Monthly Archive for February, 2008

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The Digest. 02.21.08.

By c-monster on February 21, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and The Digest. Closed

Soklak in Paris. Photo by vitostreet.

When yet-to-be released films imitate decade-old children’s TV shows: Is Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind a rip-off of an old Nickelodeon program called The Amanda Show?
Would Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty get built today? Probably not. “The thing would never make it through even the planning stages in today’s environmentally conscious world,” says Laurie Fendrich in The Chronicle Review. (Via MAN.)
Hair Wars.
And I Quote… Sue Webster, on the electric fountain she and Tim Noble are putting up in New York’s Rock Center: “It’s starting to look like something you’d see outside the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.” Because that’s what we need more of here in NYC: Vegas.
London’s Science Museum picks up Listening Post, a piece by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen.
Is suffering good for art? It sure seems so.
Audio Slideshow: Kevin Connolly, a legless skater, discusses his photographic pursuits.
The Day in Aiding and Abetting: UK apologises for allowing U.S. rendition flights to stop in British territory.
Graff of the Day: Popay in Paris.
Hic Lit. (Via The Elegant Variation.)
Somehow I missed this: Lucas Cranach the Elder’s nekkid Venus has been allowed inside the London underground.
A photo from last night’s lunar eclipse.
Austin Museum of Art to expand. (Via ArtForum.)
Renzo Piano chosen to design Greek opera/library complex.
Circular communities. (Via ackackack.)
A photo set of architectural models. (Via ArchiDose.)
The game of architectural who’s is bigger?
It Ain’t Easy Being Green: Garbage Warrior.
The drinking life: In praise of Mexican cantinas.
Your moment of Stand By Me.

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Calendar. 02.20.08.

By c-monster on February 20, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Calendar, Sculpture and Street Art. Closed

Adam Parker Smith and the ELC (with Anthony Goicolea) at the Ad Nauseum Lyceum show from November, 2007.

In NYC: The Ad Nauseum Lyceum presents: BIG WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED BOX! at chashama on 119^th Street, with Adam Parker Smith, Brent Birnbaum, Ryan Frank and Celso and the Endless Love Crew and many others! Opening reception this Saturday, February 23^rd, from 5-8pm, 159 West 119th Street @ Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
In NYC: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim. More here.
In NYC: ADAA Art Fair at the Armory, opening tomorrow. See a photo essay.
In Milan: Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Ryan McGinley + many others in Something Old, Something New… at the Marella Gallery.
In S.F.: Lee Harvey Roswell in Stills are Still Moving at the Shooting Gallery. (Via Juxtapoz.)

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Photo: Manhattan & The Bro.

By c-monster on February 20, 2008 in C-Monster, New York and Photography. Closed

Manhattan & The Bro. Photo by satanslaundromat.

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The Digest. 02.20.08.

By c-monster on February 20, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and The Digest. Closed

Detail: Paul Rudolph’s Walker Guest House, built in 1952, Sanibel Island, Fla. More info here. Photo by C-M.

Obama extends lead over Clinton.
Oh, that fickle art market.
Graff of the Day: Sego and Fefe in Mexico. More shots here.
In today’s news: the Banksy art industrial average is high.
On show in Israel: looted art. More here.
In a marginally related story: Has the Amber Room been found? Some German treasure hunters are inclined to think so. (Via Arts Journal.)
Madrid opens new cultural center, CaixaForum, designed by—who else—Herzog & De Meuron. (Via Art Observed.)
Museum of the City of New York to unload Rockefeller rooms.
BCAM: Still a “mess.” (Via Arts Journal.)
“I am the shit.”
From the curious annals of unusual book promotion: Chip Kidd. (Tyler: I expect that this is how you will be promoting your book when it comes out.)
Soil tiles.
Japanese Supreme Court rules that Mapplethorpe is not obscene.
Guantanamera.
Hold the tuna: Tuna fisheries on the brink of collapse due to overfishing. (Via Eyebeam reBlog.)
Rembrandt Homer. (Via ackackack.)
Whoa! They’re bringin’ sexy back! Latimes.com now has pix on its main Arts site. Too bad all of the photo essays on display are celebrity-related. (??)
Lights out at the Jupiter Hotel.
Geeky Stories I Live For: “Frog from hell” fossil discovered in Madagascar.
Way to Blaze a Trail: The state of Florida approved the use of the word “evolution” in its teaching standards for the very first time. (Via ackackack.)
Architecture for bats. (Don’t laugh, we have to protect these little critters. They pollinate agave, which makes tequila, which makes my nightly margarita, without which there would be no Digest.)
Plans for the Architecture Foundation may have been nixed, but Zaha Hadid still has the Chanel mobile art pod, which will feature “artworks inspired by the iconic quilted handbag created by Coco Chanel in 1955.”
Because it’s his Divine Right: Prince Charles still hating on modernism.
Video of Villa Savoye.
Feng shui McDonald’s.
Your moment of beautiful bigness. (Thanks, TT.)

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Calendar. 02.19.08.

By c-monster on February 19, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Museums. Closed

The Hirshhorn Museum in D.C. Photo by Kung Fu Reference.

In D.C.: The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image at the Hirshhorn.
In NYC: Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind at Deitch Projects and Lisi Raskin in Command and Control at the Park Avenue Armory.
In Edinburgh: Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius, at the City Arts Centre.
In Sheffield: The visual arts festival, Art Sheffield ’08: Yes, No & Other Options, at various sites around the city.
In Madrid: Os Gemeos at Pilar Parra & Romero Gallery.

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Photos: Swoon at New Image in L.A.

By c-monster on February 19, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Photography, Street Art and Vidalia. Closed

Pictures from Drown Your Boats, Swoon’s solo show at New Image Gallery, in Santa Monica.

All pics by Vidalia. Money shots after the jump.

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The Digest. 02.19.08.

By c-monster on February 19, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Street Art and The Digest. 3 Comments

Light painting by Jaron Korvinus, in the Netherlands. Image courtesy of the artist.

Pot is good for ADHD.
Watch This! The Day in Architectural High Camp: A 1970s BBC doc about L.A.’s urban landscape. It’s 50 minutes long, but worth it for vintage footage of the Watts Towers, the Charles Eames Case Study house and Venice Beach, when it was still full of “drop-outs and problem people.” (Keep an eye peeled for incredible aerial shots of the bombed-out pier.) There’s even a bit with Ed Ruscha at a drive-in (channeling Jeff Spicoli), as well as shots from various Sunset Boulevard strip clubs—complete with titty—set to the tune of L.A. Woman. (Those BBC types sure were saucy!)
And I Quote… Philip Johnson referring to the stark sunlight in his Glass House: “There’s that goddamned thing again.”
Tijuana: Unlikely source of architectural inspiration.
The University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, to receive Frank Gehry’s Lake Minnetonka house as a gift, which will involve moving the structure to campus in eight pieces.
Zaha Hadid’s planned Architecture Foundation building in London is scrapped due to lack of $$$.
N House by Jun Aoki.
The best NYC tourist gear I’ve seen yet.
Lower East Side hot, hot, hot.
R.I.P. Dorothy Podber, trickster who shot Andy Warhol paintings.
The Day in No Way: Fidel Castro retires.
Edo period monster paintings.
Stolen impressionist paintings found in the parking lot of a Swiss psychiatric institution.
The photography of Kim Høltermand. (Via ackackack.)
Screw the children, Nicholas Blincoe at the Guardian wants museums that are more adult.
This is how major museums used to acquire their antiquities: They got the monks drunk.
Art Merch of the Day: Boticelli’s Venus couch.
Graff of the Day: Goro and Zrazik in Poland.
Profile of Chinua Achebe. (Via The Elegant Variation.)
Today’s Art Videos: The Jackson Pollock in your ear. Plus: Special prize for the most creative use of a Van Gogh tote bag ever.
Cool animation: Visions of Frank #1. (Via Fecal Face.)
Robert Butler paintings destroyed in Lakeland, Fla. fire.
The Brooklyn Rail’s John Yau on Julian Schnabel: “What aberration allows bad artists to make terrific films?” (Via TCOP.)
Creating prosthetic deltas on the Lower Mississippi.
Cirque du Soleil should hire this guy.
Your moment of BBQ sauce.

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Frozen Trafalgar Square.

By c-monster on February 18, 2008 in C-Monster, Performance art, Random Linkage and Video. Closed

It’s an epidemic. See the video. (Thanks, TT.)

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Calendar. 02.18.08.

By c-monster on February 18, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Photography. Closed

Reinhabited Circle Ks (Phoenix) by Paho Mann at the Walker, in Minneapolis.

In Minneapolis: Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes at the Walker. (Via Bldg Blog and Off Center.)
In Richmond, Va.: Teresita Fernández at the Reynolds Gallery.
In Philly: Frida Kahlo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, opening Wednesday.
In London: Alfredo Jaar at South London Gallery, Jacob Holdt at the Photographer’s Gallery and Duchamp at the Tate Modern.
In Grand Forks: Artists and War at the North Dakota Museum of Art.
In S.F.: Gilbert and George at the DeYoung.

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Photo: C215 in Brooklyn.

By c-monster on February 18, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, New York, Photography and Street Art. Closed

C215 in Brooklyn. Photo by jakedobkin.

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Monthly Archive for February, 2008

Page 3 of 7

The Digest. 02.21.08.

Calendar. 02.20.08.

Photo: Manhattan & The Bro.

The Digest. 02.20.08.

Calendar. 02.19.08.

Photos: Swoon at New Image in L.A.

The Digest. 02.19.08.

Frozen Trafalgar Square.

Calendar. 02.18.08.

Photo: C215 in Brooklyn.

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