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100 red carpets for the sun
Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading
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shades of 1848: gulps of reality in a pure state
For many, what is transpiring in the Arab world, bears resemblance to another year of revolution: 1848. When the inevitable reaction to these toppling of regimes takes place, will it recall the sad end of 1848 when the springtime hopes … Continue reading
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Tagged 1848 Rebellion, A.J.P. Taylor, Alphonse de Lamartine, Andrew McKillop, Arnold Toynbee, Danny Boon, De Tocqueville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Honore Daumier, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Julie Coudry, Karl Marx, Raed El Rafei, Sartre
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PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed
Pablo Picasso found himself in Paris during World War II. Stranded……. Overall, reading through Matisse’s correspondence with Camoin in La Revue de l’Art (12, 1971) makes me suspect that Matisse’s behavior during Vichy had little to do directly with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Aristide Maillol, Carl Goldstein, Charles Camoin, Dave Douglas, Dave Douglas Duncan, Demetrios Galanis, Dina Vierny, Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Ernst Junger, Florence Gould, Frederic Spotts, Georges Duthuit, Gerhard Heller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Leonard Cohen, Louis Aragon, Marcel Jouhandeau, Marie-Louise Bousquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Max Jacob, Megan Meighan, Michele C. Cone, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Fournier, Ramon Fernandez, Richard Eder, Riva Castleman, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Rosalind Krauss, Sacha Guitry, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Spott
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THE PRODIGIES: CHECK-MATE ON GENIUS
The cutoff for what is often considered ”gifted” is an IQ score that is among the top two percent of the population, which is a score of 130 on the Wechsler scales, or 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale. This sole … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Bobby Fischer, Britney Spears, Catharine Morris Cox, Chris Hitchens, David Duke, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edison, Francis Galton, Gary Kasparov, Goethe, Grady M. Towers, Handel, IQ Tests, James Woods, Jeremy Schaap, John Stuart Mill, Kevin MacDonald, Lord Byron, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mozart, Muhammed Ali, Noam Chomsky, Paul McCartney, Robert S. Albert, Sartre, Spinoza, Stanford-Binet Scale, Voltaire, Weschler Scale, William E. Benet, William James Sidis
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BEING DOES NOT = E + MC 2
Though the goal of spontaneous human combustion can also be attained by splitting atoms and achieving fission in the more social sciences. The vocabulary of art is, a priori, a language. That is, its aim is to communicate to others … Continue reading
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