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a-roving on the wane and sane
The cup is full and sometimes it runneth over. The moon has always been, since the dawn of the human being, a symbol of love, and a pervasive theme among artists such as poets, novelists and writers and painters within … Continue reading
like a lady
Lord Egremont got involved with her; he never did choose to settle down in marriage with some suitably rich and wellborn girl. He suffered, his critics alleged, from “indiscretion and irresolution.” What was more, he had fallen under the spell … Continue reading
forever young: eternal trial
Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading
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Tagged aubrey de Grey, Byron, elixir of youth, Ernest Hemingway, eternal youth, Francois-Hubert Drouais, Goethe, Hans Holbein the younger, james frazer the golden bough, jesus diaz, John Keats, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Milan Kundera, mitochondrial rejuvenation, n.t. wright, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Feynman, ronald a. depinho, telomere length maintenance, tom merry, W.B. Yeats
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celebrity contagion :thirty two short momentos by glenn gould
The fetish object. The continuous restlessness of meaning. Unresolved tension through which the commodity is continually fetishized, de-fetishized and reproduced to look like the old; warts, scratches, scuffs and all. A reanimation that represents a highlighting of utopian longings dating … Continue reading
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Tagged adam biran, Andy Warhol, arthur rubinstein, bob trenholm, Byron, clara haskill, daniel szmukler, dinu lipatti, Euro Banking Association, george e. newman, glenn gould, harry mannis, igor stravinsky, kate shapiro, kevin bazzana, Leonard Bernstein, paul bloom, paul waldie, serkin, Steven Pinker, susan buck-morss, Theodor Adorno, valerie curtis, Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Benjamin, William Wordsworth
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read them the riot act…after this commercial break
The Last Riot depicts beautiful children, teenagers as stylized warriors; an updated version of Caravaggio that sabotages militarism and brings it to a logical conclusion. Lord of the Flies. Its nihilistic. Its apocalyptic and its an exercise in the aesthetic … Continue reading
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Tagged AES+F, Antonin Artaud, Byron, Caravaggio, Franz Kafka, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, Leah Sandals, Lev Evzovitch, Richard Wagner, russian collective aes+f, Tatiana Arzamasova, Walter Benjamin
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the wanderer: Haywain and a harvest of pessimism
Another of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych’s, called The Hay-Wain is almost as complex as The Garden of Earthly Delights and carries a similar message of desperate pessimism; a message that delivers itself into the arms of darkness and madness. On the … Continue reading
FRANKLY MR. SHANKLY: I’d Rather Be Reified
Frankly Mr. Shankly, I’d rather be famous than righteous or holy, any day….. and so Morrissey sang with the Smiths. Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I’ve held it pays my way and it corrodes my soul I want to leave … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Wilder, Byron, Erik Estrada, Hegel Philosopher, Ian Fraser, James Ensor, John Keats, Karl Marx, Keats, Linda Evangelista, Lord Byron, Lukacs, Marxism, Maurizio Cattelan, Morrissey, Robert Fulford, Stefan Edlis, The Smiths, Theodor Adorno, Tom Cruise, Walter Benjamin
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LIKE MOURNING COACHES WHEN THE FUNERAL IS DONE
Extravagant showmanship, a proclivity toward the taking of calculated risks, and unabashed greed- all salient features of the Venetian way of life- are epitomized in Francesco Guardi’s “Il Ridotto” , which also sums up the decadence of eighteenth-century Venice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco Ghisellini, Francesco Guardi, Giacomo Casanova, Giammaria Ortes, Jean Cocteau, John Ruskin, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Luchino Visconti, Percy Shelley, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Thmoas Mann, Warren Adelson
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EVERYONE IS A STAR: Can I Buy or Lease Your Aura?
It may seem peculiar, annoying, disconcerting and disturbing when pop culture artifacts, including garbage and facial hair, material with no intrinsic value, sells for substantial sums of money. Why? Do they belong to the spirits that guide us through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Gibney, Anne Smith, Britney Spears, Byron, Gilles Deleuze, Greta Garbo, James Thurber, Karen Shearer, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron, Marissa Doyle, Marlene Dietrich, Martina Scott, Mervyn F. Bendle, Pauline Kael, Regina Scott, Robert Fulford, Svetlana Alpers, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice
For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Byron Childe Harolde, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Elaine Pilkington, Giorgione, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Goethe, Janine Flynn, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Palladio, Palma Vecchio, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Tintoretto, Titian, Vasco da Gama, Vittoro Carpaccio, Warren Adelson
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