let's get ready to stumble
“Bourgeois was born in Paris on Christmas Day. Her parents repaired tapestries, and Louise’s first art experiences were in pitching in on the mending. Her mother, Joséphine, was an ardent follower of the feminist Louise Michel, after whom she named her daughter. Dad, however, was another kettle of fish. He moved his British mistress, Sadie, into the house under the guise of her being the children’s tutor. Sadie stayed for 10 years while Joséphine quietly seethed. What did little Louise think of the arrangement? One night at dinner she modeled a figure of her father from bread and then ate it, piece by piece. Even today, it’s apparent that the papered-over family dysfunction still resonates with the artist. When asked via e-mail—she doesn’t do in-person interviews anymore—why there’s so much sex in her work, the artist who’s always reminded me of Ruth Gordon with a French accent says, “The work has to do with so much more than just sex. That’s just the mechanics. My art is about seduction and rejection. It’s about flirtation and frustration. It’s about desire and anger, anxiety and fear. There is abandonment and there is violence.” “In Choisy,” a 1993 work that’s relatively recent on the Bourgeois timeline, contains a guillotine blade poised scarily over a marble model of the Bourgeois family house. Here’s a work of modern art whose meaning isn’t hard to figure out.”
—Plagens, in a nice piece from 2008 about the Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Guggenheim. (via newsweek)
June 2010
May 2010
I vote for penetrate
- Mag: You seem crabby.
- me: I am
- Mag: I feel like I'm being JUDGED.
- me: I have snot
- me: crawling down my throat
- Mag: Well at least it's well-lubricated now.
- me: I won't take it out on you though
- me: oh ho ho
- Mag: Like you could even get through my deflective ego.
- Mag: You know what a verbal champion I am.
- Mag: You get crabby on me I will be dishing out balls talk that'll make your head spin.
- me: see that just makes me smile
- Mag: I'm glad I managed to penetrate through your walls of phlegm.
- Mag: Also, I cannot decide which word is more awesome; penetrate or phlegm.
- Mag: ... I think this is the first time I've penetrated any part of you.
- me: ooh
- me: I can't say I didn't like it
Jeny is going to judge me. And it’s gonna be dry and hard and fast. Mother of Jesus I have the fear in me.
damn straight.
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“In 2003, [Andreas] Viestad premiered as the host of the public television series New Scandinavian Cooking. With 5 million U.S. viewers per episode and a global reach so vast it was at the time viewed as the greatest ever exposure of Norwegian culture, second only to the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.”
Yeah, that’s because he’s super cute. now with waistcoats!
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