You Forgot Tablet

In preparation for tomorrow's roundup of the weeklies, Seattlest would like to welcome Tablet magazine to our Seattle media links list. Their February edition is out and the cover of "The Smut Issue" is arguably not work safe (which is a good thing).

The articles follow suit with titles like "Cambodian Hustler Lures Foreign Tourist to Sex Hotel," "Co-Ed Does the Hockey Team," and "Why Portland's Oldest Strip Bar is Still the Best." All articles are short and sweet after Seattlest's own heart.

The art in this issue—featured in “The New Nudes: Artists Amassing a Body of Work”—are all done by artists willing to laugh at sexuality, titillate the viewers, and shock us. Filmmaker John Waters wrote in his book Art: A Sex Book, “In terms of sex and contemporary art, humour—as much as gall and nerve—is incredibly important.” But good art that shocks or provokes us also eventually mellows into deeper thought and examination of what the artist was intending to convey.