Style Ish: Androgynous Female Artists
If this is your first time reading, let me take a moment to tell you the absolute number one tenet here on Ribbon Around a Bomb: ALWAYS style over substance. … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: La Pocha Nostra
Aliados: You may (or may not) have noticed that my posting on Ribbon Around a Bomb has decreased lately. The reason is a very exciting one indeed. I recently accepted … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Roberta Breitmore Series
I just returned from a brilliant 5-day escape to New York City. Besides hanging out with some of my best friends in the world, eating a plethora of delicious bread-based … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Let’s talk about the unbelievable boundlessness of true love, guys. I’m totes serious. [Genesis P-Orridge- circa 1980?] [Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, post-op- circa… late ’90s?] Last night, I heard a poem … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Atsuko Tanaka
Rounding out the trifecta of INCREDIBLE Japanese women artists (oh, hi, Yayoi Kusama and Yoko Ono) is of course, Atsuko Tanaka. [Tanaka wearing her “Electric Dress”- 1956] Like Ono and … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Womanhouse
In 1972, Judy Chicago and over a dozen other female artists came together to present Womanhouse, the first collaborative exhibition of feminist art in the United States. Set in an … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Valie Export
Valie Export wants you to fondle her. At least, she did in 1968. I recently discovered the piece Tapp- und Tast-Kino or “Tap and Touch Cinema” by the Austrian experimental/feminist … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Pussy Riot Vodka
Two, no THREE, of my favorite things combined: femmepunk + booze + political art. Behold: Pussy Riot Vodka, “a PUNK sensibility, with a higher price point.” Artists Gordy Grundy and … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: The Thing Quarterly
Subscribers of San Francisco’s “object-based publication” The Thing Quarterly receive a new issue of the “periodical” at their doorstep 4 times a year. The periodical, as it happens, is actually … Continue reading
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