Kurt Andersen

Sunday Show Preview - Posted August 28, 2009
NBC's Meet the Press: Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Bob Shrum, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin CBS' Face the Nation: Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Georgetown University sociologist Michael Eric Dyson ABC's This Week:... [FishBowlDC]

Olbermann Names Stelter, O'Reilly & Murdoch The Worst|Andersen Blogs At Time.com|The Cheapest & Most Expensive Mags|Time Warner Gets Ready To Dump AOL|Cronkite Myths: Debunked - Posted August 4, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy TVNewser: Keith Olbermann targetted Brian Stelter of The New York Times, Bill O'Reilly and News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch on his "World's Worst" segment last night. Time.com Kurt Andersen is blogging over at Time.com this week, where he's writing about Cash... [FishBowlNY]

Observer Picks Up Majority Stake In Webby Winner Very Short List - Posted June 15, 2009
Today, IAC and the Observer Media Group officially announced their deal passing majority control of IAC's email newsletter Very Short List to Jared Kushner-owned Observer. VSL, which last week won a Webby Award for "Best Guides, Ratings and Review Website," has been renamed The Observer's Very Short List and will be... [FishBowlNY]

Finding Humor in Design: Design Your Life - Posted May 12, 2009
Twin sisters and mb alums Ellen and Julia Lupton released their latest book, Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things, today. Design Your Life gets big blurb love from Kurt Andersen, who says, "I've never encountered a book about design so smart and fun and unpretentious and easy... [MBToolBox]

Finding Humor in Design: Design Your Life - Posted May 12, 2009
Twin sisters and mb alums Ellen and Julia Lupton released their latest book, Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things, today. Design Your Life gets big blurb love from Kurt Andersen, who says, "I've never encountered a book about design so smart and fun and unpretentious and easy... [MBToolBox]

Video: Exclusive Interviews Live at the Matrix Awards - Posted April 28, 2009
mediabistro.com was on the scene at Monday's 39th annual Matrix Awards honoring women's achievements in the communications industry. Today co-anchor Meredith Vieira, a past winner and this year's emcee, told TVNewser before the ceremony began, "This is a room full of such accomplished women, it's a little mind-boggling." mediabistro.com founder... [FishBowlNY]

Video: Exclusive Interviews Live at the Matrix Awards - Posted April 28, 2009
mediabistro.com was on the scene at Monday's 39th annual Matrix Awards honoring women's achievements in the communications industry. Today co-anchor Meredith Vieira, a past winner and this year's emcee, told TVNewser before the ceremony began, "This is a room full of such accomplished women, it's a little mind-boggling." mediabistro.com founder... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List 03.26.09 - Posted March 26, 2009
Good Morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Its day 66 covering the Obama administration and week eight for us. Happy Birthday to Bob Woodward (h/t Playbook). What we know and what we're reading... [FishBowlDC]

Left Coast Lectures: Art Center's 'Big Picture,' USC's 'Art in the Public Sphere' - Posted January 27, 2009
So many talks, so little time. This week saw the launch of two interdisciplinary lecture series that provide an impressive list of reasons to make your way to Southern California (as if the frigid temperatures here on the East Coast weren't incentive enough). On Monday, the Art Center College of Design... [UnBeige]

"Studio 360's" Design for the Real World Now a Podcast - Posted January 18, 2008
For years you've been hearing people like Michael Bierut and Paola Antonelli and Steven Heller chat about the inane and insane highlights from the design world on PRI show "Studio 360." That segment, named Design for the Real World, is now a bi-weekly podcast, which you can retrieve using the magic... [UnBeige]

How George Lois Got Andy Warhol Into That Can of Soup - Posted January 6, 2008
Not to be missed is this week's edition of "Studio 360," a conversation between the Muhammad Ali-rapping George Lois and the Martha Stewart-skewering Kurt Andersen (although we imagine the "Studio 360" editing team had to do a fair amount of snipping since Lois can't speak more than 10 words in a... [UnBeige]

"Design Matters" Season Five Schedule Announced - Posted January 2, 2008
Effervescent host (and quite the hostess as well) Debbie Millman has leaked the new season of "Design Matters" to UnBeige first, kicking off January 18 with our Man of the Year, Chip Kidd. Graphic designers, writers, illustrators, authors, scientists, editors, a Nobel Prize winner and many, many UnBeige favorites will be... [UnBeige]

The Martha Stewart Moment at the AIGA Gala - Posted November 8, 2007
It was only a few months ago that the boozy reports from AIGA's Design Legends Gala trickled in to our eager UnBeige ears. Although we seem to have forgotten most of the highlights, one in particular has stuck with us. Apparently, a certain Martha Stewart delivered the biggest hit of the... [UnBeige]

Blog O'Fear: The Rules and Etiquette of Blogging (Featuring Us!) - Posted October 13, 2007
Bless that Liz Danzico for live-blogging this blogging panel while we were talking about blogging. The panel, moderated and concepted by Steve Heller, no stranger to blogs as editor of AIGA Voice, writer for a daily design column in PRINT online, writer for Design Observer and A Brief Message and countless others,... [UnBeige]

Daniel Libeskind's Speed Reading All Makes Sense - Posted October 11, 2007
After burning through a stream of consciousness about graphic art, architectural models, Cranbrook, Kathy McCoy, sketches, mountains and the Denver Art Museum so fast our agile fingers can't even process them, Daniel Libeskind's reason for rushing is revealed: He throws up a photo of a place in Berlin (didn't catch... [UnBeige]

Mile High Design With Kurt Andersen - Posted October 11, 2007
We're here, we're here! And if first signs are correct, this is one super sexed-up AIGA design conference. The paper-thin blue box identity flips in and out of conference materials, playful and elegant. This convention center is way slick (it looks a lot like the swooping white curves of Denver International... [UnBeige]

Michael Bierut Roasted; We've Got the Charred Bits - Posted October 2, 2007
Why we are not invited to such things, we do not know. But when we hear things like "Michael Bierut is being roasted at an exclusive benefit held at the Architectural League," we think, well, good thing we have the spies. Well-dressed spies, who drink far too much and only remember... [UnBeige]

79 Short Essays Gets Very Short Listed, But They Still Want Michael Bierut to be the Capital of Lebanon - Posted September 12, 2007
We were jazzed to see one of our favorite books skyrocket to the top of the VSL charts. But even here, in this online world founded by peeps who we assume actually know and like the Man With the Most Chronically Misspelled Name in Design---Kurt Andersen, Simon Dumenco, Emily Oberman, and... [UnBeige]

Robbed At The Mirror Awards - Posted June 14, 2007
Andersen, Auletta, Kurtz also shut out The first annual Mirror Awards were presented at a Meredith Vieira-hosted luncheon today at the W hotel in Midtown, and our mediabistro.com mothership — a finalist in the media information services category — lost to HealthNewsReview.org. In other words, we were robbed. Still, we weren't the only... [FishBowlNY]

AIGA's NEXT Conference Promises Big Names, Beer and Drama - Posted May 11, 2007
Lots going on at the Organization Formerly Known as the American Institude of Graphic Arts that we need to catch you up on. The site has just launched for AIGA's national design conference, NEXT, which is taking place this October 11-14 in Denver. Kurt Andersen, Marian Bantjes, Janine Benyus, Paul Budnitz,... [UnBeige]

Exit Chris Albrecht, Enter Who Exactly? - Posted May 10, 2007
Chris Albrecht's departure from HBO opens up a nice gig for some one. Jon Fine speculates that Matt Blank might want to leave Showtime. Or would Colin Callendar want a bigger job than HBO's original movies? Kurt Andersen was eerily prescient when he wrote about HBO's chief stumbling block being its own... [FishBowlLA]

The U.S.'s First-Ever Design Criticism MFA Program Is Official - Posted May 7, 2007
We heard that SVA would be starting a design criticism program about six months ago and now we've got the official word: "The Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism will prepare graduates for careers as design critics, journalists, curators, educators and design managers, by providing the intellectual tools for researching,... [UnBeige]

Ellies 2007: The Liveblog - Posted May 1, 2007
After winning in five of seven nominated categories, New York editor-in-chief Adam Moss juggles his way up to the winners' circle FishbowlNY will be liveblogging tonight's National Magazine Awards — the so-called Ellies — from the blingy confines of at Jazz @ Lincoln Center. Refresh FishbowlNY all night for the latest winners,... [FishBowlNY]

Carr's Carpetbagger Bagged - Posted March 6, 2007
Kurt Andersen, writing in New York magazine a few weeks ago: [David] Carr (whom I employed six years ago at Inside.com) is a quirky, entertaining, singular writer. I was pleasantly surprised when the paper of record hired and then promoted him to media columnist. But I was flabbergasted when they gave him... [FishBowlNY]

David Carr-Kurt Andersen Love-In Continues - Posted March 1, 2007
Carr, Andersen: Lots of love there The love affair apparently started way back in 2001, when Kurt Andersen employed David Carr at Inside.com. Carr was, as Andersen wrote in New York magazine recently, "a quirky, entertaining, singular writer." That column, as we noted last week, was essentially a thinly-veiled ode to Carr and... [FishBowlNY]

Monday Morning Meta Media Mashup - Posted February 26, 2007
A weekly meta-roundup of our favorite (mostly) New York media pundits, what they're saying, why they're saying it, and an all-important grade, subjective and arbitrary — just like their columns! "A Cheeky Broadsheet's Tabloid Makeover" | David Carr, New York Times New York Times Carpetbagger and media reporter David Carr weighs in... [FishBowlNY]