Tag Archives: Richard Prince

the burden

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: chris burden embodies everything i love and hate about the fine art world. his work is sensational and violent and ‘destructo ‘- total BOY stuff. i love it to death. but, it’s also completely and utterly shallow … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged art chantry, Banksy and Chris Burden, Chris Burden, Chris Burden Shoot, Damien Hirst, Henry Gallery University of Washington, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul mccarthy art, Richard Prince, robert venturi | Leave a comment

J.D : still be-Holden

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Dave

The critics always worked busily to classify J.D. Salinger. He always eluded them. There was always a feeling in many quarters that altogether too much fuss was being made about J.D. Salinger. George Steiner once castigated it as “The Salinger … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alfred Kazin, Catcher in the Rye, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary McCarthy, Max Brod, Maxwell Geismer, Richard Prince, Salinger Franny and Zooey, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger | Leave a comment

muse without meals : manna and madness

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Dave

The timeless stereotype of the mad artist dies hard. But, sometimes there are a few kernels of truth within the myth, or enough examples to sustain it. It seems axiomatic to state that artists have always, with certain exceptions, been … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Cindy Sherman, Consumerism, consumerist society, Damien Hirst, daniel celentano, Franz Kafka, gene kelly, Guy Debord, hans abbing, harry hopkins, Jeff Koons, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kafka the hunger artist, kathleen powers erickson, Paul Gauguin, Richard Prince, sherry stern, starving artists, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, wilfred arnold | Leave a comment

everything must go: but deep pockets not enough

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Dave

The intricate relationship between art and commerce.This past Wednesday, Christies auction house in New York sold an astounding $300 million of art……Does it really matter if its good or worth it? Is it art or a commodity?…. The sales figures … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albrecht Durer, alighiero boetti, amy cappellazzo, andreas gursky, Andy Warhol, brett gorvy, cecily brown, christopher burge, christopher mason, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, cy twombly, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, edward dolman, Francis Bacon, Francis Picabia, greenberg rohatyns, Jacob Epstein, jean-pierre lehmann, Jeff Koons, julie mehretu, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, mary boone, maurice vlaminck, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Philippe Segalot, Rembrandt, richard diebenkorn, Richard Prince, todd levin, urs fischer | Leave a comment

deja vu: it looks vaguely familiar

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Dave

Handed-down distortions of truth. Its all about challenging the idea of originality and walking delicately over eggshells or hot coals depending on the context. The image seems familiar but the projection, or its juxtaposition or message is not. Where are … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Christian marclay, gillian wearing, Piet Mondrian, Richard Prince, Rube Goldberg, Saul Steinberg | Leave a comment

Pretty babies:from Drawing Room to the rabbit hole

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Dave

The shadows of celebrity shows all the reflections of a flickering candle.The shadows are the flip side of the spotlight. They are unpredictable and turn in usual paths and shapes at times..Its always been a battle between the trickle down … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abraham Maslow, Alice Liddell, Aspasia Karras, Brooke Shields, Garry Gross, Kristine Harmon, Lewis Caroll, Louis Malle, Max Weber, Neal Gabler, Nina Teicholz, Richard Prince, RIchard Prince Spiritual America, Terri Shields | Leave a comment

CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Dave

“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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | 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 | Leave a comment

MEMES IN OUR GENES

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Dave

In the digital age its becoming of becoming of greater importance to understand the idea of “meme” — a unit of cultural information. The concept has been neatly expressed in Henry Jenkins’s white paper, If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead. … Continue reading →