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Get Over the 60′s
So, Monday morning caught C.C. a little off guard. We’re a bit bitey. That being said, will the Baby Boomers please get over the 60′s and stop shoveling this retrogressive nostalgia coma down our throats? Seriously. It’s so passive and stale, I don’t know whether to get up and pee on someone or simply succumb [...]
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Gia Kourlas, For being down
Final Diversity Post of the Week! Not that there’s any reason to cut this thing short, but in deference to the coming weekend frenzy, and to show how a critic can write responsibly and respectfully about race issues in art, here’s Gia Kourlas’ TONY preview of States and Resemblence, an upcoming LMCC Sitelines dance collarboration [...]
Just Found This On Yahoo!
Aug 24, 2007 Women like caveman look “A study finds women throughout history have preferred men with ‘mini mugs’, like Will Smith.” » Details
I Thought We Dealt With This Yesterday…
On the heels of our in depth look into how The New York Times Arts section covers diversity issues, and already cited for his racially clumsy and vitriolic hammering of some old Latinas, Alastair Macaulay is back at it this morning with what I’m sure he thinks is a well-meant effort to sort out all [...]
Outsourcing
NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY! “A New Museum [IN ENGLAND] Is Frank In Its Exploration of the Slave Trading Past,” by Jane Perlez, of The Times “He ain’t white! He ain’t white! He definitely…ain’t…white!” Anyone see Not Another Teen Movie???
Infighting
NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY! “Immitation or Flattery In Dueling Shows” by Campbell Robertson, for The Times
Breaking Stereotypes
NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY! “The Godfather of Soul: Father Many Times Over” by Brenda Goodman, for The New York Times
His Panic
NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY! To continue today’s focus on The Times‘ treatment of “diversity” issues, click on over to no-need-to-worry-about-what-I-write Alastair Macaulay‘s viperous review of Pilar Rioja and Roxane D’Orléans Juste. In addition to the general rancor Macaulay demonstrates throughout the piece, his employment of the term “Hispanic” to denote all things ethnic (or Latino) [...]
DUmb Critic Hack Award: Schwendener on the Studio Museum
NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY! Juuust in case you had forgotten why we all need a faithful Counter Critic in our lives, Martha Schwendener at The Times, with the flick of the whitey, throws down this inanely reductionist and haphazardly authoritative phrase in her listing for the Studio Museum of Harlem‘s “Midnight’s Daydreams” exhibition. Regarding the [...]
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