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keeping hansel and gretel on a short leash
They exist. And we know that this invisible architecture of the labyrinth can be very real and almost impossible to get out of. In the mythical Greek tale, Icarus was able to fly out on some crafted wings, but still … Continue reading
who’s the fairest sultan of all
The Grand Seraglio. As opposed to Seraglio Minor. Yes that Grand Seraglio with the violence, the death and the sex fueled only the passion thatsix thousand concubines can command and the wayward restlessness of the Janissary guards. Frontier justice and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ahmed I and Mustafa, Grand Seraglio, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Mustafa the cage, Ottaviano Bon, Radu the Handsome, Sultan Ahmed I, sultan murad IV, Sultan Osman
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miles of tiles
by Art Chantry: i spent the last week hanging out in one of my favorite cities in the US – Philadelphia. i love that place. it has duchamp, the mutter museum, harry’s occult store, everything NYC has (without all the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arnold Toynbee, Harry's Occult Store Phildelphia, Jon Foy, Justin Duerr, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Weinik, The Mutter Museum Philadelphia, The Toynbee Tiles, underground advertising, underground marketing technique
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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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forty shades on a sea of grey
Its an industry in itself. An entire substrata of entertainment, a part of the military industrial entertainment complex known as the Israel Protest industry which is something straight out of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle; the country serving as … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aosdana Ireland, Boycott Israel, Guy Debord, Hind Khoury, Irelandreland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, James Cameron, Khader Adnan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meir Dagan, Naomi Klein, Nicky Larkin, Slavoj Zizek, Zehava Gal-On
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let them make soap
Homeland insecurity… Israel is the world’s greatest propaganda machine, or at least right up there. The spin is a democratic nation that will taken in any jew and give citizenship ; the sheer weight and swagger, read indoctrinated egotism of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Batsheva Sobelman, Benzion Netanyahu, Dani Rosenberg, Franz Kafka, George Grosz, Julius Streicher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orly Vilnai-Federbush, Pedro Berruguete, Pope Gregory Talmud burning, Robert Capa, robert capa israel, Walter Benjamin, Zoltan Kluger
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those special shades
by Art Chantry last night i again watched one of of my favorite director’s (john carpenter) best movies – THEY LIVE! when it was first released in 1988, it was reviewed as the first “anti-yuppie” movie of the reagan era. … Continue reading
unsparing visions of excess
Viridiana, a ferocious imagery that startled movie-goers at its time. The Left ethos that encapsulated everything from Le Chien Andalou ( 1929) , The Young One,The Damned, Stranger in the Room, The Roots, etc. Like Bergman and Fellini this was … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bunuel Land Without Bread, Bunuel Viridiana, Chaplin City Lights, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, Frederico Fellini, Garcia de Quevedo, Ingmar Bergman, Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis Bunuel, Perez Galdos, Salvador dali
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