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

i've never really gotten into queer books, or queer art in general i guess

altho a good friend of mine curates a queer art performance festival so in terms of dance and live performance i'm there

best queer art i've seen recently was the adventures of tintin

I need to live alone. Or at least with someone whose as much of a neat freak as I am.

Proof: the way my roommate has magazines stacked on the bookshelf in our living room pisses me off. Guh!

my god

i actually live with people who are the exact right level of neat for me. its not a pigsty but there isn't shit lying around or anything.

I know, it's so stupid and I've had roommates who were much worse! (like the fake-jewish pothead who used to live here)

Proof: the way my roommate has magazines stacked on the bookshelf in our living room pisses me off

You would love the sprawling piles of the NY Times that occupy floorspace in my apt.

morbs i just feel like we would be perfect housemates.

well if you hear of a place in London that needs a proofreader of American English LMK.

Morbs I'm sure we'd have a lot to talk about and the value of your presence would make up for any slovenliness, whereas this roommate never initiates conversations ever and is just kind of boring

so i ran into a guy i went on a date with over a year ago at an art opening last week and we hung out again tonight. he's kinda terrific and i'm not sure why we let that year+ elapse in the first place, but um...i don't want that to happen again.

:)

http://i.imgur.com/P83UL.gif

Who is that?

cute

My boy and I just saw HIDE/SEEK this weekend, spent way longer than we had anticipated it was so good. Noticed they mostly steered away from embellishment and camp and stuck more to what I might call sensuality and reverence, I think this payed off. We both wanted the catalog but it's like 15 dollars cheaper off amazon so that's to come. Totally recommended queer coffee table art book: Some Faggy Gestures by Henrik Olsen.

A+ DN, scottfree

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