Bow Down Before Jayne Mansfield, the Queen of Low-Brow Trash Culture
Film / Role Models

Bow Down Before Jayne Mansfield, the Queen of Low-Brow Trash Culture

Jayne Mansfield was the ultimate sex kitten-gone-berserk, the eternal starlet grasping for fame with both hands, Kenneth Anger’s cooing, squealing Hollywood Babylon made flesh. What, one might justifiably wonder, must it have been like having this outrageous creature for a mother? Considering she was only three years old when Mansfield died in her gruesome 1967 … Continue reading

La Petite Mort: Aïda Ruilova’s Softcore ‘The Pink Palace’
Art

La Petite Mort: Aïda Ruilova’s Softcore ‘The Pink Palace’

“A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism”–Georges Bataille Heavy breathing is not normally the sound permeating blue chip galleries unless it’s the deep existential sighs of gallerinas. However, loud moans of pleasure currently echo through Marlborough Chelsea, luring and seducing viewers through Aïda Ruilova’s current exhibition. In the forward to his morbidly sexy study Eroticism: … Continue reading