Is greed for art better than greed?

Is currency of art stronger than other currencies? Art, Devil's currency and source of unlimited pleasures of Gods. Invented in Renaissance by The Medicis and cultivated in today's capitalism at the speed of light.

Collateral damage, circulation of life

Literature is about failure, not about success. We don't like rich characters. We prefer poor. Money and likeability are not going together. John Lanchester

Fantasy of immortality

Perfect weekend. Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi with her Nobel Peace Prize on tour in Europe. I'm listening to old songs of Nina Simone "Feeling good". Radio France International is arguing philosophical aspects of face and hand transplants successfully performed in France every month. However one of the patients of double hand transplantation surgery requested amputation of his hand transplants years later. Psychological effects?

Delightful Japanese tea garden in the Golden Gate Park. I could touch new sculptures of Jun Kaneko exposed in front of the San Francisco Opera House. Warm Marina evening makes me flying with bloody butterflies of the expanding sunset behind the Golden Gate Bridge. Sweet, deep and thick oranges on the sky. Wide open arms of the Pacific Ocean invite loudly to savor the moment. 

Technically we can repair almost each of organs through micro-surgery these days... We play with fantasy of immortality and Aretha Franklin sings "Fever" on my iPhone. Steve Jobs would smile at her. Perfect weekend.

Evolution through sexy revolutions

Foreign Policy Magazine, The "Sex" Issue. Mona Eltahawy.

Luscious Rula Jebreal, hot-blooded Mona Eltahawy and charming Elias Khoury arguing about Arab Spring, Israeli government and sex at the "PEN World Voices" festival in NYC.

Two days later, Salman Rushdie at The Cooper Union in NYC... about erotic and glamour steam of Arthur Miller's literature, censorship, wars and irrelevant name of "Arab Spring", invented by Western - bored to death - consumers of fresh news... 

"Art is not an entertainment but revolution!". Salman Rushdie