How Cringe Took Over Culture

In art, as in life, the messy materiality of flesh fazes me not one whit.The climax of Lukas Moodysson’s A Hole in My Heart (2004), where Geko vomits into Tess’s open mouth? Wrote about it. Judy Chicago’s menstrual defiance, Ina Poppe’s mother’s milk cheese, Martin von Ostrowski’s spunk-strewn canvases, Marc Quinn’s sculpture cast with 10 pints of his own blood? Up my alley. Florentina Holzinger’s waste-processing, piss-wallowing Seaworld Venice at