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Calendar. 05.02.12.

c-monster — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:02:27 +0000

George, by Ries Niemi. Part of the exhibit The Hair Show, at the Argyle, in Bellingham, Wash. (Image courtesy of Niemi.)

Seattle: Text Editor, a group show, at Soil. Opens today.
L.A.: You Don’t Know Jack, at Katherine Cone Gallery. Opens Saturday, in Culver City.
L.A.: JEFF&GORDON, Used with Deceit, at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Opens Saturday at 5pm, in Venice.
Chicago: Dawoud Bey, Harlem, U.S.A., at the Art Institute of Chicago. Opens today.
Philadelphia: Paint It Now, at Space 1026. Opens Friday at 7pm.
NYC: Sculpture Garden at the Onderdonk House. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Ridgewood.
Plus: Get all my latest New York picks over at Gallerina…

Calendar. 04.05.11.

c-monster — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:00:26 +0000

The Decision to Flee, embroidery on paper, by Ries Niemi. Part of Niemi’s solo exhibit, That’s Not How I Remember It, at Punch Gallery in Seattle, opening Thursday. (Image courtesy of Niemi.)

L.A.: Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, opens next Sunday, April 17.
Portland: Sean Healy, Upstate: New Work, at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, opens Thursday at 6pm.
S.F.: Roa: New Works, at White Walls Gallery, opens Saturday at 7pm.
S.F.: Paul Chatem, Island of the Color Blind, at the Shooting Gallery, opens Saturday at 7pm.
S.F.: Peter Adamyan, American Gris Gris, at Space Gallery, opens Saturday at 7pm.
Springfield, Mass.: David Barsalou, Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein, at the Bing Arts Center, opens Friday. A reception will be held at 5pm.
Glenside, Penn.: Keith Haring: Subway Drawings, at the Arcadia University Art Gallery, through April 27.
NYC: Julia Chang, Security is Mostly a Superstition, at Half Gallery, opens today at 6pm.
NYC: Gradually Melt the Sky, an augmented reality project curated by Mark Skwarek and Will Papenheimer, at Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg, opens Friday at 7pm.
NYC: Neil Farber, Slugging, at Edward Thorpe Gallery, opens Friday at 6pm.

Calendar. 01.18.11.

c-monster — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:20:37 +0000

Detail of a sculpture by Lacee King. Part of the group show Life of the World to Come, organized by Timothy Buckwalter, at NIAD’s Gallery, in Richmond, Calif., opens today. Reception on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 2pm. (Image courtesy of King.)

S.F.: Humming Summit, featuring work by Alex Case and Dan Grayber, opens Thursday. Reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 4 at 5pm.
Indian Wells, Calif.: Tom Friedman, So Much Depends, at Royale Projects, opens Saturday at 4pm.
L.A.: Thomas Houseago at L&M Arts in Venice, opens Saturday.
L.A.: Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study, at SuperFront LA, opens Thursday at 5pm, in West Hollywood.
L.A.: Game Night 4 at Giant Robot, in West L.A., this Saturday at 7pm.
Torrance: What’s New Pussycat, with Robert Irwin, Juan Capistran, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy and many others, at the Torrance Art Museum, opens Saturday.
Fort Worth: Ed Ruscha: Road Tested, at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, opens Sunday.
Chicago: John Marin’s Watercolors at the Art Institute of Chicago, opens Sunday.
NYC: Novelist Matthew Gallaway, of The Metropolis Case, and music critic Sasha Frere-Jones, in conversation at Rand McNally Bookstore, this Wednesday at 7pm.
NYC: Orange Sky and The Salon, at RH Gallery in TriBeCa, opens Wednesday at 6pm.
S.F.: NYC: Girls, Girls, Girls, at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, through Feb. 24.
NYC: I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me, at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, through Mar. 5.
NYC: Ellen Gallagher, at Gagosian Gallery on 24th Street, opens Friday.
NYC: A free screening of Les Triplettes de Belleville, at Rabbit Hole Studio, in Dumbo, on Wednesday at 8pm.
Budapest: Ed Templeton, The Cemetery of Reason, at the Mücsarnok Kunsthalle at the Ernst Museum, opens Saturday.

Photo Diary: Trojan Squirrels and NYC-inspired embroidery at Lombard Freid.

c-monster — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:20:27 +0000

At Lombard Freid Projects, a New York-y, eccentric installation by William Earl Kofmehl III — which includes lots of embroidery, including this bottom piece, which pays tribute to Fauster’s street art stickers.

The Digest. 02.22.10.

c-monster — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:31:09 +0000

Ambush in Quadrant 4, 75″ x 88″ quilt, by Jimmy McBride. (Image courtesy of McBride.)

Study shows that wall text can ruin art for people. LOL. (Arts Journal.)
Shut up, already: Ed Winkleman will look at your art as part of #CLASS. He will be reviewing all submitted images throughout the course of the exhibit. Plus: the show now has a live-stream web-cam.
Must. Get. The Howdy Koonsy T-shirt. (@artnetdotcom.)
All GaGa All the Time: Lady GaGa Barbie dolls. Plus: GaGa’s college essay on Spencer Tunick. In case you don’t have a stomach for artspeak, @gregorg helpfully summarizes the whole mess in under 140 characters. (@ARTnewsmag, @artnetdotcom.)
Destroying the Polaroid photo collection.
All art stories should begin with an anecdote about the author’s bikini wax. Seriously.
Anaba does some helpful math on how often big critics (including the ones that like to trash talk) review solo shows by living female artists. Seems like, um, almost never…
New York Mag profiles Whitney Biennial curator/amateur painter Francesco Bonami.
Camilo Ontiveros, recycler of washing machines, wins ARCOMadrid prize.
This could be an interesting way of whiling away endless delays: video art at LAX.
The fascinating point at which Pearl Paint, John Waters and Paddy Johnson’s kleptomania intersect.
Abstraction on the wall and around your neck.
Zurbaran’s monks in hoodies.
NY Art Beat has just debuted an art calendar iPhone app.
Restored version of the 1927 film Metropolis screened at Berlin film festival. (IIC.)
The Criterion Collection has a Hulu channel. Oh yes.
Today’s Graff: Seacreative in Italy.
Tour the unpaved streets of a never-built California town. This looks AWESOME.
The industrial parks of Irvine, Calif. I’ve worked inside some of those. I can promise you that it’s as soul-crushing as it looks — in only the most bizarre Office Space kind of way.
La Zaha’s revenues plummet.
“Find me a photo of Jesus.“