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Miscellany. 02.07.12.

c-monster — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:20 +0000

Banana man, Lima. (Photo by El Celso.)

MUST. READ. A stunning 1988 essay by Joan Didion on our political “process” and its coverage in the media, and how it bears absolutely no resemblance to reality. Though I’m still trying to figure out what the hell “housemaid Spanish” is. (@citizen_kahn.)
Why solar energy is not as green as we might like to believe. A good reason to stop air conditioning shit to death.
“There are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.”
Men in trucks: The photography of Alejandro Cartagena.
Jeff Chu on his round-the-world tour of Damien Hirst’s spots, an excellent opportunity to catch up on his reading.
Is the theft of virtual goods considered stealing? It is by the Dutch Supreme Court. (Kyle Chayka.)
The Day in Art Merch: A Sol Lewitt yarmulke. Awesome.
A Christian app for viewing art.
How Facebook and other businesses are using you.
And why the U.S. should consider a digital privacy law à la Europe.
Werner Herzog, on interviewing men on death row. God help me, Herzog could be talking about taking out the trash and I’d tune in.
Vintage Iranian “Barbie” dolls.
No idea what this is about but give me more: A Turkish Star Trek spoof. (@jmcolberg.)
Pac Mondrian.

Calendar. 02.01.12.

c-monster — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:41:13 +0000

You’ve got 10 more days to catch Soldier/Many Wars, Suzanne Opton’s poignant photographs of active duty soldiers, at Platform Gallery in Seattle. Through Saturday, February 11. (Image courtesy of the artist and Platform.)

L.A.: Michael Miller, West Coast Hip-Hop: A History in Pictures, and Ernest Holzman, Under Over, at Known Gallery. Opens Saturday at 8pm, in the Fairfax District.
NYC: Richard Drake at Barking Lizards in Williamsburg. Through February 19.
NYC: Zimoun: Volume, at Bitforms. Opens Thursday at 6pm.
NYC: Paul D’Agostino, Appearance Adrift in the Garden, new artwork and writings, at Norte Maar. Opens Friday at 6pm in Bushwick.
Plus: See my New York picks over at Gallerina…

Calendar. 01.25.12.

c-monster — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:39:00 +0000

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…

Calendar. 01.18.12.

c-monster — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:54:23 +0000

South Philly (Mattress Flip Front), by Zoe Strauss. The photographer currently has an all-kinds-of-major solo exhibit up at the Philadelphia Museum of Art called Ten Years. Be sure to check it! (Image courtesy of Zoe Strauss. To see more, check out this slideshow at the NYT.)

L.A.: Elias Hansen and the Reader, We Barely Made It, at The Company. Open Saturday.
L.A.: L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-80, from Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Opens Saturday, in Pasadena.
L.A.: Release party for the comics anthology Kramers Ergot No. 8, at Family, on Fairfax Ave. This Thursday, at 7pm.
L.A.: Culture Fix: A talk by Judithe Hernandez on the role of women in the Chicano Art Movement, at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Next Wednesday, Jan 25, at noon.
Palm Springs: Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Opens Saturday.
New York: Sarah Morgan, Childhood Homes, at the Homefront Gallery, in Long Island City. Opens Saturday at 4pm.
Plus: See my other New York recommends in Gallerina…

PLUS PLUS PLUS: I’m speaking on a panel about Bushwick this Thursday at 7pm at the Bogart Salon. I’ll be unveiling my new interpretive dance called Health Food Stores Wrapped in Corten Steel Are Harshing My Mellow. Please come!!!!

PLUS PLUS: I’m going to be part of the crew doing a continuous 48-hour reading from Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans for Triply Canopy in Greenpoint. Bring your finest Modernist language. The show gets started on Friday evening. I’ll be on stage some time Sunday around noon.

Calendar. 12.15.11.

c-monster — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:20:40 +0000

There’s a screening of Serious Play: The Worlds of Helen Levitt, a documentary by Tanya Sleiman, at Eli Ridgway Gallery in San Francisco this Saturday at 4pm. You can see a trailer here. If I lived in S.F., this is where you’d find me. (Photo above nabbed from the very wonderful American Suburb X.)

Plus: My NYC picks can be found over at Gallerina…