Tag Archives: Larry Rivers art

go jump in a ritual lake

Scapegoating the religious Jews, the Haredim, as oppressors is quite ingenious even though their proper brand of neuroticism born of fear, paranoia and just old fashioned nastiness would make the most ardent fan of black comedy wince. For leadership of … Continue reading

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the ruler and his subjects: histrionics in the red zone

A disenchanted world. Feeding on these pariah relationships. Vampiring to keep it alive, until it loses its way in a lbyrinth, a maze of its own creation with the entrance and exists sealed off and blurred in the mists of … Continue reading

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where shall i seek you

The plausibility of Elie Wiesel asserting the importance of the holocaust as comparable and of equal significance to the events of Mount Sinai does seem like poetic lyricism gone amok and the elevation of the tragic to fetishised narrative of … Continue reading

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acknowledged silences

We are dealing with unavoidable traumatic effects; actual and not idealized fancified tragedies and catastrophes. We don’t need T.S. Eliot preaching how low we have sunk. It was the trial run of eugenics, Fabianism, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and … Continue reading

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he who casts the first stone

Its like turning back the pages to communist Russia with Orwellian overtones. Legally, the state is supposed to indemnify victims and their families of terror attacks. However, what is classified as a terror incidents is decided arbitrarily in the way … Continue reading

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