The other night I played a planetarium-sized video game. Pretty cool.
In the Box-Horizontal, 1962, by Ruth Bernhard. Part of the exhibit In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, opening this Sunday. (Image courtesy of the Ruth Bernard Archive, Princeton University Art Museum.)
- Berlin: Paper does not blush, a group show, at Galerie Michael Janssen. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
- Fort Lauderdale: Chick Flicks: Cinematic Treatments of Female Photographers, a series of screenings, including Office Killer and Scenic Jogging, at Girls’ Club. On Saturday at 7pm.
- NYC: A Feminist Tea Party will be holding a tea-shindig at the A.I.R. Gallery in Dumbo this Saturday from 2-4:45pm.
- Plus: See my latest New York City picks over at Gallerina…
No Sleep Till Bushwick, 2008, by Skewville. (Photo by C-M.)
Hey Folks:
I’ve got a feature in the February issue of ARTnews about the artsy fartsies that are happening in Bushwick.
I’m sure this will occasion some bellyaching about how articles such as these “ruin” a neighborhood. But I want you all to rest assured that I’ve done the math and no New York neighborhood is completely ruined until it is featured regularly in the New York Times real estate section (check) *AND* on the cover New York magazine (not yet). Though, if you’re wondering what said coverage would look like, check out the mag’s 1992 cover story on Williamsburg.
Anyhow, you can check out my story at ARTnews.com — or better yet, pick up the mag on the newsstand and help me pay for the wide selection of craft beers that now clutter my local C-Town. Okay, maybe not. I’m a Tecate-12-pack-at-the-Food-Dimension kind of girl…
xox,
C.
Billboard by French street artist Ox, in San Bernardino. Part of a billboard project on I-15 last month. Image courtesy of the artist.)
- The New York Times has a story on Mexican narchitecture. And I’m supremely jealous I didn’t write it. Be sure to check out the splendiferous slideshow, complete with bullet hole façades and zebra-stripe furnishings.
- Speaking of which: The house where Pablo Escobar was gunned down is for sale.
- Bacteria as conservation tool.
- KCET Departures has just launched a highly intriguing online series about the laws (starting with the Laws of the Indies) that have shaped L.A.’s landscape. The second essay is on how helicopter landing pad laws have resulted in the city’s boxy architecture.
- It’s a bummer that Robert Smithson never got to build the land art pieces at DFW airport described in this essay. Would make landing in Dallas infinitely cooler. (See a design schematic here.)
- Late on this, but still important: Jeff Weinstein reminds us that Helen Frankenthaler helped gut the NEA.
- UNAM is putting the materials from their libraries and collections online. This is very cool.
- Set aside 11 minutes for this: An animation of a talk by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist about the divided brain (with Andy Warhol/Banksy reference towards the end). Wow.
- It all rests on transformation: Some discussions about the Patrick Cariou versus Richard Prince copyright case (in which Prince was sued by another artist for copyright infringement). The NYT has an overview. Hyperallergic also has an explainer. Anyone else think that both sets of works are not at all interesting?
- Sort of related: Copying stuff is now a religion in Sweden.
- SPIN Magazine now reviewing albums on Twitter.
- Plus: Why authors Tweet.
- Maria Bustillos, on what makes a great critic.
- Which led me to this interesting Financial Times essay on literary criticism gone soft.
- Tumblrs to Follow: Preservationist Ryan Gosling and Museum Ryan Gosling. (San Suzie.)
- Today’s Graff: Would love to have Djalouz redo my bathroom.
- 10 pieces of trash-talking ancient graffiti.
- The story of Chinese food take-out containers.
- Ugly Renaissance Babies. (@rcembalest.)
South Philly (Mattress Flip Front), by Zoe Strauss. The photographer currently has an all-kinds-of-major solo exhibit up at the Philadelphia Museum of Art called Ten Years. Be sure to check it! (Image courtesy of Zoe Strauss. To see more, check out this slideshow at the NYT.)
- L.A.: Elias Hansen and the Reader, We Barely Made It, at The Company. Open Saturday.
- L.A.: L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-80, from Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Opens Saturday, in Pasadena.
- L.A.: Release party for the comics anthology Kramers Ergot No. 8, at Family, on Fairfax Ave. This Thursday, at 7pm.
- L.A.: Culture Fix: A talk by Judithe Hernandez on the role of women in the Chicano Art Movement, at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Next Wednesday, Jan 25, at noon.
- Palm Springs: Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Opens Saturday.
- New York: Sarah Morgan, Childhood Homes, at the Homefront Gallery, in Long Island City. Opens Saturday at 4pm.
- Plus: See my other New York recommends in Gallerina…
PLUS PLUS PLUS: I’m speaking on a panel about Bushwick this Thursday at 7pm at the Bogart Salon. I’ll be unveiling my new interpretive dance called Health Food Stores Wrapped in Corten Steel Are Harshing My Mellow. Please come!!!!
PLUS PLUS: I’m going to be part of the crew doing a continuous 48-hour reading from Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans for Triply Canopy in Greenpoint. Bring your finest Modernist language. The show gets started on Friday evening. I’ll be on stage some time Sunday around noon.
Hey Folks:
First of all, Happy New Year!
Second of all, the perfectly wonderful Stikman has given me three of his 2012 calendars for giveaway, which means that this little lady (and her adorable little stick dude) could be hanging over your desk.
Y’all know the drill. Leave a comment below and this dapper pair could be all yours.
xox,
C.
“Put Yayoi Kusama on the line. I think someone is trying to bite her dots thing.”
This will be a tough piece to watch come together: Suzanne Lacey is doing a reprise of a 1977 work in which she tracked rapes in Los Angeles for a period of three weeks. This year, the artist, with the assistance of the LAPD, will do the same for the rest of the month of January. The L.A. Rape Map will come together in Deaton Auditorium at police headquarters in downtown as part of the Los Angeles Goes Live series of performance art exhibitions presented by LACE. Seems like a must-see to me. Get the details here. (Image courtesy of the artist and LACE.)
- S.F.: Skewville, Playground Tactics, at White Walls. Opens Saturday, at 7pm.
- S.F.: An American Language, at Guerrero Gallery. Opens Saturday.
- L.A.: Daniel Richter, A concert of purpose and action, at Regen Projects. Through February 18, in West Hollywood.
- San Diego: John Banasiak, George Brown’s Bar, at Joseph Bellows Gallery. Opens Saturday, in La Jolla.
- NYC: Giles Thompson, New and Used, at Pandemic Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm.
- Plus: Get my latest New York picks over at Gallerina…
Testimonio, 2003, by Isabel Ruiz, from Guatemala. Painted on 23 handkerchiefs are testimonies of violent incidents during Guatemala’s Civil War, from 1960-96. (All photos by C-M.)
The Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (MADC) in San Jose, Costa Rica is the single biggest, most important center for contemporary art in Central America — with a permanent collection that is focused on the region. I’ve been to the museum countless times, but this time I was lucky enough to stumble into a show of works from their permanent collection. (It’s a small institution, so display areas are usually occupied by temporary exhibits.) Always refreshing to see work by artists operating outside of the Bermuda Art Triangle.
Colección MADC is now on view.
Continue reading ‘Photo Diary: Works from the collection at MADC, Costa Rica.’
