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Calendar. 02.08.12.

By c-monster on February 8, 2012 in C-Monster, Calendar, Installation and Museums. 0 Comments

AIDS Wallpaper, 1989, by General Idea. Part of the exhibit This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Opens Saturday. (Image courtesy of AA Bronson.)

L.A.: Daniel Joseph Martinez, I want to go to Detroit; Cheerleaders CHEER, at LaxArt. Through March 3.
Detroit: Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Opens Friday.
Miami: Mary Ellen Mark: An American Odyssey, 1963-1999, at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse. Through April 28, in the Wynwood District.
Savannah: Leo Villareal, at the Jepson Center, one of the Telfair Museums. Through June 3.
NY: We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Filmmakers Co-op, at Microscope. Starts this Saturday at 5pm, in Bushwick.
NY: Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine and Elizabeth Riley, at Storefront Bushwick. Opens Friday at 6pm.
NYC: F*ck Art, street art meets sex, at the Museum of Sex. Opens today, in Manhattan.
Plus: see my latest New York recommends over at Gallerina…

Tags: aids wallpaper, general idea, museum of contemporary art chicago, this will have been.

Space cruising.

By c-monster on January 26, 2012 in C-Monster, Museums, New York and Video Games. 0 Comments

The other night I played a planetarium-sized video game. Pretty cool.

Tags: american museum of natural history, babycastles, hayden planetarium, ivan safrin, space cruiser.

Calendar. 01.25.12.

By c-monster on January 25, 2012 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles, Museums and Photography. 0 Comments

In the Box-Horizontal, 1962, by Ruth Bernhard. Part of the exhibit In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, opening this Sunday. (Image courtesy of the Ruth Bernard Archive, Princeton University Art Museum.)

Berlin: Paper does not blush, a group show, at Galerie Michael Janssen. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
Fort Lauderdale: Chick Flicks: Cinematic Treatments of Female Photographers, a series of screenings, including Office Killer and Scenic Jogging, at Girls’ Club. On Saturday at 7pm.
NYC: A Feminist Tea Party will be holding a tea-shindig at the A.I.R. Gallery in Dumbo this Saturday from 2-4:45pm.
Plus: See my latest New York City picks over at Gallerina…

Tags: in wonderland, LACMA, ruth bernhard, surrealism.

Photo Diary: California Design at LACMA.

By c-monster on December 5, 2011 in C-Monster, Design, Los Angeles, Museums and Photo Diary. 1 Comment

OMFG, yes: lobster swimsuits by Mary Ann DeWeese, on view at LACMA as part of the California Design show.

The Avanti, designed in 1961 by Raymond Loewy. I would wear my lobster swimsuit while I drove this around.

A pamphlet advertising the City of Lakewood — L.A.’s first planned community. Speaking of which, if you haven’t read D.J. Waldie’s Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, then get on it. He covers this very subject.

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Tags: california design, LACMA, living in a modern way, lobster swimsuit.

Photo Diary: Phemomenal at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

By c-monster on November 28, 2011 in Art for stoners, C-Monster, Installation, Light and Space, Los Angeles and Museums. 1 Comment

All kinds of whoaaaaa: Doug Wheeler’s DW 68 VEN MCASD 11 in San Diego. (Photos by C-M.)

I am belatedly uploading some of my pictures from my recent jaunt to California, where I got to poke around some of the Pacific Standard Time exhibits. I saw some true gems — among them the California light and space show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, which is a total perceptual mindfuck (not to mention, totally bud-worthy). Many of the pieces were all about the experience — namely, the tricks your eyes play on you — so taking pictures was often pointless, hence the limited number of images here.

If you go, be sure to spend some quality time inside Eric Orr’s Zero Mass (at the La Jolla location), a pitch black room that requires at least six minutes for your eyes to adjust — but once they do, good lord almighty! It’s like waking up from a weird dream in which everything emerges from a fog. Other highlights that will make you say Duuuuuude are Bruce Nauman’s Green Light Corridor, which will have you seeing magenta (also at La Jolla) and Robert Irwin’s Square the Room (at the downtown branch), in which a scrim and some white paint are used to create an absolutely mind-boggling optical illusion. While downtown, do not miss the paintings by Mary Corse, which contain subtle reflective surfaces that seem to change with every move you make in front of the canvas.

If you live in Cali, this exhibit is one of the PST must-sees. And yes, it is worth dealing with the parking lot otherwise known as the 5.

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface is on view at both branches of MCASD (in La Jolla and downtown) through January 22.

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Tags: light and spcae, mcasd, museum of contemporary art san diego, phenomenal.

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.

Tags: all, guggenheim, maurizio cattelan.

Calendar. 11.03.11.

By c-monster on November 3, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles and Museums. 0 Comments

Marriage of Martin de Loyola to Princess Doña Beatriz, and Don Juan Borja to Princess Lorenza, by an unknown painter from Peru’s Cuzco School, in the 18th century. Part of the exhibit Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, at LACMA. Opens Sunday, in the Fairfax District. (Image courtesy of the Museo Pedro Osma, Lima.)

L.A.: Raymond Pettibon, Desire in the Pursuyt of the Whole, at Regen Projects. Opens Friday, in West Hollywood.
L.A.: Farewell to Los Angeles, at Bert Green Fine Art. Opens next Tuesday, November 8, in downtown.
S.F.: Francesca Woodman, and Jim Campbell, Exploded Views, at SFMOMA. Opens Saturday.
Scottsdale, Ariz.: Angela Ellsworth: They May Appear Alone, In Lines or In Clusters, at Lisa Sette Gallery. Opens today, at 7pm.
Paris: Parle-moi d’amour: Aline and R. Crumb, at Galerie Martel. Opens today, at 6:30pm.
São Paulo: Sigmar Polke, Realismo Capitalista e Outras Histórias Ilustradas, at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Through January 29.
NYC: Ed Wood’s Sleeze Paperbacks at Boo-Hooray, through December 4.
NYC: The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, at Gagosian Gallery. Opens today, on the Upper East Side.
NYC: Rico Gatson in conversation with Thelma Golden, at Exit Art. This evening at 7pm.
Plus: All my latest New York picks, over at Gallerina…

Tags: colonial art, contested visions, LACMA, latin america.

One pill makes you larger.

By c-monster on October 26, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster, Installation, Museums and New York. 0 Comments

Tripping over the Carsten Höller show at WNYC…

Tags: carsten holler, new museum, pill clock.

Calendar. 10.20.11.

By c-monster on October 20, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Installation and Museums. 0 Comments

Take that, Richard Serra: Detail of an installation crafted from Neutrogena soap by Danielle Julian Norton. Part of the exhibit Extreme Materials 2, at the Memorial Art Gallery, at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, N.Y. Opens Sunday. (Image courtesy of the artist and the Memorial Art Gallery.)

Chicago: Wolfgang Leib: Unlimited Ocean, at the Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Opens Saturday.
New Orleans: Prospect.2, New Orleans, in various locations around town. Opens Saturday.
L.A.: Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928-1939, at the Getty Center. Opens next Tuesday.
L.A.: Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, at LACMA. Opens Sunday, in the Fairfax district.
Honolulu: Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber, at the TCM/Spalding House (Honolulu Academy of Arts). Opens today.
Northampton, Mass.: Crosscurrents: Art of the Southeastern Congo, and Eduardo Hernández Santos: El Muro, at the Smith College Museum of Art. (The El Muro show looks amazing. Wish I could get up to Smith for this.) Muro is up through November 20; Crosscurrents is up through January 8.
NYC: Ryan Ford, Don’t Try to Play Me Like a Sport, at Factory Fresh. Opens Friday at 7pm.
Plus: Find the rest of my NYC gallery picks over at Gallerina…

Tags: danielle julian norton, extreme materials, university of rochester.

Calendar. 10.13.11.

By c-monster on October 13, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Illustration, Los Angeles and Museums. 0 Comments

Aztlan Rifa, 1977, by Gilbert “Magú” Luján. Part of the exhibit Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement, at the Fowler Art Museum. Opens Sunday at UCLA. (Image courtesy of the Fowler.)

L.A.: Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican-American Generation, at the Autry Museum. Opens Friday, in Griffith Park.
Austin: Queer State(s), at the Visual Arts Center, Austin. Through November 5. (…might be good.)
Davenport, Ia.: Aurora Robson, Everything, All At Once, Forever, at the Figge Art Museum. Through January 15.
Miami: Magdalena Fernández, 2iPM009, at the Frost Art Museum. Through January 8.
Syracuse: From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America, at the Everson Museum of Art. Through January 12.
London: Monika Grzymala, Raumzeichnung, at Sumarria Lunn. Through November 4.
London: Cory Arcangel, at Lisson Gallery. Through November 12.
NYC: Wrona, Pretty Horrible, at Pandemic Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Williamsburg.
NYC: Michael Ballou, What Makes Us Different From the Animals?, at Valentine. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Ridgewood/Bushwick.
And, finds loads of my New York listings on Gallerina…

Tags: aztlan rifa, fowler art museum, gilbert magu lujan, mapping another LA.

Archive for the 'Museums' Category

Calendar. 02.08.12.

Space cruising.

Calendar. 01.25.12.

Photo Diary: California Design at LACMA.

Photo Diary: Phemomenal at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Stuff that dangles.

Calendar. 11.03.11.

One pill makes you larger.

Calendar. 10.20.11.

Calendar. 10.13.11.

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