Photography By Jac Chandross

"The policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder." — Chicago Mayor Richard Daly, 1968

Production: Julie Atlas Muz (See Wigstock 2005's The Queenery).
Starring: Julie Atlas Muz, Kate Valentine (Vavavoom Room), Tigger, Matt and his blond girlfriend, Bunny Love, Lady Ace & Miss Tickle (Bombshell Girls), and, of course Allison (see the thumbnail image).

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The Art Corps created this red extravaganza glorifying "the Art of the DInner Party." From its Website: "Take four artists (Carolyn Castagna, Sara Foldenauer, Steve Rogenstein, Andrea Sepic), season them with fashionable red garb, and then garnish with dinner table using shoulder straps that suspend table at mid-waist. Set table with red table cloth, red dinner plates, red bread plates, red forks, red salad forks, red knifes, red butter knives, red spoons, red stemware, red water glasses, red napkins, an assortment of red knickknacks, red salt and peper shakers, a red centerpiece, and a red cadalabra. Pour ensemble onto Grand and crosby Streets, and then mix among pedestrians, spectators, and other art-parade participants on their way to Wooster Street. Spread the spectacle."

Starring: Carolyn Castagna, Sara Foldenauer, Steve Rogenstein, and Andrea Sepic.

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Whether you like white grapes or red ones, you'll like their clever costumes and photogenic appeal.

Title: "The Spinspiral Hi-Society Experiment"
Starring: "The Conundrums" — Amber Ray (so pretty in pink at Wigstock) and Muffinhead

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Bobble-headed Bubble Bath Baby. Now say it three times, fast.

Starring (in alphabetical order): Abby, Andrew, Keith, Mindy, and Tom.

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The Dazzle Dancers are an "avante gay" dance troup made up of performance artists devoted to promoting sexual freedom and happiness. I think we could all go for some of that. Their Website describes them as "a little bit Mummenschanz, a little bit La Cage Aux Folles and a lot Oh Calcutta!" I shot them at the 2004 Wigstock as well, where they exchanged their usual glitter, oil, and g-strings for white paint. This time they put on an "semi-nude revue" which I somehow managed to miss in all the confusion.

Starring: Houdini Shalom Dazzle, Edible Dazzle, Pretty Boy Dazzle, Sochny Dazzle, Paddy Cab Dazzle, and Smokey Dazzle.

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Drive to live, live to drive. Why shouldn't cars be works of art? All I can say is that I'm glad I'm not the one who has to wash it or pay four bucks a gallon to fill it...

Artist: Kenny Scharf
Title: Suprema Ultima Deluxa
Date: 1984

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I don't know where Carl Linnaeus would have placed many of these animals, but they're worth checking out nonetheless.

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Instant outrage, just add heads. And for $2 you can memorialize your day at the Art Parade with a beautiful Polaroid.

The artist on the bottom told me he'd been thinking a lot about birth and created this in response. What amazed me is how few people were willing to stick their heads in for a photograph.

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All the shots that don't fit anywhere else.

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