Now that we found love what are we gonna do? The Winter 2011-12 Gay Thread

is scottfree a new moniker for one of the regular, or someone new?

I'm new, I'm new! Scott here.

hi scott!

so are you visiting Gotham or residing, scott?

Just visiting. We came up to see Bjork on friday and spent the night at my cousin's in Brooklyn and had an excellent weekend of museums and generally arty things plus a bit of shopping natch.

hi scott!

If anyone wants something authentically romantic visit the NY Hall of Science—huddled together observing microbes under the 'scope + taking turns demonstrating optical illusions + hall of mirrors, I can't even tell you how magical this was.

oh, you're THAT scott :)

;)

I had an inkling that it might be you we were to partake in Crash with. Sorry about the no-show; another time most definitely. Brooklyn Museum really engaged us for way longer than we were expecting. I'm thinking of getting an artist's membership to Moma for the film screenings, so there's that in the future perhaps.

hi scott, welcome

i think i get it

hey there are some really great Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Yves Klein pieces up at the Art Institute Museum that I hadn't seen before that you'd probably enjoy.

i was having all these melancholic feelings today thinking about fgt, thinking how sad it is that he died

felix and ross

We were talking about his billboards in class today and it just gave me a sick, heavy feeling in my chest.

http://shapeandcolour.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/candyart.jpg

fuck the world

guy from last night has the FGT solitary bird print hanging over his bed

also he lists agnes martin under his "people who inspire him"

i'm gonna stop typing things before i jinx everything

I don't think I could be with anyone who wasn't at least interested in art.

fgt about it guys

“Unlike most artworks in a museum, you are allowed to touch this piece and to take away a piece of candy. Gonzalez-Torres made this artwork in memory of Ross Laycock. At the time the work was created, Ross had recently died of causes related to AIDS. The candy pile starts each day at 175 pounds, which was Ross’ ideal body weight. As visitors take candy, the pile gets smaller. This process mimics Ross’ weight loss as a result of his illness. Museum staff replenishes the candy regularly. Gonzalez-Torres’ decision to portray Ross with multicolored, shiny candies was a thoughtful one. Seeing such a large pile of candy on the floor stimulates notions of abundance, sweetness, and happiness—feelings associated with Ross, which the artist wished to share with viewers in a unique way.”

fgt it? I fgot what I was sposed to fgt!

Yeah. That Gonzalez-Torres piece was one of the ones in the exhibit that hit me most viscerally.

Also, in the first room with the older photographic prints, they were playing music from this compilation

http://www.discogs.com/Various-AC-DC-Blues-Gay-Jazz-Reissues-Volume-One/release/860313

which I haven't been able to track down, but looks AMAZING.

I don't think I took a candy in D.C.

i once took one of the sheets from the gun violence paper stack, followed by everyone else in the gallery rushing to take one

i did this at the frieze fair once and got a mean look from the woman who was minding the stand. i told her that if she wanted to display a fgt she had to learn how to be generous.

boom

xp

omg

∞ <3

ugh stevie i owe you an e-mail or something about archiving

For some reason I was reading the first gaythread I'd posted in — man I sound dumb.

hey tanuki, what new felix gonzales-torres piece is up at the AIC? i was there last week and didn't see anything besides his date piece which is up permanently.

the first time i saw someone use the abbreviation FGT i was sort of shocked because it was in reference to a piece i made (as in like, "x + fgt = this piece") and it took me a second to realize it didn't mean faggot

I can't find anything about it on the AIC website — it's a large panel divided in two with text painted on each one and ends with something like "close-up of an ejaculating dick".

waaaaait i think that's this piece by larry johnson:

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_139919_507473_larry-johnson.jpg

oh shit you're right *is an idiot*

lol i'm kind of a johnson stan

he did a series of pieces about the kennedys, this one is my fave:

http://www.spence.net/collection/photos/artwork103/full_240.jpeg

so what is FGT short for?

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

oh, right

Better than Lepore IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrvxi1-3SDY

dude is channeling some serious diva snap

I'm trying to watch Todd Haynes' Poison right now but it is sooooo baaaaad

:(

I saw it a little over a year ago, again, and it brought back the feeling of the plague years quite vividly. Maybe only in people old enough, of course.

aw, i like it. i think i liked the faux-doc part the best but i'd have to rewatch it to make sure

that is my bf's favorite "gay" movie

I do prefer Pvt Idaho, Paris Is Burning & Fight Club

I'm just not getting the wooden acting and awful sets and ridic narrative motion