Monthly Archive for June, 2008

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Photos: Poets of the Paste at Ad Hoc Art in NYC.

By c-monster on June 16, 2008 in C-Monster. Closed

Diorama by Armsrock. (Photos by C-M.)

Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn gathered the works of four New York City street artists known for their work on paper—Elbow-Toe, Armsrock, Gaia and Imminent Disaster—for a group show that pays tribute to figurative forms. The show is up through July 13th.

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The Digest. 06.16.08.

By c-monster on June 16, 2008 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. 1 Comment

Dog Lying in the Snow by Franz Marc, 1910. (Image courtesy of lyceo_hispanico.)

Insanely good long-exposure photographs of crowds by Alexey Titarenko.
Man accidentally throws out Damien Hirst print. Plus: Thieves steal Picassos from São Paulo museum (via A.J.). In a sort of related story: the demand for insurance on art increases (via A.O.).
Pro Marlene Dumas? Or anti Marlene Dumas? Anaba reports, you decide. (Read the original NYT Mag profile here.)
Charles Saatchi buys entire student show. For reals.
Empty swimming pools. (Via ackackack.)
Video: David Byrne shows how Playing the Building works. (My earlier report here.)
Guggenheim Vilnius, not so fast.
German museum director in Leipzig is under fire for ceding curatorial control to collectors and commercial galleries.
New York Brutal. (Via What You Write.)
Video: Henry Moore at the Bronx Botanical Garden.
The Day in Corporate Spinelessness: How Olympics sponsors are addressing the issue of human rights in Darfur.
Photo essay: Norman Foster’s Terminal Three at the Beijing Airport, which clearly takes up one ‘uge tract of land.
The Chicago Trib has a big fat story on the Art Institute of Chicago’s new Renzo Piano-designed wing (still under construction), complete with video and extra photos.
I’m in a Southwest Kind of Way: An Arizona house by Steven Holl architects and a California house by Tom Kundig.
A design by Buckminster Fuller deconstructed. Plus: The architect’s personal archive, now in Stanford’s possession, weighs 45 tons.
Stormtrooper cufflinks.
Photos: Barry McGee and Doug Aitken at Carnegie International.
Graff of the Day: 7906, ZKD and Lutsk in the Ukraine.
You can now do karaoke on your Playstation. Speaking of which, here’s the Neil Diamond karaoke I saw this past weekend.
Your moment of alligators.

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Photos: The Affordable Art Fair in NYC.

By c-monster on June 13, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Events and New York. 3 Comments

Trompe l’oeil painting of popcorn on found metal by Michael Fitts at Fraser Gallery, from Bethesda. (Photos by C-M.)

Yesterday I took a quick gander around the Affordable Art Fair in Manhattan, where 75 galleries from a dozen countries were all exhibiting pieces priced under $10,000 (with most going for between $100-$5000). Here are a few pix of some of the work that caught my eye. The fair runs through Sunday, June 15th. General admission is $17.

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Photos: Bushwick Open Studios in NYC.

By c-monster on June 13, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Events, Galleries and New York. 1 Comment

A sculpture made with discarded plastic bottles by Aurora Robson at Lumen House.

I donned my tightest pants and my saucer-sized sunglasses for the Great Hipster Migration this past weekend, a.k.a. Bushwick Open Studios. There were a whopping 94 galleries, studios and alternative art spaces represented. I made it to a whopping three. The weekend was filled with the sight of dazed-looking, map-clutching art folk shuffling around in the mind-melting heat. I swear I coulda fried an egg on my head.

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Calendar. 06.12.08.

By c-monster on June 12, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Street Art. 2 Comments

A portrait of F. Trainer, by Elbow Toe. (Photo by F. Trainer.)

In NYC: The Poets of the Paste, featuring Elbow-Toe, Gaia, Armsrock and Imminent Disaster, at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn, opens Friday. There’s a Q&A with Elbow-Toe here (via Wooster) and photos of Armsrock’s dioramas here.
In NYC: Roy Lichtenstein: Girls at Gagosian on Madison Ave., through June 28^th.
In NYC: The photography of James Mollison in The Disciples & James and Other Apes at Hasted Hunt, opens today.
In Washington, D.C.: Molnar & Johnson’s Show at Transformer, through June 14^th.
In Bellevue, Wash: Sculpted green, an outdoor sculpture exhibit, at City Hall and Downtown Park, opens Saturday.
In L.A.: Houseguest: Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection at the Hammer, through September 14^th.
In Pomona, Calif.: Book signing of Graffiti L.A. with Revok, Retna, Rick One and more, at GCS Pomona, this Saturday at 7 p.m.
In Gateshead, England: Yoshitomo Nara’s Baltic Castle, at the Baltic Gallery, opens Saturday. Related: a round-up of Nara videos.
In Paris: L’Atlas, Michael De Feo, Lignes Rouges, Swoon and WK Interact in Le Mur at Galerie L.J. Beaubourg, opens today.
In Vienna: Bad Painting, Good Art at the Museum of Modern Art, through December 10^th. (Via NotCot.)

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The Digest. 06.12.08.

By c-monster on June 12, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and The Digest. Closed

A detail of Boston’s Art Deco Hatch Shell, originally built in 1941. (Photo by Hargo.)

Cool ad for Greenpeace.
The Day in Art Media Intrigue: Turns out the NY Sun likes to use speculative blog posts as a source in its “reporting.” More here.
Media Intrigue, Part Deux: How are artists chosen for newspaper profiles? It helps to be young. And good looking.
That’s a lot of Cheetos and Budweiser: There are two million artists in the U.S., according to the NEA.
U2 to sell Basquiat painting.
A call for art dedicated to Tom Waits.
Video of Chris Burden’s 65-foot tall Erector set skyscraper in NYC’s Rock Center. (Via Marshall Astor.)
Third Ward TX, a documentary about a community planning initiative and art project in a poverty-stricken Houston neighborhood under pressure from development.
The McGuggentage: Lithuanian gov’t gives the ok to build a combined franchise museum of the Guggenheim and Hermitage (via AJ). It’s kinda like those food courts where you can get Subway and Dunkin’ Donuts at the same time. More here.
Art Institute of Chicago to debut renovated wing. It’d be nice if the Trib’s online edition thought to include images.
Audit uncovers problems at California’s Long Beach Museum of Art, including misspent funds and, reportedly, missing works.
Lucky dude: eugeniogp of N.J. won the random drawing for a signed copy of A Time It Was by Bill Eppridge. Congrats!
A gallery of phone sex operators. (Via Kottke.)
Graffiti Video of the Day: Quasimoto in Bullyshit, part of a new feature on Bo130’s blog on Ekosystem, where he features his favorite flicks.
New book: Black & White Freedrawings, the collaborative drawings of Zeptonn, from the Netherlands, with Jon Burgerman, DGPH, Philip Tseng, Hello Brute and many others.
Not a joke: Jell-O architecture.
A Rem Koolhaas design rendering meets Gordon Matta-Clark. (Via NotCot.)
In the wake of the whole fist bump ridiculosity, Colbert ran an excellent segment about the history of the fist bump. I found a great example to add to the mix: an ad for male hair coloring, airing on network television (a.k.a. Internet for the infirm), in which a strapping white Boomer dude runs up a beach in a body-hugging wet suit and then goes to do a fist bump with his strapping Boomer buddies.
I want, I need, I have to have: an alien coffee table. (Via ackackack.)
Your moment of Blowin’ in the Wind, Sam Cooke style.

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Photos: Bäst at Brooklynite Gallery in NYC.

By c-monster on June 11, 2008 in Art, C-Monster, Galleries, New York and Street Art. 3 Comments

Collage on wood by Bäst. (Photos by C-M.)

The Brooklynite Gallery, a new space in Bed-Stuy, just opened its doors with a solo show by Bäst called Nose Candy. There was plenty of collage—all in color—as well as some pretty incredible animal heads decked out in rhinestones. (Blinding, in a good way.) If you see the show, don’t miss the Crack Beach Guns, on the back wall, all made with found objects (aka trash). They’re quite cool.

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The Digest. 06.11.08.

By c-monster on June 11, 2008 in C-Monster, Installation and The Digest. 2 Comments

A light installation in Dundas Square in Toronto, for the Luminato Festival. (Photo by wvs.)

C-Mon is in a Grey Lady kinda way!! I got myself a prime, boozy assignment, writing about artist-designed wine labels for the nytimes.com blog The Moment. Sadly, they made me use my real name for the byline, which, as far as I’m concerned, doesn’t have the same musicality as C-Monster.
“Stop Covering Art Bitch!”
A show devoted to “degenerate” art in Rostock, Germany.
New book on Dalí reports that the artist allowed forgeries to finance his lifestyle and that, get this, his mustache was fake.
The Ferus Gallery: the L.A. art outpost that launched the “Cool School.”
Basel Round-Up: Brad Pitt bought some stuff, Ellsworth Kelly hung out and the Russians helped everyone pay the bills. More here.
Record sale of Latin American art—including several important paintings by Rufino Tamayo—at Sotheby’s.
Art to Go ponders what would drive a guard to key a work by Vija Celmins at Carnegie.
A speculative story about who might be on the short list for the position of director at the Met.
A salute to the Peabody Museum’s dinosaur mural, Age of Reptiles.
Wonderful animated video about a tango dancer who can no longer dance. The music on this is just sensational. (Via NotCot.)
The Day in Archeological “Discoveries”: Jordan, Egypt, Machu Picchu edition.
Looted artifacts returned to Iraq. (Via A.J.)
Architectural graffiti by Truth in Poland.
Corporate vandals go scott free in NYC. Literally. (Via World’s Best.)
Toyo’s design for the Berkeley Art Museum. Images here.
The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock.
Because the world really needs more retail: Historic Moderne theatre designed by William Pereira in 1938 is under threat from development.
Effin’ rad Spike Jonze video for Pharcyde.
Your moment of Pablo Picasso Was Never Called An Asshole.

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Calendar. 06.10.08.

By c-monster on June 10, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Street Art. 1 Comment

Bäst off. (Photo by BruceLaBounty802.)

In NYC: Bäst at the Brooklynite Gallery in Bed-Stuy, opens tonight.
In NYC: Chris Burden’s Erector Set sculpture at Rock Center, opens tomorrow.
In NYC: The Architecture of Human Emotion at Initial Take, opens tomorrow. (Via AFC.)
In East Islip, N.Y.: Mia Pearlman in Site Specifics ’08 at the Islip Art Museum.
In Jersey City: Sprawl at the Jersey City Museum, through Aug. 24^th.
In Dallas: Gallego’s The Raising of Lazarus at Southern Methodist University, through July 27^th.
In San Diego: Bruce Nauman at the Museum of Contemporary Art, through August 31^st.
On TV: The Cool School, tonight on PBS at 10 p.m. More here.
In London: Amazing, Rare Things, curated by David Attenborough, at the Queen’s Gallery. (Via Juxtapoz.)
In Berlin: The Babylon Academy at Kunsthaus Tacheles.

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The Digest. 06.10.08.

By c-monster on June 10, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and Street Art. Closed

Graffiti in Andalucía, Spain. (Photo by Loso.)

The Earth and the Moon from Mars. (Via ackackack.)
The National Gallery: Letting commercial galleries curate their programming. Practically.
CultureGrrl croons her rendition of Santa Baby to Philippe di Montebello. Coming soon: C-Monster to serenade Larry Gagosian with her rendition of The Man Who Sold the World.
The Day in Museum Marketing: The Seattle Art Museum wants to let people know that Impressionists are big. And they’re willing to spend big bucks to do so.
Gawker scoffs at the idea of reporters as bloggers. Linda Yablonsky, who has been blogging about Basel for nytimes.com, gets taken down for a sex-y simile that is “exhausting and exhilarating.” (Via MAN.)
Buyers with big Euros kept Basel afloat, reports Bloomberg.
Salon 94 Freemans in NYC needs your old toys for an installation by Maya Lin.
The Inquisition, What a Show! Photos from the Jake and Dinos Chapman Hitler exhibit.
Modern-day apprenticeships come with corporate sponsors.
Audio slideshow: Photographer Bill Eppridge on his view of RFK’s assassination.
Fascinating: Terrorists don’t take pictures. (Via AFC.)
Seed bombs. (Thanks, Luna!)
Sarasota, Fla. school board to deliver its verdict on the fate of the Paul Rudolph-designed Riverview High School next week. (Via Unbeige.)
A house by TNA Architects, outside of Tokyo, that appears to dissolve into a forest.
The Dark Lord Foster does the Elephant House at the Copenhagen Zoo. See photos here.
A conversation with I. M. Pei. If you want to skip all the intros, start the video at Minute 8:00, when Pei comes on. Interesting facts: Pei digs Bing Crosby and thinks Graceland is awful (via architecture.mnp). In related news: Duran Duran to gig under Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre.
Graff of the Day: Gualicho in Buenos Aires.
So conceptual: Street artist makes art out of street objects.
Oh, yeah…it’s official: our government misled us into war.
Your moment of holy fuck.

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Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Page 3 of 5

Photos: Poets of the Paste at Ad Hoc Art in NYC.

The Digest. 06.16.08.

Photos: The Affordable Art Fair in NYC.

Photos: Bushwick Open Studios in NYC.

Calendar. 06.12.08.

The Digest. 06.12.08.

Photos: Bäst at Brooklynite Gallery in NYC.

The Digest. 06.11.08.

Calendar. 06.10.08.

The Digest. 06.10.08.

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