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Video still from Tessa Hughes-Freeland’s Watch Out! (2007) in "Love / War / Sex" at Exit Art

WAR AND SEX
by Michèle C. Cone

Dec. 28, 2007
A few weeks ago, an email came from Exit Art announcing an exhibition entitled "Love / War / Sex." The image of a condom wrapped over the head of a blue colored missile came with it, as well as a poetic text by Papo Colo that included the following lines:
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Michele C. Cone Archives

Nov. 29, 2007	PARIS IN THE FALL by Michèle C. Cone "The Third Mind" at the Palais de Tokyo, the new Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Diaspora, Alexander Ponomarev, more.

Oct. 5, 2007	THE LAST SENSUALISTS by Michèle C. Cone Death and eroticism in the new masculinity of the 1920s.

May 3, 2007	FEMALE TROUBLES by Michèle C. Cone "Global Feminisms" is a Tsunami-sized wave of distress signals.

Feb. 21, 2007	AN ALLEGORY OF SUBLIMATION by Michèle C. Cone Self-revelation through painting in the art of Jasper Johns.

Feb. 20, 2007	ARTNET NEWS Michèle C. Cone on art & money at the CAA.

Jan. 5, 2007	SEXUAL MORES by Michèle C. Cone William Hogarth and the plight of women, both rich and poor.

Oct. 24, 2006	NAUGHTY FILMS, PRISSY ART by Michèle C. Cone Titillating the masses in the early 20th century.

July 31, 2006	REMEMBERING ARNO BREKER by Michèle C. Cone My visit with Hitler’s favorite sculptor.

May 24, 2006	EXCELLENCE HAS [NO] SEX by Michèle C. Cone Two new exhibitions give us an Eva Hesse for the 21st century.

Feb. 28, 2006	WHO CAN FORGET ULTRA VIOLET? by Michèle C. Cone The life and work of an Andy Warhol superstar.

Dec. 19, 2005	MATISSE AND THE NATIONALISM OF VICHY, 1940-1944 by Michèle C. Cone Henri Matisse and his art in Vichy France.

June 9, 2005	Translating Muntadas by Michèle C. Cone The artist behind Spain’s 2005 pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Jan. 27, 2005	PRELUDE TO DESIRE by Michèle C. Cone "Images of the Floating World" at the Grand Palais in Paris.

Dec. 2, 2004	ROMPING THROUGH HISTORY by Michèle C. Cone Peggy Guggenheim is "Mistress of Modernism" in a new biography.

Aug. 6, 2004	STARTING AT ZERO by Michèle C. Cone The political context of European Minimalism, 1958-68.

Feb. 17, 2004	THE END OF PLEASURE by Michèle C. Cone Donald Kuspit's new book, The End of Art.

Dec. 17, 2003	WHOSE MELANCHOLY? by Michèle C. Cone Picasso's portraits of Fernande at the National Gallery of Art.

Apr. 17, 2003	SCHAD'S CABARET by Michèle C. Cone Christian Schad and the transition from Weimar to the Nazi era.

Jan. 3, 2003	BOUDOIR LIFE by Michèle C. Cone Constantin Guys and "la Vie romantique."

June 21, 2002	THE VULNERABLE SEX by Michèle C. Cone Artpress editor Catherine Millet's autobiography of sexual excess.