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...Center’s spring art exhibition, is taking an in-depth look at body issues—literally. The largest piece in the show is an over-sized photograph of a vagina, complete with pubic hair and a manifesto. The work, entitled “The Vag Club,” connects final clubs to the vulva and is just one of the many works that illuminates how art can address social issues at Harvard. Every semester the Women’s Center stages an exhibition organized around a certain topic. The subject this spring—the relationship...
...daunting: we’re here to help with a guide to vibrators for you, your lovers and your (very close) friends. The Rabbit Habit: Thanks to Japan’s laws against vibrators that look like penises, the Rabbit has a friendly face for your vag and a cute bunny for your clit, which is sort of charming and sort of a turn-off. Thanks to Sex and the City, the Rabbit is the most hyped vibrator on the market, but it doesn’t live up to its hype (or its price). The plastic pearls are distracting...
...that recognition to something deeper--that's where an artist comes in handy. Something deeper is what Jungen does well. You can see just how well all through the smart, stimulating and sometimes laugh-out-loud-funny survey of his work that just opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG). There are more than 40 pieces in this show, and even the fanciest snowboard is no match for the least of them...
...best of them, the VAG exhibition includes all 23 variations of Prototype for New Understanding, the ingenious things that first put Jungen on the map. Each Prototype is a Nike Air Jordan shoe--or shoes--that has been intricately cut, folded, glued and resewn into something that looks like a Northwest Coast native mask. Shoes are bunched into faces or halved lengthwise into beaks. Their tongues are repurposed as ears. Round plastic insets sometimes function as eyes, some with a silhouette of Michael Jordan inside, the last word in ornamental pupils...
...Over the past few years, as his masks have become some of the most widely recognized works of new Canadian art, Jungen, 35, has become pretty visible too. The Vancouver survey, organized by the VAG's chief curator, Daina Augaitis, will move in April to the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. A somewhat smaller version of the show has already appeared at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. And in May a selection of Jungen's work opens at the Tate Modern in London...