WHAT'S IN THE NAME
- Siegfried Zielinski:
- Baudelaire:
the Sept Vieillards, a poem about 7 repellent old men, who terrorize the nice lives of town-dwellers, known as the flaneurs.
- The 7th Guestcyberplay site.
- 'seven', movie by David Fincher, 1995
a serial killer gives utterance to his religeous and world-saving feelingsby executing the seven sins (gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride andlust) on seven victims.
reviews by Wolfgang Neuhaus,Huib Stam and Antoinette Polak (Dutch only) are accessible on the net.
- the seven sins soup made by Sarah Schwartz.
- Seven Days in the Life of Young Microsoft.
In search for Human Identity. Fragment from Douglas Couplands 'Microserfs'.
- the 7th floor in Andy Warhol's musuem.
- Friday, December 1, 1995: the 7th day without art.
- the 7th floor in Michael Jacksons's community center.
- everything you wanted to know about the 7th art
according to the Louvre, Paris, France.
- 7th Heaven
a spiritual coffee shop in Spuistraat, Amsterdam.
- The Seventh Enemy
a Ronald Higgens novel about Human Identity in Crisis.
- In the Apocalypse, the twenty seventh book of the HolyScripture
the 7 spirits of God (1: 4) appears to be
the 7 eys (5: 6) which could be identified as
the 7 angels (8: 1) with
the 7 trompets (8: 2) of which
the 7th trompet (11: 15-19)announced His sovereignty. They compare
the 7 thunderclaps (10: 3) with
the 7th thunderclap (10: 4)that sealed the Holy Voice and made the Holy Word unwritten, like
the 7 ardent torches (4: 5) compare
the 7 golden candles (1: 13) which are indentical to
the seven churches (2 - 3) of Small Asia to which Sint John wrote
the 7 letters (1: 4). On there turn they are
the 7 stars (1: 16) (with which He walks through the candles) and also to
the 7 angels (8: 1) again and
the 7 horns of The Lamb (5: 1) which was standing in front of His Throne. The Lamb and only He could open
the 7 seals (5: 1) of which
the 7th seal announced silence in heaven (8: 1). In this place, they said, you could find
the 7 heads of the ardent dragon (12: 2) which were of course similar to
the 7 heads of the beast of the see (13: 1) which happened to be
the 7 kings (17: 10) and
the 7 mountains (17: 9) at the same time. Then there were
the 7 plagues (15: 1) on
the 7 plates of wrath (15: 7) with
the 7th plague (16: 17-21), lightning and thunder,that came as a voice from heaven, which split Babylon inthree parts. This didn't happened to the Holy Citywith the wall of 12 foundations of which
the 7th (21: 20) was made of topaz. And of course there were
the 7 things (16-19) God hates. Beter, but incorrectly because notmentioned in Scripture, known as
the seven deadly sins: gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride and lust ofcourse
and finally, there is
the 7th book that was sealed and nobody could open.
Somewhere else you can read:
"If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish youseven times (leviticus, 26:18) more for your sins. And if then, you actwith hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times (26:21) according to your sins, and then Iwill act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times (26:24) for your sins, and if thats notenough, then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins (leviticus, 26:28). But on the other hand if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent',forgive him. You shall forgive (luke,17:4)", seven times I presume.
And if that's not enough you can wait until the year of the sabbath, the seventh year inwhich you have to remission all you depth (deuteronomy 15:1). But beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, 'the seventh year, the year of remission, is near,' and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you (deuteronomy 15:9).
However, you always can wait for the feast of reconciliation, the Passover (pascha), held in the first and in the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the moment he shall provide like this, seven days for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the oil (ezekiel 45:25).
MUSEUM
- Temple of the Truth or Forum for Identities?
On the one hand, blockbuster shows at major museums like the Museum of Modern Art or the Metropolitan constantly reshape the cultural landscape by using their immense authority to elevate, redefine, or ignore artists and movements. On the other, historical and ethnological museums (and art museums too) are on the front lines of the culture wars, balancing the claims of specific communities for justice (Native Americans demanding new respect for their sacred objects; veterans demanding control over how World War II is depicted) against the need to serve a wider public or a broader concept of the "truth."
- Changes of the field of Museums
"Museums", said David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum, New York, "are directly challenged by the World Wide Web,in the way that they should be. Artist should always challenge museums, to redefine themselves in what their role is in relationship to the presentation of works of art. On a certain level, the artist doesn't need us. The artist can go directly to the audience, the artist and the audience merge, their relationship is very integral to the web, the interchange of authorship is very important for the web. The idea that authority is fluid is very important to the web. Well, museums, like television stations, understand authority in a very different way. In my museum I am the director, I am the authority, right? Well, what does that mean in the relationship with this medium? Nothing. As soon as you enter this medium, authority is erased as we knew it. So we have to very carefully think through what this means." (from: an interview on the Dutch 3 Chanel, the program Laat op de avond na een korte wandeling...# 025
- Museum Discussion
Museum professionals in a very high-level series of discussions and debates).MUSEUM-L@UNMVMA.BITNET
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