Jay Rosenblatt films are coming up at MoMA on Oct. 13. A preview above. See the Hitler clip from Human Remains.
Monthly Archive for September, 2010
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Grande Cretto Nero, 1977, by Alberto Burri. Burri’s is showing a selection of his U.S.-made works at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, through Dec. 18, as part of the solo show, Combustione. (Image courtesy of CLP Relazione Publiche; via @TylerGreenDC.)
Plus: You can find a photo essay of the Chelsea openings over at Gallerina, complete with dogs!!! Also, I have two packets of candy cigarettes from Rob Pruitt’s opening at Gavin Brown, undoubtedly unhandled by the artist himself. Leave a comment below and they’re yours!
- Miami: Shinique Smith: Menagerie, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, opens Thursday.
- NYC: Suzan Frecon, at David Zwirner, opens today at 6pm.
- NYC: Ryan Humphrey, Look for the dream that keeps coming back, at Kunsthalle Galapagos, in Dumbo, opens Wednesday at 7pm.
- NYC: Yul Brynner, YUL: A Photographic Journey, at Lehmann Maupin on the Lower East Side, through Sept. 25. Yes, it’s that Yul Brynner. And yes, I’m going to HAVE to go see it.
- NYC: Robert Gober and Donna De Salvo talk about Charles Burchfield’s Heatwaves in the Swamp, at the Whitney, Wednesday evening at 7pm. Should be good. I am seriously in love with this show.
- NYC: Henry Darger at Andrew Edlin Gallery, through Oct. 23.
- NYC: The Last Supper Salon, at 3rd Ward, in Brooklyn, this Saturday from 6pm-2am. ($15 cover; $10 if you show up with a canned food donation.)
- Chicago: Ballplayers, Gods and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces From Ancient Mexico, at the Art Institute, opens Thursday.
- Houston: Sarah Oppenheim, D-17, at the Rice University Gallery, opens Thursday. (@TylerGreenDC.)
- Austin: Mary Walling Blackburn, Accidental Pornographies: Lessons 1-9, at Testsite, opens Sunday.
- Santa Fe: Bill Eppridge: An American Treasure, at the Monroe Gallery, through Sept. 26.
- L.A.: The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010, at MOCA, opens Sunday at the museum’s Geffen building.
- L.A.: Jose A. Figueroa, Mis 60/My 60s, at Couturier Gallery, west of Hancock Park, through Oct. 16. This Sunday, at 1pm, the gallery will host a lecture, reception and book signing for the artist.
- L.A.: Shepard Fairey, Printed Matters, as well as a book signing and reception for Beyond the Street: The 100 Most Important Figures in Urban Art, at Subliminal Projects, this Thursday, at 7pm.
- Torrance, Calif.: Baker’s Dozen, with Juan Capistran, Kori Newkirk, Hannah Greely and many others, at the Torrance Art Museum, opens Saturday.
- Paris: Anonymes, a photographic group show with Anthony Hernandez, Jeff Wall, Walker Evans, and many others at Cesuralab, opens Sunday.
A shot from the Huanchaco Longboard Pro 2010 competition in northern Peru, by Carlos Díaz. (Photo courtesy of Díaz.)
- Floating cakes. (An explanation here.)
- The science of good dancing. The video is amazing. (The Rumpus.)
- Blogging about not blogging. So true.
- Nieman Lab has an interesting white paper about the legal issues surrounding blog aggregation.
- Historical types annoyed by Murakami at Versailles. Seriously? ‘Cuz lord knows if those saucy French royals were still eating cake today, they’d each have a Murakami. And a Koons and a Hirst and a Richard Prince and a…
- The art industrial average is waaaay down: Damien Hirst’s auction sales have shrunk by 93%. (@artfagcity.)
- Plus: Hirst, alleged plagiarist.
- Structural damage from the earthquake leaves Chilean contemporary art museum unable to open in time for bicentennial celebration.
- Tourist dust may be damaging the Sistine Chapel. (Arts Journal.)
- David Alfaro Siqueiros mural in L.A. is taking forever to repair.
- “No more jokes about Duchamp. Absolutely no more jokes about art fairs. In fact, no more jokes about the art world for a while; a moratorium has been called.” That’s Jen Graves on humor and art, advancing a highly dangerous idea that could put C-Monster out of business.
- A digital record of Mexico’s treasures in Spain.
- Culture Pundits is organizing a conversation about art on Twitter.
- The photographs of Renee Nowytarger.
- A funny-smart conversation between Erin Donovan and Joanne McNeil about the state of chick flicks. The portion about Matthew McConaughey is spectacular.
- Medical wood block prints from 19th century Japan.
- Heart As Arena is reviewing Japanese noise musician Merzbow 50-CD set, one day at time. Pithy and funny. Makes me want to listen in with him.
- Haiku poetry street art. (On a related note: Peggy Denby of Keep Atlanta Beautiful sounds like a total buzzkill.)
- Today’s Street Art: Caravan of creatures by El-Tinas and Pelucas in Spain.
- Ronald McDonald reusable menstrual pads. Including one with the Hamburglar. Amazing. (Thank you, Jeff. I have no idea why you were surfing the web for reusable menstrual pads, but I’ll take it.)
Hey Y’all: It’s the beginning of the arts season stampede, so get ready for the clack of expensive high heels on Chelsea pavement. In the meantime, find all the relevant NYC happenings over at WNYC.
(Photo by t3rmin4t0r.)
Better Late than Never: Photos from my visit to SFMOMA’s Anniversary Show this past June. It was a pretty dang incredible gathering of works, which included some early Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock, as well as Richard Diebenkorns from various eras — not to mention the truly show-stopping Barry McGee, among many many others. If you live in SF, don’t miss. The show is up through Jan. 16 at SFMOMA. (All photos by C-M. Place cursor over image for caption info; click on images to supersize.)
Continue reading ‘Photo Diary: The 75th Anniversary Show at SFMOMA.’
At First Blush, 2010, by Ruben Ochoa. The artist’s exhibit, Grounded, will open at Susanne Vielmetter Projects in Los Angeles this Friday at 6pm. (Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter.)
- NYC: Edward Burtynsky, Pentimento, at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, opens Thursday at 6pm.
- NYC: Mark Mulroney, Really Creative Pictures, at Mixed Greens, opens Thursday.
- NYC: Michael Zeheloski, Objecthood, at Christina Ray, opens Thursday at 7pm.
- NYC: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, The Heaviest Luggage for the Traveler is the Empty One, at Magnan Metz, opens Thursday at 6pm.
- NYC: Jennifer Steinkamp at Lehmann Maupin, in Chelsea, opens Friday at 6pm.
- NYC: Sandow Birk, American Q’uran, at PPOW Gallery, opens Friday.
- NYC: Iconography: A Reflection of Anonymity, at Mighty Tanaka, opens Friday at 6pm.
- NYC: Hannah Wilke, Early Drawings, at Ronald Feldman, opens Saturday at 6pm.
- NYC: Rob Pruitt, Pattern and Degradation, at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, opens Saturday.
- NYC: Justine Kurland and Francesca Woodman at Bravin Lee, opens Saturday at 6pm.
- NYC: Daniel Joseph Martinez, The enemy of my enemy…, at Simon Preston, in SoHo, opens Sunday at 6pm.
- NYC: The National Coalition Against Censorship is hosting two panels covering issues of decency and obscenity standards and public arts funding. The first will take place on Wed., Sept. 15, and the second one week later on Wed., Sept. 22. Both will go down at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium at 6:30pm. Related film screenings will take place on Sept. 27. Admission is free.
- Chicago: By Your Powers Combined, a group show, at the Untitled Gallery at Marwen, opens Friday at 5pm.
- Fort Worth: Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, at the Kimbell Art Museum, through Jan. 2. (The Art Newspaper.)
- San Pedro, Calif.: Thickening The Plot, at Angels Gate Art Center, opens Sunday at 2pm.
- L.A.: Lari Pittman at Regen Projects, opens Saturday.
- L.A.: Ultrasonic V: It’s Only Natural, a group show, at Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, opens Saturday.
- S.F.: Julio Cesar Morales, Sonido Pirata, at Baer Ridgway, opens Saturday at 4pm.
- S.F.: Greg LaMarche and Aaron Noble, Materialism at Guerrero Gallery, opens Saturday.
- S.F.: Wayne Smith, New Work, at Gallery 16, opens Friday.
- S.F.: Stanley Donwood, Over Normal, at Fifty24SF Gallery, through Oct. 27.
- Portland, Or.: The Time-Based Art Festival, at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, opens Thursday.
- London: Eadward Muybridge, at the Tate Britain, opens today.
- London: Rachel Whiteread at Gagosian Gallery, through Oct. 5.
- London: A solo installation by designer Hussein Chalayan, at Lisson Gallery, opens today.
- London: David Marsh, Visual Splendor, at London Miles, opens Friday at 7pm.
- Madrid: Zwelethu Mthethwa, Brick Workers and Contemporary Gladiators, at Galería Oliva Arauna, through Oct. 14.
- Paris: Alexandre Arrechea, Evasive, at Suzanne Tarasieve, opens Thursday at 6pm.
- Berlin: Christof Mascher, Alley Cat, at Galerie Michael Janssen, opens Friday at 7pm.
Explosion, Black and Yellow, 2009, by Joy Garnett, which is making an appearance in the August issue of Canteen. (Image courtesy of Joy Garnett and the Edward Winkleman Gallery.)
- Great moments in product placement poetry.
- Losing track of our environmental misdeeds. Fascinating. And scary.
- “When they are lying, bosses avoid the word ‘I’, opting instead for the third person.” (Mark Coatney.)
- Archaeologists wary of BP’s drilling plans in the Mediterranean.
- I love it when public art becomes unintentionally interactive. (Arts Journal.)
- I wrote a story on Chicano artists for ARTnews. And it got Tweeted by Cheech. I am complete.
- Andrew Russeth helpfully extracts the juicy quotes from the book Talking Prices, in which artists and dealers (some anonymously) talk honestly about the market. Bound to leave you queasy.
- The Next Logical Step: Takashi Murakami to do the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
- Peeing performance artist Ann Liv Young welcomed back to PS1 for number two. Actually, it was just for a talk. Speaking of which, the New York Times gives her latest show a spectacularly scathing review: after describing it as startlingly inept, the critic writes, “This reached a nadir when Ms. Young, some 85 minutes into the show, failed to defecate on cue, despite having given an advance interview advertising her ability to do so.” I don’t think the Times has been this saucy since La Smith shredded Shepard Fairey. (Art Fag City.)
- Mogul Carlos Slim set to open a Mexico City museum to showcase his Rodins. (Arts Journal.)
- Tierra y Pan.
- Highly interesting story by the NYT’s David Itzkoff on the unsettled life and death of Harvey Pekar.
- How social is it? Ben Davis picks apart art and social media.
- Andrea Zittel’s single egg incubator. (Dear Greg: Get. It.)
- Vietnam Memorial, sweatpants edition. Sometimes flippant irony makes my teeth hurt.
- Street Art, with fur. (@bpiana.)
- Architect Greg Lynn wants your toys.
- La Zaha to design her first project in her native Iraq. (Arts Journal.)
- Love this: Oikos Project’s Jellyfish Theatre, made entirely out of recycled and reclaimed materials. Love this very Gehry portion. Plus, a view of the interiors.
- Frank Lloyd Wright-designed textile block homes in L.A. not finding buyers.
- You too can live in your very own Nazi watch tower.
You can find this weekend’s Datebook right here. Plus: my scintillating report on yesterdays Ask-A-Curator Twitter-thon.
(Photo by Mr. T in D.C.)