Cool Or Not Cool: Asking the Brooklyn Museum to Pull Crucifix Video?

An exhibition called “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” opens later this week at the Brooklyn Museum, and includes a video by David Wojnarowicz that's got the Brooklyn Dioceses’s collars in a bunch.

The video includes a 12 second clip of ants crawling over a wooden crucifix. Last week Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio wrote a letter to the big wigs at the museum asking it not be included because it’s “offensive to many people of faith.” The Brooklyn Museum denied the request (unlike the pansies at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery last year). Though upset that the show will go on uncensored, the Catholic League has stated they will not protest the grand opening. How nice of them. 

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[My Favorite Park Slope...]: Place to Party and Peep Free Art

If you're having "one of those weeks" this week -- the one where you have to go to the TD Bank Penny Arcade to cash in all of your loose change to get beer money -- you might be looking for something to do this weekend that's super cheap but still really fun. This FIPS post is your official reminder that Saturday, November 5th, is the First Saturday party at the Brooklyn Museum.

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Brooklyn Museum To Feature Local Artists In New Exhibition

Kristof Wickman (American, b. 1981). Self-Portrait, 2010. Neoprene ball, cast silicone. 35 x 35 x 35 in. (88.9 x 88.9 x 88.9 cm). © the artist; courtesy of the artist

Today marks the start of the BK Museum's Raw/Cooked exhibit, which will feature five solo exhibitions from emerging inner-borough artists. First up is Bushwick artist Kristof Wickman, whose piece shown to the left reminds me that I should feel OK about hugging my own medicine ball while weeping during the final scene in Ghost (I don't have a cat, OK?).

Each exhibit will run for ten weeks. 

Yogis Take Over The Brooklyn Museum

Photo via Well + Good NYC

My Yoga experiences range from falling asleep for a few hours per week in child’s pose for easy college credits to bending and flexing my body into impossible positions in a 105 degree room, completely covered in sweat. Not my sweat, mind you. It was that of a large moist man who leered at my swamp-ass while in the midst of downward dogging.

I’m sure, however, that there are plenty of people who thoroughly enjoy yoga and have had wonderful experiences. So for all you Yogis -- Grab your biodegradable hemp mats and high tail your little spandexed asses over to the Brooklyn Museum, because they are hosting a series of Yoga events unlike any other!

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CREEP CENTRAL: ANDY WARHOL AT THE BK MUSEUM

Okay, okay.  Am I the only one who finds Andy Warhol totally creepy?  The high voice, the fact that he looked like a cross between Skeletor and the guy from Tales From the Crypt? 

I get that his contributions to art were important (viva la soup can!), but goddamn! Creepy!

Regardless of my opinions, the Brooklyn Museum has a show on him running from now until September, showing 50 of his works from the last decade of his life.  It's called "Andy Warhol: The Last Decade."  

Who's gone?  Who's going?