Archive for the 'art' Category
This is interesting: Details has an article about a man who repairs ‘Real Dolls,’ those eerily lifelike sex dolls that look as though they weigh a ton and cost between $6,500 and $50,000 a piece. For Ryan Gosling fans, the Real Doll played a key role in Lars and the Real Girl, a film that [...]
A promising display of fetish shoes just came and went at the Galerie du Passage in Paris (closed Nov. 3). I wish I could have gone. The display, or installation, was a collaboration between the shoe designer Christian Louboutin and the filmmaker David Lynch, who produced photographs for the exhibition.
Leonora Oppenheim, of CoolHunting, writes, [...]
dirty glassware.
When your Lladro collection feels lacking…
Lucio Bubacco.
barbican.org.uk/seduced.htm
I loved this exhibition. It’s brave, smart, and thorough. After so many tedious ‘erotic art’ shows, this was the first I’ve seen that absolutely nailed it.
Instead of showing us another room full of reclining nudes and soft-pedaled eroticism punctuated by the occasional ever-so-shocking red-figure vase painting, they swept the centuries and laid bare the [...]
Eros in Modern Art
March 1 through July 22 2007
BA-CA Kunstforum (Vienna, Austria)”Exhibits range from French interpretations oriented on Paul Cézanne and Edouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Auguste Rodin to the erotic pictures by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele in Austria; from works by Classical Modern artists including Pablo Picasso, Kees van Dongen and Joan [...]
toys of note: spoon, by myla.
After a conversation tonight that touched on toys, it occurred to me that it might be useful to compile a few notes on toys (etc.) on this blog. I’m starting with one I haven’t tried but would like to explore: the Spoon, by Myla. Myla’s been around for a while but it only [...]
fetish: LaRare, Paris.
I’m always interested in the development of haute-pervure. Thierry Mugler and Nathalie Elharrar have formed a high-end fashion label for fetishwear called LaRare, a bit along the lines of the luxury designs you’d find in boutiques like Coco de Mer. I hope they’re in touch with Betony Vernon, who is also based in [...]
