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by Viviane on 07/22/2010

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  • N.Y.U. Doesn’t Want Film of Larry Rivers’s Naked Daughters – NYTimes.com – After it came to light last week that films and videotapes made by the artist Larry Rivers included footage of his two daughters naked, New York University informed his foundation that it did not want those materials included as part of the archive it was purchasing, said John Beckman, a spokesman for N.Y.U.<br />
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    That leaves the question of what to do with the films and tapes, which are now in the hands of the Larry Rivers Foundation and which Mr. Rivers’s younger daughter, Emma Tamburlini, wants turned over to her and her sister, Gwynne Rivers. Mr. Rivers died in 2002.
  • Buttman v. The Man: D.C.’s First Big Obscenity Trial in Decades Fails to Determine the Obscenity of Milk Enemas – The Sexist – Washington City Paper – But after the trial, jurors were more concerned with what wasn’t in Milk Nymphos: Violence. Rape. Bestiality. Kids. “These people were adults and they were willing. No one put a gun to their head,” Crawford said. “Had they brought a child out in pampers, then we would have been like, hell no,” Mordecai added. In opening arguments, the defense emphasized that the only entity forcing anyone to watch porn is the government. “The movies are not—and are not meant to be—distributed to these 14 strangers sitting in a federal courthouse,” defense attorney Paul Cambria said. The films feature “adults putting on a performance…for another adult, who would make that choice [to watch it] if that were his or her cup of tea.”
  • Stagliano Case: A Pyrrhic Victory? « Blogging Censorship – Not prepared to alienate anybody, Holder told a panel of congressmen that he will pursue, with limited resources, obscenity cases that have the “greatest potential for harm” while being aware of First Amendment considerations.
  • District To Pay Lesbian Teen $35K Over Prom Dispute : NPR – A school district in rural Mississippi that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her girlfriend has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit the ACLU filed on her behalf.

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1 SMOOTH HOTEL show held over for the summer

SMOOTH HOTEL features Barbara Nitke‘s provocative photographs of chic people misbehaving in anonymous hotel settings. The photography series is in collaboration with New York fashion designers Tom and Linda Platt. You can see it at 69 Gansevoort Street, NYC through August 22, 2010.

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06/25/2010 6:00 PMto07/31/2010 6:00 PM
toff8901 m Tom of Finland and then some (Feature Inc.)

TOM OF FINLAND : Untitled (preliminary drawing), 1989; graphite on paper; 11.75 x 8.25”

Location: Feature Inc. 131 Allen St. NYC 10002
Phone: 212.675.7772

Hours: Open Wednesday through Saturday 11AM – 6PM,  Sunday 1 – 6 PM (closed 4-10 July)

Sketches from the archive of the legendary Tom of Finland will once again – it’s easily been ten or so years – hang on the walls of Feature Inc. Tom of Finland, the artist who took masculine to macho and big to XXX large, clocked the butch gay clone phenomenon at its onset and blew it out. His super hung studs, with more t&a than any cheesecaker could aspire to, are packed for action yet also deliver knowing glances and looks that are full of the camaraderie and humor that his vision of a utopian man to man culture was based on. This exhibition is made in cooperation with the Los Angeles based Tom of Finland Foundation.

Partnering Tom of Finland is and then some, sexual imagery by a number of other contemporary artists who frequently use sexual imagery in their work. The range is wide, tho less poser/genital display and more twist. Participating artists are: Richard Kern, Judy Linn, Bastille, Jerry Phillips, Martin of Holland, Joe Brainard, Fred Esher, Larry Clark, Robert W. Richards and Brian Kenny, Sean Landers, Richard Prince, Robert Fontanelli, GB Jones, Jeff Burton, Mie Yim, Raymond Pettibon, Catherine Opie, Carl Ferrero, Kevin Larmon, Jared Buckhiester, Judy Rifka, Jeffrey Pittu, Scooter Laforge, Tyler Ingolia, David Frye, The Hun, Kinke Kooi, Juan Gomez, Rex, Gengoroh Tagame.

Tom of Finland, Touko Laaksonen by birth, was born on the south coast of Finland on May 8, 1920. He trained and worked in design and advertising and in 1973, left his job to work full time on his drawings. Between 1978 and 1988, Tom of Finland split his time between Helsinki and Los Angeles; he died of an emphysema–induced stroke on November 7, 1991. This exhibition is made in cooperation with the Los Angeles based Tom of Finland Foundation.

[via Thornyc]

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  • ‘Whip Smart’: Memoirs Of A Dominatrix | Fresh Air – Terry Gross interviews Melissa Febos.
  • Whip Smart: A Memoir – Google Books – Melissa Febos’ new memoir, Whip Smart, details the four years she spent working as a dominatrix.
  • Spencer Tunick nude Sydney installation | Pictures – Volunteers removed their clothes to participate in Spencer Tunick’s installation Mardi Gras: The Base on the steps of the Sydney Opera House…
  • March 19 ‘Sex’ art auction | Sexaminer – Phillips de Pury & Company’s Sex auction in London on March 19 features 221 nudes and sex-related works, with heavy emphasis on photography among a who’s who of contemporary artists and some 20th century masters
  • FetLife Latest Activity Organizer for Greasemonkey – The FetLife Lastest Activity page leaves much to be desired. A couple busy friends and all your other friends’ activities are blown right off the page. This script will organize all the latest entries in the Everything, Group Activity, and Writing tabs by user and place them into collapsible menus. Now you can actually see what your friends are doing, even if they only make one update a week.
  • Sexuality Information Access in U.S. Public Libraries – We are investigating the use of content filters on public library computers with Internet access. The priority research areas are access to information about sexuality and sexual reproductive health. We need help with this work, and request that people all over the United States visit their local public library and do some simple searches using the computers provided by the library.
  • Multigenerational Experiences with & Attitudes About Casual Sex Survey – I’m doing this study to try and gather data on multigenerational experiences and attitudes with/about casual sex so as to discover and present a more diverse, realistic and non-prescriptive picture of people’s sex lives and ideas about sex. The data will ideally be used for publication, but your answers are completely anonymous and will only be used anonymously.

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Bisexual Artists is seeking artists who identify as Bisexual (or with a label inclusive of bisexuality, such as Pansexual, Fluid, Omnisexual, Ambisexual or Queer), to submit paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, or sculptures relating to their experiences of living as a bisexual person. This project is an opportunity for artists to represent what being bisexual means to them and to help promote the wide variety of people who are bisexual.

Hangable works will be limited to 8′ in height and 6′ in length. Sculptures will be limited to a base of 2′ by 2′, with a height no greater than 8′. Works may be either pre-existing work or work created specifically for the event. There should also be a paragraph description of the content of the work and how it relates to issues of bisexuality, bisexual identities and/or bisexual visibility (no more than 500 words).

Deadline for submissions is August 1st 2009. Please click here for complete information, submission guidelines, etc.

Artists selected for the exhibition will have their work on display in the San Francisco art gallery of Good Vibrations on Polk Street from Thursday October 8th 2009 thru Thursday, November 26th 2009.

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10/09/2009to10/10/2009

Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival


THE BALTIMORE EROTIC ARTS FESTIVAL

#2: PROFESSIONAL SEX: Sex at Work and Sex as Work

CONTACT: Curator, Suzannah Gerber (email: BaltimoreEroticFestival@gmail.com)

WHERE’S THE BEAF?

The Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival (BEAF) showcases international, national, local and emerging Sex Positive artwork and educational programming for all lifestyles and sexualities, including workshops, film screenings, literature and distributing safer sex supplies. BEAF aims to provide a safe, friendly atmosphere for all communities to comingle, while providing a relatively uncensored, rare opportunity for artists to show works that otherwise would may not be shown to the public.  The Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival is the region’s largest festival of its kind, giving visibility to artists of alternative lifestyles and alternative expressions. It is our belief that artists and performers working in this field or who represent sexual minorities are not given adequate voice or representation in the arts- and here is their chance.

Charity/Beneficiary: A large percentage of proceeds go to Non-profit organizations such as The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF). In the interest of supporting our communities, BEAF is looking for organizations in addition to the NCSF to benefit from BEAF 2009.

Submissions: Visual Art in all media, Performance, Installation, Film and more!

Submissions are requested to be under 10 images, not required. For performances, links to video are preferred, but short video clips and images are also accepted, and a CV of recent performances required. For installations please send examples of previous work, a description of the installation desired for this event, and expected dimensions and material/equipment needs.

Vendors: Space is limited.  One vendor per type (eg. One toy vendor, one video vendor etc). Sponsors/Advertising: Different levels are available for different needs and budget levels.  Previous sponsors include Sugar, Spinster Yarns and Fibers.

Interactive performances: We’re looking for performers for the following: Sponge bath nurse, office lap dance, human statues, Strip-o-grams, and bondage sculpture

Last year’s festival had over 800 attendees, and over 150 participants, featuring artists such as Annie Sprinkle, Maria Beatty, Midori, Shine Louise Houston, Julie Simone, Lee Harrington, Gallant Studios (Liberty In Restraint), Atomic Cheesecake, Laure Drogul, Liena Vayzman, Jim Duvall, Justin Credible, Stephanie Crabe, Sacred Marks Sanctuary, Klawdya Rothschild, Greggy Glitterati and 9th Life.

Potential artists this year include: Lydia Lunch, Charles Gatewood, David Lachapelle, Nina Hartley, Carol Leigh (Scarlot Harlot), Lochai, Tristan Taormino, Carol Queen, Barbara Carellas, and many others.

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For more information contact Suzannah Gerber (email: suzannahgerber@gmail.com)

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La Esencia de Klimt

by Viviane on 07/02/2008

in art

klimt La Esencia de Klimt

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