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see a little light
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i’ve always had an affinity for bob mould. not only have i deeply admired the music he produced in the astonishing band ‘husker du’ (and, later, the band ‘sugar’), but, we’re both smart (and smart … Continue reading
amen together
Spiritual pursuits and just plain pursuit. Pursuit or being pursued? God is in the poor, the broken and the needy who cry out. Evidently, as the picture below shows, staged of not, that Jesus can probably do more with the … Continue reading
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Tagged andres wood, andres wood machuca, cornel west, Dalai Lama, Donald Dewey, irony in photos, James Gillray, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, muchacha 2004, the Diggers, Thorstein Veblen, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Dear God
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a king a crown and a pyramid of sacred geometry
The first King of Britain was James I. He won the prize that had eluded his mother, Mary Queen of Scots: the right to rule over a united kingdom. Unfortunately he earned himself a very bad press.But press, for better … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anne of Denmark, brew dog, Christopher Hitchens, Guy Debord, James I of England, Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul van Somer, royal virility performance beer, Royal Wedding, XTC Andy Partridge
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king for a day: take a pass on the cake
All the king’s men and women. Indeterminancy and inevitability, fortuity and fate.Sacred geometry and secret recipes. The chance of being king. Or is it chance? The chance of being king is charged with multiple and contradictory associations among of which … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Aristotle, Christopher Hitchens, cosmati floor, cosmati pavement, Douglas Kellner, Guy Debord, Inigo Jones, james frazer the golden bough, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Middleton, King James I, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince William, XTC Andy Partridge
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bosch: love as an involuntary movement
How mad can mad be? Is deep pessimism a form of madness? Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled and mystified, even perplexed viewers the way Hieoronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights has. Six hundred years … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Bass, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, E.H. Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, Ram Dass, Sigmund Freud, Simone Weil, Umberto Eco, Wilhelm Fraenger, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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garden of earthly delights: paradise lost and better forgotten
Very few paintings in the history of art have puzzled viewers as “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Perhaps both the godless and the god fearing, the hedonist, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and those addicted to instant gratification can draw … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Hieronymous Bosch, John Milton, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Milton Paradise Lost, Stanley Meisler, Wilhelm Fraenger, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding
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CLERGY BURNOUT: THE AESTHETICS OF DISAPPOINTMENT
Believers and Deceivers. The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Philips, Alison Gendar, Andres Serrano, Artur Rosman, Bob gass, Carolyn garago, Charles Lewis, Charles Lewis National Post, David faulkner, Edmund Burke, Elizabeth Lev, Fred Lehr, Geoffrey Robertson, Guy fawkes, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the younger, James Gillray, Job Orton, John Laughland, Jonathan Cook, Joseph H. Fichter, Kant, Karolina Sygula, Martin Buber, Massimo introvigne, Maurice S. Friedman, Michael Friedman, Paul Vitello, Peter Tatchell, Philip Jenkins, Pope Benedict, Rabbi Milton Balkany, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, Richard Dawkins, Sir Thomas More, Terry Nelson, Willaim Heath, William Heath, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, XTC Nonsuch
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