Some Bathtub Gin

world-shaker:

The black lines are drawn on a glass wall.

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rt looks pretty much the same in any city you go to,” the Californian artist John Baldessari said recently. But if art has indeed been stripped of its localism, then no one told Gilbert & George. Their most recent work, collected together in London Pictures – the show that sprawls across White Cube galleries globally

"The world does not reward honesty and independence, it rewards obedience and service. It’s a world of concentrated power, and those who have power are not going to reward people who question that power."

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Feminist Frequency on race and casting for The Hunger Games

fuck hollywood

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Actual poster from the mid-50s issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare and anti communist witch hunt in Washington.  All artists were suspect.

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Two Gay Men Arrested In Russia For Holding A Sign That Read “Homosexuality Is Normal”

For the first time, police in St. Petersburg, Russia, have made arrests on the strength of a new law banning the dissemination of information on homo-, bi- and transsexuality. Two men were arrested in the city center on Thursday after holding up a sign reading “Homosexuality Is Normal,” according to the newswire Interfax.

Russia’s second-largest city passed the controversial law on Feb. 29. The two men now face a possible maximum fine of 500,000 rubles (€12,800/$17,000). The maximum penalty is more than the average annual income in Russia.

The law bans films, music videos, books and newspapers that contain homosexual content as well as the rainbow flag, which is a common symbol of gay pride. And the ban may soon no longer be limited to just St. Petersburg and other cities in Russia. At the end of March, Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party introduced a bill in the country’s parliament, the Duma, which would impose the ban at the national level.

“We are trying to protect our society from homosexual propaganda,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Russian radio three weeks ago.

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world-shaker:

I know where I’ll be watching movies from now on.

AMC Theaters, however, is making an exception for the documentary Bully, which the Weinstein Company announced yesterday would be released this Friday unrated after the MPAA refused to lower its R rating for the film. Today, AMC decided it would allow ticket buyers under the age of 17 to see Bully — with permission. “AMC will be presenting Bully…as not rated,” said the theater-chain in a statement. “Guests younger than 17 can see the film if they are accompanied by a parent or adult guardian, or if they present a signed parental permission slip.”

That permission slip will be available on Wednesday at this link on AMC’s website. The film opens at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 in New York, and the AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles on Friday, and expands into other theaters nationwide over the coming weeks. (A rep for the company declined to comment on the Parent’s Television Council’s statement that screening Bully at AMC’s theaters “threatens to derail the entire ratings system.”)

This is a painting?!? One argument I hear frequently, in discussions on modern art, is that, since photography can now capture the world as-it-is so perfectly,  what is the function of realism in contemporary painting? One answer might be: “To blow people’s minds.” Mind officially blown. Je l’aime. Je l’aime. Je l’aime.

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hyper realist painter Richard Estes

world-shaker:

I can’t tell if this student was bored, or working out the logistics.