Nadine Boughton’s collages depict the perils and paranoia of 50s domesticity. They perfectly overlay: wild anxiety, smoldering sexuality and unstable masculinity. A beautifully perverse cut and paste.
The. Film. To. See. In. 2013 :: Interior. Leather Bar.
Did I mention James Franco?
Watching Al Pacino hit the dance-floor in the movie, Cruising, a gentle romantic comedy from 1980, still brings a smile to my face and a popper to my nose. This is how you TURN IT OUT people.
“You do care a little for me, I know… but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now… and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.” ― E.M. Forster, Maurice
“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
Quentin Crisp
She’s at it again! Thank you god!
MDNA | Madonna | Girl Gone Wild | Video Stills
The One. The Only. The Classic. Paris Is Burning.
The Kingpins are at it again. Thank you Lord!
More about these art legends: The Kingpins create drag scenarios using music, video and costume. Drawing on pop culture and art history, their performances include public interventions, ‘surprise’ actions, gallery installations and private commissions.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a brilliant film and an astounding example of the cinema of the closet - or what D.A. Miller refers to as the ‘Open Secret’.
It’s all there in the monochrome mise-en-scène: the secrets that are known to be known but maintained; the strategic silences, omissions and coded expressions of the spies; the exchange of women as a cover in this homo-social subculture; the secret service as the boundary between the public and private; and the double agent located everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
The capture of the duplicitous mole in the film is but a secondary narrative piece in this espionage puzzle. It is the invisible specter of the closet – always hidden yet under surveillance - that is the central, structural conundrum of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - its elusive, open secret.
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