Rick Santorum : Gay Porn

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Stripper Sue Martin

Stripper Sue Martin from Adam, Vol.1 No.5, 1957. Thanks to Vintage Scans.

PEOPLE DANCING

SONG: THE LETTER by THE BOXTOPS (1967).

ANDY WARHOL DEAD AT 58

25 Years Ago Today.

70 Million By Hold Your Horses

- Sandro Botticelli, “The Birth of Venus” (1485-87) - Michelangelo’nun Sistine Chapel’inden, “The Creation of Adam” (1511) - Caravaggio, The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (1608) - Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632) - Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (1656) - Johannes Vermeer, Girl with A Pearl Earring (1665) - Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat (1793) - Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819) - Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)

Don't Be Fuckin Stupid

DEFENSE D'AFFICHER PROJECT IN PARIS.

Design: Mark Bloch
Download: Don't Be Fuckin Stupid

Gary Carter (1954 - 2012)

Gary Carter waving to the Shea Stadium crowd on Sept. 28, 1989, his last home game as a member of the Mets. Carter died on February 16 after a battle with brain cancer, which had been diagnosed in May 2011.  Photo: AP.  Article: LA TIMES.

Sexy Pin-Up Chess Calendar

Yes, it's finally here: The Pin-Up Chess Calendar for the sexy but nerdy geek in your life (male or female) who believes in sacrifices, queen-side castling and double checks.

Talk about hot dates with moves: These babes will give your pawns someplace to go when the middle game starts and the endgame is forming.

Designed by Paris-based artist, photographer and chess lover Leslie McAllister, the calendar is available on LULU.

Check (mate) it out: Pin-Up Chess Calendar.

Have We Met Before?

Yishay Garbasz, Eat Me Damien, 2010. Two surgically removed human testicles, formaldehyde solution, 2x2x1 inches each.  (At first I thought this was some kind of Valentine's Day exhibition). (Second thought: This is a love poem to Damien Hirst).

Opening at The Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC, NY on February 18, 2012.

Wither Putin? Russia Ponders

This banner reads: “Putin, Go Away.” It faces the Kremlin in Moscow. Photo: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters

Article: New York Times

THE WOODWARDS: LIVE IN BERLIN

Artist Peter Schuyff is the genius behind the blues and country duo, The Woodwards.

The group will play Berlin on February 15 and 16 at Tausend and O.T. Projektraum. 


Schuyff's partner, the talented Stevie Guy will sing a couple of dozen original songs that pierce the heart and stir the brain.

For more info, tracks and a bit about the group see: The Woodwards. 

Can Can Valentines From France

Valentines curated by The Paris Blog. Check them out: Hipster Love Cards.

The History of English in Ten Minutes

Openstal Art Route : Mail Art Project

Visit: http://www.openstal.nl/

Jean-Baptiste Marot: Confession in Paris

VOTE NOW: THE END OF THE WORLD

KINDLY CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR THIS ON THE SAATCHI ONLINE SHOWDOWN COLLAGE HOE DOWN.  Thank you very much.

ULF SKOGSBERG: MUSIC THEOREM

Photographer and composer Ulf Skogsberg's newest album, BINARY, has just been published.  The music is otherworldly, yet it is clearly of this world, too.  Produced via global collaborations between the Swedish-born Skogberg and a half dozen musicians around the planet, all are invited to listen to the tracks on Binary, and if you are so inclined buy them via iTunes.


LISTEN TO ULF SKOGSBERG'S : BINARY

MISS REPRESENTATION

Women and the media. 

Post Cards From The Edge at Cheim & Read, New York City

Post Cards From The Edge : The preview show for the Visual AIDS exhibition at Cheim & Read, 547 W 25th St, New York opens on January 6, 2012. Proceeds from the sale of postcard sized artworks – each anonymously shown – benefits Visual AIDS. 

FULL LIST OF ARTISTS HERE.

Show Details below:

BENEFIT SALE - $85 EACH
Saturday, January 7, 2012 from 10:00 - 6:00 (Buy four, get a bonus fifth)
Sunday, January 8, 2012 from 12:00 - 4:00 (Buy two and get a bonus third)
Take a guess: Over 1500 anonymous displayed postcard-size masterpieces.
First-come, first-served. $5 suggested admission
Cash, check, credit card (MC/VISA/AMEX) accepted.
Proceeds benefit Visual AIDS.

PREVIEW PARTY
Friday, January 6, 2012 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Sneak Peek: The only opportunity to see the entire exhibition. No sales.
Admission, payable at the door, includes a raffle ticket for the chance to pick the FIRST postcard that evening. Participating artists attend free.

Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until purchased. All proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS.

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving the legacy -- because AIDS IS NOT OVER!

More information and installation shots from previous exhibitions: http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/current/postcards2012.html

Market: Islamabad, Pakistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo: Anjum Naveed / AP Photo

Dec. 11, 2011  Islamabad, Pakistan
A Pakistani child waits for customers at his father's fruit stall.

More great photographs from DB.

OCCUPY THIS

 

LETTER FROM PARIS: OCCUPY THIS

BY MATTHEW ROSE

Pssst…Can we talk about money? I keep on getting press releases from Phillips de Pury about all the wonderful things they’ve sold, the auction records they’ve broken – Richard Prince’s “Cowboys and Girlfriends” portfolio fetching $146,500; Andy Warhol’s “Grapes” topping $104,500 – and the next pot of gold waiting in the auction markets in New York and London. And if it’s not from an auction house, the emails chime in from the art fairs in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Geneva or galleries in India, Hong Kong or some new white cube that just opened here in Paris.

READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE FROM THE ARTBLOG.


(Left: Shepard Fairey's Occupy Wall Street design supports the 99 Percent, although we're pretty sure he's a 1 percenter.)

So Long, Kim Jong-il

The Koreas, North and South, at night, 2003.

PHOTOS OF NORTH KOREA BY David Guttenfelder / AP Photo.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

No one like him, Christopher Hitchens.  He lived his life in full view, glass of whiskey and a cigarette at the always ready. His death, too, was very nearly televised. Irreverent, and all that stuff.  You could not say he was deluded.  Hitchens had a wide awake point of view. And he kicked ass often. RIP, Mr. Hitchens.

Ian McEwan writes a beautiful piece about his friends last few days in The NYT.

Some of his reverberations are captured on video from Vanity Fair are here.  Or you can read the full New York Times Obituary for Christopher Hitchens.

GEORGE WHITMAN : THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE & CO, PARIS

I've met George Whitman many times over the years here in Paris and have always enjoyed his cantankerous and poetic expectorations, literary and other.  He manned the cockpit in the Left Bank bookstore, Shakespeare & Company, and stamped my books with vigor and humor.  He will be missed. 

An angel. Bless you George.

George Whitman (1913-2011).  He was 98. 

Read the full article/obituary:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/books/george-whitman-paris-bookseller-and-cultural-beacon-is-dead-at-98.html?_r=1

Les Affaires For Xmas From Keep Calm Gallery London

From Keep Calm Gallery in London: Les Affaires.

Like a shopping mall from hell and high water, Matthew Rose takes on the vast consumer/consumption subject with a surreal tour through the commercial center of his mind with Les Affaires.

Expertly produced by Mariela Cadiz and Burning Boy Press in Paris, Les Affaires brings consumption and all its myriad expressions to a neat explosion. Here, Freud (lower left corner) considers the expansive narratives from behind a silhouette of Popeye-as-Buddah. A family ponders a side of beef, a salesman dangles a naked blue girl in offering from his battery-as-desk (a housewife's head). A child's arms are weighed on a scale. One of a large pair of hands beholds a fashion plate – her own head morphed into a construction of pipes topped by a fan – while the other hand readies a pen for signing over something of value.

Indeed value is explored and remade as acts of gloating, comedy and narcissistic wonder and feeding. Matthew Rose's Les Affaires, a print based upon an enormous collage takes 'business as usual' to startling new heights and frighteningly new depths.

"I live on a market street in Paris," says the artist. "This happens every day."

• Limited edition of 100
• Signed, numbered, titled and dated by the artist
• High quality giclee print
• 310gsm Hahnemuhle fine art etching paper
• 750mm by 700mm (29½ by 27½ inches)

Price: £150.00

Unframed

She Takes A Photo Everyday: 4.5 Years

See all the photos at http://clickflashwhirr.me

Doris Salcedo : Topography of War

 

Doris Salcedo. 8 th International Istanbul Biennial. Istanbul, TK, 2003.  

This work takes reference from conditions of forced displacement and how it equals to a form of incarceration, which artist Doris Salcedo calls a “Topography of War”. For this project, I worked on the design of the supporting structure and the sequence of installation that was undertaken in Istanbul with 1600 chairs on an empty space between two buildings. See more images here.

– Sergio Clavijo

JOHN HIMMELFARB : UNSHAKEABLE

Unshakeable is a documentary about the art and life of Chicago-based artist John Himmelfarb. John began exhibiting his work way back in 1968, and has made it his living ever since. In that time, art trends have come and gone by the dozens, but John has never chased them. Art is his business, and he’s done it his way. It’s time to share with the coasts what the Midwest has known for decades, John Himmelfarb’s work is UNSHAKEABLE.

The film is being funded by artists and like-minded supporters of the arts on Kickstarter.org. See the project: UNSHAKEABLE, and if you want to be a film producer, put in $25 or more towards the production of this film about the great artist John Himmelfarb.

Superstore by Walmart & Friends –Jalandhar, India

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo: Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times

A Best Price store Jalandhar, India, a wholesale store that is jointly owned by Wal-Mart and Bharti, a retailer in India. 

Family run shops in India are being driven out of business by these new super stores, according this article in The New York Times. While these large retailers help with food distribution, the local economies often suffer. Protests have increased.  Read the article.

THE ARTBLOG'S PHILLY SAFARI ON KICKSTARTER

..... The artblog, an online journal of contemporary art writing edited by Libby Rosoff and Roberta Fallon, has launched a safari.  An art safari that seeks to cut the brush and whack the bush in the contemporary Philadephia art scene.

To make this happen the artblog has launched a Kickstarter campaign. And the good news is that the group is only $400 shy of its $2500 goal.  Take a look at the magazine, then the campaign, then toss in $10 to make it happen.  
For a $40 donation, you will get a Matthew Rose stamp sheet, Rubens Rounding Third, signed, dated, numbered. And, hey! A 2011 tax deduction!

A COLLAGE A DAY FOR 2012

Randel Plowman's phenomenal project A Collage A Day is set to unfold a day at a time for 2012 in his new limited edition calendar. Yes, you can buy it. Check it out here: A Collage A Day 2012.

Bernard Matussiere : Le Monde

Photographer Bernard Matussiere reads Le Monde in his studio in Paris.  Photo: EM.

ALEXIS ROCKMAN'S THANKSGIVING

Alexis Rockman, Coxcomb, 2008, Oil on wood, 48 x 40 inches.

Courtesy:  Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, New York.

Tools of Criminal Mischief

Artist Robert Gastman has a thing for low end crime and created a series of prints based upon spray paint cans.  Picked up via World Famous Design Junkies. See the suite of prints: Tools of Criminal Mischief.

007 Writes Steve Jobs

No idea if this is real or not but what the hell.  Sean Connery, James Bond 007, dresses down and then turns down computer salesman Steve Jobs in this lovely piece of egoism and blindness. 

Sara J Beazley Prints In Paris At Storie

British artist Sara J. Beazley will be exhibiting at über cool concept store STORIE in Paris this November and has produced two new limited editions to coincide with the exhibition.  

To coincide with her exhibition at Storie in Paris this November, Sara has produced two new

limited editions.  Entitled Grey Flower and Pink Butterfly, inspiration for these works came from

a collection of vintage postcards Sara found in her favourite Parisian flea market Porte de Vanves.

The works bring together digital printing and silkscreen printing. 

Each work is signed, numbered and printed on 350gsm Somerset paper.The edition number is 30.

The paper size is 50 x 70 cm (standard frame size).

See the new works at STORIE: 20 Rue Delambre 75014 Paris, France

Exhibition dates: 17 November - 31 December

Private View: 17 November, 6 pm Onwards

For more information and prices in Paris visit www.storieblog.com

The Sentence Maker

From UK artist Rob White: The Sentence Maker.

OCCUPY AMERICA

Download this poster and dozens of others from Occupy Together.

More free high resolution PDF posters here: DEFENSE D'AFFICHER.

Kristallnacht: November 9 - 10, 1938

Kristallnacht was the event in Germany in 1938 that set off the Holocaust. Thousands of store front windows of Jewish businesses were smashed during the nights of November 9 and November 10.  See more images of Kristallnacht from the United States Holocaust Museum:  http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/photo/

JAMES MEYER: THE SOCIAL MACHINE

New works – light boxes – by James Meyer at Fred Dorfman Projects, New York City, NY. Opening November 10, 2011.

James Meyer website.