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Photo Diary: ¡No Habla Español! at Pandemic — an all around good time.

By c-monster on March 13, 2011 in C-Monster, El Celso, Galleries, New York, Peru, Photo Diary, Prints and Street Art. Closed

Celso’s wall of chicha, with C-Monstruo shout-out.

Internacional Privados: An original chicha poster from northern Peru.

A view of the mini chicha disco. Sensory overload in a mere 16 square feet.

Opening night for Celso’s ¡No Habla Español! at Pandemic was all kinds of fun. Thanks so much to everyone who came out. We danced, we drank, we danced some more — in a teeny weeny discoteca — into the night. The show is up through April 2nd, so you have plenty of time to shake some ass in the mini-disco. Plus, there’s always the closing party (April 2nd at 7pm). See you there!

An addendum: Public Radio International’s show Afropop has an excellent show on the history of cumbias. They have a whole section devoted to Peruvian chicha cumbias, describing their origins and their use of those super duper psychedelic surf guitars. If you want to get a sense of what these Peruvian chicha posters are all about, give this program a listen. Also, here’s a photo essay devoted to Elliot Túpac Urcuhuaranga, of the family behind Publicidad Viusa — makers of chicha posters.

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Tags: afiches chicha, celso, chicha posters, el celso, no habla espanol, pandemic gallery.

Best. Reader Mail. Ever.

By c-monster on February 25, 2011 in C-Monster, Graffiti and Street Art. 1 Comment

In response to a story I did for ARTnews in January. Thank you, Curly.

Tags: abstract, ArtNews, c-monster is wrong, conceptual, curly, Street Art.

The Digest. 02.09.11.

By c-monster on February 9, 2011 in C-Monster, El Celso, New York and Street Art. Closed

¡Sin Esperenza ni temor!, by El Celso, a poster made in the chicha style — a collaboration with the esteemed Fortunato Urcuhuaranga at Publicidad Viusa, in Lima. (Photo by C-M.)

Congrats to JP for winning the C-Mon Giveaway for Skateboarding.3D.

Condom envelopes. (Thank you so very much, Shorttage.)
A documentary on bad writing. I need to see this.
Improvised Egyptian protest helmets. My favorite. (Conscientious Redux.)
MUST-READ: An absolutely fantastic piece about images culled from the East German secret police archives, complete with pix.
Naples contemporary art museum seeks asylum in Germany. (Conscientious Redux.)
Things looking incredibly grim for the Jersey City Museum. More here.
Correcting misconceptions about David Wojnarowicz’s Fire in My Belly. Number one, it’s not a video. More here.
LACMA and the Getty pick up a whole lotta Mapplethorpe.
What you will see on the Google Art project. What you won’t see. And why it may not be as interesting as everyone thinks it is.
Broken glass.
Fascinating story on Brody Condon’s est-inspired self-actualization performance at the Hammer. Sounds totally weird-amazing.
Sculpture goes QWERTY.
Diego Rivera stole my outfit. (@ArchivesAmericanArt.)
Disportraits.
How Rust-oleum is writing itself out of the graffiti business. (Utne Reader.)
Today’s Graff: It’s all about the trucks.
On the human figures used in architectural renderings.
Lladró, purveyor of tacky living room sculptures, is now going all architectural.
A guide to architecturespeak. Handy.
Snow monsters.

Tags: afiche chicha, celso, chicha poster, el celso, peruvian poster, publicidad viusa.

Calendar. 01.25.11.

By c-monster on January 25, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Graffiti, New York and Street Art. Closed

Ellis G, Permanently Temporary, at the Mighty Tanaka Gallery in Dumbo, through Feb. 4. (Image courtesy of Mighty Tanaka.)

S.F.: Christopher Taggart: Away, at Baer Ridgway, opens Saturday at 4pm.
L.A.: Art Los Angeles Contemporary, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, begins on Friday at 11am and runs through Sunday at 6pm.
NYC: Matt Mullican, an artist who worked with a computer programmer to create a navigable scale model of the solar system, gives a talk at Artists Space in SoHo tonight at 7pm. You can view the piece here.
NYC: A free screening of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis at Rabbit Hole Studio, in Dumbo, at 8:30pm. Doors open at 8pm.
NYC: Ancient Sci-Fi Update, Pavel Kraus and Megan Burns, at The Proposition, through March 13.
NYC: Cooking with Gallery Beat, a live talk show with Paul H-O and Dr. Lisa, featuring Phoebe Hoban, Peter Bolte, John Lee, Pat Daugherty and Jen Friedman, at BravinLee Programs, this Saturday at 6pm.
Valhalla, N.Y.: Oona Stern: The Reluctant Naturalist, at Westchester Community College, through Feb. 26.

Tags: ellis g, mighty tanaka.

The Digest. 01.19.11.

By c-monster on January 19, 2011 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Luna Park, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Jeff Soto, in Miami. (Photo by Luna Park.)

15 pictures from Glock’s official Facebook page.
Dear Apple Computers: WHAT. THE. FUCK. You guys let Rupert Murdoch (purveyor of Glenn Beck) establish a subscription model for the iPad but you don’t let any other publishing company do the same? Gross.
Smithsonian chief to make first public appearance in L.A. this Thursday since the David Wojnarowicz brouhaha began. Plus: His latest e-mail to staff.
Finland announces that it will likely be the home of another likely never-to-be-built Guggenheim Museum. (The accompanying image of art suits pretending to throw snowballs is pretty spectacular.)
“Gallery rage.”
The many incredible uses of DC motors, by Swiss artist Zimoun. Best when paired with ping pong balls and cardboard. Whoa.
Surreal babies.
On poop in art: Harvard art historian combs through the defecation in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. (ARTnewsblog.)
This slideshow makes me want to tease out my hair and write bad checks.
Farhad Manjoo argues that it’s wrong, wrong, wrong to use two spaces after a period. Tom Lee rebuts. (@gelatobaby, The Atlantic.)
For the typography nerds, Mexican edition: The El Vética T-Shirt. (20×200.)
Swoon’s speech at TEDxBrooklyn, discussing the flotillas and the Haiti project — and the concrete things artists can do.
Today’s Urban Installation: Felice Varini’s painted optical illusions. (Contemporary Art Truck.)
Edward Lifson tracks a connection between architect Louis Sullivan and sculptor Tony Smith.
A museumy architecture round-up.
36 versions of the Internationale. Includes a rendition by Pete Seeger — in French. (@ubuweb.)

Tags: jeff soto, Luna Park.

Calendar. 01.11.11.

By c-monster on January 11, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Graffiti and Street Art. Closed

An image by Ripo. His solo show Don’t Get Me Wrong, opens at Galería Cosmo in Barcelona, this Friday at 8pm. (Image courtesy of Ripo.)

Seattle: Carolina Silva, Against Gravity (or the Oddity of the Flooded Land), at Lawrimore Project, through Jan. 29.
L.A.: Classic Photographs Los Angeles, at the Helms Daylight Studio, in Culver City, this Saturday and Sunday only.
L.A.: Fierce, a one-night exhibit featuring Anthony Lister, at THIS Los Angeles, this Friday at 7pm.
Stanford, Calif.: Art Censorship Issues, A screening of David Wojnarowicz’s Fire in My Belly’ and panel discussion, which will include artist Enrique Chagoya (who recently had a piece of his smashed in Colorado), at Annenberg Auditorium at Stanford, this Wednesday, at 5pm.
Chicago: Nicholas Knight, Declaimed, at 65Grand, this Friday at 7pm.
NYC: Maximum Perception, a performance festival, at English Kills, this Friday and Saturday, 7pm-midnight.
NYC: Trespass, a group show, at Pandemic Gallery in Williamsburg, opens this Saturday at 7pm.
NYC: Piotr Uklálnski, Discharge!, at Gagosian Gallery, on Madison Avenue, opens Wednesday.
NYC: Imeday Imeday Ollarday Icklenay, at Allegra LaViola, next public performance this Wednesday at 6pm.
NYC: R. Luke Dubois: A More Perfect Union, at Bitforms, opens Thursday at 6:30pm.
NYC: Ray K. Metzer, at Laurence Miller Gallery, through Feb. 26.
NYC: Deborah Brown, The Bushwick Paintings, at Lesley Heller Workspace, opens Wednesday.

Tags: barcelona, ripo.

Tagger Punks.

By c-monster on January 8, 2011 in C-Monster, Graffiti, New York and Street Art. Closed

Katsu and AVONE do a phone booth in downtown Manhattan. (Photos by C-M.)

Tags: avone, katsu.

C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Stikman Calendar!!

By c-monster on January 4, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Giveaway and Street Art. 16 Comments

Hey Folks:

The elusive street artist Stikman has given me a copy of his lovingly crafted 2011 wall calendar for a giveaway. Let’s just say y’all are lucky I don’t keep this one for myself.

Leave a comment and this little piece of Fun in the Sun could be all yours.

xox,
C.

P.S. Been having a little work done on the site, so things may look janky until everything is sorted out.

Tags: Calendar, stickman, stikman.

My ARTnews story on Street Art.

By c-monster on January 3, 2011 in Announcements, C-Monster and Street Art. 3 Comments

Hey Folks:

The January 2011 of ARTnews magazine is hitting stands with a cover story I wrote about the new shape of street art. Specifically, it’s a look at the more abstract, geometric, sculptural and conceptual interventions going down in cities across the globe. (That’s Spanish artist Nuria Mora featured on the cover.) You can read the story online, but may I recommend picking up the mag. The article is illustrated with all kinds of incredible pictures, which you won’t be able to see otherwise.

As part of this, there’s a couple of street art-related tomes that really deserve a plug: Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art and Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Spaces. These are two very thoughtful books devoted to the subject. Definitely check ‘em out.

As always, thank you for reading!

xox,
C.

Tags: artnews magazine, geometric, nuria mora, Street Art.

The Digest. 12.13.10.

By c-monster on December 13, 2010 in C-Monster, Graffiti, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Eko. (Image courtesy of Eko.)

Fake Criterions. (Grazie, @mrjohnflowers.)
Steven Soderbergh’s Spalding Gray doc screening at LACMA tonight; will be at IFC this Friday.
The 2010 Art World Census. Take it.
Another Bouncing Ball does a round up of David Wojnarowicz’s writings. Well done.
In related news: the National Portrait Gallery’s commissioner resigned to protest the removal of Wojnarowicz’s video. In addition, NYT columnist Frank Rich takes the Smithsonian and the D.C. establishment to task over the issue.
Speaking of censorship, a MOCA-commissioned mural by Blu in L.A. was immediately buffed by the museum shortly after being painted. The museum has failed to provide any good explanation for why it removed the work. Hyperallergic has updated coverage here and here.
And since we’re talking about MOCA: Word has it that the staff at the museum is grossly unhappy under Il Deitcho.
In London: A very surreal Turner Prize ceremony: Protestors on one side of a barricade, celebrants on the other. (Arts Journal.)
El Saltzino’s Top Ten. #class makes the list.
On the Machu Picchu/Yale debacle: “It seems more interesting to see antiquities restitutions not as an emptying out of Western museums but as part of a larger trend—the reverse migration of objects, from the West to the regions and cultures from which they came, along with the flow of Western art to new centers of power.”
The Museum of Arts & Design to have a center devoted to olfactory art. This could be all kinds of bizarre-interesting.
The Basel Frazzle, the morning after.
Rock band T-shirts for arthouse film directors. Can’t decided between the Herzog or the Ingmar Bergman…
Today’s Street Art: Geometeric abstraction meets naked dude. (Ekosystem.)
What kind of house would a confined man dream about? Find out here. Do not miss the trailer at the bottom.
The Architectural Industrial Average is low: Looks like Santiago Calatrava’s Chicago skyscraper is dead as a door nail. (Cityscapes.)
Inside Wikileaks Headquarters. Which reportedly resides, literally, inside a bunker.
Google beatbox.

Tags: eko, geometric abstraction.