Tag Archives: Anne Frank Museum

short lease: after this commercial break

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dave

The industry of memory. A industry setting boundaries on how we remember and the nature of interpretation. Ultimately, you can’t really portray real life tragedy. Even the original experiences of the holocaust victims, those closest to near death experiences are … Continue reading →

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like a bone in the throat

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave

Coincidence. She is in a room beside Adolf Hitler…. Anne Frank is about our current struggle to engage the past shorn from nostalgia, disavowal and kitsch. Stuck in the throat. A chicken bone stuck in the throat. A wish bone … Continue reading →

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not the same dust

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

There is a struggle between darkness and light, day and night that goes back to earliest antiquity. Kandinsky wrote about this ability to find the “in between” that would reconcile the two in his “Spiritual in Art.” But Germany? Its … Continue reading →