Tag Archives: Nicolas Poussin

billion dollar bash

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Dave

Living in dangerous times. Currency wars have been on the fringe of public consciousness for some time, mainly as as an echo of anti-China sentiment on their dumping practices into north American markets. However we are on the verge of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bob Dylan, Claude Lorrain, George Soros, Gerrit de Wet painter, James Rickards currency wars, John Authers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nicolas Poussin, Scott Bessent Soros Fund, Shinzo Abe Japan | Leave a comment

malraux and the great beyond: resurrecting the present

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Dave

…Again, Malraux writes of Cezanne: “His genius rejects appearance as much as the sacred arts did: and faced with so many centuries which rejected it in the name of a Truth he does not know- but to which he spectacularly … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Malraux, Andre malraux Imaginary Museum, Andre Malraux Metamorphosis of the Gods, Georges Didi-Huberman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Cezanne | Leave a comment

back to biz: chasing the long beards

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Dave

The election is over and the war goes on. Electronic warfare and remote control combat is and will continue to be a big business both for military and civilian application. Simply, its technology war to stay ahead of the competition … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Glenn Greenwald Guardian, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, Nicolas Poussin, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, War on Terror | Leave a comment

bernini and the brief french kiss

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Dave

Bernini spent nearly six months at the French court, but except for a marble bust of the king, which had been commissioned as an afterthought, the trip was a failure. It was a foregone conclusion that an artist who believed … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bernini in France, Howard Hibbard, Janson History of Art, Jean Baptiste Colbert, John Rupert Martin, King Louis XIV, Mansart French architect, Merritt Janson, Nicolas Poussin, Raphael, Robert Hughes, Simon Schama | Leave a comment

trial and tribulation: May ’68 …A.D.

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Dave

The trial of Jesus. Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender? …. The effect of the Jewish War in 66 A.D. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arch of Titus, Cardinal Angelo Sudano, Emperor Vespasian, Gospel of Mark, John Zorn, Josephus Flavius, Josephus the Jewish War, Markan Gospel, Moshe Katsav, Nicolas Poussin, Shlomo Amar, Simon bar Kochba, The Jewish War, Titus and Domitian, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple, Yonah Metzger | Leave a comment

fatal showplace

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Dave

To give a great party is a dangerous thing. A few famous balls have been enshrined in history and golden legend-none more so than the Duchess of Richmond’s in Brussels on the eve of Waterloo, remembered in the celebrated lines … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Jean de la Fontaine, Jean-Baptiste Lully, King Louis XIV, La Fontaine poet, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moliere, Nicolas Fouquet, Nicolas Poussin, Vatel French chef, Vaux-le-Vicomte | Leave a comment

what goes around

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Dave

Drones are certainly here; this kind of soft-ware based warfare of which the FLAME virus and Stuxnet were also manifestations of this information age off-shoot where industrial age economics is displaced to a backseat in favor of digital technologies and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged . Jonas Savimbi, Amos Golan, Andrew Feinstein, Barry Roffman, David Teniers, david teniers the younger, Debbie Schlussel, Dr, Israel Arms sales, Israel arms sales Darfur, Leonid Minin, Lost Tribes of Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meir Dagan Mossad, MK Michael Ben Ari, Nick Cook, Nicolas Poussin, Reza Deghati, robert Mock | Leave a comment

something sad, terrific

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dave

Nathaniel Hawthorne was ten years away from Brook Farm, the socialist, utopian project, before he wrote the book The Blithedale Romance, from his observations there. By then, the success of The Scarlet Letter had justified his habit of looking at … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Anthony Trollope, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Leo Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Nicolas Poussin | Leave a comment

judging a cover by its book

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dave

Biblical prophecy is always a fascinating subject, dealing as it does with the hope of golden age, a repairing of the world, a making whole, a redemption mixed with the equal propensity for apocalyptic destruction. It predates the secular utopianism … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dante Republic, Francis Bacon, Franz Kafka, Igal Hecht, Jonathan Swift, Kosher Jesus, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milan Kundera, Nicolas Poussin, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Richard Dawkins, Schmuley Boteach, Sir Thomas More, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

every grain of sand

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Dave

Picasso called his painting, “the sum of destructions”, Marcel Duchamp went further into conceptual form with the ready-made, banal objects such as urinals converted into works of art. This was the so called “shock of the new” the beginning of … Continue reading →