Tag Archives: Eli Siegel

final sale: everything must go!

Just make sure you win the last game.Under new management. Oh yeah. Remember: nice guys finish last. Wailing not whining. Its called the wailing wall; a cry of anguish of the forsaken, and not a whining of the comfortable piqued … Continue reading

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hunting in our own snow

Such an effort to hit the trail for running as autumn, the compound interest of shorter days upon the pressing consideration of motivation and lack thereof, the dynamic of gravity and general inertia, and ultimately, a Viktor Frankl style will … Continue reading

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sammy’s gone.real gone: return of the hunters

The distant is in the near.The hunt is somewhat of a cultural gauge. There are always subtle shifts in the hunting motif. From brutal and tiring affair to the trappings of ritual, pomp and circumstance, the trophy has always assumed … Continue reading

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A springtime massacre: hailing the god of chaos

Can pagans on a stage make pagans of the viewers? What happens when a percussive and intense style is matched with irregular rhythms and instruments pushed to the brink of their capabilities?  Igor Stravinky’s revival of an ancient blood rite … Continue reading

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NEGATIVE CAPABILITY:Curtain Call For The Complexity of Sympathy

“Brown and Dilke walked with me & back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form … Continue reading

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ANARCHY OF THE PASSIONS: BEAUTY OF OPPOSITES

Edmund Kean (1790-1833) was acclaimed as the greatest actor of his time. Something of a prodigy, while still a teenager he gave a command performance for King George III at Windsor Castle. Coleridge said that watching Kean perform “was like … Continue reading

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CASE OF THE ABSENT BRIDEGROOM

The painting shows a variety of country folk celbrating a wedding by having a midday meal. Most of it is clear enough. One one level it is straightforward, amusing, sympathetic and easy to understand. For instance, right in the foreground, … Continue reading

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PICASSO & WOMEN IN WAITING

”The Europeans had shown the way; yet the avant-garde American artists had to work desperately to break away from the influence of the School of Paris and especially from that Olympian, Pablo Picasso. Like the Collective Unconscious or the dreams … Continue reading

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