Monthly Archive for January, 2008

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The Digest. 01.23.08.

By c-monster on January 23, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Museums and The Digest. Closed

View from the terrace at the New Museum of Contemporary Art: Verbs and Esen. See it large.

Take Mad Money’s Jim Cramer, add a dash of Richard Simmons, season with Bob Ross. What do you get? This.
Chelsea Art Museum faces foreclosure.
Olafur Eliasson in one and two parts. Also: pix of a different piece here, and a video interview.
From the Department of Don’t Hold Back: Canada’s plans for a national portrait gallery are “a national embarrassment that makes us look like peasants on the international scene,” says one expert there. (Via Arts Journal.)
Video: Os Gemeos do a Scottish castle.
Newsflash: You can find art on the Internets.
Visual Nuggets: The most ethereal photographs of break dancers, by Denis Darzacq. (Via WBE.)
Photo Essay: The BMW Welt building, designed by Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au. (The Black-Eyed Peas called. And they want their punctuation back.)
This is what classical music types do for fun. (More here.)
The Guardian weighs in on the Christian Viveros-Faune mess. (Also, getting on my last nerve: All of these stories bemoan the fact that critics are forced into other lines of work because, newsflash, they don’t make much money writing. Suck it up, people: Nobody becomes a writer to get rich. If cash is your object, become an entertainment lawyer.)
R.I.P. Heath Ledger.
In related news: I think the NYT has more people on the Ledger story than they do in the entire Middle East. Check out the list of bylines at the bottom of this article.
Adventures in Intercultural Relations: Mitt Romney tries to talk to black people. Update: It gets even better. There’s video.
The Internet, in perspective.
Your moment of dancing, all jumpin’ jive-like.

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Hell Yes. Hell No.

By c-monster on January 22, 2008 in C-Monster, Museums, New York and Photography. Closed

New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC.

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Calendar. 01.22.08.

By c-monster on January 22, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Painting. Closed

Martín Ramírez. Image courtesy of Inside Outsider Art.

In NYC: The Outsider Art Fair opens this Friday, at the Puck Building.
In NYC: Taboo, Tracy 168, Darkcloud, Reskew, Michael De Feo and others in Writer’s Strike, at Drive In 24 Studios/Lott Gallery, opening Thursday.
In London: Juan Muñoz: A Retrospective at the Tate.
In London: Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale at the Tate (in collaboration with the Design Museum).
In Portland: John Bisbee at the Portland Museum of Art.
In L.A.: Quasar at SCI-Arc, opening Friday.

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The Digest. 01.22.08.

By c-monster on January 22, 2008 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

Artillery. Taji, Iraq. Photo by Luodanli.

I’m Glad It’s Not Just Me: Gerard Richter thinks “everyone is crazy.”
Nobuo Takahashi’s animated landscapes.
Indispensable Architectural Lesson: The Slog teaches us the true meaning of Brick House.
Another Reason To Never Trust Anyone Affiliated with an Organized Religion: All those Chinese antiquities at the Royal Ontario Museum may have been acquired by a priest with sticky fingers. (Via Arts Journal.)
I’m Sure Putin Will Be Delighted to Write a Check: French Heirs of Russian collectors, whose works of art were confiscated by the Soviets, want to be compensated.
Keeping the art conservators employed: More than half of the pillars in Berlin’s Holocaust memorial are cracked.
Boston Newsflash: Here’s what happens when you help the DEA: You get deported.
Video of the Day: Walking by Blu. (Via Fecal Face.)
Sculptural street installations by Truth, in Poland. (More here.)
Visual Nuggets: The book art of Will Ashford. (Via ackackack.)
You too can be the proud owner of a Neckface van. (Via Smokkelaar.)
Rock pillows.
Sort-of New Book: Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip-Hop.
Sublime Political Photo of the Day. (Via PDN Pulse.)
The Day in Apocalypse Merch: Dutch architects devise houses that float on water.
Your moment of beaver.

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Ghost in San Francisco.

By c-monster on January 21, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and Random Linkage. Closed

See it LARGE. Also: video. Photo by 14-2-1.

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Calendar. 01.21.08.

By c-monster on January 21, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Photography. 4 Comments

Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, 1981, by Richard Avedon. Image from CHAD COOMBS.

The Digest has been getting unwieldy, so from here on out I’ll feature exhibits, shows and miscellaneous artistic circus acts here. As with everything else on this blog, do not expect a comprehensive, expertly-curated list. It’s all kinda random, stuff that I go to (or would go to) if it’s within reach.

In Phoenix: Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence and Graffiti Art and Fashion at the Phoenix Museum of Art. (Via Coudal.)
In Washington, D.C.: Nature’s Best at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. (See a photo essay.)
In Houston: Modern and Contemporary Works from the MFAH at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
In Miami: AfroCuba: Works on Paper at the Lowe Museum of Art.

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The Digest. 01.21.08.

By c-monster on January 21, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and The Digest. 3 Comments

Deeker/Celso face-off with Posta. Photo by BruceLaBounty802.

Photo Essay: Martin Luther King, Jr. murals, captured by photographer Camilo Jose Vergara.
Video of the Day: Bäst.
Managing those commercial art fairs and working as an art critic could present “an appearance” of conflict, Village Voice management has concluded: art critic Christian Viveros-Faune is out. (Get the background here and the Greek chorus here.)
The Day in Cultural Colonialism, High Art Edition: Vanessa Beecroft treats Sudanese babies like art props, according to the new documentary, The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins, now airing at Sundance.
In related news: Reputed Janjaweed leader named to Sudanese government post.
Getting Miami shaken and stirred: Kcho at Marlborough Chelsea. (See a slideshow.)
From the Department of Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out: Artopia not so fond of the Met’s Philippe De Montebello: “(1) He has never really supported modern and contemporary art. (2) As the Met’s CEO he has been responsible for annual operating deficits that have recently run as high as $3 million. (3) He oversaw and actively defended the constantly increasing admission price, which is now $20. This tithe is ‘voluntary,’ but it is not readily perceived as such by most visitors.”
Kevin Gover: New director at the Museum of the American Indian in D.C.
Portland Art Center to close. (Via ArtForum.)
Arting While Muslim: Iranian-American photographer’s project may have gotten him on terrorist watch list. Either that, or the fact that he was carrying a cassette of John Denver’s Greatest Hits.
The Oscars: Resurrecting Julian Schnabel’s art career.
The Day in Visual Plagiarism: Greg Gossel versus Faile.
Graff of the Day: Gesoo in Santiago, Chile.
The coochie couch. (Via Fecal Face.)
George W. Bush’s favorite painting.
I Need, I Want, I Have to Have: A $239 Karl Lagerfeld figurine.
Because the World Really Needs More Preposterous Excuses: Flame-throwing cultural critic Lee Siegel on why he made up a fake Internet handle so that he could write positive things about himself on the New Republic’s website: “I used it to protest anonymity, and no one wants to concede that to me. I did it as a prank, and a provocation, strictly out of exasperation.” Uh-huh. And all those bags of flaming shit I left on people’s doorsteps as a kid were interactive installations that commented on adolescent feelings of hostility and rage. (More here.)
Way better than the writer’s strike: Nude models on strike in Rome.
For the Miesian birder: A Farnsworth House feeder.
When a tree falls in a forest, will there be someone there to photograph it?
Your moment of Ken and Barbie.