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humor in art: hurt idealism
It would seem that humour and style are inseparable. But humour itself is not-never was-mere jocularity. Humour is a way of feeling about life, and when humour is great it is almost never without one of its opposite moods- tenderness, … 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
just a bad patch: calling perfection into question
Back to the nude. Sort of. After the classic honeymoon period of art history, came the quarrels and separation. Somehow, it can never quite be patched up and made new like the good ole’ days. Face it, after several millennia … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Botticelli Birth of Venus, Brancusi, David Park art, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, edward muybridge, Franz Kafka, Madame Pickick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Sandro Botticelli, Thomas Eakins
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its always money in philadelphia
Philadelphia. It’s always had a peculiar character about it; an aristocracy of old families, Quaker in conscience if not in religion or taste… “Philadelphia,” wrote George Biddle in his autobiography, ” has its own breed of integrity. It believes in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Eakins, George Biddle, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary Cassat, mary cassatt, Raphael Soyer, Thomas Eakins, William Penn, Winslow Homer
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philadelphia story
Philadelphia is there alright; America’s fifth largest city and second, though inland, seaport. It was founded by William Penn in the name of God as a refuge for a persecuted religious sect, inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s dream of the Enlightened … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benjamin Franklin Philadelphia, Elfreth Alley Philadelphia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Schmitt Thomas Eakins, Peter Cooper paintings, Peter Cooper Philadelphia, Philadelphia history, Thomas Eakins, William Penn, Winslow Homer
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the thrift of paradox
Banality is typically North American. It lends itself to kitsch as kind of a general anaesthetic which tends to numb and mute over our differences, which helps us from cutting each others throats, at least in theory. Banality speaks to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged ai weiwei, Black Friday, hank paulson, Herbert Marcuse, howard davidowitz, John Maynard Keynes, occupy wall street, Ross Sorkin, The Frankfurt School, Thomas Eakins, Thorstein Veblen, Warren Buffett, Winslow Homer, zhao zhao
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cheer readers : a thief’s playbook
There exist desires which fall and feed beyond the boundaries of normative polite society. Football, in many ways, a dehumanizing livestock show, the skilled commodity is an intersection, as the Penn State scandal shows, where the erotic topic of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bell Hooks, Donald Kuspit, gay football players, George Bellows, Jean Genet, joe paterno, mariah burton nelson, Norman Rockwell, penn state sex scandal, rich eisen, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Eakins
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going home
…The work he undertook at the Institute, combining as it did absurdity with tragedy, degradation, and humble passivity, had a tremendous impact on his writing as well. He wrote in a letter to Max Brod: In my four districts—apart from … Continue reading
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Tagged elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, Franz Kafka, Lionel S. Reiss, Max Brod, Thomas Eakins
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by the seat of the pants
We often think that our intuition, and so called gut reactions, the businessman’s “seat of the pants” reflections leading to a course of action are invariably and intrinsically true and authentic; infallible sources connected to some primal verity embedded within … Continue reading
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Tagged alice walton, alice walton art gallery, f.w. westaway, Gericault, gericault raft of the medusa, graydon parrish, herb terrace, james marsh, martha graham, martha graham dance, merce cunningham, nim chimpsky experiment, noam chomsky linguist, otto ranke, Thomas Eakins
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