Can you smell it? The power o fart?

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

...Simon Schama's in the air.

PBS is airing a new eight part mini-series called Simon Schama's Power of Art. Artists covered include Van Gogh, Picasso, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, !!!David!!!, Turner, and Rothko. You can read the propaganda on our man Dah-veed here on the pbs.org website. The David episode airs Monday, 16 July at 10.00pm EST. I saw the Van Gogh and Picasso ones, and I think the director and editor did a really good job. Very sleek for a PBS documentary.

Personally, I don't like Schama--though I really like his book Landscape and Memory. He's probably a nice guy in person, but he comes across as snooty and condenscending, and his phrasing on camera makes me hallucinate roaches crawling under my skin. Watch the teaser trailer here to see what I mean.