”The two and a half decades after World War II witnessed a frustrating, often angry, sometimes ineffectual, and-to be perfectly honest-often touching attempt to come to some sort of ”gentlemen’s agreement” concerning the International Art Program … superheated by the cold war …, it should come as no surprise that it also exerted pressure on [...]
Hit the ”Refresh” button. At least that is what Pepsi will be doing by deciding to not promote their beverages on television during the Super Bowl on February 7, for the first time in twenty-two years. Instead, the Pepsi lineup will be throwing hail Mary passes from a digital platform in an effort to stem [...]
In the early 1960′s, Chateaubriand received a tribute that demonstrates in its very extravagance, his enduring power. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre visited Saint-Malo on one of their many excursions. They liked the town, but Chateaubriand’s tomb, with its ”false simplicity” seemed to them ridiculous in its pomposity. Sartre, she reported, showed his [...]
”Since the death of Picasso, Francis Bacon has more than any other painter provided the age with an image, in Ezra Pound’s phrase, of its accelerated grimace. The key to his work is its ambition. He has taken on the great masters of the past without their mythological resources or their requirement to record events. [...]
Hop on the train of dreams. Humankind appears to be the only species troubled by Time, and from this preoccupation comes much of the finest art, some religion and most of science. Reincarnation, prophecy, resurrection and worship of the heavenly bodies as shown by the monolithic calendar of Stonehenge and the time markers of the [...]
Only the numb survive. Its a new Sherlock Holmes for the X-Box generation.. Holmes Alone for the Holidays and with Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role, it could be said that between the yule and mistletoe, viewers may be asked to compose with a bad samaritan, but a samaritan nonetheless.The egg nog is on [...]
“Copengahen is the epitome of modern summitting; a long session, a huge cast earnestly discussing what there is no chance of agreeing, to reach compromises everyone will then ignore, promising to avoid doing what all decry and will continue to do, suspecting that it is not really damaging anyway. It is an immense, almost grotesque, [...]
”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, we are substituting imagination for movement and sentimentalizing the physical past. Up to a certain [...]
Akira Kurosawa ( 1910-1998 ) applied Western philosophy to Eastern themes in films that appealed to both worlds, but not always for the same reasons. Kurosawa used a narrative style to recount his stories, a form of cinematic deconstruction that gave a literary and theatrical form to the work. Often, a sense of timelessness is [...]
Damien Hirst’s new show is using skulls of famous French artistic figures who have been disinterred and sent to the Pantheon, the mausoleum of France’s most honored citizens.That is the rumor. He is confronting the existential crisis in Art by through the cranium cavity of existential writer Albert Camus, whose ”austere search for moral order” [...]
