Monthly Archive for June, 2008

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Photos: Post No Bills at Gallerie Pulaski in NYC.

By c-monster on June 23, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Galleries, New York and Street Art. Closed

From left to right: Danny Licul, Celso and Infinity, as well as the terror of the streets, Tefsukaz, a.k.a. Dean Radinovsky. (Photos by C-M.)

Tired of all those stuffy white boxes that are only open four days a week? Well, so are the group of artists who opened an outdoor gallery, known as the Gallerie Pulaski (in honor of the nearby bridge), on the construction walls surrounding a soon-to-be condo site in Long Island City, Queens. Organized by Celso, who was abetted by the very mathematical Infinity, of chashama, the two have hung an outdoor show called Post No Bills with pieces by a combination of street and studio artists. The gallery is open 24/7, which means that if you get a hankering to see a charcoal landscape at 3 a.m., well, now you know where to go. There’s even going to be an opening, this Friday, June 27th, from 7-9 p.m. Just look for the two guys with the lawn chairs and the cooler. Bring a flask and your sense of humor.

Gallerie Pulaski Opening Reception:
Friday, June 27, 2008 7-9PM
48-15 11th Street @ Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, Queens

Subway:
7 to Vernon Blvd/ Jackson Ave.

Hours:
24/7

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The Digest. 06.23.08.

By c-monster on June 23, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

Chihuahua With Cheeseburgers by William Hundley. See a full set of Hundley’s cheeseburger photos. (Photo courtesy of albino_octopus.)

Not a story about art writers: Art boobs. (Via AFC.)
A workshop on how to get illegal advertising removed from your neighborhood. Also: The City of L.A. wants to crack down on murals, but seems pretty happy to do absolutely nothing about illegal advertising. Plus: Transforming crap-ass video ads into stained glass.
Christie’s gets into the gallery business in London, with a new spot coming soon in N.Y.
Guggenheim in Guadalajara ain’t gonna fly, reportedly because the Krens-master refused to scale down costs. In not-really related museum-building news: Herzog & de Meuron to design a modern art museum in Calcutta and Morphosis to design the new OCMA in Costa Mesa, Calif. (Via architecture.mnp.)
LACMA seems to have a history of sticky relationships with its donors.
The New Republic on nihilism in today’s art, as illustrated by Hirst, Koons and Murakami, and the institutions that aid and abet them: “What there is to discuss is not visual experiences so much as visual stunts, which are frequently mind-boggling in their size and complexity.” Plus: “At the Guggenheim, the staff no longer curates exhibitions. They simply invite an artist to come in and rape the place.” (Via A.J.)
In a related story: The Viktor & Rolf show at London’s Barbican is one big ad, says the Guardian: “…the curation of the show is so adoring, so breathlessly admiring, it might as well have been done by a Vogue junior stylist…”
Newsgrist runs a factcheck on comments by Frank Stella in The Art Newspaper, on the subject of orphan works. (Via AFC.)
A trailer from Herb and Dorothy, a documentary about the Vogels, a librarian and postal clerk who amassed one of the most significant collections of modern art in the U.S. (Via WaPo.)
Photos: Weegee’s Manhattan.
New York Water Taxi now offering tours of Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls.
Update: chashama is having a pirate party pig roast benefit tonight in NYC, weather permitting.
“Shepard Fairey’s image problem.” (Via Eyebeam.)
Photos: Skullphone at the Riverside Museum of Art.
Is the Splasher back?
Architecture and authoritarianism. In related news: Paul Goldberger writes about architecture in Beijing.
Midwest Flood News: Frank Lloyd Wright house hit in Charles City, Ia.
The NYT covers the fate of Paul Rudolph’s Riverview High School in Sarasota. See my pix here.
Shelters for threatened species made of recycled materials.
The Lego Death Star. (Via NotCot.)
Your moment of Jim Carrey as Vanilla Ice.

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Nature break.

By c-monster on June 21, 2008 in C-Monster and Nature Break. Closed

A frog hangs out among some lily pads in Canada’s Laurentian Mountains. Click on the image to view it large. (Photo by C-M.)

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It’s all about appropriation: Street art and graffiti in studio art.

By c-monster on June 20, 2008 in Art, Bizarre Coincidence, C-Monster, Collage, Graffiti, Painting, Sculpture and Street Art. 9 Comments

A collage composed of found stickers, by Tom Fruin at the Buia Gallery in New York in February ’08. A few of the street artists represented include: Royce Bannon, Over Consume and Ambusch. (Photos by C-M unless otherwise noted.)

For the purpose of this blog, I spend much of my spare time photographing just about everything the art industrial complex sees fit to churn out: paintings, sculpture, video, and totally weird breakfast buffets. In the past six months, I’ve noticed a small, but growing trend: studio artists (including the late Robert Rauschenberg) incorporating street and graffiti art into their work.

This takes various guises. There are painters who incorporate graffiti art into urban landscapes, assemblage artists who use elements of real-live street art in collages and sculptures, and art photographer types who go out and document all of the beautiful decay. It’s one of those interesting art world conundrums: on its own, most street art and graffiti isn’t thought to have much artistic or monetary value. But clearly there is some potency residing in this imagery if studio artists are remixing and reconfiguring it for the pristine walls of commercial galleries.

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Calendar. 06.19.08.

By c-monster on June 19, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Painting. Closed

Albuquerque #9 by Richard Diebenkorn. (Image courtesy of Prizmetrix.)

In Washington, D.C.: Diebenkorn at the Philips Collection.
In Santa Fe, N.M.: Jenny Holzer’s Venice Biennale installation from 1990 is on view at EVO.
In NYC: Snaggs, Le Merde and Scrappers at Giant Robot Gallery.
In NYC: Heavy Light: Recent Japanese Photography and Video at ICP.
In NYC: Josh Keyes and Jeremy Fish at Joshua Liner, opens Saturday.
In Cincinnati: David Ellis at the Country Club Gallery, opens June 21^st. (Via Juxtapoz.)
In Denver: Landscape in the Age of Impressionism at the Denver Museum of Art.
In L.A.: Chicano Visions at LACMA, through Nov. 2^nd.
In L.A.: The premiere of Dirty Hands, a film about artist David Choe, at the Majestic Crest, as part of the L.A. Film Festival.
In S.F.: Barry McGee, Clare Rojas, Kaws and many others at VASF Gallery, opening tonight.
In Berlin: Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paraiso at Merry Karnowsky, opens Saturday.
In Sydney: The 16^th Biennial, in multiple venues, through September 7^th.

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The Digest. 06.19.08.

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

Olive Trees. (Photo by John Anthony Frederick.)

Am I microfamous yet? (Via AFC.)
Inducing agita in the gallery set: Damien Hirst to auction off his own works at Sotheby’s in the fall. More here.
Plus: See Hirst’s first formaldehyde piece when the YBAs are reunited this fall at Freeze. More here.
Picasso sold at auction has the honor of being the most expensive painting ever sold in Australia.
Painting originally thought to be a Rembrandt knock-off is a real-live Rembrandt, a self-portrait of the artist no less. (Via A.J.)
Midwest flood updates at Eco Art Blog. Plus: An interview with University of Iowa Art Museum interim director Pamela White regarding the floods.
The Brooklyn Museum has scanned a mummy named Demetrius and put up 3-D views of the X-rays online. (Via Hrag.)
Frugal living: How artists survive in NYC. (Via MW Capacity.)
Legs in pulp fiction design.
Broken architecture as art.
At least they’re not tearing this one down: A look at the renovations on the Paul Rudolph-designed Yale school of art and architecture. (Via A.J.)
Steven Holl and Vito Acconci’s leaky and drippy Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC to be restored.
Flickr founders quit Flickr.
Street View: A portfolio of Google photographs.
Porn spoofs. My favorite: The Da Vinci Load. (Via ackackack.)
Graff of the Day: Sinboy in Barcelona.
More graffiti stop motion animation, this time from Germany: History of Breakdance. In a sort-of related post: a video that combs through all manner of vintage video to show the origins of breakdancing’s moves.
So totally weird it could be art: La Pequeña Hillary Clinton.
Your moment of shoot ‘em up.

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Paul Rudolph’s Riverview High School in Sarasota to be demolished.

By c-monster on June 18, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and Florida. 12 Comments

Rudolph’s Riverview High School in Sarasota, Fla. Built in 1958. (Photos by C-M.)

Sad news: The Sarasota, Fla. school board voted to demolish Paul Rudolph’s historic Riverview High School to make way for parking and ballfields, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports today. The decision was made largely because of a lack of funds needed to update the buildings to other uses. This ends a two year effort by preservationists to save the historic, Modernist high school. (See a view of the school in 1958 here.)

This is unfortunate for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that as Rudolph’s smaller structures are razed, it leaves us with ever fewer examples of the architect’s graceful early works, which, in my mind, are far more intriguing than his later buildings, which are all about concrete-heavy brutalism.

After the jump, more pix of RHS I snapped when I trespassed all over Sarasota last summer to check out the city’s trove of Modernist buildings.

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The Digest. 06.18.08.

By c-monster on June 18, 2008 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. 1 Comment

Jersey Street. Photo by Joe Holmes.

Soap Pope on a Rope.
The Day in Decadent Art Merch: Murakami unveils new Louis Vuitton line in Vegas (via Marshall Astor) and very expensive T-shirts from Dash Snow (via AFC).
A NY Times Twitter feed from the Whitney’s Art Party. Spotted: Sean Lennon taking a tinkle.
The text of Richard Serra’s commencement speech at Williams: “I have no problem with the virtual reality on your screens as long as you are aware that it is virtual. My concern is that experience by proxy is a poor substitute for the reality of the interactive space we inhabit…Don’t let the rhetoric of simulation steal away the immediacy of your experience. Keep it real, keep it in the moment.” (Via Hrag.)
Is Jeff Koons from Mars? The Washington Post seems to think so.
Ed Winkleman reviews the new HBO documentary The Art of Failure.
Folkestown, England is having a triennial, and it features Tracey Emin, Nathan Coley and Mark Wallinger, among others.
Totally trippy: Photos from the Viktor & Rolf doll show at the Barbican in London.
Now that’s what I call innovation: Flip flops that come equipped with a bottle opener.
The street art industrial average is high: Banksy chimp exceeds expectation at London auction.
More graffiti as video: 310 Squad in Moscow. (Via Ekosystem.)
Video: Astillas, El Tono’s D.I.Y. sculptural installation in Lima, Peru. (The chicha music accompanying the video is totally sweet.)
New book of graffiti photos, spanning three decades: They Call it Graffiti.
When street artists imitate studio artists: Gaia meets Matthew Day Jackson Edition.
Eames stamps are now for sale. (Via Kottke.)
Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower makes it into Grand Theft Auto IV. (Via Eyebeam.)
Tadao Ando’s new building for the Clark Art Institute, in Mass., to open this weekend.
The Month in Total Douche-y-ness: The Associated Effing Press wants to charge bloggers to quote their articles. !!!??? More here.
Slack Power.
Your moment of Quizás, psychedelic edition.

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Calendar. 06.17.08.

By c-monster on June 17, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and Calendar. Closed

Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil, by Oscar Niemeyer, in Brasilia. (Photo by Luiz Castro.)

In Santiago, Chile: Poética de la Forma, the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer, at the Museo de Bellas Artes, opens Friday.
In S.F.: Frida Kahlo at S.F. MoMA.
In L.A.: MBW in Life is Beautiful at Columbia Square, opens tomorrow (with Shepard Fairey on the turntables).
In NYC: Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns? at Tony Shafrazi.
In NYC: Kaws at Franklin Parrasch gallery, opens tonight.
In London: Captivated: The Art of the Interned, works made by Muslim men held in British prisons without charge, at Together, through July 4^th.
In Zurich: Louise Bourgeois at Hauser & Wirth, through July 26^th.
In Madrid: Extraordinary Rendition at the Helga de Alvear Gallery, through July 19^th.
In Coruña, Spain: The Spanish Portrait at the Prado: From Goya to Sorolla, at Fundación Caixa Galicia.

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The Digest. 06.17.08.

By c-monster on June 17, 2008 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. 5 Comments

Die Stickerin, 2008, by Neo Rauch at David Zwirner in NYC, through June 21st. (Photo by C-M.)

Q&As with Werner Herzog on Gothamist and Defamer. (Merci to Mlle. Connasse for the latter.)
Midwest Flood Reports: There’s an informative flood round-up on MAN, as well as images of the waters reaching the low-lying University of Iowa’s art campus in one and two parts, and pix of the University’s Advanced Technology Building, designed by Frank Gehry. Also: Louis Sullivan’s bank in Cedar Rapids likely sustains damage and photos of water lapping at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport.
Turning parking lots into solar energy stations. (Via architecture.mnp.)
A video report on Ai Wei Wei, the Chinese artist who helped design the Bird’s Nest stadium, and who has now announced that he will boycott the Beijing Olympics. The writer of the blog post asks, “How are you going to take a commission and then talk shit later…?” It’s a little concept called free speech…
Photos of Zaha Hadid’s Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion.
A dead mall grows in China.
Astro Boy made from recycled train tickets.
Ladies: Learn how to tinkle while standing. (For the sake of propriety, I will not reveal the high-ranking art industry executive who sent this to me.)
Graff of the Day: Ewok 5MH and Cope2.
Video: The reverse graffiti of Paul ‘Moose’ Curtis.
Cable news sucks so unbelievably hard.
The Day in Petulant Artists. In a related story: A Brooklyn artist sues a fan for posting photos of his work online (via AJ).
Australians debate the limits of free speech in the wake of the brouhaha over Bill Henson’s photographs of naked girls (via AJ). Germaine Greer gives her take.
Art the Vote: Artists in Missouri to do get-out-the-vote billboards.
AIDS in art.
A story about New York City’s ghost bike memorials.
Murakami and Cai Guo Qiang to travel to Guggenheim Bilbao.
I heart high art ridiculousness.
The Seventh Veil.
Your moment of Adam and Eve.

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Monthly Archive for June, 2008

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Photos: Post No Bills at Gallerie Pulaski in NYC.

The Digest. 06.23.08.

Nature break.

It’s all about appropriation: Street art and graffiti in studio art.

Calendar. 06.19.08.

The Digest. 06.19.08.

Paul Rudolph’s Riverview High School in Sarasota to be demolished.

The Digest. 06.18.08.

Calendar. 06.17.08.

The Digest. 06.17.08.

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