Media-Whore's D'Oevres



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"African art has it all: beauty, brio, inventiveness, moral gravity, emotional depth, practicality, sensuality and humor. It’s hot and cool, high and low, chastening and consoling, endlessly varied, surprising always. So why do our big museums still give us so few African shows? And why, when they do, are those shows so often packaged the same way? Third-tier Western artists get solo retrospectives; entire African cultures are squeezed into art-of-a-continent surveys." (NYTimes)

"Across town in the Meatpacking District, Anderson Cooper, Ellen Barkin, Calvin Klein, and Vogue's Anna Wintour joined Diane von Furstenberg in a toast to her new all-white store and HQ. "The first time I saw Diane was in a magazine photo spread, where she was very casually topless in a dressing room," said Sandra Bernhard. 'It was around 1972, I was living in a kibbutz, and I thought, 'This woman is very cool.' " (Style)




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"Which still-closeted former boy-bander was making sure nobody got pictures of him with his handsome Spanish escort at a recent European charity event?" (Gatecrasher)

"(Mitt) Romney is the most perfect iteration I've seen of the television-era candidate. At one point, I squinted a bit and saw him in the middle distance: blue suit, white shirt, red tie, high forehead, slick black hair, tan, tall and ramrod straight — he could have been an exhibit in some future Museum of Natural History: Politicianus americanus." (Time)


"On July 7, 2008, Al Gore and a galaxy of entertainment superstars, a worldwide army of idealists, and 2 billion concerned citizens from seven continents will take a stand on global warming that will advance a new political era of optimism and hope. Sooner than people realize, Americans are going to be astonished and amazed at the rekindling of American optimism and the can-do attitude that good people who care passionately can make a difference. In recent years American politics, culture and media have been so drenched in negativity, pessimism and civic poison that our institutions of political and media power have lost sight of the classic American spirit of can-do optimism. On July 7 the Live Earth concert will fire a cannon of hope that will be heard around the world." (TheHill)