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arendt: spooked horse syndrome
Hannah Arendt was certainly not the first person to mediate on the problem and ramifications of thoughtless evil. As opposed to the cunning, conscious and coherent variety. Her reflections of course, were not entirely understood, or else appropriated to serve diverse … Continue reading
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Tagged David Satter, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Max Beckmann, Philip Guston, Yves Klein
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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
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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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Accidental art: relationships with the dice
It was a time of accidental art. Where artists let sheer happenstance paint their pictures or a throw of the dice shape their music; a deliberate effort it seemed, to avoid making decisions. An art of escape and procrastination. … … Continue reading
secretaries of state
The Society of the Spectacle. Pseudo events. The event becomes at best, an entertaining adjunct to the advertising and fundraising. The event is depersonalized and used to move product; stripped of its subjective meaning, the message becomes tailored to stimulate … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, buffett rule, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Miley Cyrus, Obama 2012, occupy wall street, pierre bourdieu, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Beecroft, Warren Buffett, Yves Klein
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advertising is pop culture
Are we all part of the Society of the Spectacle, embedded and enmeshed in a vague relationship with internal and external reality all mediated by images, a series of disruptions with no coherent pattern giving us the impression of being … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Guy Debord, James Rosenquist, Jeff Koons, Jonathan McIntosh, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul mccarthy art, rebellious pixels, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein
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unvarnished truth: the naked gape
Leaving nothing to the shadowy side of the imagination. Unvarnished. To see the naked without illusions and still accept it, warts and all. If the familiarity becomes tedious and banal, so be it. Its emotional language has simply talked itself … Continue reading
feel the feeling from without: vulgar(t)
When dreams turn into a dark nightmare, a small flickering flame extinguishable by a baby’s breath. It’s the realization of a nihilistic endgame, but its causes, and controlling forces are not always tangible, the reality is not transparent and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Francis Picabia, Franz Kafka, Frederico Fellini, Hans Bellmer, Jeff Koons, Leautremont, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein
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somewhere down that crazy river
Body painting. It has to be considered to be one of the oldest forms of art. Way before people covered themselves in clothes, they clothed themselves with pigments. Basically bright mineral paints that temporarily embellished the skin and the use … Continue reading
LORENZO Da PONTE: The Wandering Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte? Venice, 1763. In a church crowded with worshippers and onlookers, a baptism is about to take place. A bishop presides at the ceremony. Giacomo Casanova, sitting in the crowd, observes the baptism of four Jews with a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Anthony Holden, Carlos Saura, Charles McGrath, Gerald Mendelsohn, Giacomo Casanova, Jason Anderson, Joan Acocella, Jonathon Keats, Joseph Losey, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Megan Marshall, Michael Haneke, Milos Forman, Paj Sandhu, Peter Shaffer, Rodney Bolt, Samuel Morse, Sheila Hodges, Susan W. Bowen, Vittorio Storaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yves Klein
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SKULLDUGGERY AND DEATH AS A READY MADE
Damien Hirst’s new show is using skulls of famous French artistic figures who have been disinterred and sent to the Pantheon, the mausoleum of France’s most honored citizens.That is the rumor. He is confronting the existential crisis in Art by … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Albert Camus, Alexander Calder, Britney Spears, Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Baldessari, John Healy, Julia Spinola, Madonna, Nietzsche, Nobel Prize, Robert Hughes, Stanley Brouwn, Stockhausen, William Osborne, Yves Klein
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