Posts tagged NYC
Paul Cadmus
The Bath
1951
(in “American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe” at the Whitney Museum)
Joe Brainard
Untitled (Tattoo)
1972
“If many of the people I knew in New York in the seventies were twisted or paranoid or even evil, we all agreed one was a saint: Joe Brainard. Joe was a writer and visual artist from Oklahoma who stuttered and spelled erratically and was so timid that he danced in place, looking down, if he thought anyone was paying attention to him. Someone had once complimented him on his chest so he always wore his shirt open to the waist, even in subarctic winter weather.” - City Boy by Edmund White
(via cruiseorbecruised; see previously)
Garry Winogrand
El Morocco
1955
(in “Women Are Beautiful” @ the Denver Art Museum; see also, and previously)
Arthur Tress
Dockside Interview, New York
1977
(in ‘The Piers: Art And Sex Along The New York Waterfront’ @ Leslie-Lohman, NYC - via sissydudeomen2 > HuffPo; see also, and previously)
Diane Arbus
A naked man being a woman, N.Y.C.
1968
(in Naked before the Camera @ the Metropolitan Museum of Art; see also, and previously)
Bongwater
“Obscene and Pornographic Art”
1991
“Mr. B’s out of town and I can’t find anyone to have an affair with.
So I just mosey on down to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
to look at all the satyrs with hard-ons.
They’re over there next to the medieval armor,
their bronze muscles flexing under their goat fur loincloths,
vibrating that little-bitty Richter scale-looking thingy box
that sits in the corner of the controlled environment
behind the cold hard glass … “
(see also, and previously)
