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The Digest. 02.18.11.

By c-monster on February 18, 2011 in Art for stoners, C-Monster, Graffiti and The Digest. Closed

Smells on a freight car. (Image courtesy of Smells.)

Sculpture you can shred on. (Eyeteeth.)
Atonement via smartphone app.
The five worst gallery websites.
The world needs more video interviews with Tracey Emin.
Jasper Johns to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom.
NEH and NEA likely to get hit with brutal budget cuts. In NYC, the Department of Cultural Affairs is about to get hit with some serious slashing, too.
Opponents of Barnes Foundation move are attempting to get the judge reopen the case. (@KnightLAT.)
Iowa Republicans really really really want to sell Jackson Pollock painting at the University of Iowa. I mean, like, really.
Crowd-sourced shows: Kyle Chayka is over them. So am I.
Groday: Wafaa Bilal’s body rejects camera implanted in his head.
‘Cuz They’re Old? Why Van Gogh’s sunflowers are turning brown. (Arts Journal.)
New York Times photographer criticized for taking award-winning pix with smartphone app. He responds.
The Day in Art Merch: The Damien Hirst bling skull hoodie. For when Ed Hardy is not douche enough.
Ruins Porn: Gary, Indiana edition.
Aerial shots of Germany. (Eyeteeth.)
Today’s Graff is all about being green: Mosone in Italy.
For sale: Subway station.
Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal at JFK to serve as the entrance to a boutique hotel.
I want it big and brutal and with a lot of windows: Cosmic Communist Constructions.
What Eli Broad can learn about urban planning from The Grove.
From the Department of Holy Crap: The five strangest shows on Latin American television. The Peruvians take the prize for scary surrealism, while the Argentineans win for nasty sexual harassment. (@giovannigf.)

Photo Diary: ’112 Greene Street’ at David Zwirner Gallery, in NYC.

By c-monster on February 7, 2011 in C-Monster, Conceptual, Galleries, Graffiti, New York, Photo Diary, Photography and Sculpture. Closed

A piece of Gordon Matta-Clark’s graffiti truck, from 1973. Matta-Clark was inspired by graffiti in the early ’70s — before it had caught on with the mainstream art world. (Photo by C-M.)

The 1970s were not kind to New York. There was a middle class exodus to the suburbs. The Son of Sam was terrorizing the town. The city was bankrupt. Which, in a way, made the place an ideal spot for artists — who could take over empty SoHo warehouses for dance performances and attack derelict buildings in the Bronx with chainsaws, all without anybody batting an eyelash. The current David Zwirner exhibit 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970-74) examines this history — specifically, the story behind the alternative arts spot that gave rise to a number of figures, among them sculptor and conceptualist Gordon Matta-Clark. (Most interestingly, he was able to make a real live cherry tree grow in 112′s by-all-accounts-nasty basement.)

For those who relish examining a period when the city was entirely bereft of velvet ropes and gaggles of Sex and the City wannabes, this is definitely the show for you. It is heavy on Matta-Clark, containing evidence of some of his early building slicing experiments, but also has some compelling sculptures by Richard Nonas and Alan Senet. In addition, to anyone interested in the history of graffiti, the show is an absolute must-see. Matta-Clark had a heavy duty interest in the art form — letting Bronx teens tag up his van and documenting early tags on the subways in pieces he called Graffiti Photoglyphs. (See the photos below.)

You’ve got until the end of the week to catch the show. 112 Greene Street runs through this Saturday, Feb. 12.

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Tags: 112 greene, david zwirner gallery, gordon matta-clark, graffiti truck.

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.

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.

The Digest. 01.14.11.

By c-monster on January 14, 2011 in C-Monster, Graffiti, New York and The Digest. 1 Comment

The Smart Crew, in NYC. (Photo by C-M.)

Congratulations to knonos for winning the Stikman calendar giveaway!

Theories of Gchat. (Gracias, @jennydeluxe.)
Telegenic acts of iconoclasm: A post mortem on the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in the early days of the Iraq War.
On the Detroit ruins porn phenomenon. Joerg Colberg makes a good point about it all here. (Hyperallergic.)
Felix Salmon gives this week’s art funds story in the New York Times a searing elbow drop: “These ludicrous creatures have strong claim to being the most ridiculous asset class in the world, no one should ever invest in them, and they invariably fail.” (Hat Tip, @MrJohnFlowers.)
Parsing the Armory Show 2011 line-up. (Art Fag City.)
And because the world doesn’t have enough art fairs: Brooklyn will now have its own.
Ai Weiwei’s studio razed by Chinese authorities.
MoMA acquires controversial David Wojnarowicz video, the first institution to do so. It’s the 13th piece by Wojnarowicz to enter the collection.
The Civil Rights Movement…in Second Life.
On the trail of an elusive forger.
Things that look like art.
Two words: Basquiat Couture. (@ARTnewsmag.)
Speaking of which…A Marina Abramovic dessert. A follow up to her chocolate lips. Which makes me think, I really need a signature art-dessert.
Brujas.
Ed Ruscha guest DJs at KCRW.
The Week in Anti-Climactic Resolutions: Shepard Fairey and the AP settle their dispute. Though still at issue is a copyright infringement lawsuit involving all of Fairey’s “Hope” merch.
Photos of Swoon’s completed Konbit Shelters in Haiti.
Today’s Graff: Keim & Znjojmo in the Czech Republic, geometry and reflection. Nice.
This promises to be all kinds of interesting: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History, a film that examines the social and architectural history of one of St. Louis’s most notorious housing projects.
Blah blah blah. (Rhizome.)

Tags: smart crew.

Calendar. 01.11.11.

By c-monster on January 11, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Graffiti and Street Art. Closed

An image by Ripo. His solo show Don’t Get Me Wrong, opens at Galería Cosmo in Barcelona, this Friday at 8pm. (Image courtesy of Ripo.)

Seattle: Carolina Silva, Against Gravity (or the Oddity of the Flooded Land), at Lawrimore Project, through Jan. 29.
L.A.: Classic Photographs Los Angeles, at the Helms Daylight Studio, in Culver City, this Saturday and Sunday only.
L.A.: Fierce, a one-night exhibit featuring Anthony Lister, at THIS Los Angeles, this Friday at 7pm.
Stanford, Calif.: Art Censorship Issues, A screening of David Wojnarowicz’s Fire in My Belly’ and panel discussion, which will include artist Enrique Chagoya (who recently had a piece of his smashed in Colorado), at Annenberg Auditorium at Stanford, this Wednesday, at 5pm.
Chicago: Nicholas Knight, Declaimed, at 65Grand, this Friday at 7pm.
NYC: Maximum Perception, a performance festival, at English Kills, this Friday and Saturday, 7pm-midnight.
NYC: Trespass, a group show, at Pandemic Gallery in Williamsburg, opens this Saturday at 7pm.
NYC: Piotr Uklálnski, Discharge!, at Gagosian Gallery, on Madison Avenue, opens Wednesday.
NYC: Imeday Imeday Ollarday Icklenay, at Allegra LaViola, next public performance this Wednesday at 6pm.
NYC: R. Luke Dubois: A More Perfect Union, at Bitforms, opens Thursday at 6:30pm.
NYC: Ray K. Metzer, at Laurence Miller Gallery, through Feb. 26.
NYC: Deborah Brown, The Bushwick Paintings, at Lesley Heller Workspace, opens Wednesday.

Tags: barcelona, ripo.

Tagger Punks.

By c-monster on January 8, 2011 in C-Monster, Graffiti, New York and Street Art. Closed

Katsu and AVONE do a phone booth in downtown Manhattan. (Photos by C-M.)

Tags: avone, katsu.

The Digest. 12.13.10.

By c-monster on December 13, 2010 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Eko. (Image courtesy of Eko.)

Fake Criterions. (Grazie, @mrjohnflowers.)
Steven Soderbergh’s Spalding Gray doc screening at LACMA tonight; will be at IFC this Friday.
The 2010 Art World Census. Take it.
Another Bouncing Ball does a round up of David Wojnarowicz’s writings. Well done.
In related news: the National Portrait Gallery’s commissioner resigned to protest the removal of Wojnarowicz’s video. In addition, NYT columnist Frank Rich takes the Smithsonian and the D.C. establishment to task over the issue.
Speaking of censorship, a MOCA-commissioned mural by Blu in L.A. was immediately buffed by the museum shortly after being painted. The museum has failed to provide any good explanation for why it removed the work. Hyperallergic has updated coverage here and here.
And since we’re talking about MOCA: Word has it that the staff at the museum is grossly unhappy under Il Deitcho.
In London: A very surreal Turner Prize ceremony: Protestors on one side of a barricade, celebrants on the other. (Arts Journal.)
El Saltzino’s Top Ten. #class makes the list.
On the Machu Picchu/Yale debacle: “It seems more interesting to see antiquities restitutions not as an emptying out of Western museums but as part of a larger trend—the reverse migration of objects, from the West to the regions and cultures from which they came, along with the flow of Western art to new centers of power.”
The Museum of Arts & Design to have a center devoted to olfactory art. This could be all kinds of bizarre-interesting.
The Basel Frazzle, the morning after.
Rock band T-shirts for arthouse film directors. Can’t decided between the Herzog or the Ingmar Bergman…
Today’s Street Art: Geometeric abstraction meets naked dude. (Ekosystem.)
What kind of house would a confined man dream about? Find out here. Do not miss the trailer at the bottom.
The Architectural Industrial Average is low: Looks like Santiago Calatrava’s Chicago skyscraper is dead as a door nail. (Cityscapes.)
Inside Wikileaks Headquarters. Which reportedly resides, literally, inside a bunker.
Google beatbox.

Tags: eko, geometric abstraction.

The Digest. 11.15.10.

By c-monster on November 15, 2010 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Italy and The Digest. 1 Comment

Train graff in Naples, Italy, 2009. (Photo by C-M.)

“This is serious. We could make you delirious.” Effing amazing.
On procrastination.
Dogs that take the subway. (A story I never tire of.)
When nothing remains of our civilization but ashes, this is how we will be remembered.
Help Catherine Opie make a really important film.
Michelangelo’s David, as the sculpture was originally meant to be displayed. (ArtsJournal.)
Nothing Lasts Forever: In an interesting piece in the Telegraph, Mary Beard discusses the prohibitive cost of maintaining ruins.
“Shocking news from Oxford: You can’t play flute with your bottom.” (Hyperallergic.)
The Yale School of Art has a wiki website. And yes, it’s hard on the eyes.
There’s all kinds of hijinks afoot with the intended sale of some Clyfford Still paintings by a budding Denver museum intended to protect the artist’s legacy.
Gagosian’s Robert Rauschenberg show looks all kinds of interesting. Fred Kaplan does it up as a slideshow for Slate (and makes an interesting point about Gago’s installation of the White Painting).
The little stoner that lives inside of me loves any art installation made with cotton candy.
JOMC (aka Joanne McNeil) turned me on to the photography of Vanessa Winship. (She has an absolutely extraordinary series on schoolgirls in Eastern Anatolia.) Lucky for me, it turns out Conscientious interviewed the photographer about this series, and other things, last year.
Posing with the Dead: Victorian mourning photography. So messed up.
Photos that are too hard to keep.
When an art critic loses his ability to conjure words. (Find the full diary entries here.)
Bravo’s #workoFart gets officially renewed for a second season. I’ve had many suggestions for the show in the past. My latest: Get Lorenzo Lamas as a judge. What this shit needs is a B-grade actor with a laser pointer!
Today’s Street Art Animation: infinity in NYC.
Rediscovering Cambodian Modernism: The architecture of Vann Molyvann. Find images here.
This Tampa church designed by Alfonso Architects looks pretty dang rad. My favorite feature: an offerings ledge where you can burn real candles. And since we’re talking about Houses of Worship: Check out this cool-looking mosque in Indonesia which has an interesting typography treatment on the façade.
I want. I need. I have to have…a fish coffin. Yes I do.

Tags: naples, train graffiti.

Uncovering historical graffiti.

By c-monster on October 10, 2010 in C-Monster, Conceptual, Conservation, Graffiti and Video. Closed

Brad Downey spent two days working with professional conservator Magdalena Recova to uncover 15 years worth of graffiti that had been painted and repainted on a small section of a graff wall in Vienna. Think of it as graffiti history, played backwards.

Find more on Downey’s work here.

Tags: brad downey, graffiti fame wall, vienna.