{"id":737,"date":"2009-06-26T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/michael_jackson_in_the_art_wor\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T21:48:13","slug":"michael_jackson_in_the_art_wor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/michael_jackson_in_the_art_wor.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson in the art world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below, illuminations on a point made today in the LA Times<\/i> by Ann Powers, logging in<\/a> with the best (only good) obit:<\/p>\n

…as a man whose physical presence was first androgynous and
\nthen seemingly cyborgian, forcing his astounded public to puzzle over
\ntheir assumptions about race, gender and age.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jeff Koons: Michael Jackson and Bubbles<\/i><\/a>, 1998<\/p>\n

\"michaeljacksonkoons.jpg\"<\/span>Christian Marclay<\/a>: from Body Mixes<\/i><\/p>\n

\"christianmarclaymj.jpg\"<\/span>Samantha Scherer<\/a>: Just his eyes<\/p>\n

\"samanthasmj.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>As he saw himself: Robot Head<\/i> (1 & 2)<\/a>  from Moonwalker<\/i>:<\/p>\n

\"briandespainrobot1.jpg\"<\/span>
\"michaeljacksonrobot2.jpg\"<\/span>Another way to see Jackson as he saw himself: Turn him into a toy, a la Michael<\/strike> Matthew Porter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"michaelportermj.jpg\"<\/span>Mark Flood<\/a> goes for the benign freaky:<\/p>\n

\"markfloodmj.jpg\"<\/span>RIP to the dazzling genius of rhythm and pop soul. There is, however, and elephant in the room, and that rough beast has nothing to do with the moonwalk. As Chris Rock said<\/a>, “We loved him so much we let the first kid slide.” <\/p>\n

 Banksy here<\/a>, putting a face on the (in fairness, unproven) problem. More Jackson-in-art here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below, illuminations on a point made today in the LA Times by Ann Powers, logging in with the best (only good) obit: …as a man whose physical presence was first androgynous and then seemingly cyborgian, forcing his astounded public to puzzle over their assumptions about race, gender and age. Jeff Koons: Michael Jackson and Bubbles, […]<\/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-737","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\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}