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Tag Archives: Lady Gaga
the fiction of them and us
A very astute look at consumerism and what drives the spending cycle, though not everyone may agree. He debunks some long held and often cherished assumptions that have been mainstays since the Frankfurt school’s Adorno and Marcuse and proposes the … Continue reading
cable street: they shall not pass
Cable Street was a battle in 1936 in London in which Jews, Irish, Leftists and citizens waged a pitched battle with police to arrest a planned march of fascists through a predominantly jewish area. The police were unsuccessful in breaking … Continue reading
china: year of the fat cats
The Associated Press recently reported that Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Katy Perry have all been deemed threats to “cultural national security” in China, and that the government is surveilling, reprimanding and controlling content on music websites in a protracted effort … Continue reading
feminine principle: horns of a dilemma
Freud evidently thought the essence of femininity was narcissism and indifference.It was a theory explicitly based on woman’s natural inferiority, that is as ridiculous as it is hypocritical.But, it conformed to the structural,institutional and systematic reasons that still exist today. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, art blog, Christian Schad, Edward Bernays, Fritz Lang, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Gail Dines, Gloria Steinem, harsha walia, heather jarvis, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Lacan, karl hubbuch, Lady Gaga, Margaret Wente, meghan murphy, Otto Dix, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek
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modernist garden: flowers of evil
In retracing the steps of Charles Baudelaire’s Paris, Walter Benjamin also arrived at a similar conclusion with respect to modernism’s influence on society. The flaneur, the urban dweller; this persona lead Benjamin to remark that the prostitute is the only … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged anthony taafe, Audrey Hepburn, Brooke Shields, Camille Claudel, Charles Baudelaire, dakota fine, e.j. bellocq, Ezra Pound, frank budgen, Gertrude Stein, gwen john, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, jeff jetton, keith carradine, Lady Gaga, larry flynt, Louis Malle, Noam Chomsky, Pablo Picasso, Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis
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roxy for your pleasure: cultural resonance
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) sometimes the littlest things can be so radical. this is an advert for roxy music’s second LP titled “for your pleasure”. it was their first american release. their actual first record ‘virginia plain’ was only … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged amanda lear, Anita Pallenberg, art chantry, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Commander Cody, David Bowie, deep purple, john denver, Lady Gaga, Lou Reed, manassas, New York Dolls, phil manzanera, rocky horror picture show, roxy music, roxy music for your pleasure, Sex Pistols, speedy keen, t.rex, the rocket newspaper, The Rolling Stones
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authentic pathology and cozy passivity
Is art is the creation of an artifact that is it’s own argument? Essentially, It does not need a theory to define it, an expert scholar to contextualize it, or a given situation to render it meaning. So, a true … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Filippo Marinetti, graydon parrish, Harold Rosenberg, Jeff Koons, jenny saville, Lady Gaga, Lucian Freud, Lucien Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Rembrandt, Svetlana Alpers, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin
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this charming man: “glee”
He is ostensibly perfectly normal. He met his ex-wife on an internet dating service. He loved singing Lionel Ritchie and his Facebook profile indicated a fondness for Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas and Katy Perry, Levi Aron, the “singing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged black eyes peas, David Ben Gurion, debby kivel, edward g. robinson, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Lady Gaga, leiby kletzky, levi aron, louis lepke buchalter, Martin Buber, rich cohen author, Ted Bundy, ted bundy execution, timothy mcveigh, victor gollancz
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danny’s song
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): I DON’T LISTEN to contemporary music any more. after a lifetime of carefully following what was going on, keeping up with new releases, checking in on various scenes and eagerly listening to everything i could … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged art chantry, bobby boris pickett, crypt kicker 5, danny leiper, frankie stein and his ghouls, joan brooks, joe dodo and groovers, karen carpenter, Lady Gaga, mansfield training chorus, randy andy and he candy men, record collecting, robert plante, vampira
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antiques and fashion roadshow
She is called the “middle-class” princess. Whatever elasticity we apply to it, her recent trip to Canada has only served to reinforce the notion that she is a marketing icon to the rich, wealthy and affluent respectable that is flip … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged cheryl tiegs, Christopher Hitchens, christopher wahl, David Cameron British PM, erdem dresses, erdem moralioglu, heidi klum, holt renfrew, jenny packham dresses, john moore national post, Kate Middleton, Lady Gaga, LK Bennet shoes, princess diana, royal visit canada, sarah burton, sarah burton of alexander mcqueen, smythe blazers, Thomas Paine, Thorstein Veblen
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