Katie Schwartz

sweet meat's incendiary work has got some serious coverage. check it out. very, VERY COOL stuff. any proponent of freedom of speech, civil rights and the pursuit of true equality will absolutely love this man's work. the goddess that is karen finley read an essay she wrote about john sims work . it is so fucking amazing, you will burst at the seams! watch it on the tube of you asap. simalicious also rewrote the gettysburg address . it's a must stream! run. view. now. read an article about js in the ny times . watch cnn 's coverage of his latest installation causing all kinds of controversy. a confederate bondage flag? please, kid's got some serious moxie. loop yourself on all things john sims, hit his website, john sims projects . ps: do not forget amy guth's reading at the book cellar in chicago tomorrow night! drag your big jew or non-jew tuchas now!

if you don't want to fuck john sims , you have issues. he's an insanely talented, controversial artist , ethnomathmatician , activist and he's painfully easy on the eyes. ok, so he's likely prone to fits of over-the-top-preachy-intensity and coffee-klatch worthy chattiness. nothing sitting on his face wouldn't cure. ANYWHO... I do have a point to this post about the aforementioned fuck daddy of doom. one of his installations, "The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag" (seen below) at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science has caused such agida, the king of censorship himself, commander of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter is trying to get it removed, calling the display of Sims' work "offensive, objectionable and tasteless." he also called Sims an "irrelevant individual" with no artistic talent . There are some people who have great talent, and they rely on that talent to be successful. There are others who do...