Tag Archives: Julia Spinola

french kiss-off

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Dave

Is it possible to equate art and crime? Our company just received this publicity for Canson Infinity paper which is sponsoring John Botte for his tenth anniversary 9/11 photographs. It’s being held at the Morrison Hotel Gallery and is curated … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged canson infinity paper, dario fo nobel laureate, john botte, Julia Spinola, loupe digital, margaret bourke-white, morrison hotel gallery, stockhausen 9/11, Thomas Cole art, timothy white, William Osborne | Leave a comment

reich: avoiding the sentimental maudlin fantasy

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Dave

What goes over the line in terms of offensive to prevailing sensibilities? The commemoration of historical memory has always been a delicate issue, especially in regard to the WTC 9/11 attacks. Steve Reich’s new compositions performed by the Kronos Quartet … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Art Spiegelman, david harrington, david lang pulitzer prize for music, john adams, Julia Spinola, kronos quartet, masatomo kuriya, nonesuch steve reich, sequenza 21, seth colter walls, Steve Reich, Stockhausen, Susan Sontag, William Osborne | Leave a comment

Will the last one turn out the lights

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Dave

Separating the saints from the sinners is being a much more protracted process than was initially foreseen. Due to an unheralded demand, there will at least be a second sitting for the Last Supper.After all, we’ve been on tenterhooks,a seemingly … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, brian haubert, chris mars, chris mars art, Dario Fo, David S. Reynolds, dominique strauss kahn, Douglas Adams, Edward Hicks, edward hicks noah, Ernst Bloch, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hannah Arendt, harold camping, Julia Spinola, Lenny Bruce, Michael Stipe, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, REM, Stockhausen, Walter Benjamin, william miller baptist minister, William Osborne, zygmunt bauman | Leave a comment

SKULLDUGGERY AND DEATH AS A READY MADE

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | 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 | Leave a comment

Don't Kill Me, I'm With Stupid

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Dave

”The pathological and cyclical nature of violent behaviour”. Little one-eyed bunnies with kalishnikovs and other weapons of group destruction attempting to liquidate each other, vigilante style. Unhinged citizens, mad as hell and taking it out on each other,a gang that … Continue reading →