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saving bohemia from the yuppies
Its too late to save Bohemia.Perhaps a worthless book can achieve more ill than a good book can ever achieve good. At any rate it is upon this seeming paradox that it is worth dwelling on, in the effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Emile Jean Horace Vernet, Felix Nadar, Gustave Courbet, Gypsies in England, Gypsy Travellers, Henri Murger, Henri Murger Vie de Boheme, Horace Vernet, Jules Janin, King of Bohemia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding t.v. show, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare The Winter's Tale, The Black Prince, William Shakespeare
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REAL LOVE: A KARMA of MILK and HONEY
All my little plans and schemes pass like some forgotten dream. Seems that all I really was doing was waiting for you. Just like little girls and boys playing with their little toys. Seems like all we really were doing … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Carson McCullers, Charles Dickens, Eliot Mintz, Haynes King, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jacob Needleman, James Moore, Jan van Eyck, John Lennon, Kate Bush, Pablo Picasso, Paul McCartney, Rembrandt, Rene Magritte, Sir James Fraser, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, Yoko Ono
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CASEY AT THE PLATE: BATTER UP IN BABYLON
Gambling, like pornography, has somehow arranged itself to be completely normalized; an integral element in our service based economy. It is still on the margins of acceptable discourse at the Sunday family supper, sort of doing a limbo under the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbott and Costello, Abner Doubleday, Arnold Rothstein, Bernard Malamud, Branch Rickey, Cap Anson, Daniel E. Ginsburg, Ernest Becker, Ernest L. Thayer, Helena Blavatsky, Howard Rosenberg, Jackie Robinson, James Lincoln Ray, John Cahill, Mark Newman, Mike Bauman, Peter Toms, Roy Hobbs, Rube Foster, Satchel Paige, Shakespeare, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Viktor Frankl, wayne and shuster, William Randolph Hearst, William Shakespeare
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AN ABHORRENCE FOR GLOSSY MIRACLES OF TECHNIQUE
“It was a real learning experience,” she recalls, “to sit for hours with great paintings and get inside an artist’s head to see the logic of how he put the painting together.” Reflecting upon earlier artists who have influenced her … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged C.J. Holmes, Charles Nodier, Cuyp, English Landscape painting, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Fisher, John R. Kemp, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, London Royal Academy of Arts, Maria Bicknell, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard McKinley, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Susan Downy-White, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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NOBODY'S PERFECT … HEAVEN KNOWS THEY TRIED
”…Problem is, the only open slots are with Sweet Sue and Her All-Girl Society Syncopaters. As if high heels, girdles, and falsies weren’t tsouris enough, “Josephine” and “Daphne” must keep those testosterone levels down while in the sensuous proximity of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged American Cinema, Andrew Sarris, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Damian Cannon, David Thomson, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Greta Garbo, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Lewis, Laurence Maslon, Mack Sennett, Marilyn Monroe, Philip Kemp, Pierre Schaeffer, Richard Armstrong, Robert Portfino, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, Tim Dirks, Tony Curtis, William Shakespeare
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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED
The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alhadeff, Bill Casselman, Christopher Columbus, Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Father Labat, Gericault, Hannibal Lecter, Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Lenin, Marco Polo, Marquis de Sade, Maurice Sendak, Michel de Montaigne, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Nicolas Poussin, Osamu Fukutani, Othello and Desdemona, Restoration France, Robinson Crusoe, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Hobbes, Tim White Cannibalism, Voltaire, William Dafoe, William Shakespeare
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300 POUNDS OF JOY: THE SKINNY ON THE FLABBY
Fat flabby annie was incredibly big She weighed just about sixteen stone And then a fake dietician went and put her on a diet Now she looks like skin and bone. Do the meditation and yoga And she’s thrown away … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Ferre, Andre the Giant, Andre the Giant Ferre, Belushi and Ackroyd, Belushi and Aykroyd, Biblical Nephilim, Bruce Snowdon, Cary Grant, Diane Arbus Jewish Giant, Dionysis, Fit Light Yogurt, Harold Huge, Ibrahim and Sugar Cube, Ibrahim the Mad, Isaac Cruikshank, L.C. Geerts, Mae West, Marc Hartzman, Marie Adams and the Three Tons of Joy, Obesity, Ray Davies, Renaissance Art, Richard Wagner, Ron English, Shakespeare Falstaff, The Kinks, The Pete Lewis Band, Titian, Valkyrie Brunhilde, Ward Hall, William Heath, William Shakespeare, Zeuss
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INTO THE MYSTIC: FOLLOWING A MYSTERIOUS & FUGITIVE LIGHT
Time has told me You’re a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind. And time has told me Not to ask for more Someday our ocean Will find its shore. So I`ll leave the ways that are … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Anthony Venutolo, Charles Holme, Claude Lorrain, Dan Bischoff, English Painting, James Lenox, John Constable, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Linda Hayward, Linda Haywood, Michelangelo, Nick Drake, Nick Drake Five Leaves Left, Raphael, Romanticism, Simon Schama, Walter Ramsden Fawkes, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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ECSTASY OF ROMANTIC APOCALYPSE
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench … Continue reading
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Tagged Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz March to the Scaffold, Berlioz Rakoczy March, Camille Moke, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Legouve, Ernest Newman, Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz, Horace Walpole, John Mallard William Turner, Lord Byron, Marie Recio, Mayerbeer, Mendelssohn, Niccolo Paganini, Pinchas Steinberg, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Turner, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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