Monthly Archive for July, 2010

Over at Gallerina today.

By c-monster on July 29, 2010 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed

Hey Y’all: It’s Thursday and you can find my New York Datebook over at WNYC.

In the meantime, this week’s Incredibly Brief #workoFart Recap: There was titties, there was talk about masturbation, there was titties, and actual masturbation, more titties and masturbatory talk about masturbation. It was just like the real art world!!! Anyhow, the quick lowdown on “plot” development: China is most definitely a fembot, Miles emerged as a seriously backstabby manipulator and the artists, paired up in teams to explore universal dichotomies, produced some of the weakest art of the season. The big news: Mark is out (over Peregrine’s idea). And behind-the-scenes, El Saltzino almost stole the show with his package.

Until next week…

Image courtesy of Rosino.

Tags: gallerina, wnyc, work of art.

The Digest. 07.28.10.

By c-monster on July 28, 2010 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

Part of the series Invented Memory, by Cyrus Karimpour, as featured in the Iranian online arts journal Dide. (Image courtesy of Di de.)

Facebook, the third most populous nation on earth.
The Is This Art? iPhone app gets a thorough work-out by Australian public radio. Listen here. Thanks Jeff, for the super nice shout-out! (Don’t have the app? You can get it here.)
Pacific Standard Time. Next fall, it’s gonna be all about SoCal.
Regina Hackett picks apart the reality TV enterprise, including #workoFart.
Speaking of crazy performance stuff, Howard Halle has an interesting take on Marina Abramovic’s piece Seven Easy Pieces on Art Fag City.
Plus: I miss the uncomplicated James Franco of Pineapple Express.
Even more: DaddyTypes reviews the actor’s gallery show, ending with the kicker that Franco “may just be the most important artist working in the medium of rockets since William Shatner.” Hilarious. (@gregorg, via @TheLABGallery.)
New Brandeis president seems to be okay with renting out the Rose Museum’s art collection. (AFC.)
Mobile homes, flying through the air. (An explanation here.)
The roller coaster bed.
A tower-sized LED installation.
Art windows at Selfridge’s, one of which is comprised of a dismantled motorcycle.
The nine circles of hell, in chart form. Handy.
Sorta related: Some super freaky illustrations from Japanese kids books of the 1970s. Perfect if your kid needs nightmares.
Ansel Adams negatives discovered at yard sale.
The British Monarchy has a Flickr page. (Culture Monster.)
Today’s Street Art: Specter’s shopping cart monuments.
A mass of undulating disposable cups.
These days, even playground architecture is very serious and expensive: A report on David Rockwell’s latest.
Lego architecture.
Call it nostalgia, but I’m a sucker for stories about the Time & Life building. More here.
Digital orca.

Tags: cyrus karimpour, dide magazine.

Rescuing Haiti’s priceless murals.

By c-monster on July 27, 2010 in Announcements, C-Monster, Conservation and Random Linkage. Closed

My esteemed colleague Rosa Lowinger (aka the Art Nurse) was just in Haiti and penned a wonderful little piece for Gallerina about working to rescue what remains of the priceless murals at the Cathedrale de Sainte Trinité in Port-Au-Prince. (She also — bless her heart — took lots of amazing pictures, like the one above.) It’s a great reminder of why culture is important, even in the midst of devastation.

Tags: cathedrale de sainte trinite, haiti, rosa lowinger.

Calendar. 07.27.10.

By c-monster on July 27, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries, Graffiti and New York. Closed

Public Enemy Number Two, 2010, by Mint & Serf. Part of the exhibit Mint and Serf: Special Graffiti Unit, at Lyons Wier Gallery, opens Wednesday at 6pm. (Image courtesy of Lyons Wier.)

NYC: Swell: Art 1950-2010, a three-gallery exhibit of surf-themed art, at Metro Pictures, Nyehaus and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, through Friday.
NYC: Helen Frankenthaler, at Craig Starr Gallery, on the Upper East Side, through Aug. 30.
NYC: Fuck Don Pablo Pedro at Pandemic Gallery in Williamsburg, opens Saturday.
NYC: Reader’s Delight, at McKenzie Fine Art, through Aug. 6.
Beacon, NY: Electric Windows, street artists redo a 19th century factory, this Saturday starting at noon.
Fort Worth: Constructivist Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, at the Amon Carter, through Sept. 5.
L.A.: Emmet Gowin, Beauty is Nothing, at Marc Selwyn, through Aug. 14.
Torrance, Calif.: The Rise of RAD: The Influence of the Urethane Revolution, at the Torrance Art Museum, through Sept. 4.
San Pedro, Calif.: Amanda Keller Konya, Dealing With Difficult Situations, at Project Room 3G at Angels Gate, opens Saturday at 7pm.
In Oakland: Erik Parra, Some Math & Between Currencies, at Johansson Projects, opens Friday. Opening reception on Friday, Aug. 6 at 5pm.
S.F.: Zachary Royer Scholz, Tape, Paint, Repaint, at Baer Ridgway, through Oct. 16.
Barcelona: Pipilotti Rist, Friendly Game – Electronic Feelings, at Fundació Juan Miró, through Nov. 1.

Tags: lyons wier, mint, serf, special graffiti unit.

The Digest. 07.26.10.

By c-monster on July 26, 2010 in C-Monster, Peru and Photography. 2 Comments

The landscape surrounding the Nazca Lines, in Peru. (Photo by ryangerald.)

Must. Get. The alien abduction lamp. (@pourmecoffee.)
Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than they use in services.
Ocean dead zones around the world. There’s a lot of deadness around the U.S. (Cool Green Science.)
Paint-huffing hallucinations differ by hue. Apparently gold, chrome and silver provide the most vivid trips.
Tangentially related: Ben Davis has an insightful essay on the Brion Gysin legacy.
Why Mad Men’s producers know more about art than Work of Art producers, tied into a larger post about Japanese tentacle rape. I am in writerly awe.
Sorta related: A critique of James Franco’s General Hospital performative performance art performances. (You can see all of ‘em for a little while on Hulu right here.) Skip the first two episodes (zzzzzz, thud). But be sure to catch the July 23rd show, in which Franco’s “killer” performance goes down. We not only get to see that James Franco has a remarkable dentist, but both Jeffrey Deitch AND Kalup Linzy make an appearance at around Minute 10. (Memo to Mr. Deitch: Keep your day job. Please.) The shit really starts to get crazy at Minute 33, complete with Kalup Linzy in drag and Franco going kooky on a stairwell, all set to the tune of Tears for Fears’ Mad World. Oh fuck yes, it’s the best thing I’ve seen all year. SPOILER: Franco took the baby. P.S.: Maya’s a bitch for freezing up after Ethan’s shooting. (@artfagcity.)
Painting of Conan the Barbarian goes for a cool $1.5 million.
Rob Pruitt, on glitter.
Mondrian liked to boogie. (@SFMOMA.)
RIP Doug Ohlson.
A highly interesting interview with Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida about art, money and #class. With a sorta related follow-up by Jen Graves here.
Through the windows of his taxi: The photographs of Oscar Fernández Gómez. Wow.
Museum Cake Report: PS1.
Fascinating story in the NYT Magazine on maintaining privacy and disparate identities in the age of the internet. Plus: An interesting essay from Walter Kirn on when the business of culture is of more interest than culture itself.
Death tattoos.
Obama gives the British Prime Minister a painting lithograph by Ed Ruscha, who gives Obama a work by British street artist Eine, who thought the whole thing was a gag at first. Plus: A profile of Eine about the hubbub. Interesting fact: the piece given to Obama was show at Brooklyn art space Ad Hoc back in 2008. (Los Angeles Times, @ARTnewsmag.)
Today’s Vaguely Picasso-esque Graffiti Monster: Courtesy of Tosco in Lisboa.
Snøhetta chosen to design SFMOMA’s expansion. A photo essay of the firm’s work. Plus: The museum has a helpful post on the letter ø.
What a Wonderful World, death metal edition. OMFG. (Make the Logo Bigger.)

Tags: landscape, nazca lines, Peru, ryan gerald.

It’s Thursday, which means…

By c-monster on July 22, 2010 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed

…you can find my New York Datebook over at WNYC’s Gallerina.

It’s also means that it’s time for The Incredibly Brief #workoFart Recap: Studiously-disheveled hipster artist Ryan is out. Hippie-chick Peregrine won with a cracked out My Little Pony-style unicorn. (The chalk cigarettes were a clever touch.) We learned that Jaclyn had a solitary childhood and that she climbed trees. Lots of people think Miles is a douche. Simon de Pury needs to lay off the caffeine. El Saltzino was apparently surprised to hear that there’s a children’s museum in Manhattan.

Know what this show needs? A Jeff Spicoli and a Mr. Hand. Until next week…

Photo by an untrained eye.

Tags: american gothic, gallerina, work of art.

The Digest. 07.21.10.

By c-monster on July 21, 2010 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Luna Park, New York and The Digest. 1 Comment

RATe, in the Bronx. (Photo by Luna Park.)

Chocolate Pentagons.
A staggeringly wonderful essay by Kathleen Alcott about her father and the writing life.
Because what you need to start your day is a totally frightening environmental story: One third of U.S. counties will experience high or extreme risk to their water supply sustainability by 2050.
Sorta related: June was the 304th month in a row of above average temperatures.
More evidence that one day Google will own all our asses: The company is now in the energy market. Their first big investment: wind.
The Day in Reductive Statements: Following random strangers on Twitter can help us escape clichés.
This is depressing: The UK Times’ pay wall has killed 2/3 of visitor traffic.
Art that must travel through the demilitarized zone: Videos on making pizzas in North Korea.
A 100-part Andy Warhol group portrait.
Put this on the list of things I’ve GOT to do: Get a buzz off of Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine.
Photo Essay: Otto Dix was seriously gangsta. (@giovannigf.)
Hyperallergic is hosting a PBR and mini-golf fundraiser for the Jersey City Museum this Thursday.
Plus: Joanne Mattera is seeking a little dinero to pay for her coverage of the Miami art fairs. (Art Fag City.)
Space porn.
Vandalog has a photo essay from Viva La Revolucion, the street art show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego – including a section devoted to the outdoor installations.
Today’s Graff: Zukclub does Batman in Ekaterinburg.
MoCA Cleveland’s new building design.
Weirder than the Gherkin: London’s new tower with wind turbines. That looks like a giant electric razor. Photo essay here.
Designing an aging-friendly city, including a great anecdote about a fake bus stop geared at Alzheimer’s patients.
The best of Star Wars architecture.

Tags: bronx, Luna Park, RATe.

Calendar. 07.20.10.

By c-monster on July 20, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries and Los Angeles. Closed

Tupelo, 2008, by Jack Pierson. Part of the group show Country Music, at Blum & Poe in L.A., through Aug. 21. (Image courtesy of Cheim & Reid, via Blum & Poe.)

S.F.: It’s My World, at Baer Ridgway, opens this Saturday at 7pm.
L.A.: Graciela Iturbide, asor, at Rose Gallery in Santa Monica, opens Saturday at 5pm.
L.A.: Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape, at LACMA, opens Sunday.
L.A.: Portrait, a group show, at Thomas Solomon Gallery, through Aug. 14.
San Diego: Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, at MCASD, through Jan. 2, 2011.
Santa Fe: Line, Curve, Form at David Richard Contemporary, opens today.
Austin: Michael Krumenacker, Your Hair is Mine, at Testsite, opens Sunday at 2pm.
Miami: New Work Miami, at the Miami Art Museum, through Oct. 17.
NYC: Star Wars and Modernism, a presentation and screening by John Powers and Luke DuBois, at Hyperallergic HQ in Williamsburg, tomorrow at 8pm.
NYC: Young Curators, New Ideas, at PPOW, opens Thursday.
NYC: Lush Life, a group show of 60 artists, curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez, at Lehmann Maupin, and eight other Lower East Side galleries, through Aug. 13.
NYC: Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, at Laurence Miller Gallery, through Aug. 19.
Berlin: Gordon Matta-Clark at Galerie Thomas Schutte, through Jul. 31.