{"id":1105,"date":"2006-03-05T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T07:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/bridget-baker-provocateur-of-poise\/"},"modified":"2006-03-05T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-05T13:04:21","slug":"bridget-baker-provocateur-of-poise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/bridget-baker-provocateur-of-poise\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Baker: provocateur of poise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve actually not seen Bridget Baker’s latest show<\/a> (in Cape Town – see that Joao Ferreira link for images), but I really like BB as a person, and if the raves between her Mail and Guardian review<\/a> and Artthrob review<\/a> are any indication, she’s really on a roll with her ongoing series. I remember seeing<\/a> some of the earliest Blue Collar Girl<\/em> photos between her place and the Cancelled Kebbles (who killed Biggie?) in 2004, and knowing she was onto something (a search for Bridget<\/a> on this site also returned heaps of entries – did I mention she’s rad?). Read up those linkies, and also check out her Artbio<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve actually not seen Bridget Baker’s latest show (in Cape Town – see that Joao Ferreira link for images), but I really like BB as a person, and if the raves between her Mail and Guardian review and Artthrob review are any indication, she’s really on a roll with her ongoing series. I remember seeing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8,25,2,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-reviews","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-hP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":765,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/12\/the-official-bb-mitten-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":1105,"position":0},"title":"The Official BB Mitten Project","author":"nathaniel","date":"12 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"To exactly quote Bridget Baker's artist statement: The Official BB Mittens Project is the third in the series of \u2019\u00c4\u00faOfficial BB Projects\u2019\u00c4\u00f9, declarations on life according to \u2019\u00c4\u00faOfficial BB\u2019\u00c4\u00f9 wisdom. 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