Tag Archives: Stockhausen

Accidental art: relationships with the dice

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

It was a time of accidental art. Where artists let sheer happenstance paint their pictures or a throw of the dice shape their music; a deliberate effort it seemed, to avoid making decisions. An art of escape and procrastination. … … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Georges Mathieu painting, Jackson Pollock, John Cage, Lewis Carroll, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Stockhausen, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

trading places: go forth

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dave

In part, its simply a question of asserting their sheer existence. An unadulterated demand for visibility that exposes the limitations of democracy. … This descending of the mob onto the shopping arteries, and the looting, well, it has terrorized the … Continue reading →

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reich: avoiding the sentimental maudlin fantasy

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Dave

What goes over the line in terms of offensive to prevailing sensibilities? The commemoration of historical memory has always been a delicate issue, especially in regard to the WTC 9/11 attacks. Steve Reich’s new compositions performed by the Kronos Quartet … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Art Spiegelman, david harrington, david lang pulitzer prize for music, john adams, Julia Spinola, kronos quartet, masatomo kuriya, nonesuch steve reich, sequenza 21, seth colter walls, Steve Reich, Stockhausen, Susan Sontag, William Osborne | Leave a comment

Will the last one turn out the lights

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Dave

Separating the saints from the sinners is being a much more protracted process than was initially foreseen. Due to an unheralded demand, there will at least be a second sitting for the Last Supper.After all, we’ve been on tenterhooks,a seemingly … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, brian haubert, chris mars, chris mars art, Dario Fo, David S. Reynolds, dominique strauss kahn, Douglas Adams, Edward Hicks, edward hicks noah, Ernst Bloch, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hannah Arendt, harold camping, Julia Spinola, Lenny Bruce, Michael Stipe, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, REM, Stockhausen, Walter Benjamin, william miller baptist minister, William Osborne, zygmunt bauman | Leave a comment

negotiating away the apocalyse: rain check

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Dave

Can you negotiate anything? Even the end of the world? Well, it might take a bit of hubris, and the grand finale, the curtain closer with encore is knocking on our door, the grim reaper of grim reapers, on May … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged 10cc, benjamin warsinske, brent townshend, David S. Reynolds, david straker, harold camping, herb cohen, Hilary Spurling, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Randy Newman, samuel colman, sharlotte hydorn, Slavoj Zizek, Stockhausen, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William Osborne, zig ziglar, ziggy ziglar | Leave a comment

MEAT PUPPETS: TEENAGE WASTELAND

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Dave

The intersection between anatomy, art and religion continues to be a divisive and sensitive issue since its locus is a conjunction in a grey zone that straddles the difference, and blurs the barriers between life and death, where clear demarcation … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Christophe Maillot, Craig Walker Denver Post, Damien Hirst, Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Farewell Baghdad, Goethe, Gunther von Hagens, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Baudrillard, John Lucaites, Laura Keeble, Mehdi Naderi, Mitra Amiri, Stephen Jay Gould, Stockhausen | Leave a comment

SKULLDUGGERY AND DEATH AS A READY MADE

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Dave

Damien Hirst’s new show is using skulls of famous French artistic figures who have been disinterred and sent to the Pantheon, the mausoleum of France’s most honored citizens.That is the rumor. He is confronting the existential crisis in Art by … Continue reading →

Posted in Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adrian Searle, Albert Camus, Alexander Calder, Britney Spears, Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Baldessari, John Healy, Julia Spinola, Madonna, Nietzsche, Nobel Prize, Robert Hughes, Stanley Brouwn, Stockhausen, William Osborne, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

Don't Kill Me, I'm With Stupid

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Dave

”The pathological and cyclical nature of violent behaviour”. Little one-eyed bunnies with kalishnikovs and other weapons of group destruction attempting to liquidate each other, vigilante style. Unhinged citizens, mad as hell and taking it out on each other,a gang that … Continue reading →