p2pnet (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- Elton John is, “the latest British celebrity to become embroiled in a kiddy porn investigation,” p2pnet posted last year, going on: “It centres on Nan Goldin’s Klara and Edda belly-dancing, a photograph of two naked girls.” Said John’s personal site > > > The photograph entitled ‘Klara and Edda belly-dancing’ (1998) is one of 149 [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Perversity is in the eye of the beholder. Children are born without a fear of sexuality or a fear of their own bodies. That fear is imposed on them. Children are sensual beings, they touch and they like to be touched. It's the adult who sometimes takes advantage of this situation.
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
For 3AM Eternal, a new group show open today at London's Alexandre Pollazzon gallery, curators worked to document how clubs influenced artists and vice-versa. Of course, the exhibit is interpretive (voyeurs who'd like to see Last Night's Party pics blown...
Art as Authority (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
photos by Jesse, intro by KAI1 "I've taken to calling Jesse's photographs "Gutter Photojournalism". They invoke a remarkable aura of the underbelly of misanthropy, a world full of characters either genuine or self contrived. You can almost smell the dirty...
This Girl Called Automatic Win (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
quotes: "My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself." (Nan Goldin) "To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over
This Girl Called Automatic Win (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
So, re: Book Club. Ideally, I can find a book most of us haven't already read ... e.g., books that've just come out in paperback. Even better: a novel by a contemporary living writer who I could possibly interview. Obvs I'd have to pitch the interview as if I was not ME but someone cooler, like Deborah Soloman, Oprah, The Chart, Larry King or Lozo. Another thing ... any books w/blurbs including
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
"One of the pioneering wagon-train movies of the inaugural, New York-based independent film movement, predating Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise, Bette Gordon's Variety (1983) comes off in retrospect as a veritable time capsule of post-punk downtown coolness," writes Michael Atkinson...
Boring Like A Drill (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Last weekend in London Tate Modern hosted photographer Nan Goldin's slideshow The Ballad of Sexual Dependency . A brief writeup in The Guardian mentions, in passing : In many ways, [singer/songwriter Patrick] Wolf's input actually freshened up some work which has become slightly over-familiar, and gave extra emotional heft to shots that no longer seem so shocking or transgressive (though Goldin defiantly...
The Moment (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
The stylish essentials of the curator of film for the Tate Modern.
The Reverse Cowgirl (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
A producer at SexTV sent me an email today. They're looking for johns for an upcoming episode. The people at SexTV are good people; I've worked with them in the past. "Hi Susannah, My name is Layal and I work as a researcher for CTV, Canada's leading broadcaster. I am contacting you because we are currently producing a story on Johns that goes beyond the usual stigmas and explores the diverse reasons...
Grammar.police (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
For the Guardian, Shane Danielson writes the proper defense for Australian photographer Bill Henson and a measured response to his harassers, chief among them prime minister Kevin Rudd. You already know the script: Photographer snaps non-sexual nude images of adolescents,...
The blog art (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
Sexy, sleazy, wonderfully sad: Tate Modern's homage to the photographer last Saturday showed why her work remains so powerful
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Pierre Huyghe, Joep van Lieshout, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Despina Papadopoulos, the Guerrilla Girls, David Adjaye, Nam Goldin speaking and discussing at Tate London
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Elie Tahari and his wife, Rory, have assembled an art collection that includes works by Robert Motherwell and Cy Twombly, as well as photography by Nan Goldin, Herb Ritts, Steven Klein and David LaChapelle.
Apartment Therapy LA (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
We've been told that orchids flourish in humid environments, so we're wondering if we can salvage our dying orchid by sticking it in the bathroom on the windowsill? Or is the kitchen a better idea?
