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Miscellany. 11.21.11.

By c-monster on November 21, 2011 in C-Monster, Installation, Miscellany and Sculpture. 1 Comment

The Shipwreck Irene, by R.L. Croft, in Rocky Mount, N.C. The piece, built in October, is located in Battle Park off of Falls Road near the Route 64 overpass. (Image courtesy of R.L. Croft.)

The disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street.
Dear UC Davis: What. The. Fuck.
My colleague Jenn Hsu has a nice explainer on the Occupy Wall Street kitchen.
On the Media has a highly interesting report on professional wrestling’s labor-issues storyline.
The Clyfford Still Museum opens up in Denver. I kinda like knowing that he was terrified of fire — and by extension, electrical appliances.
Floral designers and merchandise displayers are considered artists according to the NEA.
Totally late on this, but I dig Alissa Walker’s takedown of Breast Cancer Awareness month’s cutesy-pinkness. I couldn’t agree more. And I’m certainly over the whole merch-fication of the disease. Besides, the whole buy-some-crap-and-save-the-world philanthropy model leaves something to be desired. Feels like regular old consumerism in feel-good dressing.
This Os Gemeos exhibit in Brazil looks pretty damn trippy.
For the audio heads: A gathering of vintage sounds. Loooooove #8.
Kill Screen links to a marginally interactive Mercedes ad/film that shows the Google Map universe as a technological dystopia. Hot chick with British accent included.
Cut & Paste Culture, Dead-Tree Edition: A London bookstore caters to seekers of rights-free images.
Are you a zombie? Or a vampire? I think I’m a vampire, with occasional moments of zombie-tude.
Things you need to know if you live in L.A.: X, the Dead Kennedy’s and the Avengers are playing a gig at MOCA in January. Get. On. It.
For sale: Carhenge. (h/t @vidalia.)

Tags: north carolina, R.L. Croft, rocky mount, the shipwreck irene.

Calendar. 10.06.11.

By c-monster on October 6, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, New York and Sculpture. Closed

In One Piece At A Time, artist Jonathan Brand has recreated a Ford Mustang entirely out of paper. And since my first car was a banana yellow ’75 Mustang sedan, well, I couldn’t resist featuring it here. The paper auto is on view at Hosfelt Gallery through October 29 in New York City. (Image courtesy of the artist.)

Newport Beach, Calif.: State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, at OCMA. Opens Sunday.
L.A.: Craig Kauffman, Sensual Mechanical, at Frank Lloyd Gallery. Through October 15, in Santa Monica.
L.A.: Sigrid Sandstrom, Hide-outs, at The Company. Through October 29, in Chinatown.
L.A.: Cuentos de Amor y Resistencia: The Tenacity of Chicana Artistic Expression, a panel with Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin, María Elena Gaitán, and Judithe Hernández, at the Vincent Price Art Museum. This Saturday at noon, in Monterey Park. This will be followed by readings and performances tied to the exhibit After The Gold Rush: Reflections and Postscripts on the National Chicano Moratorium of August 29th, 1970.
Oakland, Calif.: Ajit Chauhan and Kevin Killian, Don’t Be Upset — I’m Only Crying in English, at Sight School. Opens Saturday.
Marfa, Tex.: Justin Almquist, at the Chinati Foundation. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
Miami: Bhakti Baxter, Rompelotas, at Gallery Diet. Opens Friday at 7pm.
Greenwich, Conn.: On Every Street: An Exhibition of Work by 30 Street Artists, at Samuel Owen Gallery. Opens today at 6pm.
London: Neil Ayling, Flextion, at EB&Flow Gallery. Through November 5.
Plus: You can find all my latest NYC listings over at Gallerina.

Tags: ford mustang, hosfelt gallery, jonathan brand, one piece at a time, paper.

Over at ARTnews: Pacific Standard Time.

By c-monster on October 4, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster, Los Angeles and Sculpture. 2 Comments

Vacancy/No Vacancy, 1972, by Lili Lakich. Featured in the exhibit Doin’ it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, at the Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, through January 28 — part of the Pacific Standard Time series of exhibitions in Los Angeles. (Image courtesy of the Ben Maltz Gallery.)

Pacific Standard Time seems to be roaring along quite nicely, with exhibits opening up all over Southern California to celebrate the region’s post-War art. I’ve got an overview story in this month’s ARTnews about the project — which includes anecdotes about how curators were able to track down pieces in Kansas bank branches and parking lot shipping containers.

You can read that story here.

And be sure to click over even if PST is not your realm of interest. ARTnews has a new website that is all kinds of snazzy. Worth checking out!

Tags: #PSTinLA, doin it in public, lili lakich, pacific standard time, woman's building.

Calendar. 09.29.11.

By c-monster on September 29, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles, Museums and Sculpture. Closed

Bag Lady in Flight, by David Hammons — ca. 1970s (reconstructed 1990). Part of the exhibit Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980, at the Hammer Museum. Opens Sunday, in Westwood. (Collection of Eileen Norton, courtesy of the Hammer Museum.)

If there was one place I wish I could be this week, it’s SoCal, for the official launch of Pacific Standard Time. There’s gonna be all kinds of great exhibits. Below, I’ve listed some of the ones opening this week that have caught my eye. (Don’t forget Asco at LACMA, which has already opened.) Naturally, there are many others coming up, so check out the Getty’s hub website for a complete list of all the related exhibits.

L.A.: Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, at the Getty Museum. Opens Saturday, in West L.A.
L.A.: Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Opens Saturday, at the Geffen Contemporary.
L.A.: Icons of the Invisible: Oscar Castillo, at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Through February 26.
L.A.: Doin’ it in Public, Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis. Opens Saturday, in Westchester.
L.A.: California Design: 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way,” at LACMA. Opens Saturday.
L.A.: Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, at LACE. Through January 29.
L.A.: Eriberto and Estevan Oriol, Like Father Like Son, at the Carmichael Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
La Jolla, Calif.: Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Through January 22.
La Jolla, Calif.: New Out West: Peter Alexander, Mary Corse and Robert Irwin, at Quint Contemporary. Through November 12.
Austin: Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored, at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. This looks like a must-see. Through January 22.
Durham, N.C.: The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, at the Nasher Museum. Through December 31.
Mexico City: Saner, Los Iluminados, at Fifty24 MX Gallery (at the Colima 159 location, in Colonia Roma). Opens Saturday.
PLUS: Find my latest New York City picks over at Gallerina.

Tags: bag lady in flight, david hammons, hammer museum, now dig this!.

Calendar. 09.15.11.

By c-monster on September 15, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles, Museums and Sculpture. Closed

Silver Dollar (Ruinas), by Diego J. Garza. Part of the exhibit After the Gold Rush: Reflections and Postscripts on the National Chicano Moratorium of August 29th, 1970, at the Vincent Price Art Museum. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Monterey Park. (Image courtesy of VPAM.)

L.A.: Roberts and Tilton is hosting a book party for the launch of L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints this Saturday at 5pm in Culver City. This sounds like the kinda book I’d want to read.
L.A.: Andrea Zittel at Regen Projects. Opens Friday, in West Hollywood.
L.A.: Gronk, Empty Lines, at L2kontemporary. Opens Saturday, in Echo Park.
Long Beach: MEX/LA: Mexican Modernism(s) in Los Angeles 1930-1985, at the Museum of Latin American Art. Opens Sunday.
NYC: And Another Thing, a group show, at the CUNY Graduate Center on Fifth Avenue. Through October 29, in Midtown.
Plus, find all my latest NYC recommends over at Gallerina — including the all-kinds-of-awesome de Kooning retrospective at MoMA… Don’t miss!

Tags: diejo j garza, silver dollar ruinas, vincent price art museum.

Calendar. 09.08.11.

By c-monster on September 8, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries, New York and Sculpture. Closed

Marianne Vitale’s Model for a Torpedo. On view in the group show Norfolk, at Thierry Goldberg in NYC, through October 30. (Photo by C-M.)

L.A.: Betye Saar, Red Time, at Roberts & Tilton. Opens Saturday, in Culver City.
L.A.: Tim Gratkowski, White Out, at Blythe Projects. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
L.A.: José Parlá, Character Gestures, at OHWOW. Opens Friday, in West Hollywood.
L.A.: Los Vets, a group show with David Botello, Judithe Hernandez, Gilbert “Magu” Luján and many others, at the Avenue 50 Studio. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Highland Park.
L.A.: A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed, at the Getty Gallery at the Central Library. Opens today, in downtown.
Austin: The Anxiety of Photography, a two-part exhibition at the Arthouse at the Jones Center and the Austin Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
NYC: Heat Beaten, A Summer’s End Art Show, at Pandemic Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm.
London: James Casabere, Credit, Faith Trust, at Lisson Gallery. Through October 1.
London: Modern Frustrations, with Blue Curry, Ross Jones, Littlewhitehead and Tim Phillips, at Sumarria Lunn. Opens today.
Madrid: Alexandre Arrechea, the Sacrificed Object, at Galería Casado Santa Pau. Opens today.
Plus, find my latest NYC picks over in my Gallerina Datebook — and if you’re hitting Chelsea starting tonight, don’t forget WNYC’s digital/downloadable guide to the shows!!!

Tags: marianne vitale, model for a torpedo, thierry goldberg gallery.

Sculptures that make me snort-laugh.

By c-monster on July 17, 2011 in C-Monster, New York and Sculpture. 1 Comment

Rob Pruitt’s Andy Monument, in NYC’s Union Square. Reminds me of all the buskers who paint themselves silver and pose for money. I will give it this: it goes nicely with the TGI Friday’s situated across the square. (Photo by C-M. Hat tip to Yvonne.)

Tags: andy monument, lol, NYC, rob pruitt, union square.

Calendar. 07.07.11.

By c-monster on July 7, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries and Sculpture. Closed

Untitled, 2011, a sculpture made of acrylic and wood, by Barry McGee. Part of the artist’s solo exhibition, New Work, on view at Modern Art in London, through August 13. (Image courtesy of Modern Art.)

First of all: R.I.P. Cy Twombly. A nice obit by Randy Kennedy in the New York Times. Plus: Jerry Saltz’s tribute, complete with reference to his own cock.

S.F.: BAN6: Visual Arts Exploration, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts — where you can see heavy metal-inspired quilts. Opens Friday at 8pm.
S.F.: Anthony Sneed, Grand Illusion, at the Shooting Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7pm.
Chicago: Michael Rea, Soirée, at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Opens Friday, in Elmhurst.
Miami: Home Dream Home, at Praxis International Art. Opens this Saturday at 7pm, in the Wynwood Arts District.
Miami: Merzbau Now, a group show, at Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Opens Saturday at 7:30pm.
NYC: Showpaper Presents: The Community Services, with Swoon, UFO 907, Leon Reid IV, Posterboy, Adam Void, Skewville, Celso and many others, at 285 Kent Ave in Williamsburg. This evening at 7pm.
Plus…Find the rest of my New York picks over at Gallerina!

Tags: Barry McGee, london, modern art.

Blobarrific: Anish Kapoor at the Grand Palais in Paris.

By c-monster on May 31, 2011 in C-Monster, Installation, Paris and Sculpture. 1 Comment

Leviathan, 2011, by Anish Kapoor, at the Grand Palais, through June 23. (Photos by Vincent Desjardins. With a hat tip to Yvonne Connasse.)

Tags: anish kapoor, grand palais, leviathan, paris.

The banality of public monuments: Miguel Andrade Valdez on Lima.

By c-monster on April 4, 2011 in Armory-palooza, Art for stoners, C-Monster, Peru, Sculpture and Video. Closed

Untitled – Monumento Series, by Miguel Andrade Valdez.

Not wanting to ever be accused of producing timely coverage on this blog, I wanted to take a minute to ruminate on a video by Miguel Andrade Valdez I saw in Galería Revolver‘s booth at the Armory Show last month. It dovetails perfectly with my current Peru obsession, as well as my continuing interest in supremely absurd public works. In fact, recently, I’ve been immersed in photographer Mario Silva’s book Lords, Pyramids and Replicas: Images from the North Coast of Peru, in which he chronicles the influence of pre-Columbian art in contemporary architecture. If you’re into vernacular everything, his book is an absolutely stunning documentation of blended styles and motifs — from Moche forms to graceful Art Deco to that school of design a friend of mine lovingly refers to as “the South American bizarre.” Plus: it contains a two-page spread on bizarre traffic circle sculptures in northern Peru.

Which brings me right back around to the Armory: Andrade Valdez’s video Untitled – Monumento Series is a chaotic, rapid-fire visual compendium of the monuments that occupy Lima’s traffic circles and pedestrian malls. They range from the forgotten to the futurist, the Spanish Mediterranean to the brutal, the Modernist to the I-don’t-know-what. (Check out the weird blue things at about 2:50. They re-emerge later in the video as well.) Interestingly, in looking at all of this, the trapezoid emerges as a very popular shape — perhaps because it’s cheap and easy to construct (and resistant to earthquakes), perhaps because it’s a common motif in pre-Columbian Peruvian architecture. Also popular: brutalism. Of all of the monuments shown, my favorite have to be the bizarre pipe organ thingies, shown in the image above, which appear to be a decorative collaboration between various Soviet bloc architects and the guys in charge of the local water authority.

If you’re into all things design, consider watching Andrade’s video more than once. He has turned up some amazing stuff — a fantastic tribute to all of the things in our landscape we might see but rarely take the time to examine.

Find Miguel Andrade Valdez’s website here. Special thanks to Carlos Díaz at Ojjo for the tip on Mario Silva’s book.

Tags: lords pyramids and replicas, mario silva, miguel andradez valdez, monumentos.