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There are so many things you see at a fan convention that make you say, “Wait…what?” Clown Meat is definitely one of those. I spotted this wonderfully disturbing little novelty at the recent Flame Con, where it immediately caught my attention. It sure looks exactly like a tin of salted and preserved meat, complete with a vintage-style label featuring a cheerful-looking clown tossing a steak into the air. The tagline? “It tastes funny.” Clever.
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Just when you think you’ve seen everything, you see this: a plush Cotton Candy Cocoon inspired by the cult classic, Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Yes, it exists.
Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Killer Klowns Cotton Candy Cocoon
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David Salle’s paintings juxtapose images from a variety of sources to startling and often provocative effect. In Sextant in Dogtown (1987) Salle arranges disparate elements within a grid and in a manner evoking film montage, while combing a pastiche of painterly styles and subjects. Here, the act of seeing — or not seeing– becomes a subject in itself. A half-dressed woman, lifted from the artist’s own photography, is shown from different vantage points, her face always obscured. Above her, a cartographer uses an old-fashioned measuring device known as a “sextant.” Confronted with these disjunctive images and with no evident narrative, we are ultimately left to forge connections on our own.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Sextant in Dogtown by David Salle
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Well, I had to stop and snap some Instagram fodder when I walked by this restaurant (see B for Bozo rating in window) located on the north side of Houston Street just east of Avenue A. Continue reading Roomful of Bozos
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Seriously, how fucking creepy is this thing? Who knew it was possible to make pictures of clowns that look even scarier than real clowns? Clownmirror (2) (2001) by artist Roni Horn (b. 1955) is two identical chromogenic prints that serve as nightmare fuel for anyone the least bit adverse to clowns, which is most people.
Photographed in the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC.