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somebody’s baby
The Surrealist movement was founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and extensively influenced by … Continue reading
faking the real: postures in palestine
A modern aesthetic rebellion against bourgeois existence. Its an ambiguous rhetoric, an in-between, between aesthetic and political radicalism that never commits to either; like the British promising the same dunams of land to jew and arab. As protest, it is … Continue reading
is that your hand on my thigh?
A story of sex, secrets, and Ivy League denial or is it fantasy? Disavowal. Complicity. A career boost. Might as well milk it for what its worth. As if fawning over her is somehow a mark of distinction, A heaven-sent … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew cuomo, arianna huffington, Camille Paglia, charles pagnam, Donald Kuspit, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Harold Bloom, katie roiphe, Kiki Smith, kim kardashian, Louise Bourgeois, marjorie strider, Nancy Spero, Naomi Wolf, third wave feminism, thomas frank the baffler
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for what is honor
God forbid. god forbid. god forbid. Gender division has nothing to do with god. It is a human construction. A devised, contrived, set of human boundaries that has promoted untold suffering, degrading both victim and victimizer. Boundaries based on sex … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Christie Blatchford, Christopher Hitchens, Feminist frequency, John Singer Sargent, laurie lacelle, Louise Bourgeois, marjorie strider, mohammad shafia, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter van der Heyden, robert bernstein, robert bernstein human rights watch, sebastien vrancx, tooba mohammad yahya
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kahlo: sensuous transmutation and visionary longing
Undaunted. Defiant. Frida Kahlo is the textbook case of suffering for her art and transforming that suffering into art. Still, after all these years, her reputation seems to absorb new strands of thought which only augment the interest and intrigue … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Antonin Artaud, Diego Rivera, Donald Kuspit, Elizabeth Murray, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, jose domingo lavin, leo eloesser, Leon Trotsky, Louise Bourgeois, marilyn oshman, mary garrard, natalia sedova, Pablo Picasso, Robert Lepage, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism
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giants: part metal packets
Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading
Miro and the green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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dionysus: an ecstatic death with a directed soul
So now, as always, Dionysus shows himself in his traditional forms- alluring,pansexual; madness reigns, an urge to dance comes over people, a trance inducing beat can be heard from the mountains, and the wine is uncorked. But if Dionysus is … Continue reading
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Tagged alain danielou, Charles Baudelaire, chuck berry, Donald Kuspit, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Louise Bourgeois, Lovis Corinth, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, nick tosches, robert christgau, Robert Mapplethorpe, robert palmer
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back to the garden: Miro and green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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