Monthly Archive for March, 2008

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The Digest. 03.27.08.

By c-monster on March 27, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and Photography. 1 Comment

Austin Convention Center. Photo by hebig.

Wheke, the giant calamari.
Curbed.LA is reporting that Skullphone bought time on those L.A. digital billboards; he didn’t hack into them as previously reported (via Lurker). And Marshall Astor isn’t having it: “I like my graffiti traditional, with some crime involved. Graffiti without the crime, to me, is like kissing your sister.”
Today’s Street Art Think Piece: Is street art’s popularity gonna kill it? Or is it already dead? (Via AJ.)
Style Wars, online. That opener gets me every time…
Graff of the Day: Biok248 in Slovakia. More here.
The art of Katharina Wahl.
Determining Robert Smithson’s intent about oil drilling near Spiral Jetty: Was he partial to despoiled environments? Or would it alter Jetty’s physical experience?
Why aren’t arts organizations working to bring art back into the schools? (Via MAN.)
Whip out the plastic: A Francis Bacon triptych is headed for the auction block in May—and it’s estimated to go for $70 million. More here.
Kara Walker, film critic.
Hillary nekkid. Kinda reminds me of this little number by John Currin.
Blah blah blah: Five cultural leaders discuss L.A.’s future as a cultural center.
Q&A with Nicholas Penney, new director of London’s National Gallery: “The message we’ve received is that there is going to be less measurement and more judgment. I hope that is the case because there is nothing more exhausting or ultimately trivialising than box-ticking.” More here. In related news: Looking Around isn’t wild about the 1900 cut-off date.
Repatriating antiquities, Africa edition.
The Armory Show, in desperate need of a taco truck.
Brandon Nastanski at Pulse.
4,000 visitors pour in for the invite-only preview of ArtAméricas in Miami.
Building Canada’s most important photo collection in Toronto. (Via PDN Pulse.)
Colt 45, refreshing and delicious.
NYC’s plan for a crap-ass megadevelopment at the Westside Railyards: Not dead yet. In a passionate plea to kill the plan, Nicolai Ourossoff at the NYT says the project resembles “a throwback to the days when corporate Modernism was taking its dying breaths.”
Photo Essay: Architecture in the paintings of Edward Hopper.
The half-kilometer Red Ribbon bench at Tagnhe River Park in China.
Stair porn.
The Eiffel Tower’s construction process. See schematics of the temporary addition planned by SERERO architects.
Create an online mixtape.
Your moment of Eddie Izzard’s Star Wars canteen routine in Legos. (Via Coudal.)

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Photos: Lady Pink & Aiko at Ad Hoc Art in NYC.

By c-monster on March 26, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and Street Art. 1 Comment

Collage by Aiko, at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn.

Last Friday night, graffiti women Lady Pink and Aiko (formerly of Faile) threw open the doors on their two-woman show, Brick Ladies of NYC, at the Ad Hoc Art space in Brooklyn. Here are a few pix from opening night.

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The Digest. 03.26.08.

By c-monster on March 26, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and The Digest. Closed

Work in progress by Nacio in Paris. Photo by Vitostreet.

Unwrapping El Anatsui at the Nelson Atkins. More on the artist and his work (and how he is condescendingly reviewed) at MAN.
From the Department of The-Clue-Phone-is-Ringing-and- it’s-for-You: Finnish tourist breaks off a piece of a moai on Easter Island as a keepsake and now faces jail time. (Via El País.)
The work of Michael Salter: The Styrofoam robot is frackin’ rad and it’s gonna be on show at the San Jose Museum of Art next month.
ArtInfo has a list of the Top 5 things to do in NYC while you’re in town for Armory. Missing from the list: picking up a gram bag and getting down in Albany.
Fountain Fair not returning to NYC during Armory because the fair’s organizers are “disappointed with the current state of the art fair scene and the ‘commercialization of contemporary art.’” Or could it be that everything was commercial except for Fountain?
National Gallery in London will not be taking on any 20^th century art.
BCAM’s heavy security presence makes visiting the museum as pleasant as strolling through the DMZ, reports Articulations. (I recently had much the same experience at Miami’s MoCA during the Jorge Pardo exhibit. I had three—yes, three—guards tail me as I tried to look at the art. I know I probably look suspicious, but did they all need to be within a four foot radius at all times?)
And speaking of surveillance, the Brooklyn Museum plans on donating a portion of their Murakami Louis Vuitton proceeds to the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. Somebody please tell me that April Fool’s has arrived early.
Whitney Biennial Review of the Day, courtesy of Paddy Johnson: “Given the opportunity to see a lot of art at once, and the fact that more than 30 of the 80 artists included were plucked directly from Chelsea, many New Yorkers won’t need to look to this exhibition to reveal any trends.”
Totally tubular: The art of Geoff McFetridge.
On the Block: Watteau’s La Surprise, which was missing for 200 years and was recently found in British country house. Plus: one of the many versions of Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom.
Graff of the Day: Unknown artist in Buenos Aires.
Graffiti Research Lab at MoMA.
Credit card statements as art.
The Hyde Park Effect: Photos of the model for Frank Gehry’s Serpentine Pavilion, expected to crash land in London this summer.
David Hockney donating his largest painting, Bigger Trees Near Warter, to the Tate. (Via AO.)
SANAA’s New Museum as table lamp. (Via NotCot.)
New Book: The Endless City, a chronicle of our endless urbanization.
The San Zhi UFO houses.
Video: The spread of Wal-Mart. (Via NotCot.)
Paris Bureau Chieftess Yvonne Connasse put down the vermouth long enough to file the following comics report: “It seems that anybody can produce comics these days. Joining the growing list of celebs creating books for Virgin Comics (the brainchild of Deepak Chopra, film director Shekhar Kapur and Sir Richard Branson!) is…Hugh Jackman? Zoinks. He joins the ranks of John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Ed Burns, Jenna Jameson (!!!), Nicholas Cage (who might still be living in Francis Ford Coppola’s basement) and Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame.” I guess someone’s got to help keep these folks employed.
The day in antlers.
Your moment of glutes.

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Photos: Korin Faught at Corey Helford in L.A.

By c-monster on March 25, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Events, Galleries, Los Angeles, Painting and Vidalia. 1 Comment

Cassie by Korin Faught, from her solo show at Corey Helford. Photos by Vidalia.

We here at C-Monster.net appreciate nothing more than beautiful paintings devoted to moody brunettes. Giving us a resplendent eyeful is painter Korin Faught, who had her first solo show at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, Calif. this past weekend. Dear Korin: Please call us whenever you need fresh models. We may not be this luscious, but we are definitely brunette. The show runs until April 19th.

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Calendar. 03.25.08.

By c-monster on March 25, 2008 in C-Monster and Calendar. Closed

Starting point, by Franck de Las Mercedes. (Image courtesy of Flickrisimo.)

In NYC: Franck de Las Mercedes in Infusion at Francesca Arcilesi, opening Saturday.
In NYC: Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print at the Brooklyn Museum.
In NYC: Jordan Eagles in New Blood at Merge Gallery, through May 3^rd.
In NYC: Shari Mendelson at Sideshow in Brooklyn.
In NYC: Ian Baguskas at Jen Bekman, through April 26^th.
In Houston: Jay DeFeo at the Moody Gallery.
In Fort Worth: Martin Puryear at the Modern.
In Andover, Mass.: Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury at the Addison Gallery.
In Daytona Beach: Great Masters of Cuban Art 1800-1958 at the Museum of Arts and Sciences.
In St. Louis: Dan Flavin at the Pulitzer Foundation.
In L.A.: Geoff McFetridge at Redcat.
In Seattle: Drew Friedman signing books this Thursday at Fantagraphics.
In Genoa: José Parla at Il Trifoglio Nero, opens Saturday.
In Paris: Goya’s engravings at the Petit Palais, through June 8^th.
In Montreal: Leon Reid (aka Darius Jones) presents his new book, The Adventures of Darius and Downey, at Concordia University, this Thursday at 6pm.

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The Digest. 03.25.08.

By c-monster on March 25, 2008 in C-Monster, Sculpture and The Digest. 1 Comment

Glass Skateboard by Dan Carbone at Mark’s Garage in Honolulu. Photo by San Suzie.

U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000. See a mosaic of the war dead. (The latter via PDNPulse.) More here.
Today’s gold star for the use of a graphic (and somewhat incomprehensible) metaphor in a quote: A NY Mag profile about bankrupt gallerist Larry Salander: “He doesn’t see art as a used Tampax moving across a bare wall.”
We would like to welcome our newest (cult) member here at C-Monster.net: Yvonne Connasse, our brand new Paris bureau chieftess, who informs us that Cecille B. DeMille’s Los Feliz Estate is on the market (a building for which she’d die a million petit morts), and that Time Out London is now publishing comics. Mon dieu!
In related news: Three writers try comics: Joss Whedon, Jodi Picoult and Percy Carey.
Takashi Murakami on Louis Vuitton: “When I started with them, I totally didn’t know. ‘What is a Louis Vuitton?’ Now I understand: They make large, very expensive bags.” Um, thanks for clearing that up.
Photo Essay: Armory Show preview.
Disarmory.
Pulse London and Photo London cancel their fairs.
Make L.A. MoCA bigger, says Tyler Green in the L.A. Times.
Why Alaska museum directors are so damn cool: they dog mush in their spare time. I’d like to see Philippe de Montebello do that.
Barnes Collection neighbors don’t want to see it go. (Via AJ.) More here, here and here.
The Guggenheim Guadalajara franchise: Still alive?
Photo Essay: Unlikely places where various innovators had their Eureka moments.
Tony Oursler: Projecting skulls on Pohutukawa trees in New Zealand. (Via SuperTouch.)
Zombie Strippers. (Via io9.)
In related news: To all the makers of maxi pads…
Cool!
Hi Fructose has a killer new website, which features pics from Swoon’s new S.F. show.
Graff of the Day: Fafi in Melbourne. More here.
HDR pics of graffiti. (Via Coudal.)
Video: Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen on Art:21.
L.A. has a new arts mag called Fabrik.
Attack of the super-tall buildings. (Dear Neighborhood Preservationists: Wring your hands all you want about these behemoths, but it’s tall buildings or suburban sprawl. Take your pick.) (Via AJ.)
It’s gonna be a bumpy one: Architect billings are way down in ’08.
Gehry to install a glass pavilion in London’s Hyde Park this summer.
The surrealist object generator.
Artist-designed wallpaper (Via NotCot). More here.
My friend Gareth has pointed me to a site called VoiceThread, where you can post an image and then record yourself talking about it. Now get blabbing everyone! I want to see those art theory classes put to good use…
The Lego phone.
Your moment of David Sedaris delivering a pizza. (Via Coudal.)

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Photos: Skewville on the road.

By c-monster on March 24, 2008 in C-Monster, Sculpture and Street Art. 1 Comment

Skewville hits the slopes outside of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Ad Deville, one half of the intrepid street art duo Skewville recently hit the road for some truly astonishing sneaker tossing in Utah, Michigan and NY’s Hamptons. In addition to the travels, there’s some rumbling that Deville’s defunct Orchard Street Art Gallery, once a hub of all things underground on New York’s Lower East Side, will be reborn under a new guise somewhere in Brooklyn. Stay tuned.

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The Digest. 03.24.08.

By c-monster on March 24, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Photography and The Digest. 3 Comments

Ramones Fan Club, Madrid. Photo by Royal Antidote.

R.I.P. Cachao, Cuban bass virtuoso. For goose bumps, click here. (If you follow only one link today, this should be it.)
The NYT Magazine’s Art Issue: To sum it up, it’s less about art than various art industry VIPs, including benefactor Miuccia Prada, and, my favorite: Houston-based Latin American arts curator Mari Carmen Ramírez. (Go, Latinas with big hair!) Also, it appears that NYC’s art handlers are suffering from severe melanin shortages. I will soon start a fund drive to help them. The poor dears…
Lookin’ Good for Jesus: Get Tight With Christ. (Thanks, TT.)
In related news: A gallery of Last Supper remixes.
Gaugin: “The Jeff Koons of his day.” Plus: a neat-o graphic of Arii Matamoe.
From the Department of Premature Ejaculation: The WSJ reports that collectors are betting that Cuba will be the next hot art hub.
Casting call: Artists wanted for The Great Art Race, an artist reality show. Must be hot.
Wine labels for the non-oenophile. (Via ackackack.)
Whitney Biennial Review of the Day #1, courtesy of Peter Schjeldahl: “If it were a sound, it would be the muttering of a cast awaiting the inexplicably delayed rise of a curtain.”
Whitney Biennial Review of the Day #2, courtesy of Kenneth Baker: “Critics go to the Biennial hoping that its curators, with the luxury and onus of making innumerable studio visits that few journalists can schedule, will have made some startling discoveries. But one’s list of memorable things in a Biennial never gets very long.”
Whitney Biennial Coverage of the Day: Co-Curator Henrietta Huldisch left tongue-tied when asked to explain the difference between the Neighborhood Public Radio piece at the Biennial, and plain old pirate radio.
A profile of Miami MoCA’s Bonnie Clearwater.
Bloomberg reports that Brooklyn is hot, hot, hot. Which assures that it will soon be not, not, not.
Iraqi painter Karim Alwali.
Research director at Baghdad Museum describes what it was like to see the looting: “Something that bleeded my heart immediately.”
Get ready for Armory Mindfuck: “This Whitney Biennial in particular is a very striking show, but it’s also very limited. They have 81 artists, whereas we have 2,000.” See the racing schedule. (Also, I just have to ask: WHYYYY?)
Call for submissions: The Deitch Art Parade 2008.
Even Autocratic Regimes Run Late: China’s National Museum expansion begins a year behind deadline.
Photo Essay: MoMA’s Color Chart.
Aqua Colbert.
Graff of the Day: Dets, Ghost and Ewok.
The Ones We Love. (Via Fecal Face.)
The art of Kuntjil Cooper and Tjayanka Woods, with some incisive comments about whitefella drinking habits.
Hacking the Beijing Olympics logo.
Don’t forget to vote for the hot Chilean on Dancing with the Stars.
New book: Renzo Piano Museums.
In related news: There’s a downloadable White Paper called The Museum Brand Footprint: The Role of Architecture in Defining a Museum’s Image. (Via Daily Dose.)
Architecture videos on YouTube, as compiled by architecture.MNP.
Coverage of the undulating Aqua tower by Jeanne Gang currently under construction in Chicago (includes video and photos).
The Koolhaas House and the housekeeper who takes care of it all.
Orquideorama by Plan B Arquitectos, in Medellín. (Via NotCot.)
3555 Hayden by Eric Owen Moss Architects, in Culver City.
Sunset on Mars. (Via ackackack. Thanks for the shout-out, Judson!)
The full list of writers scheduled to appear at the L.A. Times bookfest late next month. (Via Elegant Variation.)
Knitted internal organs.
A Day Late: Your moment of Easter Bunnies.

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Nature break.

By c-monster on March 22, 2008 in C-Monster, Nature Break and Photography. Closed

Killing me softly with his song: Quebecois bullfrog gets down. (Photo by C-M.)

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Calendar. 03.21.08.

By c-monster on March 21, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Sculpture. Closed

Captain Kirk (Beaming In) 1 by Devorah Sperber. (Image courtesy of Caren Golden Fine Art.)

In NYC: Devorah Sperber in Mirror Image at Caren Golden Fine Art. (Also, see her Andy Warhol soup can sculpture at the Jewish Museum.)
In NYC: Brian Jungen at Casey Kaplan, opens tonight.
In NYC: Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner.
In NYC: Jordan Eagles at Merge Gallery, through May 3^rd.
In NYC: Matt Leines at Clementine.
In NYC: Martin Basher, Jane Benson and Ben Grasso in Supernatural at Thierry Goldberg.
In Jersey City: Sprawl at the Jersey City Museum.
In Washington, D.C.: El Anatsui at the National Museum of African Art.
In Chicago: James Bishop at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In Philly: Dennis Beach at Schmidt Dean, through April 19^th.
In Dallas: David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary. (Via MAN.)
In Seattle: Roman art at SAM.
In S.F.: Swoon and Monica Caniloa in Feral at the Luggage Store, opening tonight. See photos of the installation.
In L.A.: Anything Could Happen at the Carmichael Gallery, opening tomorrow.
In L.A.: Victor Cartagena in The Invisible Nation at Galería de la Raza. (Via aqui-ali.)

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Monthly Archive for March, 2008

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The Digest. 03.27.08.

Photos: Lady Pink & Aiko at Ad Hoc Art in NYC.

The Digest. 03.26.08.

Photos: Korin Faught at Corey Helford in L.A.

Calendar. 03.25.08.

The Digest. 03.25.08.

Photos: Skewville on the road.

The Digest. 03.24.08.

Nature break.

Calendar. 03.21.08.

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