The big news about Solitary Pleasures at Slought is not the graphic content showing masturbation, although there is plenty of that. The news is that two powerful works by 70s era feminist artists Carolee Schneemann and VALIE EXPORT create a zone of inquiry about taboos that is well beyond the titter and haha stage usually [...]
Back when royal courts were major art purchasers, painters like Francois Boucher, Rubens and many others got to exercise their sexy muscle on behalf of their royal employers, painting titillating works based on mythology. Many of these erotic paintings (some specifically for the boudoir) now sit in major art museums around the world, a reminder [...]
Posted in tags a-z | Also tagged andy warhol, ang lee, chris golas, christopher davison, erotic art, louise bourgeois, marcel duchamp, marilyn minter, movies, pete checcia, r. crumb, rubens, tony ward |
By libby | November 22, 2009
This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 is about the talk delivered by show juror Joao Ribas. Ribas’ choices for the Arcadia Works on Paper exhibit raise issues of sharing, reproducibility and loss of copyright control. They raise disturbing questions about the value of all art at a time when works [...]
Posted in tags a-z | Also tagged andrea beizer, arcadia university art gallery, bruce campbell, erika mayer, gabriel boyce, hannah heffner, james johnson, joao ribas, mark stockton, mia rosenthal, preston link, quentin morris, robert t. pannell, works on paper show |
By libby | October 23, 2007
Rah Crawford’s signature image for the Amsterdam AAF. My favorite bit of Philly-on-the-road news is from Rah Crawford. Rah, who is possibly the commercial genius of the Philadelphia art world, created the spotlight image for the Amsterdam Affordable Art Fair! Like most of his paintings, the image is a cross between my old black light [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged adam parker smith, rah crawford, space 1026 |
