Louise Lawler, The Princess, Now the Queen, 2005

(its a warhol, so is she talking about the sitter, the artist, who died to make the sitter queen, who died to make the artist queen, where is LL poistioning herself in this fight of succession--and then of course the big black sqaure, both reminsecent of the black boxes that cover tits and ass on television, and the history of black and black modernism that killed painting before warhol, et al resrecuted it (sp)--ie from malevich to reinhardt (show in germany this month:black on black painting, hung with black walls) (peice lawler put together in the 80s, white on white)


Freud’s Shirt, 2001
(the mirroring, the art and decor shattering, and the ugly white veneitan blinds in the corner)