Baby Tilley. Courtesy of batvega_jl.
See the other entries here. (Via Kottke.)
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Monthly Archive for January, 2008
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Detail of a work by A.C.M. at the Outsider Art Fair, in NYC. See the NYT story here.
Click on images to see ‘em large. Money shots after the jump.
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy on the S1 steam locomotive. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.
- In Lexington, Mass.: Raymond Lowey: Designs for a Consumer Culture at the National Heritage Museum.
- In Miami: Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists at Artspace/Virginia Miller Gallery in Coral Gables.
- In Singapore: A gallery/museum round-up.
- In London: Photography by Andy Warhol at Timothy Taylor Gallery.
- In Seattle: The Gates of Paradise at the Seattle Art Museum.
- In NYC: Do Ho Suh, Reflection, at Lehmann Maupin, closing Feb. 2nd.
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At the Object in Transition panel at the Getty Center in L.A.: Paul McCarthy (far left) discusses the sheep plug that hangs over his head like a dagger. “The dark stuff is hair,” he said. We hope he means wool. (Photo by San Suzie.)
A who’s who of contemporary art conservation gathered at the Getty Center last night to hear Rachel Harrison, Doris Salcedo, Paul McCarthy (the man who brought the world the chocolate Santa butt-plug), curator Elizabeth Sussman (of Gordon Matta-Clark, You Are the Measure fame) and conservator Christian Scheidemann talk about conservation and contemporary art. Harrison discussed the problem of removing cobwebs from chicken beaks and replacing cans of exploded grape soda. McCarthy pondered the aging of ketchup. In between, Salcedo bummed everyone out with a long discourse on the meaning of the concentration camp in modern society as expressed by her installation Neither. Scheidemann, who has worked extensively with all of the panelists (as well as Robert Gober, Matthew Barney, and the late Jason Rhoades), repeatedly exclaimed, “The artist is always right!” But if the artist makes a piece out of some unstable, melt-able compound that freaks out at the slightest variation in temperature, how “right” are they?
Find out how to preserve your chocolate butt-plug after the jump.
Continue reading ‘How to preserve a chocolate Santa butt-plug.’
Damien Hirst at Lever House in NYC: So totally X-Files. Get Looking Around’s incisive take here. (Click on the image to see it large.) Photo by CM.
- Kick in the door, wavin’ the four-four: The Feds raid several California museums—including LACMA—as part of an investigation into looted antiquities from Asia. Let the games begin!! Today, on the line-up: NYT, LAT, OC Register, Tyler Green and Richard Lacayo.
- The Day in Ironic Juxtaposition: On Bloomberg.com, there was this story, about a study that documents the current lack of confidence in the contemporary art market, just a few headlines away from this one, about the L.A. Art Show overflowing with a record number of dealers.
- You too can do Wikipedia’s work for free. (Via AFC.)
- The Museum of Drunken Art.
- Venice Biennale ’09: Bruce Nauman to represent the U.S, Philadelphia Museum of Art to curate.
- Art Institute of Chicago gets video art pieces by Doug Aitken and Shirin Neshat, among others.
- Plastic bag mandalas.
- Street Art Dose: Goons in Chicago.
- The Guardian asks: Why do architect’s websites suck? Feel free to venture a guess.
- An iPod cozy.
- Photo of the Day: “Why call it tourist season if we can’t shoot them?”
- But will they keep the hagiographic Q&As? Interview’s Ingrid Sischy is replaced by a new editorial team.
- I can’t wait for the men’s underwear line: Richard Meier, fashion designer.
- Virgin unveils spaceship design. (Via ackackack.)
- Your moment of Johnny Cash, all Teutonic-like.
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- In L.A.: Chris Anthony at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, opening Saturday.
- In London: Bäst at the Leonard Street Gallery, opening today.
- In London: From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings at the Royal Academy, opening this weekend (barring any international diplomatic incidents).
- In Tarpon Springs: The Highwaymen at the Leepa-Ratner Museum of Art at St. Petersburg College, opening Saturday.
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Fridge Henge at sunset, New Mexico, 2006. Photo by longrista.
If things were lookin’ a little funny this morning, it’s because C-Monster.net was experiencing a fairly spectacular technical burp that was induced by all kinds of stuff related to permissions and content folders and other stuff I barely understand. Thankfully, my new BFF, Wade, over at Yahoo tech support, has helped me get everything up and running. Also: Special thanks to my buddy Abe Lincoln Jr. who pitched in by figuring out what the heck the problem was to begin with… Thanks for your patience…C.
- I Love the Smell of Mushroom Clouds in the Morning: The NYT profiles Ztohoven, the Czech collective that may have to do time for digitally inserting an apocalyptic explosion into a morning news program.
- The Day in Art Conspiracy: Did Michelangelo draw the figures on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling? Three German scholars aren’t so sure.
- Comics get girly.
- Looking Around talks to David Hockney, who continues to champion the rights of cigarette smokers everywhere.
- Oskar Kokoschka, kinda pervy.
- In related news: The provenance of one of his paintings, owned by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, has been contested by an Austrian woman.
- You’ve seen the show, now buy the over-priced Louis Vuitton merch: Marc Jacobs and Richard Prince collaborate. (Via Art Observed.)
- Reinventing the Bic pen. (Via ackackack.)
- Gabriel Schaffer: One artist’s personal preview for the upcoming Outsider Art Fair.
- Visual Nuggets: German playing cards from the 1500s. (Via Monoscope.)
- Adventures in Hyper-Reality, political edition: Chuck and Huck.
- In related news: Decision 2008: Where art and politics largely don’t intersect.
- The green roof at Singapore’s School of Art, Design and Media. (Via Eyebeam reBlog.)
- Photo Essay of Zaha Hadid’s work.
- S.F. MOMA begins construction on an outdoor sculpture gallery.
- London’s National Portrait Gallery gets a pile o’ dough.
- No more first class for you: The Smithsonian adopts reforms.
- Why, you’ll just have to buy another: Are Apple’s gadgets designed to break? (Via Eyebeam reBlog.)
- Your moment of Tom Cruise.
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Wanted: Cheap artist’s loft building that can be quickly taken over for the purpose of rapid gentrification. Willing to concoct some ridiculous story about zoning in order to get rid of current, below-market-rate tenants on the coldest day of the year. Motivated buyer. (Photo courtesy of BruceLaBounty802, who is currently couch-surfing his way through New York City. See more of his “evacuation” photos on his Flickr.)
This past Monday, a number of friends, along with several hundred other residents, were “evacuated” from 475 Kent in Brooklyn, because of alleged fire hazards (a matzo factory in the basement) and because the landlord had been renting out the commercial spaces as residential units. It all seems pretty damn bogus. People have been living at 475 Kent for years. I’ve personally been going to visit friends there for more than a decade. Why do I get the feeling that this building will eventually be converted into luxury condos? And why do I get the feeling that all of us, who live paycheck to humble paycheck, will eventually be commuting to New York City from somewhere in Philadelphia? And why why why is NYC turning into the anonymous suburb I fled?
Update: Bloggy has a good image from this whole thing.
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Velhos, by Daniel Blaufuks.
- In Lisbon: Daniel Blaufuks in O Arquivo at Vera Cortês Agência de Arte. (Via Monoscope.)
- In Gateshead: Barry McGee at the Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art.
- In London: Edward Burtynsky at Flower Central.
- In NYC: Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, opening Friday.
- In San Jose, Calif.: Goya: Dreams of Reason and Madness, at the San Jose Museum of Art, opening Saturday.
- In S.F.: Best of the Bay Area museum preview.
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