In December, I posted something about a brilliant piece of satire directed at the company Best Made and its line of high-end, artisanal axes. The artist behind the work, who called himself Peter Smith-Buchanan, I thought, lived in New York. As it turns out, however, the artist lived just down the road… Today’s interview is […]
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Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with the most important artists of our day… Episode 2: Rebekah Modrak
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture Also tagged anxiety, artisanal goods, authenticity, axes, bearded entrepreneurial hipster outdoorsman, BEHO, Best Made Co., brand identity, class, coined phrases, cultural tourism, culture jamming, design porn, family recipes, gender, identity, interviews, manly, parody, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Peter Smith-Buchanan, pioneer fetish, plungers, porn, Re Made, Rebekah Modrak, Risto Moisio, River in the Catskills, Shinola, shopdropping, Stamps School of Art and Design, taming the wilderness, Thomas Cole, toilet plungers, turkey croquettes, University of Michigan, ZaneRay Group 33 Comments
American Juggalo
Last night, I couldn’t sleep due to all of the coughing, so I curled up in bed with my laptop and watched New York filmmaker Sean Dunne’s short documentary piece on Juggalo culture, entitled American Juggalo. As we’ve had several conversations here in the past on the clown-faced disciples of Detroit’s ICP, I thought that […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged abstract art, academia, American Juggalo, blood and soil, Blut und Boden, cults, Degenerate Art, down with the clown, Entartete Kunst, family love, Gathering of the Juggalos, ICP, Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos, McCarthyism, modern art, Sean Dunne, Shaggy 2 Dope, Stephen Tonsor, Tila Tequila, Tom Green, Vincent van Gogh, Volent J, woop woop 22 Comments