Alors
Once the last match was finished, as the winners celebrated and the losers put their arms around each other, the stadium thrummed with the grinding beat of Stromae’s 2009 hit, “Alors on danse.” As...
View ArticleThe Joy of Ashlyn Harris
Within a sexist setting, women’s joy is valuable only as an image that serves men’s pleasure. Within queer and feminist settings that pleasure circulates, echoes, accumulates. It is shared out,...
View ArticleMarcin Dudek: The Lure of the Arena
The Lure of the Arena, 2019 — a bit of football art, to recall the thing I know many of us can’t wait to get back to. Sitting in the stands together. Art historian and fantastic thinker of sports-art...
View ArticleCarolee Schneemann, Kitch (figure skater)
Artist’s postcard (photo from auction). See also Ice Skating Naked.
View ArticleSexism, Corruption, Sports (a brief note)
If you have yet to read Meg Linehan’s story about NWSL coach Paul Riley, you should read it now. And if you aren’t following the story about sexual abuse within Haiti’s national women’s team program,...
View ArticleJaime Lauriano: morte súbita (2014)
morte súbita from Jaime Lauriano on Vimeo. from the artist’s vimeo page: direção (director) jaime laurianodireção de fotografia e câmera (cinematography) cassio luiz rothschildedição e finalização...
View ArticleGrant Wahl’s Utopianism
In 2011, Grant Wahl announced his intention to run for President of FIFA. His platform included the introduction of term-limits for FIFA officials, hiring the best referees for the World Cup and...
View ArticlePolicing Women’s Sports Does Not Protect Women’s Sports
The World Athletics Council just barred trans women from competition if they transitioned after puberty — mind you, in much of the country, it isn’t as if transitioning as a teen is an option! They’ve...
View ArticleComposition
THENJIWE NIKI NKOSI, ROUTINE, 2019 Oil on canvas. 35 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. Series: Gymnasium I am very interested in how artists engage, represent and work with the structural and formal dimensions...
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