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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Things are getting steamy on stage in a controversial new play in Berlin featuring mother-son incestual sex, nudity and dirty doctor games!
A number of shocking sex scenes await theatre-goers in Bruce Labruce’s new play ‘The Bad Breast’ at the HAU 2 (Hebbel am Ufer, Haus 2) theatre.
From a mom-and-son couple enjoying a passionate ‘69′ embrace with their heads between each other’s legs to a woman flashing her breasts and private parts – such scenes may fascinate, surprise and repulse viewers, but is it even art?
 The mother-on-son action in 'The Bad Breast' is certainly wild, but is it art? Either way, the piece by the Canadian author, playwright and film-maker (46) certainly caught the audience off-guard with its bizarre doctor sex games when it premiered on December 10.
The story revolves around a mother who has developed an incestual relationship with her son after breast-feeding him for ten years, leading her to start seeing a psychoanalyst specializing in the female breast.
But why the need for all the pornographic scenes?
A spokesman for the theatre told BILD that Labruce comes from a film background and as an artist he often grapples with the theme of pornography.
The ‘B.Z.’ newspaper described him as “the King of homo-pornos”. He has even made a film about sex within Germany’s notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group which was screened at the Berlinale Film Festival.
“I am primarily an entertainer who wants to show another view of feminine sexuality. The play isn’t really pornographic, it is a farce, a satire,” Labruce told ‘B.Z.’
 An actor buries his face in his colleague's nether regions - just one of the spectacles the play has to offer.  Feminine hysteria is also a theme touched on in the piece by Canadian playwright and filmmaker Bruce Labruce.  An actress during dress rehearsals on December 9.  The mother-on-son action in 'The Bad Breast' is certainly wild, but is it art? Source: Bild.de
Photos: SABINE BRINKER plotpoint
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
By day it’s a haven for art lovers, but by night it’s a swingers’ club!
An orgy of half naked women in leather awaits visitors to one Vienna museum, at last when the sun goes down.
And some were shocked by the exhibits in the apparently-normal museum. There’s a mirrored area, a gynecologist’s chair and a sado-masochism room!
 Two women kiss on a gynaecologist’s chair. IS IT A MUSEUM OR A NIGHTCLUB?
Visitors to Vienna’s Secession Museum are confronted by the unusual exhibit in the evenings. The lights go out in the exhibition areas and the place turns into a cesspool of lust.
There is group sex in the middle of the museum with painted women in leather. Some have more on, others wear high heels and G-strings.
One couple amuse each other in one corner, while a girl is kissed in a gynaecologist’s chair on the opposite side if the room.
‘The Association of Sociable Revellers’ moved in on February 20 – and they display sex in a very special way.
It is allegedly a cultural project from artist Christoph Büchel.
The Swiss has set up a swinger’s club for €90,000 in the same museum which displays the famous piece of art ‘Beethoven Frieze’ by Gustav Klimt.
It is supported with a cultural donation of over €10,000 from the Swiss public foundation Pro Helvetia.
Although the swingers’ club room is only open to adults during the day, politicians are up in arms.
Councilor Ursula Stenzel, who gave the project her blessing, is now less pleased: “I signed the approval only under massive protest. It was always spoken of as an art project with a nightclub, but never as a swingers’ club.
“That is monstrous.”
She described the project as a misuse of taxpayer’s money, as it has apparently been subsided by the state.
Gabi Högler, one of the club’s managers, doesn’t understand the complaints: “We want to give as many people as possible the opportunity to overcome their inhibitions and we want to offer the possibility for them to simply watch a swinger’s club for themselves.”
 Orgy in the mirror room.  Anything and everything is allowed...  ...public sex in the middle of the museum  A performance on the stage of the swingers' club by artist Christoph Büchel, directly next to 'Beethoven Frieze’, the most famous art work from Gustav Klimt.  Sexual 'art': Two guests enjoy the show.  When it's not getting so hot the guests can enjoy the atmosphere and have something to drink.  This visitor has dressed for the occasion.  The Secession Museum is the centre of the Viennese Art Nouveau movement.  Two women kiss on a gynaecologist’s chair. Source: Bild.de
Photos: TZ Österreich Fuhrich
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
A collection of impressive works of art created using duct, electrical, packing and masking tape.
Street Art With Masking Tape By Buff Diss: Melbourne based artist Buff Diss uses masking tape to create this awesome street art.
 Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium Tape Installations by Rebecca Ward: These installations are site-specific works that are dependent upon the space they occupy. Utilizing the existing lines, and angles, each piece created is informed by the individual site and its unique linear placement. These installations are inherently architectural. And here is the rest of the interesting work – gallery.
 Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium (image credit: behance)  Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium Tape Sculptures by Mark Jenkins: These street installations are created using box sealing tape by American artist Mark Jenkins. Most widely known for the street installations, his work has been featured in various publications.
 Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium (image credit: simonswork) Packing Tape Art: This is the artwork of Mark Khaisman, artist based in Philadelphia who creates artwork from brown packing tape. ‘I work on the light easel, applying translucent brown packing tape on clear Plexiglas panels, the layers built up to create degrees of opacity.’
 Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium 1700 Squirrels: This is a drawing of 1700 squirrels created by one person working from 8am to 10pm for fourteen days in a row. It was done using ¼ inch flatback tape and he tried to draw each of these squirrels in their own unique poses.
 Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium Wall Art Made With Electrical Tape: ‘Woody Allen black electrical tape portrait’.
 Tape as Art Medium Duct Tape Art: Artist Joe Girandola created these amazing duct tape art by keeping minute details in mind. Though Joe is classically trained as a stone carver in Italy, but he has veered away from the media, concentrating on three-dimensional drawings and paintings using a variety of materials. And one of his medium of choice is Duct Tape. His drawings using various colors of tape reflects ingenuity and creativity.
 Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium  Tape as Art Medium Source: Crookedbrains
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Environmental art can take many forms. One of the most striking is when an artist takes a mass-produced material that is usually discarded after one use and makes it into something enduring and entirely new. That’s exactly what Ohio artist Mark Langan does with cardboard: he transforms this interesting but often-overlooked material into works of art so unique and impressive that it’s hard to believe their origins.
 Corrugated Art: Incredible Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures Langan’s goal is to encourage people to look at materials in a new way. He believes that corrugated cardboard has interesting characteristics which are usually ignored; by bringing those characteristics to the forefront, he’s encouraging us all to rethink our perceptions of what’s useful and what’s not. While most of us would recycle (or simply throw away) old cardboard boxes, this art shows us what could be done with them instead.
 Corrugated Art: Incredible Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures Using nothing more than corrugated cardboard, a hobby knife and non-toxic glue, Langan creates three-dimensional pictures that are detailed and full of life. His work ranges from corporate logo pieces to recreations of famous works of art. Each piece can take up to 100 hours to complete, and when finished they are truly striking.
 Corrugated Art: Incredible Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures Langan’s work has been featured at environment-themed events and in the boardrooms of major companies. He makes no claims to being the most environmentally-friendly artist out there; in fact, he denies having much impact on the waste stream at all. But he says, simply, that his art is “something rather than nothing.” Which is to say that he’s made something beautiful where before there was only a plain brown box.
 Corrugated Art: Incredible Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures The artist hopes that his art will inspire others to ask what they can do to help the recycling movement. This impressive corrugated art isn’t going to save the world, of course. But if it helps a few people to see that they can help make a dent in the waste stream with simple actions, then Langan’s goal will be fulfilled.
 Corrugated Art: Incredible Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures Source: Dalimunthe
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
 Ants Invade Colombian Congress in Unique Art Display Hundreds of large black- and brown-colored fiberglass ants covered the facade, columns and windows of the Colombian Congress building in an unusual sculpture by artist Rafael Gomezbarros, who told Efe that the work symbolizes human migration.
With his work depicting an invasion of the ants, which “represent immigration, globalization and displacement, I’m trying to force a reflection on what we experience and see on a daily basis, and also to raise awareness about our monuments,” Gomezbarros said.
A total of 1,300 ants, each measuring 95 centimeters (just over three feet) in length, were mounted on the facade of the legislative headquarters.
Gomezbarros made the figures using a special resin and fiberglass and has dubbed his creation “Casatomada” (House Occupied).
The sculptor explained that the work is not political in nature, since the exhibit “does not go beyond artistic expression, and in a sense is more social than political because it seeks to call attention to monuments.”
The unique work will be mounted at the Congress building through March 26 and then two days later will be installed at the Los Heroes (Heroes) monument, located at a major intersection on the north side of the Colombian capital.
The 37-year-old Gomezbarros, who studied plastic arts in Bogota, said that in June “Casatomada” will be taken out of the country and be exhibited in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, the United States, Canada, Spain and Germany.
The sculptor told Efe that one of his dreams is for his work to “invade” Madrid’s Puerta de Alcala and other monuments in the Spanish capital.
He added, however, that before he can export his creation he will need to find one or more international firms to help him transport the fiberglass insects and display them at monuments in different parts of the world.
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
There is a widespread attitude today which maintains that art, in all its forms, occupies a privileged position with respect to conventional morality – that it is separate from and superior to that morality, and not subject to its standards. This attitude is completely erroneous.
 Censored! The philosopher Jacques Maritain provides us with a plain and pointed response to this shallow and impoverished way of looking at things simply by calling attention to the common sense truth that the artist is a man before he is an artist. His point is that the artist is first and foremost a rational agent, a human being, and as such he is subject to exactly the same moral obligations as is the rest of humanity. His status as an artist gives him no special moral privileges, and least of all does it place him entirely outside the realm of conventional morality.
There are two immediate implications of this, the first having to do with the artist’s personal life, the second having to do with his professional life as an artist. The artist does not have leave to become a liar, a depraved person, or a thief, no more than does any other man. And as far as his professional life is concerned, the artist has to meet the same basic obligation as does every other human fabricator – that is, he must make sure that the products of his hands reflect the truths of the moral order. Just as no artist has a license to act immorally in his personal life, so too he has no license to produce immoral works of art.
 Banished? The responsibility of the artist in this regard is especially grave, for in many cases he is someone who has been gifted by God with unusual talents, and because of this fact he is able to have a particularly powerful in-fluence on other people. And the greater the talents, the greater the influence, for good or ill. And anyone who thinks he is immune to the deleterious effects of immoral art is only kidding himself or herself.
An artist, if he uses his talents as they were intended to be used, can be a formidable force for good in any society, and indeed, if he is a truly outstanding artist, his influence can extend across many societies and down many centuries. One thinks of the positive impact of poets such as Dante and Shakespeare, of musicians such as Haydn and Mozart. On the negative side, if an artist abuses his God-given talents, he can be the cause of deep and enduring evil. What if an artist should choose not to live up to his moral responsibilities as an artist?
 What If? What if he adopts the attitude described above and claims that art is not bound by the rules of moral law? He decides to use his art as a means of actively undermining the principles of conventional morality. Should the society in which such an artist lives and practices his art consider itself helpless in the face of irresponsibility of this kind, an irresponsibility that often parades itself as ‘artistic integrity’?
 Not All! Not at all! Every society has not only the right, but the solemn duty, to protect itself against influences which, if left unchecked, could conceivably lead to the very dissolution of that society. And few things can prove to be more harmful to the health and well-being of any society than blatantly immoral art.
‘But, my goodness’, you might ask me, ‘you certainly are not talking about censorship, are you’?
I certainly am. We have been so bamboozled by carelessly liberal ways of thinking that we have to come to believe that censorship is the most heinous thing on the face of the earth. This is nonsense. As has been recognized by all sound thinkers since at least the time of Plato, censorship is a perfectly legitimate, and necessary, way by which any society seeks to protect and preserve the moral well-being of its citizens.
 Keep Your Priorities Straight. We are able, with much zeal, to unconditionally outlaw smoking in public places (which is a very strong form of the censorship of behavior), and yet see fit to allow, in the name of ‘freedom of speech’, the rampant proliferation of the most pernicious and soul-polluting kind of pornography.
Talk about not having one’s priorities straight!
Written by: Gabriella
Source: gabriella50.wordpress.com
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
 Vajramrita Vajramrita is a rare and unusual form and not commonly represented as a central figure in art. The deity mostly appears as part of an iconographic compendium such as the Vajravali of Abhayakaragupta, Bari Gyatsa, Sadhana-samucchaya, or in the group of Ten Wrathful Ones. There are four forms of the complex deity that have the name ‘amrita’ in common and they are all grouped together in the Vajravali literature. Each is described with a retinue of deities and a complex mandala. Several other forms of the deity, usually in a more simplified form, appear in other traditions. There are two deities similar in appearance that can cause confusion in identification: Humkara and Avalokita Samvara. (See the Vajramrita Outline Page).
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