Aiko at Brooklynite Gallery in Bed-Stuy. (Image courtesy of Brooklynite.)
- In NYC: Aiko, Shut Up and Look, at the Brooklynite Gallery in Bed-Stuy, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: The London Police, Pez and Eine at Ad Hoc Art, opens Friday.
- In NYC: David Sandlin, Sin-A-Rama: An Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality, at Jack the Pelican in Brooklyn, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Provocative Visions: Race and Identity - selections from the permanent collection, at the Met, through March 8, 2009.
- In NYC: Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, Havana: A Revolutionary Moment, at Umbrage in Dumbo, opens tomorrow.
- In NYC: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Demonstration Drawings, at the Drawing Center, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Tony Smith at Matthew Marks, opens Saturday.
- In Raleigh: Latina and Other Recent Work, the photographs of José Gálvez at Peace College, opens Wednesday.
- In Miami: Loriel Beltran at Fredric Snitzer, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: Sandrine Pelletier’s Insekts at Fette, opens Friday.
- In Seattle: Marco Zamora and Derek Albeck, Disconnected, at BLVD, opens Friday.
- In Venice, Italy: Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher at Villa Foscari La Malcontenta.
- In London: Francis Bacon at the Tate, opens Thursday.
Swoon’s Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea in Long Island City. (Photo by sabeth718.)
Hey Folks: I’m still on the road, missing all kinds of artsy goodness in NYC, but enjoying the flocks of gargantuan mosquitoes keeping me company on the southern shores of Lake Okeechobee. To keep y’all entertained, here are some pix of Swoon’s latest at Deitch Studios, in Queens, courtesy of Flickr bud sabeth718 and regular C-Monster.net contributor Luna Park.
The show is up until October 18th. To read more on Swoon’s latest riverine project, logon to ArtInfo, which has an interview with the artist right here. Plus: Gammablog has video.
The Digest will return on Monday. Many more photos after the jump.
xox, C.
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Dog Playing Dead, by Mike Stilkey. (Photos by Vidalia.)
West Coast correspondent Vidalia made it to Mike Stilkey’s solo show, Slightly All the Time, at Kinsey/DesForges in L.A. this past weekend. She got some nice pix of Stilkey’s new installations, which include paintings on stacks of discarded books, as well as other, more traditional materials. The show is up through August 16th.
More after the jump.
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Art with a hard-on: A figure by Beau Velasco waves a big stick at Brooklyn’s Factory Fresh. (Photos by Autumn Marie & Lindsey Elsaesser.)
Factory Fresh in Brooklyn recently opened up a group show called Un Named Rottens featuring new paintings by NYC artistes Beau Velasco, Daniel St. George and Jeremiah Maddock. The opening night was smooth sailing until Maddock realized that a briefcase containing some of his works-in-progress had been quietly disappeared. The staff at Factory Fresh tore the place apart looking for the briefcase to no avail. A few nights later, however, Maddock got a text message from an unknown number telling him that he could pick up his stuff at a Brooklyn tavern. Maddock did as he was instructed, and arrived to find the suitcase waiting for him behind the bar. The contents of the briefcase hadn’t been touched. The only addition was a crudely-written note that read: “I’ve been dying to meet with you Jeremiah.” Sounds like Maddock has a serious fan, or some prankster friends with a wicked sense of humor.
See the suitcase and more after the jump. Click on images to supersize.
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The Blob as a wall. (Photos by C-M.)
Bricks: they’re those heavy, rectangular prisms that you stack, one on top of the other, to make offices and mini-malls and parking garages. Or are they? Architect Greg Lynn of FORM gives them a serious makeover in his supercool Blobwall Pavilion at SCI-Arc’s gallery in downtown L.A. His reinvented bricks are hollow and made of recyclable polymer, stacked together to produce what amounts to one kick-ass, blobby-looking structure. Get over to see the installation ASAP (the show is only up through this weekend), because this fall, the pavilion is gonna be shipped to Italy for the Venice Biennale.
Here are directions to SCI-Arc. Helpful tip: the “entrance” to the building is around the back. You’d think a structure filled with architects would think to note this somewhere out front, but this little detail seems to have eluded everyone’s attention. Or is making people walk up and down a very long block in search of an open door some new avant-garde architectural thing I don’t know about?
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A sound installation by Os Gemeos. (Photos by Luna Park.)
Brazilian twin artist team of Os Gemeos opened a brand spanking new show at Deitch over the weekend called Too Far Too Close. Thankfully, special correspondent Luna Park was there to grab some pix of the opening night festivities. The installation is up through August 9th.
More after the jump.
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