NEWS: Robert Lugo's Gilded Ghetto and Hani Hape's Helmut Newton

Hape’s parody of a Helmut Newton shot. Photograph: Hani Hape/Image production: Simon Veroneg.

Can Helmut Newton’s sexist nudes really be fixed by gender-switching? Hani Hape has recreated the infamous photographer’s overtly sexual photographs of female nudes – using naked men instead. But the results, while fascinating, raise even more issues. 

Read more via the Guardian: 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/28/pornographic-chic-helmut-newtons-sexist-nudes-gender-switching-hani-hape

Installation of “Roberto Lugo: The Gilded Ghetto,” photo by Joe Kramm, courtesy of R & Company.

Robert Lungo'’s clay practice marries the motifs of ancient and historic ceramics—think Greek black-and-orange urns or Baroque decorative vases—with contemporary iconography. 

Read more via Whitewall:  

https://whitewall.art/design/roberto-lugo-the-gilded-ghetto