Where High Gets Low.
Hello darkness my old friend. (Photo by peter.charbonnier.)
I’m enjoying everything that America’s air transportation systems have to offer, so there will be no Digest. I can, however, leave you with this, a little somethin’ somethin’ from my colleague, Yvonne Connasse, who is totally the real deal.
xox, C.
Drawing into the Sky, 2003, by Kawashima Shigeo at the Japan Society. (Image courtesy of Japan Society.)
Pizza not Polaroids is poison to pepper. (Photo by Robyn Von Swank. Image courtesy of the one and only Agent Lover!)
Update: Sorry folks. I’m a burnout. Today is Sept. 30th, not the 29th. And the year is 2008, not 2009. (Boy, am I out of it.) Anyhow, I’ve corrected the header above. Thanks for your patience with my wicked, wicked ways. xox, C.
Momo and El Tono installing kinetic sculptures in the waterways around Manhattan. (Image courtesy of Momo.)
Two of street art’s more cerebral practitioners — El Tono (who is based in Spain) and Momo (NYC) — have an exhibit up at the brand spankin’ new Anonymous Gallery that combines kinetic sculpture with geometric abstraction with incandescent colors, stirred up by a little randomness to keep things interesting. The pieces on show include a wall full of geometric prints that were randomly generated by computer code (El Tono has some behind-the-scenes), a series of assemblages produced by throwing shapes into the water around Manhattan to see what turned up, as well as numerous prototypes of the kinetic sculptures depicted in the photo above. The sculptures have been attached to the many remnants of old piers that dot the waters around New York City and are designed to make a clock-like movement with the incoming tide. (Momo has a great video of the latter on his site.)
Because I’m a burn-out, I forgot to take pictures of the kinetic sculpture prototypes. (I got distracted by the marching band.) But there’s still plenty of opportunity to see ‘em for yourself. The show is up through Oct. 10th.
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Advice for biters. (Photo by otherthings.)
Yes, I’m still steamed at the Milli Vanillis at the L.A. Times: Super gracias to Time‘s Richard Lacayo for the kind words. Also, many, many thanks to Freese, Small Drawings, Hrag Vartanian, ‘Bout What I Sees and Making a Mark for drawing attention to this ridiculosity. In the meantime, if anyone would like to help me help the Times come up with a new name for their blog, please leave your suggestions here. xox, C.
Detail of a canvas by Conor Harrington. (All photos by C-M.)
Last night was the preview extravaganza of London’s Lazarides Gallery street artsy show in downtown Manhattan. And everything was in (stereo)typical working order: Nice canvases hung in a “gritty” urban setting? Check. Line of attractive hipsters stretching around the corner? Check. DJ pumping beats? Check. Galleristas handing out price lists? Check. (And whoa, nelly what a price list! The Faile piece was going for $150K!! Which means I’ll be able to afford it sometime… never.) The naked commerce was good fun, but so was the art (there are interesting pieces by Conor Harrington, Bast, David Choe and Blu). So get over there (282 Bowery at Houston) before the encampment leaves town on Oct. 12th.
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Continue reading ‘Photos: Outsiders NY at Lazarides in NYC.’
Milk and Cheese! by Evan Dorkin. (Image courtesy of eskarina8.)
Baring It All: We’ve seen guys like this on the subway a million times. (All photos by San Suzie.)
George Baselitz kicked off the Rome gallery season at Gagosian with a bunch of new paintings that looked a lot like his old paintings and half the pieces we saw at last year’s Art Basel (which was big on skulls). In addition to the giant skulls, Baselitz’s paintings and drawings all featured expressionistically rendered male figures playing with members that can only be described as wishful thinking. (One of the painted schlongs was a whopping 22 inches. We measured.) The show, which kicked off Gagosian’s second season in Rome, was gagosianissimo in almost every sense of the word: cavernous exhibit spaces, suited security guards hovering by the paintings, crowds of fashionistas clamoring to get in. No wine, alas. But you can get that for cheap at any of a dozen nearby trattorias. Which is exactly where we headed directly after posing in front of all the boners.
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Continue reading ‘Photos: Baselitz’s Skulls + Boners at Gagosian in Rome.’
Here’s a story you’ll never see on C-Monster. And thank god.
If you’ve been reading C-Mon for the last 24 hours, you know that the L.A. Times just debuted a brand spankin’ new arts and architecture blog called Culture Monster, which needless to say, smarts. In thinking about the whole ridiculous situation this morning, I realised that either one of two things happened: