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cold war: never say never again
What exactly was the Cold War? Who was responsible for it? Could it have been avoided? …Measured in terms of personal agony, money, energy, time and democratic processes, the Cold War took a toll as great as, possibly greater than, … Continue reading
swag overkill : bad blotter acid
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i had an uncle that collected political campaign buttons. and when i say ‘collect’, i mean COLLECT! this guy had his entire basement lined with cloth and then proceeded to cover the entire room – … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, c.r.e.e.p. committee to re-elect the president, hubert humphrey frisbees, josh higgins FLUF, josh higgins obama 2012, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, nixon political campaign button, obama for president coffee mug, Richard Nixon, richard nixon 1968 campaign, Richard Nixon election campaign swag
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merry pranksters: Joke on who?
The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin
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rose mary woods: closing the gap
Watergate and the Rosemary stretch.Like the magic bullet…eighteen minutes? by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): this is the actual tape recorder that rosemary woods was using when she did that “accidentally” erased that infamous “18-minute gap”. ever see her re-create the … Continue reading
unsafe : 1059 ways…
Unsafe and insane.Or so in retrospect it seems… By Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Unsafe and insane. When I was a kid about 14/15, I was a pyro. I never burned down anything (i wasn’t an arsonist). But, me and my … Continue reading
sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent
Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960’s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Deco design, Art Nouveau, Beardsley, dan rowan, david steinberg, dick martin, digby wolfe, Fritz Lang Metropolis, george schlatter, Hal Erickson, Henry David Thoreau, hippie movement, john alcorn, Laugh In, lena horne, Milton Glaser, paul keyes, Peter Max, Richard Nixon, Rick Griffin, robert massin, seymour chwast, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, tom smothers, walden pond, wes wilson
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC and the UNCANNY “SECOND SIGHT”
“A member asked what was the ethos of German Expressionism, suggesting it was ‘cultural despair’. The speaker reiterated his title phrase: ‘an explosive cocktail of cultural despair and political instability’, adding that the German character seemed almost morbid in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Zuckermayer, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Emil Jannings, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, George J.W. Goodman, Heinrich Mann, Howard Buffet, James Turk, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Proyect, Lyonel Feininger, Marianne Faithfull, Marlene Dietrich, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Gough, Paul Klee, Peter Rex Valentine, Richard Nixon, Rosa Luxemburg, Seth Taylor, Walter Gropius, Warren Buffet, Wassily Kandinsky
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GRINGO DOGS: Pay Dearly for My Beautiful Muchacha
There are no lack of visitors to Cuba from rich countries, including a disproportionate number from Britain and Canada who believe they have encountered a true alternative to capitalist democracy. Why? It seems to be a way of keeping alive … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Parfey, Adam Parfrey, Adriana Teresa, Conrad Black, Fidel Castro, hemingway, Jacob Williamson, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jonathan Kelly Washington Times, Julia Sweig, Ken Thomas, Maurice Rosenfeld, Norman Saunders, Peter Falk, Raul Canibano Ercilla, Rich Oldberg, Richard Nixon, Ry Cooder, Steven Soderbergh, Terry Southern, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen
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CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ( Keynes, 1935) And thus it began with adherence to Keynes’s central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Greenspan, Andy Warhol, Bloomsbury Group, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Damian Da Costa, Damien Hirst, Daniella Luxembourg, Debbie Reynolds, Don Thompson, Eddie Fisher, Edgar Hardcastle, Elizabeth Taylor, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Frederic Fekkai, G.E. Moore, Jared Bland, Jeff Koons, John Maynard Keynes, John Muth, Julian Schnabel, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Marc Quinn, Maurizio Cattelan, Miryam Lindberg, Nate Freeman, Pablo Picasso, Peter Brant, Philippe Segalot, Richard Nixon, Richard Prince, Simon De Pury, Stanley Kubrick, Stephanie Seymour, Virginia Woolf
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FOOLS ON THE HILL WITH THE KARMA MEN
Tea for two with the Maharishi. The drift along hippie life purported to be inherently religious, but even among the hippies there were always a few who tried harder. These are the various sages of the movement, who appointed themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Cohen, Art Kleps, Arthur Kleps, Deadheads, Donovan, Eldridge Cleaver, Geoffrey D. Falk, Henry David Thoreau, Hippies, League for Spiritual Discovery, LSD, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Mary Pinochet Meyer, Meyer Feldman, Mia Farrow, Mike Love, Millbrook, R. Gordon Wassman, Ram Dass, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, The Beatles, The Oracle, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Timothy Leary
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