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Monthly Archive for October, 2007
Reporting live, from Lincoln Heights.
- ArtNet’s Charlie Finch says that art bloggers are “conformist, reactionary, redundant and self-referential…the Sam Brownbacks of the art world.” I think of myself more as the Dennis Kucinich of the art world. Seriously nerdy, mildly entertaining, with no shot in hell of ever attaining any kind of real influence.
- © Murakami: Supertouch and Eric Nakamura blog the museum and the parties, respectively. The L.A. Times deconstructs Kanye and reviews the (art) show, while the L.A. Weekly profiles the ah-tist. (
My own Murakami post seems to have evaporated into the ether. Sorry for the technological turbulence, folks. I’m not very handy with these new-fangled computer thingies.Whew. Found it.) - Get it Louder: Work by Japanese emerging artists. Check out the Akino Kodoh video.
- And because we seem to be on a Japan kick: Japanese manhole covers.
- The wonderful world of fine art authentication, according to the Daily Show. (And Culture Grrl does NOT find it funny.)
- More signs of the coming apocalypse: Andy Warhol cologne.
- Graff of the Day.
- The Tate and the National Gallery get a buttload of art, including pieces by Cezanne and Monet. See a slideshow of some of the works here.
- Your art in lights.
- Art vandalism is so two weeks ago. Now it’s all about art theft.
- In New York: Neckface at the Dactlye Foundation and Martin Puryear at MoMA. (For a serious mind-fuck, see both shows on the same day.)
- In Seattle: Juan Alonso at Francine Seders Gallery.
- In Paris: Peinture Fraîche at the Centre Pompidou.
- In S.F.: Jeff Wall at SF MoMA.
- In Baltimore: Outsider artists at the Visionary Art Museum.
- Bernard Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum. (Way better than the blue hand fisting lower Manhattan.)
- Chicks with knives: A profile of Naomi Fisher.
- Don’t let the door hit you on the way out: Miami Carnival Center CEO gets the boot.
- The latest art-in-the-trash find: Martín Ramírez.
- The day in recipes: pot brownies. (Via Eclectic Cow.)
- Just what I needed: a living dead sharpener.
- High-res Last Supper now available for scrutiny by Dan Brown fans.
- Bank$y $lept here.
- El Fin: Super special knife-licking, towel-snapping edition.
“I think this whole thing is just one big penis.”
“It’s an artwork, not a Rolls Royce.”
MoCA employee to friend: “Have you seen the boutique? It’s soooo hot.”
“I like this one, it’s like the same thing. But different.”
Most repeated expression of the night: “How long is the line?’
All the dazed people in this foto are staring at Murakami, who is standing just below the bottom edge of this frame.
My overview after the jump.
Opening: October 27th, 2007
8-11 p.m.
The Garage Gallery
291 8th Street, btw 5th & 6th Aves.
Brooklyn
See a preview here.
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Inside CBGB’s. (See it big.) Photo by joe holmes.
- Another sign of the impending apocalypse: CBGB’s to be replaced by a Chase bank. Update: My bad. CBGB’s will actually be converted into a John Varvatos boutique. CB’s Gallery will be housing the Chase Bank. It’s all just a slightly different shade of doom.
- In praise of the Manhattan Bridge.
- The day in double negatives: Elton John’s Nan Goldin photo is not indecent, says a British court.
- Biting off of Murakami: Chanel has asked several artists, including Sylvie Fleury, Sophie Calle, Yoko Ono, and Stephen Shore, to create works based on the company’s signature handbag.
- Anaba goes rooting around Roberta Smith’s deep, dark past. If you really want to dig deep, light up a fat one and listen to La Smith talk about the George Seurat show at MoMA. It’s so very soothing.
- Francesco Vezzoli’s public play at the Guggenheim: Not so public.
- The Hillotype: when artists hoard their methodology.
- When Gummint Bureaucrats Attack: The city of Dallas has launched a campaign to stop young men (read: African-Americans) from wearing saggy pants by commissioning a song that implies that saggy-pants wearers are gay. How come no one is writing songs telling the drunk, white sorority sisters who have taken over NYC to pull up their pants so I don’t have to gaze at their overused Cosabella thongs? Now that would be a public service. (Via Complex.)
- For people who like watching paint dry: Graffitifilms.tv. (Via Ekosystem.)
- In London: Swoon, David Ellis and Monica Caniloa are putting together a show at the Black Rat, opening tonight. Get the info and see pix from the installation here.
- In Miami: Glexis Novoa at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery.
- In NYC: Quisqueya Hénriquez at the Bronx Museum of Art.
- Trend of the minute: chocolate art.
- Doug Aitken’s Sleepwalkers tailored for Miami’s MAM.
- Better (and cheaper) than Bush’s Star Wars missile defense program: ThinkGeek’s three-tiered cubicle defense. (Via Complex.)
- Lap Dance Nation: Gridskipper has a comprehensive guide to NYC strip clubs.
- In a related story: someone has come out with Halloween-themed condoms.
- Visual Nuggets: The work of Conor Harrington.
- Almost forgot: The Guggenheim Bilbao turned 10. Petulant adolescence is now fast approaching.
- Just because.
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Maman by Louise Bourgeois. Photo by DanMud.
- Louise Bourgeois at the Tate Modern.
- Artful weapons by Charles Krafft.
- If only Gutenberg had had a robot.
- The Library of Congress filing system: Not so good.
- Good news for Andrea Fraser.
- Libeskind unveils new Sukkot-inspired roof at Jewish Museum in Berlin.
- I can only imagine the injuries this website will inspire.
- Graff of the Day.
- Make it stop: the new “graffiti” couch. (Via Moco Loco.)
- Art Review of the Day: “Elegant, smooth and slightly absurd.”
- All too poignant given the state of SoCal: A slideshow on instant housing for disasters.
- Newsflash: The press corps sucks the White House teat (among other things).
- R.I.P. Ileanna Sonnabend.
- Unpimp my ride: anti-theft car tattoos.
- The Federal Gummint nixes grant for Woodstock Museum. (This is soooo devastating. I was really looking forward to the interactive exhibit about the bad trip tent.)
- Art World Smackdown: Lacayo vs. Green vs. Lacayo vs. Green.
- Photo Essay: The photographs of Julius Shulman. (That Woods residence is so totally Star Wars.)
- Architectural story I swear I didn’t make up: “The joy of foot bridges.”
- Green street art grows in Brooklyn.
- The NYT gets
heartart. - Just because.
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Photo by Hargo
This weekend in Cambridge, street artists from all over the Northeast will be descending on Central Square to beautify a local alleyway. Expect pieces by Michael de Feo, Rene Gagnon, Judith Supine, Celso, and Darkcloud, among many others. Some artists have already gotten a jump on the proceedings. You can see an ever-evolving photo essay of the works right here. Addy and other show info is right after the jump.
