Where High Gets Low.
Getting pensive: Veng RWK at Thinkspace. (Photos by C-M.)
A gaggle of about 40 NYC artists descended on Thinkspace in L.A. for From the Streets of Brooklyn, a group show put together by New York’s Ad Hoc Art Gallery. The opening was packed, the Grolsch cold and plentiful — and the gallery’s snack cabinet, blissfully well stocked. All around: a very, very good time.
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Seawall, 1957 by Richard Diebenkorn at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. (Photo by C-M.)
Sant Gregori Papa (1495) by Pedro Berruguete at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. (Photo by C-M.)
Dan Witz, in From the Streets of Brooklyn, at Thinkspace, in L.A. (Image courtesy of Juxtapoz.)
Light and Space III, a three-story fluorescent light installation by Robert Irwin, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. (Photo by diong, via Richard McCoy.)
The Helios House, a “green” gas station by Johnston Marklee & Associates in L.A. Built in 2007. (Photos by C-M.)
Oh, the architectural drama! I finally pumped gas at that fancy-pants Gehry-meets-Zaha gas station on the corner of Robertson and Olympic in Los Angeles. No scruffy guys in oil-slicked overalls here. Helios House, by Johnston Marklee & Associates, has the uber-hip feel of a thumping, high-end night club — and the name to go with it. The station brims with oodles of stainless steel and all kinds of “green” goodies, including solar panels, a roof with native plants (which we’ll have to take on the architects’ word, because I couldn’t see them) and energy efficient lights — all so that when you and your entourage pop in to fill up the Escalade, you feel like you’re doing good for Mother Earth (in a stylish way, of course). I wish someone would do up a 7-Eleven this way. ‘Cuz I’d really like to recreate this sensation every time I pick up my afternoon Slurpee.
See a really nice shot of the building here.
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Today’s Graff: Neuzz in Mexico. See more images here. (Photo courtesy of Ekosystem.)
Bananas, 1978, by Andy Warhol. (Image courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery.)
Monkey at MoMA, a Flickr set of a stuffed monkey’s adventures at the museum. Found via MoMA’s Twitter feed. Pure awesomeness. (Photo by josespiano.)
Do you smell what the Monster is cooking? That’s 13 inches of straight up burro con carne asada. (Photos by C-M.)
Last year, my L.A. homegirl Vidalia introduced me to the grotesque spectacularness of the Porno Burrito, El Atacor‘s legendary mac daddy burro, a sculptural assemblage of beans, rice, meat, guacamole and pico de gallo that weighs as much as a small dog. Vidalia and I had taken on the burrito in the past. But last night we did it again. And because we had one too many drinks in us, we decided to order two. We only made it through one, even though we split it three ways with Celso. But because I hate to waste a good Porno, today, Celso and I devoured the second (after taking lots of pictures).
How do we feel after inhaling this monster? Something along the lines of this.
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