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David Dayen at Firedoglake.com is as horrified as I am at the way that the incredible farrago of brazen lies in Paul Ryan’s speech was acknowledged only in the most oblique terms by the “mainstream” commercial media, who proceeded to … Continue reading →

Alexandre Volinine’s studio, not a very large one, was on the first floor of a private dwelling at 132 avenue de Villiers. His mistress was Tamara d’Erlanger, the wife of his secretary Théodore d’Erlanger and mother of Nora Kiss.  When … Continue reading →

. . . by pasting here, with Katharine Kanter’s permission, her interview with Dayde. Then you need to go to her site and read all the other interviews in the “Nuits Blanches” series.  More about that later. Here’s Part I: … Continue reading →

it’s nevertheless appalling:  there’ll be no more National Endowment for the Arts.

Katharine Kanter’s interview with Dayde can be found at www://augustevestris.fr.

That’s how Greg Mitchell responds to Niall Ferguson’s cringe-making statement in Newsweek that when he and Paul Ryan dined together in 2010, “Ryan blew me away. I have wanted to see him in the White House ever since.”   As so … Continue reading →

The weeks went by. . .then months. . .months turned to years. . .But finally it happened. . . I was edited again by David Propson! David was culture editor of the New York Sun when I started writing there … Continue reading →

of the way that market censorship continues to atrophy culture in the U.S.: NBC’s refusal to broadcast the dance piece that Akram Kahn created for the Olympics. Jean Davidson writes on the Huffington Post about the evaporating funding possibilities for … Continue reading →

David Carr posing the not-just-rhetorical question about how far magazines must fall today in the Times is a lot sharper than his rather credulous hoo-ha about those oh-so-“shocking” magazine covers.  But where the tailspin of the magazine sector is concerned, the elephant in the … Continue reading →

 Only in today’s media environment could the fact that Newsweek and Time went for the old tits-and -blow job cover playbook be treated as “shocking,” a bold, major departure–they actually didn’t put a celebrity on the cover.  Cultural literacy may not … Continue reading →