Monthly Archive for June, 2010

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The C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Beyond the Street.

By c-monster on June 7, 2010 in Books, C-Monster, Giveaway and Street Art. 33 Comments

Pages devoted to U.K. artist Lucy McLauchlan in Beyond the Street. (Image courtesy of Gestalten.)

All right folks, we’ve got a big fat goodie for giveaway purposes: a brand-spankin’ new copy of Patrick Nguyen and Stewart Stuart Mackenzie’s Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, a nearly 400-page tome that weighs as much as a small dog and features a bonanza of photographs and interviews with everyone from Blu to Swoon to Os Gemeos to Jonathan LeVine.

This sucker usually retails for $78 in the States, but the folks at Gestalten have been kind enough to supply me with an extra copy for the purposes of a reader giveaway. Y’all know the drill: leave a comment below and I’ll be contacting one lucky dog by the weekend.

xox,
C.

Tags: beyond the street, patrick nguyen, steward mackenzie, Street Art.

The Digest. 06.07.10.

By c-monster on June 7, 2010 in C-Monster, Sculpture and The Digest. 2 Comments

Hot Box, by Skewville. Part of the exhibit Shift Work Disorder, at Factory Fresh, through June 20th. (Image courtesy of Factory Fresh.)

William Faulkner reading from As I Lay Dying.
An interview with Nicholas Carr on how the web is rewiring our brains in not-so-good ways. Jonah Lehrer reviews the book in the NYT, and disagrees with some of his points. Plus: an NYT cover story on how the internet and electronic devices can become all consuming for some.
And ‘cuz there’s no end to the black hole that the Internet has sucked me into: I’m on Tumblr.
Help Knife Edge Productions put on a performance of Tape — directed by the very awesome Sam Helfrich — here in New York, in the fall.
Stonehenge at night, 1944.
Andrew Russeth reads the new Leo Castelli bio so you don’t have to.
All those khakis bought a lot of art: Gap founder Donald Fisher’s big ass art collection about to go on display at SFMOMA.
The British Museum is working with Wikipedia.
One of Thomas Kinkade’s companies files for bankruptcy. (Unbeige.)
Prescott, Ariz. muralist asked to lighten faces of minority children in a piece. The school’s principal says the request was made for artistic purposes; others aren’t so sure. An Update on Muralgate: Local GOP councilman behind the push to lighten children’s faces. Plus, the school’s principal backs down on the request. (Hyperallergic.)
An art theft blog that rides the fine line between legal and not. And, a profile of the FBI guy that used to track the art thieves down.
Stanford copyright guru Larry Lessig on our remix culture at TED. Very interesting. (The Rumpus.)
Photo Essay: Antony Gormley’s light matrix at the White Cube gallery in London. Very Tron.
Today’s Graff: Eko gets geometric in Pau, France. Very cool. Much more here.
Crazy custom scooters. Love the one with the VW sidecar. (ackackack.com)
LEED green buildings…not very green, reports Fast Company: “…the voluntary rating system — the gold standard for green buildings everywhere — falsely presents its projects as bastions of health and safety, when it actually allows for all sorts of harmful stuff, whether pesticides in tap water or formaldehyde-laden particleboard.” (ArchDaily.)
A Lego printer.

Tags: Factory Fresh, hot box, shift work disorder, skewville.

The Ten Ugliest Buildings in NYC.

By c-monster on June 4, 2010 in Announcements, Architecture, C-Monster and New York. Closed

Of course, El Schnabel’s Palazzo Chupi (above) is on the list. See the other nine that made the cut over at Gallerina. And feel free to submit your own architectural homeliness over at the WNYC Ugliest Buildings Flickr pool. We’ll be running a slideshow featuring the best architectural doozies at some point next week.

Photo by 24gotham.

Tags: gallerina, new york city, ugliest buildings.

The Digest. 06.04.10.

By c-monster on June 4, 2010 in C-Monster, Conceptual, Sculpture and The Digest. Closed

7400-Mini Antelope, 1999, by Carlee Fernandez. Part of Carnage II 7000, a series of sculptures consisting of altered taxidermy. (Photo by Edmund Barr; courtesy of Fernandez.)

Caught in the oil. Heartbreaking. (@colsonwhitehead.)
In related news: A video simulation shows that oil could reach Atlantic coasts.
There has been some concern expressed in the comments section of this blog about the generally unhealthy nature of many of the foods I eat. I just want to let the interested parties know that my diet does occasionally include some highly attractive-looking vegetables.
Speaking of fruits and vegetables…This is how you sell books in the 21st century: Dress up like a giant banana and hit the Book Expo.
A directory of Fuck Yeah Tumblrs.
A drawing made with GPS and a lawnmower. (@nicolatwilley.)
From the Department of Whoa: Sydney Opera House lit by Laurie Anderson. (Arts Journal.)
Louise Bourgeois doc, The Spider, The Mistress and the Tangerine, to air on Sundance on Monday. Definitely check it out!
¡Art Criticism Smackdowns! — Super Effete Scholarly Edition: ArtNet‘s Ben Davis versus Greg Afinogenov, on the subject of Davis’s 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, and David Levi-Strauss versus Andy Grundberg, on the subject of photography criticism. Best sentence comes courtesy of Grundberg: “I’ve been called plenty of things in my time, but never (at least to my face) a formalist or a canonizer.” Man, do I love me some art industry trash talk. (@bhoggard, @TylerGreenDC.)
Plus: Christian Viveros-Fauné versus PS1′s Greater New York. Sample passage: “Squarer in its American Apparel nonconformity than a tramp stamp, this show is the spiritual heir to car commercials scored by Dirty Vegas and backward trucker hats, as well as an unflattering mirror held up to certain obscure micro-trends in Chelsea and Lower East Side galleries.” And that’s just the beginning. (Edward Winkleman.)
Does Bravo’s Work of Art already have an Omarosa?
Dennis Hopper’s photographs, a slideshow.
Mapping time through the ages.
Nintendo playing cards. (Coudal.)
Today’s Graff: Repaze 777 in France. Whoa.
A letter in which Frank Lloyd Wright defends himself against charges of being a commie — and refers to McCarthy’s “cowardly assassinations” — will be auctioned this weekend in California.
Brasilia, an architectural slideshow.
This building — which appears to be a government building in Lichtenstein — is all kinds of awesome. More pix here.
Mies’s Crown Hall + Warhol’s silver balloons=My head exploding with joy.

Tags: 7400-mini antelope, carlee fernandez, carnage ii 7000.

Nope, today I’m a Gallerina.

By c-monster on June 3, 2010 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed

You know the drill. Find my Datebook over at WNYC.

Tags: gallerina, wnyc.

The Digest. 06.02.10.

By c-monster on June 2, 2010 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

Grafarholt, suburb of Reykjavik, Iceland, 2005 by Pascal Fellonneau. From a series on the Reykjavik area. (Image courtesy of Felloneau.)

Defending Los Angeles…from the likes of Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Sorta related: Downtown L.A. from the Goodyear blimp. Whoa. (@KnightLAT.)
The Day In Disturbing Environmental News: Wildlife shots that are posed and children’s books about rainforests that cause rainforest destruction. Boy, we’re just damned all around, aren’t we? (Cool Green Morning.)
What the Internet is doing to our brains. And no, it’s not good.
Plus: At some point, you may be held legally responsible for what you say online.
The Paris Review is getting bloggy with it. What? No Tumblr?
Fast Company‘s 100 Most Creative People in Business. List includes TED curator Chris Anderson, Dr. Evil (I mean starchitect Jean Nouvel), Spike Jonze, media artist Zachary Lieberman, architect Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA, Chatroulette creater Andrey Ternovskiy and Naveen Selvadurai, founder of Foursquare.
In L.A.: Performance art for freeway traffic jams. Look for it on the 405. (Thank you, San Suzie.)
Marina Abramovic’s chocolate lips. Plus: A Q&A in the Speakeasy, in which she talks about her snake gown and lack of catheter. And a photo essay in Animal on her last day in the chair.
Christopher Knight offers Jeffrey Deitch a little on-the-new-job advice.
The Art Industrial Average is Down: Seattle’s Howard House to close, as will the factory that makes Jeff Koons’ balloon dogs.
The Art Industrial Average is Up: Proposed Miami Art Museum is eligible to receive $100 million in public funds. (I have to be honest: I’m all for the arts, but giving the Miami Art Museum $100 million can’t possibly be the best use of taxpayer funds in a city with a Third World distribution of wealth.)
Jonathan Jones says the YBAs are, like, totally over.
Holy crap, this is amazing. Bad at Sports interviews Second Life Kool Aid man artist Jon Rafman…in Second Life. (Watch for the Tai Chi at 3:50 and the marijuana grow room — complete with bong hits — at 7:00. There’s even boners — unicorn boners. But you’ll have to find those on your own. (Rhizome.)
Judge urges AP and Shepard Fairey to settle. Fairey’s lawyer says it ain’t over ’til its over.
Street art versus garbage.
Today’s Graff: Graphic Surgery gets geometric in Amsterdam.
Free architectural advice from a performance artist, in Seattle.
An imagined border bridge.
No Latinos, No Tacos. (The World’s Best Ever.)

Tags: grafarholt, pascal fellonneau, reykjavik.

Calendar. 06.01.10.

By c-monster on June 1, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries, New York and Sculpture. Closed

Anne Truitt at Matthew Marks Gallery. Part of the solo exhibit Sculpture 1962-2004, on view through June 26. (Photo by C-M.)

R.I.P. Louise Bourgeois. My tribute here.

Pasadena, Calif.: Hiroshige: Visions of Japan at the Norton Simon, opens Friday.
L.A.: Nancy Rubins, Skins, Structures, Landmasses, at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, opens Thursday at 6pm.
L.A.: Tim Hawkinson at Blum & Poe, through June 26.
L.A.: Booked, a group show, with Aiko, C215, Anthony Lister, Aakash Nihalani and many others, at Carmichael Gallery, opens Saturday at 6pm.
L.A.: Alice Neel at L.A. Louver, through June 26.
Houston: Perspectives 170: Cruz Ortiz at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, through July 11.
Chicago: Felipe Dulzaides, Utopía Posible,at the Graham Foundation, through Jul. 17 (Plus: There’s an interesting post on the issue of Cuban architecture over at Cityscapes.)
Miami: Claire Fontaine, Economies, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, opens Thursday.
NYC: Rachel Hovnanian, Too Good To Be True, at Colette Blanchard, through June. 30. (The Moment.)
NYC: The photography of Clay Williams, at Habana Outpost in Fort Greene, opens Wednesday at 8pm.
NYC: Tucker Nichols at Zieher Smith, through the summer.
Kutztown, Penn.: Dean Radinovsky, and many others, at the 21st Invitational Salon of Small Works, at the NAP exhibition space at 173 Main Street, through July 10.
Mexico City: Postópolis DF, a five-day blogger confab organized, in part, by the Storefront for Art & Architecture, in which all manner of urban, architectural and artistic issues will be discussed, at the Museo Experimental El Eco in San Rafael, starting next Tuesday.
London: Crossing the Channel: Friendships and Connections in Paris and London 1946-1965, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Alberto Giacometti, at Gagosian, opens Wednesday.
London: Picasso: The Mediterranean Years, at Gagosian, opens Friday.

Tags: anne truitt, matthew marks, minimalism.

Monthly Archive for June, 2010

Page 3 of 3

The C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Beyond the Street.

The Digest. 06.07.10.

The Ten Ugliest Buildings in NYC.

The Digest. 06.04.10.

Nope, today I’m a Gallerina.

The Digest. 06.02.10.

Calendar. 06.01.10.

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