A Pox IN All Your Houses

Who knew smallpox could be so beautiful? Sculptor Luke Jerram did. His series of diseases rendered in blown glass are marvelous little reinterpretations of what plagues us

(Smallpox, untitled mutation, HIV)

Created after lengthy consultation with virologists, disease models, and text book images, these clear wonders allow you to put your decorative money where your foot and mouth disease is

 (Foot and Mouth Disease)

But is this art once again forcing us to examine what makes us squeamish or is this flagrant? After all we've always used art as a way to process and express what's scary and foreign to us. In this case it's foreign bacteria and viruses.

My only quip is the E.coli look like something Delia Deetz would have sculpted

(E.coli happens)

Jerram’s sculptures go on display February 1st 

at the National Centre for Craft and Design in the U.K.

Celebrate Dina Lohan this Mother's Day Weekend

With three showings of drag comedian, D'Arcy Drollinger's "multi-media, gender bending theatrical experience" about Lindsay Lohan's "classic myth and Shakespearean tragedy" aka, her life






Show runs tonite-Saturday, 10pm with a special Mother's Day matinée at 5:30pm on Sunday.

Go see the ups and downs of our little lady reinterpreted by a man in a dress. It's what momma would want.

("Project: Lohan" at La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East 4th Street, 212-475-7710, www.http://projectlohan.com/)