A “bondage club” installation piece at the Vienna Secession museum’s got the Austrian far right’s panties all in a twist. Directly echoing the scandal that surrounded the Jugendstil movement and Gustav Klimt’s 1902 “erotic” Beethoven Frieze, Swiss artists Christoph Buchel transplants a swinging bondage S&M joint into the museum’s basement. Read more »
What an honor! To help promote the sexual stimulant tablet that “Fills your body with energy,” MAXSTLONG designed this packaging featuring Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s landmark work, “The Kiss,” from his “gold period.” Considering that the people buying this crap probably have no idea about art history and the image really isn’t overtly sexual—except for the man’s forceful domination over the woman—we’re not sure how much cool cache the Klimt image will bode.
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