VALENTINE’S DAY COUNTDOWN 3
Jessica Slane, ER's Deputy Editor, writes
VALENTINE’S DAY COUNTDOWN 2
Goodbye, rabbit, hello Nova! We (the Erotic Towers Review Team) think the We-Vibe Nova is pretty special. We'll be giving you an exhaustive road test soon, but for the time being, take it from us, it's the cat's pyjamas of vibes. Shop around, because prices vary from around £85 (Ann Summers) to £107 (Coco de Mer). It's a Valentine's must.
VALENTINE’S DAY COUNTDOWN
With only a week to go, we asked ourselves (i.e. the ER Editorial Team) how could we inspire our readers? What would we like to receive for a Valentine's Day present? Or, more altruistically, what would we like to give our beloved? As usual Kate Copstick, our Editor At Large, isn't doing anything by halves:
Margaret Pyke Centre Under Threat
Julie Cook: Sightlines – Public and Private (Lives)
Art and Design Gallery UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Julie Cook: Sightlines – Public and Private (Lives)
Art and Design Gallery
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
It’s all about sex… apparently
Modigliani’s Reclining Nude has been sold for £113,000,000, supposedly to a Chinese collector (with a Dom Yuan complex?). And so when the ER office syndicate wins the Euromillions jackpot on Friday (almost a dead cert, crack open the Krug for a pre-celebration tipple, Camilla) we won’t even be in the running for a bang up post-Impressionist such as by this doomed, consumptive Italian. They tell us the astronomical price, the second most expensive painting ever to sell at auction, is all about sex. Maybe, but only in the sense of showing a fuck-off picture like this to your peers who, like you, aren’t going to need a Courtauld PhD to see that the girl is smokin’ hot. Call us pretentious, Grayson, but we’d rather have the far sexier Titian’s Venus of Urbino. So ciao, Uffizi Gallery, let us know when you’re thinking of deaccessioning this one…
Press Release of the Week: Wireless Armour
It makes you proud to be British. Or, as Nicola Sturgeon would possibly have it, English. UK boffin Joseph Perkins has invented a pair of underpants that will protect a chap’s personal sperm bank from the reproductive equivalent of a Black Wednesday crash.
Don’t miss Tricity Vogue’s Ukulele Cabaret Beach Party today
It's the last of her Kings Cross uke cabarets before the Summer Break
I THEE WED
British conceptual artist Helen Chadwick's early 90's work Piss Flowers – made by casting the space created in frozen snow when she and her partner peed on it – was the most enduringly popular in her canon of work; she often used a combination of materials and subject matter that we usually discard from our thought processes because they are too visceral and disturbing. Yet by focussing upon often provocative combinations of different materials – flowers, flesh, chocolate, fur – she attempted to analyse the nature of desire and the way we look at gender.