At the New Museum July 10: Projects for a Revolution in New York
Projects for a Revolution in New York Experiments in Collective Research and Action: Some Proposals Saturday, July 10, 2010 At the New Museum, 235 Bowery NYC FREE, starts at 12:30 pm – I’ll be speaking between 3:30 and 4:30 pm Organized by Programs for Research and Outreach (PRO) as part of the exhibition “Museum as [...]
Sex Worker Literati Inaugural Reading Event – Thursday, August 6th at 8 pm
Photo by Sinead McCarthy, design by Sinclair Sexsmith Best-selling author David Henry Sterry and sexuality rights activist Audacia Ray, both former workers in the sex industry, are proud to announce Sex Worker Literati, a new free monthly reading series that features sex workers, former sex workers, and people with stories about the sex industry who [...]
Book Review: Zak Smith’s We Did Porn
We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings by Zak Smith My review: rating: 4 of 5 stars A few disclaimers before I write about this book: Zak Smith is a friend. He writes about me (as Auspicia Clay) in this book. In general, he writes about my/our friends in this book and some of the events [...]
Libby Lynn’s Ghost-Painted Self Portrait of Me
In this post on Rollertrain, Libby explains why she wanted to paint a portrait of me for her Ghost-Painted Portraits of My Internet Heroes series (which so far also includes Dan Carlin (Common Sense, Hardcore History) and Jad Abumrad (Radiolab). You can see Libby’s full set of painting process photos here. In the Rollertain post [...]
Sneak peek at Molly Crabapple’s solo show
Molly Crabapple and I installed her show Demimonde at Arena Studios today, and I’ve added not one, but two new things to my promotional arsenal with this show. The first is – a preview video! The second bit will be happening in real time alongside the opening, but in Second Life. Pixel Bailey is hosting [...]
Modified Eros: The Opening
me (and my ceramic corset!), Joy Rumore (our mutual tattoo artist), and Bella The opening was a definite success, with about 150 people moving through Arena Studios during the three hours of the event. It was a nicely mixed crowd – I knew that the young and modified would be out in full force, but [...]
Countdown to the Modified Eros opening
In case I haven’t mentioned it here in the last week or so, a show that I curated, Modified Eros, is opening this Friday, November 9th from 7-10 pm at Arena Studios (407 Broome Street, Suite 7A). This is the first in a series of erotic art shows I’ll be curating at Arena Studios. The [...]
Art vs porn
In college, I wrote my thesis basically about the duel between art and porn: what’s the difference and why does it matter? I believe that the answer to this can be fairly simple, though by no means clearly delineated (a contradiction you say? phooey): the content of the image doesn’t decide whether its art or [...]
