Posts tagged sex
Tracey Emin
People Like You Need To Fuck People Like Me
2002
(@ Lehmann Maupin, NYC; see also TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT @ the Hayward Gallery, London)
Jeff Burton
Untitled #238 (Versace Goblet)
2008
(via mymoma; see previously)
Troublemaker Invades Walker Art Center: “Can artwork sexually attract each other? Does minimalism make pop horny? Does pornography elevated to high art lose its erotic power? Does size matter or can a tiny joke compete with a maximalist icon? Can art ever be ‘funny’ without losing academic enthusiasm? … Maybe the entire museum-going experience is in need of intervention. Why is there no art in the parking lot? Wouldn’t a symphony of car crash sound effects remind visitors not to drink too much and drive home after an opening? And shouldn’t the public know how much this show cost? Why not display all the expense receipts (shipping, insurance, construction) in a vitrine like artistic ephemera and let the museum-goers snoop at the endless price of exhibition? Who says simple sculptural vandalism somewhere in the building make the whole experience of visiting an art museum sexier? And what if the blue-plate special being served in the restaurant is a photograph rather than an actual meal—isn’t that nutrition of a different kind?”
- John Waters @ the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; see also, and previously
Gregory Veney
Papi Chulo #5
2003
(via cruiseorbecruised)
Charles LeDray
Mother of Pearl
1996
(via artinfo)
Jeff Burton
Untitled # 217 (Pull Cord)
2005
(via cruiseorbecruised)
Dean Sameshima - Cop Head 69 (2006), from the “Numbers” series (via cruiseorbecruised)
“(It) was a sort of going back to the days when men used the various colored handkerchiefs while going out. I love the codification aspect and also remember the days when I was very promiscuous as well. Also the hanky code is not so popular anymore. Especially with the internet now … I liked the idea of men going to a club/bars, which in those days would be loud, and just look at a guys back pocket and already know whether you and they were sexually compatible. So I used these rare, connect the dots pages in 70’s/80’s Drummer magazines as a sort of hint about promiscuity and numbers, like the novel … how many men have you slept with? Can you remember?” (artslant.com; see also)
Luis Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or, 1930: “On 3 December 1930, a group of incensed members of the fascist League of Patriots threw ink at the screen during a screening of the film, assaulted members of the audience, and destroyed art works by Dalí, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and others on display in the lobby. On 10 December, the Prefect of Police of Paris, Jean Chiappe, arranged to have the film banned after the Board of Censors reviewed the film. A contemporary Spanish newspaper condemned the film as ‘…the most repulsive corruption of our age… the new poison which Judaism, masonry, and rabid, revolutionary sectarianism want to use in order to corrupt the people.’ The Noailles family pulled the film from distribution for nearly 50 years. In 1933, it was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, but the film did not have its official United States premiere until 1–15 November 1979 at the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco.”
Happy Birthday Luis Buñuel
Louise Bourgeois & Tracey Emin - A million ways to cum, 2009 (in Don’t Abandon Me @ Hauser & Wirth, London - via artnewsmag; see previously)
Laurie Simmons, from The Love Doll series @ Salon 94, NYC (via artnewsmag)
