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inflation: wandering hands on the tiller
Few would deny that our own political system may also be put seriously at risk by inflation. Every politician, every party, has some cure to sell to the electorate. Everybody promises solutions, but none of them works because the inflationary … Continue reading
better hate than never
On the one side, an interesting article, if rather generic and redundant. Its genuineness and authenticity is derived ostensibly from leaving the baloney and political correctness at the door revealing the voice of the silent majority. But it also dredges … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abdel Karim Shrair, Arab Israel conflict, Austin Tice, Damien Cave, Innocence of Muslims film, Joe Stork HRW, John Wayne, jonathan winters, Lucian Freud, Mohamad Morsi, Mona Eltahawy, Phil Silvers, Piers Morgan, Sayyid Qutb, thomas friedman new york times, Thorstein Veblen, Victor Davis Hansen
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colonizing salvation
We don’t want salvation, we want the messiah! Or do you? If given a million dollars or the messiah arriving? Well, maybe the million, and the messiah a little later. Clearly, the the poor sufferers in the Death Camps of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Avner Shalev Yad Vashem, Chief Rabbi Meir Lau, Gunter grass, Haredim Israel deface yad vashem, Joel Schalit, John Koch, Lucian Freud, Maurizio Cattelan, melanie phillips, Slavoj Zizek, tom wesselmann, tony judt, Udi Aloni, Yad Vashem Museum defaced, Yves Klein
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lost highway: back to the city of the patriarchs
The self-hater. it has nothing to do with Gunter Grass’s stupid poem. His meta argument that its not the state its the government, is hoary socialist cant from the left; a socialist attacking Zionism is a family squabble at best. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anna freud, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Daniel Burros, Frank Collin, Franz Kafka, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Hebron, Gilbert Frankeau, Gunter grass, Hannah Arendt, Hebron expulsion, Hebron Passover 2012, Lucian Freud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Noam Arnon, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, The Groggers, William Loeb, Zionism Origins
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bursting out of content prohibition
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) A Freud bursting with muscular explosiveness. Frazetta wasn’t a “panty waist” (to borrow the vernacular of the day), and wasn’t to far removed from his muscular subjects. In another life … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged augusto surtida, blazing combat magazine, Creepy magazine, Eerie magazine, frank frazetta, frank frazetta birthday, harry chester, jesse marinoff reyes, jongor frank frazetta, Lucian Freud, pulp paperback covers, robert e. howard, vampirella magazine, warren publications
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money matter: paint by big $ numbers
Are people buying the work for its aesthetic qualities or are they buying the brand. The artist as brand. Although Artur Koestler said buying a reproduction is the same as owning the outright original. Its Cultural economics where the market … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged adele bloch-bauer, Alberto Giacometti, alfred lessing, Arthur Koestler, daniel boorstin, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Thorstein Veblen, willem de Kooning
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boredom: waiting for something to happen
and so it is so Modern boredom. Deep-seated boredom. The suspension of relations with reality and its replacement mined from the depths of the netherworld splitting into variations of nothingness; a world without meaning, without autonomy and without larger connections … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged austin warren, Charles Baudelaire, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, irving babbitt, Jean Renoir, joel-peter witkin, John Everett Millais, Lucian Freud, Marcel Proust, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Milan Kundera, Pierre Auguste Renoir, ralph greenson, Samuel Beckett, Soren Kierkegaard
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shutting out the dark area
Holding the traumatic moment; gripping it to prevent it from bounding into the realm of the spectacle. The culture of the spectacle, dazzled, doped and duped by its connection to technology where issues are dealt with as another aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged amy winehouse, Andrew Potter, Bruce Nauman, Claude Monet, eino kyla, F.Scott Fitgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Ellul, Leah McLaren, Lucian Freud, paul mccarthy, Robert Redford, Stephen Marche, the great gatsby
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portrait or spitting image
There is always a complex psychological relationship between the sitter and the painter, since the explosive issue of the construction of identity is a potent assemblage that continues to adapt itself in the modern world. But its often an ambivalent … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adrian Searle, anne purves, Augustus John, british art journal, darren baker, Graham Sutherland, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, john brack, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lucian Freud, Rembrandt, robin simon, Rogier van der Weyden, rolf harris, sam fullbrook, sebastien smee, sir john kiszely, yousuf karsh
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