Tag Archives: Maurizio Cattelan

pontificating over pi

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Dave

Finding patterns in the random.It is an accepted fact that our world is composed up of golden spirals. That is, the human being is made up of spirals and collectively we are living within one huge spiral. The question is, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Argentina the dirty war, Darren Aronofsky, Horacio Verbitsky, Julian Kossoff, Mario Livio, Maurizio Cattelan, Pope Francis I, Pope Leo X, Raphael Pope Leo X, Rogier van der Weyden | Leave a comment

international society of savage customs

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Dave

What evil lurks in the heart of man? Maybe it doesn’t lurk, rather it dances, it teases, it flatters, it cajoles, it manipulates and end up getting its way. How? The dynamics must be complicated.Especially when evil gets under the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged anselm kiefer, Efraim Zuroff, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurizio Cattelan, Simon Wiesenthal Center | Leave a comment

billions and billions served

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Dave

Where economics and consumerism and the concept of social justice collide when robotics and consumer commerce grope in some form of embrace. At the moment its more of a media spectacle, although underlying it all is the famous maxim of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andy Warhol, Billy Cunningham photographer, Cognitive computing, IBM Watson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurizio Cattelan, Momentum Machines San Francisco | Leave a comment

keep your eyes on the road

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Dave

Two hands on the wheel and not on your fly….It will be the end of the world as they know it….Sometimes things are so nuts, the wackiness only enhanced by state sanctioned religious caveats, against such things as women driving … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged cynthia fuchs epstein, Dennis Freedman Creative Director W Magazine, Ernest Thompson Seton, Francis Picabia, Hilary Clinton, Kamal Subhi King Fahd University, Linda Evangelista, Luigi Russolo, Manal Alsharif, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Kimmel, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Shura Council Saudi Arabia, Women2Drive Saudi Arabia | Leave a comment

heresies for dummies

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Dave

Puritanism, millenarianism, mysticism and rationalism: the four permanent sources of heresy. None of them are necessarily heretical, nor need they be radical. But at certain times and at certain places something has happened to swell these streams of thought into … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arnold of Brecia, Chrisitian Heresies, Christian heretics, Iconoclasm heresy, John Piper, Maurizio Cattelan, MP Witold Tomczak, Peter Abelard, Peter Waldo Waldenes, Poor Men of Lyons, Pope Innocent III, Pope John Paul II, Raymond VI of Toulouse, Simon DeMontfort, the Albigensians, the Donatists, the Paulicians, the Umiliati, Zacheta Gallery Poland | Leave a comment

colonizing salvation

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

presence of the lord

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Dave

The Protestant Reformation has some strange old bones in the closet. Recessed genes that keep popping up in odd places. Those nasty margin notes of Martin Luther, that sinister side while mocking, and justly the clerical pomp and obedience without … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Love, bartolome esteban murillo, Bishop Ludwig Muller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erasmus, Friedrich Schiller, Karl Barth, Katherine Burdekin, Maimonides, Mardi Tindal, Martin Luther, Maurizio Cattelan, Max Weber, Peter F. Wiener, Rambam, Reverand Martin Niemoller, ronald kain, Senator Nicole Eaton, United Church of Canada Israel | Leave a comment

nude awakenings

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Dave

Quarrels, separation, arguments, spats, plenty of yelling and screaming, sobbing and tears. The male artist and the nude has, as defined by modernism and then post-modernism, a contrapuntal relationship for the most part; the discordant seeking to resolve issues in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anders Zorn, barnett newman, Claude Monet, David Park art, Elmer Bischoff, Francesco Bonami, hermann broch, Jackson Pollock, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucian Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Maurizio Cattelan, richard diebenkorn, Vanessa Beecroft, Wilhelm Worringer | Leave a comment

thrill of the chase: make their day

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Dave

The premise that links sport hunting to sexism, to predation on women and linking it to animals is essentially not off base, although the implications are much broader, encompassing a more comprehensive portrait of eroticism as weaponry and deeper fetishes … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Carl Icahn, Clint Eastwood, Dalton Trumbo, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth brown university, Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Palin, Stephanie Seymour, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

“museums are just a lot of lies”

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Dave

There had been nothing like it. A visual world formed literally in the image of Picasso. From fashion and department store advertising, to political caricature, the public was subsumed by these modernist forms of expression; the speed with which newlt … Continue reading →