Monthly Archive for January, 2010

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The Digest. 01.22.10.

By c-monster on January 22, 2010 in C-Monster, Museums, Photography, San Francisco and The Digest. 1 Comment

Southern California, 1985 by Henry Wessel. Part of the exhibit The View From Here at SFMOMA. (Image courtesy of SFMOMA.)

Frozen lake sounds. (ackackack.com)
Edward Winkleman pens an op-ed in the Art Newspaper to declare that the sky is not falling just ‘cuz MOCA appointed a gallerist as its new director.
In related news: L.A.’s gain is New York’s loss says Jerry Saltz of the Deitch appointment.
The first announcements are out for the Art Olympics, I mean the Venice Biennale.
In unrelated news: The Art Handling Olympics. Looks hilarious.
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Hyperallergic is on the hunt for the Worst. Press. Release. Ever. (Art Fag City.)
¡Blogga smackdown! Tyler Green versus Regina Hackett, the sequel.
Andrea Zittel’s floating island. And I gotta confess, it looks ever so slightly like an upside down bidet. Plus: Zittel’s favorite books.
Photographers to gather in London tomorrow for street photography rights.
A tree in jars.
Paprika Mars.
Tire truck Buddha.
Vintage passport photos of artists, actors, writers and poets. My favorite. (Coudal.)
The proto-TMZ.
A Banksy movie about trying to film Banksy. Here’s the trailer. (@SamSifton, @unurth.)
Today’s Street Art: Aakash Nihalani.
Deitch to close his gallery with a Shepard Fairey show.
Part country cabin, part I-don’t-know-what: The cool looking Rennes Metropole Museum by architects Guinée et Potin.
The personal flying suit. Want.

Tags: henry wessel, sfmoma, southern california, the view from here.

Because I’m on a drumming kick.

By c-monster on January 21, 2010 in C-Monster, Conceptual, Music and Video. Closed

Rush Fort, by Kelly Burns.

Tags: kelly burns, rush fort.

Calendar. 01.21.10.

By c-monster on January 21, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Conceptual, Murals and Painting. Closed

Monopoly, 2009, by Susana Rodriguez. Part of the MexiCali Biennial, which opens at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis in L.A., this Saturday. Panel discussion at 2 p.m.; opening reception at 4pm. (Image courtesy of MexiCali Biennial.)

In Washington D.C.: The Matteo Ricci World Map at the Library of Congress, through April 10.
In Philadelphia: Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-68 at the University of the Arts, opens Friday.
In NYC: Ernesto Neto, Navedanga, at MoMA, opens Friday.
In NYC: Steve McQueen at Marian Goodman, through March 6.
In NYC: Caitlin Masley, Karl Mendonca and others at Liminal Space at the Lay-Up, in Brooklyn, opens Friday at 6 p.m.
In NYC: KK Kozik, Imitation of Life, at Black & White Gallery, opens today at 6 p.m.
In L.A.: Aakash Nihalani and Mark Jenkins at the Carmichael Gallery, opens today.
In L.A.: Alexis Rochas, I/O, at Sci-ARC in downtown, opens Friday.
In Zurich: Guillermo Kuitca at Hauser & Wirth, opens Friday at 6pm.

Tags: ben maltz gallery, mexicali biennial, susanna rodriguez.

Whoever made this Chinese news video deserves a solo at the New Museum.

By c-monster on January 20, 2010 in C-Monster, Sublime ridiculosity and Video. 1 Comment

Tags: chinese news video, new museum, team conan.

The Digest. 01.20.10.

By c-monster on January 20, 2010 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

My mom and her boyfriend, by LaToya Ruby Frazier. (Image courtesy of CultureHall.)

Finches play avant garde rock. Effing amazing.
A work of art that places itself on e-Bay every seven days. (Hat tip, @russelltrombone.)
Can collectors have their art and lend it too? Covered in this NPR report: Don Fischer/SFMOMA, Eli Broad/LACMA and Dakis Joannou/New Museum. Excellent piece.
St. Peter’s painted-over privates causing all manner of scandale at the Vatican.
Ben Davis at ArtNet does a most excellent job of rounding up illicit photos of Tino Sehgal pieces — and wonderfully deconstructing Sehgal’s no-photo policy. Best line: “Sehgal is into light bondage; a whiff of brainy sadism runs through his oeuvre.”
Deitch gets a big ol’ profile in the LAT. Interesting fact: he hasn’t driven a car in 40 years. My prediction: he’ll be doing the Tokyo Drift within a year.
A replica Ferus Gallery.
A super groovy Yayoi Kusama 1967 video round-up. Am now afflicted with strange urge to put leaves on a naked guy.
The Getty is on Flickr.
Art in a Box.
The Mona Lisa in coffee. Plus: In the same post, Regina Hackett does an art industry smackdown on Tyler Green. Juicy.
“Rebel Artist’s Tragic Ending.”
¡Graffiti World Smackdown! Robbo vs. Banksy, the Sequel.
Today’s Street Art: Hello Kitty Chemical Factory.
A robot tagger.
Frank Gehry withdraws from Museum of Tolerance project.
This house in Estonia kinda brings to mind Tara Donovan’s toothpick cube as described by the LAT’s Christopher Knight.
The Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile dog bed. Oh yes.

Tags: latoya ruby frazier, my mom and her boyfriend.

Never Can Say Goodbye at the Former Tower Records Space in NYC.

By c-monster on January 19, 2010 in C-Monster, Installation, Music, Performance art and Video. 3 Comments

To the Extreme: Artist Brent Birnbaum channels his inner Ice during his poster signing/performance at Never Can Say Goodbye. (Photos by C-M.)

As any old school New York City hoodrat can tell you, back in the days when the hair was big and the Internerdz didn’t exist, the Tower Records space on lower Broadway was a place of pilgrimage for all things music. In addition to being the spot where you could find plaid-shirted rock nerds deconstructing the various minor schools of punk, it was the only store in the city where you could also get Lowrider Magazine.

The store closed four years ago. But last Friday night, the non-profit group No Longer Empty resurrected its spirit for a night of music-related artsy goodness in a group show called Never Can Say Goodbye. The space, which has been sitting empty since Tower shut down, was filled with music-inspired art, featuring everything from a mock record shop to an in-store poster signing/performance by Ice Ice Maybe (the Vanilla Ice-esque alter-ego of artist Brent Birnbaum). There was also vodka, red wine and plenty of rock and roll hedonism — so much so that I decided to get my boob signed. Later I hurled on a cop car and trashed a hotel room. And all I gotta say is: Sharpie is a bitch to wash out.

Click on images to supersize. Continue reading ‘Never Can Say Goodbye at the Former Tower Records Space in NYC.’

Tags: brent birnbaum, joe diebes, matthew bradley, meredyth sparks, never can say goodbye.

Calendar. 01.19.10.

By c-monster on January 19, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Drawing, Galleries and New York. 1 Comment

Vagina Drawing, by Ida Applebroog. Part of her solo exhibit Mona Lisa at Hauser & Wirth, opens today. Read the NYT profile of Applebroog here. (Image courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.)

In San Diego: Tara Donovan at the Museum of Contemporary Art, through Feb. 28.
In L.A.: Alison Schulnik at Mark Moore, through Feb. 6.
In S.F.: Amy Casey at Rosenthal Gallery, through Feb. 27.
In S.F.: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera since 1870, through Apr. 17th.
In Miami: The Fantastic World of José Gurvich at the Frost Art Museum, opens Wednesday.
In NYC: Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961-1991 at the Grey Art Gallery, through April 3.
In NYC: El Celso at Follin Gallery at 45 Bleeker, opens tonight at 6 p.m.
In NYC: Romare Bearden’s The Block and Related Drawings at the Met, through spring 2010.
In NYC: Doze Green, Josh Keyes and Saelee Oh at Jonathan Levine, through Feb. 13.
In Paris: Christian Boltanski at the Grand Palais, through February 21.
In Milan: Yayoi Kusama, I Want to Live Forever, at Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, through Feb. 14.

Tags: hauser & wirth, ida applebroog, vagina drawing.

The Digest. 01.18.10.

By c-monster on January 18, 2010 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. 2 Comments

From the series Juarez, Narco Terror and Christmas by Jeff Antebi. (Photo courtesy of Antebi.)

It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In tribute: the man on Meet the Press back in 1961.

The giant banana slug.
Tino Sehgal profiled in the NY Times Magazine. (My favorite line: “His tousled hair is innocent of exposure to a brush.”) In related news: You’ve got ’til 5pm today to sign up to accompany me and WNYC in covering the Sehgal show at the Gugg. Get on it!!
We Report, You Decide: Mat Gleason at Coagula is reporting that Christopher Knight of the LAT has a mullet. I’m not sure I agree. (This is a mullet.) We are both in agreement, however, that this photo would be way more badass if Knight were wearing a Dokken T-shirt.
The Italians still want their shit back.
Geneva museum is forcing its visitors to watch video art. The whole thing sounds like being in line at Universal Studios.
The Flog has a wonderful photo essay in tribute to Doctors Without Borders.
Fabricating an artist’s copper cookie cutters. Nerdy goodness.
Pantone unveils its color of the year for 2010…and it looks an awful lot like sea foam. (Grazie, *fab*.)
After the Elephant Dung: Nice profile of Chris Ofili in the Guardian.
Fay/Ruscha.
A gallery of vintage film posters. I need, I want, I have to have…the Czech poster for Cool Hand Luke.
Photo Essays: NYC Subways in the ’80s. (What You Write.)
New York Smells scratch-n-sniff gift cards, in scents such as Bagels & Lox, Hot Dog and Summer Subway. (Art Fag City.)
Punk rock cupcakes. For when you really want to eat something that says ‘Discharge.’
Today’s Graff: Hives, Drama in Philly.
The LAT’s Christopher Hawthorne reviews the Aqua Tower in Chicago, the tallest to be designed by a female architect.
The bug dome. Sorta related: a totally crazy Portland tree house.
The case against blowing up mountains. (BLDGBLOG.)
What your tattoo location says about you.

Tags: jeff antebi, juarez, narco terror, photojournalism.

The C-Monster.net Bitch-tastic Music Mix.

By c-monster on January 15, 2010 in C-Monster, Music and San Suzie. 3 Comments

For When You Want to Bitch-Slap Someone With a Chancla.

My partner-in-crime San Suzie and I went in to mind-meld mode to produce a music mix that pays tribute to all the Latin ladies of old. There’s heartache. There’s trash talking. There’s dancing. There’s lots and lots of wigs. Download it for free over at The World’s Best Ever.

xox,
C-Mon + San Suzie

Tags: sound advice, the world's best ever.

The Digest. 01.15.10.

By c-monster on January 15, 2010 in C-Monster, Los Angeles and Photography. 1 Comment

In the butt, Bob… (Photo by Vidalia.)

Staggeringly good photo essay on Haiti by photographer Jeff Antebi.
Marsha Marsha Marsha. I mean Deitch, Deitch, Deitch.
So where is Eli Broad’s personal museum gonna go? No one knows for sure.
How to curate rule #8: “It’s good to know art history, but it’s even better to know the right people.”
Speaking of curators… On Klaus Biesenbach, the high flyer taking over PS 1. In a related story: the Saltz-Beisenbach Facebook drama!! Some days the art industry is so high school. (Art Observed; @powhida.)
From the Department of Provenance & Fishy Acquisitions: Was the Getty acting in good faith when it purchased Victorious Youth?
Images of the prophet Muhammad pulled from the Met. (Arts Journal.)
Nerdy Cool: MoMA using Ed Ruscha’s OOF on it’s 404 error pages.
Diamonds are Damien Hirst’s best friend.
Denver artist busted for Tiger Woods-related prank. (Thanks for the tip, @russelltrombone.)
RIP Dennis Stock. See a slideshow here.
I want, I need, I have to…fly on the JAL Doraemon Jet.
A Graffiti Research Lab iPhone graff application. Is it an unspoken law that every GRL video HAS to be accompanied by a moody hip-hop-ish soundtrack?
Today’s Graff: Anton in Torino.
Street artist Ellis G has a serious hater.
Work has begun on the Herzog & De Meuron extension at the Tate in London. (Art Observed.)
Chicken coops get contemporary.
Where Rammstein and Cookie Monster instersect.

Tags: colonics, Vidalia.