Monthly Archive for October, 2007

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The Digest.

By c-monster on October 18, 2007 in C-Monster and The Digest. 3 Comments

See a set of FBI surveillance photos of suspected Communists on Least Wanted’s Flickr stream.

A museum I must get to: the Devil Museum in Lithuania.
Ronald Lauder isn’t exactly forthcoming about the provenance of his collection.
Chock full of vitamins and minerals: The new book Cereal Killers.
When the Surreal Gets More So: An exhibit about Salvador Dalí’s forays into film at LACMA.
Constructivism Before It Had Been Beaten to Death: Emory Douglas’s lithographs for the Black Panthers at the Pacific Design Center in L.A.
“Jerry Saltz is an Undead Zombie:” The art + hype piece gets dismembered at Anaba.
Photo Essay: Exhibit on the Dreyfus Affair at the Yeshiva University Museum in NYC.
Architecture news nobody cares about: Ted Cullinan gets the Royal Gold Medal.
Newsflash: No one cares about the Stirling Prize, either.
How to get a job at an ad agency.
From the Department of Dead-Tree Griping: Are bloggers replacing critics? Are critics, as a species, headed for extinction? Will this result in the destruction of contemporary culture as we know it? I sure hope so.
Does George Lucas really need more money?
Norman Mailer that much closer to testing his theological theories.
The Presidential race just got interesting. (Via Complex.)
Just because.

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Unintentionally sublime marketing e-mail of the day.

By c-monster on October 17, 2007 in C-Monster and Incisive Reportage. 4 Comments

I received this message from Amazon.com in my Inbox this morning (the links are mine):

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Now I know what to read while I wait for my buds to grow.

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The Digest.

By c-monster on October 17, 2007 in C-Monster and The Digest. 1 Comment

Photo by selyfriday

Blog Post of the Day: “L.A. is the apocalypse: it’s you and a bunch of parking lots.”
Art World Smackdown: O’Keefe museum doesn’t want the Wal-Mart folks getting their paws on the Stieglitz collection.
The Shepard Fairey assembly line keeps cranking. The latest: A new book called E Pluribus Venom.
Better than the Butterball Turkey Talk Line: The APT Intelligence art hotline, where for $350 for half an hour, you can receive needed advice before plunking down thousands of dollars on the latest by Damien Hirst.
Ernest Withers, civil rights photographer, 1922 – 2007.
The Enron of the art world? That’s what more than a dozen lawsuits allege about NYC gallery Salander-O’Reilly.
You’ve heard of mood rings. Now there’s mood wallpaper. (Sorta.)
Thinking more intelligently about immigration issues than the yahoos in Congress: Casa Segura, a U.S./Mexico border art project on display at Eyebeam in NYC. (Here is the project’s main site.)
The NYT on France’s new immigration museum: “A well-meaning dud.”
Yoko Ono discusses her new art project in Iceland on Democracy Now. It’s called, cloyingly enough, the Imagine Peace Tower. (Which looks suspiciously like the Towers of Light in Manhattan, but maybe that’s just me.)
From the Department of Eternal Optimism: The owner of the inn where Van Gogh spent his final days wants to buy an original painting by the artist to hang in his attic room.
Rhode Island artist sets up a “home” in local mall. Gets probation in the process.
Featured Rant: Critical Miami on Romero Britto.
New Trends in Residential Architecture: The Home Dome.
Rosie O’Donnell, er, paints.
Just because.

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Art Jumbotron.

By c-monster on October 16, 2007 in Art, C-Monster and Photography. Closed

Photo by Joe Holmes

chashama, the NYC-based arts non-profit, is running a giant art Jumbotron on top of the Condé Nast building.

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Yayoi Kusama at Frieze.

By c-monster on October 16, 2007 in Art and C-Monster. Closed

Photo by Licks

Everyone else is doing it, so I had to do it, too.

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The Digest.

By c-monster on October 16, 2007 in C-Monster and The Digest. 1 Comment

Artists Jake and Dinos Chapman redecorate some currency at Frieze. Photo by Simon Crerar

From the Department of I-Did-That-First: British street artist D*Face is super pissed that Jake and Dinos Chapman at the Frieze fair in London are defacing currency because defacing currency is his idea. Memo to D*Face: There’s no such thing as an original idea, especially in art. (Via ArtForum.)
ArtReview has devoted itself to that most meaningful act of modern journalism: the list. Today, the mag revealed the 100 most powerful people in the art industry. What you need to know: Damien Hirst is up, Jeff Koons is down, Charles Saatchi is flat. And C-Monster? Nowhere to be seen.
In a related story: Hirst’s shark-in-formaldehyde sculpture has landed at NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Some advice: never look at a Hirst sculpture while nursing a hangover.)
Newsflash: Art fairs like Frieze aren’t for the general public, they’re for rich people.
When art mimics geopolitics: At Frieze, Chinese art values soared. Western art values dropped. (Though Banksy managed to make a few gains for Old Britannia.)
SeaFair founder David Lester: Champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
Visual Nuggets: Cardboard sculptures by Chris Gilmore—including renderings of a Fiat, a moped and a church made out of discarded condom boxes. (Just follow the link.)
War from a photographer’s perspective (the un-embedded kind): a 3-part video doc about VII, a group of photojournalists who have covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Murakami commercial tornado soon to touch down in L.A.
Graff of the Day: CES53 in the Netherlands.
New Trends in Architecture: Roller Coasters.
Art Dump wants to trade a zine with you.
The plants at Seattle’s sculpture park aren’t doing all that well.
Cell phones that smell.
Your moment of zen.

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“Why are you here?”

By c-monster on October 15, 2007 in C-Monster, Photography and Random Linkage. 6 Comments

Photo by DanMud

See his other Frieze fotos here.

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The Digest.

By c-monster on October 15, 2007 in C-Monster and The Digest. Closed

The Guggenheim, Version 1.0. Photo by Tampen

How cool would it be to paint the Guggenheim pink?
Charles Schulz: As depressive as Van Gogh?
Art Review of the Day. Jerry Saltz on Chris Ofili: “I sometimes imagine these paintings as blinged-out pimps from other dimensions.” (Bonus Points: The story includes a fascinating sidebar on where Ofili gets his poop.)
Photo Essay: Design visionaries on Concierge.com. Includes all the usual suspects: Gehry, Foster, Calatrava, et al. (Via ArchiDose.)
There is actually a TV program that will feature an artist: See photographer Chris Jordan on The Colbert Report.
Journalists placed on endangered species list.
Q&A with Marjane Satrapi.
Brad Downey tears Aberdeen a new one.
Art World Smackdown: Tyler Green didn’t like Jerry Saltz’s piece in New York Mag about art world hype.
Luis Gispert to go solo at Miami MoCA.
And speaking of MoCA: they’re getting lots o’ gifts.
For Sale: Titan Missile Base.
Berlin: giving new meaning to the words “punching in.”
ArtInfo picks the best of the Frieze art fair in London. (Including a piece that has since been stolen.)
When the Times imitates the Times.
Headline of the Day: “Sculptor’s Crack Baffles Art World.”
Alien Invasion: Patricia Piccini at Seattle’s Frye.
Bono to save the world from unfashionable luxury living.
Your moment of zen.

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BeforeChrome in Paris

By c-monster on October 14, 2007 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Photography and Street Art. Closed

Photo by vitostreet

See BeforeChrome’s website here.

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The Digest.

By c-monster on October 12, 2007 in C-Monster and The Digest. Closed

Photo by mr_o

Just in time for Halloween: artful pumpkin carving. (Via Complex.)

Stuff to do in L.A. this weekend besides wash your car: Art Crawl X or checking out Julius Shulman’s vintage photographs of the growing city at the Getty.

In NYC: Don’t miss Joan Linder’s ballpoint pen drawings at Mixed Greens or Liset Castillo’s apocalyptic photographs of sand castles at Black & White.

And definitely don’t miss Kara Walker at the Whitney.

Sympathy for the Tobacco Industry: Altria is leaving town and, in the process, leaving 42^nd Street totally artless.

Art apocalypse story of the day: An economist tells the Times of London that what “people are saying about the contemporary art world today is what they were saying about the Nasdaq in 1999, a year before it crashed.” (This story is also worth reading for all the flame-throwing quotes by New York art dealer Richard Feigen: “Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst have no place in the history of art.” Booyah!)

Geeks and polar bears rejoice: Al Gore and the U.N. Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change have taken home the Nobel.

Photojournalist Alexandra Boulat, 1962-2007. See a photographic tribute here.

Russian artist Kris Kuksi has made a piece that looks like a concept vehicle for the Pope.

The guy who runs Kid Robot likes to make the young girls cry.

Naked in New York.

Your moment of zen.

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Monthly Archive for October, 2007

Page 3 of 5

The Digest.

Unintentionally sublime marketing e-mail of the day.

The Digest.

Art Jumbotron.

Yayoi Kusama at Frieze.

The Digest.

“Why are you here?”

The Digest.

BeforeChrome in Paris

The Digest.

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