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Daniel Silver: Kissing (2024) [1] Statuario Altissimo marble and bronze, with a stainless steel baseplate   I.    It wasn't until I saw...

 Walter Benjamin and Stephen Alexander illumined by Paul Klee's blessed Angelus Novus (1920)     Readers familiar with this blog will kn...

  Jennifer Montgomery as Marie in The Deadman   (dir. Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, 1989)   "When Edouard fell back dead an emptines...

Keith Haring Untitled (For James Ensor) 1 (1989) Acrylic on canvas (36 x 72 in) The Keith Haring Foundation   Apparently, having penetrated...

Andres Serrano: Immersion (Piss Christ) (1987)  Cibachrome print photograph (150 x 100 cm) [1]   I.    For most British people, a piss arti...

The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...

Sex Pistols Photo by Richard Young (1976)   "We have passed beyond the absurd: our position is absolutely ridiculous." [1]     I...

Decay is the Laboratory of Life (SA/2023)     Because so much of my thinking has been informed by the work of D. H. Lawrence - and because,...

Black Sun Flower (SA/2023)     Is it just me, or is there not a suggestion in the flower on the left of the sun-wheel symbol [1] that Nazi ...

André Masson: Bullfighting (1937)     I.    In response to a recent post [1] , the Irish poet and playwright Síomón Solomon asks:   "I...

Disgust makes her revulsion clear in Disney Pixar's  Inside Out (dir. Pete Docter, 2015)   'Nothing is more important than for us t...

The Venus of Willendorf [1] Image: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien nhm-wien.ac.at     I.   I recently reflected on how the figure of a woman...