Tag Archives: Damien Hirst

hold your nose: flushing into a non-existant past

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Dave

Excerpts from a brilliant article exposing the underside of what Adorno called the “cultural industries” and what Kuspit refers to as art as part of the industrial entertainment complex so drowned and subsumed by money values there is strictly form … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged ben vautier, Bertrand Russell, christopher caudwell, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, gilbert and george, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mike Kelley, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy art, Piero Manzoni, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

a gendered gaze

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Dave

Exactly how many pieces of art are in the Louvre is not clear. At the most extreme is the assertion that there are 300,000 paintings and a minimum of 5,000 and the total pieces of art ranging from 35,000 to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bertrand Russell, camille morineau, Damien Hirst, Francois Boucher, Georges Seurat, Honoré Fragonard, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Maurice Quentin de La Tour | Leave a comment

the iron shady

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

What to make of the Iron Lady? The entire phenomenon of Margaret Thatcher as societal vehicle. It does recall, somewhat cynically, Guy Debord and The Society of the Spectacle. Here, an ideology is created through publicity. That is, publicity is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Breton, Asprey Bag, Charles Saatchi, Damien Hirst, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, john ford director, john walker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep, meryl streep the iron lady, rita hatton | 1 Comment

eternally recurring youth

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dave

A narcissism? A fear of emotion? What does it mean to be human? The death of Mike Kelley this past month forces one to put the concept of the avant-garde on trial; a spotlight on this never grow old, eternally … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adrian Searle, Charles Baudelaire, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, John Baldessari, John Keats, Laurie Anderson, Marcel Duchamp, Mike Kelley, Norman Rockwell, Paul Gauguin, paul mccarthy, stephanie barron, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

a little piece of heaven?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

Prostrate anxiety? the thingamagig complex. Objectifying the human body as part of splitting off the corporeal from the spiritual and convicting poor Eros of demon status, branding her forever with the unfavorable P.R. she has had to endure. The short … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alex comfort, Damien Hirst, Edouard Manet, Faye Dunaway, Jacques Lacan, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kiki Smith, Martha Rosler, robert stoller, Sigmund Freud, Vanessa Beecroft | Leave a comment

starry starry night

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dave

Strange deformations attributable to tradition as it buckled and flared, gasping under the pressures of the pathologies of time.You can see the visible world as a vortex of lines. Or so said Vincent van Gogh. He used the collision of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Aldous Huxley, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Damien Hirst, Denis Dutton, Diego Velazquez, Ernst Gombrich, Franz Kafka, Jacques Barzun, Joseph Campbell, joseph campbell art, Pablo Picasso, Simon Schama, Theo van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

coz andy warhol sez

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Dave

Are free market solutions the answer to public policy problems? A very divisive question to be sure. Much appears to depend on the degree of income disparity society is willing to tolerate, the level of corporate welfare taxpayers are willing … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, emmet cole, Joseph Schumpeter, Marcel Duchamp, Mike Kelley, Milos Forman, Noam Chomsky, paul mccarthy, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, tipper gore, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus, Vincent Van Gogh | Leave a comment

a little face to face

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Dave

Is it possible to be so politically correct that we end up chewing our own tail. Is there a realm within the politically correct that is not politically correct? Its been said that as long as there exists the dynamic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andy Warhol, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, emmanuel levinas, emmet cole, george takei, Georges Bataille, Harold Bloom, Marquis de Sade, Meyer Schapiro, Milan Kundera, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

scorched earth policy: the burning fiddler

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dave

The dull oppressive heaviness of Nazi neo-classicism. The scorched earth policy. Everything to repress regeneration and to seal off the gases of expressionist madness that could escape and find their way into the water. It was a meaningless world. If … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged albert speer, anselm kiefer, Bruno Ganz, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche, georg baselitz, Georges Braque, Hannah Arendt, Ingmar Bergman, Karl Barth, Martin Heidegger, Monty Python Flying Circus, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, Simon Schama, stockhausen 9/11, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

warhol: another green world

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Dave

Rimbaud:”The poet should make himself a seer by a long, immense, deliberate disorder of all the senses”. The constipated mind of dented cans. An alchemical process of language, which Rimbaud could not have foreseen the ways in which consumer society … Continue reading →