by Joseph A. Hazani November 6, 2018
Recently within the Arts District of Culver City there was one disappointing and one intriguing opening. River of Styx by Peter Williams at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles unfortunately smudged the sacred artistic landscape with brutish political dogma, rendering no public outlet of common life safe. Is the whole of human existence rendered to just that, political confrontation? If so, what a sorry....
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by Joseph A. Hazani October 21, 2018
William Lane presents a provocative return to mid-century minimalism at FIG. To be honest, I was initially worried we would be seeing nothing but derivatives of that long-ago foray by 20th century artists into finding, almost akin to a scientific methodology, an irreducible complexity to the aesthetic form of color. As is typical with minimalism, geometry also pairs with the primary colors to....
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by Joseph A. Hazani October 7, 2018
The opening of Jeffrey Deitch’s Los Angeles Gallery of the artist Ai Weiwei does well to showcase the expansiveness of the space. The 15,000 square feet gallery is phenomenally curated, most notably with the center-piece Stools acting as not only the anchor-point and talking piece but as a center stage for which the entire exhibition centripetally motions around. The work is suitable with the....
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![“In a six-hour long teleplay, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ attempts to portray the spiritual heights of a remarkably idiosyncratic people on the face of the Earth...From which other people would God Almighty exercise once more His sovereign power to move humanity toward its predestined path of the Heavenly Way?...We see, then, in the place of the typical traps which plague every human society – the imbalances of human selfishness – the birth, life, and death of the “promised one”: the Messiah. It must immediately be remarked that the definition is one which is categorically Christian throughout the film. The Sanhedrin’s understanding of the Messiah as the “son of the Living God” is not of Jewish or Hebrew origin. This is, after all, the fundamental schism between the Christian Faith and the Hebrew; between those who remained faithful to the Old Covenant, and the ones with the belief in Kingdom Come through exercising faith in the son of the Living God’s personal trial with his Teacher. To the Hebrew, the Messianic Redemption is one caused by the doubtless self-certainty in this God’s existence within every waking day in the human race forever...utterly dissolving false beliefs which...[require] the need for human death; as opposed to the predestination of immortality and the resurrection of every living soul that has ever been granted the privilege of being seen in God’s sight; of every man, woman, boy, and girl given the chance to smile. Nevertheless...the moral idea of personal sacrifice to save humanity as the ultimate testimony of love...has promulgated mankind toward the heights...Jesus’s willful death to purge the world of darkness, paving the road to the World to Come...appreciates...that every individual possesses within his/her self the possibility to extend perfection into man [and] is the best representation of the better than good end of the Holy Creator and the Love of all His Children - regardless of Ancestry...And that is sufficient reason to enjoy the providential road as its pavement becomes ever more pristinely perceivable in man’s sight.” #onelove](http://adilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)