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Kickstarter countdown: Almost there!!!

By c-monster on May 20, 2012 in Announcements and C-Monster. 2 Comments

Hey Folks:

Whoa nelly, I can’t believe it, but with 11 days to go on Celso’s Kickstarter project, we are just a little more than $500 from reaching our goal. We’ve also been featured as a Kickstarter staff pick (see the image at right). So, with the finish line in sight, I’m hoping that I can beg a little bit of assistance from folks who read this blog and are into public art, Peruvian history and nuclear yellow soda. (I mean, who isn’t into nuclear yellow soda?) Even the smallest donations are a boon at this stage of the game. As you may well know, Kickstarter is all or nothing — so if we don’t make our goal, we don’t get a cent.

I also wanted to thank everyone who has donated their hard-earned bucks to the project (for which I will serve as chasqui and studio assistant). It’s been incredibly moving to hear from friends, artists and lots of folks we’ve never even had the pleasure of meeting. Also, a special super gracias goes to The Street Spot and Art Fag City for doing up some super sweet blog posts.

Please consider helping us out if you already haven’t. (And if you don’t have cash, Tweets and Facebook posts are also incredibly helpful!) Thanks again for your help and assistance — and for reading C-Mon.

xox,
C.

P.S. And if we make it over the goal even better. It expands the Inca Kola budget!

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Peru or Bust: Please help fund our Kickstarter!

By c-monster on April 29, 2012 in Announcements, Art, C-Monster, Installation and Peru. 0 Comments


Schematic for La Luz, to be installed by Celso at the old Inca sun temple in Cusco, Peru.

Yes, I’m asking for money.

This summer, I’m going to be working as studio assistant/translator/chasqui for my partner-in-crime Celso on a series of installations that will go up at the Qorikancha  the old Inca sun temple in Cusco, Peru. For the project — which is titled La Luz — he’ll be building a series of architectural installations around the ruins grounds (and the attached Dominican monastery) using several hundred bottles of Inca Kola, the nuclear yellow Peruvian soda (see images above and below). It will be a pop paean to the gold that once covered the site. The piece will be pulled apart and re-installed in a new location every three days. At the end of each installation, the public will be allowed to take the Inca Kola home.

The museum that manages the site, the Museo Qorikancha y Convento de Santo Domingo, has commissioned the piece. But as with most arts institutions in Peru, the budgets are tiny. Which is why we’re asking for your help. This is going to be a beautiful project — unlike anything the museum has ever done. So pleasepleaseplease help us get to Peru! Any donation, no matter how small, makes a difference.

Please click through to Celso’s Kickstarter to send us your pennies. We have all kinds of goodies for rewards. And we promise that your donations will be wisely and prudently spent (on lots of Inca Kola). If you’re a regular reader, please think of this as a way to help me keep doing what I love to do — namely, writing about great-weird art I find wherever I happen to be.

Thanks so much! And thanks for reading C-Mon!!!

xox,
C.

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Bushwick artsy fartsies: Find me in ARTnews.

By c-monster on January 24, 2012 in Announcements and C-Monster. 5 Comments


No Sleep Till Bushwick, 2008, by Skewville. (Photo by C-M.)

Hey Folks:

I’ve got a feature in the February issue of ARTnews about the artsy fartsies that are happening in Bushwick.

I’m sure this will occasion some bellyaching about how articles such as these “ruin” a neighborhood. But I want you all to rest assured that I’ve done the math and no New York neighborhood is completely ruined until it is featured regularly in the New York Times real estate section (check) *AND* on the cover New York magazine (not yet). Though, if you’re wondering what said coverage would look like, check out the mag’s 1992 cover story on Williamsburg.

Anyhow, you can check out my story at ARTnews.com — or better yet, pick up the mag on the newsstand and help me pay for the wide selection of craft beers that now clutter my local C-Town. Okay, maybe not. I’m a Tecate-12-pack-at-the-Food-Dimension kind of girl…

xox,
C.

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My Year-End Round-Up of Year-End Round-Ups.

By c-monster on December 29, 2011 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed


Like a cavalcade of Amazons: Willem De Kooning’s third series of women, from the 1950s. At MoMA. (Photo by C-M.)

Hey Folks:

My year-end round-up of year-end round-ups is now up over at Gallerina, with trademarked Occupy Cardboard Sign ratings system.

Thanks very much for reading C-Mon in 2011. I really appreciate it. See you on the other side.

xox,
C.

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Biting the hand that feeds them: Find me at ARTnews.

By c-monster on December 6, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Conceptual. 1 Comment

Hey Folks:

I’ve got a feature in this month’s ARTnews on artists making art about the art world that often serves as a stinging critique of our little corner of human civilization. Covered in the piece are rants by William Powhida, installations by Jennifer Dalton, biennial pieces about biennials and my favorite: Joe Sola’s jump-out-the-window-during-studio-visits piece.

You can read the story online. Or, better yet, pick up the mag at your nearest newsstand.

xox,
C.

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Stuff that dangles.

By c-monster on November 25, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster, Installation, Museums, New York and Sculpture. 1 Comment

My slideshow of the Maurizio Cattelan exhibit at the Guggenheim is now online at WNYC.

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Happy Turkeys Day + a coupla linkages.

By c-monster on November 23, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Calendar. Closed

I’ll be spending the holidays looking pensive and smoldering while waiting for the turkey to emerge for the oven — like my girlfriend Susan Sontag, above. If you’re doing the same, here are a coupla things you can read while the little butterball cooks up: my weekly picks over at Gallerina (those Sarah Braman sculptures look fierce) and four reasons to go see HIDE/SEEK at the Brooklyn Museum. Seriously, if you live in new York, get on it.

Happy Stuffing!

xox,
C.

Credit: Photo of Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar, 1975 — currently on view as part of Hide/Seek at the Brooklyn Museum. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. © The Peter Hujar Archive LLC, courtesy Mathew Marks Gallery, New York.

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One pill makes you larger.

By c-monster on October 26, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster, Installation, Museums and New York. Closed


Tripping over the Carsten Höller show at WNYC…

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Over at ARTnews: The art of comics.

By c-monster on October 11, 2011 in Announcements, Books and C-Monster. 1 Comment

Hey Folks:

If you’re into art and you’re into comics, check out this month’s ARTnews. I have a cover story on the growing overlap between the worlds of fine art and comic books, featuring established talents such as Gary Panter, Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes (that’s his illustration above) — among many others.

You can find the story online. But if you want to see it with all its graphic goodness, be sure to pick up the October issue of the magazine.

xox,
C.

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Over at ARTnews: Pacific Standard Time.

By c-monster on October 4, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster, Los Angeles and Sculpture. 2 Comments


Vacancy/No Vacancy, 1972, by Lili Lakich. Featured in the exhibit Doin’ it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, at the Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, through January 28 — part of the Pacific Standard Time series of exhibitions in Los Angeles. (Image courtesy of the Ben Maltz Gallery.)

Pacific Standard Time seems to be roaring along quite nicely, with exhibits opening up all over Southern California to celebrate the region’s post-War art. I’ve got an overview story in this month’s ARTnews about the project — which includes anecdotes about how curators were able to track down pieces in Kansas bank branches and parking lot shipping containers.

You can read that story here.

And be sure to click over even if PST is not your realm of interest. ARTnews has a new website that is all kinds of snazzy. Worth checking out!

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