Nick Blackburn published a metaphorical toast to Lily Savage in the Opinion section of Frieze online magazine. The life of the Dame of Birkenhead, also known as Lily Savage, also known as Paul O’Grady isn’t something anyone could capture in one go but a nod, a wink, a clink and a loving, knowing smirk might get the job done just for today.
“Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding, she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages, genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, emotions and feelings of guilt, embarrassment, disgust and shame, fantasy and desire.”
Published in 1952, ee cummings defied tradition in punctuation as in passion and in this poem, both consume his style.
The exhibition was a sensation, but it took twenty more years before it would resurface halfway around the world. The questions he asked are still unanswered and still part of our cultural dialogue today.
Did you miss me? Anna Nicole Smith x Cali Thornhill Dewitt for Guess Jeans at Karma Internation 4619 W Washington Blvd
The Twist: The Sexual-Repression Revolution and the Craze to be Shaved
Mark Master from Pitchfork
Two figures lock eyes tenderly, if ambiguously, beneath a floral quilt that is based on another of Owen’s paintings. The bed seems to float within a dreamy expanse of pure colour, conjuring a muddy atmosphere of intimacy and emotion that Owens would increasingly explore over the next decade.”
Partners in work and life Alberto Biagetti and Laura Baldassari unabashedly dissect and expose their personal obsessions through performances and, being designers, via the creation of very peculiar products.
A tear of petrol
Is in your eye
The handbrake
Penetrates your thigh
Quick, let's make love
Before you die