Category Archives: art

Mirror Men on Canvas — and in Crocs

The Delhi-based artist Pallavi Singh has been meditating on metrosexuality in the Indian subcontinental context again and has very kindly sent me these rather wonderful new paintings and given me permission to post them here. I think my personal favourite is ‘Rise of Mirror Man’ — I particularly like how his Crocs match his suspenders. Here’s …

November 23, 2012 – 3:34 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in art, metrosexual | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Pallavi Singh: Metrosexy Delhi

It’s always fascinating to see and hear about the ways in which metrosexuality is interpreted/expressed/appropriated/completely rewritten in different parts of the world, particularly the parts that I and most Westerners tend to overlook. The parts in other words that actually make up most of the world. India for instance, with its pre-colonial traditions of ‘pagan’ androgyny …

May 21, 2012 – 3:12 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in art | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

The Pleasure Principle: BMW’s Art Cars

By Mark Simpson (Arena Hommes Plus, Spring 2008) German is a punishing tongue. It is, as anyone who has tried to learn it can tell you, very precise, very strict. Very unforgiving. So imagine what it’s like actually being German. It’s a fact hardly acknowledged that if the Germans have been so hard on Others …

May 8, 2008 – 1:44 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in art, article, commentary, journalism | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)