Tag Archives: Lenny Bruce

room with a view: long-term lease

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

Separate deals. Back room deals. Secret deals. off the books deals. The last Supper: a second sitting? the line up is around the block from Zion’s gate… Who owns what and where and the mirage and myriad of ownership rights, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allon Diskin, Barack Obama vatican, Benny Nehemia, david axelrod, Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, Jerusalem Old City Initiative, Jesus Last Supper, Juan de Juanes, Lenny Bruce, MK Danny Ayalon, Ottoman Empire, Rahm Emanuel, toby abrams, Vatican Land Ownership Jerusalem, zeng fanzhi | Leave a comment

truman kaput & harry the hipster

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Dave

It was an era of the general entertainer. Ronny Graham’s parents were both vaudeville players towards the end of that epoch and Graham was a multi-talented performer: comedian, composer, lyricist, actor. Like his contemporaries which were Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged Danny kaye, dwight fiske, eartha kitt, harry the hipster gibson, Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, mort sahl, robert benchley, ronny graham, shelley berman | Leave a comment

dallas and american extreme: grassy knoll design

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) the first time i visited dallas, texas, was a miserable trip. i’d been invited down there to give one of my little ‘talks’ (show slides of my work, cuss a lot). i’d not bargained on … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, buffalo george toomer, ed gein garage, george toomer american extremes, Jack Kerouac, JFK assassination, John F. Kennedy, john wayne gacy painting, Lenny Bruce, phil hollenbeck, the grassy knoll, westlake square shopping mall, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

semi-detached from the lost generation

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Dave

“Among democratic nations each generation is a new people.” —Alexis de Tocqueville. They were the children of the lost generation.The “Lost Generation” moniker was invented by Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway; it became popular during the age wars … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, barbara streisand, Bette Davis, Christopher Hitchens, clara bow, cosmo landesman, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fran landesman, H.L. Mencken, Henri Matisse, henry goddard psychologist, jay landesman, Lenny Bruce, Ludwig Wittgenstein, stephen holden New York Times, Tony Curtis, tony curtis art, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

Will the last one turn out the lights

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Dave

Separating the saints from the sinners is being a much more protracted process than was initially foreseen. Due to an unheralded demand, there will at least be a second sitting for the Last Supper.After all, we’ve been on tenterhooks,a seemingly … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, brian haubert, chris mars, chris mars art, Dario Fo, David S. Reynolds, dominique strauss kahn, Douglas Adams, Edward Hicks, edward hicks noah, Ernst Bloch, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hannah Arendt, harold camping, Julia Spinola, Lenny Bruce, Michael Stipe, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, REM, Stockhausen, Walter Benjamin, william miller baptist minister, William Osborne, zygmunt bauman | Leave a comment

personal totem: getting sentimental on a primal nasty

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Dave

Getty nasty and rude; a little cheeky fresh and punky before the PC Nazis neutered the magic. …. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): Last week I was at a thrift store and found a stash of old National Lampoons from the early … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Cheech and Chong, doug kenney national lampoon, Laugh In, Lenny Bruce, mad magazine, michael O'Donoghue, rowan and martin, Steve martin, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

filling in the pauses: the aural gaze

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Art

Creating a new genre of music. Improvisation, “making shit up” when you articulate the pauses and these gaps, these silent but charged spaces become the content and assume the central position in the compositional structure….. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) : … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged art chantry, ella fitzgerald, fred katz group, ken nordine, Lenny Bruce, lord buckley, Louis Armstrong, Lux Interior, Paul Rand, The Cramps | Leave a comment

UNTHINKING WITH THE SUBTERRANEANS: “WE DIG IT ALL”

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Dave

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alexander Stephen, Allen Ginsberg, American Apparel, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud, Caril Fugate, Carl Solomon, Charlie Starkweather, Clive Bush, Corey Allen, Dov Charney, Dov Charny, Edgar Cayce, Elia Kazan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gregory Corso, Greil Marcus, Jack Kerouac, James Dean, Jean Cocteau, John Clellan Holmes, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Lisa Brawn Woodcut, Marcel Proust, Marilyn Bardsley, Marlon Brando, Motoko Rich, Neal Cassady, Neil Cassidy, Paulo Frees, Rosie Gray, Tennessee Williams, William Blake, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

EFFING THIS & EFFING THAT: ART & POLITICS OF FUDDLE DUDDLE

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Dave

Puritanism: as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ( H.L. Mencken ) Fornication Under Consent of the King. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Fuckedandfarfromhome. The F-Bomb ….”How do you people really feel about doing it? Isn’t that about … Continue reading →