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tattoos: the numbers don’t add up
Honouring the survivors of Nazi death camps by emulating their tattoos? ( see link at end)…Holocaust survivors are disappearing and, with them, the memory of what they went through. But some of their children and grandchildren have found a way to … Continue reading
radical chic: return of the ekosians
Truth to power. A kind of truth to power. Neo-Nazi? Patriot? Freedom fighter? Misguided genius? Eccentric gadfly and publicity hound? Clearly inscrutable, but all part of the mystery of radical Jewish culture, the people, the remnant of the remnant as … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Art Spiegelman, art spiegelman maus, Arthur Butz, children of holocaust survivors, david ridgen, Elie Wiesel, Eva Fogelman, fara kaplan, George Grosz, Gideon Levy, Israel Shamir, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Natasha Mozgovaya, nicolas rossier, Norman Finkelstein, Steven Plaut, Thomas Klocek, Tom Segev
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kamp: a day in the life
All acts of reconstruction in which what saves the meaning, is its necessary incompletion. Like Da Vinci never quite finishing a work, or more particularly, unable to complete Jesus’s face in The Last Supper frescoe. The holocaust, despite what Art … Continue reading
think different: aren’t i wonderful?
His “reality distorted field.” A ruthless, obsessive, perfectionist nature. A productive narcissist bordering on the psychopathic? All the hallmarks of the admired American business leader. The good, the bad and the ugly. The closed ecosystem which will likely permit Android … Continue reading
what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading
master of the underground
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) I’ve never met nor have had the opportunity to work with Crumb, though I have friends who know him (and have even vacationed at his home in the South … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged aline kominsky, allen katzman, Art Spiegelman, Cheap Thrill Big Brother and the Holding Company, Comix, dan rattiner, george metzger, Harvey Pekar, harvey pekar american splendor, jack kirby, jesse marinoff reyes, kim deitch, Norman Mailer, peter joseph leggieri, Robert Crumb, roger brand, spain rodriguez, The Other, trina robbins, vaughn bode, walter bowart, zap comix
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jerry as a jerrie: clowning in the shower
…Despite all efforts of the prosecution everybody could see that this man was not a monster, but it was difficult not to suspect that he was not a clown. ( Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem ) Written at the same time … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Art Spiegelman, bruce handy, drew friedman, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Luc Godard, jean-Pierre Coursodon, Jerry Lewis, Max Horkheimer, Michael Ezra, peter schotten, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, sven lindberg, yvelyne wood
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reich: avoiding the sentimental maudlin fantasy
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
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send them packin': back to the maus haus?
raw ..feed it to the wolves… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Everybody knows how special RAW magazine. was. them new yorkers credit ol’ artie spiegelman (and his crony/wifey, francoise mouley) for literally discovering the wonderful world of comics under some rock … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, Art Spiegelman, francoise mouley, frank kozik, Gary Panter, Josh Alan Friedman, pete bagge, peter bagge, raw magazine, Robert Crumb, robert johnson stamp, rory hayes, s. clay wilson, skip jensen, Steve martin, weirdo magazine
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writing for love or money? or rank?
Writing for love or money. Obviously, not everyone is Franz Kafka who leaves instructions to have their manuscripts torched after their demise. Given the current legal wrangling over the cache of Kafka papers, maybe Max Brod should have been a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Art Spiegelman, Arthur Miller, carmen calil, cormac McCarthy, danielle steele, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Harry Potter, j.k. rowling, joseph heath, Max Brod, Philip Roth, stephen king, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas pynchon
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