Meet Princess Nokia (Wavy Spice’s alter ego!), the bumpin’ new queen of femcore self-sufficiency. In “Versace Hottie,” the grimy, jungle-inspired beat resembles our accelerating heart-rate as we approach the goddess herself, trembling in sweat, just before getting turned down. Just like her bra and panties, no one can touch her. We are all equal in the eyes of this bossy introvert: equally disposable, that is. Princess Nokia raises the stakes of authentic vanity with righteous… [read more »]
DIScuss | Joshua Citarella’s Pixels
Joshua Citarella’s first solo show at Higher Pictures is a tight display of five photographs from his most recent body of work Anti-Magic. The show opens with a reclining nude peppered with cosmetic retouching marks that recalls Botticelli’s Mars and Venus. The painting has its own perspectival idiosyncracy with Venus’ right leg disappearing under her silk gown as if truncated at the hip. Perhaps Botticelli wanted to distort the female figure in the same way Citarella manipulated his nude, producing and at the same time questioning the sensuality of the body.
Mars and Venus by Botticelli, c. 1483
Joshua Citarella installation view
