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Gao Brothers

Flavor: Art

The Gao Brothers are a pair of artist brothers based in Beijing. Via

Controversies

Flavor: Law and Order , Photography

The exhibition Controversies at Kunst Haus Wien presents some 100 photographs that have been subject to intense controversy or legal proceedings.

David LaChapelle, Angelina Jolie, Horseplay, 2004. © David LaChapelle Studio / Courtesy Fred Torres Collaborations

Don't try this at home

Flavor: Videos

Combat-Ki expert Kirby Roy takes a world record (read crazy dangerous) kick to the testicles from MMA fighter Justice Smith. Apparently in the name of science.

South American Nudes

Flavor: Photography

Marcos Zimmerman’s new body of work, “Desnudos Sudamericanos” / “South American Nudes” is a series of nude portraits of men of South America revealed with surprising frankness and sensitivity.

Ismael posando con dos llamas (Ismael posing with two llamas), Cerro Marcos Marcos Zimmermann, Makipunku, Bolivia. 2006

On view at the Couturier Gallery through April 17th, 2010.

Acrobat of the day

Flavor: Photography

By Stefan Gbureck (via).

Can you handle a naked woman in a window?

Flavor: Art , Law and Order

Curator David Zelikovsky was forced by the police to 'remove' a naked woman out of its gallery’s storefront.

Megan Hanford, 26, is part of the gallery’s latest exhibit by Brian Reed. She stands fully naked under a suspended web made of various objects including shark eggs and teeth, beads and clay pipes. Her nakedness is essential, Mr. Reed explained, “so she can be fully at the center of that connectivity” of energy.

The line between art and public indecency has continually been tested, from Spencer Tunick’s mass nude outdoor photo shoots that started in the early 1990s to Amy Gunderson’s going topless at the Mermaid Parade in Brooklyn in 2001.

Some say that as long as it is in the name of artistic expression, you may appear naked on any street corner, storefront or other public space. Others, however, say that the law does not allow one to impose nudity on others, especially for commercial reasons.

French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters

Flavor: Advertising

A controversy has erupted in France over a campaign to discourage young people from smoking. The images show teenagers kneeling in front of a man, as if being forced to have oral sex. The caption reads: "Smoking is to be a slave to tobacco."

The campaign, which was devised for a pressure group supporting the rights of non-smokers, has been attacked as "scandalous" and "potentially counter-productive" by feminist and pro-family campaigners.

The non-smokers' rights group says it does not care if adults are shocked by its posters. Gérard Audureau, the president of Les Droits des Non-fumeurs (The Rights of Non-smokers), the pressure group which commissioned the ads, said: "Very few anti-smoking campaigns catch the attention of the young. You have to use extreme images to make them take notice."

Don't leave the house without your penis trousers this Spring

Flavor: Fashion

The world would be a merrier place if men would wear these stunning trousers by fashion designer Isabel Mastache.

To alternate with Farting Trousers and accessorize with suitable underwear.

Via dlisted.

Zoology

Flavor: Fetish , Photography

Zoo, by Rosario Gallardo.

Via indienudes.

Vienna museum hosts swingers club to expose sexual inhibitions

Flavor: Art

The Secession contemporary art museum in Vienna is encouraging its visitors to confront their sexual inhibitions by having them walk through a swingers club to reach one of Gustav Klimt's masterpieces.

The sex club, named "Element6", is temporary and only part of a project by Swiss artist Christoph Buechel.

By night, the "swingers" carry out orgies among the artworks. Sex acts are however not allowed during day, and gallery visitors can wander among the club's king-size beds, erotic pictures, bar and whirlpool baths to view the art.

Klimt, Beethoven Frieze (detail) Photograph: Belvedere, Vienna/Tate

The museum is hoping to reignite the original controversy that surrounded Klimt's 1902 "Beethoven Frieze", an artwork that was once thought of as obscene and pornographic because of the way women's bodies were depicted.

The room where the frieze is exhibited is locked at night for security reasons. But it too has its share of the sex club's mattresses, surrounded by fake tropical plants and a life-size stuffed lion.

The exhibition runs until April 18.

Dolls revisited

Flavor: Art , Sex Toys and Gadgets

Sander Reijgers upcycles blow up dolls into football balls, punchbags and items of clothing.

Via corazón de látex.

Swiss prostitutes trained to use defibrillators in brothels to prevent clients dying

Flavor: Sex Works

Swiss prostitutes are being trained to use defibrillators to prevent clients with heart problems from dying on them, it has emerged.

Brothel owners in the Lugano area say electric shock treatment to restart customer's hearts is needed because so many elderly customers are using their services. The most recent victim was a pensioner, thought to be having fun with the help of anti-impotence medication. His death followed a series of other incidents, some fatal, in which heart attacks have claimed brothel customers in the area.

There are now 38 sex clubs and brothel in the Lugano area. And more are planned in order to accommodate the thousands of customers who pour over the border from Italy, where brothels are illegal. Around 80 per cent of the men who pay for sex in the area are thought to be Italian.

LA Zombie

Flavor: Art , Porn , Videos

Written and directed by Bruce LaBruce and starring porn actor François Sagat, LA Zombie is a "gay-porn zombie film" on view at the Peres Projects gallery in Berlin, along with a dozen new works on canvas.

Bruce LaBruce, LA Zombie 10, 2010. Painting - Silkscreen on Canvas

There's something respectable about a porn movie that you watch inside a renowned art gallery.

I doubt LaBruce bothers much about making art lovers feel respectable. In fact, the artist doesn't seem too eager to drawing a line between art and porn. He told Salon: "All of my work has been about that line. You can situate yourself on either side of the line without really altering the work itself. I could take a picture for Honcho magazine, but can take the same image and put it in a frame in an art gallery, and it becomes art. For me that speaks to the arbitrary nature of those labels." A soft-core version of L.A. Zombie will tour film festivals this year. You can expect to find the hard-core DVD gracing the shelves of your favourite sex shop in the spring.

Bruce LaBruce, LA ZOMBIE 05, 2010. Painting - Silkscreen on Canvas

LA Zombie was shot in Los Angeles. Guerrilla-style. With almost no budget. The main protagonist rises from the sea, with as much clout and allure as Ursula Andress herself in that famous Bond scene. He's a zombie or maybe he's just a bit deranged and fancies himself as an undead creature. He sports canine teeth and is dressed like a homeless. Good looking young guys get killed or die in accidents. He finds them, gives them the fuck of life right into their wound, they open their eyes. They have become zombie too and lead the life of tramps around LA. People don't seem to even notice their presence.

The trailer:

Bruce Labruce LA Zombie: The Movie That Would Not Die runs at Peres Projects in Berlin until April 24, 2010.

A Glacial Rest

Flavor: Art

Gerard Malanga, A Glacial Rest, 1983

Part of "The Visible Vagina" show at David Nolan New York.

Bjarne Melgaard

Flavor: Art

Bjarne Melgaard, Untitled (Chapter Three Part One), 2008

Via Art Magazin.

Playboy of the decade

Flavor: Images

I'm afraid i have no word to describe this.

Via amy & pink.