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the nutmeg grater (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... WEST HARTFORD — - As police continue their investigation into the accident that claimed the life of a construction worker on Asylum Avenue, a reminder of the life lost sits on a lawn near the spot where Robert J. Sivage was fatally injured. There's a small bench, six pots of mums and a photograph of Sivage, the construction worker from Austin, Texas , who died after being struck...
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An American in London (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A month ago, Jon and I went to see the highly-entertaining (popular, even) Pop Life exhibit at the Tate Modern, and afterwards, we somehow reasoned that because Elephant & Castle was so “close by,” we should try out Dragon Castle for dinner, which TimeOut loved. So we hopped on the Northern Line at London Bridge and [...]
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dreamecho (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... not Bitchy , Sidda, Blue Floppy Hat of Nonsense on Stilettos , Gwyn from Prototype for a pop life... , GlamaRuth, Emily of neutral tuesday , Sales Rack Raider of Hot Off the Sales Rack , Wendy Brandes , May Kasahara of Mayk All Day Every Day , Miri of California Noir , Ambika of (Into) the Fray , and Jenny of Fashion for Writers . I never call out readers based on the mere fact that they...
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Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Seen - New England Patriots & Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Wembley - a cultural weekend that also included a visit to the Tate. At the Tate, Pop Life was glitzy & shallow & cynical : Tracey Emin deserves better than to be lumped in with the chancers of the YBAs. David Baldessari's exhibition was playful if not entirely successful.
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Once shocking, much of the work in Tate's latest survey of pop art now seems tired. It shows how inured we've become to big-bucks banality
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OUT OF THE SWAMP (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
So, I went to the Tate Modern this weekend- it was great fun! I experienced the Pop Life exhibition, squinted in admiration as I tried to spot the fish in Salvador Dali’s The Mountain Lake and scratched my head in bewildered at some Paul McCarthy video art; but what made my brain whirr the most [...]
