Tag Archives: Jerry Saltz

muse and the economy

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Dave

Or is it the economy and the muse? When individuals are fighting tooth and nail for a living, they look on the arts as a thing apart. Has our affluent society today carried over some of this disdain into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhl business art, Andy Warhol, Arnold Hauser, Bob Diamond Barclays, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, David Geffen art collection, Donald and Mera Rubells, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Gustav Klimt, Hobbema, Jan Steen, jeffrey deitch, Jerry Saltz, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Plagens, Steven A. Cohen, Timothy Geithner, Van Goyen painter, willem de Kooning, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

Was the impulse of modern art to destroy beauty, to pitch renaissance notions of beauty into the dumpster? Behind De Kooning, was there a profound and embedded hated of women? He did say “flesh was the main reason oil paint … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, elaine de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Jerry Saltz, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, robert stoller, thomas hess, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

force feeding a permeable society

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dave

The artist’s treatment of the individual does in many respects, though not definitively, reflect a culture’s attitude towards itself. There is a grey zone between kitsch and perversity, as if they gravitate to one another creating a rather violent aesthetic. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Body Worlds and the Cycle of Life Exhibition, broch, Carolee Schneemann, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Hans Bellmer, Jerry Saltz, Kiki Smith, mario wasserman, Marquis de Sade, otto kernberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, terence koh, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Caravaggio, Donald Kuspit, Jasper Johns, Jean Genet, Jerry Saltz, lari pittman, Lord Byron, nigel williams BBC, Oscar Wilde, pierre bourdieu, Robert Crumb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, the maids 1974, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

new frontier

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Dave

The modern sense of the human being. The eternal sense of the individual condition as essentially one of individual conflict and torment, caught in some nasty crosswinds between building and demolition- often simultaneously- the regression and enlightened, the hysterical and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Blanqui, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, Clement Greenberg, David Sylvester, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Landauer, Jackson Pollock, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jerry Saltz, Martin Buber, richard hamilton pop art, Richard Huelsenbeck, Surrealism | Leave a comment

in between a boundary and a border

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Dave

Border crossings. Illegal and clandestine transportation of the self to another realm….”Crimes of which a people are ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.” (Jean Genet) Its an image of the collapsing moment, liberated from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Donald Kuspit, Edmund White, Edward Said, Franz Kafka, godley and Creme, hadrien laroche, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jerry Saltz, john perkins, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, martin kramer, sylvia miles | Leave a comment

on the back of: use and abuse?

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Dave

Lucian Freud’s art could be termed anti-romantic and confrontational.And just plain creepy. He tended to represent people as he saw them, and between what he perceived and came out on canvas we will never really understand all the processes involved. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adrian Searle, andrew parker-bowles, barbara ellen guardian, Donald Kuspit, Francis Bacon, Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Jerry Saltz, joel levy, Laura Cumming, leigh bowery, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, max scheler, Pablo Picasso, paul j. castellani, philip levy, Sigmund Freud, The Young Adult Institute | Leave a comment

lenin road show: the neverending tour

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

Rudolf Herz is not exactly a stranger to controversy regarding his unconventional approach to memory and remembrance. His work often attempts to explore the malevolence that underlines the criticisms directed towards him and certain other artists such as in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, elliott barowitz, fassbinder despair, inge stephan, irena wunsch, Jerry Saltz, lenin on tour, Marcel Duchamp, matthias reichelt, Maurizio Cattelan, mirroring evil jewish museum, reinhard matz, rudolf herz, thomas elaesser, Tom Sachs, zbigniew libera | Leave a comment

giants: part metal packets

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Dave

Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Auguste Rodin, Brancusi, contemporary sculpture, david altmejd, david cronenberg, Jerry Saltz, Jim Henson, Jorge Luis Borges, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Michelangelo | Leave a comment

REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Dave

” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages contained within the marketing and the more subliminal experiments … Continue reading →