Tag Archives: christian boltanski

forever young

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

To stay forever young. To defy aging. to somehow cheat the odds and glorify in a kind of infantilism; a taunting provocative sort of dissent, like children peeing on the living room carpet. We are definitely in a post-art age … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, John Heartfield, John Lennon Walls and Bridges, Lynn Stern, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, paul mccarthy, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

lenin road show: the neverending tour

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

Rudolf Herz is not exactly a stranger to controversy regarding his unconventional approach to memory and remembrance. His work often attempts to explore the malevolence that underlines the criticisms directed towards him and certain other artists such as in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, elliott barowitz, fassbinder despair, inge stephan, irena wunsch, Jerry Saltz, lenin on tour, Marcel Duchamp, matthias reichelt, Maurizio Cattelan, mirroring evil jewish museum, reinhard matz, rudolf herz, thomas elaesser, Tom Sachs, zbigniew libera | Leave a comment

traces of wiped-out existences

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

how is holocaust art received in the land “of the perpetrators”? Well that depends… In a way, its the politics of remembrance and memory.Or at least the problematics. Memory is often the theme with the focus not on what is … Continue reading →