July 2011
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Kate Gilmore Performance: Soft Machines
From the group exhibition “Soft Machines” at the Pace Gallery: “As part of the exhibition, Kate Gilmore will debut a new performance, entitled Through the Claw. Throughout the duration of the evening, five women in pale pink dresses and heels will rip apart a large clay cube while also hurling it at the wall, critiquing the social construction of gender and male-centric art...
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WatchThe making of Anna Halldin-Maule’s Secret Beach painting. Her style of modern realism still blows my mind.
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Hammer Conversation: Eve Babitz & Hunter...
8.03/7p This looks good:
Eve Babitz is an American writer who gained notoriety by posing nude with a fully dressed Marcel Duchamp during his 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum. She is the author of several books, including the infamous memoir Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days, Fast Company; and Fiorucci, The Book. She is a key figure in a new book, Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles...
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Aya Ben Ron
Extraordinary detailed work from Israeli artist Aya Ben Ron, dealing with the morbidity of the body, medical and personal.
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Javiera Estrada: Women + Pain
From her series “Women and Pain,” Javiera Estrada’s striking themes include brutality, iconography, self-mutilation, and healing:
“Underneath it all we are naked; FLESH, BLOOD, BONES and HEART. Behind every mask and crown is a brilliant spirit.”
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Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women →
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Plastic Photography: Marlène Bisson
French photographer Marlène Bisson takes working with dolls to a deeper, darker level, “protecting their charm and eroticism.”
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Sketch with Liz Insogna at The Frick
“Summer Night” at The Frick Collection, Friday, July 22nd at 6pm. Sketch with artist and teacher Liz Insogna: “Sunday Sketch” in the Garden Court Sunday, July 24th. Materials provided and free of charge for both sessions.
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Gloria Steinem, Life Magazine, 1965
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Tumblr Transition.
As you can see FP has moved over to tumblr! I feel that with new connectivity, followers and the ability to repost, it will be injected with some much needed fresh life. For any old references and former posts you can still visit FP’s former blog. I will still be conducting interviews with noted female artists here as well, but will keep the archived interviews up at the old site as well...
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Ellen Greene Glove Art
Meticulously hand-painted in the tattoo style, Ellen Greene’s vintage gloves are “not meant to be worn but displayed as works of art.”:
Most of the gloves were constructed from the 1900s-1960s. Gloves from this era were still an item that was worn by women to weddings, funerals and formal dances as a symbol of good breeding, chastity and humility. Today we now view vintage...
“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that...”
– Gloria Steinem 