50 shades of gray

Some Wall Street Journal writer I had never heard of before apparently thinks very little of the entire upcoming graduating class. In fact he wrote a cranky-old-man column about it, one that pretty much closes nominations for "Most Obnoxious Column of the Year." Even at a Murdoch paper.

In darkness I am freer, less weighted down, my perspective wholly altered: a kind of noctonaut. I wouldn’t trade my schedule for the universe. Or rather, I have traded my schedule for the universe. You early birds can keep your worms.

fierce pussy is a collective of queer women artists. Formed in New York City in 1991 through our immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, fierce pussy brought lesbian identity and visibility directly into the streets.

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Why would someone fake a serious illness online? Jenny Kleeman on the strange world of Münchausen by internet

appropriated art

wtf?

The closest I've ever come to getting a tattoo was this one, a 1992 work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The artist first showed this motif, a circle of dolphins that looks like it could have come from the border of an ancient greek kylix, in his first exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1990. In that incarnation, it was a rub-on transfer on the wall, and it looked positively classical among the now-classic-Felix paper stacks.

To the pre-Harvey Milk generation, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns defined the quiet cool of gay culture. Brad Gooch recalls the abstract expressions of their art, lives, and love.

femme invisibility

Indeed, this post is not intended to take aim at Invisible Children as an organization but rather to debunk some of the myths its ‘Kony 2012′ campaign is propagating.

La meglio gioventù...

Secono la definizione ufficiale, il termine Juvenilia indica "opere d'arte, letteratura e musica, prodotte in gioventù o durante l'adolescenza, prima che l'artista, autore o compositore, abbia sviluppato o formato uno stile maturo". Secondo i giovanissimi Nolan Boomer e Kolleen Alexandra, "un gatto lungo di Los Angeles e un baby-panda cinese", la definizione più calzante è invece "la strana bellezza che prende forma dall'accostamento di prospettive terrene". Da questa intuizione, spirituale e materiale, nata durante un lungo soggiorno in Grecia, nasce The Juvenilia, blog-zine di arte e letteratura aperto a giovani autori, fotografi, gafici, artisti e illustratori di ogni parte del mondo, che abbina parola e immagine in un contrasto essenziale di grande effetto. Con un grande ed equilibrato rispetto per estetica e contenuti, e la maniacale curiosità di chi ha sete di conoscere il mondo oltre le apparenze.

you know what I am sick of? What I am really really really sick of?

Homoerotic subtext.

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