7 POLITICAL ART STORIES

1. Litter made lovely: Washed Up

New photographs by Alejandro Durán

2. The deserted but beautiful homes of Detroit

A look at Kevin Bauman's "100 Abandoned Houses" collection

3. The things they carried

Photographer Brian Howell explores shopping cart culture

4. An upturned tank sits outside of the American Pavillion at the Venice Biennale. Photo: Terry Fairman.

5. Tayeba Begum Lipi — Bizarre and Beautiful

6. Althea Thauberger’s photo mural speaks of Vancouver’s darkness

Ecce Homo by Althea Thauberger. (Photo by Jay Black.)

7. Engaged devotion and care

The terrariums of Paula Hayes

Wall of Death

Derived directly from US in the early 1900s. 

The very first carnival motordrome appeared at Coney Island amusement park (New York) in 1911. (With motorcycle madmen pushing the limits of speed and safety atop tricked out Indian, BSA, and Harley Davidson motorcycles. There was even one stunt that had a lion in a special sidecar attached to a souped up racecar).

This carnival attraction became a staple in the US outdoor entertainment industry with the phenomenon reaching its zenith in the 1930s with more than 100 motordromes on traveling shows and in amusement parks.

For as long as there have been motorcycles there have been men and women who have dared to push the envelope of safety, physics, and common sense…..enter the motorcycle daredevil. 

Why Mr Egbert has a lion that loves a drive on the Wall of Death is a mystery

Wall of Death, USA 1920

Hazel, Wall of Death 1927

Early 20

Green Pink Caviar

"I was shooting stills of models with long tongues swirling and sucking bakery products from under a pane of glass. I wanted to make enamel paintings along the idea of painting with my tongue. My makeup artist shot some short videos just to see how it would look. The low definition videos looked so good that later we made plans to do a professional high definition video. I have made both billboards and produced a commercial advertising a 1989 painting show so this made sense as a next step.Green Pink Caviar seems to have a life of its own."

- Marilyn Minter

In Green Pink Caviar Marilyn Minter continues her interest in blurring the boundaries between fine and commercial art. Co-opting advertising genres and related spaces, she takes on a new platform to direct her first video. The eight minute high definition video, Green Pink Caviar (2009) is a lush and sensual voyeuristic hallucination. Filmed with macro lenses, the video was inspired by a photo shoot where Minter directed her models to lick brightly colored candies while she shot photos from underneath a glass plate. The models' tongues mixed the colorful sugar with saliva, slurping and pushing color across the glass surface to simulate painting. Driven by her fascination with the body, Green Pink Caviar sets the stage for chance to happen.

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Marilyn Minter