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Tag Archives: John Sloan
steven a. cohen: touch of grey
At what point does the grey zone enter into the shadow lands on further into the black areas of the infinite? Is an hunting of the hedge fund manager also an indictment of the entire financial market and all it … Continue reading
ghost dance: jackie wilson says
Ghost dances and cargo cults. They are deeply embedded within the American narrative. In times of stress there is both a wariness and susceptibility to prophets, from the authentic to the snake oil salespeople. An earthly paradise beckons, and America … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alice Kehoe, Buffalo Bill Cody, Ghost Dance movement, Handsome Lake, Indian Rebellion Wounded Knee, John Sloan, John Sloan art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sitting Bull and Custard, Sitting Bull Sioux, The Ghost Dance, William F. Cody, Wounded Knee Massacre, Wovoka, Wovoka jack Wilson
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on ole’ boot hill
Where the difference between the good guys and the less good guys was sort of blurry. Boot Hill, Tombstone AZ and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The times were a changin’ and America was pushing westward. Like in Peckinpah’s … Continue reading
top bananas: the wild bunch
Entertainment is ideology. Whether it was Gary Cooper in High Noon or the Marx Brothers Go West, the white man was conceiving and furthering his own myth. The frontier mentality. The New World. These cultural myths usually encapsulate the dominant … Continue reading
those furry little fellas
As we conclude 2011, the story of the lemmings can serve as a cautionary tale… Fit for a cliff. Are you a lemming? Blindly, intoxicated with the herd mentality of following the lead of the crowd over the cliff. An … Continue reading
Occupy my coolness
The question that could be posited is whether articles like this, writers like Naylor actually reinforce the very behavior they seek to expose; since ostensibly bringing the matter to public attention may increase the value of the one-percenters, the distinction … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Potter, Ayn Rand, David Lynch, David Reisman, ginia bellafante, gustavus myers, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, John Singer Sargent, John Sloan, Marcel Duchamp, Muckraker, naylor crass struggle, Rick Salutin, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, tom naylor
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nomad economics: wandering with the 99%
… it was the small is beautiful view that Jane Jacobs professed. The city, the urban space was a piece of female architecture, a metaphor for woman and it was being terribly abused. Raped, violated and beaten, it was only … Continue reading
client and customer: freebies on the family
Olympia is one of the most famous paintings, one that could say marked the iconic launch of the modern era in art. The background to the work may be seen in Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil, a very pessimistic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Germaine Greer, Gustave Caillebotte, janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, John Sloan, Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Freud, suzanne vega, suzanne vega luka, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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occupy the authentic
Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 10cc, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Guy Debord, Henry Adams, John Sloan, laura ingalls wilder, Lionel Trilling, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, mike moffatt, miles orvell, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, stephen crane, susan pinker, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Walt Whitman
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