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Photo Diary: In Wonderland, surrealist women at LACMA.

By c-monster on April 9, 2012 in C-Monster, Los Angeles, Museums and Painting. 0 Comments


Las dos Fridas, 1939, by Frida Kahlo.


Rainy Day Canape, 1970, by Dorothea Tanning.


I Have No Shadow, 1940, by Kay Sage.

LACMA has a beguilingly weird show of surrealist artists up: In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women in Mexico and the United States tracks surreal art in North America during the middle years of the 20th century. There’s some freaky dark stuff in the show (including a picture by Lee Miller that show mastectomied breasts on a plate). But it also has its charmingly bizarre parts (love the Tanning stuffed couch piece above). And it includes little-known works by well-known artists. Definitely worth it if you’re looking for something out of the ordinary.

In Wonderland is up through May 6th.

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Calendar. 04.03.12.

By c-monster on April 4, 2012 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles, Museums and Photography. 0 Comments


Beauty Parlor, Tokyo, c. 1975, by Daido Moriyama. Part of the exhibit Fracture: Daido Moriyama, at LACMA. Opens Saturday, in the Fairfax District. (Image courtesy of LACMA.)

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Calendar. 03.28.12.

By c-monster on March 28, 2012 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles, Museums and Pre-Columbian. 0 Comments


A rain god vessel, c. 1100-1400 from Mexico, in the Mixtec style, Middle Post Classic period (1200-1400). Part of the exhibit Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico, at LACMA. Opens Sunday, in the Fairfax District. (© Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas / Art Resource)

  • Fort Lauderdale: On the roster for the Girls’ Club ‘Chick Flick’ screenings: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus and I Scream Therefore I Exist, both at Girls’ Club. This Saturday at 7pm, in downtown.
  • NYC: Donald Steele, The Queen and I, at Pocket Utopia (the gallery’s grand re-opening). Opens today at 6pm, on the Lower East Side.
  • Plus: Get the rest of my New York picks over at Gallerina….
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Photo Diary: LACMA’s Levitated Mass in transit.

By c-monster on March 6, 2012 in C-Monster, Photo Diary and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Moving Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass, somewhere in Rowland Heights, Calif. Yes, this is total boner art. But as the daughter of an engineer, I can’t resist the transport of a 340-ton granite boulder. The L.A. Times has the blow-by-blow. (Photo by C-M. More pix here.)

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Photo Diary: Contested Visions at LACMA.

By SanSuzie on February 14, 2012 in Los Angeles, Museums, Photo Diary, Pre-Columbian and San Suzie. 0 Comments


A clay sculpture of an Aztec warrior dating back to the 15th century — the first time this particular piece has been seen in the U.S.


Bring out yer dead: A detail from a painted screen depicts European notions about America, confused-looking unicorns and all. (The full screen is featured after the jump, below.)


A funerary cape crafted from the feathers of Amazonian birds, from 12-13th century Peru. Obtaining feathers, shells and materials from the furthest reaches of their empires was one of the ways that the Incas and Aztecs showed their power.

Because of various deadlines and lots of travel, we’re a little late getting up this photo essay of from LACMA’s exhibit Contested Visions, which explored the ways in which Spanish and indigenous cultures both faced off and fused in the period of colonial rule (from the 15th to the early 19th century). The show, unfortunately, has already come down, but thankfully we have this photo essay from a tour I attended with the show’s curator, Ilona Katzew. If you’re in Mexico City, expect this to land at the Museo de Historia at the Castillo de Chapultepec in July.

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Calendar. 01.25.12.

By c-monster on January 25, 2012 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles, Museums and Photography. Closed


In the Box-Horizontal, 1962, by Ruth Bernhard. Part of the exhibit In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, opening this Sunday. (Image courtesy of the Ruth Bernard Archive, Princeton University Art Museum.)

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Photo Diary: California Design at LACMA.

By c-monster on December 5, 2011 in C-Monster, Design, Los Angeles, Museums and Photo Diary. 1 Comment


OMFG, yes: lobster swimsuits by Mary Ann DeWeese, on view at LACMA as part of the California Design show.


The Avanti, designed in 1961 by Raymond Loewy. I would wear my lobster swimsuit while I drove this around.


A pamphlet advertising the City of Lakewood — L.A.’s first planned community. Speaking of which, if you haven’t read D.J. Waldie’s Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, then get on it. He covers this very subject.

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Calendar. 11.03.11.

By c-monster on November 3, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles and Museums. Closed


Marriage of Martin de Loyola to Princess Doña Beatriz, and Don Juan Borja to Princess Lorenza, by an unknown painter from Peru’s Cuzco School, in the 18th century. Part of the exhibit Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, at LACMA. Opens Sunday, in the Fairfax District. (Image courtesy of the Museo Pedro Osma, Lima.)

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Relentless Self-Promotion: On Studio 360 talking Asco.

By c-monster on September 23, 2011 in C-Monster, Conceptual, Los Angeles and Museums. Closed


Spraypaint LACMA, 1972. (Image courtesy of Harry Gamboa.)

Hey Folks:

I did a feature story on the L.A. Chicano art collective Asco for Studio 360 (complete with reference to Chihuahua skulls), tied to their big retrospective at LACMA. It’s my first big piece for Studio 360, so please have a listen!!

xox,
C.

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Calendar. 07.14.11.

By c-monster on July 14, 2011 in C-Monster, Calendar, Los Angeles and Museums. Closed


Untitled, 1985, by Yayoi Kusama. Part of the exhibit Possible Worlds: Mario Ybarra, Jr., Karla Diaz and Slanguage Studio Select From the Permanent Collections, at LACMA. Through September 25, in the Fairfax District. Mario and Karla are the coolest peeps ever. Go see this show!!! (Image courtesy of LACMA.)

  • L.A.: Distant Star, an exhibition inspired by the writings of Roberto Bolaños, at Regen Projects. Opens today.
  • L.A.: Cordy Ryman and Kiel Johnson, Construct, at Mark Moore. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
  • S.F.: Division of Labor, a four-day performance arts fest, with Nao Bustamente, Leticia Castaneda, Daniel Blomquist and many others, at The Lab. Kicks off Friday at 8pm.
  • Chicago: Amy Casey, Boomtown, at Zg Gallery. Opens Friday, at 5:30pm.
  • NYC: Box Hockey closing party at Pandemic Gallery. This Friday at 8pm. This will be the most fun you’ll have with a broom handle and a hockey puck. Do. Not. Miss. Also: Bring Band-Aids.
  • London: The Animation Show, at the Barbican. Through September 11. If anything, be sure to click through and watch Run Wrake’s rabbit animation. Whoa.
  • Plus: Get the rest of my NYC listings over at Gallerina — complete with Muppets!!!
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