Boy, 4, sings anti-gay hymn in Indiana church

Boy, 4, sings anti-gay hymn in Indiana church
It is happening here, it has happened here. Tomorrow belongs to me from Cabaret is something that is now. You have to be carefully taught as the song from South Pacific reminds us and this is a horrible example of filling toddler minds with hate and reinforcing adult agendas. From the Klan to these people the extremes are alive and well in the US of A. We need to be alert and vote these representatives out of congress and our government or we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

Winnaretta Singer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Winnaretta Singer Polignac was one of the strangest lovers Romaine Brooks ever encountered. Their affair began in 1905 when Romaine first moved to Paris. The laison effectively ended Winnaretta's affair with Olga de Meyer, who was married at the time and whose godfather (and purported biological father) was Edward VII. Princess Winnie then bedded composer and conductor Ethel Smyth. In the early 1920s Polignac became involved with pianist Renata Borgatti who Romaine also had an affair with. The princesses most famous affair was with the British socialite and novelist Violet Trefusis, with whom she had a loving but often turbulent and sadistic relationship.That lasted for over a decade. Her last lover was Alvilde Chaplin, future wife of the author James Lees-Milne, was involved with Singer from 1938 to 1943; the two women were living together in London at the time of Winnaretta's death.

CassandraLanger culture chats: Preview "Romaine Brooks Happy Birthday"

CassandraLanger culture chats: Preview "Romaine Brooks Happy Birthday"

Mary Beth Edelson: A long over due tribute

First disclaimers, as an art historian/working critic I have known Mary Beth Edelson and her work since the feminist revolution of the 1970s. This being said I have to say I was knocked out by how au current the content of her art is now. The escalating war on women's rights being forwarded by the most extreme politicians and their puppet masters on the planet and in the US of A only serves to make us realize how very revolutionary her art was then and how radical it is today.
"The most intimate works included in the exhibition are a series of unique 10” x 12” black and white photographs with oil and collage that picture the artist’s early 1970’s ritual performances. This initial exploration of the possibilities of feminist “body art” has been widely reproduced and influential for subsequent generations of artists." The publicity blurb hardly covers the ground of what Edelson has done since her famous president setting appropriation of Leonardo's Last Supper in which she replaced his supporters with great women heroes of the past and then recent history. The original which was bought by the Museum of Modern art is on view in working form at the gallery (547 West 27th St. 6th Floor).
Not only is Mary Beth a cutting edge with it now artist but she also has a wicked sense of humor. I was highly amused by her women with guns series that included Bride of Frankenstein, Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde, and assorted other pistol packing mamas drawn from grade B film noir.
In this telling exhibition, Edelson now age 80 has let fly her imagination covering one wall with cut-outs embodying her most radical images. This is a virtual collage of her inspirations and a wonderful homage to all that inspired the feminist revolution of the 1970s and beyond.
If you have any political leanings, if you desire to be an activist and part of the solution not the on-going problem do not miss this Edelson's exhibition nor the excellent essay by Eleanor Hartney that accompanies it in the catalogue. Your mind will be opened, your spirit inspired and your activism ignited.

n 1: On the Market

n 1: On the Market Love this. A moment of truth in the great hype that surrounds art and the darkly shadowed dealings of the delivery system. What this has to do with art? EVERYTHING! If you can't sell it, get it in a New York, Paris, Berlin etc. gallery you aren't an artist or so the corporate money machine wants you to believe. What would they have done with Rembrandt? Forget Nevelson and even Cindy Sherman who has made it knows how much the facade counts and how expensive the truly artificial is. Why do they do it--BECAUSE they can!

Cindy Sherman at the MOMA NYC

On my second go around of the show I overheard a young woman remark to her boy friend as she stood in front to one of Sherman's untitled pieces, Ugh! I don't like this--to which he replied --me neither and they both veered off toward less threatening pieces. What was this art that so repulsed these twenty somethings. A reprise of Courbet's Source which had been shoved off into a specially created closet for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's show a few years ago. Sherman's however, was a delightful riff on the whole idea of the gender/sex/identity theories floating around. It showed a dual torso with a pink ribbon bisecting it's middle. On one side a ruby red vagina directed your eye to the orchid like opening and on the other side of the divide a penis adorned with a cock ring and rising greeted your unbelieving eyes.
Why this was so off-putting to most of the audience in the MOMA the day we went is beyond me. Perhaps it is the on-going puritanicalism that has so frozen any possibility of comfort when it comes to discussing, indulging and experiencing the truly erotic in America? It's an area, as Sherman so rightly and pointedly suggests, we need to revisit again and again instead of shying away closing our eyes to what is in front of us.

Most viewers are drawn to images like these which are spectacular and rightly so. Only a really risk taking viewer would dare to linger in front of the Sherman I described. Go see the show and see for yourself. It is worth a first, second and third look because it is packed with provocative images by one of the best artists working today.

Tell the Park Service to phase out snowmobiles in Yellowstone Na: Thank You - Take Action!: NRDC's Save BioGems

Tell the Park Service to phase out snowmobiles in Yellowstone Na: Thank You - Take Action!: NRDC's Save BioGems Creeps on wheels indulging their infantile addictions at the expense of our environment, national treasures and the habitats that remain.