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A long farewell piece from Israeli historian Benny Morris with the backdrop of the Jewish High Holidays and the Obama administration defending its position on Israel. Context is so much; and here its odd to read Morris, a died in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ahmadinejad at the U.N., Allon Plan, Avi Mayer, Benny Morris Historian, Conrad Black Jerusalem Post, Edgar Cayce, Ezer Weizman, Joseph Beuys, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mahmoud Darwish, Paul McCartney, Tadeusz Kantor, Tom Segev, Yasser Arafat
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deep philosophy or conceptual quip?
The greatest philosopher in modern art? Or did the art world make him, artificially construct him into a “readymade” himself, the philosopher who would trash tradition and under the pretext of modernism and the new, engage in the kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Bernard von Lindenau, Damien Hirst, francis p. nauman, Giotto, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jeff Koons, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, mark polizzotti, Martin Heidegger, rudolf herz, The Enlightenment
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the look of culture falling apart
by Art Chantry: i’m no expert on FLUXUS or the main man behind it (“Mr. FLUXUS”), george maciunas. in fact, FLUXUS is even difficult to describe. maciunas called it ‘aganst art’ or something to that affect. the bottom line is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Al Hansen, Alison Knowles, art chantry, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Snyder, Film Culture magazine, George Brecht, george macunias, george macunias fluxus, Joe Jones, John Cage, John Giorno, John Lennon, Joseph Beuys, Larry Miller, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Olga Adorno, Robert Watts, Takehisa Kosugi, W.B. Yeats, Yoko Ono
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back to the salon: trititude and tritism
A labored avant-garde, hack mediocrity, tired formula and mixing the sauce on old recipes resulting in a living fabric of life being transposed into a theatrical event? Its possible the avant garde today is decoration catering to mediocre tastes much … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Jacques Ranciere, jean-louis meissonier, jean-louis picard, Joseph Beuys, Kazimir Malevich, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, Peter Burger, peter watson, Sir Edwin Landseer, Wassily Kandinsky
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the pain and beauty of it all
Poignant. Heart tugging. Hard to imagine that an immensely talented artist like Edward Landseer, a technical gymnast and stuntman could waste time plumbing the depths of anecdotal gimmick. A weird tryst between feeding increasingly affluent purchasers with the most tacky … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Dickens, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, French Salon painting, gilbert and george, Joseph Beuys, Julian Schnabel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, sir edward landseer
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how much is not enough
If you can justify anything in the name of art can you justify almost everything in the name of profit. Or, are these more successful versions, the cream of the millions of small time hustlers and scam artists who lacked … Continue reading
flush hard: we’ve come a long way?
The cliche that newness has become. Its hard to argue with Donald Kuspit’s assertions on modern art, beginning with Marcel Duchamp’s Ready Mades as a confidence game, with the ready made being a surrogate for the female body. His bases … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andres Serrano, Anita Sarkeesian, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, francis m. naumann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Julian Schnabel, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, marshal berman, marshall berman, Michael Balint, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy, sidney janis, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen, tim wise, vincent desiderio
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muckrakers and culture stakers
The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Gerhard Richter, Guy Debord, Jean Genet, john collier, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, lincoln steffens, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Pete Seeger, Peter Max, the muckrakers, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, yvelyne wood
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grey tones: before the law
…show an unmistakable love of death — a romance with death, indeed, a seduction by death, in which life seems beside the point. The vacuum of feeling. The vacuum of void, of loss, of death. Lifelessness. A broken will to … Continue reading