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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.

Art Fairs: Super quick update.

By c-monster on March 4, 2011 in Armory-palooza, C-Monster, Drawing and Painting. Closed

Volta is meh. But if you’re there, head straight for Steve Turner Contemporary’s booth which has this piece by Deborah Grant. It is pretty dang epic, charting the all-kinds-of-tragic life of painter William H. Johnson in a series of illustrations that creep out from the center. Click on the image to supersize. Click here to see a detail. (Photo by C-M.)

Tags: deborah grant, steve turner contemporary, the provenance and crowning of king william, william h johnson.

The Digest. 01.31.11.

By c-monster on January 31, 2011 in C-Monster, Painting and The Digest. 3 Comments

Soap Bubbles, after 1739, by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. (Courtesy of LACMA.)

“How abstract can a landscape become while remaining a landscape?”
Hyperallergic has done an incredible job keeping tabs on damage to the Egyptian National Museum and other Egyptian museums during the demonstrations. More here.
Al Jazeera’s Flickr feed. (Fast Company.)
Portraits of the tortured: This looks like a can’t-miss exhibit in L.A.
And the Super Bowl bets are on: This year it’s the Milwaukee Art Museum versus the Carnegie Museum of Art. Up for grabs: French impressionist paintings.
Best. Artist Profile. Ever.: The Rembrandt of Riyadh.
Ai Weiwei ceramic sunflower seeds to be auctioned at Sotheby’s. (Arts Journal.)
If this isn’t a clusterfuck of art world ridiculosity, I don’t know what is.
Mothers, the harshest art critics. (This story is hilarious.)
Tattooed ladies. (Marshall Astor.)
If you live in NYC: Take the Artist Cost of Living Survey. It’s to help a new foundation determine grant awards. (Art Fag City.)
VHS.
Photographer Phillip Toledano, reimagined as one of many dictators.
The perils of appropriation: Mr. Brainwash getting sued by photographer Glen E. Friedman for copyright violation on a Run DMC image.
Today’s Graff: ESPO (aka Steve Powers) in Syracuse. (Scroll down.) Plus: A photo tour of his studio.
On the financials of the urban art market: A profile of Steve Lazarides. (Ekosystem.)
Nest factories. (BLDGBLOG.)
Some great pix of Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel in Germany.
One of the most ridonkulous, excessive museum schematics I’ve seen in a loooong time. And it’s in Miami, of course.
An action movie sequence that will make your day. (@mltb.)

Tags: jean baptiste simeon chardin, LACMA, soap bubbles.

Find me at Gallerina.

By c-monster on January 27, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Painting. 2 Comments

Where I’m hanging out with all kinds of crazy characters.

Tags: george condo, new museum of contemporary art, uncle joe.

Seduced by Subversion at the Brooklyn Museum.

By c-monster on December 17, 2010 in C-Monster, Museums, New York, Painting, Photo Diary and Sculpture. 3 Comments

A detail from Rosalyn Drexler’s Home Movies. (Photos by C-M.)

There are paintings with balls. And there are paintings with tubes. You’ll find the latter at the Brooklyn Museum’s show Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968. And thank goodness. This ably assembled little show makes you realise just how much the art world is dominated by sausage, because there’s no other explanation for why I haven’t seen more of these talented ladies, some of whom have some wildly acerbic views on men, the art world and their own bodies. (No earnest vag art here.) There’s been some debate among the critical set about how ‘pop’ many of the works in the show truly are. But, honestly, who cares? The exhibit contains some underseen, underappreciated, totally twisted gems. If you’ve OD’d on ’60s go-tos like Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg, then hit the Brooklyn Museum for fresh kick-you-in-the-ass perspective.

Seductive Subversion is on through Jan. 9. Check it out.

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Tags: brooklyn museum, seductive subversion, women pop artists.

Photo Diary: Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian, in NYC.

By c-monster on December 16, 2010 in C-Monster, Galleries, New York, Painting and Photo Diary. Closed

Finally made it over to see the Anselm Kiefer show at Gagosian (which closes after Saturday). It’s kind of a hot mess, stuffed to the rafters with too much of everything — namely, a series of massive-ass vitrines full of ashen decay and stuff made with lead. Amid all the clutter, however, are some paintings I found quite compelling: a series of jagged mountainscapes made of thickly-piled paint.

Perhaps these appeal to me because I just spent several weeks in the Andes, where staring at a forbidding, vertical landscape is part of daily existence. But I wasn’t the only one. A kindly security guard told me that his favorite piece out of the entire exhibit was the painting at bottom. “If you stand back and look at it, it’s like you could be on a horse looking at that mountain, wondering how many days it will take you to get there,” he explained. “And then when you get close, all kinds of wonderful things happen.”

Photos by C-M.

Tags: anselm kiefer, gagosian gallery, next year in jerusalem.

Photo Diary: Peruvian cakes.

By c-monster on November 7, 2010 in C-Monster, Painting, Peru, Sculpture and Travel. 7 Comments

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Tags: cajamarca, cakes, chachapoyas, Peru.

Mona Lisa. Mona Lisa.

By c-monster on November 1, 2010 in C-Monster, Painting, Peru and Travel. 3 Comments

For anyone under the mistaken impression that the only place to see the Mona Lisa is at the Louvre in Paris: You can also find her in Lima…at my Tía’s house.

Tags: mona lisa, Peru.