{"id":28992,"date":"2025-11-29T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=28992"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:43:00","slug":"weekend-links-806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/11\/29\/weekend-links-806\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 806"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wilson.jpg\" alt=\"wilson.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover art by George Wilson for The Twilight Zone #45, September 1972. <a href=\"https:\/\/70sscifiart.tumblr.com\/post\/801356422600376320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Public Domain Review: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/essay\/cabinets-of-curiosity-and-the-rise-of-the-gallery-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thea Applebaum Licht<\/a> on the history of art within art, or cabinets of curiosity and paintings within paintings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The final 2025 catalogue of lots for the <a href=\"http:\/\/auction.vallots.com\/auctions\/vallot-auctioneers\/after-dark-winter-21162\/catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After Dark: Gay Art and Culture<\/a> online auction. Homoerotic art, photos, historic porn. etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Smithsonian Mag: See the &#8220;Mona Lisa of Illuminated Manuscripts,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/see-the-mona-lisa-of-illuminated-manuscripts-a-600-year-old-bible-covered-in-intricate-illustrations-180987716\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 600-Year-Old Bible covered in intricate illustrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s amazing, the number of people out there who love everything about queer life except for queer sex, who would prefer that sex and sexual orientation live in entirely different zip codes, that they exist as non-overlapping magisteria; it\u2019s so much safer that way. Who wants gay sex polluting their enjoyment of the abstraction that is Being Gay?<\/p>\n<p>That is what gay love is, now, in the collective imagination of American commerce: a set of identity relations projected onto bored and indifferent celebrities who will half-heartedly play along with the idea because doing so moves units and, anyway, what does it cost them? The more that sexual orientation slouches to the point of pure abstraction, the less effort it takes. Anyone and anything can be gay, now, because gay is just a set of pompous liberal cultural signifiers that have no earthly material relation to homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I miss when homoeroticism was erotic,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/freddiedeboer\/p\/i-miss-when-homoeroticism-was-erotic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freddie deBoer<\/a>. I&#8217;ve made similar complaints myself over the years. For some genuinely erotic homoeroticism, see the latest auction link above.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 At Ultrawolveunderthefullmoon: Illustrations for <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon.blog\/2025\/11\/24\/illustrations-for-edmund-weisss-bilderatlas-der-sternenwelt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edmund Weiss\u2019s <em>Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 DJ Food&#8217;s latest harvestings of psychedelic ephemera may be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djfood.org\/pychedelic-posters-and-counter-cultural-clippings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Dennis Cooper\u2019s: <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/bruce-conners-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Connor<\/a>\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Strange World of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/interviews\/strange-world-of\/david-lynch-best-films\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Lynch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/8997-the-unsettling-charisma-of-udo-kier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Udo Kier<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2025\/nov\/29\/tom-stoppard-playwright-of-dazzling-wit-and-playful-erudition-dies-aged-88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Stoppard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantasurrealistgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Surrealist Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=alu2GJorqeE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Menergy<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Patrick Cowley | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OwEJlE_39U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Eros Arriving<\/em><\/a> (1982) by Bill Nelson | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KY4gnToCXa4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Erotic City (&#8220;Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive&#8221;)<\/em><\/a> (1984) by Prince &amp; The Revolution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover art by George Wilson for The Twilight Zone #45, September 1972. Via. \u2022 At Public Domain Review: Thea Applebaum Licht on the history of art within art, or cabinets of curiosity and paintings within paintings. \u2022 The final 2025 catalogue of lots for the After Dark: Gay Art and Culture online auction. Homoerotic art, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/11\/29\/weekend-links-806\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 806&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 806","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,9,7,5,44,14,17,31,13,18],"tags":[14307,2153,1857,265,14306,8893,12838,3697,14130,4110,14305,2874,14308],"class_list":["post-28992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-film","category-gay","category-painting","category-politics","category-psychedelia","category-religion","category-science","category-surrealism","tag-atlanta-surrealist-group","tag-bill-nelson","tag-bruce-connor","tag-david-lynch","tag-edmund-weiss","tag-freddie-deboer","tag-george-wilson","tag-patrick-cowley","tag-prince-the-revolution","tag-the-twilight-zone","tag-thea-applebaum-licht","tag-tom-stoppard","tag-udo-kier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7xC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}