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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…

Calendar. 06.23.11.

c-monster — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:20:45 +0000

Untitled, circa 2000, by Margaret Kilgallen. On view at Ratio 3 in San Francisco as part of a memorial show dedicated to the artist, Margaret Kilgallen: Summer/Selections. Opens today. (Image courtesy of Ratio 3. More pix at The Citrus Report.)

L.A.: Assorted Flavor, with Saber, Push, Kofie and many others, at Known Gallery. Through July 9.
Washington, D.C.: Fragments in Time and Space, at the Hirshhorn Museum. Opens today.
NYC: An exhibition of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, at Saltspace. Opens Friday at 6pm.
Amsterdam: BLADE, The King’s New Line, at ArTicks Gallery. Opens Sunday at 2pm.
Berlin: Sergej Vutuc, Something in Between, at Galerie Michael Janssen. Opens Friday at 6pm.
Plus: You can find many more NYC picks over at Gallerina.

Calendar. 06.09.11.

c-monster — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:22:27 +0000

Swampy, in Oakland. The artist has a solo exhibit coming up this weekend at Fifty24SF, in San Francisco. Things get started this Saturday, June 11th, at 7pm. (Above image courtesy of EndlessCanvas.com.)

Portland, Oreg.: Jack Pierson, Twilight, and Mise-en-Scène, a group show, at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Through July 16.
Los Angeles: For a Long Time, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Raymond Pettibon and others, at Roberts and Tilton Gallery in Culver City. Through August 6.
S.F.: Sign Your Life Away, with Steve Powers, Jeff Canham and New Bohemia Signs, at Guerrero Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm.
Fort Worth: Focus: Teresita Fernández, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Through June 19. (…might be good.)
Chicago: Avant Garde Art in Everyday Life, at the Art Institute of Chicago. (And while you’re there, be sure to check the African art galleries, which will display a textile made from the silk of a Golden Orb spider. Like, whoa.) Opens Saturday.
LAST WEEK — NYC: Live From Detroit, a group show, at Fred Torres Collaborations, in Chelsea. Nice to see a show featuring Detroit artists rather than outsiders doing ruins porn. I really dug the paintings by Dick Goody. Through Saturday.
PLUS: get my up-to-date New York City recommends over at WNYC.

Calendar. 03.29.11.

c-monster — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:20:47 +0000

Undocumented Interventions_13, by Julio César Morales. Part of the solo exhibit Contrabando, at Frey Norris, in San Francisco. Opens this Saturday; reception at 4pm. (Image courtesy of Frey Norris.)

North Adams, Mass.: Memery: Imitation, Memory, and Internet Culture at MASS MoCA, opens Sunday.
NYC: El Celso, No Habla Español CLOSING PARTY, this Saturday at Pandemic Gallery at 7pm. Come dance with us in the chicha disco before it closes.
NYC: Ryan Frank, R. Justin Stewart and Morgan Levy, Art & Lies, at Invisible Dog Art Center, in Brooklyn, opens Friday at 6pm.
NYC: 2×4, with Jim Lee, Jamie Powell, Michael Scoggins and Carmen Tiffany, at the Laundromat, in Bushwick, this Saturday and Sunday.’
NYC: Andreas Gefeller, The Japan Series, at Hasted Kraeutler, opens Thursday.
NYC: Wash Your Face, a performance by Fluxus artist Ben Patterson, at Third Streaming in SoHo, this Friday at 6:00pm. ($10 suggested donation.)
NYC: Unpainted Paintings, at Luxembourg & Dayan, through May 27.
NYC: Paul Chan reads from Phaedrus Pron at 192 Books, in Chelsea, this evening at 7pm.
NYC: Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts, at the Park Avenue Armory, through Wednesday. (Get over there. This is about to close.)
NYC: Pantheon, a history of art from the streets, in the chashama windows at Donnell Library (across from MoMA), starting this Saturday.
Philadelphia: Robots Will Kill, at Vincent Michael Gallery, opens Friday at 7pm.
San Diego: Streetwise: Masters of Street Photography, at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, through May 15.
L.A.: David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, at LACMA, opens Sunday.
L.A.: Surface Truths: Abstract Paintings in the Sixties, at the Norton Museum of Art, through Aug. 15.
L.A.: My Super Hero: New Contemporary Art from Iran, at Morono Kiang Gallery, in downtown, through April 30.
Seattle: Matt Sellars, Supra Tidal, at Platform Gallery, opens Thursday at 6pm.

Calendar. 11.16.10.

c-monster — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:20:55 +0000

Flesh Of High Places, by AJ Fosik. On view at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, through Dec. 4. (Image courtesy of Guerrero.)

Miami: Bruce Weber, Haiti/Little Haiti, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, opens Thursday.
NYC: The launch of Creative Time Comics, at Desert Island Comics in Williamsburg, this Wednesday at 7pm.
NYC: Peter Schjehldahl gives a talk at the School of Visual Arts, Of Ourselves and Our Origins: Subjects of Art, this Thursday at 7pm at the SVA Theatre.
NYC: Fawn Krieger, Ruin Value, at Solway, in Brooklyn, opens today at 4pm.
NYC: What is the Where?: A Recession Art Show, at Invisible Dog, in Brooklyn, through Nov. 21.
Houston: Kurt Schwitters, Color and Collage, at the Menil Collection, through Jan. 30. (…might be good.)
Portland, Oreg.: An Afternoon with Artemisia Gentileschi: Film and Conversation, at the Whistsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum, this Saturday at 1pm. (Unfortunately, there’s not info on this online, but it’s a screening of the film A Woman Like That, followed by a discussion.)
L.A.: Jonathan Gold and Bret Easton Ellis, together, at the Hammer Museum, tonight at 7pm. The mind reels.
L.A.: A screening of Handmade Nation, at Urban Craft Center in Santa Monica, this Wednesday at 7pm.
L.A.: Linda Ekstrom, at Sherry Frumkin Gallery in Santa Monica, through Nov. 20.
***PLUS: Can you handle the truth? If you live in Austin, you can have your portfolio reviewed in public.

On an unrelated note:
I was interviewed by the ADVERVE podcast, in which I talk about writin’ and journalism and psycho Peruvian bus rides that involve bolsitas de barf. Check it!!!