Monthly Archive for November, 2008

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Calendar. 11.06.08.

By c-monster on November 6, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries and Painting. Closed

Mark Dean Veca at Jonathan LeVine, in the fall of 2007. (Photo by C-M.)

In L.A.: Mark Dean Veca’s Phantasmagoria at Otis College.
In L.A.: A group exhibit at The Conference Room Gallery in Culver City, opens Saturday.
In L.A.: Pool, photographs by Taro Hirano, on Abbott Kinney.
In NYC: Michael Loveland at Platform, opens tonight.
In NYC: Portraits of Emptiness by Xu Weixin at China Square, opens tonight.
In NYC: Susan Hiller’s J Street Project at the Jewish Museum, opens Sunday.

The Digest. 11.06.08.

By c-monster on November 6, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and The Digest. 1 Comment

Salón Bicentenario at the Bibilioteca Nacional in Santiago, by A+F Arquitectos, at the Chilean Architecture Biennial. (Image courtesy of Plataforma Arquitectura.)

The art industrial average, not so hot: Sotheby’s sales fail to meet initial estimates. Christie’s sales are also in the pooper. More here and here.
AFC has a thoughtful post about the politics of representation and art, in which artist Nayland Blake discusses the American obsession with ethnic and cultural silos.
Photographer Zoe Strauss does election night.
The six most insane people to run for President. (ackackack.)
Photo Essay: Paintings from photographs.
Move mountains, fill rivers, fuck with nature as much as you can: A 2009 New Mexico-based organization is looking for land art proposals in the vicinity of Albuquerque.
From the Department of Missed Opportunities: Tate coulda had a bunch of Rothkos, but they dropped the ball.
Whoa! Crazy looking Maya Lin sculptures at the DeYoung.
The University of Iowa to restore its Stephen Holl, flood-damaged art building. (MAN)
Get dressed up like a pill and ride around downtown L.A. this weekend.
LACMA trying to get a subway stop in front of its museum. Because then maybe people will visit.
Penn, of Penn and Teller, talking about his extensive collection of Tony Fitzpatrick etchings. And the work of Kara Walker. Highly educational. (Anaba.)
Gabriel Orozco talks about his abstract painted sculptures: Samurai Tree.
Photo Essay: The Frieze Art Fair. (Juxtapoz.)
Today’s Graff: Amsah & Vero in France.
A curvy bench by Gehry Partners in Tokyo.
Coop Himmelb(l)au’s L.A. High School #9. I saw this during the day, when it looked bubbly. At night, however, it seems to turn into a prison guard tower.
Looks like a pile of logs: the Final Wooden House by Sou Fujimoto in Kumamoto.
Your moment of Second Semester of Spanish, Spanish Love Song. (Thank you, Sean!)

Tags: A+F Arquitectos, Chilean Architecture Biennial, Salon Bicentenario.

USC/Getty: Day 5.

By c-monster on November 5, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster, Los Angeles, Painting and USC/Getty Fellowship. Closed

Work-in-progress: A painting of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium at the Warner Bros. backlot in Burbank.

Tags: Bird's Nest, Warner Bros..

Over and out…

By c-monster on November 5, 2008 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed

(Photo by shc32.)

The election has me wiped, as do the Jack and Diets. No Digest today.

xox, C.

Calendar. 11.04.08.

By c-monster on November 4, 2008 in C-Monster, Calendar, Miami and Photography. Closed

Zoe Strauss. (Image courtesy of WCB.)

In Miami: Zoe Strauss at World Class Boxing, opens Saturday.
In NYC: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera at the Whitney, opens Friday.
In NYC: Alexander Calder: The Paris Years at the Whitney, through Feb. 15.
In St. Louis: Birth of the Cool at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, through Jan. 5.
In L.A.: Vermeer’s A Lady Writing at the Norton Simon in Pasadena.
In San Francisco: Andy Goldsworthy at Presidio Park, through May 3, 2009.
In Seattle: The photography of Richard Barnes at Howard House, opens Thursday.
In London: Robert Capa and Gerda Taro at the Barbican, through Jan. 25.
In London: Antoni Tapies at Adam Gallery, through Nov. 29.
In Paris: From One Revolution to Another: Carte Blanche to Jeremy Deller at the Palais de Tokyo, through Jan. 4.

Tags: Miami, Photography, World Class Boxing, Zoe Strauss.

USC/Getty Day 3: Tommy Trojan, Hot Gay Statue.

By c-monster on November 4, 2008 in C-Monster, Los Angeles, Sculpture and USC/Getty Fellowship. 2 Comments

Tommy, ready to strike. In a thigh-revealing micro-mini. (Photos by C-M.)

Today, I would like to pay tribute to The Gay Recluse, who regularly pens one of the most awesome art-related features in the blogosphere: Hot Gay Statues. While hanging out on the USC campus yesterday, I realised that storied USC mascot Tommy Trojan would make a perfect addition the list: he’s got six-pack abs and an ass that you could bounce quarters off of. Not to mention a very large sword.

TGR: Hope it’s okay to borrow your idea for a day. I couldn’t resist. In the meantime, check Tommy out right this second on the 24-hour Tommy Cam.

Click on images to supersize. More after the jump.

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Tags: The Gay Recluse, Tommy Trojan, USC.

The Digest. 11.04.08. Election Day Edition.

By c-monster on November 4, 2008 in C-Monster, Graffiti and The Digest. Closed

Dear Obama: Please make this a clean K.O. After eight years of unmitigated political and economic disaster and two years of endless campaigning, I think everyone is ready for a good night’s rest. (Rome graffiti courtesy of San Suzie.)

Vote No on Prop 8.
R.I.P Yma Sumac. Video courtesy of my colleague Yvonne Connase.
Hot Gay Statues, Met Museum edition.
Art Fag City has a great round-up on the art industrial average.
Speaking of which, that Sotheby’s auction last night sucked the big one. More here and here.
Chinese annoyed at upcoming auction of Yves Saint Laurent art collection, which includes two bronze sculptures that were taken from an imperial residence during the Second Opium War.
Art Lede of the Day: “Biennials are a virus that has spread across the globe.” Photo essay here.
Virtual tours of the National Gallery. (ackackack.)
Eco Art Blog has a report on the California Biennial’s Tijuana goings-on. Plus some excellent-looking photographs of food.
Blood in art.
Ergonomic steam punk keyboard.
Today’s Graff: Puak in Hungary.
Video: Elbow Toe at work. (Dude, what’s with the cow head?)
Favela Painting.
Historic modernist office complex (once “the House of Tomorrow”) by Welton Becket in L.A. is in foreclosure.
Photo Essay: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marden House.
The architecture of James Bond movies.
New book: Ada Louis Huxtable’s On Architecture.
Slate not a fan of Renzo Piano’s BCAM. (architecture.mnp.)
Motel hell. (Coudal.)
Your moment of Neckface Top 5. (World’s Best Ever.)

Election Day.

By c-monster on November 4, 2008 in Announcements, C-Monster, Sublime ridiculosity and Video. 1 Comment

Courtesy of C-Monster.net resident DJ, Yvonne Connasse.

xox, C.

USC/Getty: Day 2.

By c-monster on November 4, 2008 in C-Monster, Los Angeles, Painting and USC/Getty Fellowship. Closed

Dude in loin cloth, tanning, with a very large knife. Spotted on our walk through the Griffith Observatory.

Tags: griffith observatory, Los Angeles, USC Annenberg Getty Arts.

The Digest. 11.03.08.

By c-monster on November 3, 2008 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. Closed

Untitled, 2008 by Daniel Albrigo. (Image courtesy of Daniel Albrigo.)

I wanna hang out with William Eggleston and his white suede shoes. More here.
Discreet death heads. (AFC.)
Murder and mayhem at the Guggenheim. And it has nothing to do with the Krens-Master.
L.A. to host big-ass arts fair.
Art Headline of the Day: “Toilet-turned-art-museum draws crowds in Munich.” (Arts Journal.)
Richard Prince furniture, including a nurse-hat chair. For reals.
Jeff Koons show at Versailles extended. (Art Observed.)
The Day in Art Merch: David Choe pillows.
Mysterious storefronts have been sprouting in NYC’s Washington Heights. Turns out they’re public art.
Sort of real Pollock goes on sale in Toronto.
Pawn your art!
Art21 has a few pix from the New Orleans biennial. See the Flickr pool here. A coupla favorites: Srdjan Loncar’s Burning Car and Mark Bradford’s Mithra.
Edgar Arceneaux’s Watts House Project in L.A.
R.I.P. Cundo Bermudez.
Punk memorabilia heads for auction.
Today’s Graff: Irkcan in Mexico.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is introducing tougher graffiti measures. Said the tanned one of the problem: “in some of our cities, it feels as though we’re in Africa rather than Europe.”
Starchitecture, Hollywood edition. (Arts Journal.)
The Storefront for Art & Architecture in NYC is having a sleepover in honor of election night, tomorrow. BYO sleeping bags (ArchiDose.)
How architects die. (architecture.mnp.)
Princess Zaha’s Melissa Shoe. Looks like all those jellies I wore in the ‘80s.
Your moment of ridiculous dog photo.