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lonely planet
The dream that there are men and women elsewhere in the universe, alleviating the final prison of human loneliness, dies hard. This sort of facile and optimistic thinking should be discouraged; the idea of saviors from the great beyond sharing … Continue reading
men of leisure: rewards of mediocrity
When you read about the number of billionaires in the United States, it is easy to arrive at a judgement that defines Americans as brighter than everyone else and have the cash hoard as evidence. This is balanced by cultural … Continue reading
t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat
T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading
universe as mind stuff: mystifying the expectations
…The legitimacy of an idea is often a matter of culture. Thus, in the West, we greet the notion of cyclic time with deep unease- partly because it is unfamiliar and partly because the concept of linear time running away … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Dobbs, Arthur Koestler, Dr. Helmut Schmidt, Dr. J.B. Rhine, Dr. Louisa Rhine, ESP phenomenon, James Cameron Avatar, James Cameron director, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paranormal psychology, psychokinesis, Richard Feynman, Sir James Jeans, Wassily Kandinsky
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bohemia on central park west
Art mirrored life and vice-versa in painter John Koch’s polished household, a milieu that was as far from a traditional garret as one could get… About eighty New York blocks separated the sumptuously appointed fourteen-room apartment of the painter John … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Ania Dorfman, Dora Zaslavsky, Grady Turner, Harold Bauer, Hilton Kramer, Jean Cocteau, Johan Zoffany, John Koch, Leo Lerman, Maurice Grosser, Mrs. Edgar Feder, Raphael Soyer, Wassily Kandinsky, William Backhaus
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the long and winding ramp
War on the fine arts. Frank Lloyd Wright definitely had a chip on his shoulder and it manifested itself on a war on the fine arts. He began as a foe of the academicism, orthodox teachings, and this later festered … Continue reading
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Tagged Constantin brancusi, ezra stoller, ezra stoller photography, Frank Lloyd Wright, frank lloyd wright guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Joan Miro, Lewis Mumford, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Tino Sehgal, Wassily Kandinsky
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a brake on the yellow
I am curious yellow. The taxi as an orgone box. Orgone energy, according to Wilhelm Reich, organizes itself into matter. He believed that when earth is made to swell by boiling or autoclavation, orgone energy is released from the fragmentation and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Helen Levitt photography, joe strummer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, New New York City taxi, New York City Taxi medallions, New york international auto show, nissan 200NV taxi, Orgone Energy, Taxi of Tomorrow Nissan Motor Company, TLC David Yassky, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Reich
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back to the salon: trititude and tritism
A labored avant-garde, hack mediocrity, tired formula and mixing the sauce on old recipes resulting in a living fabric of life being transposed into a theatrical event? Its possible the avant garde today is decoration catering to mediocre tastes much … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Jacques Ranciere, jean-louis meissonier, jean-louis picard, Joseph Beuys, Kazimir Malevich, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, Peter Burger, peter watson, Sir Edwin Landseer, Wassily Kandinsky
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children should be painted and not herd
Salon painting.And children. Sympathy for the poor things with an equally normal but less open response to their charms. Unlike Salon painting of women who were usually lashed to a stake, tortured or languishing in prisons condemned to sleeping on … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, coventry patmore, emil munier, ferdinand waldmuller, French Salon painting, John Everett Millais, john george brown, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Wassily Kandinsky
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