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Peruvian Monuments, Redux: The photography of Pablo Hare.

By c-monster on May 27, 2011 in Art for stoners, C-Monster, Peru, Photography and Travel. 3 Comments

I am currently cultivating a healthy obsession with crazy works of public art in Peru. (See my earlier post here.) Which is why I was excited to hear about the work of Peruvian-born photographer Pablo Hare, who has a whole series devoted to some of the most sublime/absurd monuments you have ever laid your eyes on. From top to bottom: a statue of a puma, a tribute to the maca (a type of tuber) in Junín, and a contemporary rendering of the Lord of Sipán, a Moche figure found entombed on the North Coast of Peru (where my family hails from). Hare has captured some absolutely sublime public art ridiculosity. Be sure to click over to view the whole series.

Thanks to Andrés Marroquín Winklemann and Joerg Colberg for the tip.

Tags: monumentos del peru, monuments of peru, pablo hare, Photography.

Greetings from Cadillac Ranch.

By c-monster on April 18, 2011 in Art for stoners, C-Monster, El Celso, Photography, Street Art and Travel. 10 Comments

Wish you were here. xox, C. (Cadillac Ranch by Ant Farm. Body work by El Celso. Printing by Publicidad Viusa. Photos by C-M. Click on images to supersize.)

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Tags: 1963 Cadillac, amarillo, ant farm, cadillac ranch, chicha posters, el celso, publicidad viusa, texas.

Photo Diary: Stuff artists are looking at.

By c-monster on April 11, 2011 in Art for stoners, C-Monster, Photo Diary and Photography. 1 Comment

Nefarious bacon thingies are occupying somebody’s psyche. And they’re now on view at Winkleman’s Curatorial Research lab in Chelsea. (Photos of photos by C-M.)

There’s a get-inside-the-mind-of-the-artist show going on at the Winkleman Gallery that is worth spending some quality time with. Signs on the Road is a found-object show about found objects: The organizers (a group known as Workroom G) got 150 artists to submit images of things that they are currently fixating on. And it’s a wonderfully random array of things, from photos of gnarly bacon appetizers to scans of marked-up books to a vintage prom advert that is all kinds of sky blue.

Over the course of the exhibit, the photographs will be arranged and rearranged by various collectives. The version I saw, on March 31, was damn intriguing, with oodles of twisted-crazy stuff to look at. It was like the best part of surfing the web, but without that feeling of being totally cracked out. If you go, be sure to take your time. You’ll miss lots of ridiculosity if you try to rush through.

Signs on the Road is up at Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea through April 30.

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Tags: curatorial research lab, signs on the road, winkleman gallery.

Find me at Gallerina.

By c-monster on April 7, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Photography. Closed

Where my weekly Datebook is now up — featuring, among many other things, the civil rights era photographs of Charles Moore. Above, an image from Selma, 1965. (Image courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery.)

Tags: charles moore, steven kasher gallery, wnyc.

The Digest. 03.30.11.

By c-monster on March 30, 2011 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

Shinjuku, 6:43, by Joseph O. Holmes — to benefit the Japan Society’s Earthquake Relief Fund. (Image courtesy of Holmes and 20×200.)

Things that are brilliant: Hennessy Youngman — explaining relational aesthetics, and how to be a successful black artist.
Even more: Youngman interviewed in Art in America — showing a keen understanding of what it means to be an art writer: “Like you as an arts writer, you gotta feel the same way, dedicating yourself to elevating the critical understanding of art, but getting paid crap and busting ass to make ends meet. Meanwhile Rachel Harrison can fart in a jar and make Scrooge McDuck scrilla.”
From the Department of Crazy Border Politics: An essay on the Erez Crossing, by Richard Moore.
Plastic: The diet of sea turtles. (Cool Green Science.)
Parsing the summary judgment in the Patrick Cariou versus Richard Prince copyright case: Art Fag City, Photo District News, New York Times. But, if you really want to dig deep on this, check out this post by Greg Allen. He’s combed through all of the available legal materials, including interviews, and organized them into a book. Should come in handy during the appeal…
Artists versus Gugg Abu Dhabi: Artists threaten boycott over working conditions at museum site. The museum fires back, saying they’ve made substantial progress in assuring workers’ rights. See the Guggenheim’s full statement here.
This is sooooo rad: LACMA has created an image database of unrestricted works from their collection. Digital nerds, have at it!!
Things that are ?!?!??!?!?!?!?: Maine governor wants to remove a mural from the state’s Department of Labor because it reflects labor history.
“Jeff Koons Must Die!!!”
From Russia with Love: The photographs of Andreas Neumann.
How role-playing games have permeated the world of art. (@jomc.)
From the Department of Me, Me, Me: I’m interviewed on the Dead Hare Radio Hour and talk way too much. Best to fast forward to the second half of the show, to listen to Duncan McKenzie from Bad at Sports, who is all kinds of funny.
A Disneyland fashion spread. Not sure which piece I love more: the embroidered sweater-vest paired with the Bertha Mae steamboat or the turban with Sleeping Beauty’s castle. (Dinosaurs & Robots.)
A fascinating piece by critic Jeet Heer on race and racism in vintage comics, in one and two parts.
Maps that turn in on themselves.
C-Monster Est: Ancient Graffiti in Context. This story is amazing. And I would loooove to see this book. Too bad it’s $95. For the Kindle version. NUTS. (Thank you, Robin, for the heads up.)
Today’s Graff: Crin’s knotty tags in Berlin.
“A mauve zone of pseudo-familiarity.” The world of airport carpets. (@nicolatwilley.)
Fascinating piece by Justin Davidson on New York’s relationship to its waterfront.
“We are an insatiable oasis of Gullivers in a shrinking, Lilliputian world of technology.” William Shatner explains microprocessors, circa 1976.

Tags: 20x200, japan, joseph o holmes, shinjuku 6:43.

The Digest. 03.02.11.

By c-monster on March 2, 2011 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

Martin Juarez, an absolutely stunning image given to me by my pal Least Wanted, aka Mark Michaelson. Buy his book.

Congrats (I think) to Moses Hawk for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza, Jeff Koons doing it edition.

Awesome wedding cakes.
Joanne McNeil and her various online selves. Interesting story.
The Day in LOL Politicians: Queens Congressman wants to sell “sexist” work of public art on Craigslist.
Remember those historic hanging-by-a-thread Haitian murals my pal Rosa Lowinger wrote about for WNYC’s Gallerina last summer? They finally made the NYT. (Though the paper neglects to mention the conservators doing the actual work. Boo.)
An album inspired by Hieronymus Bosch.
Gary Panter on Jack Kirby. Plus: Panter’s advice to young artists.
What it’s like to have your painted mug featured in the New Yorker.
Lights.
Annie Philbin of the Hammer Museum guest DJs at KCRW.
Fake vintage Japanese ad mascots.
The CIA has a Flickr feed. And it’s pretty damn weird.
A Q&A with photographer Malick Sidibé.
Clemens Behr: The Merzbau meets street art in stonerrific ways. (IKilledJackJohnson.)
A graffiti analysis sculpture.
Things That Are Meta: Cleaning graffiti off graffiti.
Today’s Street Art, Chuck Norris edition.
“How can you criticize an artist who gets into the limelight by staying out of the limelight, has a healthy secondary market, has good politics — I think — and seems to be slamming both the art world, and casting doubts upon every other street artist in the universe?” Artopia on Exit Through the Gift Shop, making me rethink Banksy.
Paper dresses. I want the gold one.
A building with an integrated skate ramp. Smart.
Zaha Hadid’s new Guangzhou opera house. (kateopolis.)
The Best Picture on the Internet. (Art Fag City.)

Tags: least wanted, mark michaelson, martin juarez.

Calendar. 03.01.11.

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

The Catacombs, 16 October 1967, by Billy Monk. Part of the solo exhibit Billy Monk: Nightclub Photographs at Michael Stevenson Gallery, in Cape Town, South Africa. Opens today. (Image courtesy of Michael Stevenson Gallery.)

S.F.: Helios, Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, at SFMOMA, through June 7. Plus: see their related exhibit, Picturing Modernity, also through June 7.
S.F.: Rupert Garcia, the Magnolia Editions, at the de Young, through July 17. (It was Garcia who graced the cover of the Chicano art story I did for ARTnews.) Plus: there’s a gigantor Olmec heads show going on which looks potentially awesome.
L.A.: On the Line, at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, opens Thursday.
Houston: Man Bartlett, New Some, at Skydive Art Space, opens Friday at 7pm.
Milwaukee: Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century, at the Milwaukee Art Museum, through May 15.
Chicago: Stephen Collier, Brian Guidry and Rachel Jones, New Art From New Orleans, at Western Exhibitions, through April 2.
Indianapolis: Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, through Sept. 18.
Pittsburgh: The Word of God: Sandow Birk’s American Q’uran, at the Warhol Museum, through May 1.
NYC: John Chamberlain at Paula Cooper Gallery, opens today.
NYC: Oskar Dawicki, Phantom pain, at Postmasters Gallery, opens Friday at 6pm.
NYC: José Parlá, Walls, Diaries and Paintings, at Bryce Wokowitz, opens Thursday at 6pm.
NYC: Geometric Days, at Exit Art, through April 30.
NYC: Mutual Regards: Joyce Robins and Thomas Nozkowski, at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University School of the Arts, opens today.

Tags: billy monk, black and white, michael stevenson gallery, nightclub photographs.

The Digest. 02.23.11.

By c-monster on February 23, 2011 in C-Monster and Photography. Closed

From the series Higher Education, by Jörg Colberg. (Image courtesy of Colberg.)

Manifesto of the 343. Stand with Planned Parenthood. (Thank you for reminding me of this, Mira Schor.)
Toxic avenger fish.
Angie Dickinson gives good beat.
The New York Academy of Art runs afoul of Facebook’s nudity police. You can, however, join a Never Nudes fan page.
Looks like the University of Iowa won’t be selling that Pollock after all. Related: Modern Art Notes has an interesting interview with Pepe Karmel, the curator behind MoMA’s ’98 retrospective in one and two parts.
Caravaggio’s police file. “19 October 1604: Arrested for throwing stones at policemen near Via dei Greci and Via del Babuino.” (@thebookslut.)
Walter de Maria sculpture installed in former Hitler bunkhouse.
An art video game that kills.
As the Oscars approach, the chatter is whether Exit Through the Gift Shop is for real.
The long and the short of it: Good piece by Sarah Fishko on works that are very long and very short. Andy Warhol’s Empire gets a shout out. (@lizarnold.)
On the state of arts criticism. I love any article that begins with a reference to Julio Ramón Ribeyro. (In Spanish.)
“My experience has been that the installation of art video is dominated by a need to make audiences uncomfortable; consciously or not, they are designed to be difficult to enter, uncomfortable to occupy, and awkward to leave.” Video art curators, please READ.
Marshall Astor went to the De Young and found some seriously bad-ass art.
Digging this round-up of make-up themed films currently featured on Art Fag City.
Regency Arts Press is doing a fundraising raffle of Ed Ruscha’s Every Drawing on the Sunset Strip. Tickets are $250, but if you win it’s a deal. (If I had $4000 laying around, I would totally buy one of these straight out.)
Thing That Could Also Be Yours: A vintage Danceteria flyer featuring the art of fetish artist Eric Stanton.
Duuuuuuuuude.
Minnesota graff artist gives Titian’s Venus an outfit.
Today’s Graff: sdkaröe in Germany.
Steve Powers (aka ESPO) speaks at TEDxPhilly. (Ekosystem.)
From the Department of Awesome: James Franco, with overweight cats shooting eye lasers.

Tags: higher education, joerg colberg.

Calendar. 02.15.11.

By c-monster on February 15, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar and Photography. 2 Comments

A stunning photo essay of the protests in Egypt — in black & white — by photographer Gabriele Micalizzi is up at Cesuralab. See her his Tunisia photos here. (Image courtesy of Cesuralab.)

NYC: John Bock, Howdy Bamington, at Third Streaming, through March 5.
NYC: Transporting Home/Culture: The Turtle Life, at the Bronx Art Space, opens Thursday. Opening reception on Friday at 5pm.
NYC: Jef Geys, Woodward Avenue, at Carriage Trade, opens Saturday at 6pm.
NYC: Barnaby Hosking: New Works, at Charles Bank Gallery, opens Thursday at 6pm.
NYC: Hidemi Takagi: Blender, at The Homefront Gallery, through April 9, in Long Island City.
Forth Worth: Focus: Robert Lazzarini, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, opens Sunday.
Memphis: Ben Butler, at the Clough Hanson-Gallery at Rhodes College, through Friday.
Portland, Oreg.: Matt McCormick, The Great Northwest, at Elizabeth leach Gallery, opens Thursday at 6pm.
L.A.: David Hilliard & David Rathman, Great Expectations, at Mark Moore Gallery, opens Saturday at their new location in Culver City.
London: British Art Show 7, at the Hayward Gallery, opens Wednesday.
Berlin: Charif Benhelima, Harlem on My Mind: I Was, I Am, at Galerie Michael Janssen, through March 19.

Tags: cairo, cesuralab, egypt, gabriele micalizzi.

Conditions: On Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann’s innovative new book.

By c-monster on February 14, 2011 in Books, C-Monster and Photography. Closed

'Conditions' allows the reader to view the images in various configurations.

It might seem straight out of Borges, but it is possible to read a book in two directions at once. Late last year, blogger Jörg Colberg of Conscientious, slipped me a copy of Conditions, a new book of photography that features the work of Peruvian-born photographer Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann. The book is actually two in one: it opens at the center — like a gift — and has two separately bound sections. These are side-by-side mini-books that that can be viewed individually or together — in left to right order, in right to left order, or both at the same time. Likewise, you can dip into either bound section at will. This allows the reader to study one image, create random pairings of images, and in some cases, admire photographs across four pages simultaneously, such as the image of the religious icons below (after the jump).

“I think the viewing experience of the book really puts the focus on the ideas behind the project: perception and self definition,” Marroquín explained to me via e-mail. “Even though I try to use the same ideas in a gallery exhibition of the work, the book’s format invites the viewer to interact with the images in a more personal and intimate way than is possible in a gallery.”

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Tags: andres marroquin-winkelmann, conditions, meier und muller, photography book.