Happy Halloween from Gaga Stigmata!

What is your name?: SivanWhere are you from?: San Francisco, now living in New YorkWhat was your experience like wearing the costume?: I am a connoisseur of costumes, and I this was one of my best and favorite ones to date. I wore the costume in New York's West Village on Halloween weekend 2010 and was stopped about every fifteen minutes and asked to have my picture taken. While one might feel self-conscious with their ass hanging out in public,...

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Creative Destruction and the Model : Gaga contra Gaga

By Eddie McCaffrayIn her own words, Lady Gaga’s most recent work has been, “a deliberate attack on the ‘idea’ of the ‘modern model’ or in my case, ‘the modern pop singer.’” This essay will explore how the short Haus of Ü music videos, her recent VMA performance as Jo Calderone, and her “Memorandum No. 4” in V Magazine have mounted this attack, how such an attack fits into Gaga’s previous work on identity, and how it adds to and pushes forward that...

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7 Sisters Flesh Dolls

By Saul ZanolariArtist Bio:Saul Zanolari was born in Mendrisio, Switzerland in 1977.  He first exhibited in 2005 in a small gallery in Milan and now has works in permanent collections in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Basel, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo. His subjects are stars, friends, famous drag queens, and icons of a fantastical world.Click here to follow Gaga Stigmata on Twitter.Click here to...

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