REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB
” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages...
View Articlegiants: part metal packets
Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters...
View Articlelenin road show: the neverending tour
Rudolf Herz is not exactly a stranger to controversy regarding his unconventional approach to memory and remembrance. His work often attempts to explore the malevolence that underlines the criticisms...
View Articleon the back of: use and abuse?
Lucian Freud’s art could be termed anti-romantic and confrontational.And just plain creepy. He tended to represent people as he saw them, and between what he perceived and came out on canvas we will...
View Articlein between a boundary and a border
Border crossings. Illegal and clandestine transportation of the self to another realm….”Crimes of which a people are ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.” (Jean Genet) Its an...
View Articlenew frontier
The modern sense of the human being. The eternal sense of the individual condition as essentially one of individual conflict and torment, caught in some nasty crosswinds between building and...
View Articleprisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper
Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs...
View Articleforce feeding a permeable society
The artist’s treatment of the individual does in many respects, though not definitively, reflect a culture’s attitude towards itself. There is a grey zone between kitsch and perversity, as if they...
View Articlewrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity
Was the impulse of modern art to destroy beauty, to pitch renaissance notions of beauty into the dumpster? Behind De Kooning, was there a profound and embedded hated of women? He did say “flesh was the...
View Articlemuse and the economy
Or is it the economy and the muse? When individuals are fighting tooth and nail for a living, they look on the arts as a thing apart. Has our affluent society today carried over some of this disdain...
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