Showing posts with label performance art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label performance art. Show all posts

Sunday, May 16, 2010

One of my contemporaries scores again



















A man wearing only a pair of woman's thong panties n his head has become the first person arrested under Boulder's public nudity law.  Police said 55 year old Glenn Ford was standing naked on an off ramp of Highway 36 during the Thursday rush hour this week.  Cops said Ford was drunk and refused to put on his clothes.

I've seen naked people in public four times (aside from hot springs/hot tubs and locker rooms)--once in the awesome Italian deli in long-gone Woolworth's (!), on Market Street/Powell in San Francisco,  where a woman was shopping, carrying a basket on her arm, stark naked; once, on the Upper West Side in Manhattan near our apartment where a bum (sorry - I'm not sure of the politically correct terms for bum or hobo, derelict, or fuck-up) was strolling naked; once in Seattle at 1 AM when I was driving home from a late night at work and two girls and one boy stepped toward the street and waves--all stark naked; and once in Pioneer Square--another bum, who was pushing a shopping cart, wearing only a pair of flip-flops.
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Sunday, September 06, 2009

No performance art!


One of my favorite art exhibits at this year's Bumbershoot was a piece challenging the sanity of performance art. Nice. While I have enjoyed performance art over the years (especially some of my friend Ron Littke's insane performances in Manhattan in the early 1980's), there is always an overhanging cloud of *huh*?
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