Farewell, My Lovely

Antea, Parmigianino, ca. 1531-34. / Image: SOPRINTENDENZA SPECIALE per il POLO MUSIALE NAPOLETANO

It’s been a rainy week of catch-up for me on shows about to leave Manhattan, so I jumped a cab over to the Frick yesterday to take a good long look at their one-painting loan show built around Antea. That’s a portrait from the 1530s by …

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TV Tonight: Rich, But Such Small Portions

A quick reminder that tonight is The Riches‘ season finale. Or maybe a better term than “finale” is “the last episode they were able to finish, thanks to the strike.” Like AMC’s Breaking Bad, The Riches had its season order arbitrarily cut, to seven episodes. (This is the one episode of season 2 I haven’t seen in advance, so I can’t say …

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The Jimi Hendrix Sexperience

Is it because I’m too busy digging through a week’s worth of mail, in order to see my office floor again, to write an original post? Is it the irrestistable lure of getting Tuned In to show up on Google searches for “Jimi Hendrix sex tape”? Is it part of my business plan to diversify Tuned In into the lucrative Internet porn market? …