Tag Archives: moacyr scliar

tiger: don’t touch his tail. please

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dave

…The perils and pratfalls of being a tiger in India. Where once they ruled the roost, man’s own adaptability, and of course the repeating rifle and high-powered cartridge…. If he appears savage, it is because he is the modern version … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged George B. Schaller, George Schaller India, John Updike, K. Sankhala tigers India, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, moacyr scliar, Moacyr Scliar Max and the Cats, Pandit Nainsukh paintings, Raja Balwent Dev Singh, Tiger hunting, Yann Martel, Yann Martel Life of Pi | Leave a comment

feeding the shark

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Dave

So long and thanks for all the fish. She claims the Shalit family was holding her story hostage for four years, and she deserves royalties. As Shalit was exchanged for prisoners, she should also figure into the exchange process. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged ephraim kishon, franz fanon, Gideon Levy Haaretz, gilad shalit, Hannah Arendt, Henri Rousseau, Jean Genet, moacyr scliar, Norman Finkelstein, ronit lentin, shalit family, shelly elkayam, william haver, Yann Martel | Leave a comment

hunger artists: portraits of ghosts

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Dave

The theory of Donald Kuspit and a few other less known voices was that Modigliani rehumanized what Picasso had crushed and sucked out. Modigliani was able to connect in his paintings to those live and unpredictable wires – the curse … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Clement Greenberg, Franz Kafka, jeffrey meyers, kafka a hunger artist, Marc Chagall, Meyer Schapiro, moacyr scliar, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso | Leave a comment

telling stories about the book of j

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Dave

The recent death of Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar provides a point of departure for examining writing that is outside the ken of the north American context and is deeply inflected with Scliar’s central influences such as Kafka, Isaac Babel, Schlem … Continue reading →