Dolls

Images by Kanako Sasaki

Stripe

From the Wunderkind Fall 2009 Ready-To-Wear collection.

Hollow

Drawings by Kathrin Klinger, who works as an artist and illustrator in Amsterdam.

Technology of the Orgasm

Sam Gorman's "Physicians Vibragenitant" with set of vibratodes

Physicians clearly had an interest in maintaining their professional dignity, even as they sought methods of treating such "elusive" disorders as hysteria with therapies that would attract repeat business to their examining rooms. In some locations they faced competition from beauty parlors, which began using vibrators in the early in the twentieth century , "because the sensations from their use are pleasing and the results instantaneous."

From Technology of the Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, Rachel P. Maines, John Hopkins University Press, 1999

Glamour

Bazooka,  2009, enamel on metal,  76 x 114 inches 

Snake Charmer, 2009,  enamel on metal,  27 x 48 inches 

Marylin Minter traffics in the true meaning of glamour as she charms us through her alluring, erotically charged works. Her large scale pantings and photographs portray sensual surfaces composed of skin, glitter, and grime. The images are wet, as if fluids are seeping from beneath the skin out onto the exterior of the body. Minter exploits the tension between the beautiful and the grotesque as she exposes the visceral body as a site of glimmering decay.

Minter's works are on view at Salon 94 Freemans until June 13, 2009. Her video project Green Pink Caviar is on view in Times Square as part of the Creative Time's project Chewing Color through May 31.

Carving Magic

The secrets of meat cutting from the short film  Carving Magic. 

Intimacy

Relationships work best when each partner knows their proper place.

Every man needs a woman to keep him on track.

How to build a relationship with layered meanings

Images from Yijun Liao's photographic series Experimental Relationship.