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Calendar. 08.20.09.

By c-monster on August 20, 2009 in C-Monster, Calendar, Drawing, Galleries, New York and Painting. Closed

Jim Avignon, The Big Bailout Burlesque at Factory Fresh. (Image Courtesy Factory Fresh.)

In NYC: Factory Fresh hosts live music and performances, including Larry’s Fake-Tattoo Performance, the one-man band Neoangin and Kim Boekbinder of Vermillion Lies, Friday at 8pm.
In NYC: The Breaking Point, Eric Ayotte, Melody Boone and Ryan O’Connor at Work, opens Saturday at 6pm. Includes BBQ and dancing.
In NYC: 1(212): A Summer Wasted, with Marissa Bluestone & Peter Feigen baum, opens today.
In SF: Color Between the Lines, Erik Parra and Danny Neece, at Artillery, opens today.

Tags: big bailout burlesque, Factory Fresh, jim avignon.

Photos: Dominican artists Quintapata at the Centro Cultural de España in Lima.

By c-monster on June 14, 2009 in Art, C-Monster, Drawing, Installation, Mixed Media, Peru and Sculpture. 5 Comments

Boobies!!! A whole wall of them. The piece is titled Muro, 2009 by Raquel Paiewonsky. (Photos by C-M.)

While my mission on this trip to Lima has been to eat and to eat again, I have managed to sneak in a few visits to art galleries between degustaciones. The best show thus far has been an exhibit of contemporary Dominican art that I happened to catch at the Centro Cultural de España on the Plaza Washington, near downtown. The show, Mover la roca (Move the Rock), features new works by the D.R. arts collective Quintapata, whose members are Tony Capellán, Pascal Meccariello, Raquel Paiewonsky, Jorge Pineda and Belkis Ramírez. Overall, a highly interesting show. And way better than the couch art I’ve been admiring at many of the city’s commercial art galleries.

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Tags: belkis ramirez, ccelima, centro cultural de espana, jorge pineda, lima, pascal meccariello, quintapata, raquel paiewonsky, tony capella.

Calendar. 03.19.09.

By c-monster on March 19, 2009 in C-Monster, Calendar, Drawing and Galleries. 2 Comments

Affordable Housing, by Ross Jones. (Image courtesy of William Angel Gallery.)

In London: Ross Jones at William Angel Gallery, opens Friday.
In Oakland: Marina Vendrell Renaut, Flaming Furbelows, at Johansson Projects, opens Saturday at 4 p.m.
In L.A.: Steve Burtch and Meeson Pae Yang: Refraction at Lawrence Asher, in the Fairfax District, through Saturday.
In L.A.: Eyeone and Patrick Martinez at Tradition, in Westlake Village, opens Saturday.
In S.F.: Pablo Guardiola and Haden Nicholl at the Little Tree Gallery, opens Saturday. (Sadly, this will be the gallery’s last show.)
In Chicago: Paul Chan: My Laws Are My Whores at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, through April 12. (Interesting: You can download Chan-designed computer fonts here.)
In Chicago: Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe at the Museum of Contemporary Art, through June 21. Plus: Next month, visitors to Art Chicago will be able to walk inside one of Fuller’s domes.
In Miami: Recent Acquisitions at the Miami Art Museum, through Oct. 11.
In Fort Lauderdale: A workshop on creating and using your own pinhole camera, led by artist Courtney Johnson, at Girls Club, this Saturday at noon. (Cost: $60.)
In NYC: A book party for Vandal Squad: Inside the New York City Transit Police Department, at powerHouse books, today at 7 p.m.
In NYC: Alfredo Jaar, The Sound of Silence, at Galerie Lelong, through May 2. (Art21.)
In NYC: Dan Witz at Tattoo Culture, opens Friday.
In NYC: Ellsworth Kelly, Paintings and Drawings, at Matthew Marks, through April 11.
In NYC: The Women of the Photo League, opens today at 6 p.m.
In NYC: Michael Leavitt, Don’t Stop Object Shopping, at Fuse Gallery, opens Saturday.
In NYC: Mark Jenkins, The Golden Ass and Other Stories, at Stricola Contemporary, opens Saturday.
In NYC: Aakash Nihalani, Ellis Gallagher and Poster Boy, Neo-Con, at 17 Frost Gallery, opens Saturday.

Tags: ross jones, william angel gallery.

Anxiety Room: Jon Burgerman & Jim Avignon at Factory Fresh in NYC.

By c-monster on February 11, 2009 in C-Monster, Calendar, Drawing, Galleries and New York. Closed

Hard at work. (Photo courtesy of Factory Fresh.)

Illustrators Jon Burgerman and Jim Avignon have been busily collaborating in the deep, dark recesses of the Factory Fresh basement on a series of works that will go on display this Thursday, Feb. 12 in a show called Anxiety Room. If you’re in Brooklyn, check ‘em out! The show will be up through March 15.

Tags: anxiety room, Factory Fresh, jim avignon, jon burgerman.

Calendar. 02.10.09.

By c-monster on February 10, 2009 in C-Monster, Calendar, Drawing and Museums. Closed

Slow Storm, 2006 by Danica Novgorodoff at Out of Sequence, at the Lab at Belmar in Lakewood, Colo. (Image courtesy of the Denver Post.)

In Denver: Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics at The Lab at Belmar, in Lakewood, through May 12.
In Milwaukee: Remains: Contemporary Artists and the Material Past, opens Thursday.
In Kansas City, Mo.: Check out Polly Apfelbaum’s installation Split at the Kemper, through Aug. 9.
In NYC: Vik Muniz talks about his artist’s choice selections at MoMA, tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. (Hrag Vartanian.)
In NYC: The New York premiere of the documentary film Handmade Nation, at the Museum of Arts and Design, this Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
In NYC: Edward Dolnick discusses his book, The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, at the Jewish Museum, this Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
In London: Takashi Murakami: New Paintings at Gagosian, opens today.
In Weimar: 15 Artistic Interventions in the Public Space at Bauhaus-University, through Feb. 16. (rebel:art.)

Tags: comics, danica novgorodoff, slow storm, the lab at belmar.

Nekkid Superman. Plus: Posting Notice.

By c-monster on February 8, 2009 in Announcements, C-Monster and Drawing. Closed

Holy Chorizo, Batman! There’s a naked superhero in my bedroom. (Image courtesy of J. Doe.)

Hey Folks:

I’m gonna be on the road for the next couple of weeks, which means posting will be very sparse — as in: no Digest. In the meantime, check out the saucy remixes of the world’s most clean-cut superhero (see above), as done up by J. Doe and featured on the website Mr. Marvel. Find the full series of redone comics here.

Plus, some links from the weekend:

Aquarium phone booth.
Tomorrow Museum on “The Problem with Shepard Fairey.” More on the artist here. Plus: Fairey is arrested on the way to his opening at the ICA in Boston. (aczine.)
Brandeis students hold a funeral for the Rose Art Museum. More on the general confusion at the university here, here and here.
In related who-the-hell-knows-what’s-happening-at-the-museum news: Iowa reportedly not gonna sell its Pollock.
Chris Bodle’s Watermarks Projects shows where the tides will reach should the entire Greenland Ice Cap melt.
Really liking Alexander Heim’s short film Untitled (Dog), but Tank.tv‘s Flash-heavy website won’t let me link directly to it. To load the film, click on its title. It will be online until this Saturday, after which a new set of videos go up.
Art critic Christopher Knight at the L.A.T. argues for a cultural jobs bill.
Snow sculptures.
The MassMoCA reception desk: pretty killer.
A comprehensive photo essay of Herzog & de Meuron’s latest in Tenerife, Spain.
Oscar Niemeyer agrees to not mess with his own skyline.
When climbing walls resemble art museums.
Billboard Remix: “Fox News: We deceive. You Believe.”
Today’s Graff: Titi Freak in Brazil.
Wii Spray.
A little design inspiration.
Giant robot spider! (Ekosystem.)
Your moment of hobos from the future.

xox, C.

Tags: iowa, j. doe, jackson pollock, mr. marvel, rose art museum, shepard fairey, superman.

The Digest. 12.09.08.

By c-monster on December 9, 2008 in C-Monster, Drawing and The Digest. Closed

Clockwork Atomics x302 by Scott Wilson. See the series. (Image courtesy of Scott Wilson.)

Damien Hirst threatens to sue 16-year-old. (Arts Journal.)
Newsflash! The Economist has discovered that low people enjoy high culture and vice versa. Seriously, print this out and read it on the train ride home. It’s quite good. (Thank you veddy veddy much, Big Papi G.)
Girls in art: Art21 gives Cindy Sherman a thumbs up and Richard Prince, a thumbs down.
Like a Turrell sky space, but not.
Neuroscientists can measure abstract art’s emotional resonance.
Plastic bags as artful headdress.
The Day in Round-Ups: The Top 10 magazine covers and museum shows according to Time, and 11 unusual Christmas album covers from Grotesk over at 12 oz. Prophet (World’s Best Ever).
Artist Mark Ryden releases a $6,000 print to benefit MOCA.
SFMOMA director David Ross is tweeting ten cultural policies that he thinks Obama should adopt.
The Tate Britain has a Christmas tree that operates on pedal power. (Eco Art Blog.)
This year Miami Basel was less about money and more about art, reports the Herald.
AFC has a slew of good links today, among them: A NYT story about the media’s sky-is-falling syndrome and an op-ed that asks that publishers not waste any more money on book deals for celebutards.
Good news for my remaining brain cells: Red wine and pot may help ward off Alzheimer’s.
The Day in Art Merch: Graffiti highboys. Awesome.
Today’s Street Art: Lister.
The NYT may borrow $225 million against its Renzo Piano building to prevent a cash crunch. (Culture Monster.)
Balancing form and function: NPR reports on Daniel Libeskind’s San Francisco and Denver museums.
Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, gingerbread edition. (Unbeige.)
Schematics for Morphosis’s new pharmaceutical campus outside of Shanghai.
The 20 Stupidest G.I. Joe vehicles ever. (Coudal.)
Your moment of How to Hide an Unwanted Erection. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)

Tags: napkin, scott wilson.

The Digest. 10.28.08.

By c-monster on October 28, 2008 in C-Monster, Drawing, Painting and The Digest. Closed

Madeline Tindall, age 9, at the Pensacola Museum of Art. (Photo by C-M.)

America the Gift Shop. (Art to Go.)
Like, OMG, total weirdness. Because of an L.A. Times Culture Monster post, C-Mon has been linked to by James Frey. Yes, that James Frey.
In addition to Sarah Palin’s whoa-nelly clothing budget, the Republican National Committee spent $6,000 on art restoration during the month of October. (Art Fag City.)
Damien Hirst on art dealers: “…the money men will tell you anything to not have you realise their real motive is cash, because if you realise – that they would sell your granny to Nigerian sex slave traders for 50 pence (10 bob) and a packet of woodbines…”
The Warhol Family Album. (Hrag Vartanian.)
The country that brought you the Marquis de Sade has censored photos of a Russian artist simulating bestiality.
Art, these days it’s all about collecting.
L.A. art continues to get a boost: Getty Foundation is expected to award $2.8 million in grants to support shows that explore the development of the city’s art scene after WWII.
Vintage manga from 1967.
Art review of the day: “The show here lacks this altogether, substituting swagger for judgment, bluster for nuance, and in art, as in politics and finance, we’ve had enough of that approach already.”
Photo Essay: The revolutionary art of Emory Douglas.
I want, I need, I have to have…a blendie. Don’t miss the video.
Today’s Freight Graff: Gee-Wiz and Do-It in Atlanta.
Sometimes it’s best to just accept the graffiti.
Totally weird children’s TV. Seriously worth it for that first Teletubbies video. (ackackack.)
Architectural ghosts: A photo essay on the last traces of the Old Hudston Terminal in NYC. (architecture.mnp.)
Looks sorta neo-brutal: Milanese university faculty building by Grafton Architects wins World Building of the Year Award at the first World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.
A Thai Buddhist temple made of beer bottles.
A century and a half of New York Times presidential endorsements.
Your moment of Wassup 2008.

The Digest. 10.02.08.

By c-monster on October 2, 2008 in C-Monster, Drawing and The Digest. Closed

That which is relevant, by Marc Johns. (Image courtesy of Marc Johns.)

David Ellis and the Barnstormers animation for Sesame Street: The Letter R. If you watch it with the sound off, it kicks ass.
Melbourne’s graffiti’d lanes, as reinterpreted by Disney World. Somebody in Orlando, please post photos of this!! I can’t seem to find any online.
The NYT profiles Shepard Fairey.
Thank you, Jack Cafferty.
Art on cruise ships. Including Botero!
Sotheby’s gets seriously sued. More here.
But will they have socks with the artist’s face? The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati has an exclusive, limited edition print by Maria Lassnig on sale.
The Day in Art Merch: Donald Baechler does a purse for Lamberston Truex.
Despite the economic implosion, LVMH pushing ahead with plans for a $140 million art foundation.
Guido Castagnoli’s photographs of small town Japan.
NYT art critic Roberta Smith on looking at art. “I do feel that there is a basic human drive to see something new. We don’t want to listen to endless cover bands playing Beatles’ songs, why should we look at the same abstraction or still life, the same photograph or Conceptual performance piece being done again and again by different artists with only slight variations?”
Jumping.
A painting about the art market. Ok, not really. But it could be.
The geometry of the universe as sculpture. (Via Art21.)
A glacial photo journey.
And because I’m on a science kick today: Jonathon Keats’s The Atheon. (Via A.J.)
Today, it’s all about horizontal lines: The Barcelona Botanical Institute and the Loducca Agency in São Paulo.
Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye. In Legos.
Santiago Calatrava’s “Bridge of Doom.”
The procrastination loop.
Your moment of L.A. Times song dedication, cheatin’ heart edition.

Photos: Baselitz’s Skulls + Boners at Gagosian in Rome.

By SanSuzie on September 25, 2008 in Art, Drawing, Galleries, Italy, Painting and San Suzie. Closed

Baring It All: We’ve seen guys like this on the subway a million times. (All photos by San Suzie.)

George Baselitz kicked off the Rome gallery season at Gagosian with a bunch of new paintings that looked a lot like his old paintings and half the pieces we saw at last year’s Art Basel (which was big on skulls). In addition to the giant skulls, Baselitz’s paintings and drawings all featured expressionistically rendered male figures playing with members that can only be described as wishful thinking. (One of the painted schlongs was a whopping 22 inches. We measured.) The show, which kicked off Gagosian’s second season in Rome, was gagosianissimo in almost every sense of the word: cavernous exhibit spaces, suited security guards hovering by the paintings, crowds of fashionistas clamoring to get in. No wine, alas. But you can get that for cheap at any of a dozen nearby trattorias. Which is exactly where we headed directly after posing in front of all the boners.

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Tags: Gagosian, Rome.