{"id":3815,"date":"2015-06-18T18:39:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2015-06-18T18:39:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:39:34","slug":"john-waters-beverly-hills-john-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/john-waters-beverly-hills-john-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"John Waters’ Beverly Hills John On View in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist and director John Waters, known for off-kilter cult favorites as Pink Flamingos<\/em> and Serial Mom<\/em>, has been subverting common themes \u2014 religion, domesticity, glamour and fame\u00a0\u2014 throughout his career. A prolific artist, alongside films, Waters has been creating still photo-based work since the early 1990s. His latest show, a photographic exhibition called Beverly Hills John<\/em>, has, after a successful Berlin run, landed in London.<\/p>\n

Beverly Hills John<\/em> sees Waters tackle, in signature sardonic fashion, celebrity culture, by asking\u00a0the question, \u2018Since celebrity is the only obscenity left in the art world, where do I fit in?\u2019<\/p>\n

In the show,\u00a0Waters demonstrates his innate talent\u00a0at striking a balance between brutality and humour, defamation and care. The main gallery hosts\u00a0Shoulda!<\/em> (2014), a depiction, in classic exploitation movie tradition, of the faces of five famous women, from Whitney Houston to Amy Winehouse, with Princess Diana in the middle. Then there’s\u00a0Kiddie Flamingos<\/em> (2015), a 74-minute movie in which a group of school kids perform a table read of the censored script to Waters’\u00a0Pink Flamingos<\/em> (1972).<\/p>\n

It is a show that, like much of Waters’ work, parodies but also\u00a0pushes\u00a0a commentary through\u00a0its crude barbs.<\/p>\n

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\"Reconstructed
Reconstructed Lassie, 2012 C-Print 76.2 x 50.8 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Congratulations,
Congratulations, 2014 C-Print 35.6 x 43.2 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Beverly
Beverly Hills John, 2012 C-Print 76.2 x 50.8 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Grim
Grim Reaper, 2014 C-Print 20.3 x 20.3cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Beverly Hills John<\/a><\/strong>
\nJohn Waters<\/em>
\nSpr\u00fcth Magers London
\nJuly 1 – August 15, 2015
\n7A Grafton Street, London, W1S 4EJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist and director John Waters, known for off-kilter cult favorites as Pink Flamingos and Serial Mom, has been subverting common themes \u2014 religion, domesticity, glamour and fame\u00a0\u2014 throughout his career. A prolific artist, alongside films, Waters has been creating still photo-based work since the early 1990s. His latest show, a photographic exhibition called Beverly Hills John, has, after a successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,25],"tags":[68,253,254,121,255,181],"class_list":["post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-film","tag-art-show","tag-beverly-hills-john","tag-divine","tag-exhibition","tag-john-waters","tag-opening"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-Zx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}