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Calendar. 11.17.11.

By c-monster on November 17, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Painting and Photography. 2 Comments

The Ultimate Painting, 1966. Photo documentation of a collaborative work between Clark Richert, Richard Kallweit, JoAnn Bernofsky, Gene Bernofsky and Charles DiJulio. On view in the exhibit West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. This show looks all kinds of bad-ass. Through February 19. (Image courtesy of the artists and MCA Denver.)

S.F.: Richard Aldrich, New Work, at SFMOMA. Opens Friday.
S.F.: Blek Le Rat, 60/30, at 941 Geary. Opens Saturday.
S.F.: Cordy Ryman, at Eli Ridgway. Through December 22.
Laguna Beach: Slash: An International Survey of Contemporary Collage, at Carl E. Smith Fine Art. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
L.A.: Jocelyn Foye, Rock n Roll, Rock n Roll, Rock n Roll, at Kristi Engle Gallery. Through December 17.
L.A.: Samara Golden, at Night Gallery, in Lincoln Heights. Tonight, from 9:30pm. RSVP required.
Phoenix: Seeing is Believing: Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth, at the Phoenix Museum of Art. Through January 22.
Denver: The grand opening of the Clyfford Still Museum. This Friday.
Hartford: Patti Smith: Camera Solo, at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Through February 19. (Artlog.)
NYC: Andrew Moszynski, Recent Work, at Valentine in Ridgewood/Bushwick. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
NYC: Paper Boys: Over Under, Labrona and ND’A, at Pandemic Gallery. This Saturday at 7pm in Williamsburg.
Plus: Get all my latest NYC recommends over at Gallerina… It’s a big week: HIDE/SEEK is opening up at the Brooklyn Museum.

Tags: denver mca, richard kallweit, ultimate painting, west of center.

Photo Diary: de Kooning: a Retrospective, at MoMA — the black and whites.

By c-monster on October 10, 2011 in Calendar, Museums, New York, Painting and Photo Diary. Closed

Painting, 1948, by Willem de Kooning. (Photos by C-M.)

As I’m sure you’ve well read by now, the Willem de Kooning retrospective at MoMA is all kinds of gangbusters. I’m not going to get into some dissertation about what he and his work signified, because I think there have been plenty of those — among them, the comprehensive 500-page catalogue. But I did want to highlight one of the aspects of the show I really dug: the black and white paintings from the late 1940s — mainly because I’m a sucker for black and white, but also because they seem to revel in a certain gritty New York City-ness (that seems to no longer exist). They also look like a type of proto-graffiti, what Jed Perl describes in New Art City in the following way: “De Kooning’s nitty-gritty New York was all knock-you-in-the-teeth actualities, all surprising particulars: the dramatically contrasted sizes of adjacent buildings, the abandoned lots and demolition sites, the oil stains and graffiti on the pavements, the reflections of neon signs on wet streets.”

This is also an opportunity to pimp my podcasts on New York City in the time of the Abstract Expressionists. Many more pictures after the jump.

de Kooning: A Retrospective is on view through January 9 at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Tags: a retrospective, black and white paintings, moma, willem de kooning.

Flying High.

By c-monster on May 31, 2011 in Announcements, Art for stoners, Books, C-Monster and Painting. Closed

I have an interview over at WNYC with art critic Ken Johnson about his new book, Are You Experienced? which chronicles the influence of 1960s drug culture on the last half century’s worth of art. Also included: tips on the best New York museum to be stoned in. (Image of the painting Rabbit, by Judith Linhares, featured in the book, comes courtesy of Prestel.)

Tags: are you experienced, judith linhares, ken johnson, rabbit, wnyc.

This Friday, in East L.A.: The Vincent Price Art Museum reopens.

By c-monster on May 16, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles, Museums and Painting. 2 Comments

The Vincent Price Art Museum at East L.A. College is opening the doors to its brand new building and it looks like it’s going to be all kinds of boss. In fact, it’s making me wish I wasn’t going to be out of town — because the inaugural shows appear to be all kinds of fantastic, including one on the roots of Mexican modernism and another featuring eight high-profile alums (including figures such as Kent Twitchell, Gronk, John Valadez and Diane Gamboa — who painted the above piece, Consensual Behavior, in 2003). Things get rolling this Friday, May 20, at noon. If you live in L.A., seems like a must-do.

Tags: consensual behavior, diane gamboa, east la college, vincent price art museum.

The Art of Graceland.

By c-monster on May 10, 2011 in Art, Art for stoners, C-Monster, Painting, Sublime ridiculosity and Travel. 5 Comments

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Tags: art, elvis, graceland, memphis.

While I’m out…

By c-monster on April 28, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Painting. Closed

You can still find my Datebook over at WNYC — with images by Rockwell Kent (above), part of the Whitney’s Breaking Ground show.

Tags: 1921, breaking ground, rockwell kent, the trapper, whitney museum.

Datebook is up.

By c-monster on March 31, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster, New York and Painting. Closed

You can find my weekly list of New York area happenings (including Susanna Heller’s exhibit of abstractions, as seen above) right here.

Tags: last blues of dusk, susanna heller.

Calendar. 03.22.11.

By c-monster on March 22, 2011 in C-Monster, Galleries, Los Angeles and Painting. Closed

Panel Discussion, by Dan McCleary. Part of the artist’s solo exhibit at Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles — through April 2. (Image courtesy of Krull.)

Hey Folks: I was having a few problems with spam and I think I may have deleted a bunch of real comments. Sorry if I zapped your deep thoughts, but my WordPress is a little gummed up. Best, C.

NYC: After the Gold Rush, Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, at the Met, opens today.
NYC: Mike Stickrod and Pat Palermo, There’s a Place for Us, at Soloway in Brooklyn, opens Saturday at noon.
NYC: Tim Rollins and K.O.S. at Lehmann Maupin, in Chelsea, opens Thursday at 6pm.
NYC: Romare Bearden: Collage, at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, opens Saturday.
NYC: Dr. Lakra, at the Drawing Center, through April 24.
NYC: Thornton Dial at Andrew Edlin Gallery, through April 30.
NYC: The Days of This Society Are Numbers, at the Abrons Arts Center, through April 16.
Annandale-on-Hudson: CLAP, featuring works from the collection at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (in addition to a new piece by Tony Oursler), opens this Sunday at 1pm. A “language activation” event led by Carolee Schneeman will take place at 3pm.
Minneapolis: The Spectacular of Vernacular, at the Walker Art Center, through May 8.
L.A.: Chris Doyle, Waste_Generation, at Sam Lee Gallery, through April 9.
L.A.: William Leavitt: Theater Objects, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, through July 3.
San Diego: Streetwise: Masters of ‘60s Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts, through May 15.
Paris: Van Dongen: Fauve, Anarchiste et Mondain, at the Musée d’Art Moderne, opens Friday.

Tags: craig krull gallery, dan mccleary, panel discussion.

The Digest. 03.14.11.

By c-monster on March 14, 2011 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. 3 Comments

What My Mother Doesn’t Know, a painting by Hector Hernández, spotted at Curbs & Stoops in Brooklyn. (Photo by C-M.)

A map of science fiction. (Roger Ebert’s Journal.)
Sort of related: The 10 Most Awesomely Terrible Sci-Fi/Fantasy Paperback Covers. (Thank you, @mrjohnflowers.)
On the ethics of displaying the dead. Interesting piece, though I would have loved to have seen the issue of displaying Egyptian and Andean mummies addressed.
Somehow, this had eluded me all of this time: Hunter Thompson’s epic 1971 essay on the Chicano Moratorium and Ruben Salazar’s death at the wrong end of an LAPD tear-gas canister. Thompson spells vato wrong, but otherwise an excellent piece. Consider this required reading if you live in Southern California.
Censorship at Austin’s Arthouse?
Italian government not so keen on restitutions that might require a work to leave Italy.
Gago is getting sued.
Trafficking in Digital Art: How does one sell or buy a GIF? Hyperallergic and Tom Moody (in one and two parts) discuss. (Art Fag City.)
A digital “poem” with endless clicks.
Cease and Desist: That sublime point where the art industry and the legal industry intersect.
Copying in the World of Art: It ain’t new.
Glad This Has Been Cleared Up: Study reveals that it is possible for people to tell the difference between an abstract expressionist work produced by a monkey and one produced by a human. (@MrJohnFlowers)
Streisand doing the Philly Museum. Gotta move!
Make your own Dan Flavin light sculpture. (Sort of.)
Flashback: Patti Astor’s Fun Gallery from the ‘80s. All kinds of groovy psychedelic.
Shane McAdams picks apart street art and Exit Through the Gift Shop at the Brooklyn Rail. (Hyperallergic.)
5 Pointz, the graffiti hub in Long Island City, Queens, may be going condo.
Today’s Street Art is all about paper: Laguna in Spain.
JR’s Ted Project: To have the world put up JR posters. What a spectacularly weak concept (and one that is unavailable to the two thirds of the planet that doesn’t have access to the internet).
Nice piece on the fading tradition of Chilean sign painting. The video is in Spanish, but the visuals are universal. (Thanks to Paty for the link.)
Best Mars Images from Orbiter’s first five years. (It’s Okay to Be Smart.)
Back to the future, in photos.

Tags: curbs and stoops, hector hernandez.

Over at Gallerina…

By c-monster on March 10, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Painting. Closed

…where I’m writing about Andean tunics, quirky illustrations and Glen Ligon’s incredible solo at the Whitney (the painting above is his). Check it all right here.

Tags: america, glenn ligon, i am a man, whitney museum.

Archive for the 'Painting' Category

Calendar. 11.17.11.

Photo Diary: de Kooning: a Retrospective, at MoMA — the black and whites.

Flying High.

This Friday, in East L.A.: The Vincent Price Art Museum reopens.

The Art of Graceland.

While I’m out…

Datebook is up.

Calendar. 03.22.11.

The Digest. 03.14.11.

Over at Gallerina…

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