Category Archives: Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.

beggin’ brothers: mystery at the altar

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave

“My monastery descends from the heavens, touching the earth only where it must.” – Le Corbusier. A sacred melancholy. An esthetic hardness at the expense of spirituality. Not much glory here. Little aura of radiance that emanates from god, no … Continue reading →

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light beyond the sinister rhetoric of gender

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave

The sinister rhetoric of gender. It seems to rationalize a sublime fear of the dreaded anxiety of disorganized organic being. The absurdity of the masculine warrior figure. But what is the individual if not a mass of disorganized form, a … Continue reading →

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beyond desire : unbound

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dave

In our society which rewards hard vulgar glamour, pixelized abstractions of the fetish and negates the value of sublime soft beauty, is it possible to escape the cheaply profane? Is modernism’s purpose the destruction of beauty and the pursuit of … Continue reading →

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roadside architecture: sweeping out the old twerps

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i say – “fuck frank gehry and philip johnson and rem khoolhaus, etc. etc. ad naseum.” i say those guys are total ass clowns wasting everybody’s time and dime on their masturbatory fantasies of power. … Continue reading →

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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 →

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traces of wiped-out existences

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

how is holocaust art received in the land “of the perpetrators”? Well that depends… In a way, its the politics of remembrance and memory.Or at least the problematics.  Memory is often the theme with the focus not on what is … Continue reading →

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duck soup and poop

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Dave

It started off as what would be considered toy models. Ultimately, they contributed to the development of early industrial age machinery. At the time, there was a fad for the mechanical and his work almost qualifies to be in the … Continue reading →

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aches and ills of the ancients

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Dave

The ills of ancient humans, traced in their bones and art, tells us how they lived and died and provides a link from their world to ours. … Disease never seems to arise haphazardly. It usually reflects the circumstances of … Continue reading →

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getting smug over the “fallen dancer”

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dave

bad public art….. By Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Every city has it’s examples of really bad urban sculpture. these things are usually funded by self-righteous fine art mavens foisting their idea of “good taste and breeding” down the throats of … Continue reading →

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the 30 million dollar fawcett

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Dave

It was a one for two gift apparently. The other one hung from a paper moon of sorts. Farah Fawcett bequethed two Warhol silkscreen portraits in her will, but one never made it to the institution in Texas. It was … Continue reading →

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