Art
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Aurobora Press Superlink
This week I wrote about Aurobora Press for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. For the past fifteen years,
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The Shorty Q&A With Robin Maxwell
Female pirates, Leonardo DaVinci’s mother and cross-dressing, the sex lives of kings. Robin Maxwell writes about the parts of history that don’t air on PBS specials.
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Home Away from Home for the Stone-Cold Heel Fetishist
Designers and high heel enthusiasts INSA and Ben Rousseau spent three weeks carving a room at the legendary Ice Hotel in Sweden. (via Juxtapoz)
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Curator of Oddities
Lena Reynoso’s website is a museum of the artist-and-academic’s original work, including portraits of forty-four presidents and a collection of found treasures, ephemera, research and illustrations that reflect her fascination with sideshows, circuses, science and other curiosities.
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High Tea = High Noon
Yvonne Lee Schultz knows that among fine manners and fine china, one must pack tasteful heat.
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That’s One Hypnotic Monster Truck Rally
Australian artist Keith Loutit uses tilt-shift and time-lapse video techniques to make real life look like a lilliputian dream.
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Schmo, Redux
The hapless, plank-toothed, rubberband men of Jeff Ladoucer‘s art are beaten by clouds, tangled in knots, burned, and carried away by an elephant in Do The Apocalypse, his latest exhibit.
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The Pinup Promised-Land
Still warm in her grave, Bettie Page’s mid-century pinup appeal is unlikely to cool off anytime soon. Artist Lauren Bergman puts pinups like Bettie on a pedestal,
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THE EYEBALL: What I Watched This Weekend, Yojimbo
I’m fascinated by cultural cross-pollination when it comes to art. The Beatles dug Buddy Holly, the psychedelic bands of San Francisco dug the Beatles, the Britpop bands of the nineties dug those psychedelic bands, and the Dandy Warhols watered down…
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An Apple as Eve
Apple seeds and the parted pages of books, fleshy fingers and bald heads are among the symbols Alexi Worth uses to conjure a sometimes sinister sexuality. In “Head and Shoulders,” the wrinkle of a head on a woman’s shoulder looks…
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Oliver Wasow’s Affordable Art
Now that our government has finally conceded that we are in a recession (depression?) it is exciting and lovely to find brilliant artwork that you can actually afford.