Tag Archives: Robert Heilbroner

what the meek shall inherit….

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave

To be determined at a later date. Yelp has gone public, and good for them that they have made so much money on the offering. However, this company won’t even be around in ten years. The tech highway is littered … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Christopher Hitchens, Frank Zappa, google offer to buy Yelp, Jeremy Stoppelman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, mahatma gandhi, Rick Griffin, Robert Heilbroner, Yelp public offering | Leave a comment

bringing discontent to market

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

We are settling into the winter of our discontent. A grey winter.Short days and grey skies. Optimism and hope are overcast. Is this gray a new dawn we are witnessing or a dusk? Is this the gray of a decaying … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alvin Toffler, Bill Moyers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Louis Bezard, john dewey, occupy wall street, Robert Heilbroner, Thomas Frank, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

CONSIGNED TO OBLIVION

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dave

Art in Limbo. Like lost packages at the post office without a return address. Metaphorically, on the bottom of the ocean in Davy Jones locker. Painters without a name, art without a number. Every generation of art has its casualties … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, American Art, Andrew Wyeth, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, Fortune Magazine, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Judas Iscariot, Justin Fox, London Royal Academy of Arts, Raphael Soyer, Robert Heilbroner, Robert Hughes, Social realism, Solzenitsyn, Walter Stuemphig, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

SCROOGE AND A MAYAN CHRISTMAS

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Dave

When the Spanish conquered Guatemala in the 1500′s they overcame a series of independent highland tribes known as the Mayans. The conquered Mayans were allowed to speak their language, but their religion was banned and,in the inquisition style of Spain, … Continue reading →