Tag Archives: Larry Rivers

breakfast in america: pass on the second helpings

Obama and those “new democracies.” They have to loosen up, chill out, get down and let if flow. But what about the old dogs in the area, or are they granted a free pass, a get out of jail card, … Continue reading

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120 billion dollar bash

End of the Euro? It does seem that three is a crowd. And with the Euro, The American dollar and China as a nimble but nonetheless elephant in the room, it may be the Euro will slowly be dismembered and … Continue reading

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everything is broken

Narrative momentum. The very element lacking in our daily life. Are sort seems to be what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics” ; making new out of the scrap heap of discard, an early perception of appropriation and genre bending that … 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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flight into egypt

When a revolution is not a revolution.The Egyptian debt market is stabilizing, the stock market is on the upswing and the army is making ure that the climate is good for trade. The entire initial cause of the revolution, the … 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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this poor man cries out but who is listening

The God game. The politics of God. Santorum hs the potential to be a dangerous demagogue, but the left critique with its mixing of theology, religion and class economics is almost as nausea inducing by positioning the voice of god … Continue reading

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layton & those wild peculiar joys

Quite a mixed bag in looking at Irving Lyton on his 100th birthday. Not everything was gold, but there was in sum, a spiritual consciousness with the man, a leaving to the control of the instinct as sign of his … Continue reading

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many rivers to cross

Brilliant. But relegated to the scrapheap. A dust bin discard. Just another tormented, energetic man who became an old wild man. Part of a weird process that maybe invented pop art. Maybe. You know the type. Caught between a passion … Continue reading

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