http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... pad_nudity

Basically, a city ordinance in Boise, Idaho banned complete nudity in strip clubs (ahh the wonders of the tyranny of majority). "We'll give those avant-garde artists a break, though", figured the lawmakers, and created an exclusion for "artistic displays" (no relation to the 'Orange Gates' exhibit). So what's a strip-club owner to do? Why, give everybody sketchpads and pencils and call it an "art night"!

How much do you think the "paintings" are going for at Costco?

There was a story like this recently at another place where a strip club could not open up in a community in the states so he converted it into a low budget movie house offering strippers or something ...

Wow. That is hillarious.

Nope. They'll paint the thongs on with liquid latex and call it performance art exploring female form, line, and color.

Are you thinking of opening a business venture in Boise?

**note to self: move to Boise, take up art**

If you think that story is bad, check out this "art" "event".

Nope, but I got tangled in this before when back in university some students got an arts scholarship for a liquid latex show. They really worked the artisitic and conceptual aspects of this to get the money. I was very excited and begged to be part of the painting crew since I've been painting on myself since I was in highschool photography, and in unversity I used to paint my friends (and they me) as a sort of affectionate leisurely activity. No we wouldn't go around campus afterwards, it was a very intimate experiance and we would just go wash it off after. Anyways, I thought this would be a very process oriented examination of highlighting different mens and womens bodies and allowing for different sexual production through working with, you guessed it, skin, form and color. It ended up being a joke, and their idea of latex painting was to paint the dominatrix wear onto some people rather than just buying a nice (and much cleaner) outfit. Then having them walk down runways and have dance-offs (I thought when they mentioned choreography it would be a bit more on the modern dance route). They deterred anyone that wasn't already of commonly accepted form (yes they had auditions for the parts) and even so i know some people who literally stopped eating the day or two before because they were worried how they would be received. These are not habits I care to encourage in people.

Anyways, in tipical starving artist style I cried a bit and then when and did a series of oil paintings about the experience. :razz:

Everyone thought it was so awesome and profound after the show and kept congratulating us. Ugh, I would have found going a few miles down route 2 to the Golden Banana to be more insightful. At least there they weren't trying to undermine questions of spectacle and sex in the name of high art. Plus, we've seen famous porn models doing autograph signing there, so at least its advancing someone's career rather than being some self-congratulatory seeping of art endowment funds.

hmmmm, strange.

Nah, my favorite piece of art was part of some traveling show at the Hirschorn 15 years ago. It was titled "Plywood with Roller Mark #5." I and a friend saw it from 30 feet away, and it looked like the artist had loaded a roller with white paint and dropped it on the corner of a 4' x 6' plywood board. We, of course, started ridiculing it in the grand tradition of "what a worthless artist...he really bilked the NEA out of a grant, heh...my six-year-old can do that." :razz:

Then we got closer, only to find that it wasn't plywood. It was a piece of tightly stretched canvas that the artist had painted to look like plywood, and then dropped the roller on. If the artist's intent was to fool amateur art critics into thinking he was a worthless artist, he succeeded. =D>

never was impressed with the whole body painting thing.

I don't know. Never done it. Never really cared to either though.