Archive for the 'Peru' Category

Chicha.

Published by c-monster on December 15, 2009 in C-Monster, Music, Peru and Photography.

A dancer for Los Mirlos. Lima, Peru. (Photo by Carlos Díaz.)

Peruvian photographer Carlos Díaz took some awesome shots of some of Peru’s best-known chicha bands at a Lima concert a couple of weeks ago. (Chicha is a type of totally pyschedelic Amazonian cumbia heavy on the gnarly surf guitar.) Check out the full set of pix here — and be sure to listen to the sound files to get the full effect. Ay, mama…

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The Digest. 09.16.09.

Published by c-monster on September 16, 2009 in C-Monster, Peru, Photography and The Digest.

Pasaje 27 de Setiembre by Thomas Struth. (Image courtesy of Galerie Max Hetzler.)

The LAPD’s Wanted poster for the missing Andy Warhol paintings. Better than the real thing. (WalletPop.)
Why do people go to museums? Shit, to make fun of the art, of course. (Arts Journal.)
Damien Hirst looking to “immortalize” identical twins. In sort of related news: the graffiti artist who stole a buncha pencils from a Hirst installation at the Tate Modern is now threatening to sharpen them. Jonathan Jones opines. (Art Observed.)
A peek at Larry Gagosian’s book store. Sadly, there is no sign of a café.
Paintings lead complicated lives.
News Flash: NYT names nerdy guy to arts editor post. (CultureGrrl.)
In defense of blockbusters.
NY Mag rounds-up the new gallery season in Chelsea: Among other things, stuff is smaller.
The Fanjuls P.O.’d that the Prado is showing two paintings that had once belonged to them that were seized by the Cuban government when Castro took power. (Art Observed.)
The latest book sculpture from Brian Dettmer. Whoa.
Gigantic cardboard pop-ups.
The Metropolis Art Prize: Have your work shown in Times Square. You’ve got ’til Oct. 18th to apply. (Did I mention Isabella Rossellini is chairing the jury? I hope she wears the praying mantis outfit when the winners are announced…)
Glenn Beck’s logo was intentionally communist. He also eats babies. Related: a brief history of the clenched fist image. (@commondor.)
Graffiti porcelain.
“Donating” graffiti works.
Maya Lin’s Museum of the Chinese in America to open next Tuesday.
Prince Charles’ charity accused of being used as an architectural lobbying firm. (Arts Journal.)
Bruce Ratner’s latest Atlantic Yards proposal: “another way to dress up a turkey,” writes Justin Davidson (Arts Journal.)
This should be good: Betsey Johnson is gonna design a suite at the Plaza.
Your moment of super cuteness, Japanese ukelele style. (Coudal.)

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The Digest. 09.09.09.

Published by c-monster on September 9, 2009 in C-Monster, Peru, Photography and The Digest.

Find an absolutely wonderful set of photos of Lima’s surroundings �by Carlos Jimenez Cahua over here. (Image courtesy of Jimenez Cahua. Thanks Big Papi G for the heads up!)

Artists and their studios. And as @giovannigf points out, with no sign of studio assistants anywhere.
Austrian family wants Vermeer it sold to Hitler back. (Arts Journal.)
“CultureGrrl is Not ‘The Future of Arts Journalism.”‘ Don’t worry, Lee, arts journalism isn’t the future of arts journalism! (@TylerGreenDC.)
Charlie Finch=Glenn Beck, says ArtVent.
Is Cartrain’s stealing a bunch of Damien Hirst’s pencils from a museum installation the equivalent of Tony Shafrazi defacing Picasso’s Guernica? Or is it just Dumb & Dumber: Part IV?
Macy’s and its windows to get artsy fartsy this month as part of the Crossing the Line Festival.
The Met is rearranging deck chairs. (Arts Journal.)
The Colombians are getting back at us for all that bad foreign policy.
Calling all performance artists.
Trying to restore the world’s oldest computer.
Trippy: A video head.
Looks like an interesting book: Warhol TV.
A photo preview of Saatchi’s photography show.
There’s no such thing as too many pictures of penguins.
In related oceanic themes…Today’s Street Art: SR-X in Cologne.
Photo essay: village life, by Stefan Hobmaier.
The Annual Carbuncle Cup: Britain’s Worst Buildings! Liverpool Ferry Terminal by L.A.’s Hamilton Architects takes the top spot: “Looking like a karaoke version of a Zaha Hadid project, it takes the form of a skew-whiff cross-section that has been extruded like a stick of rock.” (L.A.T.)
Brad Pitt + Architecture + Gerbils. Seriously.
Your moment of a cat, a dog and a pile of hamburgers.

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Signs of the Times: The photography of Carlos Diaz.

Published by c-monster on August 22, 2009 in C-Monster, Peru and Photography.

I’ve really been enjoying the online photo essays of Peruvian photographer Carlos Diaz (who I have to confess, I know nothing about — I just stumbled onto his website by accident). The above image comes from a series on signage in tourist-trampled Cuzco. His work runs the gamut – from solemn religious ceremonies in the Andes to hip-hop concerts in Callao to body building contests in Cuzco to otaku gatherings in Puno – covering the breadth of Peruvian life.

You can see his latest on his blog, Ojjo.

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What I’m reading.

Published by c-monster on August 14, 2009 in Books, C-Monster and Peru.

Antología Personal, a collection of short stories and essays by Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro.

P. 79:

Paradis hablaba de esa época mercantilista en la cual para triunfar en el arte era necesario comportarse como un boxeador o como un payaso.

The Digest. 07.22.09.

Published by c-monster on July 22, 2009 in C-Monster, Peru, Photography and The Digest.

Cumbia Piura, by Carlos Díaz. (Image courtesy of Ojjo.)

I want, I need, I have to have…a gold-encrusted pistol grip and a De la Cour watch with marijuana leaf motif. Read the full story. (Gracias so very much, Big Papi G.)
“A clichéed death for the prince of hipsters.” (Hrag Vartanian.)
MAN reports that industrial plans for fertilizer evaporation pools could make Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty unrecognizable. Plus: conservation talk on land art (including Spiral Jetty) at Art21.
RISD shuts down museum for the month of August; lays off staff.
Attendance is booming at Boston’s ICA.
The National Gallery in London is putting on a show of the fakes and mistakes in its collection. Photos here.
Recycle LACMA.
A course on art crime.
It’s National Art Hate Week. I’m gonna go hate on some art right now!
61 Essential Post Modern Reads, an annotated list. (Buildings and Food.)
Painter Rosson Crow guest DJs at KCRW. Loving the Dwight Yoakam.
New Book: Photographing America: Henri Cartier-Bresson/Walker Evans.
On that artsy fartsy reality show: A very entertaining photo essay by Sarah Douglas of the hopefuls. A round-up on Marshall Astor. Plus: some mild scoop on the judges.
On the James Ensor show at MoMA.
Todays’ street art: Jok and Guidobobo in Reims, France.
Miami Beach Commission votes to remove Frank Gehry from New World Symphony project.
Tom Ngo’s Architectural Absurdities.
With best wishes to MCA of the Beastie Boys for a speedy recovery.
A coat of many Kermits. (Thank you, Kerry G.)
Your moment of drunk people yoga. (Eyeteeth.)

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The Digest. 07.08.09.

Published by c-monster on July 8, 2009 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Peru and The Digest.

Tita3 in Peru. (Photo by enteserhumano.)

Support Jörg Colberg’s contemporary photo blog Conscientious!!

The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. (ackackack.)
ArtNews’s Top 200 Collectors.
Dang, do I love me some lawsuit: Brooklyn’s River Café suing over salt water damage suffered from Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls. (@kenwheaton.)
The Art Industrial Average Continues Its Downward Slide: The market sinks at London auctions.
After all the brouhaha about wanting it back, the Euphronios krater isn’t exactly attracting awe-struck crowds in Italy.
One word: Plastics. They don’t live as long as we thought they did. (Arts Journal.)
Sarah Jessica Parker talks to ArtNet for “literally three minutes” about her new art reality show. (Animal.)
The Guardian crowdsources coverage of Gormley’s Fourth Plinth project. Plus: Rupert Christiansen at the Telegraph reports that the installation has already become a bore. (Best of 3.)
Speaking of crowds: LACMA is dealing with Michael Jackson mourners intent on getting as close as they can to Koons’ sculpture of Jackson with Bubbles.
The week in art world conflict: Philip Smith was left out of the Met’s Pictures Generation show and the Saltz-Master isn’t gonna take it anymore. Plus: Greg.org takes on the wall text.
Photographs of Cuba by Ernesto Bazan.
In other news: Alberto Gonzales finally found a job.
Today’s Street Art: Amose in Tokyo.
In time for Christmas? Zaha Hadid’s Chicago pavilion – which was supposed to open in June – still not open.
Design schemes for NOLA homes from Brad Pitt’s architectural foundation.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s various designs for the Guggenheim.
Priceless: An open letter to Dwell Magazine.
Your moment of Have You Heard of Hip-Hop?

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Calendar. 07.02.09.

Published by c-monster on July 2, 2009 in C-Monster, Calendar, Peru and Photography.

Detail from a photograph: Rehacer el Amor: Habitaciones, Hostales, Lima at the Centro Cultural de España in Lima. (Image courtesy of CCELIMA.)

In Lima, Peru: Re-Hacer El Amor: Habitaciones/Hostales/Lima, featuring photographs by Renzo Giraldo, Roberto Huarcaya and Gihan Tubbeh, at the Centro Cultural de España (CCELIMA) in Santa Beatriz, opens Friday.
In Nantes, France: Ernesto Neto, A Culpa Civilizada, at the Musée des Beaux-arts, opens Sunday.
In NYC: Consumption: A Show by Mike Dash, at Lyons Wier, opens Monday.
In NYC: Dan Graham at the Whitney, through Oct. 11.
In NYC: Black Acid Co-Op, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, at Deitch, opens today.
In L.A.: Hank Willis Thomas, Black is Beautiful, at Roberts & Tilton in Culver City, through Aug. 1.
In S.F.: Evan B. Harris and Alisha Wessler, Back Channels at Johanssen Projects in Oakland, opens Friday.

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The Digest. 06.29.09.

Published by c-monster on June 29, 2009 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Peru and The Digest.

Chuyo (?) in Barranco, Lima. (Photo by C-M.)

A prescient piece by Dana Schutz: the Autopsy of Michael Jackson (from 2005).
‘Cuz Miami needs another private collection space: Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz to open a 30,000 square foot exhibit space for their collection in December.
SF MOMA to cook up O’Keeffe-inspired recipes.
MOCA’s finances supposedly fixed. More here. (MAN)
At an exhibit of contemporary Iranian art in Chelsea: “No more veils.” Plus: more contemporary Iranian art in London.
A nice picture round-up from X-Initiative.
Whoa! A tweet of mine on a ‘penchant for cheesy pop‘ inspired a bunch of 12-second art videos. (@christinielsen.)
Bootleg video of a Cory Arcangel performance in Austria. (Hustler of Culture.)
The day in commercial culture.
Attack of the 50-foot woman, sculptural edition.
The seriously rad paper sculptures of Noriko Ambe.
For the Typography Geeks: A logo study of Aquaman. (The Slog.)
NYT obit on graff writer Iz the Wiz.
Abu Dhabi: Where starchitecture, green dreams and human rights violations meet.
A Cape Cod village succumbs to the sea. (architecture.mnp.)
“This very out of place structure somehow lingers, like a fart left by someone no longer in an elevator.“
Don’t call him a starchitect: Rem Koolhaas, in a three-part series on CNN. Plus: the Prada Transformer, transforming.
Your moment of the Kaguya moon crash.

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The Digest. 06.26.09.

Published by c-monster on June 26, 2009 in C-Monster, Painting, Peru and The Digest.

The Virgin feeds her child as demons watch, at the monastery of Santo Domingo in Lima. (Photo by C-M.)

Girlish gundam. Oh so pink.
Pop-up art festivals. More here and here.
On the new LACMA board, which not only contains the tonsorially-challenged Hollywood producer Brian Grazer, but Russian fashion designer Dasha Zhukova. Sounds like the place is gonna be having some good parties. More here.
“You do not want to fall asleep having just thought about Ribera’s The Executioner. Srsly.”
Near the border of Poland and Belarus.
Frida Kahlo’s suitcase.
A letter from the past emerges from a wall at Boston’s MFA. (A.J.)
The seriously funny-grotesque paintings of 19th century Belgian artist James Ensor.
Michael Jackson, art muse. Farah Fawcett, artiste.
Duuuuuuuude. (AFC.)
BLDGBLOG, on when winds fail. Plus: the site has a good link digest of all manner of trippy stories. (Marshall Astor.)
Are we entering an era of 24-lane highways? (architecture.mnp.)
Light graffiti inspired by Jerry Saltz.
Today’s Street Art: Conor Harrington in Italy.
N.C. artist arrested for making a sculpture (very Transformers) out of orange traffic cones receives outpouring of public support.
A house made of reused materials from Boston’s Big Dig.
A totally gnarly architectural installation by UN Studio in an old Dutch fort.
Your moment of Conando.

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