Zoe Beloff & The Art of Dream-telling

storytelling 14 December 2009 | 2 Comments

This is an amateur movie made by a member of the The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society in 1947. Strange, you may think, as it seemed to me when I first watched this one of several films created by members of this Society as a way to analyze their dreams. Initially, The Lion Dream struck me [...]

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Does VC Funding for an Art Gallery spell the end of “High Art”?

The Dirty M**** Word 23 October 2009 | 0 Comments

I was struck by this article in today’s New York Times about 20×200 New York gallery owner Jen Bekman’s online venture. As the piece points out, the world of “high art” may be the last holdout in the broad world of art/media/design/film shift into the online space. It must appear profitable if investors are willing [...]

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