(Photo by Karin Dalziel.)
Hey Folks:
I’ve got deadlines coming out of my ears. No Digest today. I’ll see y’all next week.
In the meantime, Happy Halloween.
xox, C.
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
A Word Moves in the Shadows and Swells the Draperies, oil and enamel on wood panel, by EJ Hauser at Pluto Gallery in NYC. (Image courtesy of Brent Burket, aka Heart as Arena.)
- In NYC: Unbreak My Heart, curated by blogger bud Heart As Arena, at Pluto Gallery, in Brooklyn, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Editions/Artists’ Books Fair at the Tunnel, Friday through Sunday.
- In NYC: Kehinde Wiley, Down, at Deitch Gallery, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend, opens Saturday.
- In Pittsburgh: Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture and the Spaces of the Imagination at the Carnegie Museum of Art, opens Saturday.
- In Pensacola: Jasper Johns at the Pensacola Museum of Art, opens Friday. (This is a great little museum. It’s housed in a vintage jail and there are old jail bars between the galleries.)
- In New Orleans: Prospect.1, the New Orleans Biennial, in various locations, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: Lost: Graffiti in the City of Angels at Mid City Arts, opens Saturday.
- In Seattle: The art of the Coast Salish at the Seattle Art Museum, through Jan. 11.
- In London: David Altmejd at Modern Art, through Nov. 15.
- In Barcelona: The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia at MACBA, through Jan. 6.
An installation by Michael De Feo, at the old state penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, a prison that at one point or another housed inmates such as Pretty Boy Floyd, boxer Sonny Liston and James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. (Image courtesy of Michael De Feo.)
- The art of soap.
- The micro-industry of Obamart.
- “Bremer Walls.” (Tomorrow Museum.)
- Alaska’s Sen. Ted Stevens is gonna go to the pokey after being convicted of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts. Among them: a fugly fish sculpture.
- The Smithsonian’s former Indian museum director to reimburse the museum almost $10,000 for payments he shouldn’t have received. (Is it me, or is W. Richard West a highly nucular shade of orange?)
- Rowdy MBAs from Northwestern’s Kellogg School got plastered and hurled inside Chicago’s Field Museum.
- Damien Hirst returns to the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery after 19 years.
- Jenny Holzer’s Twitter page: apparently, not for reals.
- Paddy Johnson on Gilbert & George.
- Some museums are embracing the great big Internets. More here.
- The art industrial average is sucking the big one. More here. (Arts Journal.)
- In Paris: Tom Sachs gets Kitty with it.
- Holy Bat-Manga!
- Robert Irwin’s work to get deconstructed by the likes of Vija Celmins, Michael Govan, Joel Meyerowitz and others, at the Chicago Humanities Festival on Nov. 9th.
- The Netherlands’ National Archive has begun posting its images on Flickr. (Coudal.)
- Stuff Journalists Like. (Fimoculous.)
- Today’s Graff: Bo130 in Italy. More here.
- 40 pixadores vandalized the 28th São Paulo Biennial on its opening day, reportedly as a protest against the commercialization of culture. Read a story (in Portuguese) here, complete with video. This comes a little more than a month after a group of pixadores did a similar thing at the opening of a gallery show, also in São Paulo.
- “Photographing graffiti: sampling or stealing?”
- Israeli court OKs controversial Frank Gehry-designed museum.
- Baconnaise. (Thank you for the sublime ridiculosity, ackackack.)
- Your moment of the weirdest drug song ever, courtesy of Mlle. Connasse.
More like “Democracy is scary.” (Photo by C-M.)
I am going to be so tricked out for Indecision ‘08 now that I’ve got the Walker Art Center’s political art buttons (complete with obtuse slogans by Donald Judd and Joseph Beuys) in my hot little hands. Many thank to John Hoffoss in Minneapolis for taking the time and expense to send me the set. I will wear them pride. And a mild sense of hipster irony.
Also: I’m buried under deadlines. No Digest today.
xox, C.
A detail from I’ve Stuck Around, Through Thick and Thin, 2008 by James Gobel. Felt, yarn and acrylic on canvas. (Image courtesy of Steve Turner Contemporary.)
- In L.A.: James Gobel, Happy Hour at Steve Turner Contemporary, through Nov. 8.
- In L.A.: The California Biennial, at OCMA and various locations, through March 15, 2009. My incisive report here.
- In L.A.: Not Figments of a Madman’s Imagination: The Uncanny in Contemporary Romanian Video Art at Kontainer Gallery in Chinatown, through Nov. 15.
- In Seattle: Lauren Grossman at Howard House, through Saturday.
- In Seattle: You F#{%ING Look at Me!: Surveillance in the 21st Century at 911 Media Arts Center, through Friday.
- In Dallas: Brent Ozaeta, Super Market at the Public Trust, through Dec. 6.
- In Newark, N.J.: The Price of Freedom at cWow, through Nov. 26.
- In NYC: Wafaa Bilal, Marth Rosler, Sandow Birk, Hasan Elahi and many others in Sedition, at Whitebox, opens Wednesday.
- In NYC: Voiceover, a public intervention by Nayda Collazo-Llorens, at MediaNoche in Harlem. Projections on the building will be viewable from dusk until midnight Thursdays through Sundays through Nov. 16.
- In NYC: The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions at the Met, through Feb. 1, 2009. Plus: a Montebello Disco party, tonight at 8:00 p.m.
- In NYC: The Language of Angels, featuring the work of Lisa Alisa, Camilla d’Errico, Sarah Joncas, Simone Maynard, Mia and Mijm Schatje, at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn, through Nov. 24.
- In NYC: Ad Nauseum Lyceum’s Domestic Skin at chashama UWS, through Sunday.
- In NYC: A panel on street art at SVA, tonight at 7:00 p.m.
- In Santiago, Chile: The 16th Chilean Architecture Biennial begins on Thursday. There will be tours of Santiago architecture starting Monday. (Plataforma Arquitectura.)
- In Frankfurt: Peter Doig at Schirn Kunsthalle, through Jan. 4, 2009.
Madeline Tindall, age 9, at the Pensacola Museum of Art. (Photo by C-M.)
- America the Gift Shop. (Art to Go.)
- Like, OMG, total weirdness. Because of an L.A. Times Culture Monster post, C-Mon has been linked to by James Frey. Yes, that James Frey.
- In addition to Sarah Palin’s whoa-nelly clothing budget, the Republican National Committee spent $6,000 on art restoration during the month of October. (Art Fag City.)
- Damien Hirst on art dealers: “…the money men will tell you anything to not have you realise their real motive is cash, because if you realise - that they would sell your granny to Nigerian sex slave traders for 50 pence (10 bob) and a packet of woodbines…”
- The Warhol Family Album. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- The country that brought you the Marquis de Sade has censored photos of a Russian artist simulating bestiality.
- Art, these days it’s all about collecting.
- L.A. art continues to get a boost: Getty Foundation is expected to award $2.8 million in grants to support shows that explore the development of the city’s art scene after WWII.
- Vintage manga from 1967.
- Art review of the day: “The show here lacks this altogether, substituting swagger for judgment, bluster for nuance, and in art, as in politics and finance, we’ve had enough of that approach already.”
- Photo Essay: The revolutionary art of Emory Douglas.
- I want, I need, I have to have…a blendie. Don’t miss the video.
- Today’s Freight Graff: Gee-Wiz and Do-It in Atlanta.
- Sometimes it’s best to just accept the graffiti.
- Totally weird children’s TV. Seriously worth it for that first Teletubbies video. (ackackack.)
- Architectural ghosts: A photo essay on the last traces of the Old Hudston Terminal in NYC. (architecture.mnp.)
- Looks sorta neo-brutal: Milanese university faculty building by Grafton Architects wins World Building of the Year Award at the first World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.
- A Thai Buddhist temple made of beer bottles.
- A century and a half of New York Times presidential endorsements.
- Your moment of Wassup 2008.
