I Will Always Love You: “Holy Pop!” at London’s Somerset House Celebrated the Sanctity of Idol Worship
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I Will Always Love You: “Holy Pop!” at London’s Somerset House Celebrated the Sanctity of Idol Worship

The most remarkable, equally elegiac and absurd, profound and berserk inclusion in Somerset House’s Holy Pop!, an exhibition dedicated to extreme acts of fanatical devotion to filth elders, was not Dot Alma’s bedazzled “Freedom” pew and kneeler, set in front of an altar to the Holy Father (Figure) George Michael and Hampstead Heath hookup trees, … Continue reading

Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing: Constant Craving In ‘My Dreamboat’
Art

Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing: Constant Craving In ‘My Dreamboat’

Isn’t there just something so alluring about obsession? Our preeminent filth elder John Waters has staked his entire career on it. A vocal supporter and enabler of fellow maniacs, Waters made the distinction between good and bad obsessions in an interview with Rookie Magazine. He explains: “Well, obsession can be good or bad. I mean … Continue reading