The opening of Behind the Seen, at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn. The show is up through January 20th, 2008. Photo by F. Trainer.
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Monthly Archive for December, 2007
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Body work by the Endless Love Crew. Photo by C-Monster.
- I wouldn’t know Julian Schnabel if I ran him over in my truck.
- The Ongoing Debate on Image Appropriation—Shepard Fairey Edition: Josh Macphee at Visual Resistance gives his take.
- Yes, it’s come to this: shit=art.
- Cooler than shit: Star Wars origami.
- Some vintage video related to the Futura/Basquiat scrawl that was recently discovered in NYC. (Just watch the first half; since the second quickly devolves into talk about “vaulted ceilings” and other real-estate-agent-with-a-hard-on descriptives.) (Via ArtBlog.net.)
- The Day in Carcass: It’s Hirst-a-palooza at the Tate.
- The Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City buys rare daguerreotype of John Brown. (Via MAN.)
- The Basel Frazzle: $400 million in four days. (Via Arts Journal.)
- Where war and the birth of the saviour intersect: Camo Christmas ornaments.
- More merch that’s ideal for the holidays: Horrified B-Movie Victims.
- Starchitects, they’re just like us, reports the NY Times.
- In related news: Photos of the Zaha Hadid floor at Hotel Puerto América in Madrid.
- The city of Brasilia’s co-designer, architect Oscar Niemeyer, turns 100.
- How to build an igloo.
- A video simulation tour of the world’s largest moose, in Sweden. (Via Fecal Face.)
- Photo Essay: Sydney Now.
- I have just one word to say to you, just one word: Plastics.
- Up for sale: A copy of the Magna Carta. Someone please buy it and send it to our Dear Leader so that he can learn about a little thing called habeas corpus.
- In S.F.: Tony Labat at Gallery Paule Anglim, in its final week, plus Vulcan and Apex in the Tenderloin.
- In NYC: Barbara Crane at Higher Pictures and Love/War/Sex at Exit Art.
- In Lithuania: Os Gemeos. (Via Ekosystem.)
- Your moment of Cornholio: run-for-the-border edition.
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Arcangelo Sassolino at Art Basel Miami Beach. (Photo via ArtNet.)
Star Wars Clone Wars.
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Infinity
Going Out of Business
Garage Gallery
Opening Reception: Sat., Dec. 15th, 2007
7-10pm
291 8th Street, Ground Floor.
btw. 5th & 6th Aves
Park Slope, Brooklyn
NYC
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Photo by iurikothe.
Andy Goldsworthy at the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid, through January 21st, 2008.
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Graffiti detail. Photo by Royal Antidote.
- But will they have drive-thrus? Imagine an art world where it’s all Gagosians and Guggenheims. It’s actually not that far off.
- From the Department of Artistic Appropriation: More on Richard Prince and his Marlboro Man knock-offs.
- Billionaires beware: the Smithsonian is gonna have to raise private funds to fix what ails it.
- The day in Kiki Smith tattoos.
- In unrelated news: I love that Maev Kennedy over at the Guardian art blog is holding a pint in her author headshot. Party on, sister!
- Graff of the Day: Seher in Mexico.
- What to do with all those empty CD cases? Why, make a chandelier!
- Picturepalooza: More images from Art Basel and its various offspring can be found here, here and here. Plus: additional pix of the Primary Flight street art installation.
- Banksy? Or Not Banksy? The English city of Evesham debates.
- Gettin’ drippy: Krink has a new line of colored inks.
- The light fantastic: laser tagging continues to get its 15 minutes.
- Only in the dead-tree edition: National Geographic Traveler has a good round-up of Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian houses that you can stay in, in its Jan/Feb issue. The story isn’t online, but you can read a blog post about one of the houses here.
- Cool-looking architecture book: Natural Architecture by Alessandro Rocca.
- Even more architecture news nobody cares about: Robert A.M. Stern appointed to third term as Yale’s architecture dean (Via ArtForum) and Renzo Piano won an award.
- Andy Warhol’s guide to manners.
- Blingier (and more useful) than Damien Hirst’s diamond skull: A 24K gold vibrator. (Via Complex.)
- More must-have merch: a cozy for your 40.
- In NYC: Lucian Freud at MoMA (see the photo essay) and William Steig, Shrek’s creator, at the Jewish Museum.
- In S.F: Fecal Face reports that a commissioned Barry McGee piece from the train stop at Judah and Sunset has been stolen. (There’s no way to link to just this item on their site, so look for the story that says “Twist Thief” in the middle column.)
- Your moment of sheep.
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Image courtesy of AP.
The Associated Press reports that a tagged wall featuring scrawl by Futura, Fab 5 Freddy and Basquiat, dating back to the late 70s or early 80s, was recently uncovered in a SoHo loft undergoing renovations. Better news: the piece has been preserved for posterity and is currently on display at Gallery 151 on Wooster Street. (The article has a photo essay, too.)
Update (1/15/08): It may not be as historic as everyone previously thought.
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Behind the Seen.
Curated by Michael De Feo.
Ad Hoc Art Gallery
Opening Reception: Dec. 13th, 7-9pm.
49 Bogart St.
Brooklyn.
L to Morgan Ave.
718-366-2466.
Featuring: Aiko, Blek le Rat, Caleb Neelon, Dan Witz, Don Leicht, Elbow Toe, The Endless Love Crew (ELC), Ellis G., El Tono, Flying Fortress, G, Ian Stevenson, Jace, Jim Rizzi, Jean Faucheur, John Fekner, Judith Supine, Keith Haring, Lady Pink, L’Atlas, Lee Quinones, Leon Reid, Lister, Mark Jenkins, Martha Cooper, Maya Hayuk, Michael De Feo, Momo, Nuria, Peripheral Media Projects, Richard Hambleton, Ripo, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, She Kills He, Skewville, Swoon, Thundercut, Tofer.
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Sometimes photos just take themselves: No Art For You in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District during Basel. Photo by C-Monster.
- Video of the Day: Legos go graff.
- In related merch: Now you can customize your own toy graffiti train. (Via Ekosystem.)
- Let the corporate jockeying begin: Curator John Elderfield is retiring from MoMA.
- Bummer: Gaugin statue of a faun at the Art Institute of Chicago is a fake. (And it’s not just the statue that is a copy.)
- The Day in Whoa: The best piece at Art Basel for stoners.
- From the Department of They’re-Just-Discovering-This-Now?: The New York Observer reports that Art Basel is, like, totally excessive.
- The only way to see those silly art fairs: with a jet pack. (Via Complex.)
- God’s Eye View: The Glue Society’s Biblical satellite images.
- The Garden of Earthly Delights: Kate Moss edition. See it large. (Via Two Coats of Paint.)
- Terracotta warrior fakes discovered at German museum. (Via Arts Journal.)
- The continuing intersection of art and buttplugs.
- And since all Jeff Koons posts seem to come in multiples: Decadence will meet decadence when he exhibits several large-scale pieces at Versailles (not the restaurant) next fall. (Via Art Observed.)
- Just in time for the holidays: A critical round-up of museum gift shops.
- LACMA’s library is having a book sale today and tomorrow.
- Caravaggio worth up to £50 million is discovered.
- The Deforestation Towel Dispenser: Reminding all those paranoid wankers who need paper towels to touch door handles that some tree somewhere is paying the price.
- But will there be a guy with a megaphone and an umbrella? Art tourists take the Art Bus. And this week, they’re in Williamsburg.
- The Guardian reports that art is losing its soul to populism. And I was under the impression that it had already lost its soul to money.
- Photo Essay: The architecture of parking garages.
- In Brooklyn: Air Kissing at Momenta, in its final week.
- In Boston: Two exhibits about consumption.
- In Madrid: Robert Mapplethorpe at the Galería Pepe Cobo.
- In Nederland, Colo.: The opening of Co-Conspirators, the debut show of the NOWhere Limited Gallery, outside of Boulder.
- Your moment of neurosis, poker-face edition.
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The original: Epcot Center in Orlando. Photo by olvwu.
The Cartier Dome at Art Basel Miami Beach. (Apologies for the crappy sketch, but I didn’t think to shoot it and this was all I could find online.)
Miami narchitecture — of the 1980s mall variety — with dome.
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