Confronting the Abject Meets Queering Spaces

composed by Oli Rodriguez and the students of Confronting The Abject and Queering Spaces at S.A.I.C.

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SICK COMIC BY SUZY X. SICK SMASH IT DEAD SHOUT OUT. SOURCE HERE.

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What Happened When My Son Wore A Pink Headband To Walmart

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A grown man who should know better decided it was OK to step in and “teach" my child what it is to be manly. He thought it was OK to judge my child because he was not adhering to HIS idea of what a little boy should be.

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Food-Colored Skin

Not only is purple prose obnoxious; sometimes it’s downright racist. For some reason, writers have a fondness for describing dark complexions as “chocolate" or somesuch.

But wait, people like chocolate! What’s so bad about likening a...

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BRIGHT EYES

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If the idea of thin privilege makes you angry, let me advance a theory: You are angry because you desperately NEED to feel superior to fat people. You NEED to look at yourself in the mirror and say, “Well, I might not have all my shit together, but at least I’m not fat.” You NEED to walk around and cast a disparaging eye on anyone who is ‘too’ fat according your vaunted sensibilities. You NEED to feel like, no matter what a fat person does — if they’re kinder than you, funnier than you, smarter than you — well that means fuck all because at least you’re not fat and that makes you BETTER THAN THEM.

-ArteToLife (via fatanarchy)

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Study for George Bataille’s Histoire de l’oeil by Hans Bellmer, 1946

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Britt Salvesen and artist Catherine Opie on the occasion of LACMA’s presentation of three Robert Mapplethorpe portfolios: The “X Portfolio,” which features sadomasochistic imagery; the “Y Portfolio” of floral still-lifes and the “Z Portfolio” of nude portraits African-American men.

LACMA installed the three portfolios — apparently the first time an American art museum has exhibited them since the late 1980s — in October, 2012. They’ll remain on view in the museum’s Ahmanson Building, in a gallery just inside the front door, through March 24. Salvesen, who organized the installation, hung the three portfolios in staggered horizontal rows on dark red walls. 

No artist has more thoughtfully mined Mapplethorpe’s oeuvre than Cathy Opie. Just as Mapplethorpe considered and re-considered self-portraiture, so too has Opie. This is a detail from an early Opie self-portrait: Bo from the series “Being and Having” (1991). In 2006 I wrote this about where some of Opie’s work comes from.

Opie was the subject of a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2008. Her “Twelve Miles to the Horizon: Sunrises and Sunsets,” is on view at the Long Beach Museum of Art through March 24. She will debut a new series of work at Regen Projects in Los Angeles later this month. Opie is widely considered the foremost synthesizer of Mapplethorpe’s work: Not only has Opie also focused her lens on leather and SM communities as did Mapplethorpe, but she shares his interest in portraiture and composition. 

Listen to the program: Download the program or listen in your browser. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the show.

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Couldn’t have you miss this gem of a podcast - Catherine Opie and curator Britt Salvesen on MAPPLETHORPE!  Listen in!

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from the Showtime series Shameless

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Tom Rubnitz, Pickle Surprise

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Etch a Sketch: Andre Cassagnes 1926-2013

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Oxford University students on why we need feminism  

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The last one. 

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The first one on the bottom row

holy crap

marry me

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First one middle row, Doesn’t that make him gay…?

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….not unless his girlfriend is actually his boyfriend. 

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Today, I saw this at the Chicago Children’s Museum. Honestly, it made my day. To known that there is at least one place I can take my future kids makes me feel so…. Hopeful.

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Portrait

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http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/a-history-of-crossdressing-soldiers/272500/