New Orleans lights. Photo by Trois Têtes.
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Monthly Archive for December, 2007
Photo by cyberliesl.
- Kevin Dubrow, 52. Lead singer, Quiet Riot.
- Brad Delp, 55. Lead singer, Boston.
- Molly Ivins, 62. Writer.
- Denny Doherty, 66. Singer, the Mamas the Papas.
- Update (missed this one earlier, thanks Timothy Buckwalter): Elizabeth Murray, 66. Artist.
- Evel Knievel, 69. Biker.
- Robert Goulet, 73. Singer.
- David Halberstam, 73. Journalist.
- R.B. Kitaj, 74. Artist.
- Laszlo Kovacs, 74. Cinematographer, Easy Rider.
- Hilly Krystal, 75. Founder, CBGB’s.
- Don Ho, 76. Singer, actor.
- Charles Nelson Reilly, 76. Tony Award-winning actor, game show fixture.
- Sol Lewitt, 78. Artist.
- Iwao Takamoto, 81. Creator, Scooby Doo.
- Max Roach, 83. Drummer.
- Kurt Vonnegut, 84. Author.
- Ernest Withers, 85. Photographer.
- Madeleine L’Engle, 88. Author.
- Robert Adler, 93. Co-inventor of the remote control.
- Hy Zaret, 99. Lyricist, Unchained melody.
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Starting with this clown. Photo by jasonmontague.
- The Celebrity Industrial Complex.
- Any art that utilizes images of Mickey Mouse or Marilyn Monroe. It’s been done. To death. Please stop.
- Douchebags.
- The use of the term “eco” as a ploy to sell people more shit.
- Starchitects.
- Visual art that requires an essay-length text on methodology to make the piece on display seem interesting.
- The phrase “design-conscious,” especially when referring to children. (They shit their pants. Does anyone think they really care about mid-century Modern?)
- Classist museum policies that allow women with Samsonite-sized handbags to breeze in, but force me to stand in Soviet-era lines to check in a backpack.
- The notion that Rudy Giuliani is a viable presidential candidate.
- The Art Bubble.
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Photo of the WPIX Yule Log by Michael Golrick.
I’m taking some time off so that I may engage in some unrepentant consumerism in honor of the Birth of the Saviour. The daily Digest will return next year (though there may be miscellaneous sporadic posts before then). See y’all in ’08!
xox, C-Monster.
At the Pulse Art Fair. Photo by celso_nyc.
- Paintings by Picasso and Candido Portinari stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. (Via ArtForum.)
- From the Department of It’s-off-It’s-on: Exhibition of Russian-held art will make it to England after all.
- Detroit is an open canvas.
- Hong Kong: The Jan Brady of contemporary Asian art.
- Art Criticism of the Week: “Like P.T. Barnum, Salvador Dalí, Muhammad Ali and Cirque du Soleil, Matthew Barney is not known for understatement.”
- Frank Gehry: Not-so-hot, according to Fortune.
- The Day in Planned Makeovers: The Public Library and Governor’s Island in New York, and the Gardner Museum in Boston.
- Where authoritarianism and architecture intersect: Fidel Castro says he wants to live as long as Oscar Niemeyer.
- Afghan treasures to go on tour in the U.S., starting at D.C.’s National Gallery in May.
- Pakistani artist Gulgee found murdered in his Karachi home. (Via ArtForum.)
- Fake is the new real: All about the fakers in Dafen, China, in one and two parts (the latter one via Off Center).
- Newsflash: Beauty in art is dead. Also dead: high culture. Even deader: Photography.
- A public service message: Don’t dump your paint. (Via Ekosystem)
- On the Internets: Lowbrow pioneer Robert Williams.
- And speaking of lowbrow: Is Princess Di art? Who the hell knows. But she sure sells tickets.
- New book: Dave Ellis and Doze Green’s Shaft.
- Just in time for Xmas: Skullphone merch.
- Because Manhattan really could use more retail: Is the closing of the Oliver Kamm gallery an indicator of a coming art bust?
- Visual Nuggets: The work of Ala Ebtekar.
- I ♥ The Holidays: “With a Rebel Noel.”
- Separated at Birth: Architect Charles Renfro and comedian Charles Nelson Reilly.
- A visual tour of the Cloisters.
- “It doesn’t say Cox, unless I say it tastes like Cox.”
- Urinal of the Day.
- In Sydney: Emily Kame Kngwarreye at the Mary Place Gallery.
- In S.F.: All Star Hustlaz at White Walls Gallery.
- In Queens: New York States of Mind at the Queens Museum of Art.
- In Chile: Art takes the bus.
- Your moment of Christmas cheer: ‘80s Dallas edition.
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Sever, in the Wynwood District.
The best part of Art Basel: leaving the facelifts at the convention center to see what was going on in the outside world.
Lots more pix after the jump.
The Day in Involuntary Collaborations: Augor and Revok redo a Murakami billboard in L.A. (See it LARGE.) The piece lasted for about two days. (Thanks to StreetRes for catching this on Flickr.) Photo by Ribbon Controller.
- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer isn’t allowed to use the word “bitch.”
- Method # 5,678 to get money out of art industry stage parents: a service that will tell you if you’re little spawn is an artistic genius by offering a critique of their splattered scrawls.
- Marion True has nothing to do with this one: A cuneiform tablet, thought to have been illegally smuggled out of Iraq, was pulled from an eBay auction in Switzerland just minutes before a final sale.
- Not surprising auction news of the week: Magna Carta bought by incredibly rich private equity guy (Via Arts Journal.)
- Philly museum gets hype-less makeover.
- Mystery bench baffles New Yorkers. (Update: It was created by Brad Downey.)
- Spencer Finch will create a public art project for NYC’s High Line.
- Don’t tear down those New Orleans projects, says Nicolai Ourossoff, they’re historic. (The article studiously avoids reporting on what living conditions might have been like in those projects, but the accompanying photo essay is definitely worth a gander.)
- Oh, the tit-illation: Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon get contemporary makeovers.
- Much cooler than anything by Damien Hirst: a skull made from paracetamol (aka Tylenol).
- The Internets are generating art. (Via AFC.)
- Corporate Memo of the Month.
- The latest in holiday must-haves: plushie guts. (Via Offbeat Homes.)
- Street artist Michael de Feo worked on New York Mag’s end-of-year cover: a script word that says “love” on the Bryant Park ice rink. See a time lapse video of the installation.
- Visual Nuggets: Book autopsies by Brian Dettmer.
- Artworld Smackdown! Russia versus England.
- In Melbourne: The Tattoo House by Andrew Maynard Architects.
- In Innsbruck, Austria: Zaha Hadid’s new railway stations.
- Your moment of Christmas bling: oldie-but-goodie edition.
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Photos from the opening reception of Infinity’s Going Out of Business Sale at the Garage Gallery in Brooklyn. The show runs through Dec. 22nd, 2007.
Continue reading ‘Photos from Infinity’s “Going Out of Business Sale.”’
Jen Stark at the Spinello Gallery, in Miami. Photo by C-Monster.
- I Want, I Need, I Have to Have: An L. Ron Hubbard doll.
- Only in the dead tree edition: A Q&A with Os Gemeos in Bomb’s Winter ’08 issue, in which the twins manage to avoid answering just about every single question. The photos, however, are awesome.
- Iraq’s National Museum now admitting small groups of visitors.
- Bring on the Dancing Dwarfs: The Met scores Arbus archives.
- L.A.’s Norton Simon Museum begins to loosen its death grip on its art.
- Visual Nuggets: NASA Edition. (Via Fecal Face.)
- Newsflash: Charlie Finch is grousing that the visual arts community doesn’t play a role in presidential politics. (And that’s probably for the best, given the pathetic state of national politics.) (Via Winkleman.)
- Modernism ain’t all that, says a new architectural book. (Via Arts Journal.)
- Art Lawsuit of the Week: The story behind those contested Picassos.
- In related news: Classical antiquities, once in the hands of the Getty and the Met, go on display in their new home, Rome.
- How the Art Institute of Chicago ended up with a bogus Gaugin. Plus: Looking Around meditates on the recent industry of fakes.
- When the toilet eats your coke.
- A bit of Open Air, a doc about street art, featuring Espo, Skewville, Tiki J, Faile, Dan Witz and Michael de Feo.
- Necessary merch for the impending apocalypse: the world’s smallest home.
- In a related story: Blinged-out shipping containers you can live in.
- A profile of the man inside the meat suit: Zhang Huan. (Worthwhile for the good photo essay.) If you’re in NYC, don’t miss his show at the Asia Society, on display through January 20th.
- Yay. Now let’s ban them here.
- In Bethlehem: Ron English on the Wall. (More shots here.)
- Your moment of Jean-Claude: splits edition. (Via Fecal Face.)
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