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This autumn, there’s another Andy Warhol retrospective exhibition coming your way. We love ‘Drella’, but you wonder what blood there is left to squeeze from that particular stone. Surprisingly, a great deal – for starters, here are six things you probably didn’t know about the Prince of Prints: 01 When he died in 1987 he had 600 boxes, each containing 200 objects that varied from a signed photo of Shirley Temple to a pair of embroidered underpants. 02 He went to a party at The Factory called ‘The Fifty Most Beautiful People’, which included Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams and Allen Ginsberg. 03 Guests on his TV programme Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes included Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon, Grace Jones, Marc Jacobs, Debbie Harry, Ian McKellen and Curiosity Killed The Cat. [what?!] 04 In 1957 Warhol had cosmetic surgery on his nose. 05 An advert appeared in The Village Voice, claiming: “I’ll endorse with my name any of the following: clothing AC-DC, cigarettes small, tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N’ ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!! Love and kisses ANDY WARHOL, EL 5-9941.” 06 The image pictured here is from a Japanese TV commercial for TDK in 1982. He also appeared in an ad for Diet Coke.
Money for nothing FLOWmarket is a shop-come-art-instillation in Copenhagen offering a shopping experience that’s somewhat conceptual. In short: all the thrill of buying without any consumption! Aiming to bring a holistic mindset to rampant consumerism (buy something, to stop people buying things – eh?), FLOWmarket claims that by 2010 consumers will be introduced to approximately 500 million new products every year. Hopefully there’ll be some conceptual cupboards, because if we buy all the 40 or so items available (empathy, clean air, inner calmness, etc.) what are we going to put them in?
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FROCKON At a recent Madonna-themed fancy dress party, a friend commented how the men looked strangely more masculine in drag. Photographer Roberto Foddai (pictured), whom GT first featured back in June (GT 357), has also been intrigued by this phenomenon and made it the theme of his latest project. “I have a fetish for men wearing dresses, yet retaining their masculinity,” he admitted to us. Strangely, dresses draped on hirsute chests do little to feminise, but their presence questions what it is that makes someone masculine. If you’d like to take part in the project, contact Roberto on his website www.robertofoddai.com and read more about gender-bending on p 61. BH
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Andy Warhol: Other Voices Other Rooms, runs from Oct 7th 2008-Jan 18th 2009 at The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre. www.haywardgallery.org.uk
www.theflowmarket.com
WHAT CHO LOOKIN, AT?
A bunch of bears on the True Colours tour in America, it seems. Margaret Cho is loving the motto, “Don’t pluck it, fuck it”. The clip fuses all her between-band banter, and offering her own Puss Rap at the end. Don’t diss the Cho – or expect a vaginal cuss in return: “My puss so fine I flaunt it, your puss so old it’s haunted”. Miaow! Check it out at www.myspace.com/gaytimes.
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The Black LGBT Community Awards 2008 seeks to celebrate and develop black gay culture in the UK. The awards, organised by the Black Gay Men’s Advisory Group, will be held on a boat on the Thames and will include a threecourse, sit-down dinner. Razz! You can see the nominations, vote and purchase tickets on-line.
The Liverpool Biennial, coinciding with the city’s year as European Capital of Culture, is always worth investigating for queer talent (the international exhibition Made Up, exploring the ‘ambiguous territory between the real and unreal’, already has us intrigued). Last time, we got a free Yoko Ono bag with a vagina on the front. Edgy!
With 24 dance schools and 1400 performers involved, Theatretrain’s I Don’t Feel Like Dancing looks set to be a dance experience on an unparalleled scale. It promises to fill the Royal Albert Hall with music and dance styles including Urban Classical, Hip Hop, Irish, Greek and Salsa. Strangely, no mention of the hokeycokey...
Justin Bond (aka Kiki in NY cabaret duo Kiki & Herb) returns to London to present his spanking new solo show, Lustre, at Soho Theatre. Being the genius that he is, it’s been both a critical and popular success across the Pond. Expect a heady cabaret mix of songs, stories and special guests. Until Nov 1st.
The 52nd London Film Festival launches with the world premiere of Frost/ Nixon, depicting the events around David Frost’s interview with the disgraced former president, adapted from Peter Morgan’s play. Among its features will be some LGBT films, including Jay and Sex Positive. Look out for all the hot art gays in the BFI bar afterwards. Until Oct 30th.
www.blgbt.com
www.biennial.com.
Die-hard Doctor Who fans will be offered new insights into the making of the show with the release of Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook’s Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale (BBC Books). Only those who have been living in televisual exile for the last decade (or on another planet?) won’t know that Davies is one of the most interesting figures in British TV.
www.theatretrain.co.uk
www.sohotheatre.com
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