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By Sarah Douglas 8/15/11 12:21pm

Uptown Literary Organization Attempts to Capitalize On Lobster Salad Scandal On Behalf Of Long Dead Poet, Initially Omitting to Credit Media Organization That Already Revived Long Dead Poet’s Poem Related to Lobster Salad Scandal, Or, This Is Just to Say…

In case you missed it, The Observer published this on Saturday.

This morning, The Observer, as well as, we’re guessing, any number of other New York media outlets, received the following email from the PR team over at the 92nd St Y:

In light of Zabar’s changing the name of lobster salad to “seafare Read More

By Sarah Douglas 8/13/11 2:35pm

Poems for our times

Current Events Provide An Occasion For Poetry

A few days ago, Philip Levine was named the next poet laureate.

Yesterday, the New York Times picked up a New Orleans journalist’s revelation that Zabar’s lobster salad was not made of lobster but was, in fact, made of crayfish, prompting Zabars to change the product’s name to “seafare salad.” Read More

By Laura Gilbert 8/11/11 11:06am

Art

An opera coat by Paul Poiret, 1912, in the Met's collection

Breaking: Met Cancels Loans to Kremlin Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled loans to the Moscow Kremlin Museum of works by French fashion designer Paul Poiret, “in response to” Russia’s art embargo, Met spokesman Harold Holzer told The Observer today.

“Paul Poiret – King of Fashion” is set to open at the Moscow museum on September 7 and was to Read More

By Sarah Douglas 8/02/11 5:26pm

Art

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Writer Bob Colacello, Performa director RoseLee Goldberg, designer Dakota Jackson

Painted Ladies, Buried Artists and a Steamroller, at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Benefit

The panic began early. But was it voluptuous?

A crowd had gathered outside the entrance to artist and director Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center early Saturday evening. Women in flowing sundresses and men in summer suits blocked a portion of Watermill Towd Road. They were eager to get in. The annual gala, called “Voluptuous Panic,” was Read More

By James Camp 8/01/11 12:44pm

Weird inventions

Author Christopher Turner Takes Us Inside The Orgasmatron

Wilhelm Reich wrote The Function of the Orgasm in 1927, and The Sexual Revolution in 1936. He studied psychoanalysis under Sigmund Freud, caused a scandal on two continents, and composed a theory of existence based on the orgasm. Women loved him. Governments surveilled him. His books were burned in Nazi Germany, and burned in New Read More

By Sarah Douglas 7/29/11 11:47am

Art

Bob Dylan will be showing at Gagosian in September.

Gagosian Gallery to Show Bob Dylan’s Paintings in New York in September

The Observer has learned from a source who spoke on condition of anonymity that Gagosian Gallery will present an exhibition of Bob Dylan’s paintings in New York in September.

Artnet reported this morning that the gallery has added Mr. Read More

By Sarah Douglas and Andrew Russeth 7/28/11 5:11pm

Reviewing Artforum

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Art Platform Los Angeles and ARCO Madrid

Reviewing Artforum’s Advertisements

Earlier this week, Hol Art Books, a publisher in Tuscon, Arizona, created what it called a “bootleg” version of Artforum‘s summer issue, with all of the articles and none of the advertisements. Two days later, it was hit with a cease-and-desist letter from Artforum‘s lawyers, who alleged copyright infringement: no more Read More

By Laura Gilbert 7/28/11 1:02pm

Art

Court Calls Russia’s Fear of Chabad Art Seizure Legitimate

The U.S.-Russia art wars are again center stage in Chabad v. Russian Federation, the case that triggered Russia’s current embargo on lending art to U.S. museums.

In a decision issued Tuesday, the federal District Court in Washington, D.C. acknowledged that Russia’s fear that its art might be seized by Chabad, the Brooklyn-based Jewish Orthodox sect, Read More

By Sarah Douglas 4:45pm

Art

Attention, Missing Artworks: The Chelsea Hotel Remembers You Well

The list of the artists, writers, musicians and sundry other creative types who have lived at the Chelsea Hotel is staggering: Bob Dylan, Charles Bukowski, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Janis Joplin, Larry Rivers…

So, apparently, is the list of artworks that have disappeared from its walls over the years. Read More

By Laura Gilbert 2:42pm

Art

Bellini’s Queen of Cyprus Goes on View at the Met

Times may be tough for New York’s museums, but that isn’t stopping the Metropolitan Museum of Art from mounting a major loan exhibition later this year. On December 19, the museum opens “The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini,” a blockbuster that will include about 160 works from more than 40 museums around the world. Read More

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Sarah Douglas

Uptown Literary Organization Attempts to Capitalize On Lobster Salad Scandal On Behalf Of Long Dead Poet, Initially Omitting to Credit Media Organization That Already Revived Long Dead Poet’s Poem Related to Lobster Salad Scandal, Or, This Is Just to Say…

Current Events Provide An Occasion For Poetry

Breaking: Met Cancels Loans to Kremlin Museum

Painted Ladies, Buried Artists and a Steamroller, at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Benefit

Author Christopher Turner Takes Us Inside The Orgasmatron

Gagosian Gallery to Show Bob Dylan’s Paintings in New York in September

Reviewing Artforum’s Advertisements

Court Calls Russia’s Fear of Chabad Art Seizure Legitimate

Attention, Missing Artworks: The Chelsea Hotel Remembers You Well

Bellini’s Queen of Cyprus Goes on View at the Met

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