Thumbing through the pages of Metro (July-August 2010), I was distraught that after only a few brief months of deliciously entertaining bitchiness, the mouthpiece of Auckland’s chattering classes was terminating (with extreme prejudice) the only recently revived Felicity Ferrit.
‘Twas...
Here are some of my translations of poems by 19th century French poet Maurice Rollinat.
The Cow
A cow lay, subdued, drooling at the muzzle,
but her eyes were filled with nameless terror
while the black bull, wild as a buffalo,
watched her belly...
Although usually suppressed and marginalised, there is, surprisingly enough, quite a strong genre in Western Literature that I am choosing to call "Gender-bender Messiah" Lit. To attempt a definition of what I mean, we can go all the way back...
Hmmm. Is this New Zealand in 2010 or Germany in 1933? The National (Socialist) party is busy cosying up to whatever business interests we have left in this country, telling the independent judiciary its business, crushing democratically elected local government bodies...
Artbash is an online community of New Zealanders who love art and love talking and writing about art. Inside Artbash you will find forums of art criticism, a calendar of exhibitions, a guide to New Zealand art galleries and an online art store where members exhibit and sell their art online.
Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung , who studied archetypes , proposed an alternative definition of symbol, distinguishing it from the term sign . In Jung's view, a sign stands for something known, as a word stands for its referent....
Osama bin Laden: "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States...
but I believe if modern inquisition argues within the boundaries of the imitation of art history ruling over the real world, then the imitation should be...
It may have come to your attention that many aspects of life require us to perform a balancing act. Well (as unbalanced as producing art is) the balancing act philosophy plagues an artists life also. Have you ever come across...
There is an arty movie in the NZFF, I've been told it's good.
Screening in Chch on Tuesday at the Regent 12noon plus again on Saturday 14th at 11am...
http://www.nzff.co.nz/...
World Premiere...
at Ron Barber's shed/workshop/gallery in Aro. Not bad - cute, bit old Matissey hat, visual aesthetics, some content ...even some red dots...
Imagine Thag...