The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity, at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin

“We want to turn this country back to [the way it was in] 1954.” Paul Weyrich, Co-Founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Christian Right’s Moral Majority, c. 1982 “I have swallowed a monstrous dose of poison…the violence of the venom twists my limbs, deforms…prostrates me, I die of thirst, I suffocate, and cannot scream. It is hell, eternal punishment.” […]

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Uncensored: Liquid Sex at Art on Madison

  Nico Pico Train’s “Uncensored: Liquid Sex Series” (on view through March 30 at Art on Madison) ingeniously poses more questions than answers about sex, American-style, circa the fall of 2018 and the winter of 2019. Her images of bodies and their parts in various states of sexual arousal make for a stunningly beautiful, yet awkwardly candid portrayal of sexual […]

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