Tag Archives: Kiki Smith

nasty time

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) well, after the events of the last week (or, more accurately, forever) combined with the vote/fight over contraception in the senate this morning followed up by rush limbaugh’s crude insultingly misogynist remarks (which really feel … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, Kiki Smith, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, virginia republican party, women's strike force of virginia | Leave a comment

facing the book on ambition

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Dave

This new buzzword that is supposed to encapsulate the idealization of desire among aspiring women is known as the “ambition gap”, which as a precondition, makes the qualitative value of ambition as axiomatic motherhood statement as representing something remarkable, magnificent … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged carol bartz firing, carol hymowitz, Cindy Sherman, Karen Black, kembra pfahler, Kiki Smith, malli gero, marcia reynolds, matt marshall, meghan daum, peter cramer, samantha ettus, sheryl sandberg, Theodor Adorno, Timothy Leary, Vanessa Beecroft, women on boards, women on boards gender diversity director, world economic forum davos | Leave a comment

is that your hand on my thigh?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

A story of sex, secrets, and Ivy League denial or is it fantasy? Disavowal. Complicity. A career boost. Might as well milk it for what its worth. As if fawning over her is somehow a mark of distinction, A heaven-sent … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged andrew cuomo, arianna huffington, Camille Paglia, charles pagnam, Donald Kuspit, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Harold Bloom, katie roiphe, Kiki Smith, kim kardashian, Louise Bourgeois, marjorie strider, Nancy Spero, Naomi Wolf, third wave feminism, thomas frank the baffler | Leave a comment

a little piece of heaven?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

Prostrate anxiety? the thingamagig complex. Objectifying the human body as part of splitting off the corporeal from the spiritual and convicting poor Eros of demon status, branding her forever with the unfavorable P.R. she has had to endure. The short … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alex comfort, Damien Hirst, Edouard Manet, Faye Dunaway, Jacques Lacan, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kiki Smith, Martha Rosler, robert stoller, Sigmund Freud, Vanessa Beecroft | Leave a comment

force feeding a permeable society

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dave

The artist’s treatment of the individual does in many respects, though not definitively, reflect a culture’s attitude towards itself. There is a grey zone between kitsch and perversity, as if they gravitate to one another creating a rather violent aesthetic. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Body Worlds and the Cycle of Life Exhibition, broch, Carolee Schneemann, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Hans Bellmer, Jerry Saltz, Kiki Smith, mario wasserman, Marquis de Sade, otto kernberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, terence koh, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

giants: part metal packets

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Dave

Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Auguste Rodin, Brancusi, contemporary sculpture, david altmejd, david cronenberg, Jerry Saltz, Jim Henson, Jorge Luis Borges, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Michelangelo | Leave a comment

HEY Playboy! SPREAD or go DEAD: Go #@+* Participation…

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dave

In Barbara Ehrenreich‘s book, Hearts of Men, she talks about the launching of Playboy in 1953. At that time, a man who stayed single was suspected of homosexuality. The idea of being straight, of sound mind and body, and unmarried … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alex Leavitt, Amber Case, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Kruger, Carolee Schneemann, Chris Morran, Feminism, feminist art, Gabi Collette, Gwen Sharp, Henry Jenkins, Hugh Hefner, Joel Kuennen, Kiki Smith, Lisa Wade, Natacha Stolz, Russell Smith, sexist advertising | Leave a comment

Protest Art & Feminist Critique

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Dave

Political violence as a figurative art form. Nancy Spero’s career has been a statement against the pervasive abuse of power, militarism, and sexual predation.A feminist artist preoccupied with myth and the repetition of eternal themes within the context of contemporary social … Continue reading →