Monthly Archive for March, 2008

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The Digest. 03.21.08.

By c-monster on March 21, 2008 in Art, C-Monster and Painting. 1 Comment

Mona Lisa. Photo by losermike.

Sculptural stairmaster.
Is Frank Gehry’s Atlantic Yards project, like, totally over?
Kanye West not sure if he likes the Kevlar observation deck that’s planned for the Eiffel Tower’s 120^th Anniversary.
It’s Art Fair season in NYC! Bust out those maps, courtesy of the able cartographers at Art Fag City.
“Can you get more vulgar than Richard Prince?”
So totally freaky: Homer Simpson un-tooned. (Via NotCot.)
Decision 2008—Art Museum Edition: The Carter in Fort Worth is letting people vote on their favorite piece in the collection. (See the collection’s highlights here.)
In related news: The Scottsdale Museum of Art is having a competition to redesign strip malls. (Via Off Center.)
A round-up of contemporary art in California.
It’s not just museums trafficking in stolen antiquities. It’s rich people with weekend houses, too. (Via AJ.)
Mortgage crisis hits cultural institutions.
A nice round-up of work by the Billboard Liberation Front.
Hedge funds for the art industry: Art funds. Kinda makes ya gag, don’t it?
Chinese photography in Denver: hot, hot, hot.
Panda-inspired fashion.
Speaking of our ursine friends: the Art of Bears.
Teutonic Sci-Fi.
Only in the dead tree edition: Kara Walker and Louise Bourgeois in Flaunt. (Now there’s a pair that would make for interesting small talk at the company picnic.)
Kiki Smith wallpaper.
Permanent vacation. (Via AFC.)
Beating Heart by Billy Chasen. (Via NotCot.)
Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians. (Via World’s Best Ever.)
Street artist Skullphone hacked into an L.A. digital billboard for a guerilla skull takeover.
Video: Revs in Bomb It.
Graff of the Day: Scott in Cardiff.
From the Department of Fuck Yeah! The Iron Maiden airplane.
While I was on the phone with Yahoo tech support this morning, I read the most astonishing piece by Paul Salopek in the latest issue of National Geographic about human survival in the Sahel, that fringe area in Africa where the Sahara meets vegetation. Made me realise I should never ever feel sorry for myself over silly things, like blogs…
And, pleasepleaseplease, don’t forget to check out C-Monster on Time.com.
Your moment of beaver. (Thank you, once again, Antonio.)

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C-Monster goes to the art shrink @ Time.com.

By c-monster on March 21, 2008 in Announcements, Art, C-Monster and Performance art. 4 Comments

Baby gets down with Time magazine founder Hank Luce. (Photo by Telstar Logistics. See it large.)

In an episode that should have Henry Luce spinning in his grave, Looking Around Jedi Master Richard Lacayo invited me to do a guest post on Time.com about my “therapy” appointment with artist Bert Rodriguez at the Whitney Biennial.

Read all about it.

Then, if you feel that strongly about it, come back and click through to Looking Around again – just to show all those patrician punks at Time Inc. that C-Monster is totally killing it.

xox, C-Mon.

And we’re back…

By c-monster on March 21, 2008 in Announcements and C-Monster. 3 Comments

Ceci n’est pas C-Monster: Minute 48 of being on hold.

Due to various technological hiccups, burps and other sorts of electronic gaseousness at Yahoo headquarters, my site has twice been hijacked by some smirky sorority chick offering business solutions. To be clear: the accounting department here at C-Monster.net take domain registration and web hosting bills very seriously and they are always paid promptly and on time. This is purely a Yahoo problem, which they swear up and down, has finally been fixed. Though, naturally, I spent a whole lotta time on the phone before this happened.

Here’s a sample of Yahoo’s hold music, just in case you were wondering.

Anyhow, back to business. There’s lots to do…

xox, C-Mon.

We are experiencing technical difficulties.

By c-monster on March 20, 2008 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed

Photo by net-efekt.

Please hold on tight.

Update: Due to a server hiccup at Yahoo, the site was hijacked by some B.S. page this afternoon. Thankfully, it has all been taken care of and we are now back to monkey business as usual.

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In Miami: Upper East Side Garden’s One Year Anniversary Party.

By c-monster on March 20, 2008 in Events and Miami. Closed

Image courtesy of Upper East Side Garden.

The Upper East Side Garden, Miami’s best cheap and artsy hang, is having their one year anniversary party this Saturday, March 22^nd, 2008, starting at 7pm. Jacin Giordano has created a brand new hazard for the garden’s artist-designed mini-golf (which also includes pieces by Daniel Arsham, Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Hernan Bas). On the musical roster are performances by Perspects, Romulo del Castillo, John Hancock and Otto Schirach, as well as DJ sets by Plot and Nektar. There will even be a miniature horse in attendance. Cover is $10 (and includes beer!)

Get the full details on the Garden’s website.

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The Digest. 03.20.08.

By c-monster on March 20, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Lelo in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Lelo**.

I’m melting.
Graff of the Day: Kid Chalao with Aia and Satakunta in Finland. More here.
New Book: Sure, Why Not, featuring the work of Dave Kinsey.
Rene Gagnon is putting those graffiti cams to good use.
Update: Jonathan Levine thief nabbed.
A gallery of Seattle public art. (Love the Tree Bench.)
Beautiful soap.
The Guardian reports that the trade in Iraqi antiquities is funding insurgents.
Iraqimemorial.org: Propose a memorial to commemorate Iraqi civilians casualties. (Via Eyebeam.)
Not so Inspiring: $200,000 LAPD mural in East L.A. annoys locals with image of a Mexican street vendor with hands held overhead while being interrogated by a cop.
“Black Guy Asks Nation for Change.” (Via ackackack.)
Photo Essay: The art of Chris Johanson.
Breaking News from Art Dubai: Saatchi buys stuffed camel in suitcase.
Fungus Among Us: Antony Gormley exhibit done in by waxcap fungus.
British artist wearing a top hat prevented from entering the U.S. because of past drug use. The Guardian is—gasp—horrified that such a thing could happen and asks: who else might the U.S. be keeping out with these draconian immigration laws? The answer: Lots of Latin Americans.
R.I.P. Photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths.
The Day in Fakes: FBI breaks up international art forgery ring.
Robots + Fine Art=Total Weirdness. (Via ackackack.)
A Q&A with BCAM curator Lynn Zelevansky.
Tate asks for £6 million to save Rubens commissioned by Charles I in Whitehall.
When plushies rock out.
The peace symbol turns 50. (Via ackackack.)
Whip out that checkbook: Louis Kahn’s Esherick House is gonna hit the auction block.
Preliminary sketches of the new Berkeley Art Museum by Toyo Ito.
Hanging stairs. (Via NotCot.)
New book: Between Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of John Lautner.
Islamabad, the next Dubai?
Huge Patagonian glacier may be gone by the end of the century.
A profile of V.S. Naipaul.
Your moment of stick figures.

What I’m reading.

By c-monster on March 19, 2008 in Books, C-Monster, literature and What I'm Reading. 4 Comments

The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd.

P. 67: “Bliss is putting a lit match to every fart of Art Dogma this gassy century has seen fit to squeak out.”

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Calendar. 03.19.08.

By c-monster on March 19, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Graffiti. Closed

Lady Pink at Marc Ecko’s Getting Up Block Party in 2005. Photo by C-M.

In NYC: Pink & Aiko: Brick Ladies at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn, opening this Friday. (Okay, how interesting is it that there’s no mention of Faile in Aiko’s bio?)
In NYC: Geneviève Castrée at Adam Baumgold, opens tomorrow.
In NYC: Norma Markley at the Y Gallery in Jackson Heights, opening Friday.
In NYC: Environmental Performance Actions at Exit Art.
In Houston: Vivid Vernacular: William Christenberry, William Eggleston and Walker Evans at the Menil Collection.
In Oakland: Enrique Chagoya, in Borderlandia, at the UC Berkeley Art Museum.
In L.A.: California Video at the Getty. The museum has a selection of videos on their site. (Via Winkleman.)
In L.A.: A screening of The Cool School at MoCA, this Thursday at 7pm.
In L.A.: Bitter Finals at Angstrom Gallery, through April 5^th.
In London: Coming of Age: American Art 1850s-1950s at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
In Dubai: Art Dubai at Madinat Jumeirah Dubai, opening today.
In Wyandotte, Mich.: Shades of Green: Art Rescued, Recovered, Reworked, Repurposed at the River’s Edge Gallery.

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The Digest. 03.19.08.

By c-monster on March 19, 2008 in C-Monster, Drawing and The Digest. Closed

Fuck Art: Let’s be Hedge Fund Managers by Marc Johns. See the full set of his Post-It note drawings, as well as his website.

It is the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In honor of this profoundly sad moment: Four photo essays by Magnum photographers about war. (The commentary on the one by Thomas Dworzak is especially sublime.)
In related news: Iraq’s National Museum will not reopen.
Art Review Lead of the Day: “You know that embarrassed feeling you get at dinner parties when one of the guests is making a complete prat of themselves, and everybody knows it but them, and the humane thing to do would be to get them to stop, but you are not your brother’s keeper and, besides, they probably wouldn’t listen to you anyway? That’s the feeling I had going around the Barbican’s excruciating attempt to create a Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art. What a cringe-making display of creative curatorship.”
How to create your own font.
Thinking about the Milky Way.
Graff of the Day: Gualicho in Buenos Aires.
JR goes big in Brussels.
A round-up (heh heh, get it?) of spherical architecture. (Richard: You forgot this one.)
Bad Banking News is Good News for the NYC Skyline: The Bear Stearns collapse means JP Morgan won’t be able to erect fugly headquarters.
Trippy stairs.
New Book: Pentagram Papers 37: Forgotten Architects, chronicling the work of German Jewish architects and designers who worked in 1930s Germany.
Recurso’s low-impact environmental housing in Mexico City.
Beer can butterflies.
Whitney Museum to get beaucoup dinero from its chairman, Leonard Lauder.
Madrid’s Caixaforum debuts with paintings from the Uffizi.
Public Service Announcement.
Photos from CA Boom V, a West Coast design show, which includes a shot of $1000 Shepard Fairey skate decks from Bottega Montana.
Not a rhetorical question: What does Lever House smell like?
The Top 10 Weirdest Rock ‘n Roll Deaths. (Via Coudal.)
Wooden Buddha sets auction record for Japanese art during Christie’s sale.
In related art industrial average news: A pickled fish by Damien Hirst, which hung for years in a fish ‘n chip shop in Leeds, will now be sold at auction. Scrumptious!
W.H. Auden ~~gets~~ goes down.
German graphic design on Flickr. (Via Coudal.)
Novelists strike fails to affect nation whatsoever. (Via The Elegant Variation.)
Your moment of live animal shows.

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Photos: Interim exhibit at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, in NYC.

By c-monster on March 18, 2008 in Animation, Art, C-Monster, Galleries, New York and Sculpture. 1 Comment

A screen made up of LED lights by Jim Campbell, at the Wolkowitz Gallery in NYC. See the video. (Photos by C-M.)

The Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in NYC has an interim show up prior to Armory-palooza that is definitely worth checking out. It’s a gathering of high-tech pieces by their stable of artists, which includes Jim Campbell, Marina Zurkow, Vuk Cosic and Monika Bravo. Expect lots of super-cool visuals designed to inspire the little stoner that lives inside each and every one of us.

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Monthly Archive for March, 2008

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The Digest. 03.21.08.

C-Monster goes to the art shrink @ Time.com.

And we’re back…

We are experiencing technical difficulties.

In Miami: Upper East Side Garden’s One Year Anniversary Party.

The Digest. 03.20.08.

What I’m reading.

Calendar. 03.19.08.

The Digest. 03.19.08.

Photos: Interim exhibit at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, in NYC.

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