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Roe Ethridge,  Prick Washer with Ador-gnome , 2022

Roe Ethridge, Prick Washer with Ador-gnome, 2022

Disorganisation & Sex

Why does Adorno dream of sodomy and dishwashers? Jamieson Webster’s new book Disorganisation & Sex tells us. 

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From the series “Bad Flowers”, taken in Brooklyn during the spring of 2020.

Roe Ethridge, from the series “Bad Flowers”, taken in Brooklyn during the spring of 2020

ESSAY: BAD FLOWERS

By Jamieson Webster

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Canova, Maddalena penitente , 1796 Marble and gold plated bronze, 95 x 70 x 77 cm © Musei di Strada Nuova, Genova – Palazoo Tursi

Canova, Maddalena penitente, 1796, Marble and gold plated bronze, 95 x 70 x 77 cm; © Musei di Strada Nuova, Genova

THE END IS NIGHT: ESCAPE GUILT

By Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

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View of “Gelitin: Vorm – Fellows – Attitude” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2018

Photo: Jason Schmidt © Bildrecht, Wien 2019

THE END IS NIGHT

The Importance of Being Anal by Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

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Gina Pane
Io mescolo tutto (I Mix Everything) (1976)

Photo: Françoise Masson; Courtesy Museum of Modern Art, Bologna © Bildrecht, Wien 2019

The End is Night

“You Can't Tweet Adorno” by Alison M. Gingeras & Jamieson Webster

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The End Is Night

“Disenchanted beyond belief” by Alison M. Gingeras & Jamieson Webster

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Gran Fury Title  (198X) Courtesy the artist and Gallery X

Interview Gran Fury

The New York artist/activist collective Gran Fury emerged in 1988 out of ACT UP. As “individuals united in anger and dedicated to exploiting the power of art to end the AIDS crisis”, they shaped public discourse about AIDS with iconic agitprop imagery.  By Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

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Portrait Otto Muehl

Can you separate an artist and their work? What if their life is itself an artwork? In the early 1970s Otto Muehl founded a commune that defied social norms and declared it a revolutionary artwork. About a failed experiment and what it can tell us about our own time. By Alison Gingeras & Jamieson Webster

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Celebrity

What does Freud’s Dora have to do with the Kardashians? Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster on an old soap opera – and a new one.