June « 2008 « C-MONSTER.net

Reporting live, from Lincoln Heights: Con las homegirls, chola prom edition.

Is Google making us stupid? (Via Art21.)
The paintings of Elsie Kagan. More here.
Keeping the donors placated: Exhibit shut down at Chicago’s Jewish Museum for being “anti-Israel.” (Via MAN.)
Is a copy of a Guggenheim copy still a Guggenheim?
For those who really really care: The full 23-page contract (in French) between the Louvre and the government of Abu Dhabi. (Via Culture Grrl.) Get the summary here.
The Cleveland Museum of Art reopens. (Via MAN.)
Art patronage: Now the province of the über young.
Man charged with plotting to sell a stolen Monet.
Getting Geometric: Photos of the Esther Stocker exhibit at Museum 52 in London.
A gallery of creepy paintings. Related: the grotesque in art. (Watch the video on the latter, which is amazingly twisted, in a good way.)
UCLA Japan scholar Adrian Favell puts Murakami into context. (Via Marshall Astor.)
Call for entries: Artists that live in Queens.
Art sentence of the day… The Guardian on Richard Prince at the Serpentine: “So, it’s sexist. But is it interesting? Gosh, no.” And: “It resists long looking; sometimes, it resists looking at all.”
The sculptures of Ryan Johnson.
Graff of the Day: Revok, Zesor and Augor in L.A.
Frank Gehry to receive lifetime achievement award at Venice Biennale.
World Trade Center rebuild won’t be finished until the middle of the next decade. And it’s gonna cost $3 billion more than planned. (Via The Skyline.)
A scaled replica of a cell in Guantanamo Bay is traveling the country. (Via architecture.mnp.)
Modern treehouses.
Your moment of fox on a trampoline.

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Momo and Melissa Brown at Gallery Espeis in Brooklyn. (Photo by Luna Park.)

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A monument to colon cleansing. We feel fresher already.
The results are in for the Brooklyn Museum’s crowd-curated exhibit, Click!
A lawsuit over L.A. MoCA’s Murakami Louis Vuitton bags.
Warhol not a Warhol, says a lawsuit filed in a state court in Brooklyn.
Jordan returns 2,500 looted artifacts to Iraq. (Via A.J.)
Silent World: The work of Michael Kenna. (Via Monoscope.)
Those are some expensive-ass water lilies: Monet painting sells for $80.5 million at auction. More here. In related news: It’s the über-rich that are keeping the art market afloat.
Philippe Starck to get his own reality show. Thought: Someone should do a reality show where museum types compete to become director of the Met (or any of the other institutions that currently don’t have directors). Contests could include: how much money they can raise at a one-hour wine-and-cheese cocktail party, best European accent, and something that involves plucking all the change out of the fountain at the Temple of Dendur. Whoever has the most damp pennies wins!!
Photo Essay: Unusual materials in sculpture.
An Olympics parallel: Mexico 1968 versus Beijing 2008.
Midwest flood updates in one, two and three parts.
The town of Kenilworth, Ill., site of homes by Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Burnham and George Maher, is seeking to have the entire town placed on the National Register of Historic Places, to the dismay of some home owners.
Paul Goldberger on architectural whose-is-bigger on Colbert.
Newly-minted media mogul Sam Zell may sell Chicago’s historic Tribune Tower, as well as the 1930s Art Moderne building that houses the L.A. Times.
Yours truly writin’ on the giganto LED wall in Beijing. Though who knows if anyone will be able to see it through the smog.
Rotating buildings in Dubai? No doubt a bitch to maintain.
Looks like a big, orange paper lamp (in a cool way): The Zenith music hall in Strasbourg.
Graff of the Day: SKER, FBGS, SANER, DSR and EYOS in Mexico. More here.
A video about taxpayer money poorly spent: the City of New York versus Mike Baca, a.k.a. 2ESAE.
Concrete skateboards.
Your moment of McCain vogue-ing.