sex, art, and politics

hydeordie: Chuck Close Phillip Glass *Back after Chuck Close...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:59:42 -0500

Chuck Close Phillip Glass

*Back after Chuck Close graduated from Yale he moved to NYC w/ fellow graduates including Richard Serra. He used to help him on his lead pieces because Serra needed the extra muscle. Phillip Glass was Serra’s only paid assistant at the time. Can you imagine?

This was not the sex fantasy I was expecting to have today.

Let's play a game

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:39:00 -0500

adeandabet:

soupsoup:

jennifur85:
Gay? Hipster? or European?

Ah! This is like our game “Dyke or Emo-Boy” and it’s popular predecessor “Tranny or Crack-Whore”

I’m a big fan of Butch Dyke or Hoosier. I worked at a warehouse in Pullman for most of last year, which is half way to Gary, Indiana and practically as far south in Chicago as you can get while still being within city limits. I spent my first few months trying to figure out whether or not many of the women I worked with were gay. I then realized they all had husbands and all lived in Indiana. I’m new to the midwest.

Gen-Y and the Colorblind Lie

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:26:00 -0500

Gen-Y and the Colorblind Lie:

britticisms:

(via robot-heart)

Class conversation

Them: Well, I just don’t see race.

Me: Well, I’m black…so I do.

The colorblind lie ties into a lot of things, most of all our Post-Civil Rights Era white privilege. As in, a whole generation of kids have been taught to “tolerate” other races (which as a whole gives people reason to not really understand or appreciate other cultures, but to ignore them).

Gilbert & George - Life, 1984 Art 21 Blog

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:16:46 -0500

Gilbert & George - Life, 1984

Art 21 Blog

Gilbert & George - Death, 1984 gilbert & george: major...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:15:04 -0500

Gilbert & George - Death, 1984

gilbert & george: major exhibition

Gilbert & George - Fair Play, 1991 Arts Council of...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:09:57 -0500

Gilbert & George - Fair Play, 1991

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

It's Gilbert & George Day

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:56:00 -0500

For a time people were worried that Gilbert & George might be fascists, because they wore their matching suits like a uniform and let themselves be filmed walking around the East End like robots. And their pictures were bold and orderly. And they did some pictures with skinheads in [sic].

Clever readers will note that this doesn’t really make them fascists, however. Gilbert & George clearly adore living in their very multicultural corner of the East End of London; they love the diversity. That’s not very fascist. They have a “deviant” sexuality and donate money to AIDS/HIV+ charities. That’s not very fascist either.

So we can forget about that worry. Even if they are a bit tory in some ways, they are not tory in the nasty prejudiced sense. In fact they say nice inclusive things about society which make them sound more like hippies than fascists. Even the tory things, like saying they liked Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, are probably just done for amusing outrage purposes. They don’t like pompous liberals, or elitism, and react against that. And they have a fear that socialism isn’t good for art. But they are not tories really — look, in The Words of Gilbert & George we can even find Gilbert insisting “I’m not a tory” (p.233). Gilbert & George want to be ‘normal’ in one sense — partly in order to get attention from people who wouldn’t be interested in conspicuously ‘wacky’ artists — but then be subversive from within that position.

In Daniel Farson’s Gilbert & George: A Portrait (1999), we find the artists — in their conversations with the author — quite unphased by deviance (and even crime), and mixing delightedly with people of all nationalities. Quite the opposite of Thatcher.

They’re not even really posh. They come from extremely modest backgrounds. Their acquired poshness is just part of their surreal art pose. And why not.

So now we can consider their art with a clearish conscience.

Gilbert & George Page at ‘Some Things About Art & Cities’

Gilbert & George - Dream, 1984 National Gallery of...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:48:28 -0500

Gilbert & George - Dream, 1984

National Gallery of Victoria

Gilbert & George - In The Piss, 1997 National Galleries of...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:37:00 -0500

Gilbert & George - In The Piss, 1997

National Galleries of Scotland

"I also have a very active Blog site and I will post data about your support of the homosexual gay..."

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:42:15 -0500

“I also have a very active Blog site and I will post data about your support of the homosexual gay agenda.”

- Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip » Blog Archive » More Funny Comments From That Boycott McDonald’s Site

This Modern World » Blog Archive » Fox: It’s...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:58:57 -0500

This Modern World » Blog Archive » Fox: It’s Eductaoinal!

I’m in a bit of a bitchy mood.

“This is a screen capture of the Times video on the...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:38:00 -0500

“This is a screen capture of the Times video on the Mitt-McCain rapprochement. I think they should choose this as the official McCain-Romney campaign photograph”

Talking Points Memo | That’s The Ticket!

mariereich: AA Bronson’s Felix Partz, June 5, 1994 thinking...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:22:37 -0500

mariereich:

AA Bronson’s Felix Partz, June 5, 1994

thinking about Felix Gonzalez-Torres, about aids and death, i ended up thinking about this amazing photo by AA Bronson taken directly after the death of his friend Felix. Felix Partz wanted to be surrounded by color and pattern. in the final stages of his sickness he couldn’t close his eyes. there are worse things to see as you die.

"Slydial, a new service from MobileSphere, is looking to offer users a way to avoid this situation...."

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:30:26 -0500

“Slydial, a new service from MobileSphere, is looking to offer users a way to avoid this situation. The service allows users to call any mobile line and go directly to voicemail, without the awkward conversation. Their phone will actually display a missed call from your original number, but they won’t have a chance to answer it.”

- Slydial Lets You Avoid Awkard Calls, Go Straight To Voicemail

via Vinay

Matthew Brady I am seriously considering this haircut.

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:03:00 -0500

Matthew Brady

I am seriously considering this haircut.

"Last Tuesday a 25-year-old white student was wandering around Union Square in New York when she was..."

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:01:00 -0500

“Last Tuesday a 25-year-old white student was wandering around Union Square in New York when she was set upon by four black teenage girls who pushed her, pulled out her earphones, and spat in her face. She was wearing a T-shirt proclaiming “Obama is my slave” that she had bought from Apollo Braun’s Lower East Side store in Manhattan. This isn’t the first controversial T-shirt Braun has printed about the Democratic presidential hopeful, Barack Obama. His body of work includes such slogans as “Jews Against Obama”, “Obama = Hitler” and “Who Killed Obama?” - which he told New York’s Metro was his most popular yet.”

- People see in Obama what they want to see - that’s a blessing and a curse

I probably would have spat in her face, too. Good god.

Me as well

(via robot-heart)
(via mathewparkin)
The assault was totally made up. The Metro editor responsible for the story has been fired.

A gardener clipping hedges at Blickling Hall in Norfolk,...

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:29:43 -0500

A gardener clipping hedges at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England. Photo by Anne Nellis.

Pruned: Prunings XLVI)

Gilbert & George on Art and Life via Conscientious

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:45:25 -0500

Gilbert & George on Art and Life

via Conscientious

Bora Baskan via It’s Nice That

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:58:38 -0500

Bora Baskan

via It’s Nice That

"Forty journalists, including such leading correspondents as Dan Balz of The Washington Post, will be..."

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:18:42 -0500

“Forty journalists, including such leading correspondents as Dan Balz of The Washington Post, will be aboard his plane for next week’s swing through Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England. The campaign received 200 requests for press seats on the plane. Among those for whom there was no room was Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent of The New Yorker. The campaign, which was furious about the magazine’s satirical cover this week, cited space constraints in turning him away.”

- Obama’s Revenge: New Yorker Reporter Banned From Press Plane For Overseas Trip