![]() ![]() Altman is best remembered in the art world for donating much of the Met’s collection of northern European paintings and Asian ceramics– he specialized in collecting portraits of merchants - made centuries and leagues away from the merchants dollying in boxes of to-the-trade made-in-China and made-in-Vietnam restaurant ceramics piled up outside the shop next door.��And nothing to do with Alex Kojacs’ tiled ceramic painting,� Summer Heat, in which an O-shaped sun hovers in the upper left corner, jagged inside but smooth along its inner and outer perimeters, and seems to infect the bottom half of the painting with its rhythmic electric splinters of black glaze on white tile. Given the ray of wan sunlight that bounces off his eponymous school windows, it’s fitting that B. A line from Rimbaud’s prior stanza, in French this time, are painted, white on black on the figure’s shirt, “Les arbres muets ber�ant l’oiseau qui chante …” (The silent trees cradle the singing bird)–the sixteen-year-old poet’s plaint for the prelapsarian world in which the gods, humans, and the earth coexisted.��The poem ends with the moon goddess Selene sending her lover a kiss along a pale ray of light.� At right: Fernando Pintado, Les Arbres Muets, mixed media on canvas, 74 x 72 inches The vertical row of character-shadows, in turn, fell onto Fernando Pintado’s achromatic collage painting,� Les Arbres Muets, in which a falling figure, whose long mop of charcoal-on-gesso hair hangs loose from a body tumbling through a black background, and from whose hands have fallen a volume opened to a Spanish translation of Rimbaud’s� Credo in Unam, in which the young poet pines for a past of many gods, in which glorious Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess uncomfortably adopted into the Greek pantheon as a nature deity, rode a splendid bronze chariot, streams flowing from her breasts. The Altman-refracted rays shone through the side window of Orchard Street’s Super Dutchess, blocked only by the red Chinese ideograms on the window of FY Trading, Inc, wholesalers in Japanese restaurant supplies. Move over, Sarah.Alex Kovacs, Fernando Pintado, and Craig Taylor in “Cartoon in a Cartoon Graveyard,” installation view, at Super DutchessĬontributed by Julian Kreimer/�At 3:10 pm on a blustery Thursday afternoon, the falling sun refracted off the 3rd floor windows of PS 42, the Benjamin Altman Elementary School, named for the department store magnate, a first-generation son of Bavarian Jews who rose from running a small Lower East Side dry-goods store to opening one of the great 5th Avenue “Palaces of Trade,” at the start of the last century. Instead he’s making his cartoon reservations. He certainly showed no courage in saying them. ![]() I hope that at least one of the Republican candidates will be courageous and stand up to Giuliani’s spurious statements. Instead of seriously considering questions of patriotism and “loving America,” Giuliani takes the position that “he doesn’t think like me, so he does not love America.” Foolish and insulting.įollowing Giuliani’s comments, we now see the crop of likely presidential candidates responding it actually tells us more about their character than would a two-hour policy speech. Preposterous and irritating statements make for great headlines, but show a grim lack of perspective and an ignorance of history. Giuliani now joins the likes of Donald Trump, Jesse Ventura and Sarah Palin in the “cartoon graveyard” that Paul Simon wrote about. A figure like Giuliani takes such a position just for the headlines and what it shows that he has crossed the line from a respected moderate leader, albeit 15 years ago, to a trivial cartoon political figure for today. Unfortunately there is a large portion of the populace that eats up ridiculous accusations against President Barack Obama, jumping on board and clapping for justification of their already lopsided view of the president. ![]() Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks utter nonsense in trying to promote “Americanism” through his pretense and through outrageous statements. Thank you for the well-stated piece by Rekha Basu in the Feb. ![]()
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