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Tag Archives: Caravaggio
the wanderer: trouble no more
The wandering jew. The white man’s burden has forced the heavy lifting onto the yid but the pop culture articulation of the concept is actually more profound and complex than its various manifestations would care to admit. Once man and … Continue reading
fat chance & new jerusalem: the equity of pessimism
And the meek shall inherit the debt. Is there an ethical emphasis to economics? Rick Salutin: So here are some Christmas presents from the Judeo-Christian tradition that I hope will find favour with deniers and those who just don’t care … Continue reading
perilous exile to zimzum
An inherently tormented and anguished Yahweh in a contradictory and self-absorbed rage over a broken creation. Is it a blasphemous, unhinged, theologically devoid and guilty of moral turpitude theory has our religious experience been as uncanny, intense and extreme as … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Caravaggio, david rosenberg, David Teniers, garry wills, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Isaac Luria, jack miles, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, Jean Leon Gerome, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud
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brothers in arms: miles from nowhere
Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caravaggio, David Mairowitz, felice bauer, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, John Updike, Judith Butler, Marc Chagall, Max Brod, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Sander L. Gilman, Walter Benjamin
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down the amazon: art jungle
Aesthetics is a very complex issue. But is insolubly linked to economics, taste and design. More profoundly, are aesthetic considerations merely another marker, another sign of decadence. Donald Kuspit’s controversial article on the art market several years ago , written … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred lessing, Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Arthur Koestler, Caravaggio, David Geffen, Donald Kuspit, Edward Hopper, Eric Fischl, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Francis Bacon, Grandma Moses, Gustav Klimt, henri eugene le sidaner, jeffrey deitch, martin gough, Meyer Schapiro, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, paul raffaele, Thorstein Veblen, timothy binkley, Warren Buffett
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prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper
Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caravaggio, Donald Kuspit, Jasper Johns, Jean Genet, Jerry Saltz, lari pittman, Lord Byron, nigel williams BBC, Oscar Wilde, pierre bourdieu, Robert Crumb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, the maids 1974, William Burroughs
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play it again zorba: the crocodile cure
Its a bit ambivalent. Michael Lewis applying the screws to the Greek population. Fatuous moral righteousness with the cruel guile that only Ugly American can muster.A targeted assassination of an un-people. Not that descriptively the proof is in the pudding. … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Merkel, Caravaggio, Diego Velasquez, European Central Bank, Greek debt crisis, Honoré Fragonard, johann Baptist Kirner, Larissa porsche owners, Michael Lewis The Big Short, michael lewis vanity fair, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Krugman, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Vallieres, porsche cayenne greece, Sarkozy, THe Eurozone debt crisis
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peasant and poet : mind over matter
Monsu Pussino and the gradual retreat of instinct. The ideal is clear. Painting, as one of Nicolas Poussin’s admirer’s put it, must “talk”. A canvas should not only be visible to the eye but legible to the mind. Listing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, Cervantes, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Gombrich, felibien, Jacopo Sannazaro, james frazer the golden bough, John Milton Paradise Lost, Keith Christiansen, Marino Marini, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, pietro de cortona, raphael's form, Richard Wolheim, Titian, Virgil Aenid
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