Monthly Archive for January, 2011

C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Skateboarding 3-D.

By c-monster on January 31, 2011 in Books, C-Monster and Giveaway. 19 Comments

Hey Folks:

I’m a little late on this giveaway (I’m behind on just about everything these days), but it doesn’t mean it won’t be worth it — especially if you’re looking for an afternoon’s worth of spectacularly stonerrific entertainment. For this edition, I have a copy of Sebastian Denz‘s Skateboarding.3D (courtesy of Prestel) — which true to its name features skateboarders doing their thing in three trippy dimensions. Comes complete with four sets of super chic 3D glasses.

The Digest. 01.31.11.

By c-monster on January 31, 2011 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. 3 Comments

Soap Bubbles, after 1739, by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. (Courtesy of LACMA.)

“How abstract can a landscape become while remaining a landscape?”
Hyperallergic has done an incredible job keeping tabs on damage to the Egyptian National Museum and other Egyptian museums during the demonstrations. More here.
Al Jazeera’s Flickr feed. (Fast Company.)
Portraits of the tortured: This looks like a can’t-miss exhibit in L.A.
And the Super Bowl bets are on: This year it’s the Milwaukee Art Museum versus the Carnegie Museum of Art. Up for grabs: French impressionist paintings.
Best. Artist Profile. Ever.: The Rembrandt of Riyadh.
Ai Weiwei ceramic sunflower seeds to be auctioned at Sotheby’s. (Arts Journal.)
If this isn’t a clusterfuck of art world ridiculosity, I don’t know what is.
Mothers, the harshest art critics. (This story is hilarious.)
Tattooed ladies. (Marshall Astor.)
If you live in NYC: Take the Artist Cost of Living Survey. It’s to help a new foundation determine grant awards. (Art Fag City.)
VHS.
Photographer Phillip Toledano, reimagined as one of many dictators.
The perils of appropriation: Mr. Brainwash getting sued by photographer Glen E. Friedman for copyright violation on a Run DMC image.
Today’s Graff: ESPO (aka Steve Powers) in Syracuse. (Scroll down.) Plus: A photo tour of his studio.
On the financials of the urban art market: A profile of Steve Lazarides. (Ekosystem.)
Nest factories. (BLDGBLOG.)
Some great pix of Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel in Germany.
One of the most ridonkulous, excessive museum schematics I’ve seen in a loooong time. And it’s in Miami, of course.
An action movie sequence that will make your day. (@mltb.)

Tags: jean baptiste simeon chardin, LACMA, soap bubbles.

Find me at Gallerina.

By c-monster on January 27, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Painting. 2 Comments

Where I’m hanging out with all kinds of crazy characters.

Tags: george condo, new museum of contemporary art, uncle joe.

The Digest. 01.26.11.

By c-monster on January 26, 2011 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

L’il B, by Zoe Strauss. Part of her shrimp and petroleum series on the U.S. Gulf Coast. (Image courtesy of Strauss.)

Congrats to Mel for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza, LP Costa Rica edition.

A Monopoly House, life size.
Author Nick Flynn, on why it pays to have a Protestant family when writing a memoir. (Thank you, Liz.)
“The World is dividing into two blocs—the Plutonomy and the rest.”
William Donohue of the Catholic League has been so busy sweating the Smithsonian over David Wojnarowicz, it appears he hasn’t had time to read through all his commandments. Namely, the one about lying.
Related: Jeffrey Goldberg has a good take on the whole controversy and Clough’s cluelessness over at The Atlantic. Plus: More on Clough’s inconsistencies here.
In which Village Voice art critic Christian Viveros-Faune dismembers Jeff Koons. (Interventions.)
At Davos: The Damien Hirst spin class.
Me, me, me on VIP, the online art fair. Plus: An excellent take on all the tech problems from Paddy Johnson. The part about the e-mail addresses is MESSED UP.
I’m with El Saltzino’s take on Whitney’s Singular Visions show. It is all kinds of fantastic. (Stand-outs, in my mind, include AA Bronson, Eva Hesse and Robert Grosvener — the latter of which looks like it wants to stab you in the heart.)
A nice review of The Woodmans, the film about photographer Francesca Woodman, who killed herself at 22.
On art and pranks.
“So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins, dramatizes spaces but never seeks out the people that inhabit and transform them, and romanticizes isolated acts of resistance without acknowledging the massive political and social forces aligned against the real transformation, and not just stubborn survival, of the city.” An excellent essay in Guernica lays out a taxonomy of Detroit coverage.
Related: The case against economic disaster porn. (@felixsalmon.)
The Day in Art Merch, Francophile Edition: Manet high heels and Versailles “Let Them Eat Cake” vanilla candles.
Which brings me to a story about what some European museums are doing to make money.
The World of Soviet Groceries.
Like, whoa: Photos from the Tokyo Auto Salon. Here’s the one I want. (Marshall Astor, via Pink Tentacle.)
Revok and Insa, gif style.
Today’s Graff, mellow yellow edition: Eron in Athens.
Handy: An architectural guide to LA — with map.
“Up or Down? A Male Economist’s Manifesto on Toilet Seat Etiquette.” (@Atul_Gawande.)

Tags: li'l b, shrimp and petroleum, Zoe Strauss.

Calendar. 01.25.11.

By c-monster on January 25, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Graffiti, New York and Street Art. Closed

Ellis G, Permanently Temporary, at the Mighty Tanaka Gallery in Dumbo, through Feb. 4. (Image courtesy of Mighty Tanaka.)

S.F.: Christopher Taggart: Away, at Baer Ridgway, opens Saturday at 4pm.
L.A.: Art Los Angeles Contemporary, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, begins on Friday at 11am and runs through Sunday at 6pm.
NYC: Matt Mullican, an artist who worked with a computer programmer to create a navigable scale model of the solar system, gives a talk at Artists Space in SoHo tonight at 7pm. You can view the piece here.
NYC: A free screening of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis at Rabbit Hole Studio, in Dumbo, at 8:30pm. Doors open at 8pm.
NYC: Ancient Sci-Fi Update, Pavel Kraus and Megan Burns, at The Proposition, through March 13.
NYC: Cooking with Gallery Beat, a live talk show with Paul H-O and Dr. Lisa, featuring Phoebe Hoban, Peter Bolte, John Lee, Pat Daugherty and Jen Friedman, at BravinLee Programs, this Saturday at 6pm.
Valhalla, N.Y.: Oona Stern: The Reluctant Naturalist, at Westchester Community College, through Feb. 26.

Tags: ellis g, mighty tanaka.

Over at Gallerina: The Art of Online Dating.

By c-monster on January 24, 2011 in C-Monster, Digital, Galleries and New York. Closed

Artist R. Luke DuBois takes frequently-used words from online dating profiles and lays them over maps. Zombie, apparently, is popular in my neighborhood. Find out which NYC neighborhoods Booger, PMS and Ganja appear in (along with data related to other U.S. cities and states). My Q&A with DuBois is now up at WNYC.

Tags: bitforms gallery, gallerina, maps, online dating, r. luke dubois.

Over at WNYC.

By c-monster on January 20, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Photography. Closed

Where you can find my weekly Datebook for all kinds of goodness going down in New York.

Tags: 1950s, alonzo jordan, catching the wedding bouquet, international center of photography.

The Digest. 01.19.11.

By c-monster on January 19, 2011 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Luna Park, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Jeff Soto, in Miami. (Photo by Luna Park.)

15 pictures from Glock’s official Facebook page.
Dear Apple Computers: WHAT. THE. FUCK. You guys let Rupert Murdoch (purveyor of Glenn Beck) establish a subscription model for the iPad but you don’t let any other publishing company do the same? Gross.
Smithsonian chief to make first public appearance in L.A. this Thursday since the David Wojnarowicz brouhaha began. Plus: His latest e-mail to staff.
Finland announces that it will likely be the home of another likely never-to-be-built Guggenheim Museum. (The accompanying image of art suits pretending to throw snowballs is pretty spectacular.)
“Gallery rage.”
The many incredible uses of DC motors, by Swiss artist Zimoun. Best when paired with ping pong balls and cardboard. Whoa.
Surreal babies.
On poop in art: Harvard art historian combs through the defecation in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. (ARTnewsblog.)
This slideshow makes me want to tease out my hair and write bad checks.
Farhad Manjoo argues that it’s wrong, wrong, wrong to use two spaces after a period. Tom Lee rebuts. (@gelatobaby, The Atlantic.)
For the typography nerds, Mexican edition: The El Vética T-Shirt. (20×200.)
Swoon’s speech at TEDxBrooklyn, discussing the flotillas and the Haiti project — and the concrete things artists can do.
Today’s Urban Installation: Felice Varini’s painted optical illusions. (Contemporary Art Truck.)
Edward Lifson tracks a connection between architect Louis Sullivan and sculptor Tony Smith.
A museumy architecture round-up.
36 versions of the Internationale. Includes a rendition by Pete Seeger — in French. (@ubuweb.)

Tags: jeff soto, Luna Park.

Calendar. 01.18.11.

By c-monster on January 18, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar and Threads. 2 Comments

Detail of a sculpture by Lacee King. Part of the group show Life of the World to Come, organized by Timothy Buckwalter, at NIAD’s Gallery, in Richmond, Calif., opens today. Reception on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 2pm. (Image courtesy of King.)

S.F.: Humming Summit, featuring work by Alex Case and Dan Grayber, opens Thursday. Reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 4 at 5pm.
Indian Wells, Calif.: Tom Friedman, So Much Depends, at Royale Projects, opens Saturday at 4pm.
L.A.: Thomas Houseago at L&M Arts in Venice, opens Saturday.
L.A.: Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study, at SuperFront LA, opens Thursday at 5pm, in West Hollywood.
L.A.: Game Night 4 at Giant Robot, in West L.A., this Saturday at 7pm.
Torrance: What’s New Pussycat, with Robert Irwin, Juan Capistran, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy and many others, at the Torrance Art Museum, opens Saturday.
Fort Worth: Ed Ruscha: Road Tested, at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, opens Sunday.
Chicago: John Marin’s Watercolors at the Art Institute of Chicago, opens Sunday.
NYC: Novelist Matthew Gallaway, of The Metropolis Case, and music critic Sasha Frere-Jones, in conversation at Rand McNally Bookstore, this Wednesday at 7pm.
NYC: Orange Sky and The Salon, at RH Gallery in TriBeCa, opens Wednesday at 6pm.
S.F.: NYC: Girls, Girls, Girls, at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, through Feb. 24.
NYC: I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me, at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, through Mar. 5.
NYC: Ellen Gallagher, at Gagosian Gallery on 24th Street, opens Friday.
NYC: A free screening of Les Triplettes de Belleville, at Rabbit Hole Studio, in Dumbo, on Wednesday at 8pm.
Budapest: Ed Templeton, The Cemetery of Reason, at the Mücsarnok Kunsthalle at the Ernst Museum, opens Saturday.

Tags: lacee king, NIAD gallery, timothy buckwalter.

What I’m Reading.

By c-monster on January 17, 2011 in Books, C-Monster and What I'm Reading. Closed

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, by Tom Bissell, a highly intriguing memoir and analysis of why video games can inspire passion, anguish and even addiction.

P. 126:

As I sat there trying to figure out what to do, Mass Effect, despite its three-hundred-thousand-word script and beautiful graphics, was no longer a verbal or visual experience. It was a full-body experience. I felt a tremendous sense of preemptive loss and anxiety, and even called my girlfriend, described my dilemma, and asked her for her counsel. ‘You do know,’ she said, ‘that you’re crazy, yes?’ On the face of things, she was right. Here I was—a straight, thirty-four-year-old man, worrying over the consummation of my female avatar’s love affair. But she was also wrong. To say that any game that allows such surreally intense feelings of attachment and projection is divorced from questions of human identity, choice, perception, and empathy—what is, and always will be, the proper domain of art—is to miss the point not only of such a game but art itself.

Tags: extra lives, tom bissell.

Monthly Archive for January, 2011

C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Skateboarding 3-D.

The Digest. 01.31.11.

Find me at Gallerina.

The Digest. 01.26.11.

Calendar. 01.25.11.

Over at Gallerina: The Art of Online Dating.

Over at WNYC.

The Digest. 01.19.11.

Calendar. 01.18.11.

What I’m Reading.

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