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Tag Archives: Edgar Degas
where the streets have no name
There is sanctity in the value of human life. Or so the expression goes. Every life is worth the world. But, there are alot of exceptions, asteriks, and legal loopholes and hoops to jump through. So, what happens when hierarchies, … Continue reading
you deserve a break today…
The parasitical and nocturnal existence that bound the poet to two of his avatars; the ragpicker and the flaneur. Baudelaire saw the poet as being at the end of production/use/trash cycle as a recuperator and force of regeneration. Both flaneur … Continue reading
the collector: “our Hermann”
Or so he was called by the die-hards. Hermann Goering functioned as a leading symbol of all the perversity modernity could bring to bear and a living 3-D demonstration of the power of instrumental reason over our lives. The Nuremberg … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged douglas m. kelley, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Goering, goering art collection, Hannah Arendt, hans makart, Henri Matisse, hermann goering, John Frankenheimer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, lynn h. nicholas, nancy yeide, nazi looted art, paris dealer paul rosenberg, Peter Paul Rubens, robert edsel, The Train 1964, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin
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threw it all away
There is a business expression that you should only lose in the stock market what you can afford to lose; like this play money is gravy for amusement. The story of Sino-Forest, a Chinese company, an alleged forest resource company … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged carson block, carson block muddy waters, Edgar Degas, John Lennon, John Paulson, Linda Nochlin, marcel duchamp art as money, mark blyth, mark blyth brown university, richard chandler new zealand, richard chandler sino-forest, sino-forest
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dybbuk and dance
Nice bodies and gracious gestures.Under the Nazis, Goebbels, after slow dancing around the issue for years, finished by banning ballet; dance became a diversion and no longer an artistic category; a joy of life and pleasure of the senses with … Continue reading
the 30 million dollar fawcett
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
leda and the black swan: daddy’s little princess on the lake
Is ballet dying or is it just an appropriate metaphor for death? Are we in love with the idea of ballet and all it stands for or are we repulsed by the obscure side that is in juxtaposition to its … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Adolph Rudolph Wiertmuller, Auguste Vestris, Black Swan movie, Darren Aronofsky, Edgar Degas, Elisabeth Maurin, Francois Boucher, Fred Astaire, Gaetano Vestris, Harriet Hoctor, Jennifer Homans, Katharine Kanter, Leni Riefenstahl, Margaux Williamson, Natalie Portman, Otto Rank, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sigmund Freud, Willaim Forsythe
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Not in my salon
Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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