Category: Art
Remembering When There Was a Will to Fight Back Against T***p: The Madonna x Marilyn Minter Conversation in 2017
It’s difficult to ignore the fact that the public’s second time around with a Donald Trump presidency is decidedly less defiant than it was in [Read More…]
What Continues to Stand Out at Every Basquiat x Warhol Exhibition is How Each Artist Gleefully Exploited the Other
Every so often, a museum dredges up the collaboration that occurred between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1985. Most recently, that museum was Fondation [Read More…]
Some Are Buying The Shards Because They Have To, And Others To Flex Financially
In yet another instance that very much proves Andy Warhol’s aphorism, “Art is what you can get away with,” the shattering of an expectedly expensive [Read More…]
The Pornographic MLK Statue
One supposed it sounded “harmless” enough. “Brilliant” even. Hank Willis Thomas certainly must have thought it was when he pitched the idea. An “emulation” (or [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #45: Trying to Correlate the Climate Apocalypse With People’s Enjoyment of Art
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
Madonna Rendering Herself As A Naked and Immortal NFT Makes A Lot of Sense
If anyone is the “Mother of Creation”—at least when it comes to modern pop culture as we know it—it’s Madonna. She’s made that claim rather [Read More…]
Art Is Pain, Ostracism and Destitution; Heather Matarazzo Is People Pursuing Art
For whatever reason, it seems like Gaten Matarazzo is more of a household name than Heather (no relation), who blazed the trail for “awkward” (read: [Read More…]
Make Money First, “Do Art” Later: Madonna’s Madame X Theatre Tour Gets the Concert Video Treatment
The more time has gone on, the more Madonna can rely on self-referential material. Not only to reinvigorate it and apply it to the present, [Read More…]
Bob Ross and the Late Twentieth Century Commercialization of Art
The 1980s, in many ways, was the decade responsible for establishing the modern obsession with commercializing art (see: Patrick Nagel). As such, it can be [Read More…]
“LA Who Am I To Love You” Is The Norma Jeane Baker Explanation For the Inexplicable Pull to the City Where People Will Never Say “Damaged” Like It’s A Bad Thing
As Lana Del Rey begins to roll out the audio for her spoken word poetry album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, while we await [Read More…]
