A sound installation by Os Gemeos. (Photos by Luna Park.)
Brazilian twin artist team of Os Gemeos opened a brand spanking new show at Deitch over the weekend called Too Far Too Close. Thankfully, special correspondent Luna Park was there to grab some pix of the opening night festivities. The installation is up through August 9th.
More after the jump.
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Reporting live, from Lincoln Heights: Con las homegirls, chola prom edition.
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The Modern Art Kids Crew, in Lost.
Eyeone of the Seeking Heaven crew in L.A. was kind enough to send me a copy of a beautifully-designed book he just produced called Lost: Graffiti in the City of Angels. This photo-heavy spiral hardback features a decade’s worth of L.A. graffiti and covers more ground than anyone with a set of four wheels and a camera could possibly hope to do.
Los Angeles, with its endless miles of concrete riverbeds, industrial drain pipes, arroyos and alleyways is a great location for graff, but unless you know where the heck you’re going, you can spend a lot of time looking at nothing. This book, however, is a great chronicle of both new and older works in places the average person would never find on their own. A lot of the pieces are long gone, produced by artists who are also gone. Thankfully for the rest of us, their work has been well recorded.
Want a preview? Follow the jump for pix of random images from the book.
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To and from Montrose, Colo. (Photo by Nathan Abels.)
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O dia em que ele não atirou o molotof by Os Gemeos. (Photo by server pics.)
- In NYC: Os Gemeos at Deitch Projects, opens Saturday. See a preview pic here.
- In NYC: Un Named Rottens, with Beau Velasco, Daniel St. George and Jeremiah Maddox, at Factory Fresh in Brooklyn, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Ray Caesar and Adam Wallacavage at Jonathan Levine, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls, open today. More here and here. Plus: a slideshow.
- In NYC: Bill Owens at James Cohan, opens tonight.
- In NYC: The premiere of the documentary Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine, at Film Forum, and her show at the Guggenheim, both open tomorrow. More on Bourgeois here and here.
- In NYC: Gallerie Pulaski opening tomorrow in Long Island City.
- In NYC: A panel on the Brooklyn Museum’s crowd-curated photo exhibit, with James Surowiecki of the New Yorker, Jeff Howe of Wired and Eugene Tsai and Shelley Bernstein of the Brooklyn Museum, on Governor’s Island, this Saturday at 11 a.m.
- In Chicago: David Hockney at the Arts Club of Chicago, through July 18th.
- In Chicago: Plushform at Rotofugi, opens tomorrow.
- In Santa Fe: Contemporary glass sculpture at the New Mexico Museum of Art, through Sept. 21st.
- In S.F.: Mark Bode, Rome and B Boy B at Space Gallery.
- In L.A.: Conversations with Chaz Bojorquez and Vincent Valdez at LACMA, this Sunday at 2 p.m.
- In L.A.: Self Help Graphics annual print exhibition and fair, this Sunday, beginning at noon.
- In Laguna Beach, Calif.: The Land of Retinal Delights at the Laguna Museum of Art, through October 5th.
- In Berlin: Ovni, Zosen, Kafre and tom14 in Concrete Secrets at Neurotitan.
- In Florence: Exploding Views: Remapping Florence at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina.
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Momo and Melissa Brown at Gallery Espeis in Brooklyn. (Photo by Luna Park.)
I’m currently doing some investigative research on the burritos of Southern California. As a result, posting times will be operating on Pacific Time, and may be erratic due to entanglements with carne asada and rush hour traffic. Thanks for your patience! xox, C.
- 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.
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