Joe, by Richard Serra at The Pulitzer in St. Louis. See more frosty goodness on the museum’s Flickr feed. (Image courtesy of The Pulitzer.)
Monthly Archive for December, 2009
Stonerrific: Chrysler Wallpaper by Thomas Bayrle at the Venice Biennale 2009. See it large. (Photo by San Suzie.)
Because everyone and their mother has a year-end list wrapping up all the newsy, important stuff in the known universe, the staff here at C-Monster.net decided to stay away from topical affairs and dedicate its list to the people from 2009 we most want to eat pink cake with.
- James Franco. For equating General Hospital with performance art (in the Wall Street Journal, no less). We’ll buy that.
- Vik Muniz. For all the chocolate art. And the Rebus show at MoMA.
- Paul Pfeiffer. Duuude. (See Caryatid.)
- Werner Herzog. Because he is completely insane in only the best, most Teutonic way. Plus, he teamed up with David Lynch this year. It doesn’t get stonier than that.
- Maurizio Cattelan. How do you say whoa in Italian?
- Pipilotti Rist and Ernesto Neto. At the same time. Inside one of their installations.
- Tim Burton. Shit, he’s Tim Burton…and he has a MoMA retrospective.
- David Attenborough. How else would we know about slug sex?
- Lady Gaga. The music is totally uninteresting, but the visuals, oh the visuals…
- Jerry Saltz. Seriously, dude. Bring Roberta and we’ll blaze.
Happy 2010, everyone! See you in the New Year…
xox, C-Mon + San Suzie
Maibild, 1925 by Paul Klee. Part of the don’t-even-think-of-missing it exhibit Bauhaus 1919-33: Workshops for Modernity at New York’s MoMA. (Image courtesy of MoMA.)
- Sexy Stryx and Patty Pravo: Lady Gaga’s predecessors. I am in awe.
- I usually think Flash websites are a pox on humanity, but MoMA’s Gabriel Orozco site is pretty rad. (Though I woulda loved some audio of Orozco talking about Sleeping Dog.)
- CultureGrrl dismembers the New York Times over the repatriation of Chinese artifacts.
- Caravaggio-palooza in Naples.
- Art made of salt.
- Walking backwards through Times Square.
- Anaba has some nice pix of the Nicole Eisenman exhibit at Leo Keonig in NYC, which looks like a must-see. You’ve got ’til tomorrow.
- A letter from Mick to Andy.
- Lemon meringue pie as captured by Martin Parr. So sinister.
- Supersize me.
- The empty areas we have yet to map.
- Super Freak: A round-up of Michael Jackson art. (@artnetdotcom.)
- Must-see: A Dubai-esque spa, right in NYC. Queens, to be exact…
- Jewelry made of colored pencils.
- Today’s Street Art: Luna Park’s Top 30.
- Plus, street art: Not as collaborative as New York Magazine thinks it is, says Hyperallergic.
- Coco Chanel’s apartment.
- Frank Gehry theatre project in NYC looks like it’s set to become reality.
- Warhol Foundation funds bid to turn homes near L.A.’s Watts Towers into live-in art projects.
- It’s all the psychotherapy.
The Big Wheel, 1979, by Chris Burden. Part of the group show, Collection: MoCA’s First Thirty Years, at MoCA in Los Angeles, through May 3rd. (Image courtesy of MoCA, via Art Observed.)
- In L.A.: Nathaniel de Large at Cirrus Gallery in downtown, through Jan. 30.
- In Huntington, N.Y.: Contemporary Mark Making: Blurring the Line Between Drawing and Writing at Alpan Gallery, through Jan. 23.
- In Madrid: Palladio, the Architect (1508-1580) at CaixaForum, through Jan. 17.
- In Luxembourg: Tomás Saraceno, Dans le cadre du cycle Habiter, at MUDAM, through Jan. 3.
- In Santiago, Chile: Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, through Jan. 24.
Dog with a pipe in its mouth. (Photo by P.B. Abery; courtesy of the National Library of Wales, via Ffffound.)
Th3 Violinist annd h3r Window of Opportunity, by NohJColey. (Image courtesy of NohJColey and Brooklyn Street Art.)
- Alec Soth’s Glass Jars.
- The art world is a like a “high school cafeteria.” Then who’s the lunch lady?
- Grant Mandarino at ArtNet reads all those ArtForum Top 10 lists so you don’t have to. Sentence I wish I’d written: “Nobody dresses up the fecophiliac antics of young Italian aristocrats with quite the same sonority.” Awesome.
- Plus, More Obligatory Year-End Coverage: Christopher Knight of the L.A. Times does his end-of-decade round-up, includes references to gigantism and New-York-isn’t-the-center-of-the-universe declarations. Plus: his ’09 top exhibits listicle. Excited to see LACMA’s super-awesome Art of Two Germanys on the rundown.
- And: Jonathan Jones of the Guardian apologises to all the artists he’s insulted. Except Damien Hirst.
- The art industrial average is in a coma: Sotheby’s Christie’s sales of contemporary art plummet 75 percent after the auction houses abandon price guarantees. (Arts Journal.)
- “Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white was shrieking for the green, and the little triangle created a force field. People see very sexy things — dirty minds! — but to me sex is sex, and triangles are triangles.” — Carmen Herrera.
- Jenny Holzer loves doing laundry.
- Eggs.
- Surrealist sketchbooks.
- Larry Sultan talking to NPR, back in 1989.
- In Paris, art and commerce go together like…art and commerce!
- Ramón Coronado’s Mercado Negro. Great use of a shopping cart.
- Help support art in schools: Support Modern Art Notes‘ 2009 DonorsChoose.org drive.
- Plus: Art Fag City is having a fundraiser to help support her blogging work. Donations, made through Nurture Art, are tax deductible. C’mon folks, help a blogga out.
- Measuring that old book smell. (IIC.)
- Nuclear reactor wall charts.
- Today’s Graff: Teck in the Ukraine.
- Fascinating: The architecture of megalomania, focused on, of course, the Burj Dubai. See the photo essay. (BLDGBLOG.)
- Spock is a badass.