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New Orleans: The Art of the Corpse by Andre Codrescu

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:57:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: New Orleans sank into the funk like a corpse into the embrace of the earth. The rows of fridges lining the streets looked by moonlight like primed canvasses ready for painting. The city’s artists, who have been enthralled since John James Audubon by New Orleans’ embrace of decay and death (Audubon purchased all his American birds dead from the French Market) were not long in reacting. New Orleans music and art had always been inspired by funk ... Now here was all this funk, magnified a thousand times. And here were all these metal tombs stretching as far as the eye could see, more numerous than the graves they resembled. ,,, In a short time, there were thousands of art works in the city, an exhibition that stretched for miles, Today, most of the show is closed. New Orleans always renewed its armies of ghosts after every disaster of its 500-year history, but this last addition came with its own unique, absolutely new style.

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When New Orleanians returned to their homes after the Storm they were struck by a smell that has no equivalent in recent American history: a stupefying blend of decaying animal flesh as layered as the city’s history. The sweet rankness of animal and human death floated around the city like it might have in the aftermath of a Yellow Fever epidemic of the 18th century, but added to it was the putrid efflorescence of 20th century grocery store meat blossoming inside thousands of refrigerators. For a week or so after the Storm, when the city wallowed in its filth and misery without help from the United States of America, which they had mistakenly believed they were part of, people helped each other drag the taped-up fridges unto the street. Rows and rows of white metal boxes cradling inside generations of maggots began to fill the narrow streets of America’s oldest city. Waves of putrefaction rolled over the streets.

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The Ins and Outs of Shaving Your Pubes

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:57:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I've been wondering why Botticelli's Venus and the Odalisque's (among other famous nudes) were painted without body hair. I thought that with body hair these paintings would be more like raunchy porn than art, (although porn can be art). Europeans would have learned about body hair removal - the importance of hygiene from Africans and Arabs.

http://www.orientalist-art.org.uk/odalisque.html

I guess I should have asked during one of the many art history courses that I took ... but instead I learned the answer from Fox News. LOL

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Fox News' "sexpert" Yvonne K. Fulbright has a new column up today describing the "ins and outs" of shaving your pubes

Are you bare there? With summer just around the corner, you may now be thinking about joining the ranks of the totally shaven

It's no longer simply a style concern for porn stars; it seems that everyone now - guy or gal - is giving at least some thought to pubic hair care. I certainly get enough e-mails from male readers about going hairless. They want to know: What's the deal?

Hair removal in contemporary Western cultures is actually not a modern day phenomenon. Such practices have been prevalent in cultures worldwide, like Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Uganda, and the Tobriand Islands

a hint of hair or going totally bare has throughout history been equated with the highest of beauty and femininity

Women in the Middle Ages, as seen in Botticelli's late 15th century painting "The Birth of Venus," were known to have kept their wares entirely shaven

Read the full column here

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The Middle East has Culture

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:11:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The writer does not equate terrorism with hooliganism, rather he is illustrating how our perceptions of the Middle East are influenced by stories and images. We can never conceive of the best if we are only shown the worst.

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Having a good time: Sirine Saba and Nitzan Sharron in Baghdad Wedding. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Imagine you were back in the 1980s and living outside Britain. Every time you turn on the TV looking for news of home

Britain only makes the news in your host country if angry skinheads are busy demolishing stadiums or hurling empty beer cans at bystanders. Day and night, that is all you see. You try to tell the people in your host country about Shakespeare

even about cricket

yet all they want to know is what makes the English male so prone to violence

In my play, Baghdad Wedding, I wanted to depict secular, educated, fun-loving Iraqis who are as far removed from participating in terror and extremism

Referring to one particular scene from the play, an English playwright told me: "I never imagined Iraqis sitting around discussing literature the way we do." This failure of the imagination is perhaps a reflection of the lack of interest in modern Arabic culture as it really is

Audio slideshow: Cosmic Imagery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:48:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A short introduction to scientific images: nature, the cosmos.

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John Barrow introduces some of the most striking scientific images from his book Cosmic Imagery.

Elephant Paints Self-Portrait

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:38:27 GMT

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I'm a huge fan of breasts. Always have been

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:11:42 GMT

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But the Old Masters couldn't paint them. And, even worse, they are now losing their charisma through over-exposure

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Like all the other young owners of chests without breasts, I looked long and hard at the bare-breasted women in the National Geographic, wondering if I was destined to have the long pointy kind or the round kind, hoping I wouldn't end up with the kind that had huge nipples and not much else

breasts in art, which were usually small, pale, understated lumps, whether the owners were painted standing up by Cranach or lying down by Titian

You know from the way that Goya painted the breasts on his naked Maja that he had never seen any

Breasts in sculpture were only slightly more interesting. The breasts of the Venus de Milo

always seemed to me to be peculiarly foreshortened

Leonardo didn't do breasts at all

Michelangelo parked his like lumps of putty on the muscular chests of his boy models

What is worse is that breasts have lost their charisma

Now that you can buy them, bosoms are over

DIY Digital Studio: Tips & Gear to Improve your Art

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:39:33 GMT

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The Musician

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PLUS: Behind the Scenes of Stop-Motion Turned 3D

Naïve Art

Tue, 01 May 2007 01:37:01 GMT

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What is Naïve Art?

What is Naïve Art?
For many, the term “naïve art” conjures up the verdant valleys and happy hamlets of Anna Mary Robertson (”Grandma”) Moses, the luxuriant vegetation and exotic jungles of Henri Rousseau, and the palmy South Sea Isles and pristine Tahitian women of Paul Gauguin. Brazilians identify naïve art with the fascinatingly colorful figures of Ivonaldo, the folkloristic motifs of Rosina Becker do Valle and the insightful Biblical interpretations of Jose de Freitas. Eastern European naïve art is associated with the powerful village scenes of Ivan Generalic and the floral farmlands of Ivan Rabuzin. In Israel, we recall the rich Biblical scenes and Cabalistic imagery of the Safed zeigermacher (watchmaker), Shalom Moscovitz, lovingly known as “Shalom of Z’fat,” revel in the anachronistic phantasmagoria of Gabriel Cohen, and take delight in the brilliant compositions of Odessa by Yefim Ladizhinsky.

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