Tag Archives: Dennis Oppenheim

clipped wing and a prayer

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave

When spirituality, politics and money meet. Can faith have a relationship to power? Bizarre plots. Power struggles. Vatican City or Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose? Twelve months to live. Related to the sale of land parcels in the Occupied … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged bob dylan world gone wrong, cardinal hoyos, cardinal paolo romeo, Dennis Oppenheim, michael sindona, plot to kill pope benedict, pope benedict XVI death threat, roberto calvi, Umberto Eco | Leave a comment

flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dave

It was the end of the world as they knew it. It was the Age of Unreason. Works of pop art like the Campbell’s soup can by Andy Warhol, the Impossible Art of Ralph Ortiz killing chickens,and Dennis Oppenheims, “Cyclonic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alvin Toffler, Andy Warhol, Bruce Eisner, Dennis Oppenheim, Don Mclean, George Bernard Shaw, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Neal Cassady, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Ram Dass, Rich Griffin, Steely Dan, Stewart Brand, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe | Leave a comment

$ AS A READY-MADE : TZANCK You For The CHECKS

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dave

Conceptual art will soon be one hundred years old and it is arguably viewed with as much suspicion now as it was in 1917 when Marcel Duchamp first submitted a signed urinal for inclusion in an art show in New … Continue reading →

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POLICE & THIEVES & BIBLICAL DEEDS

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Dave

“If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Throughout history, religion has been responsible for a large proportion of the suffering in the world – yet religious beliefs are based in ancient myths and legends that should … Continue reading →

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SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Dave

”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexander Calder, Allen Ginsberg, Claes Oldenberg, Dennis Oppenheim, Donald judd, Dylan Thomas, Ethan Coen, Georgia O'keefe, Ingar Dragset, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, Joel and Ethan, Joel Coen, John Chamberlain, John Constable, Laura Riding, Len Lye, Max Ernst, Michael Elmgreen, miro, No Country for old men film, Picasso, public art, Robert Graves, roger horrocks, W.H. Auden, Wind Wand | 1 Comment

PARALLEL STRESS OF CONCEPTUAL ART

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Dave

The earliest conceptual artists to get wide public attention were the Earth Artists, including Michael Heizer, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, and Walter De Maria, who in October, 1968, exhibited mainly photographic documentation of their works in a group show called … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Bruce Nauman, Dada, Dada Movement, Dennis Oppenheim, Jack Burnham, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Kosuth, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Heizer, Robert Morris, Walter De Maria | 2 Comments

Art Without Baggage: Nowhere to Go?

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Dave

Is it considered conceptual art If it can’t be hung on a living room wall . Is there a valid difference between a Damien Hirst painting which will have no value in 150 years and a the most kitschy wooden … Continue reading →