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Did You Miss The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour?

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:50:00 GMT

If you missed them this week in Virginia and North Carolina, don't fret-- we have the lowdown on the Sex Workers' Art Show's Limited 2009 Dirty South Tour...

According to the official website, tour participants included World Famous *BOB* (top) and porn star Lorelei Lee (above.) The tour's focus was on "spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia performance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from the darker sides of the industry."

The promoters wanted "to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses!" We don't know about that last part, especially with the exclamation point, but this attitude sure garnered a lot of attention.

In Williamsburg, Virginia, this week, conservative knuckleheads meddled as usual, trying to tell college students what they should and should not see. The only thing these people know about the First Amendment is that it comes before the one with the guns.

Last year, their devotion to this divisive annual event helped get their popular president Gene Nichol ousted by fire-breathing conservatives on the Board of Visitors and the state legislature.

Nichol opposed the show on principle, yet backed his students' decision and refused to ban it from campus.
His successor, W. Taylor Reveley, has done exactly the same, yet remains unsinged.

I'm not saying it's the students' fault Nichol was forced out. The fault lies with the hypocrites who used the sex show as one more briquette to burn him at the stake. [Daily Press]

Great job, right-wingers. You ousted an honest man and had him replaced with... a guy who also slightly disagrees with your Puritanical views. It's too bad there's no such thing as hell, because... well, maybe we're getting carried away. The show seems to have been a success in spite of all this political nonsense, and we look forward to seeing it further up the east coast...

Via the Sex Workers' Art Show website.

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Nude Night Invades Florida

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:36:00 GMT

The peaceful small town of Orlando, Florida was considering going to bed early on Saturday when word began to spread among the populace: "Dude, you're going to miss Naked Night 2009!"

According to its website, Nude Night "is a juried art exhibition with hundreds of artists celebrating the body beautiful by creating a bazaar-like atmosphere of artistic talents not only in photographs and paintings, but also in live body painting, sensual performances, shapely sculpture and experimental installations." When you're done catching your breath, here's the layman's version: it's a shitton of nude art and several hundred leering guests.

The evenings begin with cocktails and DJs blasting out lounge music, while patrons peruse the immobile art projects. Later on, performers leap to the stage to offer "interpretations on the theme," according to the website. (See above photos.)

In case this sounds like your ideal evening out, don't despair, for the Nude Night art fair will hit Tampa this coming weekend, starting on Thursday and running through Saturday. Don't miss it... and remember to e-mail us a link to your Twitter pics.

Via their website. Top photo via the Orlando Sun-Sentinel.

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Emily Farris — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:06:00 GMT

How many things are wrong with this picture? Britney Spears' dad Jamie has been making about $10,000 to "look after her," but he just got a raise of $51,000 a year, making about $75 an hour to babysit his daughter. [People]

Barack Obama has chosen to use Abraham Lincoln's Bible for his swearing in. [Radar]

If you were an editor at the New York Times and the mayor of Paris sent you a letter criticizing the prospect of Caroline Kennedy taking over Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, wouldn't you just check to make sure it was really from the mayor of Paris? Maybe? Oops. [Jossip]

Sometimes we forget just how skinny celebrities are. You know, celebs like.... Billy Bob Thornton? [NYDN]

Today, we went looking for a music video we could have sworn we saw just a few short days ago on YouTube. Could it be gone because Warner music has pulled all of its artists' videos from the site? [Yahoo!]

45-year-old mother of two and Dancing With the Stars alum Lisa Rinna will pose yet again for Playboy, according to Extra. [FadedYouth]

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Agyness Deyn Looks Even More Like A Boy In Sketch Form

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:56:00 GMT

Ever wanted to see nude drawings of Agyness Deyn, Karl Lagerfeld and Donatella Versace?

Us neither, but they're after the jump anyway...

The point of these semi-nudes? We're not sure, although they are all drawings for Grazia Daily, a UK-based publication, and by Henry Holland. Holland, an artist/designer/fashion person, is widely recognized as the man who discovered Deyn, a feat of historic and earth-shaking proportions.

Photo via the Bosh.

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Filmmaker Skips the Glass Eye, Goes Straight for the Webcam

Emily Farris — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:01:00 GMT

This is by far the creepiest, and coolest, thing we've heard of in a long time. Rob Spence, a filmmaker, has one prosthetic eye. But instead of some fake eye, he'd rather have a web cam put in that socket.

He's already apparently "sought consultation from the University of Toronto's Steve Mann, a self-proclaimed expert in the field of wearable computing and cyborgs."

Eyeborg!

And he's not the only one.

Tanya Vlach, an artist who lost her eye in a 2005 car accident would also like a web cam for an eye.

We have so many questions. Like, would they have to have some kind of wireless card permanently implanted? And would they ever turn it off? What about when they have diarrhea? Or when they're having sex with someone who would rather not be broadcast to the world? What if they had sex with each other?? Would he be allowed in the locker room at the gym?

Either way, this will be so much more fun than coming home drunk and looking at Craigslist. Do it, do it!

[Engadget: Filmmaker hopes to replace false eye with webcam, become a superhero]

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Kim Cattrall: The Magically Naked 52-Year-Old Woman

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:46:00 GMT

There's no question Kim Cattrall has aged well. But the Sex and the City movie was obnoxious and misguided endeavor and the show itself has turned into the television equivalent of Pulp Fiction or the Beat Generation-- the original's cultural takeover and subsequent imitators have made us wary of the originals.

Are we tired of her yet? Are we interested in seeing the perennially topless actress in the buff once again, at age 52, for an artistic cause?

The sex-starved editors at the BBC apparently thought we'd care, as they sent us these tantalizing photos of Cattrall and some cohorts recreating a classic painting to help raise the 50 million pounds necessary to save the original.

Here are the photos... as for the painting, you can see that here. Yep, nothing like the recreation.

And Miss Cattrall features as Diana in the picture alongside art students from the Courtauld Institute and performers from the hit West End burlesque show La Clique.

Tom said: 'Kim is the perfect Diana. Just like the Greek goddess, she combines beauty with a sense of threat.
'She was a great sport and at 52 made an amazing Diana. She more than held her own among a room full of twenty-somethings.

What's your take?

Via the Daily Mail.

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While You Were Sleeping: Lookin' For Asian Women

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:08:00 GMT

The new exhibit on sex and politics opened at the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana.

Ex-NBA star Kevin Johnson's run for the Mayor of Sacramento may be in jeopardy after it was revealed he (may have) used AmeriCorps members that were working with his nonprofit do personal errands for him. Oh, and there is the whiff of sex, too.

You'll never guess which celebrity is converting to the Jewish faith to please his girlfriend...

Irish actor Colin Farrell is reportedly abandoning his Catholic faith to convert to Judaism for new girlfriend Emma Forrest. [Farrell] has been dating British novelist Forrest since June, but the romance appears to be turning serious. [Starpulse]

A stolen Renoir was recovered in Italy three decades later.

An assistant principal who had a torrid affair-- with a 17-year-old female student-- will spend the next two years with big burly men.

A man in Brisbane is accused of stroking a latex vagina in front of two women. We're not sure why either.

The Playboy Mansion and the rest of Hugh Hefner's empire could be in trouble if he doesn't lay off some of his staff, according to recent rumors.

The best missed connection we saw this morning:

WHITE MALE LOOKING FO ASIAN WOMEN - m4w - 52 (QUEENS -LI)
I AM A WHITE MALE AND I NEVER HAD AN INDIAN WOMEN AND WOULD LIKE TO EXPERENCE IT. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE WRITE BACK WITH A PICTURE AND YOUR AGE.

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Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:07:00 GMT

When in Atlantic City, it's probably best not to approach total strangers about marijuana purchases:

Police said the drug deal went sour when the man took them to a desolate road in Egg Harbor Township near the Atlantic City International Airport, pulled and gun and forced them to strip before dumping their purses and robbing them.

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How does Hugh Hefner choose his Playboy bunnies?

“We don’t go for glamour — what we are looking for is a very natural girl-next-door look,” he told Pop Tarts. “I think that’s what set things at the very beginning — what set the Playmate centerfolds apart.”
“Scarlett Johansson and Angelina Jolie,” he said [are the hottest women in the world.]

Damien Hirst sold a painting of a pickled shark for almost ten million pounds. We're not sure what a pickled shark is, but it sounds mighty tasty!

Comedian Al Franken is tied with incumbent Senator Norm Coleman in Minnesota's hottest (not in the "sexy") race.

Speaking of SNL, Amy Poehler is not returning to the show after her planned maternity leave.

And what do we think of Katherine McPhee's outfit? Hot or... dreadful?

Photo via Egotastic.

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Vegas Presents The Erotic Heritage Museum

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:17:00 GMT

A few weeks back, The Erotic Heritage Museum, dedicated to porny art, opened in Las Vegas.

Now that we've had time to look over some of its exhibits, we present a full rundown for your titillation...

Here are some of our favorite images, all from currently-featured artists:

The Museum was founded by Harry Mohney, an "Erotologist" (is that sort of like a proctologist, but with an even greater love of anal?) and Ted McIlvenna. They have scoured permanent collections the world over to bring you "the very best of erotic art." Their museum claims

celebrating our erotic heritage is one of the great spiritual movements of our time. To that end, the Exodus Trust [which houses the museum] is dedicated to seeking out, evaluating, acquiring and preserving sexual artifacts for future generations.

For the priviledge of leering at all this fine, fine art, you'll be charged $15 admission. Of course, seniors get in for $12...

Learn more here...

Middle images by François Dubeau.

Top images from Jacqueline Cooper's Well Hung exhibit at the museum.

Apparently, A Naked Woman Is Automatically Lewd And/Or Erotic Now

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:32:00 GMT

Do you consider this obscene? Not the pictures specifically, but the Venus sculpture itself, which had been situated at Woorim Beach on Bribie Island in Queensland, Australia...

Well, the Mayor thought so, overruling his own City Council, which put it there. His quotes and the local reaction, simultaneously hilarious and sad after all we've been through as a single human race...

Mayor Allan Sutherland ordered the sculpture, representing the "birth of Venus", be removed from its popular Woorim Beach, only two weeks after it was included at a public opening of the revamped beachside area.
"The sculpture is offensive to women. We have to take it back to whoever made it and ask that it be changed," said Cr Sutherland. "It's offensive in an area where there's lots of kids and families."

Oh, Allan! Our hero! cry the feminist females of Queensland. Thank you for consulting with us and hearing our overwhelming reaction to this dreadful, offensive, disgusting (because, remember, vagina = disgusting) work of "art." And judging by the pictures, you were totally spot on about families and the kiddies being freaked.

Beenleigh artist Antone Bruinsma, who created the sculpture, said he was "extremely disappointed" that the artwork was removed from Woorim Beach to a council yard, and said he had not been contacted by the council about changing the sculpture.

He said it was an important portrayal of a woman's body.

"I don't have a problem with children seeing a depiction of a woman's vagina, it's not done in a lewd or an erotic way," he said.

Typical man! Of course he loves seeing vagina... especially seeing vagina that he's made with his own hands, groping and tweaking it. Perv!

Seriously, let's leave it to mothers of three to start their children out right by informing them that vaginas are bad and we should be ashamed for possessing them:

Mother-of-three Terri Johnson, 35, from Morayfield, said the sculpture should be in an art gallery where there would be a more appropriate audience.

"It's not appropriate here, it's not the right spot for it, with young families, where you have to explain everything and kids start asking questions," she said.

God forbid they should think their bodies are natural, Terri. Godspeed.

Via News.com.au.

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Dog Sh*t Art Piece Floats Away, Lands In Children's Home

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:21:00 GMT

Only July 31st, an exhibit by American artist Paul McCarthy floated away from the grounds of a Switzerland museum, its curators admitted yesterday. Before it could be grounded, the art piece, entitled "Complex Shit," had smashed a greenhouse window, brought down a powerline, and scared the, um, shit out of the locals...

According to Breitbart, the piece

is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.
The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

Anorak jokes that its "Vomit In Sock" now has some serious competition for the Turner Prize. Comments about "that sculpture having the runs" can be included in the comments section or kept to oneself...

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Artist's Penis Commits World's Largest Indecent Exposure

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Unfortunately for lovers of the penis, the actual artifact is not the largest penis ever publicly exposed: it's the size of the penis once it becomes the subject of Jaime del Val's Madrid artwork...

Your old-fashioned flasher usually hides away in shady parks wearing a dirty old raincoat but a Spanish 'artist' has no such shame - he projects his penis on buildings.

Jaime del Val wanders the streets of Madrid naked but for camera equipment attached to his genitals.

He shows off his penis because he says it's a "means of power".
He has staged his "performance" in front of Almudena Cathedral and at the Royal Palace in Madrid.

Here's a website with some of Jamie de Val's work, none of it nude, from what we could see. Meanwhile, as David Niven might say, "Isn't it fascinating to think, that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life, is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings!"

Heads up! Money shot approaching...

Via Metro. If anyone has a picture of the artwork in action, we'd love to add it to this post. For now, these pics will do...

Magazine Fights Censorship With Nude Six-Year-Old Cover Girl

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:01:00 GMT

An Art Monthly Australia cover that starred a nude six-year-old girl, an attempt to protest child pornography laws that some consider "artist censorship," has been deemed criminal and sent to the Australian Classification board... of censors.

Art Monthly Australia published the photo in response to government raids and the seizures of the photographs of artist Bill Henson, who frequently presents "tasteful" nudes of underage children. The magazine, which receives $50,000 in taxpayer funds every year, is now facing possible collapse after the typical righteous political outcry.

[The issue] also includes several provocative photos of children posing naked in adult jewellery as well as naked teenage girls.

Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell labelled the publication a "provocative publicity stunt" and called for a review of Arts Council's funding for the magazine.

In the editorial, Maurice O'Riordan said he chose the 2003 picture of the young girl in the "hope of restoring some dignity to the debate" and to "validate nudity and childhood as subjects for art".

The image, taken by Melbourne-based Polixeni Papapetrou, is believed to be her own daughter. [Daily Telegraph]

While we hope that Australians will see right through this political posturing at the expense of creative freedom, we know better than to expect intelligent reactions to any publication that dares to defy community standards.

For more, check out the original story at The Daily Telegraph.

Art Apparently Has Nowhere Else to Go

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:00 GMT

No, he's not painting with his wanker exposed. He is painting with his wanker.

Your favorite wacko artist from Sydney, Australia, Pricasso, is entering the country's top portrait contest, having been rejected last year for his penis-drawn painting of a surgeon. Why anyone would sit around letting this guy paint them with his schlong is beyond us, and certainly the woman pictured above seems to indicate we aren't missing anything in the way of a "bonus" for wading through this stunt. In fact, she is wearing what we imagine is the perfect expression to describe what we aren't seeing.

Don't miss the quote of the day, either:

"I had to use my bum to paint in the background, because you have to have the occasional break."