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Photo Diary: The 75th Anniversary Show at SFMOMA.

By c-monster on September 8, 2010 in C-Monster, Museums, Photo Diary and San Francisco. 1 Comment

Better Late than Never: Photos from my visit to SFMOMA’s Anniversary Show this past June. It was a pretty dang incredible gathering of works, which included some early Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock, as well as Richard Diebenkorns from various eras — not to mention the truly show-stopping Barry McGee, among many many others. If you live in SF, don’t miss. The show is up through Jan. 16 at SFMOMA. (All photos by C-M. Place cursor over image for caption info; click on images to supersize.)

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Photo Diary: Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, at SFMOMA.

By c-monster on July 14, 2010 in C-Monster, Food, Museums and San Francisco. 5 Comments

‘Cuz all those Gap khakis bought a buttload of art: My very long photo essay of the Fisher Collection show at SFMOMA. Above, Spider, 1995, by Louise Bourgeois.

Untitled (Rome), 1971, by Cy Twombly.

Not part of the Fisher collection, but pretty fracking spectacular nonetheless: The Mondrian cake at the museum’s rooftop cafe. I ate the Thiebaud cake. Photos of art — and cake — after the jump.

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Tags: cake, calder to warhol, fisher collection, rooftop cafe, sfmoma.

The Digest. 01.22.10.

By c-monster on January 22, 2010 in C-Monster, Museums, Photography, San Francisco and The Digest. 1 Comment

Southern California, 1985 by Henry Wessel. Part of the exhibit The View From Here at SFMOMA. (Image courtesy of SFMOMA.)

Frozen lake sounds. (ackackack.com)
Edward Winkleman pens an op-ed in the Art Newspaper to declare that the sky is not falling just ‘cuz MOCA appointed a gallerist as its new director.
In related news: L.A.’s gain is New York’s loss says Jerry Saltz of the Deitch appointment.
The first announcements are out for the Art Olympics, I mean the Venice Biennale.
In unrelated news: The Art Handling Olympics. Looks hilarious.
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Hyperallergic is on the hunt for the Worst. Press. Release. Ever. (Art Fag City.)
¡Blogga smackdown! Tyler Green versus Regina Hackett, the sequel.
Andrea Zittel’s floating island. And I gotta confess, it looks ever so slightly like an upside down bidet. Plus: Zittel’s favorite books.
Photographers to gather in London tomorrow for street photography rights.
A tree in jars.
Paprika Mars.
Tire truck Buddha.
Vintage passport photos of artists, actors, writers and poets. My favorite. (Coudal.)
The proto-TMZ.
A Banksy movie about trying to film Banksy. Here’s the trailer. (@SamSifton, @unurth.)
Today’s Street Art: Aakash Nihalani.
Deitch to close his gallery with a Shepard Fairey show.
Part country cabin, part I-don’t-know-what: The cool looking Rennes Metropole Museum by architects Guinée et Potin.
The personal flying suit. Want.

Tags: henry wessel, sfmoma, southern california, the view from here.

The Digest. 04.02.09.

By c-monster on April 2, 2009 in C-Monster, Museums, Painting, San Francisco and The Digest. Closed

The Window, 1932, by Rufino Tamayo at SFMOMA. (Photo by C-M.)

CEO performance declines as fame rises. (Art Fag City.)
Evan Wright guest DJs at KCRW.
Mass firings in the arts departments at Parsons and the New School. Eageageag has more on the story. Plus, a faculty member speaks out at Hrag Vartanian.
Photos from the Havana Biennial.
The day in big museum shows.
Cool: William Kentridge video. (Modern Art Notes.)
William Eggleston on Paris.
The Tate Modern’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed expansion is approved by the local council. Now, all they need is the money. Related: Jonathan Glancey at the Guardian is all for it.
¡Art Industry Smackdown! Blogga Girl Fight Edition: Another Bouncing Ball versus CultureGrrl versus Another Bouncing Ball, on the subject of asking readers for dough.
Hrag Vartanian does a links round-up on art and politics at Art21.
Nick Cave’s sound suits. (NotCot.)
Hamster power. (ackackack.)
Today’s Street Art: Poppy van Oorde-Grainger.
A video of the WiiSpray.
Prince Charles designs spectacularly fugly building in Poundbury, England. (Arts Journal.)
For the engineering geeks: all about the high-tech concrete used in the girders for I-35 bridge in Minneapolis. (The Skyline.)
There’s concern in Miami about the future of the Modernist mosaic-covered Bacardi building now that Bacardi has moved out.
American Institute of Architects gathering in San Francisco will have far less attendees than originally envisioned due to the economy. (Arts Journal.)
I heart Werner Herzog.
Your moment of Cat Shit One.

Tags: rufino tamayo, sfmoma, the window.

Calendar. 02.17.09.

By c-monster on February 17, 2009 in C-Monster, Calendar, Museums, Painting and San Francisco. Closed

Chamboles les amoureuses, 1947 by Roberto Matta at SFMOMA. (Photo by C-M.)

In NYC: Roberto Matta: Five Decades at Pace Wildenstein, through Feb. 28.
In NYC: Tema Stauffer & Francesca Romeo at Daniel Cooney, opens Thursday.
In NYC: That’s Kinda Queer, video and film screenings, at Chez Bushwick, Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
In NYC: Urban China: Informal Cities at the New Museum, through Mar. 29.
In NYC: Zdanek Kosek at Cavin Morris, through Feb. 28.
In Rochestor, Minn.: Experimental Geography at the Rochester Art Center, through April 19.
In Seattle: Cut: Contemporary Collage at Platform Gallery, opens Thursday.
In S.F.: Underground Newspapers from the ‘60s and the ‘70s at Babylon Falling, opens Thursday.
In L.A.: Nobhuito Nishigawara at Mark Moore, opens Saturday.
In S.F.: Jonah Lehrer, author of the new book How We Decide, at BookShop West, tonight at 7 p.m.
In London: Joseph Beuys, early works on paper, at Hauser & Wirth, through Feb. 28.

Tags: chamboles les amoureuses, roberto matta, sfmoma.

The Digest. 01.28.09.

By c-monster on January 28, 2009 in C-Monster, Installation, Museums, San Francisco, Sculpture and The Digest. 1 Comment

A random passerby molesting Jim Hodges’ fake flower sculpture No Betweens (1996) at SFMOMA. (Photo by C-M.)

The 50 Most Loathsome People in America. And you are on the list.
The Cisneros family is undertaking a strategic plan to decide the fate of their priceless Latin American art collection. Let the jockeying begin!
The Old Gold talks to Harry Shearer about his video exhibit, Silent Echo Chamber, at Connecticut’s Aldrich Museum of Art.
The New York Observer profiles the Brooklyn Museum’s “chief geek” Shelley Bernstein. (Art Fag City.)
Outrage continues to brew over Brandeis University’s plan to have a garage sale with its art. On the line-up today: Boston Globe, NY Times, NPR, Culture Grrl, Edward Winkleman, Modern Art Notes, Looking Around, Jen Graves and Sebastian Smee. Plus: A Q&A with the museum’s director, Michael Rush.
As part of “a deeper commitment to the arts,” the BBC will put images of every publicly-owned oil painting in Britain online.
Things great at Art L.A. — except for the sales.
Google is all Jackson Pollock today.
Remix Martha Graham.
The other day I linked to a list of porn stars who are on Twitter. Well, as my colleague Mlle. Connasse so helpfully pointed out to me, it was a totally gay-free list. So, to make up for the oversight (and avoid a kerfuffle with the C-Monster.net human resources department), here is a rundown of some hot gay porn Twitter feeds: Starrfucker, Queer Me Now, Rod Barry, and Pierre Fitch (who is currently looking for models for his website).
A visualization of Obama Wikipedia page edits. (jennydeluxe.)
A Q&A with Adrian Tomine. His advice to artists just starting out: “Shut the fuck up.” (NotCot.)
Neil Gaiman wins the Newbery Medal.
Today’s Graff: Saber in L.A.
The American Institute of Architects wants in on the stimulus package.
Paul Goldberger leads a tour of the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which he describes as “a radical reconstruction.” I’d be curious to know the source of that wall of Brazilian wood. (Unbeige.)
Visuals from the winning proposal for the P.S. 1 architectural courtyard installation for this summer.
Your moment of the Three Degrees — because it’s about three degrees outside. (Love the chiffon!) (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)

Tags: jim hodges, no betweens, sfmoma.

Tag Archive for 'sfmoma'

Photo Diary: The 75th Anniversary Show at SFMOMA.

Photo Diary: Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, at SFMOMA.

The Digest. 01.22.10.

The Digest. 04.02.09.

Calendar. 02.17.09.

The Digest. 01.28.09.

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