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Lust at last: at age 70, illustrator Bob Ziering shows his gay erotic art for the first time
Bob Ziering's name might not be recognizable, but his drawings certainly are. For over 40 years he's produced illustrations for such clients as Simon ......(Continue Reading) Baring the truth: known for her energetic videotaped performances parodying the excesses of the art world, Andrea Fraser recently presented new works in
"What do I, as an artist, provide? What do I satisfy?" are the opening remarks of one of the characters in Andrea Fraser's tour-de-force video Official ......(Continue Reading)Sex in the imperial garden: an unpublished Chinese pillow book, or manual of love-making, in the Kinsey Institute is a remarkable version of a celebrated
Princess Su'e, heroine of the erotic Ming novel The Unofficial History of the Bamboo Garden (Zhu lin ye shi), was notorious for her sexual adventures, ......(Continue Reading)An esthetics of masochism? The author wonders if the curators of an Austrian exhibition on masochism in art erred in taking an overly literal approach
I suppose it was inevitable. When a friend asked what I was working on and I said, "I'm trying to write about masochism," she replied, "Isn't that tautological?" ......(Continue Reading)Into the deep: Richard Cork discovers that Manet was obsessed with more than urban alienation and erotic encounters
We think of Manet, essentially, as a metropolitan man. But as well as haunting Parisian boulevards, parks and bars in search of urban alienation and ......(Continue Reading)
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