Tag Archives: Arielle Dombasle

flirting with lady luck: statues of liberty

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Dave

The rock star personas. The great wealth. The love of publicity. The elitism. The somewhat shoddy intellectual foundation. The almost subservient conformity with regard to the established order, exposes both men to the charge of opportunism and insincerity. Though, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Arielle Dombasle, aude lancelin, david stern, david stern hartz group, Denis Diderot, Emma Lazarus, frederic pages, frederic-auguste bartholdi, guillaume duhamel, Henri Bernard-Levy, jean huber, jean huber swiss painter, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Racine, Montesquieu, Norman Finkelstein, robert hudon, Voltaire Candide | Leave a comment

the republic on the flying trapeze

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dave

the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexandre Trauner, Arielle Dombasle, Carla Bruni, devin friedman, diane deriaz, dombasle crazy horse, henry samuel telegraph, Jean Louis Barrault, Jean Paul Sartre, jerome garcin, jessica reed, jessica reed guardian, Lawrence Durrell, louis du funes, Luc Besson, Michael Kimmelman, Michel Carné, pierre bourdieu, Sarkozy, yann moix | Leave a comment

BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dave

Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Arielle Dombasle, Arthur Miller, Bernard-Henry Levy, Byron, Charles Dickens, Corot, David Goldblatt, David Grigg, E.J. Trelawny, Edward Steichen, F.W. Murnau, Flaubert, Fred Inglis, Frederic Chopin, Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Henri Bernard-Levy, James Meek, John Keats, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joseph Severn, Lara Feigel, Leo Tolstoy, Lord Byron, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rene Chateaubriand, Richard Wagner, Ron Mueck, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Medwin, Victor Hugo | 2 Comments

Erotic Art In the Flesh

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Dave

The Crazy Horse Cabaret Theatre , near the Champs Elysees has been an institution in Paris since 1951 and is internationally renown for its artistic nude revue. More a nude, semi-nude and erotic dance troupe ,it has developed a distinctive … Continue reading →