POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE CHINESE BILLIONAIRES BUYING MONET, RENOIR AND PICASSO GOOD FOR THE JEWS?
The blog about the ongoing influence of Andy Warhol's philosophy in the 21 st century. From art to instant fame, sex, beauty, celebrity gossip obsession, business or fitness why we live in a Warholian world more than ever.
MADRID— While the idea of the painfully self-conscious Pop artist and inveterate voyeur Andy Warhol cavorting on stage clad in head-to-toe spandex seems absurd, the artist did in fact belong to Carnegie Tech's modern dance club when he was a student there. And, as the inaugural exhibition at Ivorypress Art + Books' new Madrid space shows, Warhol certainly did not leave his appreciation of dance behind in Pittsburgh. On view in the small survey is a 1950s series of appreciative drawings that the artist made of the dancers, choreographers, and dance critics gamboling around New York at the time. Running through November 11, "Warhol & Dance, New York in the 50s" features the men and women who defined the way we understand dance today as reduced to a few simple, flowing lines on stark white backgrounds — many in silhouettes, presented as if living, hollow-eyed dramatic masks.
-Playboy: How badly do you want Adam Sandler's kind of success?
Past research has found that men's testosterone levels rise after a vicarious win -- whether it's an election or a sports competition. (I have no trouble believing that, based on the wild scene last night in San Francisco after the Giants messed with Texas, again.) The evolutionary theory is that, as Time magazine's Belinda Luscombe explains, a man "could be hurt or killed, and therefore not breed if he kept fighting even though outmatched." Given the association between testosterone and sexual behavior, the researchers decided to look at how American porn-viewing habits changed after elections. They found that after the 2004 presidential election, red states did significantly more online trolling for smut; and in 2008, blue states took the lead. That's even after controlling for traditional X-rated search rates in those states.
The men's magazine market is not thriving in the U.K. The best-selling title is Men's Health, with an average circulation of 245,754 for the first six months of the year, according to ABC, down from 250,247 a year earlier. FHM and Loaded, plus weeklies Nuts and Zoo, are all losing sales fast, with GQ holding steady but with low circulation. Ms. Clifford said, "With the lads' mags, it's easy to blame [the decline] on the rise of online. But the internet has taken people's time in a different way; it's not just replaced the magazines. The general mood has changed, and people don't talk about lad and ladette culture or 'Cool Britannia' any more. That generation grew up and grew out of it, and the new generation is different."
«Conservative feminism is pro-woman but male-friendly. If boys are languishing academically, if blue-collar men lose most of the jobs in the recession, or if innocent young men are falsely accused of heinous crimes--as several members of the Duke University Lacrosse team were in 2006, with campus feminists at the head of the mob--conservative feminists will speak out on men's behalf. The feminists now in power in our universities and in Washington see the world differently--as a zero-sum struggle between men and women, in which their job is to fight for women. But that is not the attitude of most women, whether conservative or liberal in political outlook. Men are their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons; when they are in trouble, so are the women who care about them and, in many cases, depend on them.»
Le livre de (Pascal) Bruckner, faute d’originalité, a au moins le mérite de souligner (et on ne le soulignera jamais assez, n’en déplaise à la propagande moderne) que l’amour, comme le bonheur, n’est pas dans la fureur, la folie ou la frénésie, et, comme le malheur, qu’il n’a pas besoin d’être total pour être réel. Que le calme plat, l’habitude, l’absence d’agitation et de problèmes, ne sont pas des états purement négatifs comme l’ataraxie des épicuriens mais un début de sérénité. Que l’amour dans le couple, c’est se réveiller avec l’impression que la joie pourrait venir dans la journée, sans qu’elle ne soit ni une obligation ni un dû, et encore moins un don du mariage, mais la conséquence possible d’un investissement à deux; que, surtout, notre mythologie amoureuse occidentale, par sa célébration de la passion adultère – comme nous l’avait déjà parfaitement bien expliqué Denis de Rougemont dans son incontournable essai L’Amour et l’Occident – nous incite à confondre l’amour de l’autre avec l’amour de l’amour (l’amabam amare d’Augustin et le fin Amor de la poésie courtoise), et à préférer, inconsciemment ou non, au fleuve impassible du bonheur les clapotements furieux de l’échec ou de la souffrance amoureuse comme moyen privilégié de connaissance.
Whirling Dervishes, a 1929 work by Egyptian artist Mahmoud Said, set a world record for Middle Eastern art. Selling for $2,546,500, it is most expensive Middle Eastern painting ever sold.The painting was one of 30 pieces from the Dr Mohammed Said Farsi collection, all of which were sold. The work surpassed the April world auction record for the artist, also set in Dubai, by $100,000. The final part of the Farsi collection to come to auction, a group of 40 works by Egyptian artists, will be offered at Christie’s in Paris on November 9. Among the other highlights was Banquet, an oil triptych by Iranian artist Mohammed Ehsai, which sold for nearly double its estimate at $662,500, while 36-year-old Afshin Pirhashemi’s Seduction, exploring the complexities of life in contemporary Iran, reached $518,500, four times its top estimate and marking the artist out as someone to watch and perhaps invest in
Ce mois-ci Kim Kardashian fait la couverture du magazine W consacré au monde des arts. En parlant d'elle on souligne qu'elle n'a pas de talent particulier sinon celui d'être elle-même. À la Paris Hilton quoi. Sous la liste des personnes figurant dans ce numéro une petite paranthèse pour y écrire que Warhol serait fier. Certes, le magazine est tout à fait dans la lignée du magazine Interview version réactualisé. Et certes également Warhol était fasciné par le fait que l'Amérique pouvait faire de n'importe qui une star du jour au lendemain. Or, Il notait également dans son album photos «America» que même une fois célébre la personne devait continuer de produire régulièrement ce fameux quelque chose par lequel il ou elle avait atteint cette même célébrité. Sans oublier que cette célébrité pour elle-même n'est possible que pendant la jeunesse. Ce qui explique par exemple l'important déficit de célébrité qu'il y a maintenant entre Madonna et Britney Spears. La première produit régulièrement des albums et spectables depuis plus de 25 ans et est toujours aussi célèbre. la seconde a oublié cette obligation de production regulière et sa célébrité s'est estompée un peu depuis.
«I realize that this reputation helps me in my relations with women. I've noticed that as my reputation grows worse, my successs with women increases»
Madonna launches her own gym brand.
«What do you want? Ivan Karp asked Warhol, «You've got everything; you have crowds, hordes, young people, beautiful people, charming people, rich people, lovely people. Nobody seems to touch you. What do you want? «I want more fame» Andy said.
'The self-loathing I had…’ He sighs. 'Walking around the house, not bathing for three or four days, staying up watching pornography all the time, drinking a bottle of scotch a day. And I was bulimic as well, so I wouldn’t eat for three days, then gorge on six bacon sandwiches and a pint of ice cream and throw it up. And then have a shower and start the whole procedure all over again. There was no self-respect there whatsoever. It was just f***ing horrible. You look back and think, how on earth could I have done that? But I did.’
«The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it»
An iconic painting by late pop artist ANDY WARHOL is expected to fetch up to $50 million (£33.3 million) when it goes on the auction block next month (Nov10). Christie's auction house is set to sell off Warhol's Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable), a 1962 painting currently owned by Seattle art collector Barney Ebsworth. Auctioneers expect to fetch the multi-million dollar sum because only 11 large-scale soup-can paintings are in existence, and all but three are held by museums. A spokesperson for Christie's tells the New York Post, "It's an incredibly important, very iconic work. When he painted the soup can picture... it changed the course of art history. No one had seen anyone do anything like this."
«I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer»
France’s leading contemporary art fair,Fiac, opened this week in Paris with a flurry of early sales and general applause for the quality of the works of art on offer. Indeed, so early were some sales that they happened before the fair actually opened, even to VIPs. On Tuesday, a couple of France’s leading collectors and their advisers were trawling the aisles of the Grand Palais, which in theory only opened on Wednesday. “People seem to be getting in earlier and earlier,” commented one dealer who got caught out and wasn’t there. Among the sales made was a huge depiction of masked soldiers on donkeys by the American/Cuban pair Allora and Calzadilla, the US selection for next year’s Venice Biennale. Entitled “Intermission, Halloween Iraq IV”, it sold for $75,000 to François Pinault’s adviser Caroline Bourgeois on the Kurimanzutto stand. At the opening, New York’s David Zwirner had huge success with work by the inventive French artist Adel Abdessemed, selling a wall of masks for $280,000 as well as another five pieces and reserving “Taxidermie” (2010), a block of taxidermied animals, also priced at $280,000. “We expect to sell all the Abdessemed works,” said Alex Ortuzar of the gallery.
Throughout his life, Branson, who will be a keynote speaker at the Atlantic Dream Festival next Thursday, has brought his personal dreams down to terra firma. Forbes magazine puts his personal wealth at US $4 billion. His magic touch has brought fame and no small fortune from businesses ranging from recordings, to airlines, to bridal shops, to mobile phone networks - and promises more of the same in upcoming ventures into space tourism and movie production. And through it all, the world has seen this uber-relaxed man with the famous smile and affability trumping the alpha males of business, whose rules he has broken at every turn. And it's all been one long run of fun, fueled not by money-lust, but by a playful pursuit of vision. As he once told the New York Times, "I never started out to make money. I have gone into projects out of a personal belief that we can do something special that we can be proud of. "Successful entrepreneurs never cost out a project. They have a vision that something is not being done properly and they can do it better."
«Perhaps the United States isn't what I imagined it to be. Anything can happen in America. Even a little humanity can appear there. »
Paris was the heart of the art world for much of 20th century, but France currently has a fraction of the world market, says Georgina Adam, a market specialist at London-based journal The Art Newspaper. She said Gagosian was likely drawn to Paris not so much by the revival of contemporary art in France as by the presence of rich art collectors such as Francois Pinault, the head of retail group PPR. "It's all about the big rich names. There are several very rich collectors in Paris so I imagine he wanted to have a gallery on their doorstep," she told AFP. ArtReview magazine this year ranked the silver-haired Gagosian as the most powerful figure in the art world. France's culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand presented him on Monday with the Legion of Honour, France's highest civil honour, a spokeswoman for the launch said. Gagosian directors refused to say how much money would change hands in the new gallery. Auction house Christie's sold a 2004 Twombly painting for 2.5 million pounds (2.8 million euros, 3.9 million dollars) in London in June.
Before: Gay for pay: hot straight guys in gay porn
Beyonce not pregnant.
The before and after pictures. The very essence of american pop culture....
«You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.»
The fact that Warhol is even more famous today than he was more than 20 years ago is above all the fact than his life story is the very definition of the American Dream.
Paris Hilton in no mood to party
Bad boys generally get lots of girls. And even though they treat them like sh*t, they keep coming back… Because the sex is so exciting. And not only the sex: Everything about the bad boy is exciting. Being with one is like riding a giant roller coaster for a woman; there are incredible emotional highs, and there are incredible emotional lows.
The crisis in the humanities has “officially” arrived, Stanley Fish asserts in his October 11th piece for The New York Times. Why now? Because on October 1st, SUNY Albany decided to cut the French, Italian, classics, Russian and theatre programs from the university curriculum. The elimination of French, in particular, “was a shocker.”Sounding ever so desperate and disoriented, Fish’s solution—though he admits it probably won’t work—is for “senior administrators” to save the humanities by explaining and defending “the core enterprise . . . to legislatures, boards of trustees, alumni, parents and others.” And what is the “core enterprise” of the humanities according to Fish? To employ humanities professors, of course! Fish states that there is “something” of value in the humanities, though he is at a loss as to what that might be, and concludes with this:
«What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.» - Andy Warhol
Aujourd'hui tout se passe comme si un des nouveaux symbole d'un artiste qui est véritablement arrivé au sommet était de se voir offrir de peindre et de transformer une voiture grandeur nature. On est loin de Peter Max illustrant une publicité pour les voitures de marque Datsun dans les années 1970. Aujourd'hui la nouvelle consécration c'est d'avoir son propre BWM Art Car. Avant c'était Haring, Stella, Rauschenberg ou Warhol. Aujourd'hui Jeff Koons. Demain Anish Kapoor...?
The other day when visiting the Ivy Pool with a couple of my mates, I noticed a strange trend. Well, in our minds anyway.
The iconic pop artist’s foundation sent boxes of photos to academic art museums. UC Davis got a youthful governor at the threshold of fame. SACRAMENTO — – Nobody at the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis knew what to expect from the box of 150 photos that arrived this week from the andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The gallery is one of 183 academic art museums that were given a box of photos from the foundation’s archive of 23,543 pictures taken by the prolific artist. The public opening of the box at UC Davis on Friday was billed by museum officials as an event resembling journalist Geraldo Rivera’s famous unveiling of Al Capone’s vault on live national television. But this event actually uncovered something interesting. Among the contents were five vintage photos of California’s first couple. There is a Polaroid of Arnold Schwarzenegger posing for his Warhol portrait in 1977; the one of Maria Shriver shows her posing around the time the two got married in 1986. Another photo features Schwarzenegger and Shriver with their wedding cake. Opening the box, said gallery director Renny Pritikin, “was kind of like a time machine, going back to days of Warhol’s glory and seeing the life he lead among these artists and celebrities of society.” Schwarzenegger was just becoming a celebrity when he met Warhol. That was after the release of “Pumping Iron,” the documentary that made Schwarzenegger a star. At Schwarzenegger’s request, the film’s publicity agent arranged a luncheon with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Warhol was there. The bodybuilder and the artist shared an uncanny ability to attract publicity, and the two became friends. Schwarzenegger was “moving from bodybuilding into movies,” said former Los Angeles Times reporter Joe Mathews, author of The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy. “It was a period in his life where he sort of got culture.” Warhol painted multi-paneled portraits of both Schwarzenegger and Shriver. One of the panels of the vivid Shriver portrait hangs in the governor’s office. The others hang in the first family’s residence in Brentwood. The rest of the photos in the box were an assortment of random people and objects. There was also a photo of golf legend Jack Nicklaus in the mix.
Every time a Queer theorist write another «publish or perish» trashy book , the conservative are making gains among moderates.
«I always thought cowboys looked like hustlers. That's nice. Cowboys and hustlers are quiet. They don't know many words.»
RB: You’re referring to Andres Serrano?
Madonna has a new Boy Toy.
«I'm enough of an old hippie really to believe that all you need is love»
Madonna: jewish
Paris Hilton visit homeless shelter.
Nothing exemplifies better the jewish art of recognizing futur artistic talent early on than the Warhol case. Irving Blum organizing the Soup Cans exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in 1962, already feeling he was in presence of something really special. Ivan Karp telling Warhol to stop trying to imitate abstract expressionism by not doing any dripping on his daily object paintings, then another jewish guy, Henry Geldzahler giving him the inspiration for the Death & Disasters serie.
It's well-known that the United States imprisons drastically more people than other Western countries. Here are the specifics: We now imprison more people in absolute numbers and per capita than any other country on earth. With 5 percent of the world population, the U.S. hosts upward of 20 percent of its prisoners. This is because the country's incarceration rate has roughly quintupled since the early 1970s. About 2 million Americans currently live behind bars in jails, state prisons, and federal penitentiaries, and many millions more are on parole or probation or have been in the recent past. In 2008, as a part of an "American Exception" series exploring the U.S. criminal-justice system, New York Times reporter Adam Liptak pointed out that overseas criminologists were "mystified and appalled" by the scale of American incarceration. States like California now spend more on locking people up than on funding higher education.
TO A STRANGER
In all the media the new reality is impossible to avoid: men read less than women. Men are the big majority of drunks, sex offenders, drug addicts, alcoolics, school dropouts, people going nowhere in life, underachievers, losers and uninteresting persons. Now just think that the gay male world is just a big group of men.....
BEFORE «Cause niggers don't read. Book are like kryptonite to a nigger» - Chris Rock
«Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said»
The history of the last 40 years in North American and European politics is the history of how jewish leaders and activists moved from the left to the right as many left wing people started to demonize Israel and the so called «white male» privilege.
This quote from Warhol is what is now explaining the success of the most popular personalities nowadays. Be they left or right wing. From Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck to Jon Stewart and Bill Maher.
In all her public interventions Arianna Huffington reminds people how Wall Street had become disconnected from Main Street and how this problem is never adressed in the mainstream media. Somewhat her fight is about defending the traditional version of capitalism where one could get richer by hard work instead of the casino capitalism system we have now.
And that's where this crew comes in; Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell, Michele Bachmann; the lovely MILFs of the new right. And their little secret is that their popularity comes exclusively from white men. Look at the polling: minorities hate them, women hate them -- only white men like them. I'm no psychiatrist, but I do own a couch, and my theory is that these women represent something those men miss dearly: the traditional, idiot housewife. Writing on your hand is sheer Lucy. If an election between Obama and Sarah Palin were held today, and only white men could vote, Sarah Palin would be president. Did you know that in 1788, when there were four million people in America, only 39,000 of them -- the richest white men -- got to vote? That doesn't sound good to you? Well, what if I threw in a picture of my cock? Which brings me back to Brett Favre, and I think it's worth noting that in one of the alleged photos of him, he's pleasuring himself on a bed while wearing Crocs. And if you think about it, is there any better metaphor for the sad state of America today than an over-the-hill white guy lazily masturbating in plastic shoes?
«The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.»
Males, young and old, are less interested than females in talking about feelings and personal relationships. But there is no evidence that that this is due oppressive gender stereotypes. On the contrary, the different interests and preferences appear to be hard-wired—innate, spontaneously manifested, and probably ineradicable. Gilligan and other feminist talks of a female ethic, an ethic of care, suggesting that girls are morally better, more caring than boys. But no one has been able to show that little girls are nicer or more virtuous than little boys. It is of course true that boys are more violent than girls. Bullying is a problem in many schools. Boys, being stronger and generally more physically aggressive, do most of the physical bullying, but they do not have a monopoly on malice. Girls are proficient at what sociologists call "relational aggression." They hurt others by shunning, excluding, spreading rumors. Almost any junior high school girl will tell you that girls can create as much misery as boys, especially to other girls. I see no evidence that boys are morally inferior to girls. They are more reticent about discussing their feelings than girls. But this is not any kind of personality deficit. On the contrary, the reticence may actually be a virtue and a sign of psychological health.
Justin Timberlake worked with Madonna on her last album Hard Candy and one thing he learned from spending time with the Queen of Pop, is that she is "stubborn"."She's the most stubborn woman in the world. As a woman, she's the highest in stubbornness," said Justin when asked what it was like being in the studio with the pop star."But she's very smart and incredibly cerebral. And I think that's why she's been able to change her style and image so much. Her music pays attention to what people are thinking."
Paris Hilton: goyim
Brian Moylan's guide for straight friends of gays addresses that last concern: If we ask you if a guy is hot, you have to respond. Don't give us that socially conditioned, "Oh, I don't look at guys like that," bullshit. We're not asking you to hold his dick, just give us a gauge of how handsome he is. We know whether or not a girl is smokin', and you won't think twice about asking us, so we expect the same in return.
Intruder arrested at Paris Hilton's home.
Playboy:..perhaps you could tell us why restrictions on Muslim women are far more stringent than upon Muslim men.
Joan Collins wants to know: where has all the beauty in Hollywood gone? The actress, 77, has several grievances with today's starlets, most notably their lack of classic Hollywood glamour, according to the UK's ."When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous," Collins said. "I have to say, there aren't that many good looking actresses around today. I mean, there's Angelina Jolie and there's ... Angelina Jolie."But what about the gal who owned 's heart before Jolie? Jennifer Aniston" is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. She's no Ava [Gardner] or Lana [Turner]," Collins declared.A rep for Aniston told that the actress was "aware" of Collins' snide remark, but felt there was "no need to engage with that nonsense."Nevertheless, Collins went on to imply that current actresses don't emphasize beauty as much for fear it might distract from their talent.The "Dynasty" star suggested, "Perhaps actresses of today, in their desire to be 'taken seriously,' feel that being groomed and well put together detracts from their ability."Collins, often considered the model for aging gracefully, also lashed out at stars who resort to plastic surgery in order to keep their looks."They don't look like themselves," she complained. "I think there's something rather terrifying about people who are in their 50s or 60s trying to look 30 or 40."Instead, says Collins, modern society is left "starved of gorgeous people."
The Souls Of Old Men
«I certainly have gone through period of thinking Oh God, you know I can't deal with America»
Britney Spears: jewish
The company has developed a potentially powerful kind of advertising that's more personal—more "social," in Facebook's parlance—than anything that's come before. Ads on the site sit on the far right of the page and are such a visual afterthought that most users never click them. These ads can evolve, though, from useless little billboards into content, migrating into casual conversations between friends, colleagues, and family members—exactly where advertisers have always sought to be.
«Andy Warhol my hero killed the avant-garde when he fused pop with the fine arts»
Savoureuse ironie de constaster que depuis la disparition de Warhol en 1987, c'est en fait un «SAMO» (same old shit)de Basquiat qui, dans sa version marché de l'art s'est avéré le plus prophétique jusqu'à nos jours. Le prix d'une oeuvre d'un Jeff Koons, le prix d'un Warhol, le nouveau record de prix d'un Picasso, le prix de la collection Steven Cohen, le montant total de l'encan Damien Hirst....So fucking boring!
Warhol used to say as a «boutade» that the most beautiful thing in New York was the McDonald restaurant. Some forty years later, the «art statement» had definitely changed and the closest thing to a «live Duane Hanson» sculpture is an elderly, lonely person eating at McDonald's...
Perez Hilton to quit blog bullying
«I like dominate them. And they like it. I know, I know, this is regarded today as Neanderthal attitude. But I know one women's lib leader who friends tell me is a great cock-sucker. By the way, what exactly is the women's lib position on fellatio? That it's OK but only on a equal term basis?
J'adore le vocabulaire des cosmétiques. L'«outrage» du temps», les «agressions du vent» et «les attaques répétées» du soleil... À quand «la guérilla des rides», le« blitzkrieg» du quotidien, et le «Pearl Harbour facial» engendré par les radicaux libres?...
«Sex in japan is for people under 25. People over 25 generally hide their sexual activity. They are not doing it that much anyway»
Lady GaGa new perfume to be called «Monster»
KAHNWEILER, DANIEL-HENRY (1884–1979), German art patron, art dealer, and writer. Kahnweiler was born in Mannheim, Germany. Following his father's profession he volunteered at the Paris Stock Exchange, but soon developed a passion for contemporary art. After a short time working in London he decided to open a gallery of contemporary art in Paris in 1907, sponsored by his family. While recruiting his artists, especially the circle of Montparnasse, he met Pablo Picasso and George Braque and became their principal agent, but he also supported the cubist painters Fernand Léger and Juan Gris. A famous portrait by Picasso of 1910 (Art Institute of Chicago) reveals the dominant role of Kahnweiler in the promotion of Cubism at that time. In 1909 Kahnweiler started his career as a publisher with L'Enchanteur pourrisant written by Guillaume Apollinaire with woodcarvings by André Derain. In 1914, Kahnweiler fled to Rome to escape German military service. Shortly after he moved in with a friend in Berne, where he began to write his first art book, The Path to Cubism, published in 1920. In 1920 he returned to Paris and together with André Simon launched the Galerie Simon. He tried to retrieve his art collection, which had been confiscated by the French government, and with the help of his brother Gustave and the art dealer Alfred Flechtheim was able to redeem part of his former property. At the time Picasso and Juan Gris fell out with Kahnweiler when he tried to become their exclusive agent.
Overpriced in 2010: Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns, Richard Prince.
Playboy: So we're back to sex. Do you believe that, in the final analysis, a man follows his phallus?
A prominent French atheist and intellectual, Bernard-Henri Lévy, has come to the defence of the Church and Pope Benedict, saying Catholicism was "the most attacked religion in Europe".In an interview with the Spanish newspaper ABC last week, Levy, who is Jewish, said it was unfortunate that so many injustices were being committed against the pontiff, reports Independent Catholic News.Levy said: "The Pope's voice is extremely important, and we are very unjust to this Pope. I am not Catholic, but I think there is prejudice and especially major anti-clericalism that is taking on enormous proportions in Europe.""In France there is much talk about the desecrations of Jewish and Muslim cemeteries, but nobody knows that the tombs of Catholics are continually desecrated. There is a sort of anti-clericalism in France that is not healthy at all." He added: "We have the right to criticise religions" but he said the scale of the criticism was "out of proportion."
She is known as a champion of contemporary American artists, something she picked up after hiring the art connoisseur Bill Katz to decorate her apartment and guide her around the studios, lofts, galleries of SoHo, the East Village and TriBeCa. She bought early works by such artists as Keith Haring, Matthew Barney. Luminaries of the art world gathered at the Whitney on Monday night for a gala honoring Mrs. Landau’s 90th birthday. Leonard A. Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Whitney (and a recent donor of $131 million to its endowment), credited Ms. Landau with having “a laser eye” for art and recalled her verdict — “Mine is better.” — on a Cy Twombly painting he was browsing. He credited her for championing new artists well before their acceptance by the public, her mantra being: “Whether you like it or not is beside the point.”
Walked in front of some gay cabaret yesterday and the title for an upcoming show was.. «ªDesperate Housedrags». Love it!
Patti Lu Pone: «I saw one porno flick and that was with John Holmes. «Eruption» It was worse than biology. It's not erotic.
The guardians of feminist purity are not amused by the idea of right-wing girl power. Rebecca Traister and Anna Holmes, for example, recently specified that members of the sisterhood may not oppose "reproductive rights" or "labor policies that would empower American women." They should be more open-minded. Millions of women, for reasons of conscience, cannot bring themselves to support abortion on demand. According to a 2009 Gallup Poll, 49 percent of women are pro-life. Even if you are pro-choice (as I am), it is both unsisterly and impractical to organize a "women's" movement that excludes--and often demonizes--half of the American adult female population.
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