{"id":1908,"date":"2010-09-13T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/09\/meat_attire_the_sequel_plus_ce\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T03:34:12","slug":"meat_attire_the_sequel_plus_ce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/09\/meat_attire_the_sequel_plus_ce.html","title":{"rendered":"Meat attire, the Gaga sequel, plus ceramic wear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Christopher Knight pointed out, Lady Gaga&#8217;s meat dress is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2010\/09\/lady-gaga-meat-dress-recycled.html\">set firmly in repeat mode<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janasterbak.com\/\">Jana Sterbak<\/a> sewed wet, raw red muscle into a garment in 1987. (Photos of both items on the Knight link.) <\/p>\n<p>Knight: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sterbak&#8217;s <i>Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorexic<\/i> is now in the<br \/>\ncollection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrepompidou.fr\/\">Centre Georges Pompidou<\/a>, Paris&#8217; modern art museum &#8212;<br \/>\nan appropriate locale, given that city&#8217;s intersection of art and<br \/>\nfashion. Most recently it has been on view in the exhibition &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrepompidou.fr\/Pompidou\/Manifs.nsf\/ActualiteCategorie?ReadForm&amp;RestrictToCategory=Categorie1&amp;count=999&amp;sessionM=2.2.1&amp;L=2\">elles@centrepompidou<\/a>,&#8221; a changing year-long survey dedicated to women artists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s striking about Gaga&#8217;s look is the shoes. (Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/\">John Perreault<\/a> on facebook.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ladygagashoes.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/ladygagashoes.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"467\" width=\"500\" \/>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/\">PETA<\/a>) is unhappy, and best health practice is an issue too. (Art doesn&#8217;t have to be nice or good for you.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maggot infestation can happen quickly on raw meat at room temperature and will develop faster with heat, accelerated by being close to skin and under hot lights,&#8221; says Dr. Shawki Ibrahim, chief scientific advisor for Grow Green Industries. Plus, &#8220;the dress is definitely puts her at an E.coli risk if she had a cut on her skin, but otherwise it&#8217;s just the stink factor.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/uberblog\/ask_the_answer_bitch\/b200169_was_lady_gagas_meat_dress_really.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from spectacular discomfort, dressing in crockery has no downside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariehelenesirois.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/li-xiaofeng.html?zx=90e446fec5da4a1\">Li Xiaofeng<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crockerydress.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/crockerydress.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"677\" width=\"430\" \/>I also like the hat, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evanblackwell.com\/upcoming.html\">Evan Blackwell<\/a>, artist unknown, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artslant.com\/cn\/venues\/show\/11229-minsheng-art-museum\">Minsheng Art Museum<\/a> in Shanghai. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crockery hat.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/crockery%20hat.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"327\" width=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christopher Knight pointed out, Lady Gaga&#8217;s meat dress is set firmly in repeat mode. Jana Sterbak sewed wet, raw red muscle into a garment in 1987. (Photos of both items on the Knight link.) Knight: Sterbak&#8217;s Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorexic is now in the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}