Beware the Snuggie
By:
I have long been intrigued by the virus, a small personage embodying large paradox. The essential bit of life, DNA with a tail, yet essentially dead until its residency had activated the host for its […]
Read This PostCategory: Art
The visual arts, and visual artists
The Women’s Room
By:
I drink; we drink. I look up. “You have SARDINES in it.” My latest “film” is a Twitter movie. It’s about Adele Hugo, the youngest daughter of Victor Hugo (yes that Victor Hugo), who poured […]
Read This PostDIY Not?
By:
Like one of my HiLo Heroes, Jean-Luc Godard (profiled previously on HiLobrow), I came to film through criticism. I started writing about it in San Francisco after one Saturday when I discovered Other Cinema, a […]
Read This PostUtopia by Design
By:
Just don’t call them cute. Gemutlichkeit is not what they are – these faceless creatures support the full weight of Utopia on their Bézier shoulders. They lurk by roadsides, hang around by the bathroom, and […]
Read This PostPainting is Dead, Long Live the King!
By:
The problem is art is BORING. It just sits there. What’s wrong with a little entertainment? It needs some livening up, some relevance, some – animation? Right, let’s digitize some of this old stuff and […]
Read This PostShe Blinded Me With Science
By:
I’m making a dress out of film. Very slippery and annoying, film. But it is possible, just; you can sew through the little holes and then anchor it to itself with splicing tape. It’s perfect […]
Read This PostAndy did you hear about this one?
By:
[still from Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902, by Georges Méliès] We believe that it was a largely ceremonial site, as we have found no evidence of agriculture or permanent habitation. And in addition to […]
Read This PostCocktail Recipe: The Buzz
By:
Ingredients: 1 1/2 ounces vodka 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice 1/4 ounce honey lysozyme, beaten (substitution: one egg white) pinch cayenne Instructions: Shake all ingredients except cayenne with ice long and hard to completely emulsify […]
Read This PostLet’s Talk About Sex
By:
I know we only just met, but don’t worry, it’s science. [I Rub My Duckie vibrator image courtesy sfgate.com] I mean vibrators, of course. It’s great how flexible our metaphors are, how they vibrate with […]
Read This PostBackwards and in High Heels
By:
Attention gets a lot of attention these days. Mostly as currency, as in, how to make paying attention pay off. Switch one value proposition for another, dissolve everything in the universal $olvent. I’m going to […]
Read This PostArtist in Residence: Peggy Nelson
By:
HiLobrow.com is not opposed to the “guest blogger.” But it’s a waxy concept, sticky and vexing, isn’t it? Guests have been deployed by too many blogs for everything from vacation coverage to boredom-bandaging. Uncanny guests […]
Read This PostPeggy Guggenheim
By:
She had oodles of cash, acres of style, and eventually her very own 18th-century palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal, where she slept in a sterling silver bed designed by Alexander Calder. There was heartache — […]
Read This PostMarcel Duchamp
By:
The one piece of fine-art-inspired kitsch I’ve been craving ever since I first heard of it is a long-unavailable shower curtain reproducing “The Large Glass” (“The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even”) by MARCEL […]
Read This PostNam Jun Paik
By:
In the Orwellian year of 1984, my father took me to the Centre Pompidou and exposed my 10-year-old sponge of a brain to its first contemporary art collection and, therein, to a towering agglomeration of […]
Read This PostRube Goldberg
By:
Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist RUBE GOLDBERG (1883-1970) pulls string (A) which activates bellows. Bellows (B) compresses, inflating balloon (C). Expanding balloon causes glass of water (D) to tip, soaking sponge (E). Sponge, due to increased weight […]
Read This Post