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Tag Archives: Steven A. Cohen
men of leisure: rewards of mediocrity
When you read about the number of billionaires in the United States, it is easy to arrive at a judgement that defines Americans as brighter than everyone else and have the cash hoard as evidence. This is balanced by cultural … Continue reading
steven a. cohen: touch of grey
At what point does the grey zone enter into the shadow lands on further into the black areas of the infinite? Is an hunting of the hedge fund manager also an indictment of the entire financial market and all it … Continue reading
greener pastures
Let the exodus begin.There is no way to really stop it as like water will always find the crack to seep through. Likely, the only answer is just to engage in a sort of corporate excommunication. The power and stench … Continue reading
art for the sake of creative destruction
Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Damien Hirst, David Ganek, Eli Broad, Francis Bacon art, Guy Debord, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Quinn, Pablo Picasso, Randy Newman, Stephen Wynn, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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the myth is not invulnerable
Aesthetics and economics. As with the farmer, so it generally went with the small businessperson: dealer, salesman, contractor,and small merchant. Their income may be considered handsome when compared to past standards, but they are, collectively, a group that has to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arnold Hauser, David Geffen art collection, Donald Kuspit, Francis Bacon artist, H.L. Mencken, Henry Clay Frick art collection, Jan van Goyen, Jeff Koons, jeffrey deitch, Marcel Duchamp, Sinclair Lewis, Sir Joseph Duveen, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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fear of hardship: price of precarity
Starving artist syndrome. Or superior creation under the wing of economic security. …. One can bring the matter between aesthetics and economics within the scope of a single hypothesis. It is that pecuniary motivation- roughly, the desire for money income- … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Arnold Hauser, Arthur Schopenhauer, benjamin disraeli, David Geffen art collection, Jackson Pollock, Jan Steen, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meindert Hobbema, Norman Rockwell, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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Scratch and Sniff Museum
The allure of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rests mainly in the rivalries, the machinations, the sexual intrigues of many of the men of fortune, and power and bloodline. It’s in the intestinal workings of an autocratic circle of trustees … Continue reading
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