Tag Archives: Yue Minjun

silent screams: ROFL

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

Shock of the new. Something outside the rational, ordered mind, that chaotic zone in the dark sphere of the psyche that can never be expressed or given form in speech and the vocabulary of its desire can never be coherent. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Budelaire, chico marx, Groucho Marx, harpo marx, Jacques Lacan, Modern Chinese art, Modern Chinese Sculpture, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, The Marx Brothers, the three stooges, Walter Benjamin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Yue Minjun | Leave a comment

the last sound bite

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Dave

The imposition of the death penalty wholesale. There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of criminals to keep feeding this part of the entertainment complex. In fact, it could be argued its simply an extension of death that is already … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged china human rights, Dead Men Talking PBS, interviews before execution china, interviews before execution ding yu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, yue mingjun, Yue Minjun, zeng fanzhi, zhang xiaogang | Leave a comment

marching to the tin drum

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dave

If one looks into the abyss , can you be able to hold the stare? To test the strength of he gaze? Or, as Nietzsche said, will the abyss look back at you and in that case who will flinch … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Etienne Balibar, f.t. marinetti, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Singer Sargent, margaret bourke-white, Max Horkheimer, Max Weber, Michael Howard, Salvador dali, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin, Yue Minjun | Leave a comment

china: year of the fat cats

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dave

The Associated Press recently reported that Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Katy Perry have all been deemed threats to “cultural national security” in China, and that the government is surveilling, reprimanding and controlling content on music websites in a protracted effort … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged ai weiwei, al weiwei, Avner Mandelman, Banksy, beyonce, john dewey, kate perry, katy perry, Lady Gaga, Leah McLaren, Neil Reynolds, Paul Krugman, sarah mclachlan, Thorstein Veblen, Yue Minjun | Leave a comment

1984…sweeping away the stark absolutes of individual character

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Dave

George Orwell had lost the power to believe. Who could blame him? The original reviews of George Orwell’s 1984 seemed to justify the complaints of Trotskyites such as Isaac Deutscher, who saw the American press run with the common gambit … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged ai weiwei, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, isaac deutscher, John Bennett, Jonah Raskin, Leon Trotsky, mike wallace, robert hatch, The Pedestrian Project, Yue Minjun, Zhong Biao, Zhong Xiaogang | Leave a comment

Behind the Great Wall to Your Wall

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Dave

The Great Wall of China would be the largest wall surface to hang paintings in the world. Its 5500 square miles long of wall could be filled with Chinese ”hand-made” factory reproductions in less than a month. Chairman Mao could … Continue reading →