Greatest British Painter of the 20th Century: Francis Bacon at the MET

Although, this post is several months late (especially since I was first at the exhibit its opening week), it is never too late to discuss and view the wonderful British painter Francis Bacon. The show at the MET this past spring and summer elucidated the powerful impact of Bacon's paintings on the viewer. This was the first chance I have ever had to view so many of Bacon's work in one visit. Here are a couple of photos I snapped at the exhibit:

I will include a through review of the exhibit shortly, its midterm season at the moment, cut me a break!

The Cultural Arbitrators of YOUTUBE

Last month an ART video i made, entitled "AN EROTIC TALE" was taken offline and i received a warning from the highly esteemed youtube arbitrators, but there is NO NUDITY in the video, and all of the content was FOUND ON YOUTUBE. The more titillating scenes are derived from fan videos of famous popular movies such as the Blue Lagoon, Wild Things and Jungle Fever. I am not exactly sure what they consider inappropriate considering all i have done is recontextualized and edited their material to flow to Madonna's "Erotica". This erotic tale has expanded to address the arcane distinction between erotica and pornography in this country as well as the legacy of Puritan moralism on supposedly democratic inventions. This video was originally created for a one night gallery show in New York City, where the video was projected on a wall of the venue. Furthermore, this was made with the intention to be work of art, NOT something for old men surfing youtube to masturbate to.

I have posted the "controversial" video here with the hope that it will not be censored for attempting to address how BIZARRE the erotic truly is.

Besides hating on youtube, this new semester has been extremely busy and tiresome, it feels as though i don't even have a second breath, but i sort of like it that way. I am currently taking a course on Arts Criticism so hopefully sometime soon i will post some of my commentary on legendary arts critics such as James Agee, Pauline Kael and Noel Carroll, as well as some of my own reviews of recent exhibitions. Until then, keep it real.

FUN TIME

I love photoshop.

ATTENTION

ATTENTION
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The video i made for a gallery show this summer in New York was taken off of youtube.
.... and i found all of the clips on youtube

WATCH IT NOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny44LSMzB1Y

PLAY/PRACTICE

summer session!

THE WEATHER IS BEAUTIFUL, GET OFF THE INTERNET AND GO ENJOY YOURSELF!

This American Life is truly a god send. and on the top of my reading list is "Nausea" because nothing exists that is greater than ourselves. 

Yo BK You On Kings

Well I guess I have figured out how the Brooklyn Museum is making a little extra cash money during the hard-times, by offering its renovated entrance to network television. It sounds sort of like the Bk museum is selling out, but hardly, the facade of the building located on Eastern Parkway is featured in the new prime-time drama "Kings". The show imagines the city of New York as the capital of a North Atlantic monarch, and the entrance of the Brooklyn Museum is meant to be the king's city palace, which is actually supposed to be situated where the Time Warner building is in Columbus Circle, according to the view from inside the castle, and yes I do have quite a bit of free time and pay attention when shows are filmed on location, support New York.

I have always loved the Bks doors and am proud to see it appear as such an important structure in "Kings". And by the way, its an amazing show, it just aired and already made me sob, plus the first episode is based on the David and Goliath story, how can that go wrong. Check it out on Hulu, thats the only way those of us living in the stone age without televisions can watch it, but I heard it normally airs on sunday nights too. 

In other Brooklyn news, I watched Notorious, the film based on Biggie Smalls life, well the first half... um really? what was that? Although the guy that was supposed to be Puffy had a nice trash stash. 

Blair's Nflick Queue

LIVE FLESH

Heres the trailer for the Pedro Almodovar dvd which arrived from my netflicks queue. its a keeper alright.

More on the movie front.... this Friday, The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brighton is playing Rocky Horror Picture Show at Midnight! Lets dress up and scream at the screen all night long!

 

I'm Coconutty for Milk

Gus Van Sants' Harvey Milk for Next Prez!

I am very pleased that Sean Penn won best actor at the academy awards for his portrayal of Harvey Milk in Milk this past sunday night. It was one of the best films I have seen in theaters in a while, sorry Benjamin Button n that vampire love flick, you just didn't make my list. I am usually not happy with the acad-awardz but this year they had me covered. I'm also into the fred astaire revival. 

Other things I am currently into: basement shows in Allston, Ninjasonik was a lotta fun, although it smelt like gas and some guy pushed himself against me and rubbed my waist. Yeah, that when I decided to get some air. And Thermaflu, its a wonderful product. 

Disco Biscuts is playing Boston this weekend. Checkz it out. 

Annnnddd amazing news LEONARD COHEN is coming to Boston in May! but the tickets range from 350 to a thousand buck-a-roos, anyone want to get me an early birthday present? please? hes already 74, how many tours does he really have left in him?

The Fine Arts are lacking in my life right now, except that I recently received my February issue of Art In America, I have three midterms coming up wayyy too soon for comfort, but hopefully I will have a moment to spare. My love, Sid Vicious graces the cover, highlighting a review of the Elizabeth Peyton exhibit, previously reviewed by muah. It looks like its gonna be a good time.

Allston Brighton Art Expo -- Be There You Square!

The 23rd Annual Allston-Brighton Art Exposition is coming up and will be on display March 28th through April 25th at the Honan-Allston Branch Library! Gotta represent my Bostonia hood, and if you attend, you will hopefully have the chance to purchase a Blair Spotswood Dowd original at a bargain price, which is worth the trip if you ask me.

Other happenings around town include the anticipated ninjasonik and japanther show tomorrow at le gay gardens, which also happens to be practically across the street from mi casa, i'm ready to throw down

South End Surmise

Apparently the hot hip place for galleries in le Bostonia is the South End, I had heard this before, but never had the chance to check it out, or remember that gallery crawls are the first friday of the month (I always remember on the second friday). Now very exciting news, I may be lending my services, for no price, to a South End contemporary art institution, that for now will remain nameless, in case at the last minute the owner drops me. I am very excited to check out the neighborhood, and my new-- new years eve resolution is to explore Boston more. I hope I'm not just feeling adventurous because we've had such nice weather the past two days.

Talking Bout My Girl

Tracey Emin on the loose! This video is kinda old, but I just can't seem to get enough of it. I want to be free like her and make self expressive art with my vomit

Naive Realism

Ah its that time of year once again. Summer internships. what am I going to do with myself? I am still looking for a job/internship for spring! and all around me people are talking about summer. We spend so much time planning. I am overwhelmed with applications for everything. I want a break, and then I have to realize that once again its valentines day. This time I will let no one ruin the holiday for me. I will ruin it for myself. The plan is a saturday afternoon trip to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (i.e. the ICA). Hopefully the museum will be worth the trek from my Allston apartment, two T trains and the airport shuttle bus. The Shepard Fairey exhibit Supply and Demand recently opened, the ICA was nice enough to send me a poster for the show, now hanging in my bedroom. I will hopefully post a review of the exhibit soon, and I am also hoping to see Milk this weekend. if i can get out of bed.