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Another emotional storm, another psychic catastrophe in the making. The 9/11 trial is as much about terrorism as it is about the precarious desperate state of America and its own tendencies towards nihilistic blackness. After all, we are implicated in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Grasso, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, Cheryl Bormann 9/11, Edward Said, Eric Blome, graydon parrish, Guantanamo Bay 9/11 trial, Hannah Arendt, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Reic Fischl, Susan Sontag, Walid Bin Attash, Zacarias Moussaoui
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authentic pathology and cozy passivity
Is art is the creation of an artifact that is it’s own argument? Essentially, It does not need a theory to define it, an expert scholar to contextualize it, or a given situation to render it meaning. So, a true … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Filippo Marinetti, graydon parrish, Harold Rosenberg, Jeff Koons, jenny saville, Lady Gaga, Lucian Freud, Lucien Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Rembrandt, Svetlana Alpers, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin
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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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9/11: reaching for the noble among the ruins
Politics in art seems almost inevitable, especially the emotional issue surrounding 9/11, national identity and larger geopolitical concerns which with the unfolding of the Arab Spring, perhaps a metaphor for “regime change”, bring to light an arc of economically motivated … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andrew Wyeth, graydon parrish, Hilton Kramer, Jackson Pollock, james f. cooper, Jeff Koons, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, masatomo kuriya, N.C. Wyeth, new britain museum of american art, nicolas serota, philippe de montebello, Robert Hughes, Steve Reich, steve reich wtc 9/11, Walter Benjamin, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, wtc 10th anniversary
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