Tag Archives: art blog

updike:surprising the dawn cottonfields

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Dave

…In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, a former high school basketball star comes home to find his pregnant wife drunk before the television set; the living room is littered with toys, his wife is out for cigarettes, the car has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged art blog, David Foster Wallace, John Hoyer Updike, John Lyon, John Mullan, John Sutherland, John Updike, Lev Grossman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orville Prescott | Leave a comment

updike: slow accretions of random detail

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Dave

If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading →

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updike: small appliances of civilization

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Dave

…”They were just people, members of the race of white anmals…Highly neural, brachycephalic, unquely able to oppose their thumbs to the four other digits, they bred with elegant settlements, and both burned and interred their dead.” They were the people … Continue reading →

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ustinov: walter mitty at heart

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Dave

The last of the Renaissance men. Peter Ustinov… Through the 1960′s and beyond, Peter Ustinov was almost frantically in demand. Like other television performers, he was gnawingly aware of how fast comic material could be used up, and he had … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged art blog, Bruce Duffie, desmond tutu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Twain, Peter Alexander Ustinov, Peter Aspen, Peter Ustinov | Leave a comment

ustinov: sorry lot of stevedores

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Dave

…In his work as mime, Peter Ustinov’s ear was constantly tuned to subtleties of accent and word usage. “The American language,” he said, “is still in the process of formation. It’s being added to every year by the influx of … Continue reading →

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turning the bull loose

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Dave

Very insightful to listen to an interview between Pimm Fox of Bloomberg and Michael D. Robbins and his long experience with the New York Stock Exchange as a floor trader and later brokerage owner, a career which began in the … Continue reading →

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feminine principle: horns of a dilemma

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Art

Freud evidently thought the essence of femininity was narcissism and indifference.It was a theory explicitly based on woman’s natural inferiority, that is as ridiculous as it is hypocritical.But, it conformed to the structural,institutional and systematic reasons that still exist today. … Continue reading →

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gift box: 3D potluck paradise

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Art

the Aspen Magazine. Boxed …….. by Art Chantry ( art@artchntry.com) As promised, this is the Andy Warhol designed issue of ASPEN (the magazine in a box). It’s issue #3/December 1966 ($4). It came out right at the height of the … Continue reading →

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d.i.y : attitude + blowtorch

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Art

d.i.y. head, hands, and a little attitude… by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Back in the days when I taught design classes (i did that off-and-on for some 18 years), there was one little project that I always gave right out … Continue reading →

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its a virus, i tell ya!

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Art

Once you catch the bug… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ): One time, while I was being tattooed, I was in so much pain that i actually started to hallucinate. no joke. After it was over, I curled up in a … Continue reading →