Monthly Archive for April, 2008

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Calendar. 04.24.08.

By c-monster on April 24, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Street Art. 2 Comments

Detail of a piece by Lister in NYC, December 2006. (Photo by Elisha Cook Jr.)

In L.A.: Anthony Lister at New Image. See an interview here.
In San Francisco: Kottie Paloma and the Daily Strangers at Fecal Face Dot Gallery.
In Rochester, Minn.: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle at the Rochester Art Center.
In Boston: Antonio López García at the MFA.
In Chicago & NYC: Screenings of Bomb It, starting tomorrow.
In NYC: Mark Andreas at Leo Kestin, through April 27^th.
In NYC: Phyllis Rosser at Ceres, artist reception this Friday.
In NYC: Closing (forever) party at Flux Factory, in Queens, this Saturday at 8 p.m.
In London: Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture at Somerset House.
In London: Richard Rodgers at the Design Museum.
In Paris: La Figuration Narrative: Paris 1960-1972 at the Grand Palais.

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The Digest. 04.24.08.

By c-monster on April 24, 2008 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. Closed

Devotion is a thing that demands motives, painting by Timothy Buckwalter.

I’ve been having some server problems with Yahoo webhosting, so if things look funny or are loading awful slow, please be patient. I’m trying to get it resolved. xox, C.

Juan Sánchez Cotán, in one and two parts. Interesting fact: There may be only seven of his paintings in existence, because “Cotán entered the Carthusian order and pretty much stopped painting still-lifes.”
Hong Kong publisher rips off blogger’s content for a book.
Graff of the Day: Claudio and Ethos in São Paulo.
Dan Witz has a new set of trompe l’oeil sticks up in Brooklyn: Ugly New Buildings 2008. (Thanks for the link, Luna Park!)
An interview with the directors of Bomb It.
A Skewville gallery grows in Brooklyn.
A cryptic Q&A with the Date Farmers.
Murakami on his sci-fi inspirations: “I loved Galaxy Express 999. When I saw the scene depicting Planet Maetel’s collapse, I was moved from the bottom of my heart, and made the decision to work in the field of anime. Also, the amount of influence that the appearance of Star Wars exerted on my generation is tremendous. I felt sympathetic to the revolution that George Lucas started, and my work has become a re-enactment of that sort of revolution in the art scene.”
In a related story: Drunk Vader goes postal on Jedi fanboy. (Thanks, Alex.)
Photos from the opening of the Joshua Liner Gallery, which featured works by Futura, Crash One, Ron English and others.
The art vases of John Michael Gill.
Is death art? Is art death? Good question.
Photo Essay: The paintings of Maria Lassnig.
Art Musical Chairs: Denver Museum picks up a work by Thomas Eakins from the Philadelphia Museum.
In Seattle, the Henry tackles war.
Chicago gets ready for art fair nomads who will temporarily set up an expensive encampment with shiny wares for sale.
NYC art fair reports are in.
Make It Moody: Tony Blair’s official portrait unveiled.
Attention art lemmings: Saatchi is buying Middle Eastern.
Japanese packaging, including matches with faces on them. (Via NotCot.)
The photographs of Tod Papageorge.
A gallery of pale, nekkid people at the Galería Clave in Murcia.
The day in honeycomb-inspired architecture: Paseo Altamirano in Valparaíso, Chile.
Renzo Piano set to blandify Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel with a visitor’s center.
Unbuilt Chicago skyscraper designed by Calatrava may be in financial trouble.
Trippy house on the Mexican coast, designed by Cadaval & Sola-Morales. Kinda looks like a remix of Rudolph Schindler’s Lovell house in Balboa, Calif.
Make It Brutal: Mammoth Soviet buildings of the ‘70s and ’80s.
Yoko Ono trying to block release of footage of John Lennon smoking pot and saying he wanted to spike Nixon’s tea with acid.
Your moment of cat butt.

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Getting up close and personal with Doris Salcedo’s crack. I mean ‘Shibboleth.’

By c-monster on April 23, 2008 in C-Monster, Museums, Photography and Sublime ridiculosity. Closed

It woulda been even better if he’d put his head in it. Just think of the headline possibilities. (Photo by moufle.)

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The Digest. 04.23.08.

By c-monster on April 23, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and The Digest. 3 Comments

Trinity Church in Asunción, Paraguay. Courtesy of the Notre Dame architecture library, where they have been dutifully putting scans all of their vintage architecture shots on Flickr.

In the Toilet: Bush’s disapproval ratings the highest of any President in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
Call her Hill-rod.
The art of Chris Scarborough.
Modern Art Notes offers a guide on how to keep museum blogs interesting.
Art to Go and Hrag Vartanian not wild about Eric Gibson’s take on coma-inducing artspeak in the WSJ.
Bitchcraft, and other magazines we wish still existed so that we could write for them. (Thanks, Yvonne!)
Also from Yvonne: Shorpy, the 100-Year-Old Photo Blog. Does General Hugh Brady look like a toker or what? Here’s one of Yvonne’s favorites: Hiawatha Noir, 1943.
Vintage hip-hop photos from 1984. (Via ackackack.)
The photography of Amy Stein.
Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson! Here’s one of my favorites.
Arts organizations beginning to feel the pain of the recession.
The Rijksmuseum presents two restored panels by Piero di Cosimo. (Not sure what the deal is with the gesticulating dude in the photo.)
Pantone’s Color of the Year: Blue Iris. (Via Eyebeam reBlog.)
Pain as art.
Japanese construction fences used to display art. (Via NotCot.)
Photos of work by Martin and Muñoz.
Art piñatas.
This news should inspire some action on global warming.
The converted sea forts of Great Britain. (Via Marshall Astor.)
John Silber, author of a book about how contemporary architecture sucks, oversaw the construction of fugly-ass buildings in Boston, reports Bloomberg.
Trippy Mondrian-like architecture of the Day: Qubic Student Housing by hvdn architecture in Amsterdam.
Book: D Book, a new tome dealing with density issues in urban architectural design.
Richard Neutra’s Kauffman House in Palm Springs will go up for auction on May 13^th.
A trip to visit the 12^th century minaret at Jam in Afghanistan.
Photos from the upcoming Philips De Pury auction, featuring work by Kaws, Nara, Murakami and Barry McGee.
Graff of the Day: Grito and Ayrz in Barcelona.
Photos from Ghost’s show at BLVD Gallery.
Leon Reid, aka Darius Jones, aka Verbs, has signed copies of The Adventures of Darius & Downey available on his website.
Kinda looks like a Murakami painting: A map showing where news breaks in the U.S. (Via Coudal.)
Your moment of P.O.’d dancing techno Vikings.

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Calendar. 04.22.08.

By c-monster on April 22, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Sculpture. Closed

Bonsai, by Jared Pankin. (Image courtesy of Carl Berg Gallery.)

In L.A.: Jared Pankin, Bonsai, at Carl Berg, through May 17^th.
In L.A.: Macha Suzuki and Christine Nguyen at Sam Lee.
In Chicago: The NEXT Art Fair begins this Thursday.
In Chicago: Black Is, Black Ain’t at the Renaissance Society.
In Houston: Apertura Colombia at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art.
In Miami: Wifredo Lam at MAM.
In Washington, D.C.: Blue at the Textile Museum.
In Williams, Mass.: The Miss Rockaway Armada at Mass MoCA, through March 1^st, 2009.
In Boston: El Greco to Velázquez at the MFA.
In NYC: Tamara Kostianovsky, Actus Reus, at Black & White Gallery, through May 24^th.
In NYC: Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum
In London: The James Bond exhibit at the Imperial War Museum.
In Florence: China China China!!! Chinese contemporary art beyond the global market at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi.

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The Digest. 04.22.08.

By c-monster on April 22, 2008 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. 4 Comments

Rochambeau, by Ryan McLennan in From Fur to Bone at Kinsey/Desforges, through May 10th. (Photo by Vidalia.)

All of those important-looking and allegedly objective military analysts you see on cable news? Puppets of the Pentagon.
Bacteria artist Steve Kurtz cleared of all charges. (Via Art to Go.)
Poo as art, Seattle edition. (See #9.)
In related news: Yale art school dean wants to ban a work by a student in which she claims to have induced miscarriages. Catching a whiff of the free publicity, I imagine that some enterprising ~~shark~~ art dealer will soon be representing her.
Koons sculptures to decorate the Met’s roof. Let’s hope that no socialites with sharp bracelets will be traveling anywhere in the vicinity of these fine works. More here.
Virtual art in London tube stations.
New Book: The Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks. (Via Coudal.)
Attendance slips at Art Cologne.
Can you tell an art fair attendee from a ComicCon attendee? Take AFC’s handy quiz and find out!
Paris Bureau Chieftess Yvonne Conasse has been web surfing her little heart out ever since her bar privileges at the Ritz were suspended and she sent us enough links yesterday to produce a veritable mini digest:

First and foremost, she forwards us this video of a Cadbury Crème Egg Crusher, a piece that will surely give Tim Hawkinson a run for his money.
Second, she sends over a couple of ComicCon reports that includes a story about how nobody seems to be reading Inconegro, a critically-acclaimed comic about an African-American journalist, and an item on Power Girl, who will be getting her own comic book series, co-starring her boobs.
Third, she discovered a great posting on subway advertising mash-ups.
And, last, but not least, she also forwarded us this link, about the controversy unleashed by a high school student’s art project in Independence, Missouri. Missouri High School Student: 1. Yale Art School: 0.

From the Department of WTF??? L.A. trying to regulate taco trucks out of business.
Shipping containers as playground equipment.
The Day in Museo Blog Artspeak, courtesy of SFMOMA.
Charlie Rose, as if produced by Samuel Beckett. (Via VSL.)
Video about Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar’s I Want You to Want Me from the Design & the Elastic Mind show at MoMA. (Via Eyebeam.)
Kinda looks like a strip mine to me: Where BCAM was born.
Coming to London’s V&A this fall: An exhibit about Cold War-era design.
Pope-ylactics.
The Guardian on the new Oslo Opera House by Snøhetta: “Even if opera is not your thing, and you have little interest in the finer points of auditorium acoustics, this is an unmissable building, and immense fun to engage with.”
Abandoned hotels in the Egyptian Sinai.
Portable cardboard walls.
Graff of the Day: Kurz in Italy.
Killer Photo Set: The Georgetown graffiti wall in Seattle.
Greetings from the Occupation, Wish You Were Here!
Nick Walker sells big at Black Cat in London.
New Book & Video: We Come At Night.
Your moment of V.D., courtesy of Mlle. Conasse.

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What I’m reading.

By c-monster on April 21, 2008 in Books, C-Monster and What I'm Reading. 2 Comments

Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer, a book about how some artists and writers unknowingly anticipated the biggest discoveries in the field of neuroscience.

P. 119:

A Cezanne painting admits that the landscape is made of negative space, and that the bowl of fruit is a collection of brushtrokes. Everything has been bent to fit the canvas. Three dimensions have been flatted into two, light has been exchanged for paint, the whole scene has been knowingly composed. Art, Cezanne reminds us, is surrounded by artifice.

The shocking fact is that sight is like art. What we see is not real. It has been bent to fit our canvas, which is the brain. When we open our eyes, we enter into an illusory world, a scene broken apart by the retina and re-created by the cortex. Just as a painter interprets a picture, we interpret our sensations. But no matter how precise our neuronal maps become, they will never solve the question of what we actually see, for sight is a private phenomenon. The visual experience transcends the pixels of the retina and the fragmentary lines of the visual cortex.

It is art, and not science that is the means by which we express what we see on the inside. The painting, in this respect is closest to reality. It is what gets us nearest to experience. When we stare at Cezanne’s apples, we are inside his head.

Lehrer also has a blog called The Frontal Cortex.

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The Digest. 04.21.08.

By c-monster on April 21, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and The Digest. 1 Comment

Los de la Efe, in Mexico. Photo by losdelaefe.

The world’s creepiest playgrounds. (Via VSL.)
Graff of the Day: Zonenkinder and Care in Germany.
Major Mural of the Day: KMDG Crew in Amsterdam.
Totally weird interview with Barry McGee.
Film geek graffiti. (Via ackackack.)
Richard Rodgers picks his seven favorite buildings from among his designs.
A video about Gropius and the Bauhaus. (Which keeps getting stuck at Minute 12, but you’ll nonetheless enjoy some fine footage of Gropius smoking a cigar, among other things…)
In NYC: Obfuscating the true nature of crap-ass mega-development projects with bogus renderings in order to get them approved.
Koolhaas to expand Prada Foundation building in Milan.
Interior of the National Arts Center in Tokyo by Kisho Kurokawa.
The Day in Religious Architecture: Church of Santa Monica by Vicens + Ramos in Madrid.
Japanese Vogue to use Hello Kitty as a model for John Galliano designs.
Photo Essay: Cowboys and Tintype.
“Boring postcards.” (Via Coudal.)
Germaine Greer at the Guardian describes newly discovered Picasso as “a thoroughly undistinguished piece of work.”
Now get back to your poker tables: The last day at Guggenheim Vegas.
The Copy Conundrum: When is a copy a copy and when is it not a copy? Cai Guo-Qiang Inopportune: Stage One edition. Original post in The Slog. Follow ups in the Guardian and the Seattle P-I.
Happenings are happening in L.A.
Spindle, a 1989 sculpture of seven cars impaled on a metal pole, by Dustin Shuler, will likely be removed from a Berwyn, Ill. parking lot to make way for a Walgreen’s. (Via NotCot.)
Yale student who says she induced miscarriages for her art not for reals, says Yale spokesperson. “The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.” Um, okay. Either way, it’s grody.
The Day in Art Fakery: Chinese and German editions.
Vintage Tango: La Cumparsita.
In this corner…Schjeldahl on Eliasson: “If leadership in public-spirited art extravaganzas were a political office—and it sometimes feels as if it were—he’d have my vote.”
And in this corner…Finch on Eliasson: “So complete is his fakery, that he does not even supply the illusion of magic, but a kind of anti-magic which deceives the lemmings of the New York art world into denying their own senses and giving over big chunks of the city to his mediocre and mendacious tunnel vision.”
Plushie chairs.
How ABC News finds questioners for the debates. (Via ackackack.)
Retro beauty ads. This one’s pretty spooky. And this one looks inspired by Charlton Heston.
It’s Earth Day: Buy more shit. (Via Murketing.)
1970s Brazilian sexploitation film posters.
Your moment of getting your groove on, Storm Trooper edition.

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Mini Digest. Totally righteous 4:20 Edition.

By c-monster on April 20, 2008 in C-Monster, Sublime ridiculosity and The Digest. Closed

Keep on Grass by Skewville. (Photo by 917press.)

The meaning of 4:20 revealed.
Stoner rock.
“All white people talk about when they get high, is other times that they got high. I could listen to that shit all night.”
Champagne and reefer.
Come on down! That odd point where 4:20 and The Price is Right intersect.
“Does Howdy Doody have wooden balls?“
JDate for tokers.
Reefer Madness.
Martha Stewart learns about bong water.
Great moments in bong history, including the infamous Tootie-buys-a-bong episode of The Facts of Life.
It’s all in the dismount.
Rachel Ray for the ganja set: StonerChef.com.
How to make pipes out of everyday objects, including a potato.
Pot art.
Cop + Tray Full of Pot Brownies=Time is going by really, really, really slow.
Half Baked. In Italian.
Have you ever met that funny reefer man?
The First 360.
He can take you higher.
Your moment of stoner architecture.

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Contra: The Video Game.

By c-monster on April 19, 2008 in C-Monster, Sublime ridiculosity and Video. Closed

When bad foreign policy makes for arcade fun.

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Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Page 2 of 5

Calendar. 04.24.08.

The Digest. 04.24.08.

Getting up close and personal with Doris Salcedo’s crack. I mean ‘Shibboleth.’

The Digest. 04.23.08.

Calendar. 04.22.08.

The Digest. 04.22.08.

What I’m reading.

The Digest. 04.21.08.

Mini Digest. Totally righteous 4:20 Edition.

Contra: The Video Game.

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