It wasn’t until I had seen Nicolas Poussin‘s work in the art galleries of Paris and London that I realised he was a candidate for this series. It’s not until you see Nymph with Satyr …in front of you (the National Gallery, London) and
There is an hypocrisy born of ignorance at the heart of the debate over the naked child in art. Those who condemn some images find others cute. Yet both types have the same origin in classical art.
I haven’t included many images of Cherubs and…
I had put this on the back burner, but a recent article on Polixeni Papapetrou… has prompted me to bring it forward. Polexini is an artist who got into the usual strife over taking nude photos of her daughter Olympia. This was all part of
If one were to step back and look at the current moral panic over sexualisation from some intellectual distance in the future, one would see a series of myths building on each other. The truly shocking thing will be to understand that these myths were…
I’ve posted a couple of things on Jessie Mann (and here…), but not on either her younger sister Virginia or older brother Emmett. The reason is simple: Jessie has been more outspoken and so there’s been plenty of material to quote. Virginia on the
It’s a publishing phenomenon. It’s erotic fiction. Or is it porn? It’s the tired old distinction. The double standard. If women like it, it’s erotica. If men like it, it’s porn.
Whilst critics like Gail Dines and Melinda Tankard Reist are the most recent to…
The Grand Tour was the name given to the British tradition of travelling to Italy and Greece to see the sights of ancient Athens and Rome. It had an enormous impact on British art, particularly British architecture. No doubt there was a similar interest amongst…
I listened to this on the flight back from London. Haunting. Soothing. So I thought I’d check her out when I got back.
What the?
She’s just 15.
I had no idea judging from the photo of her album cover, and certainly not from her…
Interpreting the cultural memes…
An item on today’s flippant media – South Korea has banned under 18′s from Lady Gaga’s concert. Which triggered one of those superficial ‘shock/horror’ discussions with non-expert experts about sexualisation. And I mean non-expert experts because these people really don’t know…
I had my reservations about visiting the Museum of Erotic Art in Paris, mainly because of where it is – close to the Moulin Rouge and surrounded by porn shops. Guilt by association might suggest it would be tacky, seedy even. It was a pleasant…
A work in progress – and something completely different. A crime novel about cultural and generational clashes. A series of murders in the Melbourne art world. 
Greenfields Site.
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