Tag Archives: David Rubinger

tears and fears: RIP (through) holy land

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Dave

Attack Jerusalem? Launching rockets on the eternal city? Imagine the irony if a Hamas rocket hits the Dome of the Rock? Recoil time to play in the rubble. Something here about Walter Benjamin’s idea of children playing in trash and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, bernard lewis, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, David Rubinger, Gershon Baskin, Golda Meir, Heinrich Bunting, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, thomas friedman new york times, tom wesselmann, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

they want the whole enchilda

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Dave

Kahanism. Its an ideology that won’t go away. Part of the reason is the complicity of the far left, the establishment song and dance men like Gideon Levy promote a brand of Israeli jew at odds with what has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abraham Isaac Kook, David Rubinger, Gideon Levy Haaretz, gilad shalit, Hana Shalbi, Hans Memling, jabotinsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meir Indor, meir kahane, MK Benny Alon, MK Danny Danon, MK Michael Ben Ari, Noam Federman, Peter Bergson, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Yariv Oppenheimer | Leave a comment

frank images

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dave

Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans | 2 Comments

momentary improvisation

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Dave

What strikes you is how competitive they were. The bravado and the macho. The guy to nail the cover photo. Which meant a willingness to take risks. That which is nominally referred to as courage, was really pushing the boundaries … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Horowitz, David Rubinger, Haim Oshri, Hannah Arendt, jabotinsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, moshe dayan, paul schutzer photography, Peter Bergson, six day war, Sol Stern, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

forty and four strong winds

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dave

Its been forty-four years since the termination of the Six-Day War; with who started what and did what to whom and when among the most contested piece of history over the most contested piece of land in the history of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged a.m. klein, alan schechner, Amos Oz, anthony weiner, David Rubinger, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, jabotinsky, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Naomi Wolf, Robert Capa, scott copeland, terry fincher, Walter Benjamin, yakov m. rabkin | Leave a comment

it can’t happen here

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Dave

Its called the Wheel of Conscience. Designed by Daniel Libeskind, it sits at Pier 21 at the port of Halifax and commemorates a number of issues. Much like war memorials in their role in actually redeeming and condoning and perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Bernie Farber, children, Children of Lidice, Daniel Libeskind, David Rubinger, Elie Wiesel, Gandhi, Irving Abella, Jason Kenney, Jennifer Peto, Julie Spergel, Marek Edelman, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Martin Luther King, Norman Finkelstein | Leave a comment

REVOLUTION No. 9/10 tenths OF THE LAW IS POSSESSION

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Dave

You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don’t you … Continue reading →