Archive for May 10th, 2012
99 Problems? Christina Aguilera makes 100 for Tony Lucca
We said that Tony Lucca would go all the way… and having fallen just two places short of victory, it turns out he is not the one-dimensional artist Christina Aguilera said he was. But what did in fact go all the way, was the made-for-TV vendetta between the less than supportive Christina and her former [...]
Literary Tattoos (i): Tattooing Gertrude Stein
Tattoos are in the zeitgeist. Go back to Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book (1996) and take another look at the beauty of script on skin. Consider the strange attractiveness of Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2007) where skin is a canvas on which art can [...]
