Monthly Archive for January, 2010

Tino Sehgal: Getting conceptual at the Guggenheim.

By c-monster on January 29, 2010 in C-Monster and Conceptual. Closed

In early January WNYC put out a call to listeners to have someone join me at the press preview for the Tino Sehgal exhibit at the Guggenheim. The London-born Sehgal doesn’t show objects of any sort (he doesn’t even allow for the production of wall text, catalogues or certificates documenting his work). So, the idea was to have someone share in the experience and discuss what it was like on-air. More than 100 folks submitted comments (wow!). And super-smart Brooklyn-based painter Susanna Heller was chosen for the task. She was a willing and able partner-in-mischief. We had a total blast together. You can get the lowdown on our experience of Sehgal’s totally kooky ‘situation’ right here.

Thanks to everyone who submitted comments. The response was fantastic. And if you happen to live in New York – even if you give a rat’s ass about art: do not miss an opportunity to see the Guggenheim totally nekkid.

[P.S. Special thanks to the Gugg for somehow letting me get away with this.]

Tags: guggenheim, susanna heller, tino sehgal, wnyc.

The Digest. 01.29.10.

By c-monster on January 29, 2010 in C-Monster, Italy, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Os Gemeos at Galleria Patricia Mocida in Milan. See more flix at Fecal Face. (Photo by *fab*.)

The Six Most Statistically Full-of-Shit Professions: Art Critics come in at Number Four. (Hat tip to @russelltrombone.)
RIP J.D. Salinger.
This violates my unspoken rule of never ever linking to the Huffington Post, but I had to share it because of its radioactive levels of ridiculosity: Duke Riley writes to Hugo Chavez.
The Art Nerds Are Trash Talkin’!! Museums betting paintings for the Super Bowl. Bring. It. On.
The Getty gets a trove of Manuel Alvarez Bravo photos.
Speaking of which…Flashback: J. Paul Getty, Playboy columnist. (@KnightLAT.)
“But is it rubbish?” Brit artists trash their art.
Rendering Fear: a round-up of al-Qaeda graphic design. Seems to me like a number of these pieces owe a debt to Hollywood movie posters.
Snow sculptures of comics and cartoon characters.
Incisive Reportage: We went to the vagina show and what did we see? Vaginas. (The rug, it brought the room together.)
El Bulli to shut down for a coupla years. (My El Bulli dinner report from 2008 here.)
And because I’m on a food kick: My guide to Lima eats in Budget Travel.
Ziggy and the Spiders do the dining car.
Steam tunnel music.
Today’s Graff: Faif gets skaterrific in Spain.
Poster Boy got popped.
Unhappy hipsters.

Tags: galleria patricia mocida, os gemeos.

Video Diary: What a daily commute looks like when you work for Lonely Planet.

By c-monster on January 28, 2010 in C-Monster, Costa Rica, Nature Break and Video. 2 Comments

In Tortuguero, on the country’s northeast coast – a network of lowland, rainforest canals (no roads) – with our 10-year-old boat captain, Toñito. I spent all day being hauled around by this incredible kid, who learned how to pilot a boat when he was four.

I’m on an industrial-strength deadline for a Lonely Planet guidebook right now – and am in the process of reliving my November trip to Costa Rica, where transport is always entertaining. I’ve put together a short video diary of a few memorable episodes. Sadly, I did not get any film of the one-armed taxi driver who took me – full speed – on a winding mountain road while talking on his cell phone and driving stick.

Catching a ride on the back of an ATV with Jason, on our way to the Green Gold lodge in Parismina, on the Atlantic Coast.

Making our way to Bajos del Toro in the Central Valley, with a little Janis cranking on the radio.

Tags: commuting, Costa Rica, lonely planet, parismina, tortuguero.

Calendar.01.28.10.

By c-monster on January 28, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries, New York and Painting. Closed

The Overachievers, by Clare Grill. Part of the exhibit What You’re Told at Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC, up through Feb. 7. (Image courtesy of Jen Bekman.)

In L.A.: James Welling, Glass House, at Regen Projects in Beverly Hills, opens Saturday.
In L.A.: Noah Davis at Roberts & Tilton in Culver City, through Feb. 20.
In L.A.: Sweet Child of Mine at LACE, through January 31.
In Oakland: Article X, David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, at Johansson Projects, opens Saturday at 5 p.m.
In Columbus, Oh.: Hard Targets at the Wexner Center for the Arts, opens Saturday. (Find my write-up of the LACMA version of the show here.) (@TylerGreenDC.)
In Arlington, Va.: Transhuman Conditions, at the Arlington Center for the Arts, opens this Friday at 6pm.
In NYC: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Daniel Albrigo at Renwick Gallery, opens Sunday at 6 p.m.
In NYC: Soft and Loud, with Stacy Fisher, Jaya Howey and JD Walsh at 117 Grattan in Brooklyn, opens Friday at 6pm.
In London: Chris Ofili at the Tate Britain, through May 16. Read the Guardian‘s review here.

Tags: clare grill, jen bekman gallery, the overachievers.

San Suzie’s Photo Diary: The L.A. River After the Storms.

By c-monster on January 27, 2010 in Graffiti, Los Angeles, Nature Break, Photo Diary, San Suzie and Street Art. 4 Comments

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Tags: LA River, San Suzie.

The Digest. 01.27.10.

By c-monster on January 27, 2010 in C-Monster, Galleries, New York, Painting and The Digest. 3 Comments

Siddartha, by Doze Green, at Jonathan LeVine in NYC. (Photo by C-M.)

LACMA’s Reading Room now offers out-of-print catalogues, online.
Whoa! Super congrats to Art Fag City and Animal New York for making it onto the Village Voice‘s best Gotham bloggas list!
Hyperallergic has an excellent round-up of what’s going down with Haiti’s cultural institutions in the wake of the earthquake.
How to fix a ripped Picasso. More on the possible repair job in the NYT. Plus: Ed Winkleman proposes his own hilarious solution to the problem. (Arts Journal.)
Eli Broad’s museum might end up in downtown L.A. But then again it might not. An aside: Seriously dude, the last thing that town needs is another giant institution that everyone has to sit in traffic to get to. I seriously think that anyone cooking up culture in LA should take a long hard look at the realities of their city’s landscape and think about devising a new model. How ’bout little Eli Broad mini-museum franchises all over the southland? It’d make way more sense.
Radiovisual – a contemporary art podcast. Damn good. What I learned: Thurston Moore has great teeth. (Art Fag City.)
ArtForum miscellany.
Movie made by chimps to air on the BBC. I smell biennial!!! (Eyeteeth.)
Seriously stonerrific: The Super K Sonic Booooum. I want one in my house.
How to draw Girlie Cartoons.
Annie Sprinkle will be hosting an erotic cake contest at The Lab in S.F. for Valentine’s Day. Cannot wait to see the photos.
Retouching before Photoshop.
Shepard Fairey facing criminal investigation in AP case.
Today’s Graff: Tosco in Lisbon.
A super trippy video on augmented reality. Love the ’70s Farrah poster.
Architecture porn: 16 Miles has luscious photos of the Santiago Calatrava railway station in Liège.
Junkitechture.
Guns and roses.

Tags: doze green, jonathan levine, siddartha.

Video Diary: Daniel Rozin at Bitforms in NYC.

By c-monster on January 26, 2010 in Art for stoners, C-Monster, Galleries, Installation, New York, Sculpture and Video. 1 Comment

My filmed reflection in Daniel Rozin’s Rust Mirror (top) and Mirrors Mirror (bottom). Part of the exhibit: Daniel Rozin: X by Y at Bitforms Gallery in Chelsea, through March 20. (Videos by C-M.)

Tags: bitforms gallery, daniel rozin, mirrors mirror, rust mirror, x by y.

Calendar. 01.26.10.

By c-monster on January 26, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Conceptual, Los Angeles, Museums and Sculpture. Closed

Untitled Sound Suit, by Nick Cave. From the exhibit, Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, through May 30. (Image courtesy of the Fowler, via LAT.)

In L.A.: Art Los Angeles Contemporary kicks off at the Pacific Design center this Thursday.
In L.A. & Madrid: Alexandre Arrechea, the City that Stopped Dancing, at Casado Santapau in Madrid, opens today. Plus: Arrechea and Alejandro Almanza Pareda at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, opens Thursday; artists reception on Sunday, Jan. 31st, at 2 p.m.
In Miami: La Colección Jumex at the Bass Museum of Art, through March 14.
In NYC: The Visible Vagina, at Francis Naumann (open Wednesday) and David Nolan (opens Thursday).
In NYC: Bruce Conner at Susan Inglett, opens Thursday.
In NYC: David Maisel, Library of Dust, at Von Lintel, through Feb. 27.
In NYC: Culture Wars, an art trivia competition hosted by Art21, at the 92nd Street Y, this Thursday at 6:30pm. Should be nerdarrific.
In NYC: Jef Aerosol, All Shook Up, at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn, opens Friday at 6 p.m.
In Milan: Os Gemeos at Galleria Patricia Mocida, through March 25.

Tags: meet me at the center of the earth, nick cave, ucla fowler museum.

Photo Diary: Primary Atmospheres at David Zwirner in NYC.

By c-monster on January 25, 2010 in Art for stoners, C-Monster, Galleries, New York, Photo Diary and Sculpture. 5 Comments

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Tags: craig kauffman, david zwirner gallery, dewain valentine, doug wheeler, james turrell, john mccracken, larry bell, peter alexander, primary atmospheres, robert irwin.

The Digest. 01.25.10.

By c-monster on January 25, 2010 in C-Monster, Drawing and The Digest. Closed

All This And More, by Marc Johns. (Image courtesy of Marc Johns.)

No kicking penguins.
Hoping, praying, hoping that the art industrial average is rising out of the pooper. (@russelltrombone)
Woman at the Met falls on a Picasso – tears him a new one. (@hyperallergic.)
Ed Belbruno, astrophysicist/painter. I love his website.
Art21 has been doing some fascinating segments on the people who fabricate art. This week: the guy who makes Paul McCarthy’s kinky animatronic sculptures.
Bauhaus tapestries.
The sculptural possibilities of urinals (beyond your everyday ready-made). (@russelltrombone)
The stray dogs of Moscow. (BLDGBLOG.)
Tweets as classic books. (Art Fag City.)
Help Studio 360 redesign Valentine’s.
A little 1970 manga: Desert Eyeball, by Maki Sasaki.
Banksy’s Park City, Utah pieces have been getting the buff.
Today’s Street Art: The wire sculptures of Spenser Little in San Diego. More here.
La Puerta: A stop-motion animation by Limow and Sam3.
Unemployed architects improvise new gigs.
Brooklyn-based SO-IL will be doing the install — called Pole Dance — at P.S. 1 this summer. See trippy-weird schematic video here.
In Chicago: a cast iron decoration by Louis Sullivan gets a freshening up.
New building by the Dark Lord Foster opens in Racine.
McDonald’s new burgers in Japan: the Big American. Be sure to watch the video.

Tags: all this and more, marc johns.

Monthly Archive for January, 2010

Tino Sehgal: Getting conceptual at the Guggenheim.

The Digest. 01.29.10.

Video Diary: What a daily commute looks like when you work for Lonely Planet.

Calendar.01.28.10.

San Suzie’s Photo Diary: The L.A. River After the Storms.

The Digest. 01.27.10.

Video Diary: Daniel Rozin at Bitforms in NYC.

Calendar. 01.26.10.

Photo Diary: Primary Atmospheres at David Zwirner in NYC.

The Digest. 01.25.10.

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