I’ve had a lousy week. This made my day. Thank you, bostonbaked35.
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
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Fabrication of Blindness by Julia Mandle at Cabinet, in Brooklyn. (Image courtesy of FIAF.)
- In Brooklyn: Fabrication of Blindness by Julia Mandle at Cabinet, in Gowanus; opens Saturday at 5 p.m.
- In NYC: The Conflux Festival at the Barney Building, in the East Village, begins Thursday.
- In NYC: Sally Mann, Proud Flesh, at Gagosian on Madison Ave., opens tonight at 6 p.m.
- In NYC: Visual System, A Digital Experience, at the FIAF Gallery, opens Wednesday.
- In NYC: Vermeer’s Milkmaid at The Met, through Nov. 29.
- In NYC: Outside In, with Daphne Arthur, Marina Berio, Diane Carr, Mira O’Brien, Leighton Pierce, and Christopher Saunders at LaViolaBank, opens Wednesday.
- In NYC: I Wanna Be Somewhere at 103 Reade, opens Wednesday.
- In L.A.: Baker’s Dozen at the Torrance Art Museum, opens Thursday.
- In Seattle: Counter-Photography: Japan’s Artists Today at the Photographic Center of the Northwest, through Oct. 5.
- In Basel: Vincent Van Gogh: Between Earth and Heaven at Kunstmuseum Basel, through Sept. 27.
Untitled (2008), by Heather Cook at Foxy Production. (Photo by C-M.)
Regina Hackett got me thinking about non-existent curtains with this post last week. I’d like to add to the meme by submitting the above piece, by Heather Cook, which is currently hanging at Foxy Production in NYC. It’s a flat black fabric ‘painted’ with bleach to resemble a piece of wrinkled material. (The bleach removes pigment from the black cloth in a reverse painting process.) Can’t believe it’s flat? Here’s the side view.
(Via @tylergreendc.)
Overgrowth/Going Green - in Berlin. (Photo by F. Trainer.)
- Sea forts.
- Wolves in the studio.
- Pigs as art, Zhang Huan style.
- But will it have a cafe and free wi-fi? Larry Gagosian to open a bookstore.
- Holland Cotter says blockbuster museum shows are, like, totally five minutes ago.
- Leave the land alone, says Bruce Nauman. Though feel free to immolate lots of fossil fuels to do a fly-by.
- The Michael Jackson Public Domain Countdown. Get an explanation at ArchiDose. More ideas on the subject here.
- Making the idea of art school sound vaguely interesting: the Bruce High Quality Foundation.
- Glenn Beck is a commie pinko.
- An L.A. pot map. Handy. (ackackack.com.)
- The deep moral truths of Coen brothers films and the theology of Dudism. (Set aside an hour for this – it’s worth it.) (Off Center.)
- Annie Leibovitz given more time to repay loans.
- Today’s Street Art: El Tono & Nuria in Sao Paulo.
- David Schalliol’s Isolated Building Series.
- Steven Holl’s latest in Denmark.
- Plus: NY Mag takes a look at Morphosis’s Cooper Union building.
- People’s Prize: Vote for your favorite shelter design at the Guggenheim’s website.
- Writers as actors.
- Your moment of “Wrestlemania without the steroids.“
Traveling dog. (Photo by djwhelan.)
Hey Folks:
I’m gonna be moving my taco stand this weekend to the new hosting site. This means that the site may be down. In addition, my e-mail will be inactive for a period as I shut down this account and set it up at the new place. So, if you send an e-mail and it bounces back, that’s why…
See you on the other side!
xox,
C.
Tara Donovan at Lever House. (Photo by Kurt Strahm.)
- A temple of trash.
- Courtney Love’s Tumblr. (Animal New York.)
- Larry Gagosian said to be plotting Paris space.
- Murakami to do Versailles in 2010.
- ¡Art World Smackdown! AFC versus Christopher Knight on the subject of Frida Kahlo’s alleged archive. Let’s get ready to ruuuuummmmble.
- Artists in Iran not allowed to ship out works painted green. (Modern Art Notes.)
- A little cleaning reveals a Velazquez.
- Texas death row inmate appears on Anthony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth in London – as a cardboard cut-out.
- This is gonna be hilarious if London gets hit by a blackout. (Woulda been so much cooler if he’d made an ice swan instead.)
- For you New York artsy types: ArtCat now has a convenient mobile art calendar.
- The Katonah Museum of Art is organizing an art trip to Havana.
- Guerilla Girls and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries to speak at LACMA on Monday. Many more weekend goings-on in L.A. can be found here.
- So totally weird, in the most stonerrific way: a disused railway tunnel reborn as mushroom farm.
- Japanese Sonosheet cover art. (The Ultraman back cover is my fave.)
- Time travel posters. (ackackack.)
- “The Amazonian Chernobyl.”
- Today’s Street Art: FRG in Brazil.
- NYC’s urbanSHED competition is looking for architects who will come up with pedestrian-friendly scaffolding.
- Jean Nouvel’s New York tower got circumcised. And Nicolai Ourossoff thinks it’s a cryin’ shame.
- Your moment of Three Six Mafia meets Alice in Wonderland. (@BardotBardot.)
Recycling Barge by Robin Michals, in Camera/Chimera. (Image courtesy of Gallery Aferro.)
- In Newark: Camera/Chimera, curated by Ethan Ham, at Aferro Gallery in New York. (I participated in the making of this project! If you’re in NJ, check it out!)
- In NYC: PEEP-O-RAMA, with Brent Birnbaum, Celso, Ian Farrell, Ryan Frank, LA2, Jose Landon, Danny Licul, Dean Radinovsky and many others, at AK-57 Gallery at 830 12th Ave, this Saturday from 12-4pm.
- In NYC: Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan at the Asia Society, opens today.
- In NYC: Andy Yoder, Man Cave, at Winkleman Gallery, opens Thursday at 6 p.m.
- In NYC: I’d Like to Teach the World to Play…! with Dianne Bowen, Marcy Brafman and many others, at Brooklyn Artillery, opens Saturday at 6pm.
- In NYC: Dain, Copasetic, at the Brooklynite Gallery, opens Saturday at 7pm.
- In Miami: Grants and Commissions Program Exhibition at CIFO, featuring Miguel Amat, Gabriel Antolinez, Dora Long Bahia, Suwon Lee, Juan Carlos Leon, Oscar Munoz, Ricardo Rendon & Jose Ruiz, opens Saturday.
- In Miami: Spit-Polishing a Starless Sky/Outer Space at Charest Weinberg, opens Saturday.
- In Miami: Paul Pfeiffer, The Machine in the Ghost, at World Class Boxing, opens Saturday.
- In Chicago: Amy Casey: Uncertain Times at Zg Gallery, opens Friday.
- In L.A.: Ultrasonic International IV at Mark Moore Gallery, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: Chris Jordan and Laura Ball at Kopeikin Gallery, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: Anthony Lister, And Then the Wind Changed, at New Image Art, opens Saturday at 7pm.
- In L.A.: Angelika Tronjnarski, After the Gold Rush, opens Saturday at 6pm.
- In Santa Barbara: Jennifer Nocon, Bloodsucker, at Tracy Williams, opens Saturday.
- In S.F.: Nicholas Knight, Taking Pictures, at Steve Wolf, opens Friday at 6 p.m.
- In Paris: Uninhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments at the @art Outsiders Festival, through Oct. 11.
Sick. (Image courtesy of cutglassdecanter.)
Hey Folks:
C-Mon ain’t doing so hot – technologically speaking. Basically, I’m going to have to migrate the Monster to another host to avoid further glitches. For those of you who don’t know much about technology, it means I’m gonna have to box everything up and move it to a nice new home in the suburbs.
Most of this will be done over the weekend and y’all should barely notice a hair out of place when you come back to my little internet opium den. However, in the event that the moving truck broke down or the new neighbors aren’t all that nice…. well, now you know.
My savvy web surgeon, the unflappable Doctor Rahul, should have everything ironed out by early next week. When I will resume bounteous beginning-of-arts-season posting. (Right now, expect just one more Calendar and one more Digest, because I don’t want to be adding too much stuff to this fragile house of cards…)
Thanks for your patience and your continued support!!
xox,
C.
Find an absolutely wonderful set of photos of Lima’s surroundings, by Carlos Jimenez Cahua over here. (Image courtesy of Jimenez Cahua. Thanks Big Papi G for the heads up!)
- Artists and their studios. And as @giovannigf points out, with no sign of studio assistants anywhere.
- Austrian family wants Vermeer it sold to Hitler back. (Arts Journal.)
- “CultureGrrl is Not ‘The Future of Arts Journalism.”‘ Don’t worry, Lee, arts journalism isn’t the future of arts journalism! (@TylerGreenDC.)
- Charlie Finch=Glenn Beck, says ArtVent.
- Is Cartrain’s stealing a bunch of Damien Hirst’s pencils from a museum installation the equivalent of Tony Shafrazi defacing Picasso’s Guernica? Or is it just Dumb & Dumber: Part IV?
- Macy’s and its windows to get artsy fartsy this month as part of the Crossing the Line Festival.
- The Met is rearranging deck chairs. (Arts Journal.)
- The Colombians are getting back at us for all that bad foreign policy.
- Calling all performance artists.
- Trying to restore the world’s oldest computer.
- Trippy: A video head.
- Looks like an interesting book: Warhol TV.
- A photo preview of Saatchi’s photography show.
- There’s no such thing as too many pictures of penguins.
- In related oceanic themes…Today’s Street Art: SR-X in Cologne.
- Photo essay: village life, by Stefan Hobmaier.
- The Annual Carbuncle Cup: Britain’s Worst Buildings! Liverpool Ferry Terminal by L.A.’s Hamilton Architects takes the top spot: “Looking like a karaoke version of a Zaha Hadid project, it takes the form of a skew-whiff cross-section that has been extruded like a stick of rock.” (L.A.T.)
- Brad Pitt + Architecture + Gerbils. Seriously.
- Your moment of a cat, a dog and a pile of hamburgers.
Migration (still), 2008, by Doug Aitken. (Image courtesy of Regen Projects.)
- In L.A.: Doug Aitken at Regen Projects, opens Saturday at 6 p.m.
- In L.A.: The London Police at the Carmichael Gallery, opens Thursday.
- In Seattle: Karen Ganz, Moving Target, at Howard House, through Sept. 26.
- In Denver: Warhol’s Lens and Warhol’s Flowers at the Colorado State University Art Museum, through Sept. 25.
- In NYC: Tina Berning, The Passengers, at Gallery Hanahou, opens Thursday.
- In NYC: Victoria Sambunaris: Terra Firma, at the Gallery Hermes, fourth floor of the Hermes boutique, opens today.
- In NYC: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: 30 Years of Being Cut Up, at Invisible Exports on the Lower Side, opens Wednesday at 6 p.m. (Speaking of which, Wednesday is gallery night on the LES. Find a map of art spots here.)
- In NYC: Mark Dean Veca and D*Face at Jonathan LeVine, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Reconfiguring the Body in American Art at the National Academy, through Nov. 15.
- In NYC: Matt Held, Facebook Portraits, at Platform, opens Thursday.
- In NYC: The Flux Factory ‘Fund-Rager’ on a boat, docked somewhere in NYC, this Friday at 9 p.m. ($15; RSVP required.)
- In NYC: Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, through Jan. 4.
- In Brooklyn: How the Mural Got Made at the India Street Mural in Greenpoint, today at 8:30 p.m.
- In Brooklyn: The first Thursday Gallery Walk in Dumbo, this Thursday starting at 5:30 p.m.