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David Wojnarowicz Gets It Better by Sholem Krishtalka (via Back to the World)
One Day This Kid… was made in 1990 and, twenty years on, I can’t help but think that Wojnarowicz, in a single print, has eclipsed the totality of the It Gets Better campaign. For one thing, each of the horrors that Wojnarowicz enumerates are still true, twenty years on (as I read through it, I can easily think of news items from the past year that bear these phrases out). Given his art-world fame, one might be tempted to infer that It Got Better for Wojnarowicz. But that’s not the point, and he knew it. (And, eighteen years after his death, conservatives are still attacking his work.)
See also: Q&A with Dan Cameron, curator of the New Museum’s 1999 David Wojnarowicz retro (via Paddy Johnson)
I think that David was pretty agonized a lot of the time, to be honest with you. He just didn’t understand why someone who wants to actualize their life, their consciousness, in the broadest and richest possible way, why they’d become targets for people who want to shut that down. There was an essential confusion with him, he’d ask it over and over again: What is the source of homophobia in our society, and why do we not look at homophobia as a disease the same way we understand racism and sexism are bad and negative, and that they harm and even kill people? We’ve never had that national conversation, and David insisted that it be in the forefront of discussion of his work.
It's Top Ten Aesthetic/Art Event time. (best or worst) (of 2010 or the last decade, we are lax about rules)
Send us your lists and links (so we can source images.)
You can be a detailed over-achiever like Anthony Easton
or you can complain a lot like R.M. Vaughan
Subtle self promotion is welcome.
Blatant self promotion is only welcome if you make me laugh.
Our sort of deadline is Dec. 27th. (once again, let's not leak too much into the new year because we're all sick of it by then)
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HAPPY KRAMPUS DAY TO ALL OUR EUROPEAN FRIENDS!
Bill Burns at MKG127 127 Ossington Ave, Toronto until December 18, 2010
Northern Trees and Moose Curator 2010 Watercolour, Illustrations from his ongoing autobiography
Anthony Easton on Jack Bush:
The thing with the Late 60s Bushes (and i saw an amazing one atMiriam SellnikMiriam Shiell today), is that one assumes that tthey are like noland or early stella, in their flatness, but their use of thin washes and subtle underpainting, combines a variety of modes of abstraction--here, with the underpainting of light purple on violet, then the impositon of a hot pink element, grounded onto a obliqued angle/tower of decortative colour--decorative colour that could be on couches or pillows or wallpaper, assumes a number of competing narratives of how to paint non-represenational them, and makes an anthology, that transitions b/w extreme comfort to jarring discord. The one at Sellnik, which is not on their website, does the same thing, but intsead of a collection of disparte elements, was 6 stripes in colours that were both clear and muddy, muted and bright, natural and fake, almost a dilaectic (a less sucessful one from the mid 70s had a swampy mudgreen ground with three bright swatches of colour, which indicates that the high risk/high reward compoenet of this kind of work)
