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29 Mar 2024

Piss Artists 1: Andy Warhol (Piss and Oxidation Paintings)

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Cover of the exhibition catalogue  Gallerie Daniel Blau (Munich) 6 March - 13 May 1998     I.    For most British people, a piss artist is...
4 Sept 2023

A Brief History of the Mug Shot From Alphonse Bertillon to Andy Warhol

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Top: Alphonse Bertillon's self-taken mugshot (1900) Bottom: A canvas from Andy Warhol's Most Wanted Men series (1964)   I.    Tha...
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2 Sept 2023

On the Evil Genius of the Image: Notes on the Mugshots of Donald Trump and Hermann Göring

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Mugshots of Donald Trump (24 August, 2023)  and Hermann Göring (22 June 1945)     So much has already been said about Donald Trump's in...
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3 Apr 2023

In Memory of Georgia Brown (1933-1992)

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Georgia Brown as seen in A Study in Terror   (dir. James Hill, 1965)   "A carefree, goodtime girl you see / Queen of swell society ...&...
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29 Mar 2023

Reflections on Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)

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Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)  Top row: Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein and...
14 Mar 2021

Picture This: In Praise of the Photo Booth

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  Although we might trace the history of the photo booth back to the late 19th-century, I think it's fair to say that what most people...
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23 Feb 2020

Forever Dead and Lovely: Notes on Melanie Pullen's High Fashion Crime Scenes

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Melanie Pullen: Untitled (ELLE) , 2014  From the series High Fashion Crime Scenes (2003-17) melaniepullen.com If, like me...
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29 May 2019

Simian Aesthetics 1: The Case of Congo the Chimp

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Congo and one of his more mature works Everyone knows that monkeys make great copyists. We even have a verb in English, to ape , m...
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17 Nov 2018

Decorating the World with David Bromley

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Anglo-Aussie artist David Bromley, who is best known for his images of youngsters that nostalgically recreate a memory (or fantasy) ...
8 Oct 2018

On Goya's Red Boy

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Goya: Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (1787-88) Commonly referred to as Goya's Red Boy Commissioned by an aristocratic ...
5 Oct 2018

Wigging Out with Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol:  Self-Portrait   from the  Fright Wig   series  (1986) I. A wig is a head covering made from human or animal...
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5 Jun 2018

Andy Warhol's Decorated Penis

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  Andy Warhol: Decorated Penis (c. 1957) According to the critic Michael Moon, much of the revisionary queer power of Warhol'...
14 Apr 2017

Steven Shaviro on Warhol's Failure to Make Space

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Someone recently compared me to Steven Shaviro, the American philosopher and cultural critic. Whether this comparison flatters, insults...
19 Dec 2015

The Case of Evelyn McHale (The Most Beautiful Suicide in the World)

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Photo of Evelyn McHale, by Robert C. Wiles.  For poets, there is nothing more romantic than the suicide of someone young; particu...
1 May 2015

Why I Love Richard Avedon

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Selfie in the Manner of Richard Avedon   Stephen Alexander (2015) New York has been home to many great photographers. But perha...
19 Sept 2014

Calimocho: On the Politics of Wine and Cola

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  Andy Warhol: Coca-Cola (3) , 1962 Probably the most powerful argument for choosing a cool can of Coke over a fine glass of wine rem...