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Peres: Netanyahu was never sincere about two-state solution
Israeli man seriously wounded in Netanya stabbing attack; earlier, Hebron man stabs three in Rishon Lezion — two in serious condition
Elie Leshem is deputy editor of The Times of Israel.
The Times of Israel liveblogged Monday's events as they unfolded.
An improvised explosive device, or IED, was discovered by police in a Palestinian car Monday morning near a checkpoint at the West Bank village of Azaria, police say.
Based on prior intelligence, police were stationed in the area in anticipation of an attempted attack.
Five residents of Hebron who were in the car were arrested.
Initial police assessments suggest the bomb was intended for a Fatah event in Hebron and not to be used in a terror attack against Israelis.
— Judah Ari Gross
More than 218,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in October — a monthly record and nearly the same number as in the whole of 2014, the United Nations says.
"Last month was a record month for arrivals," UN refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards tells AFP, pointing out that "arrivals in October paralleled the entire 2014."
In October, 218,394 people made the perilous crossing — all but 8,000 of them landing in Greece — compared to 219,000 arrivals during all of last year, UN figures show.
The soaring numbers of arrivals last month bring to over 744,000 the number of people who have made the journey so far this year.
The Palestine Liberation Organization sends out a statement about the Balfour Declaration, issued 98 years ago today, in which the British Empire said Palestine should be the "national home for the Jewish people."
The statement, by PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat, says the declaration "should serve as a reminder that what is happening in Palestine is a result of a colonial decision made in faraway capitals."
He says that "the international community must assume its historic responsibility and take immediate steps to remediate the decades of occupation, colonialism and exile.
"The United Kingdom in particular should close the darkness of its colonialist past in the region by taking concrete steps in order to protect and promote Palestinian rights, including the recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 border with East Jerusalem as its capital."
The Jerusalem municipality has frozen all construction in the city's eastern areas — in both Jewish and Arab neighborhoods, Army Radio reports.
The report says City Hall initially decided to freeze construction in the Jewish Ramat Shlomo neighborhood ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming visit to Washington, but then extended the decision to Arab housing as well so as not to appear to discriminate against Jewish residents of East Jerusalem.
The Zionist Union's Knesset members are showing remarkable coordination: Many of them have changed their Facebook cover photos to the same image over the space of a few minutes.
The new image is a play on words — "Netanyahu has lost the north," which in Hebrew also connotes losing his direction.
It's a reference to the cabinet's decision to reduce some tax benefits to residents of some northern towns.
Similar benefits were conferred on several settlements that hadn't previously enjoyed them, sparking criticism from the Zionist Union and other opposition parties last week.
The Israel Police officially bans members of Knesset from entering the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem.
The temporary ban, signed by acting Israel Police commissioner Bentzi Sau, says that visits by MKs to the flashpoint site — holy to both Jews and Muslims — "will exacerbate tensions on the Mount, tensions that will, with a high degree of probability, radiate and have an impact on the security situation throughout the country."
The Israel Police ban, published on Twitter by Channel 2 correspondent Amit Segal, ratifies an earlier statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proscribing MKs from entering the Mount.
Netanyahu's statement, which initially referred to Jewish lawmakers and then — when it faced stiff criticism — extended to Arab MKs, has been challenged by Arab opposition parliamentarians, apparently requiring police to step in and make the prime minister's instructions official policy.
Palestinian accusations that Israel is seeking to change the arrangements at the Temple Mount and allow Jews to pray there have fueled recent unrest in Israel and the West Bank. Israel denies the allegations.
Contradicting earlier reports — which lent credence to the theory that a Russian flight may have been downed by terrorists over the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday — actual information from the black box of Airbus A321 showed that the plane was not struck from the outside before it crashed, Reuters reports.
Earlier Monday, a top Russian airline official said that the plane was downed by "an external impact," ruling out the possibility of technical fault of pilot error.
Officials are still examining the information from the black box.
Two hundred and twenty-four passengers and crew were killed in the crash, which was claimed by the Islamic State group's Sinai affiliate.
— AFP contributed
Preliminary reports are coming in of a possible terrorist stabbing attack in the coastal city of Rishon Lezion.
Reports say several people may have been injured in the attack, in the city's central bus station, before the stabber was "neutralized."
An Israel police spokeswoman says a suspect in the stabbing in Rishon Lezion is in police custody.
Police say one woman was stabbed in the back and moderately wounded in the attack.
It is still unclear whether the stabbing was a terrorist incident.
The Magen David Adom rescue service says three people were wounded in the attack, and one is in moderate-serious condition.
Two were evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
Reports say at least one of the wounded in Rishon Lezion is a man who was attacked at a second scene, on a bus.
The man is said to be in serious condition.
It isn't immediately clear whether the two attacks were carried out by the same stabber.
Reports say the two attacks in Rishon were carried out by the same stabber.
First, the man boarded a bus and stabbed a man, then he ran toward the central bus station, where he stabbed another man and a woman, who is reportedly 80 years old.
An update from the Magen David Adom rescue service on the condition of the wounded in Rishon Lezion:
Mda: three injured in Rishon LeTzion attack. 40yo man in serious condition. 80yo woman in serious condition. 20yo man in light condition.
— Judah Ari Gross (@JudahAriGross) November 2, 2015
The Israel Police releases footage from the scene of the attack:
Video from the scene of the Rishon LeTzion attack. Credit: @IL_police pic.twitter.com/xezfTr4k3b
— Judah Ari Gross (@JudahAriGross) November 2, 2015
The stabber in Rishon Lezion was a 19-year-old man from Hebron, police say.
Officers at the scene arrested the man and and prevented an angry mod from assaulting him, Israel Radio reports.
MDA medics Yoni Ohayon and Ophir Partenki describe the scene of the attack:
When we arrived at the scene we saw on Herzl Street near the bakery a woman, about 80 years old, lying on the pavement, conscious, and suffering from a bleeding wound in her upper body. We gave her first aid and evacuated her to Assaf Harofeh Hospital in moderate-serious condition.
Another MDA medic Nir Babai describes treating the second casualty of the attack:
On the sidewalk sat a young man, about 26 years old, who was suffering from a stab wound in the leg. We administered initial care and evacuated him to the hospital.
A third man wounded in the attack was treated by MDA medics Moshe Pinto and Effi Bar:
We were led to a man, about 35 years old, who was lying in a bus with a stab wound to his upper body. He was fully conscious and told us that he noticed a commotion on the bus when he suddenly felt a blow to his back. We administered initial treatment to his stab wounds and evacuated him to Assaf Harofeh Hospital in moderate-serious, but stable condition.
Police say the attacker was caught after he entered a clothing store.
He stabbed one person in the store and then a woman who was in the store exited it and closed the door on him, police spokeswoman Luba Samri says.
Meanwhile, a group of police officers on motorcycles arrived and tackled the stabber and then prevented enraged citizens from attacking him, she says.
James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, says he can't rule out that the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai was brought down by Islamic State extremists.
Clapper tells reporters in Washington that "we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet" in the crash Saturday that killed all 224 people on the Metrojet.
But he notes that the Islamic State group, which has claimed responsibility, has a significant presence in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Asked if Islamic State extremists had the capabilities to bring down a passenger jet, he says, "It's unlikely, but I wouldn't rule it out."
The Palestinian men who gunned down Eitam and Naama Henkin in front of their four children last month planned the attack as revenge for the fatal firebombing of the Dawabsha family earlier this year, according to quotes from their interrogations cleared for publication Monday.
"We got together and decided that we had to do something as revenge over the attack against the Dawabsha family," one of the terrorists, a Hamas member named Samir, told his interrogators. He was referring to a July firebombing incident in the Palestinian village of Duma in the West Bank that killed a toddler and his parents in their home. Defense officials say radical settlers carried out that attack, although police have yet to arrest suspects.
He said that he and his accomplice lay in wait on the night of the attack, October 1. When they saw the Henkins' vehicle approaching, he said, he asked him to overtake the car, "and while he was overtaking it I fired.
"I remember firing 10 or 15 automatic rounds at the Israeli vehicle," he continued. "At that moment the Israeli car, which was driven by an Israeli citizen, stopped, and we did too. I got out of the car with the gun, switched the clip and went over to the woman who was sitting next to the driver."
He described how, as he was approaching Naama Henkin, a bloodied Eitam Henkin was struggling with his accomplice and attempting to grab his gun from him. He opened fire, killing Eitam Henkin and also wounding his accomplice.
"I don't know how many shots I fired at the man, who was killed on the spot. Meanwhile, as I was firing, one of the bullets hit Carem [his accomplice's] left hand," he said. "I was attacked by the woman. I shot a few bullets at her and killed her on the spot."
As for the kids in the backseat, he said, "I saw that inside the car were three or four children, but I didn't fire at them. Then we got in the car and drove away."
He did not express remorse during his interrogation, saying, "I don't think the people I killed were innocent."
The Defense Ministry announces that it will recognize Avraham Hasano, 54, of Kiryat Arba in the West Bank, as a terror victim.
Hasano was killed two weeks ago in an incident near Hebron.
He had stopped his car after it was hit by rocks thrown by Palestinians, and got out carrying a large wooden stick, apparently with the intention of attacking the rock throwers. Shortly after he moved onto the road, waving the stick threateningly, Hasano was run over by a truck. He was airlifted to a hospital for medical treatment but was declared dead shortly afterward.
The decision to recognize Hasano as a terror victim was delayed due to lingering doubt as to whether the driver of the truck, who fled the scene but then turned himself in to Israeli authorities, had deliberately run him over.
— Stuart Winer contributed.
Early reports are coming in of another stabbing attack, this time in the coastal city of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv.
An Israeli man was seriously wounded in the attack, before the stabber was shot, reports say.
Stay posted for more details.
The stabbing in Netanya was not a terror attack, but rather a criminal incident, Channel 2 reports, but police say they're still looking into it.
The stabber is in serious condition after he was shot by a police officer, rescue services say.
Video footage posted to Twitter appears to show police arresting the stabber in Netanya:
PUTAIN UN TERRORISTE À NETANYA SOUS MES YEUX À L'INSTANT pic.twitter.com/bhVSO2CHAz
— Ilan C | Israélien ✡ (@TheChouc) November 2, 2015
The stab victim in Netanya is an elderly man, about 70 years old, reports say.
He is in critical condition, rescue services say.
Earlier, a terrorist stabbed an 80-year-old woman in Rishon Lezion, seriously wounding her.
Police say that the suspect in the stabbing in Netanya is a Palestinian from the town of Tulkarem in the West Bank.
The announcement indicates a stronger likelihood that the stabbing was a terror attack, although police haven't said so outright.
Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, during a conference held by the Institute for National Security Studies in Sderot, defends last summer's war in the Gaza Strip.
"It was the right thing to do at the right time," Gantz says.
"The best part of Operation Protective Edge was the unity of Israeli society," he adds, using the Israeli government's official name for the war.
Gantz also brushes off rumors and expectations that he will look to be elected to public office.
"I only came because I thought the invitation was appropriate," he says, looking at the microphones from various news outlets.
"I don't intend making on any other announcements," he adds.
— Judah Ari Gross
In the immediate aftermath of the attack in Netanya, a local man tried to attack the stabber, who had been shot by police, Channel 2 reports.
Police prevented the man from harming the Palestinian attacker and arrested the local, the report says.
MDA spokesman Zaki Heller says that medics treated the victim of the stabbing in Netanya, who is 71 years old, at the scene before evacuating him to the city's Laniado Hospital.
Raz Levy, a senior MDA medic who was at the scene, gives his account:
On the sidewalk lay a 71-year-old man, fully conscious, with a stab wound in his upper body. He told us that he was standing in the street when suddenly he felt a blow in the back. We administered initial, life-saving treatment, and swiftly evacuated him to Laniado Hospital in serious, stable condition.
According to a transcript from the interrogation of one of the men who killed the Henkin couple last month, he and his accomplice saw the four children in the back seat after killing their parents, but decided not to harm them.
"First of all, the Islamic religion forbids it — meaning, the murder of children," cell leader Yihya Haj Muhammad is quoted by Channel 2 as saying to a Shin Bet interrogator. "My character prevents me from killing or harming a baby."
Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), riding high in opinion polls and seeking to moderate its image, dismisses one of its lawmakers for an allegedly anti-Semitic Facebook post.
Susanne Winter, 58, has until 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) to quit her post as an MP in the Austrian parliament and from the FPOe or be expelled, the opposition party says in a statement.
She had replied on the social network to a posting about a global conspiracy of "Zionist money Jews" with: "Nice, you have taken the words right out of my mouth ;-)."
She added: "There are lots of things that I am not allowed to say. This makes me all the happier about courageous, independent people!"
The comments provoked outrage, with Vienna's Jewish Community organization calling Winter a "disgrace to the Austrian parliament" and the chamber's speaker referring the comments to state prosecutors.
Winter said her comments were in reference to an article that the other user was reacting to, but the FPOe sees it differently, saying she had "crossed a red line."
Former president Shimon Peres slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently said Israel has to accept that peace is unlikely and continue to live "by the sword."
Those comments clearly rankle Peres, who has previously negotiated on Netanyahu's behalf with the Palestinians and still considers PA President Mahmoud Abbas to be Israel's best potential partner for peace.
"The alternative to two states is a continued war and nobody can maintain a war forever. If you say we should live on our sword don't forget that there are other swords as well," he tells the Associated Press in an interview.
Peres says that Netanyahu's peace overtures have never "escaped the domain of talking."
Michael Gorlovsky, a former Knesset member for the Likud party, is under arrest on suspicion of blackmail and financial wrongdoing, police says.
Gorlovsky, who served in the parliament between 2003 and 2006, was among 20-odd officials arrested Monday on suspicion of felonies that include bribery, breach of trust and money-laundering of millions of shekels related to Israel's National Roads Company.
A police statement earlier Monday pointed to a "system" in which senior employees of the national company worked with certain suppliers to ensure that they would be granted contracts by the company, in return for various kickbacks.
Police have been conducting a secret investigation over the past several months.
"The undercover investigation exposed and confirmed suspicions of several cases, all linked in an organized, systematic method, in which senior company officials promoted… certain external suppliers in return for bribes and benefits," the police said in a statement.
— Times of Israel staff contributed.
A contractor hired to provide security at the Beersheba Central Bus Station is in hot water over suspicions that its lax standards may have made it easier for a terrorist to carry out an attack there.
Police, who have been investigating the deadly attack at the station on October 18, say that there was a "severe failure" on the part of the company at the time of the attack, according to Channel 10.
The company posted only seven guards at the various entrances to the station, as opposed to the 11 required, and did not check those entering the building — including the terrorist — as thoroughly as it should have, the report says.
Two people were killed in the attack: an Israeli soldier who was shot by the attacker, and an Eritrean national who was killed by security guards and an angry mob who mistook him for the terrorist.
The attacker was shot dead by security forces.
The Knesset lends its final approval to a bill that would temporarily hike the minimum punishments against those who attack a moving vehicle with rocks or other objects.
The bill, which comes amid a spike in Palestinian violence and rioting, imposes a minimum sentence of three years on those convicted of throwing rocks at moving vehicles, but leaves judges with the option of handing down lighter sentences when there are "special circumstances."
The bill also recommends that Israel's social security law be amended so that those convicted of such offenses won't be eligible for benefits while they serve out their sentences.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, uses his first meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to call on the organization to "uproot the structural hypocrisy and hostility against Israel from the UN," according to a press release from Israel's mission.
Danon also tells Ban that "the Israeli public perceives the UN as a biased institution against Israel," the communique says.
"We need to build bridges between Israel and the United Nations, and to show to the world the true face of Israel," he adds.
James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, says he can't rule out that the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai was brought down by Islamic State extremists.
Clapper tells reporters in Washington that "we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet" in the crash Saturday that killed all 224 people on the Metrojet.
But he notes that the Islamic State group, which has claimed responsibility, has a significant presence in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Asked if Islamic State extremists had the capabilities to bring down a passenger jet, he says, "It's unlikely, but I wouldn't rule it out."


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Peter Mallo received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 2001. He received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005. Peter has exhibited his sculpture, drawing, and painting, nationally and internationally. In addition to his art practice, he also serves as Chief of Framemaking at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In this capacity he is deeply involved in research, design, engineering and fabrication. Peter is a practicing luthier who designs and builds multiple custom guitars. In his spare time he enjoys making paints and inventing new tools.
BFA College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, 2001
MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2005
"Found in Translation", self-published writings in conjuction with solo exhibition of paintings, April 2019
"Artists' Frames in Pâte Coulante, History, Design, and Method" publication pending
material language and properties, art history, design history, late 19th century artist's frames in Paris, lutherie, paint-making
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Scruton on modern art
It begins with the question of what high art is for. Scruton observes that modern art is transgressive and aims to shock and confront. Traditional art was oriented more toward beauty.
What is impressive is the further development of these ideas by Scruton. Scruton argues that beauty in art did not exist just for aesthetic purposes but expresses a deeper experience of life, a sense of the sacred, that makes us feel at home in the world.
Modernists do not feel at home in the world, and therefore aim to desecrate: the mockery, the cultivation of ugliness and the moral transgression is aimed as a pre-emptive strike against the deeper experience of beauty referred to above.
If you do read the article, take a moment to compare the two paintings used to illustrate traditional and modernist art. The traditional painting, by Francesco Guardi, is described as "capturing the intimations of the eternal in the transient". The modern painting, by Otto Dix, is very different, being described as "wallowing in the base and the loveless" - an assessment that is difficult to disagree with.
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Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.ReplyDelete
Or better yet:ReplyDelete
Modern art = I could do that + But why would I want to?
I saw this simple criterion for good art: If someone gives you some piece of art for free, would you display it in your home? By this measure most modern art fails miserably and obviously, unless you have a completely dessicated soul.ReplyDelete
I was at the modern art musuem in Washington, D.C., with a friend, while in college. We buttoned up our top buttons, messed up our hair, and sat down to "ponder deeply" a piece of "art": a giant solid blue painting with a yellow strip down the side. Watching people watch us was the amusing part. People wouldn't give this "art" a second look, until they saw us studying, chin on hand, then they'd stare at it to try to find the depth.
I recently read a book called "The Wreck of Western Culture" by John Carroll (an Aussie, I believe). It was fascinating and insightful, and makes me think Scruton's desire to restore an earlier, better humanism is doomed.ReplyDelete
Jaz, agreed. Scruton's article is excellent, but he does overlook some of the weaknesses in earlier modern thought.ReplyDelete
For instance, Scruton puts forward the American poet Wallace Stevens as a counterforce to modernism in art. But Stevens was no traditionalist. He had a view similar to that of John Stuart Mill, namely that we cannot know external reality and therefore cannot site ourselves within an external cosmic order. The only thing left is to imaginatively construct an individual subjective order. This is how Stevens's beliefs are described at wikipedia:
"Reality is the product of the imagination as it shapes the world. Because it is constantly changing as we attempt to find imaginatively satisfying ways to perceive the world, reality is an activity, not a static object. We approach reality with a piecemeal understanding, putting together parts of the world in an attempt to make it seem coherent. To make sense of the world is to construct a worldview through an active exercise of the imagination. This is no dry, philosophical activity, but a passionate engagement in finding order and meaning.
"In his book Opus Posthumous, Stevens writes, "After one has abandoned a belief in god, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption." [19] But as the poet attempts to find a fiction to replace the lost gods, he immediately encounters a problem: a direct knowledge of reality is not possible."
Stevens has travelled a long way down the path of modernism here, even if he hasn't oriented himself personally to transgression or rancour.
Hi MarkReplyDelete
I am far from a historian of modernism. My era of passion would be 1625-1725, in painting, porcelain, silver and architecture. But I have been writing a few articles on the reception that Lionel Lindsay, James S MacDonald and others extended towards modernist art in the 30s and early 40s.
No-one minds if they found Kandinsky and Picasso incomprehensible. My argument is that they used the language of Goebbels to deal with art they despised.
If you have some time, my posts are titled:
1. Traditional Vs Modern Art: 1930s Australia ,
2. "Addled Art": dishonest art dealers and
3. "Addled Art" by Lionel Lindsay
Best wishes
Art and Architecture, mainly
With respect, Mark, your attitude to modern art differs little from the standard populist philistinism. Yes, there is a lot of rubbish, but art was ever thus. 'Modern art' encompasses Gaudi, Arvo Part, James Joyce, Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, jazz, Coetzee, Saramago, Neruda, and so many others, that to see only barbarism and 'ugliness' is entirely your failing, and not that of art.ReplyDelete
I'm also a little baffled as to what is meant by 'traditional painting'. Is this Aboriginal or Etruscan cave art? Is it Rembrandt? Caravaggio? The icons of the 12th century?ReplyDelete
"to see only barbarism and 'ugliness' is entirely your failing, and not that of art."ReplyDelete
Thr, in 2004 500 art experts were polled to find out what they thought was the most influential piece of modern art.
They voted for "The Fountain", a work exhibited in 1917 by Duchamp. The work was a public urinal.
For 500 modern art experts the leading piece of modern art was a public urinal.
What this shows is that the concept of art itself has been degraded.
This doesn't mean that there haven't been any worthwhile individual pieces of art created over the past century.
But it isn't business as usual as you suggest. Something serious is amiss.
Yeah, something is amiss, with you.ReplyDelete
Orwell: War is peace; slavery is freedom; ignorance is strength.ReplyDelete
THR: Rubbish is art.
THR exemplifies what Burnham described in "Suicide of the West." An optimistic Westerner, in the face of obvious decline, transforms an ongoing string of defeats into "Progress" or some other positive-sounding rubbish, a la Orwell.
- MidwesternerMonday, 13 July 2009 at 14:34:00 GMT+10
THR writes, "Yeah, something is amiss, with you."ReplyDelete
Well that was snarky. Mark made some very reasonable points and the best you can come back with is "I know you are, but what am I"?
But anyway, you haven't addressed Mark's point. A public urinal was declared in 2005 to be the very apogee of modern art. By what criterion?
And by what criterion can anything now be called NON-art?
A plunger? Or the tampon receptacle? Or how about those condom dispensers you see in shady truck stops? By what criterion, do you say that any of these things is not art?
Or hey, forget the receptacles. Just pile up a load of feces, condoms and used tampons, and you've got the High Art Trifecta!
I humbly submit to you that a society which calls a receptacle of human waste products the highest expression of itself is a society that can truly sink no lower.
'Modern art' encompasses Gaudi, Arvo Part, James Joyce, Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, jazz, Coetzee, Saramago, Neruda, and so many others, that to see only barbarism and 'ugliness' is entirely your failing, and not that of art.ReplyDelete
Gaudi was a true artist, I think. Klee, Pollock and Kandinsky - not so much.
Most modern art is just shit.
A small portion is good.
We see the standard conservative tropes, yet again. We have the fabrication of revisionist and mythical beginnings (i.e. 'traditional painting') and complete and utter ignorance when it comes to the here and now. The fact that some of you may not like a particular artist does not automatically make it 'rubbish'. So some art critics voted for Duchamp. So what? Have a look at Nobel literature prize winners over the past few decades. Have a look at what contemporary composers are putting together.ReplyDelete
The irony is, of course, that it is precisely conservatives who would have railed against the likes of Titian and Raphael at the time of their painting. Maybe you should steer clear of art altogether, if it makes you suicidal.
Thr, you continue to miss the point. This isn't a competition to assert ourselves as connoisseurs. It isn't even about subjective preferences in art.ReplyDelete
What we're looking at is the change in the concept of what art is. How did we reach the point at which the purpose of art was held to be a transgressive one rather than a reaching toward the sublime?
If you change the concept of art you change what is created.
Thr, the irony for me is that you, as a Marxist, are so emotionally wedded to defending the establishment.
I'll have a look at it later (ie, after work, or when it gets a bit quieter here), but just a short note - many of the early objectors to modernism, and early artistic reactions against modernism, would tend to contradict this statement:ReplyDelete
Modernists do not feel at home in the world, and therefore aim to desecrate...
C S Lewis and G K Chesterton, for instance, both argued from a traditional Christian world view, that art is unworldly/expresses a yearning for something beyond the natural world. They would probably have argued, further, that modernist artists are excessively worldly.
I don't know how prevalent this view would have been amongst anti-modernists and 'traditional' artists before them, but the opening to a Wordsworth poem seems to provide further evidence for this sort of view:
The world is too much with us: late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
I would say from looking at that that Scruton has started out with a particular philosophy regarding all art and has tried a little too hard to make his ideas fit his experiences, and make his experiences fit the historical facts.ReplyDelete
Just to take a few examples, the demand for originality in art has been around since at least the enlightenment, and the cult of 'novelty' (hence their name for that new, bastard art-form, the 'novel'). It's not so modern as Scruton suggests.
Enlightenment writers such as Pope, Swift, and Fielding may or may not have agreed that beauty is the point of art. But there's no doubt that a good deal of what they wrote was definitely designed to shock, and to viciously satirise or react against certain tendencies in the world, etc, or simply to get a laugh. Beauty was not always the point. (Examples: Swift's obsession with excretement and micturation; Fielding's long early career as a carefree stage writer; etc.)
Alban Berg's opera Lulu is certainly the portrayal of a morally dissolute woman. I don't think Berg is endorsing Lulu's way of life, however - any more than Fielding endorses the many sexual adventures of Tom Jones.
It's a bit misleading to say that a focus on 'expression' in the arts was an obsession of the romantics. Some arts have always been self-evidently about expression - ie, those that deal explicitly with language: poetry and novels. And the medieval art of the allegory naturally extended expression to visual arts.
Just a few examples that come to mind.
On the whole I don't think Scruton's main idea, that art is about beauty, is wrong, but his difficulty with numerous historical examples would seem to suggest that his definition of beauty could do with further examination.
Tim T: Lewis and Chesterton would have said that you _can't_ be fully at home in the world unless you are ultimately oriented in terms of what lies beyond it - unless, that is, your orientation to the world is proper. If you see nothing beyond it, then very soon your attitude toward life will descend toward nihilism and despair - because, after all, if this world is all there is, you work hard and die, and that's it. Why be happy?ReplyDelete
So modern art, most of which is produced by atheists, is mostly full of hatred of the world. But e.g. Arvo Part, by contrast, is full of love. In Part, we can see that even now nothing prevents moderns from reaching for the sublime.


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This is about an incident in the life of a FB friend, Crystal, in NC. Heartbreaking and applies to any non-blood kin caregiver.
This was posted on Wednesday, 11/9/11:
MY FRIENDS: I am asking for prayer for my family. Im sure most of you know I havent been on here much lately. Going through a very difficult time. Not only has my marriage hit an end apparently now I will be losing lil' man come thanksgiving. He will be going to live with his great grandma (his dad works out of state and has for 3 yrs.). Unfortunately as a step parent I have no legal rights even though I have been his only caretaker for years now. He has came so far and advanced so much. This is so devastating and seems like a nightmare for me. I cant explain my sadness and all of it has and continues to be difficult. Its all in Gods hands as I know my lil man will be. But I and we need and would appreciate your prayers. Thaks and love you all♥
I could not believe the state was doing this to her and posted this:
That is a stupid law. I am sorry you are getting the short end of the stick about YOUR son. Get a lawyer.
I got this on the thread on her FB:
Nothing I can do Charlie….I hhave had one. Main priority of the courts and s.s. is to keep them with a biological parent and would have to have consent from his 5 year missing uterus donor. His dad has custody and she has visitation. But I (and I mean I) have had him for the past 4 and a half years. He was in a special class then….today e tied for first in his regular 7 th grade class. It sickens me how someone can think its ok just to jerk a child out of their home…..after so long when he is going to be 7 hours away anyway. I just hope if nothing gets changed he remembers what I taught him. Thank you everyone<
I asked if I could share this story and she consented. I find it incredible that HE wasn't asked where he wanted to live. But every state sets their own criteria for child protection.
There was much outpouring of support for her on FaceBook.
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We were looking for our last years stash of unused christmas cards over the weekend and I came across this rather wonderful forgotten thing…
The date: Friday 7th March 2003. The place: The Kentish Town Forum. The event: Lemon Jelly's Patagonian Tour, and a marvelous event it was too. All flashy lights, crystal clear sound and Fred playing a cello…
I think we were all given one of these as we walked into the venue, but being the sad hoarder/ collector type that I am, I ended up with about 3 or 4 of them.. If you were there, you may remember seeing me at the end of the gig, I was one of several, rather drunk sad buggers, collecting everyone else's droppage (it seemed important at the time): Postcards, pencils (with the helpful instructions "Lemon Jelly Doodle Machine" on the side) balloons, badges, fliers for a kids special matinee gig and an unused bingo ticket (I guess we didn't win)
I'm sure I vaguely remember a year or so afterwards that one of these lucky bags was put up on eBay, and achieved in excess of £30, not bad for a load of old tat (lovely though it all obviously is)
Finding this has reminded me that I have still to write a post on Airside, easily one of my all time favourite designers. I'm actually a bit shocked and surprised that I havn't got around to it yet, as I have records, t shirts, calendars, posters, books, loads of stuff from Fred and the team…. so watch this space.
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This is the perfect light Spring lunch dish and really quick to prepare. Dill isn't a herb I use often but I made this in honour of a friend who loves all things Scandinavian. I thought it was well matched with some crusty sourdough and homemade mayonnaise for create-your-own sandwiches.
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pepper 1/4 tsp
salt pinch
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the finely grated rind of 1 lemon
~to serve: 5 tbsp homemade (or shop bought) mayonnaise mixed with 1 tbsp finely chopped chives and a hunk of crusty bread
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You can take the baby boomer out of the sixties, but can you take the sixties out of the baby boomer? What's more significant - that sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll became staples of the mainstream pop culture by the early eighties? Or that political commitment to improving society and challenging social structures grew more marginalized in those same years, occupying niches in the arts and the academy but elsewhere drowned out by the chorus of Reaganism? Is the lasting image of the boomer the middle-aged (now nearly senior citizen) professional striving to balance practical concerns with idealistic commitments, familial responsibility with a looser lifestyle? Or is it the narcissistic yuppie, giving lip service (and sometimes not even that) to a diluted liberalism which only proves that the original revolutionary rhetoric was a better measure of fashion than commitment?
Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill (1983) and John Sayles' Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) are early entries in this debate, their differences as telling as their similarities. Both revolve around reunions of college buddies, a decade or more after the events, politically charged, that made their youth so vivid. Both play on the disparities within the group despite the bonds that hold them together against a misunderstanding outside world ("it's so nice not to have to explain your jokes to everyone," one character in Secaucus remarks when her friends arrive). Both take place in idyllic, sequestered communities, away from the demands of the "real world" where the characters can pause and assess their lives. Both see characters struggling to figure out how much they should compromise between professionalism and idealism, both set up intricate romantic engagements as characters swap lovers and recall ancient picadillos, both use drugs to reawaken excitement and nostalgia.
Yet in one similarity there is a notable difference: both films begin with a settled, relatively secure couple anticipating their weekend guests, but The Big Chill ends with hearty laughter and a rock-scored group shot, while The Return of the Secaucus Seven sees everyone leave town, most in a glum mood, and concludes as the hostess sighs, "What are we going to do with all those eggs?" The Big Chill seems to think it has all the answers (or many of them anyway), while Secaucus Seven knows that there are only more questions. Some of this is explained by differences in filmmaker backgrounds (both were experienced screenwriters, but Kasdan was embraced by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, while Sayles - initially - labored on the margins with Roger Corman) and circumstances of shooting (Big Chill was a studio production, hesitantly approved by executives, while Secaucus Seven was shot on a shoestring by Sayles and a cast out of summerstock, and has been credited with unintentionally spawning America's independent film movement). And yet the most important distinction may be when the films were released; between 1979 and 1983, the national culture and a generation's self-identity had shifted dramatically, in a way we are still feeling the ramifications of today.
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Mike Conway and the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing team experienced a cruel end to their Le Mans 24 Hours race for the second successive year, as a clutch problem forced the #7 car to retire after ten hours, having led from lap one.
It was bitterly disappointing end for Mike and the team who had worked so hard to bounce back after the frustration of last year's event. Unfortunately, though, it was an upsetting case of déjà vu for the team as their race ended prematurely despite being seemingly in complete control.
Mike and his teammates, Kamui Kobayashi and Stéphane Sarrazin started the year's showpiece event of the year from pole position after Kamui set the fastest ever lap-time of the Circuit de la Sarthe in Thursday's final qualifying sessions.
Chosen to take the seat from the race's start, Mike negotiated the early period with relative ease in extremely warm conditions. The Thunderhead-sponsored driver safely handed over the #7 car to Kamui some two and a half-hour's later, with a comfortable lead.
Reflecting on the first stint, Mike revealed that it was a cautious approach that was paying off for the team.
"It was a good first stint. I was just basically controlling things. Keeping up a steady pace and trying not to do anything silly. The track was quite dirty so you have to be careful not get pick up; I had to learn that in the first stint. All in all, the car was feeling good and we just had to keep chipping away."
The #7 car retained the lead through the second driver stint, extending their lead over the #1 Porsche to more than half a minute before handing over to Stéphane. The Frenchman was the last of the three #7 teammates and again retained the lead as he handed back to Kamui with the TOYOTA leading by just over twenty seconds as night fell at Le Mans.
With everything up until this point having gone smoothly, it was towards the end of the tenth hour when disaster struck. With the car running very well, an unexpected clutch problem hit and despite Kamui's best efforts to return the car to the pits, he eventually had to park the car at the exit of the Porsche Curves and retire.
In a sad twist of fate, the #9 TS050 HYBRID was forced to retire as well, just thirty minutes after it's teammate had bowed out as well. With the #8 car running 29 laps behind after a prolonged stay in the pits, TOYOTA Gazoo Racing's and Mike's hopes of a first-ever victory at Le Mans had been taken away.
With the rawness of the night's events still fresh, Mike reflected on a difficult night.
"The race started off well with good pace and we were controlling it from the front. Unfortunately we had the issue which took us out of the race very quickly; from having no hint of trouble to retiring so quickly was tough to see."
"It was a real pity and to see the other TOYOTAs have problems around the same time is just massively disappointing. We were hoping at least one of us would be on the top step of the podium today but it wasn't to be."
Swathes of motorsport fans were quick to express their sympathy for the whole team, acknowledging the sheer dreadful luck that TOYOTA Gazoo Racing has experienced at one of the world's most coveted races, particularly in the last two years.
Meanwhile, Mike himself remained philosophical in defeat stating that "difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. Until next time Le Mans – you will be conquered one day!"


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PUBLISHED: 15:00 27 February 2014
Rugby youngsters return to action at last
Romford & Gidea Park youngsters experienced mixed fortunes against their Chingford rivals as they finally began their 2014 schedule.
Pitches were finally deemed playable and Michael Courtney latched onto a Sam Slatford offload to put the under-12s ahead in their first match of the year.
But Chingford levelled with a try from a rolling maul after good work from Park's Thayne Henwood, who had been loaned to the visitors.
And Henwood then claimed the winning try against his clubmates in a 10-5 Chingford win.
Park turned the tables in a second meeting, as Courtney went over in the first half and Luke Metcalf touched down after the restart.
A solid defensive effort kept the visitors at bay to clinch a 10-0 victory.
Squad: B Walton, R Dhadwar, B Shawyer, S Kerr, H Runham, C Rice, G Bristow, K Tarrant, S Slatford, L Metcalf, O Flower, R Pooley, M Courtney, T Henwood, T Chuter, C Rutherford, J Daltry, D Fernando, A Olaleye, L Potter, N Hunte, J Williams, C Hardy, R Page, B Watts.
The under-11 Sharks gave debuts to Patryk Gadomski and Robert Trimmer, with player of the day Ronnie Brooks and James Tully producing some crunching early tackles as the first half ended scoreless.
Fine runs from Robson Burke and Harry Wright took Park close after the restart and captain Nathan Jarvis almost scored from Louis Ridley's pass before Park conceded twice late on in a 10-0 loss.
Chingford used the maul to good effect in a second meeting to go 10-0 up but Sam Walker's quick tap penalty and run got Park on the scoreboard before the break.
Scrum-half Ross Walters finished off a good move with an excellent try to level, but Chingford clinched a 15-10 win from another maul.
Squad: J Tully, R Brooks, S Walker, H McVelia, A Irving-Still, R Walters, L Ridley, H Wright, R Trimmer, O Nolan, N Jarvis, R Burke, P Gadomski, A Courtney, M Crowhurst.
The under-10s earned a pair of wins (30-10, 25-10) against their Chingford counterparts and drew a third meeting 15-15 after a great effort from the entire squad.
And the under-nines followed an 8-8 draw with a 10-7 win, after some fine attacking play.
Matt Tranter, Caleb Shorter and Joe Gutteridge claimed four tries each on the day, with Sheen (3), Wood (2) and Clarke also going over.
Squad: Tranter, Shorter, Gutteridge, Sheen, Wood, Clarke, Walker, White, Portelli, McCloud, Farraud, Metcalfe, Phillips, Roberts, Conor, Harvey.
The under-14s claimed a slender 19-17 win over Saffron Walden.
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Game Review by Jessica Harris
Dead Space
Dead Space, under the genre – 'Survival Horror', is an 'Over the Shoulder' third-person shooter/adventure & strategic video game, but with a new and clever concept! – Instead of the main character being your stereotypical 'Gung-Ho Lean-Green-Fighting-Machine', straight-out-of-the-box and ready-for-action, the Electronic Arts development team at Redwood Shores decided to throw a little intelligence into the mix by creating a game centered around an Engineer & Ship Systems Specialist. Although, initially this may seem insane for some hardcore shooter enthusiasts, it is quite literally genius and the reason for this will become apparent as my review unfolds…
The year is 2508: Technological advancements have left planet Earth exhausted, and without the natural resources required to sustain life, mankind has been forced to search further afield; ultimately into another universe.
Huge mining vessels (Starships) called 'Planet Crackers' are sent by the Concordance Extraction Corporation to distant planets to crack open and mine for invaluable and precious resources such as Cobalt, Silicon and Osmium.
However, there seems to be a problem with the corporation's biggest planet cracker in its class – the USG Ishimura, which seems to have experienced a communications blackout whilst mining a planet called Aegis 7. The closest starship, the USG Kellion, carrying an emergency maintenance crew, made up of the main character, Isaac Clarke; Kendra Daniels – a Computer Specialist; Zach Hammond – the Chief Security Officer and two other security members are sent to locate Ishimura and diagnose and repair the communications blackout. Visual contact is made, but there is still no response from the USG Ishimura. Suddenly, a garbled holographic message is received; it's from Nicole, Isaac's girlfriend, who is one of the crew members aboard the Ishimura. She seems scared and informs Isaac of impending danger, but from what – the message cuts out…
Zach Hammond instructs Corporal Daniels to dock the USG Kellion with the USG Ishimura, but there is a problem and the Kellion clashes and collides as it docks with Ishimura…
The USG Ishimura has gone dark. You are Isaac Clarke, engineer extraordinaire, and you're in for the fright of your life. Players are immersed into a mystery riddled plot with enough twists and turns to make you dizzy. Playing the game reveals a mystery on a biblical scale as the religious ideals of our future are revealed in explicit detail, which is enough to make a surgeon queasy!!!
The developers, Visceral Game studios, have taken the horror genre to interstellar heights with Hollywood worthy scripting and storytelling techniques, which is very cleverly backed up by a prequel anime film!
The game play itself was a breath of fresh air, a completely new take on third person shooter action. The player is pitted against hordes of mutant alien freaks – Necromorphs, capable of slicing Isaac to pieces in gory detail. How can Isaac survive? Equip him with innovative 'makeshift weapons' so he can slice back. One of my favorites was the 'Ripper' – a long range chainsaw providing all the limb-chopping action anyone could ever desire. Not your style, use the 'Contact Beam' – a high energy launcher to blast your enemies to pieces. There are several improvised weapons to choose from as you work your way through the ship.
The clever thing is, you not only have to fight for your life, as an engineer you are set tasks to fix the ship as you make your way through the levels – brilliant idea!
From floating holographs to 3D Maps, all the information you require to work your way through the game is intelligently thought through, including the player's health status, conveyed via a health meter, which runs down the back of his space suit, along with a stasis meter; stasis giving you the ability to slow down time when needed. As it is in the over the shoulder perspective, these meters are thoughtfully and conveniently placed.
Attention to detail is exceptional; Isaac has to wear a heavy suit making his run sluggish; in non oxygen (vacuum) areas the developers have come up with a novel idea – you can't use the flame thrower! For there is nothing to combust! Also, when he dies in no gravity areas it shows his body floating out into space. These quirky features give this game the edge on its rivals.
The potential monotony of the game-play is broken up with new takes on old classics, i.e. in chapter four – the player controls a huge cannon, defending the ship from a barrage of asteroids – An old arcade classic!
By about a quarter of the way through the game you do find you have come across a variety of mutants. However, they all require the same murder tactic – removal of their limbs; I feel this could be improved upon by a variation of the mutant's weakness, characterized by the mutant type. An example of this would be to make the ground level mutants have a weak point in the abdominal region, making it difficult to target. This would also make the game player think about where you have to aim, as well as concentrating on survival – increasing difficulty.
Another tiny issue is the weapons are schematics that can be used to purchase from the shop. Being an engineer, Isaac doesn't carry weapons! A wider range of weaponry and customization of the weapon could be enhanced.
I also feel it would have suited the option of multiplayer and whether or not to have the choice to be a mutant or Isaac. Give a mutant better chance by involving super hybrids to vamp up the difficulty.
However, throughout the game I was filled with bursts of adrenalin: I was scared when chased, jumpy at random screams and felt tense during sudden silent, eerie moments. I also felt frustrated during the times when the Necromorphs were too quick for me to kill. The sinister music and dark atmosphere kept me on the edge of my seat and the power cuts added fuel to the tension. I would highly recommend this game to any adrenalin junkie!


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Week 1 of Eating with the Ecosystem
This week I was looking for: Mahogany Clams, Yellow Flounder, Swordfish, and Dab
Dab (from Cape Tip Seafoods). Grilled with salt pepper butter and chives. Served with a side of asparagus from the garden. Excited to talk to my local fishmonger about what was caught locally and let her know she will be seeing me all summer.
Looking forward to week 2


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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Update and Randomness
Let me get this out first....
Woo hoo and yay. I consider these to be lady like long. Very classic, 40's-50's inspired length and shape. They were fashioned after the very lovely Dita Von Teese, a modern day burlesque queen. In three of the nail sets, I left the moon of the nail bare which I learned is a very old school style manicure from Dita. CJ and I have been kept very busy lately, averaging one custom AV a week for the past month or so. The experience has been very challenging and rewarding for the two of us. But as I've been spending so much time in the skin and shape of middle aged men, I've been CRAVING some glamor. I hope to get my hands on some of the good stuff soon.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Mod for March
Or rather, mars, in french. We are getting a little bit better each month with the whole releasing the calendar girl release on time. At this rate, we just may get it right by the summer and actually release on the first of each month! Wow!! I'm exhausted, we both are really. We complted a custom AV for the Electric Sheep company. If I weren't so exhausted, I'd post a picture or a link. For the curious...it was Matt Lauer for the Today Show. The segment can be viewed on the MSNBC website for the show that aired this past Friday. It was the second of the two segments about sl on the site. We are currently working on two other AVs for various development companies so we are a bit swamped. Add to that, we have joined up with Shai Delacroix's Relay for Life team. We are very busy bees.
So about the mars release...I like the sound of mod mars and people have been asking for awhile for mod makeup so it was our original attention to go very period but we were really struggling to find something that we could make and have it feel 'us' still. That's how we came up with this look...it's mod inspired but more contemporary. It's fresh and very spring. The makeup was inspired by a photo of Twiggy. We've also created new prim nails that coordinate with the outfits.
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How Does Xyzal Compare to Other Allergy Medicines?
First approved by the FDA 11 years ago, Xyzal was only available with a prescription until February 2017, when drugstores started stocking it over the counter as well, under the name Xyzal Allergy 24HR. Let's see how Xyzal stacks up against other popular antihistamines. Identical: Prescription Xyzal vs. OTC Xyzal Over-the-counter (OTC) Xyzal