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The Night Shift
A misunderstood picture? … The figures in the picture are awarded varying degrees of prominence. The fact that some of them had all but disappeared, obscured through coats of yellowed varnish and layers of dirt, helped give rise to the … Continue reading
it was just a piece of paper
Like a good neighbor? And so ends the peace process. Hey, it was only a scrap of paper ad worth about as much. This could get very ugly. In fact, the entire land for peace charade was a scandal from … Continue reading
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Tagged Camp David Accords Egypt Israel, Camp David Peace Accords, gericault raft of the medusa, gush katif, Hamdeen Sabbahi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Geula Cohen, Mohamed Gadallah, Mohamed Morsy, Mohammed Morsi, Rabbi Ariel, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Theodore Gericault, thomas friedman, thomas friedman new york times, Yamit expulsion
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down the slippery slope of the golan
Well, he was supposed to be the savior of Canada. They, the liberal party dragged him out of Harvard and basically said it would be cake-walk to 24 Sussex Drive, a formality, get inside to Ignatieff’s ego and off they … Continue reading
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Tagged Adad Hannah, Bashar Al Assad, Celeste Holm, ezra levant, gericault raft of the medusa, Golan Heights border violation, Haim Waxman, John Wayne Cast a Giant Shadow, Kate Middleton, Kate Middleton field hockey, Kirk Douglas Cast a Giant Shadow, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Sondheim, Syrian Civil War, Theodore Gericault, Thorstein Veblen, Vladimir Putin
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sages of the stoop and curb
In New York, people of all sorts freely mix with each other; but only slightly do they thaw and melt into a common pool of humanity. Edward Adler: Notes From a Dark Street. 1962. ….Martyrdom and suffering recounted in some … Continue reading
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Tagged Adad Hannah, Allen Ginsberg, Dante Inferno, Edward Adler, Edward Adler writer, gericault raft of the medusa, Henry Fielding, James Joyce, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Saul Bellow, Theodore Gericault, William Dafoe
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corpse poetics
Working with death as an aesthetic. Is it purely the shocking or a continuation of the gothic and the more macabre elements of romanticism, in the tracks of Henry Fuseli passing through Goya’s horrors of war, Kafka hybrid-human creatures and … Continue reading
meninas: sweeping out our house
Same shit. Different day.The tragic waltz of nihilism to achieve a kind of purification, a kind of radical immanence. Kitschified and recyclable. It sells. The grotesque arranged for esthetic profit. Artistically, it reflects the love hate relationship with the modern … Continue reading
by the seat of the pants
We often think that our intuition, and so called gut reactions, the businessman’s “seat of the pants” reflections leading to a course of action are invariably and intrinsically true and authentic; infallible sources connected to some primal verity embedded within … Continue reading
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Tagged alice walton, alice walton art gallery, f.w. westaway, Gericault, gericault raft of the medusa, graydon parrish, herb terrace, james marsh, martha graham, martha graham dance, merce cunningham, nim chimpsky experiment, noam chomsky linguist, otto ranke, Thomas Eakins
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