Tag Archives: moacyr scliar

feeding the shark

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Dave

So long and thanks for all the fish. She claims the Shalit family was holding her story hostage for four years, and she deserves royalties. As Shalit was exchanged for prisoners, she should also figure into the exchange process. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged ephraim kishon, franz fanon, Gideon Levy Haaretz, gilad shalit, Hannah Arendt, Henri Rousseau, Jean Genet, moacyr scliar, Norman Finkelstein, ronit lentin, shalit family, shelly elkayam, william haver, Yann Martel | Leave a comment

hunger artists: portraits of ghosts

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Dave

The theory of Donald Kuspit and a few other less known voices was that Modigliani rehumanized what Picasso had crushed and sucked out. Modigliani was able to connect in his paintings to those live and unpredictable wires – the curse … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Clement Greenberg, Franz Kafka, jeffrey meyers, kafka a hunger artist, Marc Chagall, Meyer Schapiro, moacyr scliar, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso | Leave a comment

telling stories about the book of j

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Dave

The recent death of Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar provides a point of departure for examining writing that is outside the ken of the north American context and is deeply inflected with Scliar’s central influences such as Kafka, Isaac Babel, Schlem … Continue reading →