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high hopes
Nice to Delta paint paint back on track. At one time it really was “America’s Favorite Craft Paint,” as they slogan on every bottle. It was such a hot commodity at one point and then it just died; sent out … Continue reading
down by the river: it ain’t necessarily so
A space with which the undead can talk without moral constraint. Its a de-mythologizing of what is known as Judeo-Christian thought. Mostly disenchanted and without trust in the Covenant nor faith, slightly minimalist and with nihilistic overtones: fatalistic romanticism trampling … Continue reading
gardens of magnificence
We have no idea what the Garden of Eden resembled. Painters have generally rendered it as a flowering green background to highlight Eve’s white nakedness. What we do know is that humanity from the start has delighted in gardens. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Le Notre, francis bacon on gardens, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIV, Louis XIV Sun King, Moliere, Nicolas Poussin, renaissance gardens, Sir Francis Bacon, thomas traherne
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perilous exile to zimzum
An inherently tormented and anguished Yahweh in a contradictory and self-absorbed rage over a broken creation. Is it a blasphemous, unhinged, theologically devoid and guilty of moral turpitude theory has our religious experience been as uncanny, intense and extreme as … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Caravaggio, david rosenberg, David Teniers, garry wills, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Isaac Luria, jack miles, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, Jean Leon Gerome, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud
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frankl: meaning as a sheep in wolfs clothing
Logotherapy based on the idea that meaning is an objective reality, contrary to various forms of illusion, arising and conjured up within the perceptual capabilities of the observer. Is it true? It would seem that objective reality is an oxymoron. … Continue reading
Facing up: masked to uncover the other
Maybe Levinas was just yelling into the canyon, hearing his echo, catching the attention of a few gophers going about their business in the void. However, the implications of what he was expressing was quite profound, nothing less than a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Diane Arbus, Diego Velazquez, doon arbus, emmanuel levinas, Gustave Courbet, Jean Paul Sartre, joel-peter witkin, Martin Buber, Marvin Israel, Nicolas Poussin, patricia bosworth, Simone Weil, william todd schultz
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your money or your life: hoarding gold with the rat men
Currency Wars.It’s not called the gloomy science for nothing. A new book by economist James Rickards is scary stuff. Almost science fiction. It does lend oneself to Weimar like visions of the collapse of fiat currency and receiving wages on … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Andre Breton, charlie chaplin the gold rush, Damien Hirst, David Mamet, Donald Kuspit, Jacques Lacan, james rickards, John Huston, kate moss gold sculpture, mark quinn sculpture, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen
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