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hannah and her whispers
A relationship of power and violence and how they are inversely proportional. Or so said Hannah Arendt which could well constitute a pillar in her own inversely proportional posthumous power and the violence that has fed on her words thorugh … Continue reading
turning the last page of history
Holocaust Remembrance Day is on the horizon at the end of the month,and whatever its merits, or its motivations that underlied this United Nations initiative it interestingly coincides with the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat, as a renewal, a time … Continue reading
stubborn affiliations
The nude’s stubborn affiliation with tradition can create embarrassing situations at a time when art is stubbornly anti-traditional. Of course, some of it depends on what you mean by tradition. Until modern art kicked tradition in the jewels, you could … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, boris lurie, Francois Boucher, Giacomo Casanova, Hassan Musa, Hassan Musa art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Peter Paul Rubens, tom wesselmann
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where shall i find thee?
It seems like nonsense anointing this writer as the torchbearer for Jewish writing. To be a Jewish writer you have to actually have a connection with Judaism. Otherwise what is left is a “culturally” jewish writer or a Jewish writer … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged a.m. klein, alfred flechtheim, Anne Frank, boris lurie, Chaim Potok, Hieronymous Bosch, Howard Jacobson, Irving Layton, Michael Lewis, Nathan Englander, Otto Dix, Otto Frank, wilfred bion
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“all one needs is to be able to see”
It does appear to be beyond nominal doubt that the team of Craig Braun and Tom Wilkes pilfered to a large degree the work of Lol Creme and Kevin Godley for the Alice Cooper album School’s Out. The former’s Hotlegs … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alice cooper, Andre Breton, boris lurie, Craig Braun, GG/06, graham gouldman, Hotlegs group, karen levine, kevin godley, lol creme, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Tom Wilkes, Walter Benjamin, Wilkes & Braun, Yves Tanguay
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back to stovall’s plantation
On the one hand, what could one possibly expect from the entertainment industry. Its “product” serving as the servile public relations arm of the financial/industrial complex. And its been that way since the Hays Code of the 1930’s which coincided … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alaya Dawn Johnson, allison Janney, Bechdel Test, ben sidran dylan different, Bob Dylan, boris lurie, Charles Dickens, conrad black f.d. roosevelt, Daniel Craig, f.d. klingender, Feminist frequency, franklin roosevelt, george takei, jack warner, Louis b. mayer, Mae West, Oscar Awards 2012, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, robert e. howard, sam gompers, shirley temple, stieg larsson, The Artist movie, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, tree of life malkin, Winter's Bone movie, Woody Allen
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what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading
finite voices
Subjective rationality is a very elusive term; an alternative conception of rationality that could shed light and propose some resolutions to the pathologies of modern society. Its basis is a belief in the decline of individuality in favor of the … Continue reading
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