Tag Archives: Eli Broad

art for the sake of creative destruction

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Dave

Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Damien Hirst, David Ganek, Eli Broad, Francis Bacon art, Guy Debord, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Quinn, Pablo Picasso, Randy Newman, Stephen Wynn, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

hunters and collectors: carry that weight

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dave

For seemingly forever, sociologists, psychologists, and amateur pundits of all persuasions have tried to comprehend why people collect; from the Collyer brothers to Eli Broad, it appears a pointless yet universal pursuit at least on the logical surface irrational waters … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abraham Maslow, ai weiwei, avital ronell, Collyer Brothers, Eli Broad, ellsworth kelly, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Borgnine, Hans Bellmer, Homer and Langley Collyer, Jackson Pollock, kraft-ebbing, mary boone, odd nerdrum, scott chinery, Sigmund Freud, steve shaviro, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

duchamp’s children: spectacle of the private parts

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dave

…. Is there still the spiritual in art, the kind of transcending of the sacred/profane dynamic that Kandinsky spoke of? The grip of anti-art within the art world is predominant and intransigent. The argument has been made that post-modern art … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, Eli Broad, elliott barowitz, hans hoffman, Jeff Koons, la cicciolina, Marcel Duchamp, rem koolhaas, rudolf herz, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Dave

The possession of private property is very often extremely demoralising, and that is, of course, one of the reasons why Socialism wants to get rid of the institution. In fact, property is really a nuisance. Some years ago people went … Continue reading →