Where Have All the Perverts Gone?: The Museum of Sex Rekindles Late-20th Century Queer Filth in “Radical Perverts”
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Where Have All the Perverts Gone?: The Museum of Sex Rekindles Late-20th Century Queer Filth in “Radical Perverts”

Radical Perverts: Ecstasy and Activism in Queer Public Space, 1975-2000 at the Museum of Sex should come with its own scratch-and-sniff cards. Steal the patented Odorama technology used in John Waters’s Polyester–who gives a fuck. Dean Sameshima’s delightfully clinical series of four public restrooms, Untitled (South Bay Tearooms), which, much like Jimmy DeSana’s early series … Continue reading

You Have No Idea How Weak I Am: Michelle Handelman’s “Hustlers & Empires”
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You Have No Idea How Weak I Am: Michelle Handelman’s “Hustlers & Empires”

Is there a choice to be a hustler? That question, which flits onscreen in a flurry of bold black and white text, is posed to three iconic historical and fictional hustlers who sit on a futuristic dystopian panel that resembles purgatory for radicals in Michelle Handelman’s new multi-channel video installation Hustlers & Empires. Of course, … Continue reading