the conversation.

Here - it's sort of interesting, in a bitchy, art-scene-slave way.

The abbreviated link is not working JJ. Maybe you're better off embedding it.

George Condo - Mental States : it seems like a New Museum-scale show. It remains to be seen how much of the Hayward they lavish upon it. But Condo’s always been an insider – blue chip Euro galleries like Bischofberger taking him up in a package along with chums like Schnabel. WTF? Well George is of...

Ah-ha!

For some reason there seems to be tons of group shows everywhere. Which by definition are a mixed bag. But looking farther afield, there's a killer Courbet show on in Frankfurt at the moment. Yeah and on Friday 28th Neo Rauch gives a talk there about Gus The Rebel, dreamer of the modern world or som...

With this PHP stuff is that there's no URLS for posts, so no way of throwing a link to a review or thread, presumably no way for search engines to track them either, no that that's a concern here.

A different view of this dud.



That's a link by the way.

I fee l the same way about Lorrie Moore. Her stories are okay, and yet... and yet... The bullshit detector goes off. They're 'professional' to a fault.

Check out this Franzen/Moore double whammy!

Ah thanks JJ!

Which is not as bad as being CENSORED, of course.