Monthly Archive for August, 2008

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The Digest. 08.20.08.

By c-monster on August 20, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti, New York, Sculpture, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Loomit, in Germany. (Photo by Luna Park.)

James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab is held in Beijing after unfurling a Free Tibet banner at the Olympic Park. Another story here and Eyebeam’s statement here.
China will not lend Cultural Revolution-era works to NYC’s Asia Society.
Warhol chocolates? I suggested it months ago.
Artist Self-Promotional Schpiel of the Day, courtesy of painter Jason Chase: “Go to my website, and remember that owning a painting by me will make you smarter and more likable.”
Theo Jansen’s Animaris Rhinoceros. (Via Eyebeam.)
LACMA acquires Illegal Operation, a 1962 sculpture by Ed Kienholz about illegal abortion.
CultureGrrl reports that former Met director-turned-ArtNet columnist Thomas Hoving needs to pick up the clue phone.
Will the bear market affect art giving? Um, yeah.
The Golden Shit Awards. Turns out Paul McCarthy isn’t the only one with a poo fixation. (Via Ekosystem.)
Bruno Taylor is making the world better one bus station swing at a time.
Graff of the Day: Roa in Belgium.
CNN on Steve Powers’ Waterboard Thrill Ride in Coney Island. More at Razor Apple.
If you live in Houston, you can sign up for lessons in graffiti drawing.
More on Architecture School, the Sundance Channel’s reality show in which students design schemes for single-family house for New Orleans. See video clips.
Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world, is almost finished. And it looks like a rocket launcher.
On the opposite end of the spectrum…Buildings that take forever to build: Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia cathedral is mired in controversy. Manuel Borja-Villel, director of the Reina Sofía in Madrid, told the Guardian last week: “What they are constructing has little to do with the spirit of Gaudí. It has more to do with building a tourist attraction…” (Via architecture.mnp.)
When architecture imitates art: Beijing bird’s nest stadium meets Christo and Jeanne-Claude edition.
WBEZ public radio in Chicago has a segment about the ethics of building in places such as China with Pritzker Prize-winner Thomas Mayne, among others. Mayne comes on at about Minute 30. (Via Unbeige.)
Highly speculative and highly entertaining: Building megastructures for space.
Your moment of Welcome Back.

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Calendar. 08.19.08.

By c-monster on August 19, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar and Street Art. Closed

The skate ramp at the Neckface show at New Image Gallery in L.A. (Photo by Vidalia.)

In L.A.: Neckface at New Image, through Sept. 20^th.
In L.A.: Buff Monster at Corey Helford, opens Saturday.
In Denver: French street art and American landscapes in Paralleled 3, at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, through September 20th.
In Miami: Invasion of the Historians: Art in Miami Before Art Basel, a documentary film, at Miami-Dade Public Library, this Thursday at 7 p.m.
In NYC: Kirchner and the Berlin Street at MoMA, through Nov. 10th.

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The Digest. 08.19.08.

By c-monster on August 19, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Dog Love, by Klone in Tel Aviv. (Photo courtesy of Klone Yourself!)

Nice job if you can get it: Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate galleries, gets anointed “permanent employee.”
Qatar Museum Authority is pursuing Philippe de Montebello for possible employment. (Via A.O.)
More on the rumored sale of a Jackson Pollock canvas at the University of Iowa: Barbara Gartner, a regent on the board of the university’s art museum who is married to university regent Michael Gartner, and who sits on the board of the Des Moines Arts Center, allegedly didn’t know that Pollock’s piece was worth a cool $150 mil. Glad to know that the people running the place local arts institutions know their stuff. [Boy, I blew that one, didn't I? Sorry, C.]
Take me to the River: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s latest wrap job. (Via AFC.)
The Day in Artsy Advertising: They did Koons, now American Apparel takes on Andy Warhol.
A gallery of vintage signs. (Via Kottke.)
Street Art of the Day: Lignes Rouges in Reunion, France. More here.
A massive, neighborhood-wide installation, all along the flanks of a Brazilian favela, by JR.
Trippy-cool light projections: Jaybo in Berlin.
Sculptures that earn spare change: Mark Jenkins’ Golden Ass in Barcelona’s Las Ramblas.
The Obama merch is totally out of control.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Palmer House in Ann Arbor is up for sale.
Geeks in Real Time: The Sundance Channel’s new reality program, Architecture School.
Are suburbs dying? Not just yet, says the Economist (via architecture.mnp). Life Without Buildings agrees.
Despoiling Calatrava’s entry hall at the Milwaukee Art Museum with counters and cash registers. All they need now are some couches and big screen TVs.
The official Tropic Thunder viral video.
Your moment of manamana.

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Photoshop Gone Wrong: Stephen Colbert’s missing finger edition.

By c-monster on August 18, 2008 in C-Monster, Design and Sublime ridiculosity. Closed

(Photos by C-M. Click on images to supersize.)

Found this over the weekend: the Stephen Colbert desk calendar. Nothing wrong with the calendar. But what tech-happy incompetent mangled Colbert’s fingers, at left? Or was Colbert in some industrial accident that I don’t know anything about?

See a close-up here:

Spooky.

See additional Photoshop nightmares at Photoshop Disasters.

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The Digest. 08.18.08

By c-monster on August 18, 2008 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. 2 Comments

Sant Jeroni, circa 1470, by Perre Garcia de Benavarri. Saint Jerome has been painted relentlessly, but this version, at the Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona is tops: he’s in this totally pimping outfit high-fiving a lion. (Photo by C-M.)

Hey Folks: I’ve got a new layout and I just got a WordPress update, so I’m trying to figure out a bunch of things at once. Let me know how things look on your end in the comments below. And thanks for your patience with any technical glitches. xox, C.

Update: Okay, so it’s just gonna be a WordPress update for now. There were some problems viewing the site with the Vista browser. Looks like the new layout needs a little more tinkering in the tool shed. Thanks again for your patience, C.

Awesome art-related ticket stub.
Fear of a Camera Planet: English law enforcement terrified of anyone wielding a camera in public, reports The Telegraph (via A.J.). Related: How to hack a security camera, super-cheap Luddite edition (via Animal).
Documenting the Face of America, a film about the photographers of the Federal Farm Administration, will air tonight on most PBS stations. Photo essay here.
The Damien Hirst Market Report: Butterfly paintings, medicine cabinets and dot paintings are on their way out. No word yet on how much longer he’ll be milking the formaldehyde animals.
Part of a stained glass window by Marc Chagall at the Saint-Étienne Cathedral in Metz, France is shattered by vandals.
The U.S. Postal Service to unveil a stamp with a painting of Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt this week.
A profile (with pix) about Catherine Opie at the Gugg. (Via A.O.)
Modern Art Notes reports that an oil company’s attempt to drill near Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty has been sidelined. For the moment.
House Party of the Week: Photos from Matthew Barney’s Black Metal pig roast. But was there any chicharrón?
The paintings of Dara Engler.
The SoHo-ization of Beijing’s arts district 798.
Is your art gallery struggling financially? Add a bar. (Via A.J.)
Ashes to ashes, library of dust.
NPR does a story on Steve Powers’ Waterboarding Thrill Ride in Coney Island.
Graff of the Day: OA- in Spain.
Swoon to participate in another flotilla, this time on the Hudson. Photo essay here.
Ikea, purveyors of crap-ass furniture…and destroyers of noteworthy architecture.
Paul Goldberger on Brad Cloepfil’s redo of Edward Durell Stone’s lollipop building in Manhattan: Okay on the outside, nicely organized on the inside.
U.S. vs. China architecture/urban infrastructure symbolism smackdown. China wins.
Your moment of Rosanne Rosannadanna’s Columbia J-School commencement address.

Having a little work done…

By c-monster on August 16, 2008 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed

(Photo by Gullevek.)

Hey folks: C-Monster is having some long overdue technical maintenance done this weekend. If things disappear or look a little funny, that’s why…

xox, C.

Photos: Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion.

By c-monster on August 15, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and Spain. 3 Comments

Like a flamenco dancer: in the backyard area of the Mies Pavilion. (Photos by C-M.)

Since it’s Summer Friday, there’s no Digest today (or for the remaining Fridays in August). In lieu of something informative, here’s a little show-and-tell from my summer vacation: specifically, my visit to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion from the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. Enjoy some graceful, travertine-laden early Modernism. I’ll be back in the chair on Monday.

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Calendar. 08.14.08.

By c-monster on August 14, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar, Graffiti and Photography. Closed

A photograph of a Brazilian Pixação tagger getting up in São Paulo, by Choque Photos, from the exhibit Laberinto de miradas, in Mexico City. (Image courtesy of Choque.)

In Mexico City: Laberinto de Miradas at the Cultural Center of Spain, through August. See the photo essay. And be sure to check out the show’s website. It’s quite comprehensive.
In L.A.: Susie Gharemani, The Wild Life, at GR2, opens Saturday.
In L.A.: All of this is Melting Away: Selected by Jay Sanders from the collection of Susan Hancock at Royal/T, opens tonight.
In L.A.: Bernini at the Getty Center, through Oct. 26th.
In L.A.: Patrick Martinez and Munk1 at Fifty24LA, opens today.
In L.A.: Insiders, Outsiders and the Middle at Scion Installation L.A., through Aug. 23^rd.
In Seattle: Escape or Reflect? at Soil, through Aug. 30^th.
In Columbus, Oh.: James Turrell at the Franklin Park Conservatory.
In Beacon, N.Y.: Gaetane Michauz at Open Space, through Sept. 7^th.
In NYC: Ad Nauseum Lyceum at chashama UWS, through Aug. 30^th.
In NYC: chashama will be having an art extravaganza at a number of East Village locales starting this Friday.
In NYC: Steve Powers (a.k.a. Espo) to waterboard lawyers in Coney Island tomorrow. Video here.
In NYC: Freedom for Lazy People: Eastern European Street Art, at the Romanian Cultural Gallery, through Friday.
In NYC: Beautiful Losers, the movie, now screening at the IFC Center in Manhattan.
In London: A street art film series at the Tate Modern, starting Saturday.
In Salzburg: Anselm Kiefer at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, through Aug. 27^th.
In Tokyo: Beautiful Losers, the exhibit, at the LaForet Museum, through Saturday.
In Singapore: Aesthetic Encounters at Art Seasons, opens Saturday.

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The Digest. 08.14.08.

By c-monster on August 14, 2008 in C-Monster, Street Art and The Digest. 2 Comments

Skewville in Barcelona. (Photo by C-M.)

C-Monster to spend November terrorizing Tommy Trojan. (Interesting fact: USC has a Tommy Cam.)
The Day in the Surreal: Warmth, Giant Black Tubes by Susan Robb. (Watch the video.)
A profile of Wafaa Bilal, the artist who created the video game, Virtual Jihadi, where gamers aim to kill the U.S. President, and who subsequently had his exhibits in Troy, N.Y. shut down (twice).
Blinged-out U.S. Embassy opens in Beijing, with pieces by Jeff Koons, Martin Puryear, Cai Guo-Qiang, Robert Rauschenberg, and others, on view.
Sotheby’s Asian art auctions to leave NYC for Hong Kong.
That strange point where Ted Kaczynski’s cabin and the art world intersect.
Omer Fast’s redo of CNN. (Via Coudal.)
Wrangler ads by Ryan McGinley and Tim Barber.
Related: American Apparel ad references Jeff Koons‘ floating basketball sculpture.
The horror.
West African barber shop signs. (Via Murketing.)
Graff of the Day: Henes in Nayarit, Mexico.
Graffiti side tables (via NotCot) and a graffiti ad campaign.
Waves of Glass: ArchiDose has some great shots of innovative uses of glass in architecture.
Italian culture minister to Modernism: Drop dead. More here.
Zaha Hadid doorknobs. Up next: tooth brushes and tampon cases.
Like tagging, but far, far geekier: How to write like an architect.
Please specify your reason for absence. (Via Coudal.)
Your moment of Otis.

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Art Merch: Museu Picasso, Barcelona.

By c-monster on August 13, 2008 in Art Merch, C-Monster, Museums and Sublime ridiculosity. 3 Comments

When you need a little death and destruction to go with the morning latte. (Photos by C-M.)

The Museu Picasso in Barcelona is one of those places where if you so much as shift your camera strap on your shoulder, you instantly find yourself surrounded by 17 bruisers in blue shirts who bellow, “Nooo pictures!” The super strict no-photo policy is presumably intended to protect the integrity of Picasso’s sometimes overused imagery . . . so that the museum can overuse it on mouse pads and key chains. Lord knows that nothing respects the dignity of those who died in the Nazi bombing of Guernica quite like slapping an image of their suffering on a mug.

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Monthly Archive for August, 2008

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The Digest. 08.20.08.

Calendar. 08.19.08.

The Digest. 08.19.08.

Photoshop Gone Wrong: Stephen Colbert’s missing finger edition.

The Digest. 08.18.08

Having a little work done…

Photos: Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion.

Calendar. 08.14.08.

The Digest. 08.14.08.

Art Merch: Museu Picasso, Barcelona.

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