In an effort to form an understanding of the controversial work “Piss Christ” (1987) by Andreas Serano – a photograph of a crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine, a hot topic for most of my life – I decided I needed to go to the source rather than reading cometary by spectators, or guessing at
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pictured here:Super Star by Liza Lou, and works by Charles Ray in back ground and foreground. ok, so I might be the worst museum patron of all time – only visiting during free hours or pay-what-you-will times, taking snapshots on my camera phone, and coping-a-feel without white gloves on… but, what can I say? I
I have a theory about this whole “Hipster” thing: So – none of us want to carry the label, but we all want to look good and feel comfortable – align ourselves with new creativity and whatever smacks of change or potential and unexpected brilliance. But why the negativity? The self-loathing shirking of identity embracing
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For a quick but challenging read on the shortcomings of the Christian Church but moreover our failure to LOVE God, neighbors, self, and creation visit the blog Lost in the Cloud and read “Exercise in Love” by Elijah Wade.
“Let women make no more ideals of men! Let them not put them on alters and bow before them, or they may ruin other lives as completely as you – you whom I have so wildly loved – have ruined mine!” -Lord Chiltern, An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde
Enjoy this great article on MAD MAN Peter Arnell – marketing guru and inventor of the P.E.A.pod
I never thought this day would come. The day when I have two hott tickets to the New York Auto Show (???) and am considering leaving my beloved Park Slope. My little bro is coming to town, so that explains the first part, but as for the move in question… Trading in the endless walk
from seaofshoes “I, myself, have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” – Rebecca West, 1913
I recently came across blogger Velvet Cigarette. Maybe I am just getting old… although I loved a handful of her MANY self-portraits and a bit of her catch-phrase prose, mostly I just thought the blog was a pretty basic reflection of an 18-year-old raised on American Apparel ads in an era where there has always
(Excerpt) Regarding the pain of others, by Susan Sontag In June 1938 Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, her brave, unwelcomed reflections on the roots of war. Written during the preceding two years, while she and most of her intimates and fellow writers were rapt by the advancing fascist insurrection in Spain, the book was couched
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