Courtney Love Debuts New Art Exhibit in NYC

Ms. Love is never one to shy away from controversey, so it comes as no shock that her artwork isn't the run of the mill still life of potted plants and fruit.

The title of the collection is "Courtney Love: And She's Not Even Pretty." Love takes her inner turmoil and in leiu of channeling her pain through her music, she has taken on another venue in the art world.  The current collection now showing at Fred Torres Collaborations, a gallery halfway down a warehouse-strewn aisle of Manhattan. The show, which runs through June 15 is a collection of colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic, marker, and even highlighter.  Some highlights from the collection are shown below.  I for one can't wait to check these out in person.  Especially the wedding dress she wore during her wedding to Kurt Cobain, where she has allegedly embroidered "fuck me" over and over.

Who knew C. Love could embroider so well?

Love in a Cold Climate

About 15 odd years after her notorious interview with Vanity Fair, we see a very different, yet very similar Courtney still dealing with the aftermath of Cobain's death, her relationship with her daughter, and trying to keep afloat in the business.  This was handled by one of my favorite VF writers, Nancy Jo Sales.  This interview appeared in the October 2011 issue of Vanity Fair.

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2011/11/courtney-love-201111

Strange Love

Last week the notorious L-O-V-E came out with a mini menior of sorts called, "Courtney Comes Clean," that is only available for digital download at the nicely affordable price of 2.99.  Lately I've been having a resurgence of respect for Love as not only a musician, but an actress, and a feminist as well.  Also I have a soft spot of someone who makes little excuses for her fucked-up-ness.

While waiting to start Courtney Comes Clean, I've been perusing some of her more memorable Vanity Fair articles (in my opinion no magazine does a better profile).

"Strange Love" is an interesting article if only because it coincided with her marriage to Cobain, her pregnancy with Frances, and her rising star.  Also anyone who was around when the article came out remembers the controversey of the author implying that Love was continuing to use heroin while pregnant.  She later tried to attack the reporter at an Oscar party with an actual Oscar.  The full article is below:

http://homepage.mac.com/kia/magick/courtney.html