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tears and fears: RIP (through) holy land
Attack Jerusalem? Launching rockets on the eternal city? Imagine the irony if a Hamas rocket hits the Dome of the Rock? Recoil time to play in the rubble. Something here about Walter Benjamin’s idea of children playing in trash and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, bernard lewis, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, David Rubinger, Gershon Baskin, Golda Meir, Heinrich Bunting, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, thomas friedman new york times, tom wesselmann, Walter Benjamin
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colonizing salvation
We don’t want salvation, we want the messiah! Or do you? If given a million dollars or the messiah arriving? Well, maybe the million, and the messiah a little later. Clearly, the the poor sufferers in the Death Camps of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Avner Shalev Yad Vashem, Chief Rabbi Meir Lau, Gunter grass, Haredim Israel deface yad vashem, Joel Schalit, John Koch, Lucian Freud, Maurizio Cattelan, melanie phillips, Slavoj Zizek, tom wesselmann, tony judt, Udi Aloni, Yad Vashem Museum defaced, Yves Klein
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stubborn affiliations
The nude’s stubborn affiliation with tradition can create embarrassing situations at a time when art is stubbornly anti-traditional. Of course, some of it depends on what you mean by tradition. Until modern art kicked tradition in the jewels, you could … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, boris lurie, Francois Boucher, Giacomo Casanova, Hassan Musa, Hassan Musa art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Peter Paul Rubens, tom wesselmann
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just like starting over
An ambivalent relationship to be sure. Antagonistic. Lots of arguments. But breaking up is what they are wired to do. The quarrels, the separation, and the inevitable efforts to try and patch things up with a first love of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged anthony storr, David Park art, Elmer Bischoff, John Koch paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, richard diebenkorn, Sigmind freud, tom wesselmann, willem de Kooning, wolfgang lederer
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