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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.

The Digest. 08.23.10.

By c-monster on August 23, 2010 in C-Monster, Graffiti, New York, Street Art and The Digest. 4 Comments

Un gato. (Photo by Yvonne Connasse.)

Hey Folks: The flood situation in Pakistan is grim. Crops, livestock and infrastructure have been wiped out. (See Boston’s Big Picture to get a glimpse of the disaster.) Please consider pitching in via a reputable organization such as Oxfam. Every little bit helps.

It’s not just the Pacific. The Atlantic also has a swirling garbage patch.
The true cost of oil.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude project in Colorado seems to be on the skids. You can send a comment in support of the project at Over The River. You’ve got ‘til Sept. 14. (Arts Journal.)
The Art Industrial Average is Low: Chelsea Art Museum temporarily shuts down.
Van Gogh painting stolen from Cairo museum.
Making art out of apps. (Arts Journal.)
The Day in Celebrity Art: James Franco gets reviewed in the New York Times (by Roberta!) and a slideshow of Bob Dylan’s paintings. (L.A. Times.)
Picasso fabric.
Fred Kaplan pays tribute to jazz photographer Herman Leonard, who passed away earlier this month. That shot of Dexter Gordon is all kinds of wonderful.
The photography of Flo Fox. Fascinating story.
Art Fag City wants your fart art sounds.
Not sure how I missed this spectacularly grim piece of art merch: The Andy Warhol Electric Chair watch.
Photographer and AP drop claims against each other in Shepard Fairey case. Presumably leaving them more energy to go after Fairey.
Chernobyl street art. (Grazie, fabrye.)
Today’s Graff, Morse Code Edition: Line Line Dot, in L.A.
The McMansion of my dreams.
Tracking trends in fantasy book cover art. Swords, big. Fog/mist, on the rise.
Tadashi Kawamata’s Pompidou huts. Like architectural nests.
From the Department of Whoa: A pallet pavilion.
Marie Osmond reciting dada poetry. Oh fuck yes.

Tags: Street Art, un gato, Yvonne Connasse.

The Digest. 08.04.10.

By c-monster on August 4, 2010 in C-Monster, New York, Street Art and The Digest. Closed

Move It On Over, 2010 by Elbow Toe, in Brooklyn. (Photo by guy_on_the_streets.)

In our cut-and-paste culture, it appears that the young’uns don’t understand plagiarism.
It’s official: iPad owners are douchebags. Okay, maybe not technically “douchebags,” but close… (Art Fag City.)
Like, whoa: A heartbeat chamber orchestra.
A very interesting essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates comparing the history of interracial and gay marriages. (@jeffweinstein.)
Imagery and the Civil Rights movement.
Detroit, attracting artsiness with its decay.
Tyler Green interviews lens-master Zoe Strauss about her coverage of the Gulf disaster, in one and two parts.
Should Cal State Fresno show disputed Ansel Adams images?
Art dealer Larry Salander gets 6-18 years in fraud case. Prosecuting D.A. describes him as “pathologically self-absorbed.” (@hyperallergic.)
El Saltzino’s favorite paintings in New York. Be sure to see the accompanying slideshow.
Scientists in Italy trying to figure out if Stendahl syndrome is for real. (Arts Journal.)
The Chapman brothers are holding a coloring contest. Seriously.
The Things That Divide Us: David Taylor will be giving a talk at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in L.A. tonight on the 19th century obelisks that mark the U.S./Mexico border from El Paso to San Diego. Looks fascinating.
Angel’s Gate in San Pedro, Calif. is looking for a new visual arts director.
The Day in Fear Mongering: Crazy report equates stickering with “eco-terrorism.” Would love to know what they call what that Hummer’s tailpipe is doing to my lungs.
Today’s Graff: Pener explodes geometry in Poland.
Photos from Swoon’s Konbit Shelter project in Haiti.
Iranian architectural proposal in London getting some folks so riled, they’re calling on Prince Charles to get involved. (Culture Monster.)
Plus: To paraphrase a retweet by Christopher Hawthorne: Two paragraphs of sanity on the Ground Zero mosque. Plus: A wonderful piece on the folks behind the community center over at Time. Now somebody please send these to Fox News.
At the Domino Sugar Factory, on the Brooklyn waterfront: Condos.
Same shit, different social network.

Tags: elbow toe, move it on over.

Calendar. 08.03.10.

By c-monster on August 3, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Graffiti and Street Art. Closed

Stickers by Pez and Joshua Blanks, at Fifty24SF in San Francisco, for a show that opens this Friday. (Image courtesy of Fifty24SF.)

L.A.: Manly Pursuits, the Sporting Imagery of Thomas Eakins, at LACMA, through Oct. 17.
L.A.: Bill McMullen: Checks Cashed, at HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, through Sept. 14.
Wilmington, Calif: Homegirls, the Mas Rudas collective, at Slanguage, in Wilmington, Calif., opens this Saturday at 7pm. There will also be a panel discussion this Thursday, at 7:30pm.
Marfa, Tex.: In Lieu of Unity/En Lugar de Unidad, at Ballroom Marfa, through Aug. 15.
NYC: Woman in the 21st Century: Margaret Fuller and the Sacred Marriage, at HP Garcia Gallery, opens Wednesday at 6pm.
NYC: Henry Chung, Identity/Anonymity, at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn, through Aug. 31.
Montreal: Jenny Holzer at the Fondation DHC, through Nov. 14.
Sardinia, Italy: Ed Templeton, The Cemetery of Reason, through Oct. 3.

Tags: fifty24sf, joshua blanks, pez.

The Digest. 08.02.10.

By c-monster on August 2, 2010 in C-Monster, Italy and Street Art. 2 Comments

Wedding Day. (By C-M.)

Teddy Roosevelt’s kill list.
Navigating the L.A. River. (@pourmecoffee.)
Language and a person’s view of the world. As a native Spanish speaker, I am happy to confirm that I do believe that things break themselves. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
From the Department of Oh My God Yes: “Tickle the model’s feet.”
Contraband, photographs of items confiscated at JFK, by Taryn Simon. The unknown meat in a bottle is pretty freaky. Also, I’m amazed to learn that there is such a thing as cow dung toothpaste. (Coudal.)
Studio visit with Francis Alÿs. (Edward Winkleman.)
The guy who found those alleged Ansel Adams negatives at a garage sale has been making prints and selling them. Which may be violating copyright laws.
What Eli Broad’s private show palace will cost the citizens of L.A.
In addition to writers, it appears that the Huffington Post is now getting artists to work for free.
I bow before Emma Allen’s #workoFart recaps. Related: Art21’s hallucinogenic #workoFart GIF-palooza.
Molly Dilworth’s Times Square street painting partially unveiled.
Matthew Moore’s suburban development-style crop rotations. See a recent image here.
Audubon’s first bird was a chicken. Or at least something very close to it. (Arts Journal.)
The early 20th century, in color. The image of the Mongolian lady in the box is just nuts. (Mercy, Yvonne Connasse.)
For those wishing to avoid graffiti RSI: The Text Bomber, a tool that writes your messages for you (and makes it look like an ink jet printer). (The Daily What.)
Today’s Graff: Stinkfish feeling blue in Bogotá.
Santiago Calatrava to do Denver airport expansion. The schematic video that accompanies this piece is pretty dang rad, even if it avoids showing anything that vaguely resembles a nightmarish airport security line. (Cityscapes.)
A house that appears to spiral out from a central axis. Plus: Look at all those bookshelves.
An incredible photographic gallery of British brutalism.
The Modern Toilet Restaurant.

Tags: Italy, naples, paste-up.

Photo Diary: The Great Outdoors at Woodward Gallery, in Manhattan.

By c-monster on July 19, 2010 in C-Monster, Galleries, Graffiti, New York and Street Art. 1 Comment

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Tags: The Great Outdoors, Woodward Gallery.

Ask the Art Nurse: Following up on that work on crumbling drywall.

By SanSuzie on July 13, 2010 in Ask the Art Nurse, Conservation and Street Art. 1 Comment

Back in May, C-Mon reader Luna Park submitted a query to the Art Nurse regarding a work on drywall that she had acquired when the walls of one of her favorite street art galleries were demolished. (Read the original query here.) At the time, Art Nurse was unable to offer knowledgeable advice without seeing the type of damage to the work in question, so Luna submitted an image for review (see below). Now that Art Nurse has had a little time to study the problem, here is her advice:

DEAR LUNA:

I have been pondering your wall fragment for weeks now, scratching my head, talking to colleagues, trying to figure out if there’s anything we can tell you that you can do to preserve this piece yourself. What you’ve got is a problem of disaggregation, or in lay-terms: crumbling. The edges are coming apart and something needs to be put on then to keep this from continuing. The problem with the home remedy in this case is that it requires a lot of testing to make sure what you use doesn’t A) make the piece too shiny, or B) stain it and make it look like it’s tied in a yellowing ribbon. Unfortunately, most of the materials we’d use for this aren’t the sorts of things you can pick up at your local hardware store.

This is really tricky conservation work. If you can’t afford professional services at this time, I suggest you get a nice shallow plastic bin (polyethylene, preferably), or an archival cardboard box, and put your beautiful fragment to bed for a while. Who knows? The artist might get on the cover of ARTnews one day and you might have no choice but to hire one of my ilk to fix it for you.

Rx,
San Suzie

Have a question for the Art Nurse? E-mail her at suzie [at] c-monster [dot] net.

Tags: Ask the Art Nurse, drywall.

C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: London Street Art Anthology.

By c-monster on July 6, 2010 in C-Monster, Giveaway and Street Art. 15 Comments

MacNaughton’s photo diary of the London scene. (Photo by C-M.)

Hey Folks: We have another juicy giveaway courtesy of Prestel books, which has given me a copy (worth $25) of Alex MacNaughton’s London Street Art Anthology — a photographic record of several years worth of illicit installations from England’s capital.

Leave a comment and it could be yours, all yours.

xox,
C.

Tags: alex macnaughton, london street art anthology, prestel.

The C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Beyond the Street.

By c-monster on June 7, 2010 in Books, C-Monster, Giveaway and Street Art. 33 Comments

Pages devoted to U.K. artist Lucy McLauchlan in Beyond the Street. (Image courtesy of Gestalten.)

All right folks, we’ve got a big fat goodie for giveaway purposes: a brand-spankin’ new copy of Patrick Nguyen and Stewart Stuart Mackenzie’s Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, a nearly 400-page tome that weighs as much as a small dog and features a bonanza of photographs and interviews with everyone from Blu to Swoon to Os Gemeos to Jonathan LeVine.

This sucker usually retails for $78 in the States, but the folks at Gestalten have been kind enough to supply me with an extra copy for the purposes of a reader giveaway. Y’all know the drill: leave a comment below and I’ll be contacting one lucky dog by the weekend.

xox,
C.

Tags: beyond the street, patrick nguyen, steward mackenzie, Street Art.

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My ARTnews story on Street Art.

The Digest. 12.13.10.

The Digest. 08.23.10.

The Digest. 08.04.10.

Calendar. 08.03.10.

The Digest. 08.02.10.

Photo Diary: The Great Outdoors at Woodward Gallery, in Manhattan.

Ask the Art Nurse: Following up on that work on crumbling drywall.

C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: London Street Art Anthology.

The C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Beyond the Street.

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