Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Issue 3: The School Zone


Art World issue 3
version 1 & version 2

The Artswipe promised not to mention Bill Henson again. I only said that because I expected the whole kiddie-art c-type photo-scandal to have blown over by now. And also because I am so fickle - remember I write these blogs drunk. 

Has anyone read the magazine
Art World? I subscribe and so should you. Approximately three days after the Henson scandal erupted, I received issue 3 of Art World in the mail and - God Forbid! - it featured Bill Henson artworks. A detail of the image used on the "offending" invite from Roslyn Oxley69 Gallery that caused the furore in the first place actually made the cover of the magazine. That's it, I'm calling Miranda Devine. Miiiirrraaannnnddddaaaa! Miiiirrraaannnnddddaaaa!

Big thumbs up as they say in critic circles to
Art World for being so intuitive and having the insight to be so timely. They have their finger so up the pulsating arsehole of culture, I can barely breathe. Asphyxiation fantasies are popular again - they were a bit ho-hum for awhile there thank you Michael Hutchence. The Artswipe is having a sexual revolution and you're all all invited. I'd send glossly fold out DL invite cards but my budget was given over to rubber life vests.

Back to 
Art Word magazine and how it contained several of the naughty Henson pictures. Ooh ah. What's this? Today I get Art World in the mail again. This time the cover features spent paint tins. Intriguing to say the least. At first I thought a whole month had passed me by and I had not noticed (such is being in your early-late-mid thirties). But wait, this is issue 3 of Art World "repackagaed" without the "offensive" Hensons. Fuck me gently with a chainsaw! How did this happen? Why has Art World re-issued issue 3? Did the police seize the magazine? I'm shocked. We do live in a Police State.

I have a copy of issue 3 v1 and issue 3 v2 and will be displaying both in vitrines at my place during 40km per hour School Zone afternoon hours (I think its 3-4:30pm? Who knows what the morning hours are?) My Henson appreciation courses will be creative creche pow-wows for the critically finetuned. I may even take to eBay trading. I have several Henson books that are now out of print, and a casual glance in the realm of online auctions reveals that such fodder is very lucrative indeed. I may sell my
Art World issue 3 v1 on eBay. That's where I sold my virginity after all.

I was 13 at the time. The first cut is the deepest, as Rod Stewart once said.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Buy an alan Mitleman and pass it off as Ian Fairweather's peyote period.

Grice

P.S.
Mirandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
wooop woooop wooop

etc
filler follows

Skanky Jane said...

WOW! You're smokin' baby!

Anonymous said...

Oh My God
what next
what kind of world are we living in
i can't believe it
unbelieveable
Oh My God

Anonymous said...

O M effin Gawd, you subscribe???
I hope youare getting some seroius $2 per word contras baby, and SJ really oughtta B the ED in Chief.
We all know the real issue of depravity here is rrreally sexy kids, i dont really get it, but you know, every time I see a pram I get aroused, but they cant ban BABYCO ads can they?
I also like sniffing bicycle seats and wearing nappies, thank god that is not a crime.
But I also collect the works of Balthus ans Schiele, does that make me sick?