Mapplethorpe: Polaroids

I happened upon this new book of Robert Mapplethorpe's early Polaroids around the same time I read Ryan McGinley's recent interview of Jack Walls (Mapplethorpe's long-term boyfriend). Both the collection of black-and-white photographs and the interview are as great for their content as they are for insights into an era not usually glimpsed elsewhere. McGinley's involvement is like the exclamation mark highlighting how relevant Mapplethorpe's …

The Synchronicity Project

by Jens Jensen Since 2005 Japanese art director Jun Tsuzuki has been running a project he calls To guarantee the pictures are taken at the exact same time, the participants are asked to synchronize their local time with the given GMT time. The next moment marks Synchronicity's third annual celebration of the New Year, occurring at 1 January 2008, 0:00:00 GMT. (That's 31 December 2007, …

Top Five Sexiest of 2007

Fetish by David Lynch and Christian Louboutin Shoes, scarlet, flesh, velvet, shadows, France and fetish—really what more could you want from these two masters of their mediums? Lynch and Louboutin create a sensation with this collaborative project. Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich: Siege Weapons of Love Sexy, funny but also slightly scary, these cartoonish inflatable pink phalli make a strong statement against the sexual perversity …