Archive for 'art'
Reviving Ophelia: GirlDrive and Feminists for Obama
Hello lovely revolutionaries! Welcome to 2010! ObjectifyThis has recently relocated to New York, delaying posts on this blog in favor of searches for shelter, income, and long-lost friends. However, I’ll be sure to get back atcha as soon as my schedule allows. I look forward to any semblance of monotony, believe me. In the meantime, [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2010 under New York Review of Books, art, clinton, femininity, feminism, obama.
Tags: anne kornblut, balkans, barack, clinton, Columbine, emma bee bernstein, female, femininity, feminism, francesca woodman, gender, geraldine ferraro, hillary, identity, identity politics, interview, journalism, lynyrd skynyrd, nona ellis aronowitz, NPR, obama, photography, politicians, power, presidential election, racism, road trip, romance, sex, suicide, the onion, tom ashbrook
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Flarf You, Ethnic Slurs: "Corrosive, Cute, or Cloying Awfulness."
According to Micheal Magee, “Poems are, like, total bullshit unless they are/squid or popsicles or deer piled/on elk in the trunk of David Hasselhoff’s/cutlass Sierra.” That’s pretty much the spirit of the first poetry movement of the 21st century: semi-dadist riffing with Googleian specifics. It’s an interesting metaphor for modern consciousness– globalization has brought the [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2009 under agency, art, feminist, globalization, identity, identity politics, insult, poetry, politically correct, politics, pop culture, popular culture, postmodern, repression, slur.
Tags: agency, apathy, art, avant garde, Baudelaire, consciousness, contemporary, cracker, cutlass sierra, dadism, david hasselhoff, deer, elk, ethnic, Ezra Pound, flarf, globalization, google, googleian, identity politics, information age, john ashbery, kike, making it new, micheal magee, movement, offense, podcast, poems, poetry, poetry foundation, poetry off the shelf, popsicles, postmodern, reclamation, repression, slur, squid, trunk, walt whitman, whatever
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The Writing on the Wall: Fafi
When Fafi was eighteen, she started sneaking out of her parents’ home to make public art. Her work, which is cartoonish, features what her myspace page calls “powerful and active” images of girls. Fafi, now thirty-one, lives in France with her husband and children and travels the world to install her rogue pieces, which she [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Dr. Faustus, Girls Rock, Italian Vogue, Japanese, Le Sportsac, MTV, Marlowe, Mash, Pornography, Self Objectification, The Face, angel, anime, art, artist, devil, fafi, fashion, female, female artist, femininity, graffiti, identity, money, mural, nipple, objectification, power, public art, race, sex, sex goddess, sexuality, spray paint, standard of beauty, stereotype, vandalism, wardrobe malfunction.
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!Feliz Cumple, Frida Kahlo!
Yesterday was exactly one month short of Frida Kahlo’s 100th birthday. (Maybe if I weren’t nearly nocturnal, you would have found out about this twelve hours ago.) Celebrate by reading up on her, checking out her art, or watching Julia Weiss’ fabulous ficumentary, Frida. Some interesting trivia from The Arizona State Museum at the [...]
Posted: June 6th, 2007 under Andre Breton, Arizona State Museum, Diego Rivera, Female Sexuality, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Leon Trotsky, Mexcan Artists, Paris, University of Arizona, art, bitch, bodies, divorce, femininity, injury, mexico, nocturnal, socialism, surrealism, surrealist, taboo.
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