Tag Archives: itzhak perlman

just blame them

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Dave

Tolerated guests in their own land. Israel’s main problem is to come to grips with itself as a Jewish state. Until this arrives, here will always be a self-negating ideology at work, a presumed unworthiness, a form of auto-flagellation that … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ari Abramovitz The Land of Israel, Ariel College, Dr. Amal Al-Hazzani, Emad Burnat director, Guy Davidi, Hector Timmerman, itzhak perlman, J.F. Blumenbach, Jeremy Gimpel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

don’t beat him he’s only the fiddler

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Dave

Joshua Bell impersonating an itinerant playing violinist in Washington DC .Its a living. It was not an original idea in that this set-up had been enacted in New York and within other contexts as well. Bell played six Bach pieces … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged albert einstein violin, danielle lloyd, eichmann trial, itzhak perlman, Jackie Robinson, jansz van adriaen painting, john williams soundtrack, joshua bell, kitty genovese, michelangelo the pieta, Niccolo Paganini, Norman Rockwell, papa john creach, Philip Zimbardo, Richard Hamilton, Stanley Milgram, wandalin-strzalecki painting | Leave a comment

the jazz swingers

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dave

African masks. The surrealists and the fetish for the African mask. The Man Ray photographs, the Demoiselles D’Avignon of Picasso in which cubsim collapsed the figurative. The African iconography and jazz was a metaphor for the exotic and a key … Continue reading →