Monthly Archive for April, 2008

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The Digest. 04.18.08.

By c-monster on April 18, 2008 in C-Monster and Painting. 4 Comments

Detail: Portrait of Henry Geldzahler by Alice Neel, 1967, at the Met. (Photo by C-M.)

Hot shit on a platter! I’m quoted in the Wall Street Journal on the subject of coma-inducing artspeak. What will I do with all this newfound mainstream credibility? Squander it senselessly, of course. There’s more on impenetrable artspeak at Hrag Vartanian. (Via AJ.)
Art Fag City has a wonderful post titled “This is why people hate contemporary art.” Add this to the list.
When artists abandon their gallerists for even bigger gallerists. In somewhat related news: Winkleman covers what it’s like to have to cut back on artists. (Not easy.)
A gallery of Moleskine art. (Via ackackack.)
The official papal skateboard, for when skaters want a little G.O.D. with their 360. (Via Animal.)
Bush to Environment: Drop Dead.
A research team from Peru says that Yale took more than 40,000 artifacts from Machu Picchu.
George Lois’s Esquire covers go on exhibit at MoMA later this month. (Via PDN.)
Cai Guo-Qiang at both the Guggenheim and the Seattle Art Museum. Which one’s fake and which one’s real?
Photos of Roxy Paine’s conjoined trees at the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth.
Real Art Reality TV, as proposed by The Brooklyn Days.
Anselm Kiefer goes to church in L.A.
Stoner ‘net art video of the day.
Olafur Eliasson at MoMA and P.S. 1. See the photo essay.
R.I.P. Joseph Solman, painter.
Darwin’s papers now online. (Via Eyebeam reBlog.)
Super cool architectural installation by Arne Quinze at Galerie Pierre Bergé in Brussels.
More architecture that never was.
More on NY Mag’s “New York Canon”: AFC reports that it’s missing Nam June Paik. Also still missing: graffiti. What could possibly more New York than graffiti? Why isn’t someone—Blade, Dondi, Lee Quiñones, Zephyr, Futura—on this frackin’ list? Plus: Last night I finally got around to reading the architecture section of this list and all I have to say is: Battery Park City? A bland, lifeless, scourge of a development that wouldn’t be out of place in Orange County, California? C’mon dudes, you’re killing me.
In sort of related news: Build that damn Nouvel tower on 53^rd street already, says NY Mag’s Justin Davidson. It would be an “ecstatic reproach to Manhattan’s regularity.”
Renzo Piano on the subject of using glass in architecture in the days of Code Orange: “From the point of view of [combating] terrorism, my feeling is that glass is better than anything else because of visibility. I believe transparency is safer than opacity.“
The Day in Tornadic Imagery: Project Or by Christopher Klemmt in Milan.
Storm Troopin’. (Via Coudal.)
Graff of the Day: Highraff in São Paulo. Many more here.
Insa in Dublin.
The Guardian discovers light graffiti.
Brooklyn Street Art benefit auction next week.
Japanese shadow pictures.
The Simpsons on the end of print journalism. (Via Art to Go.)
Hot gay statues, courtesy of Paris Bureau Chieftess Yvonne Connasse.
Your moment of fast food heists.

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Calendar. 04.17.08.

By c-monster on April 17, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Sculpture. Closed

Tim Hawkinson’s Uberorgan at the Getty Museum, in L.A., last year. (Photo by Marshall Astor.)

In Auckland: Tim Hawkinson at Gow Langsford Gallery, through May 16^th.
In London: John Currin at Sadie Coles, through May 10^th.
In Berlin: Reimagining Asia at the House of World Cultures, through May 18th.
In L.A.: Howard L. Bingham’s Rumble in the Jungle at M+B.
In L.A.: Stoked Sessions at Grind Art and Print, a fundraiser to take L.A. at-risk youth surfing, skating and snowboarding.
In L.A.: Catherine Opie at Regen.
In NYC: Miki Lee at Lyons Wier Ortt, opens tomorrow.
In NYC: Karin Weiner, Plan B, at ZieherSmith.
In NYC: Gerry Snyder at Claire Oliver, opens today.
In NYC: Humankind, the photographers of VII, at Hasted Hunt, opens today.
In NYC: Lady Pink & Aiko give a talk at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn, this Sunday at 6pm. Immediately following the chat will be a screening of Spraymasters, the doc about the NY graffiti scene of the ‘70s and ‘80s.

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The Digest. 04.17.08.

By c-monster on April 17, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and The Digest. Closed

Bonsai and Two in Sydney. (Photo by baddogwhiskas.)

Condi Must Go.
Guggenheim Bilbao announced that it fired its CFO for allegedly embezzling $800,000. More here and here. El País quotes from Roberto Cearsolo Barrenetxea’s resignation letter, submitted last Friday, in which he reportedly admitted committing the crime, saying: “Since 1998, I have been appropriating various amounts of money…for my benefit, I took a total of €486,979.38…”
A pink structure outside of the Architecture and Design Museum in L.A. is intended to remind viewers of the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
No public art from Boston’s ICA this year.
Tequila goes, like, totally artsy.
Jeremy Deller’s compelling proposal to put a wrecked car from the Iraq War on Trafalgar Sqare’s fourth plinth.
Tracking the world’s oldest photo.
Q&A with Nancy Spero: “I was doomed to be an artist.”
The mobile phone art of Rob Pettit.
New York as it might have been. (Merci, Yvonne!)
A 1908 animation by Emile Cohl.
Catnip eyeballs. (Via ackackack.)
For when you want your coffee architectural: sugar cubes in the shape of cinder blocks.
Garbage architecture by Jan Korbes in the Netherlands. (Via NotCot.)
Windmills outside of Romania’s Village Museum in Bucharest.
A follow-up to BLDGBLOG’s interesting post about city noise: AEG has a noise awareness campaign in various European cities.
Photos from Fetish at Galerie du Passage in Paris.
Bearbricks by Chinese artists. (Via NotCot.)
Mural of the Day: Herakut in L.A.
New book: Tag Town by Martha Cooper.
There is speculation that several art dealers who bought a 20-foot long, multi-panel work by Banksy at auction allegedly want to chop it up into pieces.
New graff wall in Santa Monica.
Latrine graffiti in Afghanistan and Kuwait. (Flip through the page numbers below the photo at top to see the photo essay.) (Via ackackack.)
Shepard Fairey Obama parodies replicate relentlessly.
Vintage Latin American Music of the Day: Puro teatro.
Your moment of Grand Theft Auto, Lego edition.

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Ivory Tower: Rome Prize winners in NYC.

By c-monster on April 16, 2008 in C-Monster, Events, Ivory Tower and New York. Closed

Lucius K. Wilmerding (that’s his name, for reals), President of New York City’s Union Club from 1920 to 1923. (Photo by C-M.)

The American Academy in Rome announced the winners of the 2008 Rome Prize at the Union Club (no denim, no sneakers) last week and C-Monster was there! I was so eager to attend the ceremony, in fact, that I fell flat on my face on Park Avenue just prior to my arrival, irrevocably screwing up my favorite pair of pink, polka-dotted tights and skinning at least two square inches off my left knee. Being the devout reporter I am, I sat through the ceremony nonetheless, which included an interesting lecture about contemporary archaeological practice by Brian Rose. The geek in me was absolutely riveted.

The big part of the evening, however, was the presentation of the nearly three dozen prize winners, along with a cursory description of each of their projects – all delivered in a lilting Italian accent. Bellissimo! Rome Prize fellows, just so you know, get to go hang out in Rome, where they can live, think, research, ponder and write – all on the Academy’s dime. Naturally, most of the winners are working on projects related to Italy-centric topics, with the Tiber River popping up as an especially popular subject. But there were a number of projects that jumped out at us:

Cathy Lang Ho is going to be working on a paper about how new media outlets are challenging print publications in the world of architecture.
Matthew Monteith, a Brooklyn photographer, will be undertaking a project in which he photographs people interacting with art in Rome.
And covering a subject we’re particularly fascinated with here at C-Monster.net: Rosa Lowinger, an L.A. conservator, will be doing a report on the history of art vandalism. Hell yeah!

After the announcements were made, and a somewhat viscous scab of equal parts dried blood and Park Avenue asphalt had formed on my knee, we all retired to the Union Club’s atrium (under the steady gaze of Lucius K. Wilmerding) to air kiss and sip white wine and dip into a platter of crudité…

…with Ranch dressing.

Now, after all the we-love-Italy buildup during the ceremony, the food came as a bit of a disappointment – to say the least. I would have figured that this being the American Academy in Rome, they’d lay out a little mozzarella di bufala or some prosciutto di parma. Instead, we got celery sticks and Hidden Valley. C’mon guys, couldn’t you find someone to whip up a tray of Totino’s pizza rolls? Someone needs to have a sit-down with the folks in catering. As far as these things go, however, the ceremony wasn’t a bad time. Grazie mille for the vino. And next year, please have the Band-Aids waiting when I arrive.

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The Digest. 04.16.08.

By c-monster on April 16, 2008 in C-Monster, Painting and Vidalia. 6 Comments

Soon Just Memories 2 by Jim Harker in Toys! at Gallery 1988 in L.A., through April 25th. (Photo by Vidalia.)

Amazing photo essay: A gallery of Olan Mills family portraits (via WBE). And after you’re done with that, check this out.
New York ComicCon starts tomorrow: Stan Lee will get a legends award. Plus: a story about who owns the characters in comics.
BLDGBLOG has an interesting post about the sounds of cities.
Book painting by Mike Stilkey.
Hot crap on a nugget! James Frey—of I-made-up-most-of-my- memoir-and-got-a-new-one-torn-on-Oprah fame—is part owner of a new NYC gallery.
Old Yosemite slides. (Via Coudal.)
The Daily Show on how U.S. gummint leaders worked out, to the last detail, ~~torture~~ interrogation techniques for high-value targets.
A report on the Glasgow International art show, which will soon likely morph into a biennial.
Art Cologne starts today.
Tate exhibits multi-million dollar painting—The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones—that it could have bought years ago for £1,000.
Photos from Camilo Cruz’s show at the Constant Gallery in L.A.
Photo Essay: The most expensive restoration of stained glass in the U.S., now underway at St. Thomas in NYC.
Sotheby’s stock needs Viagra.
The NYT’s blog The Moment discovers the great big Internets by making the following sweeping declaration: “The Web is not just for pornography anymore.” Thank god they cleared that up or I’d be spending the morning watching free outtakes of Butt Bangers VIII…
The frying pan sculpture at the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio.
Photo Essay: The work of Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, who passed away last week. (Dear Slate Online Producers: Any chance you could get rid of the flashing ads for the purpose of photo essays? The bouncing M&Ms make it damn near impossible to appreciate Glinn’s austere images…)
When commercials imitate cheap horror movies. (The jingle’s catchy though…) (Via NotCot.)
In related news: Bento lunches as album covers.
Graff of the Day: Raisin in Nantes, France.
Graffiti Research Lab in Time.
“The Audacity of Pope.”
Your moment of Pee and Poo.

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Calendar. 04.15.08.

By c-monster on April 15, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Painting. Closed

Dirigible by Timothy Cross at I|M|A in Seattle. (Image courtesy of I|M|A.)

In Seattle: Timothy Cross at Gallery I|M|A, opens Saturday.
In S.F.: Paul Chatem in Runnin’ On Empty at the Shooting Gallery, through May 10^th.
In L.A.: Ryan Kapp at Cerasoli.
In Denver: Gee’s Bend quilts at the Denver Art Museum, through July 2^nd.
In Petoskey, Mich.: The photographs of Bill Eppridge at Crooked Tree, opens Friday.
In College Park: Power to the People: The Influence of Popular Culture on Contemporary Art at the University of Maryland.
In NYC: Tlatelolco: The Quotidian as Extraordinary, a discussion about how a neighborhood community deals with extraordinary events in daily life, at the New Museum, this Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
In NYC: Buff Monster at Giant Robot.
In NYC: Stefan Ruiz gives a lecture about his photography at Aperture at 6:30 p.m. today.
In London: SEEN: Graffiti Loser at Amuti Gallery, opens Friday.
In Amsterdam: Michael DeFeo at Another Space, opens Friday.
In Amsterdam: Martha Cooper: A 50 Year Retrospective at Studio Apart.

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The Digest. 04.15.08.

By c-monster on April 15, 2008 in C-Monster, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Swoon at the Luggage Store in S.F., through April 26th. (Photo by Luna Park.)

A history of the ampersand (via ackackack). In related news: Graffiti taxonomy.
Photo Essay: Chicagoland: Chained by Matt Nighswander. (Via I’m Not Going To…)
Q&A with MoMA’s Glenn Lowry, in which he discusses the impact of a recession: “I wake up anxious every day. We’re subject to a local audience, a national audience and an international audience. An inexpensive dollar is terrific for international tourism, but the U.S.’s restrictive visa policy has an adverse effect. Price increases on fuel means the cost of flying from California goes up. It’s a very delicate moment.” (Via AO.)
A new exhibit at the British Museum provides a survey of Iraqi archaeological splendors at Babylon—and shows how American and coalition troops have wrecked priceless archaeological remains. (Via AJ.)
As Modern Art Notes reported yesterday, the Smithsonian just can’t seem to stay outta trouble: this time it’s the former director of the Latino Center who was busted, for “abusing her expense account, trying to steer a contract to a friend and soliciting free tickets for fashion shows, concerts and music award ceremonies.” And here’s the kicker: when she was asked why she made her hotel reservations at (very) expensive hotels at the last minute, paying full price, she allegedly replied that the center’s Latino constituency “doesn’t operate in the same time frames everyone else is used to—in many Latin cultures, arrangements are made at the last minute.” Way to play into the stereotypes…
Photo Essay: Chicano art at LACMA. Story here.
The Brooklyn Museum is looking for photographers to contribute to Click!, it’s crowd-curated exhibit.
More on the is-Goya’s-El-Coloso-a-Goya? controversy.
Portraits of Artists: Tatiana Wills Heroes and Villains. (Via Right Some Good.)
Artspeak of the Day.
A photo essay about newsroom layoffs. (Thanks, Adrienne!)
It only took the U.S. military two years to determine that an AP photographer they’d incarcerated wasn’t a threat.
When neon goes Dalí.
¡Alarma! The Mexican crime magazine. (Gracias, Vidalia.)
The day in artistic appropriation: Richard Pettibone.
Graff of the Day: Sego in Mexico and Specio in Bordeaux.
Bloodwars Magazine. (Via Remain Awesome.)
The day in light graffiti: Nick Walker will project his works onto famous British landmarks this evening.
Upcoming book: Piece Book: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers by Sacha Jenkins and David Villorente.
House of the Day: The Rustic Reuse Cabin by Paul and Scott Stankey. (Via NotCot.)
Weltstadthaus flagship store by Renzo Piano in Koln.
The work of Ron Radziner. (Via ackackack.)
The architect’s birdfeeder.
In honor of tax day: Your moment of ball busting.

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Photos: Judith Supine at English Kills in NYC.

By c-monster on April 14, 2008 in C-Monster, Collage, Galleries and Street Art. 3 Comments

Taking your temperature: Judith Supine in Dirt Mansion at English Kills in Brooklyn. (All photos by C-M.)

Street art madman Judith Supine opened up his latest show, Dirt Mansion, at English Kills Gallery in Brooklyn over the weekend. Every available surface was covered with Supine’s over-sized collages, many of which went floor-to-ceiling. There was also 3-D installation work, including some trippy looking birdhouses, and one piece which included a small pool of goldfish. (They were delicious!) The show is up until June 8th.

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The Digest. 04.14.08.

By c-monster on April 14, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and The Digest. Closed

Ghost in San Francisco. See his show at BLVD Gallery in Seattle, through May 3rd. (Photo by rdcapasso.)

The destructive tendencies of tipsy socialites with industrial-strength jewelry: LACMA removes Jeff Koons’ Tulips and Charles Ray’s Firetruck from outdoors due to wear and tear on the sculptures. The Koons piece, apparently, was damaged during the opening, when “a bracelet worn by a reveler scratched the piece.”
On the possibility of a biennial in Denver: “I don’t think what the world needs is more biennials,” says the director of the Aspen Art Museum.
For museums: once all about fancy buildings, now all about being green.
From the Department of But-We-Thought-It-Was-A-Masterpiece- When-We-Hung-It: The Prado pulls Goya’s El Coloso because of suspicions that it wasn’t painted by Goya. (Via AJ.)
The Krens-master Cycle, Day 45. Why Guggenheim Vegas failed: the art was recycled. Plus: “…nobody was throwing money at a museum housed in a casino, whose majority shareholder, Sheldon Adelson, is one of the richest men in the world.” (Via AJ.)
The Whitney: First the High Line, now Shanghai?
Emperor Augustus’s home on the Palatine in Rome re-opens to the public.
A bitch to dust: 3-D wallpaper.
NYC’s Flux factory’s final show.
Quizás, Quizás, Quizás played on Korean gayagums. For the purists: the Sara Montiel/Wong Kar Wai edition here.
An interview with Adrees Latif, the photographer who just won the Pulitzer for his dramatic photo of a Japanese journalist being shot during protests in Myanmar.
R.I.P. Magnum photographer Burt Glinn.
The black and white seascapes of Wayne Levin. (Via Coudal.)
VBS is in the process of putting up a compelling 12-part video series about the “floating landfill,” a swirling vortex of currents in the Pacific where all of the world’s garbage ends up. So far, they’ve put up six of their reports: Skip Episodes 1, 2 and 5, which are a lot of throat clearing (like, omg, we’re on a boat and we’re bored), and stick to episodes 3, 4 and 6, which are more focused on the topic at hand. (Via World’s Best.)
Science tattoos. (Via Coudal.)
Photos from Gary Panter’s show at Clementine.
“Horseballs help with socialization.” (Via AFC.)
Graff of the Day: Sqon in Italy.
Video of David Ellis’s Percussive Cockfight.
Shepard Fairey redesigns Penguin classics 1984 and Animal Farm (Via NotCot) and a whole lot of Obama posters. More here.
Chocolateland by Supakitch.
Vanity Fair Green Issue not really green. But is this really surprising? Does cover girl Madonna—who flies private jets and drinks bottled water—really strike anyone as a poster child of low-key consumption? (Via PDN.)
Speaking of green…someone chopped off topiary Ringo’s head in Liverpool. (Via ArtInfo.)
Airport Architecture Design of the Day: Shenzhen International by Massimiliano and Dorian Fuksas. Plus: the New Yorker’s Paul Goldberger on the architecture of airports.
Library of the Day: Villanueva Public Library in Colombia by Miguel Torres, German Ramirez, Alejandro Piñol and Carlos Meza.
Protecting Bertrand Goldberg’s buildings in Chicago.
Edificio Corporativo Vespucio Sur by +arquitectos in Chile.
Photos of Oslo’s brand new opera house. (Via NotCot.)
Freaky kids in food ads.
Your moment of booyakasha.

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Nature break.

By c-monster on April 12, 2008 in C-Monster and Nature Break. Closed

A godwit hunts down lunch on Florida’s Atlantic coast. Click on the image to see it large. (Photo by C-M.)

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Monthly Archive for April, 2008

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The Digest. 04.18.08.

Calendar. 04.17.08.

The Digest. 04.17.08.

Ivory Tower: Rome Prize winners in NYC.

The Digest. 04.16.08.

Calendar. 04.15.08.

The Digest. 04.15.08.

Photos: Judith Supine at English Kills in NYC.

The Digest. 04.14.08.

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