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It's an important distinction that explains how the president relates to men and women differently, to the detriment of everyone.
The humor employed by Mimi Smith and Susan Bee isn't conventional. In fact it is more an antihumor they indulge. Not anti in being against humor, but in being against a repression that has traditionally been the source of much mainstream humor.
"We knew they [straight males] were hugging and cuddling, and we wanted to understand this phenomenon in more detail," McCormack
Art long outlives the institutions and ideologies it is made to service. Trending
Gender and sexuality are becoming ever more mutable for the progressive and cosmopolitan global nomad -- that small but growing breed of iconoclast, be s/he biologically male, female or in between.
More than any other artist I can call to mind, the impact of Neshat's work far transcends the realms of art in reflecting the most vital and far-reaching struggle to assert human rights.