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Photo Diary: Ramellzee at White Columns, in NYC.

c-monster — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:00:32 +0000

I’m totally late on this (the show closed last week), but I nonetheless feel obligated to post something on the Ramellzee assemblages I saw at White Columns during all the gallery openings in September. The dude had a sense of material that was just off the hook: turning ordinary plastic coat hooks, tooth brushes, citrus juicers and bleach bottle caps into fantastical arrangements that look like intergalactic weaponry. All of this is just a way of saying that if you have an opportunity to check out his work at some point, do not miss. These are the sorts of pieces that become more and more fascinating the longer you stare at them. Photos don’t do these justice in the least. But you can supersize the images above by clicking on them.

In the meantime, get a quick overview of Rammellzee’s life from this obit in L.A. Times. He passed away last year.

This post is also an opportunity for me to say that whoever hung this piece should be spanked. Who puts a highly detailed assemblage over a staircase where no one can see it???? Plus, it’s crooked. Bad curator, BAD.

Over at WNYC.

c-monster — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:35:03 +0000

Where you can find my weekly Datebook.

Calendar. 08.31.10.

c-monster — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:20:41 +0000

Pour des dents d’un blanc éclatant et saines, 2005, by Jeroen Diepenmaat. Part of the exhibit The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, opens Thursday. (Image courtesy of the Nasher.)

NYC: A closing party for Tunneling, a group show, at Famous Accountants in Bushwick, this Saturday at 6pm.
NYC: A Fraction of the Whole, street artist Elbow Toe discusses his art at the New York Public Library, mid-Manhattan branch, Wednesday at 6:30pm on the 6th floor.
NYC: ACM, Mansaray, Rigo 23 and Stas Volyazlovsky, at Andrew Edlin Gallery, through Friday.
Oakland: Mary V. Marsh: Everyone Needs a Story, at Mercury 20 Gallery, opens Thursday. Opening reception on Friday at 6pm; artists talk on Saturday at 2pm.
L.A.: Mathias Merkel Hess, Anneta Kapon, Assemblage (Group Projects), Devils Tower LA, at Las Cienegas Projects, opens Saturday.
Seattle: Erik Eley, Look Out, at Platform Gallery, opens Thursday.

Calendar. 04.08.10.

c-monster — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:27:54 +0000

In the Case of All Cities, by Matthew Picton. Part of the exhibit of the same name at Sumarria Lunn in London, opens Friday. (Image courtesy of Sumarria Lunn.)

In S.F.: Adam Wallacavage, James Marshall, Ryan Jaenke, and many others, in a group show at Guerrero Gallery, opens Saturday at 7pm.
In NYC: David Byrne will be signing copies of Here Lies Love at the MoMA Design Store next Tues., April 13 at 5pm.
In NYC: Family Bookstore, a pop-up bookstore in downtown Manhattan takes up residence at 70 Franklin Street beginning today.
In NYC: Roy Lichtenstein: Homage to Monet, at Benrimon Contemporary, opens today.
In NYC: Greg Haberny, The Homeless Boys Social Club, at Like the Spice, open Friday from 6:30-10pm.
In NYC: The Date Farmers, Smother Your Mother, at Jonathan Levine, opens Saturday.
In NYC: El Celso’s Sardana, on the Lower East Side, through May 1.
In NYC: Beyond the Colony of Kitsch, a group show, at Crossing Art, in Flushing, through May 16.

Congrats to Other from New York City (who left a comment under the name Herrrump) for winning the Aaron Johnson Giveaway Extravaganza! And thanks to NOWhere Ltd. for being willing to part with a print.

The Digest. 02.05.10.

c-monster — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:18:29 +0000

Ghost II, 2009 by Michael Johansson. (Image courtesy of Michael Johansson, via But Does It Float. Thanks, Yvonne.)

Hello Kitty chainsaw.
Giacometti sells for a butt-load of $$$.
In sorta related news: Author Michael Crichton is sellin’ some art, including a Jasper Johns flag painting. (@russelltrombone.)
Talking to the owner of the e-Bay piece that sells itself: “I have this thing, and I really want to keep it, but the reason I want to keep it is that it might leave.” (Modern Art Notes.)
The L.A. Dept of Cultural Affairs gets to hold onto at least some of its funding.
The Met is getting bloggy. (Modern Art Notes.)
New Yorkers discovering “California minimalism” are just figuring out what Cali types already know, says Tyler Green. Speaking of which, Green links to a series of interviews he did with Doug Wheeler in ’08.
There’s a coupla of Paul McCarthy videos from 1987 on tank.tv until Feb. 29. So totally weird.
Jeff Koons is gonna make a BMW art car. I’m voting for metallic balloon finish over the Dakis Joannou yacht pattern.
26 Cars in Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill.
Tony Kushner’s six-word memoir.
Photo Essay: Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Upside down face. (@GOOD.)
A Haitian hip-hop mix. Trés groovy. (@sfj.)
Today’s Urban Decay Photo Essay: Restoring the Loew’s Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
Steve Powers’ Love Letters to Philly now available in book form.
Ripo Came and Went.
A petition to save Paul Rudolph’s John Chorley Elementary School in Middletown, NY.
Chiloé.