nyrb book review/essay on the politics of aids in africa, a blistering take down of the infficency and bereoucracy taht resulted in millions of people dying







Untitled (PLLP), 2005, Pigment Prints, Tim LeMarcher.
the gorgeous, ass views of anon monumental sculpture, with the warm, and intimate, blacks and whites, manages to talk more about the neo-classical isntinct in art photography then it does about issues of public art, or public sculpture, they seem to be, a bit at least, the beginning of a discourse about mapplethorpe images like this:


Robert Mapplethorpe, Ajitto, 1981 (image taken from a show sponsored by the duestche bank called mapplethorpe and neoclassicism)


if you attempt to photograph 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, people will come out and attempt to arrest you.

encylopedia of cyber deviance, using the Palace forums as a case studies.

the nyt busts bear gylls as a no so stealthy surrivalist

this saltz review of twombly is 6 years old, but its still got an amazing opening ppgh:

In six minutes five lusty images gave me my first glob of gooie in my virgin panties. I was doing all my thinking between my legs." So wrote Patti Smith on hearing the Rolling Stones. "Stones music," she concluded, "is screwing music." Along the same lines, the canvases Cy Twombly produced from 1958 to 1963 could be called screwing paintings.

Among the most abstractly yet explicitly erotic paintings of the 20th century, these visceral canvases-in-rut come on with a voluptuous rush. Profligate, chaotic, and voracious, full of peacocky opulence and Fellini-esque turpitude, they are two-dimensional equivalents to what Emerson dubbed Walt Whitman's "barbaric yelp." Twombly's yelp came in his early thirties, amid a blossoming companionship with Robert Rauschenberg, travels to Europe and North Africa, and his marriage, the birth of his son, and a move to Rome. His paintings from this period teem with tantalizing, stylized pudenda, scrotums, cocks, and cunts that rise in orgiastic pandemonium, erupt in ecstatic blasts, scatter like schools of fish, or float in aphrodisiacal seas. Streaks and stains, intimations of violence and bodily secretions spot surfaces; titles, scrawled in pencil, conjure myth and antiquity. One painting, Leda and the Swan, features a winged vagina dripping liquid into an abstract anus. So animalistic are these paintings that it's hard to remember they're not sheets after lovemaking.

Three numbers from Bugsy Malone. The last one, Talluah, featuring Jodie Foster, is esp. odd.

Tank Limo for hire. yes i said tank limo.

fake plastic skin like a simulacra for buffalo bill.

rashid johnsons deeply personal, conceptual work, talks about issues of race using a vicious, trans-historical, trans-cultural (using literary, sports,, art historical, social, fashion,polticial, and cultural metaphots) multi genre forms. not quite jokes, not quite indictments, but something much more subtle...work includes:
Signed Amiri Baraka "Civil Rights All-Stars" Throw-back Dashiki Jersey, 2007
Evolution of the Negro Political Costume, 2004, garments in custom frames
Portrait of my ex-wife as the tragic mulatto, 2004 lambda print 50 x 40 in.
United Boogie Down Baptist B-Boy Beathouse Crew, DVD, 2:45 min. loop, 2001
and others.



New Caro:
1) it looks like a cattle shoot, doesnt it?
2) if he is capable of colours like that red, why the fuck arent the studio savant guys?
3) that red, and some of the tension b/w horizonatal and vertical forms seems more juddy to me than anything else. (and his dealer agrees: “It is almost as if you crossed a Donald Judd with a Roman sarcophagus,” Ms. Mitchell-Innes said." though you dont really ever trust the dealer for artcrit)
4) i like how it manages to jettision most of the exteranous crap that gunks up some of his worst work
5) the new york time story this image comes from, makes the point that this is carros first show in chelsea, but i dont think that caros work functions well in small interior spaces in crowded cities, even his desktop works. (they also managed to get the second stringer to write the peice, apparently caro isnt interesting enough for roberta smith)
the story is here. (in that story, their is one that is bright bright yellow that works equally well)

spiderman and planned parenthood.

inuit comics in english and intuktiuk, has a bit of an canconc style government project, but interesting in the intersection b/w folk and offical culture.

the pakistan mosque bombings are becoming wilder and less likely to be controlled. the lastest killed 13.

astronauts be drunk

the toronto public library cut 1.2m from its budget.

the best thing about the story of some guy using weed killer to draw a 20 foot cock on the lawn of the governor of boise, is the 6 fotos of the art work are lovely abstractions of idaho landscapes.

the new watchmen movie has both patrick wilson and stepehn fry signed.

scans of a beautiful mexican rip off of batman, the women look more like rita hayworth, the panels are all fractury, and the dogs ptu the fear of god in one. excellent work

julia perione draws figures and landscapes on found photographs, using white pigment. i am not sure the work is any good, it seems fashionable, and the colour choices overly simplisitic, but the work has poetential.


Girls learn how to weld in vermont, make steel sculptures, but less phallocentric





Robot Sex Sculptures, by Cszar, French. The work has titles that are long, complicated strings of binary, it means i cant translate titles like:
01010010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101101 01101111 01110010. i am mildly disappointed that even in the future naked hot robot sex will still be breedery

Mary Ann Jeremick did some really brave work in Yellowknife, against sexual assault.
story here

Mary-Ann Jeremick'a was speaking on behalf of the Native Women's Association of the NWT to a group of chiefs and delegates at the assembly July 19 on issues facing aboriginal women. Jeremick'a's presentation was on the Native Women's Association second annual walk from Yellowknife to Behchoko to raise awareness about violence against women. During the presentation, she made reference to letters written by Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty and Behchoko Chief Leon Lafferty last May in support of Behchoko resident Jonas Bouvier who was found guilty of sexual assault.

quickie slash and dash about mountain meadows massacre, w. john voight. ray claims its a parry against romney's presidental chances. they link to pro mormon sites, wikipedia, sites written by the lds, and the liberal nrm organization censur, so i dont know which side its fighting on.

adam from fort lauderdale is a gay man who collects images of half naked men in sort of comporisming situatutions, i cannot figure out if the men depicted are straight or gay, and it doesnt seem t be gay for pay, and the discourse doesnt fit into easily the straight/frat gay porn aesthetic.

the americans are signing a 20b, 10 year arms deal with the saudis.