Dan Lydersen at Jack Fischer Gallery at the Red Dot Fair. (Photos by C-M.)
We decided to check out one more fair before our brains exploded and headed over to Red Dot at the Park South Hotel (where we also happened to be represented on a panel). The location is ideal for a couple of reasons: one, there’s excellent Indian food all over the neighborhood (we heart Tiffin Wallah!) and, two, it’s just a block and a half from the hallucinatory margaritas at Rodeo Bar.
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New York Times photojournalist Dith Pran, with Sydney Schanberg, interviewing a soldier about the American bombing of Cambodia in 1973.
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Pedicure, capuchin monkey-style. Monteverde, Costa Rica. (Photo by C-M.)
Speaking of monkeys, I’m gonna be on a panel tomorrow morning.
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Sage Vaughn painting at Volta. (All photos by C-M.)
The Volta New York fair is everything a fair should be (provided you accept the premise that they should exist in the first place). For one, it’s small. Two: it’s conveniently situated on 34th Street, just two blocks away from the good eats in Koreatown. Three: it’s one artist per gallery, so your brain doesn’t feel like it’s errupting when you saunter through. Four: they were giving away free samples of Basil Hayden bourbon. (Take it neat.) The only thing that could make this event truly flawless would be an on-site taco stand, in which case we would never, ever leave.
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No. 18 by Wan Zhijie. (All photos by C-M.)
Yesterday we packed a lunch and trekked down to Pulse New York, over at Pier 40 in the West Village, where people (like me) ordinarily get their cars out of the impound. Pulse is Armory’s hipper sibling: younger and less pretentious. And I’m a fan of their new site because it’s just a brisk 15-minute walk from Johnny’s, where I once watched a golden retriever – seated at the bar – take a lick out of Celso’s margarita.
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Barry McGee at Redcat in L.A., Fall 2007. Photo by bird in the hand.
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Elbow-toe paste-up of a cat. Photo by Jake Dobkin.
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We heart moody white people who fight aliens.
The staff here at C-Monster.net is covetous of many things. Fine books. Cheap beer. And a good carne asada burrito. But nothing gets us salivating like a little X-Files. Today, the second trailer for the upcoming X-Files movie hit the web. Thankfully, we were prepared. Yvonne Connasse, expert in film (and casting calls) reports on the whole mess, right from her perch at the bar at the Paris Ritz:
For those of you still out there, looking for the truth – good news! Some variant of the truth will arrive in your local movie theatre this July 25th. Till then, all conspiracy theorists are directed to go here for the latest panel discussion from the celebrated creators, or here for the stunningly amateur video replete with fanboy squeals and heavy breathing every time David Duchovny opens his mouth, or here for a particularly grainy and skewed sneak peek of a potential trailer. We pray it’s just the camera-phone and not the look of the feature film, unless they’re trying to win an Independent Spirit Award. Sorry, boys and girls – the trailer offers no glimpses of Black Oil, bald daddy types, recovered cancer victims, blond mules, September 11 conspiracy theorists or humpy double agents. Not to fear, we too “want to believe.”
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This is what it’s like to attend the Armory Show, an art bazaar on an industrial scale. Shown here: Irreversible depth of progress by Jin Meyerson at Emmanuel Perrotin. (All photos by C-M.)
Yesterday I donned my blackest finery and my smartest European eyewear and joined the Hans and Franzes for Armory-palooza 2008. As always, there was plenty of air kissing, champagne, high-heeled boots and, of course, the pervasive smell of money.
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Image courtesy of Red Dot.
In what should no doubt be a morning full of hijinks and hilarity, I’m gonna be on a panel this Sunday with esteemed fellow bloggers Edward Winkleman, Paddy Johnson, Carol Diehl and Sharon Butler. We’re gonna be blabbin’ and bloviatin’ about bloggin’ and what it all means. Joanne Mattera will moderate. So, if you’re not sleeping off a hangover, come on down!
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
11:00 a.m.
Red Dot Fair NYC
Park South Hotel
122 E. 28th St., btw. Park & Lex.
NYC.
General admission to the fair is $12. (Sorry, wish it were free.) Get the full blast of Red Dot’s other programs here.
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