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stern warnings
Freedom fighter or destructive nihilist who ultimately betrayed the cause of national right of self-determination through misguided, unrealistic and perhaps even self-centered interests that undermined nationhood? Like all the early Zionists, spirituality and religious values were indeterminant and largely non-existent. … Continue reading
1939: insolent chariots
At the time of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, it can be said that a god many conditions that prevailed seem rather odd today. A silver-fox coat at Bonwit Teller for $165, a summer suit at Gimbel’s for … Continue reading
the pleasure of release
Seventeenth-century ingenuity in the manipulation of water led, perhaps inevitably, to some dubious conceits. Grotesque masks spewing water from nostrils or mouth and the shameless sphinx shown here are all at the Villa d’Este. But besides grotesque masks spewing water, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bali elephant and bat caves, Balinese fountains maidens, Duke Godfrey III of Leuven, Hieronimus Duquesnoy, Jerome Duquesnoy, John Keats, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manneken Pis statue, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Friends of Manneken Pis, Veterinary without Borders NGO
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forever young: eternal trial
Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading
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Tagged aubrey de Grey, Byron, elixir of youth, Ernest Hemingway, eternal youth, Francois-Hubert Drouais, Goethe, Hans Holbein the younger, james frazer the golden bough, jesus diaz, John Keats, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Milan Kundera, mitochondrial rejuvenation, n.t. wright, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Feynman, ronald a. depinho, telomere length maintenance, tom merry, W.B. Yeats
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bizarre love triangles : black moon rising
Booted out of Paradise? Lilith as the first mistress and well-spring of promiscuity, both real and imagined? There has always been some perplexing inconsistencies in the Old Testament; a kind of lost narrative between the Greek Septuagint, the Dead Sea … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andrew Samuels, Anita Sarkeesian, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dead Sea Scrolls, frank dicksee, Gershom Scholem, Greta Garbo, J.W. Waterhouse, john collier lilith, john collier painter, John Keats, John William Waterhouse, joseph heath, judith plastow, louis ginzberg, Madonna, michael walzer, perle besserman, rabbi jill hammer, rebecca honig friedman, Rick Salutin, Salka Viertel, thomas frank the baffler
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FRANKLY MR. SHANKLY: I’d Rather Be Reified
Frankly Mr. Shankly, I’d rather be famous than righteous or holy, any day….. and so Morrissey sang with the Smiths. Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I’ve held it pays my way and it corrodes my soul I want to leave … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Wilder, Byron, Erik Estrada, Hegel Philosopher, Ian Fraser, James Ensor, John Keats, Karl Marx, Keats, Linda Evangelista, Lord Byron, Lukacs, Marxism, Maurizio Cattelan, Morrissey, Robert Fulford, Stefan Edlis, The Smiths, Theodor Adorno, Tom Cruise, Walter Benjamin
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