Margot Wade

I have moved

2011-02-15T19:09:00.000-08:00

I did not really understand how to do a blog. I apologize!

A Good Man is Hard to Find...or Not

2010-10-25T15:01:00.001-07:00

Aaron Gouveia, you get the bad-ass award of the year. Just watch this and you'll understand.

http://jezebel.com/5672924/husband-stands-up-to-anti+choice-protesters

I love the freedom of speech.

thanks alot stephen hawking

2010-09-05T14:33:00.000-07:00

if Hawking says there are aliens in the universe, I will definitely believe that. Why the hell not? His new book, The Grand Design: God Not Needed for Creation, states God was not needed to create the universe, it would have happened anyway with the laws of physics. Wow, I will have to think on that one.

http://news.spreadit.org/stephen-hawking-new-book-the-grand-design/

Oh No Vincent Van Gogh

2010-08-23T07:48:00.001-07:00

Vincent Van Gogh's "Vase and Flowers" has been stolen from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo; according to the Associated Press, the painting is worth roughly $50 million. [AP]

Read more: http://jezebel.com/5618598/van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-cairo-museum#ixzz0xRNvdqx4

Thanks a lot, vandal. Way to cut out a fucking van gogh and ruin it for everyone else.

Normally I try not to post photos for copyright infringement and whatnot, but since this painting has been stolen, everyone needs to see it. Who knows how long it will be gone?

(I had no clue Van Gogh only used one brush to paint his work. That is amazing considering his contemporaries were wearing berets and using 7 different sable brushes)

Andy Warhola

2010-08-07T13:29:00.000-07:00

READ DEEP STORAGE- this book is all about collecting, storing, and archiving art. It has the best articles on art installations of archiving memory.

I will be the first to admit I am not an Andy Warhol fan. But I absolutely admire what he did for the art world after his death. And he is pretty fascinating as a individual. http://flavorwire.com/110223/andy-warhol-82-birthday-facts

-----"From the ’50s through the ’70s, Andy always kept a standard-size cardboard box beside his desk that he would fill with interesting ephemera. Each box would be taped and dated when it was full. At the time of his death, Andy had assembled over 600 of these “time capsules.” ".-------

Now these time capsules have been given to universities art collections and are being opened for the first time.

So fucking cool.

Also, I just cannot believe Warhol and Duchamp met. Marcel Duchamp is my favorite artist, hands down. http://www.warhol.org/calendar/events_detail.php?eventID=1875&dateYear=2010&dateMonth=5&dateDate=25

This looks like an early jackson pollock done by a jean michel basquiat jeff koons.

Andy Warhol, The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose, 1948, collection Paul Warhola Family, courtesy the Warhola Family Website

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery", in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

Now think of that sentence while looking at this photo of andy warhol. http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/YoungAndy.jpg

Hmmmm.

The House.

2010-08-02T21:21:00.000-07:00

Margaret Eby wrote an article about the House. The very first one. She writes so beautifully and her eyes are cooler than bob dylans.

EXCERPT:

" “Museums are places where art goes to die,” Alan Watts once opined in Artforum, and he’s hardly the first art-lover to think so. Many contemporary artists have frought relationships with museums as institutions: No matter that great works are collected and cared for, no matter that landmark sculptures and paintings are impeccably preserved in temperature-controlled room, protected from camera flashes and finger oils by watchful guards, something about the museum forever alters the interaction between the art and the public. "

http://idiommag.com/2010/08/margot-wades-cabinet-of-curiosities/

Thank you Margaretta, you are the most wonderful.

Contra band

2010-07-23T09:12:00.000-07:00

I know Vampire Weekend does not give a fuck about an oxford comma, but they should give a fuck about copyright images.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20011290-504083.html

I would post the photo of the woman but I do not want to be sued for 2 million.

And I hope it all gets settled because I really do enjoy the band.

fluxus, flow

2010-07-22T15:01:00.000-07:00

Artist paints canvases with her own menstrual blood.

It is so beautiful.

http://jezebel.com/5590501/artist-paints-canvases-with-her-own-menstrual-blood

I'm offended you're offended

2010-07-20T13:52:00.000-07:00

Woa,

Artwork by Larry Anderson was recently vandalized. Anderson's artwork has dealt with religion, race, politics, gender, and sex. Everything that should not be said at the dinner table.

At Space One Eleven (a non-for-profit art gallery in Birmingham, Alabama), his past shows have included Where do Queers come from? and was part of the series Questions to the New South: Suspended in Conflict. In October 2010, he will have another curated show.

I think it comments heavily on the power of Anderson and what his artwork can evoke to the public. There is no telling the reaction with public art. If it is truly a good piece of work, someone is always offended.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/vandals-repeatedly-strike-artworks-565414.html

On that regard, here are some artists whose work has been the center of controversy and makes them way cool.

My favorite "Offensive" offenders
- no particular order

1. Chris Ofili, Virgin Mary
2. Tracey Enim, *any work really
3. Duchamp, Fountain
4. Andres Serrano, Piss Christ
5. Dash Snow, Hamster Cage
6. Manet, Olympia
7. Saatchi Gallery shows before 2008
8. Chapman Brothers Hell
9. Chris Burden, * any performance
10. Joseph Beuys and Matthew Barney, together 4eva

My three favorite public works of art are 1. Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, 2. Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial and 3. Sol LeWitt's Black Form.

I do not really care for France, but

2010-07-19T11:05:00.000-07:00

Five well-known masterpieces, by Picasso, Matisse and other great artists, have been stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.(May 21, 2010)

If you wanted to start a modern art museum, these paintings would be high on your list of acquisitions as between them they tell the story of modern art's emergence, as the BBC arts editor Will Gompertz explains here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10137286

I apologize for posting this so late, but I have oodles of time on my hands right now and right now, this is incredibly fitting.

Stolen artwork has always intrigued me since the first time I saw Indiana Jones and the Thomas Crown Affair. And of course, The Rape of Europa.Not many people know of the Nazi's love of artwork and their desire to steal the world's finest art.

I believe it is incredibly important to ask why art is stolen- the motives, the reasonings, the execution of the heist, all sorts of things. Why would someone want to steal "The Scream" when it could never be sold or shown to anyone else without the threat of it being returned? Does it mean that one man (or woman) sits in their bedroom and looks at it night and day? That intensity to steal a piece of canvas from a wall inspires all sorts of investigations into the human mind. What is it about that painting that threw rationality out the window?

While it is against my moral code to steal or vandalize artwork, if I had the chance to steal a painting, It would be Jackson Pollock's "Enchanted Forest". While working at the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, I looked at this painting everyday for 3 months. I have never been more captivated by any single force. I went back two years later to the museum to film the paint spills and saturated color. Video taping a painting seems like something a person on drugs would do- but when you see something that you cannot have or take away with you, you will do anything to have a piece of it.

It would pain me to know that no one else could see the real thing, but if my rationality ever disappeared, you can bet so would the Enchanted Forest.

A Scientist Takes on Gravity...

2010-07-19T10:25:00.000-07:00

It is all an allusion.

This makes my head hurt.

"Gravity is a consequence of the venerable laws of thermodynamics, which describe the behavior of heat and gases...Dr. Verlinde is among a number of physicists who say that science has been looking at gravity the wrong way and that there is something more basic, from which gravity “emerges,” the way stock markets emerge from the collective behavior of individual investors or that elasticity emerges from the mechanics of atoms. Looking at gravity from this angle, they say, could shed light on some of the vexing cosmic issues of the day, like the dark energy, a kind of anti-gravity that seems to be speeding up the expansion of the universe, or the dark matter that is supposedly needed to hold galaxies together"...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?_r=2&ref=science

(I feel it should be noted that the scientist is from Amsterdam.)

The House

2010-06-03T09:45:00.000-07:00

I spent the last year living in an attic at my grandparent's house. I sorted through every skeleton in the closet while creating an installation "Pubic Places Private Spaces, a work of friction". After the show ended, I continued pouring through old trunks, books, antique furniture reeking of history and mothballs, photos of my great grandparents, paintings and animal skins and heads to create a white cube gallery.

Home is where you left your stuff.

free preventive services

2010-06-02T21:25:00.000-07:00

So, really quickly, this is the coolest.

"Beginning September 23, many health insurance plans will be required to provide free preventive services coverage, with no co-pays or out-of-pocket costs".

- "Free Birth Control Under Health Care?" by Sarah Kliff
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37980.html

Also, There is a website for women to write about their experiences with birth control. The stories can help lobby federal agencies on birth control’s importance. (futures site: "On the Pill is Personal").

That is so cool.

Louise Bourgeois

2010-06-01T15:43:00.001-07:00

yesterday, Louise Bourgeois died. At this point, I cannot even begin to describe what we all lost.

So, instead, here is a photo of her with a shy, brilliant smile, all while holding a massive penis.

Additionally, Thank you Robert Mapplethorpe for this.

Marina Abramovic made me cry,

2010-06-01T13:10:00.000-07:00

vomit, and strip down.

700 hour silent opera. FIN.

(While I was scanning through "Marina Abramovic made me cry" I saw a photo of my art studio professor. This is a photo of the incredibly talented Rie Hachiyanagi.)

http://gawker.com/5551849/vomit-nudity-litter-marina-abramovics-marathon-performance-piece-ends-in-chaos

http://marinaabramovicmademecry.tumblr.com/

birth scream/nocturnal death

2010-03-30T10:21:00.000-07:00

Pubic Places Private Spaces, a work of friction

2010-02-10T20:20:00.000-08:00

a work of friction

2010-02-10T20:17:00.000-08:00

“ Sara Frances, a work of friction”

She was fifteen when she got her period. She was too ashamed to tell her mother. Because she was embarrassed to ask for help or even tampons, she would stuff rags up her vagina and duct tape her panties over her private area and wear two pairs of leggings and dark jeans to conceal the blood.

She would sweat uncontrollable and OH the smell. She would seal her vagina shut so no one could smell her womanhood. She thought she was dying when she first saw discharge.

But, the worst was the noise: the crinkling of the tape like the sound of a child’s diaper.

She became obsessed with blood. It was menstrual evidence that left her feeling dirty and ashamed. She changed her super-flow tampon every thirty minutes. For nine days, she would endure the flood. And, for twenty-one days, She would anxiously await.

Last year, after losing twenty pounds to fit into her debutante dress, her period became non-existent. She was dry for five months. Those 153 days were spent worrying over potential menstrual mishaps.

She was put on birth control for regularity in her life. Her breasts grew back, her hips widened and she bled for three months straight. She was becoming a woman again.

She became so disgusted and self conscious with her 36D breasts, size 12 hips and incessant sanguine discharge, She stopped birth control. Ninety-two days of bleeding ended.

She became apprehensive and suspicious of her still changing body and absent period. That is when she found herself pregnant in a Mississippi Wal-mart bathroom.

Because she lived in Mississippi, a state that does not allow abortions, She went to Memphis, TN. She was too scared to call her mother and so scared she went to the first clinic she found. The building looked like a haunted house. She was told to sit in an attic to wait her turn. She did not know if it was the crack head nurse, the alcohol form the night before or the protesters screaming at her about the murder she was about to commit that she felt sick to her stomach and ran for the door. A few days later she returned to Memphis to a welfare hospital. She waited four hours to have her uterine lining and fertilized egg scooped out of her like a carved pumpkin. The xanax the nurses gave her before did nothing to placate the guilt. She sweated shame. She awoke in a room with six other women. They were given sprite and a prescription to help “induce labor”. She was led back into the main reception room and fell into her boyfriend’s arms. She was then told to expect extreme discomfort and bleeding.

After her abortion, the bleeding returned. Only this time it was not celebrating her womanhood. It was ending it. Her body cried out the physical and emotional pain, shed the social guilt and shame, and bled her relief. She had to wear diapers for fourteen days. You could hear the same crinkle as before when her period first began.

She went back to the doctor. She explained her abusive relationship with periods. Blood was the epitome of her body’s embarrassment. She wanted a normal life. A normal sex life. PERIOD. The doctor gave her new birth control to end her bleeding. But two weeks later when she came, the blood came too.

Only during sex did she bleed. She felt like an animal, a BITCH IN HEAT that had to put newspaper down in fear of an accident. Her own cunt was rejecting her.

The next time she got her period, she bled for ten days straight. 12-15 milligrams of blood every 2-4 hours. She would wake up covered in her own blood. The fatigue and pain were unbearable. Every time she moved, she would bleed. The female hysteria set in.

The anxiety of being soiled again unnerved her more than the pain of her uterine lining disintegrating, her iron count depleting and her ovaries gnawing out of her pelvis.

She thinks her body is punishing her for not having a baby like she was suppose to. On January 16, 2010, She should have gone into labor. She would be turning twenty-three years old a few weeks later.

Because talking about your vagina is improper, blood on white cotton is not respectable and abortions are taboo, her coming to terms with her womanhood in the South has been full of isolation and blood lost.

China Cabinet

2010-02-10T20:13:00.000-08:00

Gun Rack

2010-02-10T20:05:00.000-08:00

doting dolt/flaunting female

2010-02-10T19:58:00.000-08:00

white lean debutante glove: I was born to lead but bred to breed.

Inscriptions on prescriptions,

Paranoia is your vanity.

Your privilege is your insecurity.

Your tits speak louder than your words.

You are more than a cunt,
a pair of tits,
a hot piece of ass.

Having kids means your tennis stroke improves and your husband’s golf games get longer.

Liquid Courage, ruined bravery.

Labia is not a country in Africa.

A true gentleman is a woman.

Endurance is the most feminine quality.

Homophobia is repressed homosexuality.

Sexuality is fluid. Gender should be neutral.

You should never be embarrassed of your bleeding or discharging vagina.

Losing your father means losing your mother too.

A shame so red you can smell the blood.

Your mother’s insecurities become your own.

I am what you want and need me to be.

Birth Control: Because he does not like small breasts or condoms.

The only possession you kept is your obsession with material things.

Your house will never be big enough.

He/She/It will never be enough.

You are not being precautious- You are being racist.

Get high off your parent’s problems.

Prescriptions become your addictions.

You gave up your feminist ways to be happy.

Ten more pounds.

I am Yes Ma'am and No Sir.

You were the golden couple. How could this happen to you?

Philomela

2010-02-10T19:54:00.000-08:00

table manners

2010-02-10T19:50:00.000-08:00

eating your words

2010-02-10T19:46:00.000-08:00

civil wars

2010-02-10T19:40:00.000-08:00

the elephant in the room

2010-02-10T19:18:00.000-08:00

Hey y'all,

2010-02-10T10:30:00.000-08:00

I will be uploading photographs and text from the installation "Pubic Places Private Spaces, a work of friction" by the end of this week.

Press Release

2010-02-09T20:37:00.001-08:00

“Pubic Places Private Spaces” transforms an archaic Southern parlor room into a wunderkammer of stale lace, china plates, and naked breasts. A gothic touch of the dinner table in this neverhood instills a ruined bravery that would make only Blanche DuBois feel at ease. Prescribing the female form with scorn and adoration, this sewn tapestry of a Southern debutante reveals the unraveling of a modern woman. Margot S Wade’s installation gnaws at the very bone of the throat that causes the voice to silence and forces the body to bequeath a shared past.