Making this month’s Sex Herald, my five star review of “Hello Nurse,” starring Ava Rose:
“Art house porn? Could there be such a thing? Not quite yet, maybe, but the Adam & Eve production Hello Nurse certainly has moments of potential conversation fodder for the latte-sipping crowd: metaphor, philosophical subtext, jizz at odd angles… You might even call it a cum-dripping glance into the porn of the future; a porn beyond sucking and fucking.
Exaggeration? Perhaps. There is quite a bit of sucking and fucking. But then again, there are also instants of creative subtlety that make you wonder if director James Avalon isn’t onto something more.”
“Hello Nurse.” (SexHerald.com)
Up on New York Art Beat, my take on the Whitney Museum’s exhibit “Starting with The Universe” and other sites in New York City celebrating the life of inventor, futurist Buckminster Fuller:
“As a scientist, inventor and architect (to name a few of his pursuits), Buckminster Fuller’s vision was full of grandeur and foresight. And though many of us may have already come to the conclusion from all surrounding evidence that Orwell was right and the worst is yet to come, Fuller’s work is an inspiring and refreshing look into the far reaches of human potential and imagination.”
“Future Summer Visions.” (NYArtbeat.com)
Filed under: art snobbery
From New York Art Beat:
“ ‘From the most tender brutalities to the most devastating sensitivities’ is how Ran Ortner describes the subtle range of his work. A one-time professional motorcycle racer, and extreme sports enthusiast, Ortner relishes the physicality of his art process—an exchange of blows with the canvas like those of battering waves against his surfboard. ‘The arc of movement, the range of movement, up and off the ladder, back, that moving in and out while I am painting feels like a dance. You’re both exhausted and you’re touched by the magnitude of the process.’ ”
Filed under: porno
“ Put out by Adam & Eve, Amateur Angels 21 nails down the fundamentals: young girls, hard fucking, and a face full of cum and spit by the end of each scene. Add that to niceties like a large number of chapters (as many as 10 per scene) that allow you to move through positions with ease and you have a production that is anything but amateur. Though thankfully the girls are, and their nervous moves and unfamiliar glances to the camera give Angels a rawness that pulls you into each fuck.
“ With a giant wobbled lurch forward, Tom Sachs’ “Hello Kitty Wind Up” (2008) is, well, exactly that: a Hello Kitty windup toy caught in mid mechanical step, 21 feet tall, cast in bronze. It’s the centerpiece of a set of similar bronze statues by Sachs on display at the plaza of the Lever House building, including two smaller fountains-all modeled after real toy counterparts of Sanrio Co. creations Hello Kitty and My Melody, as well as Dick Bruna’s Miffy character.
