Tag Archives: Maurizio Cattelan

period productions

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Dave

The shock of the new. A trauma involving a break in the continuity of existence… Which Picasso? As great an impresario as he was a painter, Picasso in his lifetime had produced a whole repertory of artists bearing the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Aaron Beck, art patronage Europe, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Frederick the Great Prussia, Lancret, Leonardo Da Vinci, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurizio Cattelan, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Pater, Picasso Circus period, Rembrandt, Voltaire, Watteau | Leave a comment

splitting off a part of themselves

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

Well, Slavoj Zizek did say that Gandhi was more violent than Hitler. And Marcel Duchamp, according to Donald Kuspit was a terrorist like Hitler; Historical revisionism and the branding of the dictator? … …A Turkish TV commercial has sparked international … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged adolf hitler shampoo advertisement, boris lurie, dean blumberg advertising, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Maurizio Cattelan, sandor gilman, simona halperin, Slavoj Zizek, slavoj zizek gandhi, subaru advertisement israel | Leave a comment

wall street : hot under a blue collar

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Dave

If anything, the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors has simply evoked the long-standing fallacy of Joseph Stiglitz’s assertion of the 1% vs. 99% thesis. The police. Those on blue know where the bread is buttered and those in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abbott and Costello, Alexander Cockburn, Blue Labour, Charlie Chaplin, david north, Esther Leslie, IWW, Joseph Stiglitz, keystone cops, lisa ansell, mark ciavarella, Maurizio Cattelan, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, michael conahan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, occupy wall street, peter mcbrien, peter taaffe, ralph miliband, Rosa Luxemburg, sam gompers, stephen shalom, The Wobblies, zuccotti park | Leave a comment

pledging alleigance to the hollow man

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dave

It was to address the decline of individuality. In the new technological world, the individual had meaning and value only to the extent it was in the service of this new instrumentality. Artistically, though artists generally targeted their work into … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, barnett newman, Clement Greenberg, Guy Debord, herman cain, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, Jasper Johns, Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols, Kurt Schwitters, Mark Rothko, Maurizio Cattelan, Max Ernst, Max Horkheimer, Raoul Hausmann, Sigmund Freud, Stephanie Seymour, Theodor Adorno, Tristan Tzara, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

take off your hat when the hearse passes

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Dave

God always seems to be bumping into an atheist’s head in the most unexpected places. There was always Voltaire fessin’ up on his deathbed.His almost comic anti-semitism attributed to a repressed piety and faith. But, then he was always angling … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged arno mayor, Clement Greenberg, Elmer Gantry, Franz Kafka, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, John Lennon, johnny cash, Marc Chagall, Martin Luther, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Moore, Sinclair Lewis, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

lenin road show: the neverending tour

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

Rudolf Herz is not exactly a stranger to controversy regarding his unconventional approach to memory and remembrance. His work often attempts to explore the malevolence that underlines the criticisms directed towards him and certain other artists such as in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, elliott barowitz, fassbinder despair, inge stephan, irena wunsch, Jerry Saltz, lenin on tour, Marcel Duchamp, matthias reichelt, Maurizio Cattelan, mirroring evil jewish museum, reinhard matz, rudolf herz, thomas elaesser, Tom Sachs, zbigniew libera | Leave a comment

brillo pad to kraft dinner to goldfish: integral equations

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Dave

Maybe it was supposed to be a fake. This whole PR campaign that faked an incident where Banksy transformed the Jesus the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro into Bin Laden was a photo-shop effort. But, though inauthentic and phony, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alain sechas, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, arthur danto, Banksy, Carter B. Horseley, Clement Greenberg, don dedillo, Donald Kuspit, Ezra Pound, gil vicente, Guy Debord, Hilton Kramer, integral art, keith martin-smith, Marcel Duchamp, marco evaristti, Maurizio Cattelan, piotr uklanski, thomas pynchon, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

private meanings and public purpose

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dave

It is almost unfathomable to comprehend the workings and the processes of what could be considered average human imagination in all its glory of striving through a thought process littered with reason and the irrational, the real and the netherworld … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, art chantry, barney bubbles, Damien Hirst, david stone, Diego Rivera, Elvis Costello, Guy Debord, Jan van Eyck, keith martin-smith, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Maurizio Cattelan, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

The sheen factor: how to euthanize a fish

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Dave

Although March 8th will mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, women can ostensibly claim a dry or cold form of progress, but under the veneer of egality, they remain deeply exploited; it takes more than law to bridge … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Art | Tagged Anna Holmes New York Times, Caravaggio, Charlie Sheen, Edward Bernays, Frederic Fekkai, Jane MacDougall National Post, Lindsay Lohan, Maurizio Cattelan, Pablo Picasso, Simon Houpt, Stephanie Seymour, Walter Benjamin | 1 Comment

toys in the attic

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Dave

We can tell the wealth of someone by how expensive their toys are. These toys would never find their way into the Christmas fireman’s fund to help the needy.Whether its kind of a luxurious pack-rat complex is open to speculation. … Continue reading →