Welcome to Filthy Dreams
Well hello there! Welcome to Filthy Dreams, a blog that analyzes culture through a queer lens. Rather than jumping right into new content, we thought it best to introduce ourselves and our aesthetics with our Trash Manifesto
Latest Entries
Rococo Raunch: Abject Femininity And Porcelain Provocations At Jessica Stoller’s ‘Spoil’
Like Kathy Acker’s description of women as disrupting criminals, ceramic artist Jessica Stoller’s current exhibition Spoil at P.P.O.W. Gallery destroys the ideals of feminine beauty and subjugation by representing abject female sexuality and other disturbing and depraved imagery through the typically delicate and dainty (just like a proper woman) medium of porcelain. Continue reading
Unusual Vitrine Shopping in Chelsea: Artworks in Glass Boxes
Two next door neighbor exhibitions in Chelsea are making these invisible walls actually visible for the viewers. Luhring Augustine’s Reinhard Mucha show titled Hidden Tracks and Andrea Rosen Gallery’s new Josephine Meckseper exhibition presents actual vitrines as components of the artworks. Continue reading
Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya: 3 New Orleans Artists To Rival Their NYC Contemporaries
Any tired old queen like me who has endured the New York art world for years heaves a world-weary sigh at the common New York assumption that the Big Apple has a stranglehold on cutting-edge contemporary art. While article after article recently from Al Jazeera to Talking Heads hero David Byrne points out that the … Continue reading
Orgasm Wars: An Exploration of ‘Homophobic’ Comedy
So love DOESN’T come in spurts? Last week, the Internet brought two videos to my attention–both comedies that centered on some unusual sex. Both are foreign and one, an Australian short that won the Tropfest Film Festival this year, provoked outrage on the Internet while the other, a segment from a Japanese game show, went largely ignored. Continue reading
The Fag Hag Bible: Queer Intimacies And Trashy Heroism In Dolores De Luce’s ‘My Life, A Four Letter Word’
Toasting our Filthy Dreams glasses back to Dolores De Luce, her rallying cry for those inhabitants of the Island Of Misfit Toys powerfully describes the individuals filling the pages of her moving and hysterical memoir, My Life, A Four Letter Word: Confessions Of A Counter Culture Diva. Continue reading
Out Of The Closet Into The Basement: A Conversation On FIT’s ‘A Queer History Of Fashion’
Why, hello there! We just came back from the Museum at FIT’s basement (or is it debasement?) exhibition A Queer History of Fashion: From The Closet to the Catwalk. And, Mary, we just mounted all those stairs so you better believe we are winded and ready for a chat over cocktails. Now I know what … Continue reading
Holding It Strong or Letting It Go: A Look at ‘Her’ and ‘The Past’
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo had strong references to the story Pygmalion, a legendary figure from Greek mythology known for falling in love with his own artistic creation. As the ivory sculpture, which he named Galatea, becomes Pygmalion’s object of affection, Aphrodite turns her into a real woman and eventually the artist and his “masterpiece”get … Continue reading
Each Second Like A Year Every Year Like A Second: Art Looks at Time Passing
At Pratt Manhattan Gallery awaits you 0 to 60: The Experience of Time Through Contemporary Art. As the title strongly suggests, the exhibition aims to depict the connection between time and art, two phenomenons in the lives of us, art aficionados that have to wait three hours to go in to see the new Yayoi Kusama exhibition. Continue reading
The Pretty Ones Aren’t Very Interesting: The Genderqueer Art Of Greer Lankton
Getting ahead of ourselves as we often do in our typical unbridled and slightly off-putting fashion, we want to highlight Greer Lankton’s art even though her solo exhibition LOVE ME will not appear at Participant Inc. for another year. Continue reading
All The Cheating Judases, Doubting Thomases: The Dualities of The New Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibit
Sean Kelly Gallery’s newly opened Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition titled Sinners and Saints offers a hands-on compare and contrast analysis within Mapplethorpe’s oeuvre of how we separate and unite in many seen and unseen modes in essence. Continue reading