Monthly Archive for January, 2010

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The Digest. 01.06.10.

By c-monster on January 6, 2010 in C-Monster, Galleries, Los Angeles and Photography. 3 Comments

Vapor Cloud, by Mitch Dobrowner, from the upcoming exhibit Tropospheres, opening Saturday in Los Angeles. (Image courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery.)

James Franco’s bad boy artist character from General Hospital to show at Deitch. The mind reels. (@artnetdotcom.)
RIP Kenneth Noland, color field artist. NYT obit here.
The art market blue period: the WSJ does an art industrial average year-in-review. (Newshour Art Beat.)
Tragic: Velveteria, the velvet painting museum in Oregon to close. (Thanks to Jeff Weinstein for the heads up!)
Artist planning to spend 24 hours at Best Buy without buying anything. (Art Fag City.)
The Whitney Museum is looking for NYC teenagers. Sadly, it’s not for a performance art piece. (@artnetdotcom.)
Guardians of the art world. Pairs well with men who sit and wait. (@MuseumModernArt.)
Michael de Broin’s Dead Star.
Fragmented cities: the photographs of Alejandro Cartagena. See Cartagena’s website here.
To quote Tyler Green: ” Let me see if I get this right: In Canada, it is possible to get government funding for a bronze sculpture of a nude hockey player to be installed in Vancouver at the ‘gay meeting place’ for the Oympics. If that isn’t enough to make us all move to British Columbia, what is?” Oh, Canada!
Now this is a name for a show: “The Visible Vagina.” Which takes me to the quote of the day: “I’ve got vaginas coming out of my wazoo.”
Absolutely gorgeous frackin’ photo essay of a winter visit to the Spiral Jetty.
The coming flood. (Arts Journal.)
Put on your drool catcher: 7 decades of cookies, courtesy of Gourmet. (Cherries in Winter.)
3rd Ward Moviehouse in Brooklyn is looking for your three-minute romantic movies. Deadline: Feb. 7.
Steve Almond at The Rumpus takes down the Katie Roiphe hetero-white-males-don’t-write- about-sex-because-they’ve-been-castrated-by-feminism essay. Nice.
Tom Waits reads Bukowski.
Interesting Q&A with Teddy Cruz, an architect obsessed with the informal architecture of the Tijuana/San Diego border zone: “The most inventive, progressive, experimental projects have not happened in China or the Emirates (where architecture is so often treated as an object or icon), but within the context of infrastructure, in Latin America.”
Architect David Chipperfield knighted. (architecture.mnp.)
A quarry turned into a performance space.
That’s a lot of slut.

Tags: mitch dobrowner, tropospheres, vapor cloud.

And now…a word for our sponsors.

By c-monster on January 5, 2010 in Announcements, C-Monster and Street Art. Closed

xoxox in Berlin. (Photo by kriskong.)

I wanted to begin the year by giving a shout-out and thank you to the awesome dudes at Culture Pundits and the sponsors that regularly inhabit the space you see on the upper right hand corner of this blog. I’m part of a network of arts and cultural blogs (which includes long-time online buds like Eyeteeth, Bloggy and Hrag Vartanian, as well as newcomers such as The Rumpus and Hilobrow — among many others) that are supported by the galleries, museums and companies that rotate through this sponsorship space (such as the Brooklyn Museum, SyFy, TekServe and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, to name a few). To be clear, I’m not getting rich off this. But it does help me cover expenses like server fees and other Internet miscellany. So, if you want to support bloggas like me — and get the word out about your exhibit/product/show — get in touch with Culture Pundits (you can do that here) and they can set you up.

Thanks to all the folks who read C-Mon and the fellow bloggas who are kind enough to link to our ridiculous antics. I really appreciate it.

Happy 2010! May the ridiculosity be with you.

xox,
C.

Tags: culture pundits.

Calendar. 01.05.10.

By c-monster on January 5, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries, New York and Video. Closed

Still 22, by Marie Lorenz. Part of the exhibit Marie Lorenz/SHIPWRECKS at Jack Hanley Gallery in NYC, artist reception on Friday, Jan. 8th at 6 p.m. Do not miss this show. (Image courtesy of Marie Lorenz.)

In NYC: Omer Fast at Postmasters Gallery, opens Saturday at 6 p.m.
In Marfa, Tex.: Artists in Residence Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser, opens Thursday at noon.
In Chicago: Anna Shteynshleyger at the Renaissance Society, through February 14.
In L.A.: Irving Penn, Small Trades, at the Getty Center, through January 10.
In Portland, Ore.: Christopher Rauschenberg, Paris Flea Market, at Elizabeth Leach, opens Thursday.
In Seattle: Rangel de Maria at Monarch Studio, opens Thursday.
In Seattle: Marc Dombrosky, Neverland, at Platform Gallery, opens Thursday at 6 p.m.
In Seattle: Gretchen Bennett and Yuki Nakamura at Howard House, opens Thursday at 6 p.m.
In London: Raymond Pettibon at Sadie Coles HQ, through Jan. 9.
In Frankfurt: László Maholy-Nagy at Schirn Kunsthalle, through Feb. 7.

Tags: jack hanley gallery, marie lorenz, shipwrecks.

Ask the Art Nurse: Maintaining fragile works on paper.

By SanSuzie on January 4, 2010 in Ask the Art Nurse, Conservation, Drawing and San Suzie. 3 Comments

DEAR ART NURSE:
First of all, are you a bad or a good nurse? My main question, however, is from a collector/art lover’s angle. I love — absolutely LOVE — works on paper (I admit, it’s a fetish), but I have a dilemma: I’m terrified of placing any of the works near windows lest they are exposed to light and deteriorate.

I’ve heard that sun damage is so gradual that sometimes you don’t even notice the work is damaged until you put it beside another work (like another print from the same series). I properly frame all the work I purchase and use UV Plexiglas. But I hear that those don’t work very well after 5-10 years, since supposedly their effectiveness dwindles. I recently purchased an acrylic work on paper. I love it and have the perfect space for it but it has LOTS of light. Am I safe with acrylic? Also, I have photographs (C-prints). I want to love my art in the open but I fear that my love of art will never step out of the shadows where, at least, I know the art is safe. Am I being paranoid? Is there anything artists should be doing to guarantee their works don’t fade?

– Art lover desperately seeking to bring his art out of the closet

DEAR ART LOVER:
I am a good nurse, here to help you feed your fetishes. In the case of paper conservation — which I studied in graduate school under the phenomenal Antoinette King of MoMA, but abandoned when archeology came a-calling — I believe that a ton, not an ounce, of prevention is warranted. Fortunately, I live a stone’s throw from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and have known its chief paper conservator, Janice Schopfer, since she was at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. In other words, relax. No more fears or paranoia are warranted. Read on — and let your love step out of the shadows.

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Tags: Ask the Art Nurse, works on paper.

The Digest. 01.04.10.

By c-monster on January 4, 2010 in C-Monster, New York, Photography and The Digest. 1 Comment

Bergdorf Goodman Window by Kurt Strahm. (Image courtesy of Restless.)

The art of floating plastic knives.
#class: William Powhida and Jen Dalton challenge the New Museum’s Dakis Joannou exhibit with one of their own.
Speaking of which, the New Museum isn’t the only place that will show an artist-curated exhibit of the Jouannou collection.
Man, Urs Fischer’s work sure looks a whole lot better laden with scoops of vanilla ice cream.
Vegas museum forced to use pasties on a mural after nipple uproar. (Arts Journal.)
Celebrity artists.
Getting buggy: My ArtNews story on the use of insects in art. Fabián Peña’s kicker is priceless. (I agree: humans resemble roaches in more ways than we’d like to believe.)
Here’s one out of left field: My Twitter feed made the NYT. What will I do with all this newfound credibility? Squander it senselessly, of course. (Seriously, thanks for the kind e-mails, Twitters and to those who have relentlessly pimped this on my behalf. Y’all rock.)
And because it’s all about me: my review of the Guggenheim’s new resto, The Wright, is up at WNYC — with pictures of everything we ate!!
More year-enders: Joanne Mattera does a comprehensive Miami fairs round-up, which includes a shot of the stunning Picasso sandwich at Aqua. Plus: AFC’s Best of the Web 2009 list, chock full of special guest hosts, the Saltz-Master’s New York Mag year-in-art, and 16 Miles has a list of year-end-review lists. Handy.
Monterrey gothic: The photographs of Aristeo Jiménez. Pure awesomeness. Click here for more on the photographer. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
Homies phone cards.
The Face of Jesus.
¡Graffiti World Smackdown! Banksy vs. Robbo vs. Banksy.
Today’s Graff: Scheme in Moscow.
L.A., then and now. Very cool. (@KnightLAT.)
Burj Dubai set to open today: “Here is the Burj Dubai’s real symbolic importance: It is mostly empty, and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.”
A nurse’s opinion of the proposed demolition of Walter Gropius-designed Michael Reese hospital in Chicago.
Tokyo’s capsule hotels become residences in worst Japanese recession since World War II. (@stevesilberman.)
The joy of pipe.
Chicken techno. (Thank you, Fred Muram.)