Shame. The Musical

Reginal Flatts… at your service

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If you remember Arthur Treacher on the Merv Griffin show. This is his cousin.

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Rainy night in Acidville

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Such a stupid title

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Mead Schaeffer

when we’re dancing cheek to cheek

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straight out of Clockwork Orange

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Cellphones to Sinks to Pillows

On Art and Aesthetics

Rogier Willems

A fan of Lucian Freud, Diego Velázquez, Francis Bacon and Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, Amsterdam-based artist Rogier Willems creates realistic paintings of people and objects in the traditional oil-on-canvas technique. “I explore the human face in such a way that I try to connect the intimacy of the individual with the universality of human existence,” he says. “In this way, I elevate the portrait into an autonomous work of art which ascends the context of the person portrayed. I choose often an introspective pose in the people I portray.”

Rogier’s art captures ordinary domestic spaces and conveys the value of the simplest of items from our everyday life – pillows and bed sheets, teapots, even the dish washing liquid near the kitchen sink. The human figures in these paintings, nude or barely-clothed, are caught when they are playing with their devices, trying hard to communicate with a loved one…

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Mx McNair

where did you think you were going?

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I love these interruptions, these short blurbs from a longer conversation, which makes you ask what came before and what comes after.

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Wicket wicket girl

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A spelling error led me to take the piece in a different direction.

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Harold von Schmidt