Week 14

December 5, 2006

Ross Bleckner, Remember Me, 1987
Ross Bleckner, 8,122 as of January 1986, 1986
ACT-UP, Let the Record Show, 1987  three views
Gran Fury, Civil War, 1988
Gran Fury, Kissing Doesn’t Kill, 1989  
Benetton ad by Oliviero Toscani Priest and Nun kissing, 1991
Benetton ad by Oliviero Toscani, Tattooed Buttocks, 1993
Benetton ad by Oliviero Toscani, testtubes of blood, 1990
Benetton ad by Oliviero Toscani, unfurled condoms, 1991

Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry and Bobby Kissing, 1979
Robert Mapplethorpe, Christopher Holly, 1980
Robert Mapplethorpe, Jim, Sausalito, 1977
Robert Mapplethorpe, self portrait, 1978
Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily, 1988
Robert Mapplethorpe, Double Jack in the Pulpit, 1988
Robert Mapplethorpe, Dennis Speight with Calla Lily, 1983

David Wojnarowicz,  He Kept Following Me, 1990
David Wojnorowicz, Subspecies Helms Senatorius, 1990
David Wojnarowicz, from the Sex Series, 1990  
David Wojnarowicz, untitled (when I put my hands on your body), 1990
Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, untitled (portrait of Ross in LA), 1991

Andreas Serrano, Piss Christ, 1987
Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996
The Guerilla Girls, Relax Senator Helms, 1988-89
Barbara Kruger, Your Body is a Battleground, 1989
Perugino, Madonna and Child, c 1500
Correggio, Madonna of the Basket, 1523-25

Adrian Piper, Calling Card  #2, 1986
Adrian Piper, Cornered, 1988
Glenn Ligon, untitled (I remember the very day I became Colored), 1990
Glenn Ligon, untitled (I feel most Colored when), 1990
Byron Kim, Synecdoche, 1994
Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, Black and White, 1993

Cindy Sheman, untitled, 1985
Cindy Sherman, untitled, 1987
Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992 (chocolate and lard cubes and chocolate heart and lipstick)
Rona Pondick, Little Bathers, 1990-91
Kiki Smith, untitled (male and female bodies), 1990
Kiki Smith, Blood Pool, 1992
Kiki Smith, Tail, 1992
Kiki Smith, Trough, 1990
Robert Gober, Double Sink, 1984
Robert Gober, Partially Buried Sink, 1986-87
Robert Gober, untitled (leg), 1990
Robert Gober, untitled (male and female torso), 1990

Mike Kelley, More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid, 1987
Mike Kelley, Plush Kundalini and Chakra Set, 1987
Peter Davies, The Hot 100, 1997
Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Modern Art in America, 1946
Sigmar Polke, Paganinni, 1982
Sigmar Polke, Cityscape, 1969
Bruce Nauman, Window or Wall Sign, 1967       
Bruce Nauman, Double Poke in the Eye, 1985

Let the Record Show, 1987:  “By Thanksgiving 1982, 1,123 known dead…AIDS…no word from the President.”  “By Thanksgiving 1987, 25,644 dead.”
Jesse Helms: “The logical outcome of testing is a quarantine of those infected”
Cory Servaas, President’s AIDS Commission: “It is patriotic to have the AIDS test and be negative”
Jerry Falwell: “AIDS is God’s judgment of a society that does not live by his rules”
William F. Buckley:  “Everyone detected with Aids should be tattooed in the upper forearm to protect common needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization if other homosexuals”

Hilton Kramer, 1989: “What one finds in many Mapplethorpe photographs is …so absolute and extreme a concentration on make sexual endowment that every other attribute of the human subject is reduced to insignificance.  In these photographs men are rendered as nothing but sexual—which is to say, homosexual—objects.”

Adrian Piper, Calling Card, 1986:   “Dear Friend: I am black.  I am sure you did not realize this when you made/laughed at/ agreed with that racist remark. In the past I have attempted to alert white people to my racial identity in advance.  Unfortunately this invariably causes them to react to me as pushy, manipulative, or socially inappropriate.  Therefore my policy is to assume that white people do not make these remarks, even when they believe there are no black people present, and to distribute this card when they do.  I regret any discomfort my presence is causing you, just as I am sure that you regret the discomfort your racism is causing me.”