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Calendar. 10.26.11.

By c-monster on October 27, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar and Photography. Closed

Boxers, possibly Golden Gloves contenders, lined up in boxing ring, c. 1955, by Charles “Teenie” Harris. Part of the exhibit Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story, at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Opens Saturday. (Image courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.)

Buenos Aires: Ernesto Neto at the Faena Arts Center. Through February 12.
L.A.: In Context, a group show with Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Cornell, Radciffe Bailey and David Hammons, among many others, at Roberts & Tilton. Opens Saturday, at 6pm, in Culver City.
L.A.: Monique Prieto, Time Enough, at ACME, through November 12.
L.A.: Gronk and Patssi Valdez lead a walk-through of the Asco exhibit at LACMA this evening at 7:30pm.
L.A.: Jeremy Fish & Kenichi Yokono: Rise of the Underground, at Mark Moore Gallery. Opens Saturday, at 6pm.
Riverside, Calif.: JEFF&GORDON, Play Against, at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California Riverside. Opens Saturday, at 6pm.
Chicago: The Three Graces, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Opens Saturday.
Atlanta: Nosferatu, screened with live music by Felipe Barral, in conjunction with Possible Futures, at the Goat Farm. Today and Friday at 8:30pm.
Philadelphia: Laurie Anderson, Forty-Nine Days in the Bardo, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Through November 19.
NYC: Die Like You Really Mean It, at Allegra LaViola. Through December 3rd, on the Lower East Side.
NYC: Bushwick Beat Night, in which various Bushwick art spaces stay open late. This Friday, from 6-10pm.
Plus, get all my New York City recommends on Gallerina…

Tags: carnegie museum of art, Photography, teenie harris.

Calendar. 09.01.11.

By c-monster on September 1, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar and Photography. Closed

San Ysidro, California, 1979, by Alex Webb. This photo and others can be viewed at the booth of the Joseph Bellows Gallery, at Art San Diego 2011. Runs from today through Sunday, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. (Image courtesy of the artist and Joseph Bellows.)

Seattle: Ross Sawyers, Dismantled Rooms, at Platform Gallery. Opens today.
Portland, Ore.: Malia Jenson, Salty, new video and sculpture, at Elizabeth Leach. Opens today at 6pm.
S.F.: Timothy Buckwalter, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays, at Mina Dresden, opens Friday. An opening reception will be held next Friday, September 8 at 7pm.
S.F.: Brion Nuda Rosch, at Baer Ridgway. Opens Saturday at 4pm.
S.F.: Jessica Hess, It Finds You, at White Walls. Opens Saturday.
San Jose: Beta Space: Anna Sew Hoy, at the San Jose Museum of Art. Through February 26.
L.A.: Asco: Elite of the Obscure, at LACMA. Opens Sunday, in the Fairfax District. Consider this a must. Plus: the museum is putting Edward Kienholz’s Five Car Stud on display. Good reason to get over there.
Santa Fe, N.M.: Julian Stanczak, Elusive Transparencies, at David Richards Contemporary. Opens today at 5pm.
Denver: Chad Person, The Dying Gaul, at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Opening reception this Friday, at 3pm.
Plus………find my NYC picks over at Gallerina.

Tags: 1979, alex webb, california, san ysidro, the border.

Miscellany. 08.16.11.

By c-monster on August 16, 2011 in C-Monster, Miscellany, Photography and Travel. Closed

Getting set to party at the Tropicana in Havana. (Image courtesy of San Suzie.)

Hey y’all, San Suzie — the Art Nurse otherwise known as Rosa Lowinger — is quoted all over a story in the September issue of Vanity Fair on the history of Havana’s Tropicana nightclub. Unfortunately, the article is only available in the print magazine, but it’s worth the newsstand price for the anecdote about the 18-inch penis. (Seriously.) In addition, the photos are by none other than William Eggleston. Speaking of which, if you haven’t picked up Lowinger’s highly-readable book on Tropicana, this is as good a time as any.

Random Linkage

Sort of related: Julia Cooke on black market dining in Havana.
Must-read piece by Peter Oborne in The Telegraph on how Britain’s upper class is no different from the rioters who have made off with TV sets and designer clothes. An instructive piece for the American oligarchy, too.
Christopher Hawthorne looks at the World Trade Center’s design-by-committee.
This makes me want to get a fake moustache and a cable knit sweater: The STASI plays dress-up.
“Art is too serious a thing to be made by artists.”
I’ve really been enjoying the “These Americans” photo essays put together by American Suburb X — collections of images from public photographic archives that cover a range of subject areas. These include topics that are horrifying and necessary: segregation, mental illness and a staggering set of images devoted to lynching. But there are lighter subjects, too. Some of my favorites include 1960s strippers (the hair!), 1980s wrestling (um, wow) and roadside Americana. The latter set just reaffirms my love of the Mitchell Corn Palace.
“[Joan] Mitchell regarded Pop as ‘all money and no cathedral’; she accused a friend who owned two cats and a David Salle painting of animal abuse.” — Lance Esplund reviews Patricia Albers’ new bio on Mitchell, Lady Painter.
Spatial anomalies in Kubrick’s The Shining.
Christopher Knight gives those Art of the Streets attendance numbers a thorough going over.
The Day in Art Merch: $2,000 Roy Lichtenstein dresses edition.
Sad Etsy dogs. (Thank you, Sabine.)

Tags: cuba, havana, tropicana, tropicana nights.

Calendar. 08.11.11.

By c-monster on August 11, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Museums and Photography. Closed

Sister Cool, 1974, by Dennis Morris. Part of the exhibit Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, exploring the depiction of African-Americans in photography, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Opens today. (Image courtesy of the Nasher.)

L.A.: Round Trip: Artists’ Panel, with Gronk, Judithe Hernandez and John Valadez, moderated by Max Benavidez, at the Vincent Price Art Museum. This Saturday at 2pm. Sounds like a good one…
S.F.: The City We Love, a group show, at Nine Four One, near downtown.
Aaaaand my NYC picks over at Gallerina…

Tags: dennis morris, nasher museum of art, sister cool, the wedge collection.

Miscellany. 08.08.11.

By c-monster on August 8, 2011 in C-Monster, Photography, San Suzie and Travel. Closed

Havana Hot Rod: A 1957 Dodge Coronet on the street, in Cuba. (Photo by San Suzie.)

On Curls

Wigs (Portfolio), 1994, by Lorna Simpson. (Courtesy of MoMA.)

It’s my spoken rule never to actually read the New York Times Style section, just look at the pictures. But I couldn’t resist poking into Judith Newman’s essay on curly hair. As a sporter and supporter of all things big and curly, I’m always happy to see someone call the blowout mafia on the bullshit. (Seriously, formaldehyde??? That’s so Damien Hirst.) But the piece, I thought, overlooked what I think is an ethnic issue that is also tied to curly hair. We live in a society that prizes WASP standards of beauty above all. I think there’s a certainly undesirability to curly hair because it’s seen as too ethnic, too Jewish, too Latino, too Black. Too, well, unruly.

It still feels like a bit of defiance to wear hair that is big and curly. But not for simple aesthetic reasons. This story could have been an interesting dissection of what we as a society consider beautiful and why. Opportunity missed.

Now, back to looking at the pictures.

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Giovanni Garcia-Fenech is totally right. Drop whatever you’re doing and read this essay by David Levine about the destructive dissolution of the Rothko estate in Triple Canopy. It’s all kinds of fascinating and beautifully written to boot.
This looks like it’s going to be EPIC: Chris Burden’s Matchbox cars installation at LACMA this fall. Edward Lifson has a good automotive photo essay to go with. (Art Fag City.)
Press release quotes that make me snort-laugh.
The sex sculptures of the idle rich.
Danielle Steele, curator.
The Day in Art Merch, otherwise known as the Department of Shut the Fuck Up: Cindy Sherman make-up. Girlfriend needs to STOP.
A map of Warhol’s New York.
The sky is falling. Spiderman is biracial.
Wealthy sheikh hits the desert with a ginormous tag of his name.
Hobo QR codes.
Ciudad Nazca, a robot that draws a true scale map of an imaginary city onto the surface of the Peruivan desert à la Nazca Lines. This is wild.
A massive Richard Neutra house in Beverly Hills is spared from the wrecking ball. For now.
A round up of container architecture projects. (@JohnPerreault.)
This looks interesting: A book by Rob Nixon that examines how non-Western writers like Ken Saro-Wiwa have been left out of the environmental canon.
“The Quiet Despair of the Starship Enterprise.”

Tags: 1957, cuba, dodge coronet, havana.

Calendar. 08.04.11.

By c-monster on August 4, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar and Photography. Closed

Untitled (#1), by Dinh Q. Lê. The artist is the subject of a solo exhibit, Imaginary Country, at Cooley Gallery at Reed College, in Portland, Oreg. The show opens this Friday at 5:30pm. (Image courtesy of PPOW Gallery.)

And, as always, for my New York recommends, see Gallerina. Though, if you’re up in the vicinity of Wassaic, N.Y., be sure to check out the weekend’s Wassaic Project, complete with lots of dance, film, art and music.

Tags: cooley gallery, dinh q le.

Calendar. 07.28.11.

By c-monster on July 28, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar and Photography. Closed

City Hall offices, Lubumbashi, DR Congo, 2007, by Guy Tillim. Part of the exhibit Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba, at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. (Image courtesy of CAC and Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin.)

Plus: Congrats to Jason Lujan for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza, 3-D Art Book edition.

L.A.: Saner, Secuestro Express, at Mid-City Arts, near the Fairfax District. Opens Friday.
L.A.: A 24-hour screening of Christian Marclay’s The Clock, at LACMA. This evening at 5pm, in the Fairfax District.
Chicago: Windows on the War: Soviet TASS posters at home and abroad, 1941-45, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Opens Sunday. Plus: check out the exhibit’s awesome Tumblr feed.
Plus: Click over to Gallerina to see my New York recommends!!!!

Tags: avenue patrice lumumba, cincinnati, contemporary arts center, guy tillim.

Calendar. 07.21.11.

By c-monster on July 21, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar and Photography. Closed

Gina Drunk with Henry in Lobby, by Naomi Harris. Part of the group exhibit Fuck Pretty: A Photography Exhibition, at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica. Opens today at 6pm. (Image courtesy of the artist and Robert Berman.)

Houston: The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil, at the Menil Collection. Through September 25.
North Adams, Mass.: Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum, at MASS MoCA. Through February 28.
PLUS: Check out my New York listings at Gallerina!
DOUBLE PLUS: Two Kickstarters worth supporting: Steve Lambert’s Capitalism project and Leon Reid the IV’s Tourist-in Chief project. (FYI: I only recommend Kickstarters I donate to. This isn’t just lip service.)

Tags: fuck pretty, naomi harris, robert berman gallery.

Calendar. 06.30.11.

By c-monster on June 30, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Museums and Photography. Closed

Untitled, date unknown, a photograph by Ralph Eugene Meatyard, from the solo exhibit Dolls and Masks, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Opens Saturday. This looks like it’s gonna be pretty boss. (Image courtesy of the Estate of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.)

L.A.: Faile, LA Works on Paper: A Decade of Prints and Originals, at Post No Bills. Through July 2, in Venice.
Santa Fe: Southern California Painting: 1970s Painting Per Se, at David Richard Contemporary. Opens Friday; artists reception on Friday, July 8 at 8pm.
Houston: George Gittoes, Witness to War, at the Station Museum. Through September 18. This sounds super interesting. Hat tip to …might be good.
NYC: Re-Collection, a group show, at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, at the Parson School of Design. Through September 7th.
Plus, get my latest NYC picks over at Gallerina!!!

Tags: art institute of chicago, dolls and masks, ralph eugene meatyard.

Photo Diary: Cleveland Museum of Art.

By c-monster on June 21, 2011 in C-Monster, Museums and Photography. Closed

I went to a professional heavyweight bout once at Madison Square Garden. It was as riveting as it was grotesque. Essentially, you’re sitting around watching a guy take a beating. George Bellows really captured the raw power of this savage spectacle in Stag at Sharkey’s, a painting from 1909. His later boxing paintings are more stylized. But in this one, it’s all about the violence, with fighters in contorted poses, their faces a blur of expressionistic red paint. I could practically taste the sweat.

Want: A feathered hat from the Bamileke people of Cameroon, circa 1900. Stunning.

The museum has a trippy-interesting show devoted to Cleveland Op Art (up through February 2012). Shown here is a detail of Julian Stanczak’s piece Provocative Current, from 1965. I would have taken more pix, but there was no photography allowed in the modern or contemporary galleries. Living artists are such a buzzkill.

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Tags: cleveland museum of art.