Category: C-Monster

June 19, 2013

Calendar. 06.19.13.

Desert Architecture, 2005, by Ken Price. Part of the artist’s solo exhibit Ken Price: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper, 1962-2010, at the Drawing Center. Opens today, in New York. (Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery.)

Washington, D.C.: James Bridle: A Quiet Disposition, at the Corcoran College of Art & Design. Opens today.
NYC: Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through September 22. (Be sure to go see this show, it’s so unbelievably weird.)
NYC: James Turrell, at the Guggenheim Museum. Opens Friday.
NYC: The Artist’s Voice: Melvin Edwards in Conversation with Naima J. Keith, at the Studio Museum. Tomorrow at 7pm, in Harlem.
NYC: Ellen Gallagher: Don’t Axe Me, at the New Museum. Opens today, on the Lower East Side.
NYC: Paul McCarthy, WS, at the Park Avenue Armory. Opens today on the Upper East Side.
NYC: State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, at the Bronx Museum. Opens Sunday. (Saw this as part of PST. Definitely go check it out!)
NYC: Ed Ruscha, Lucien Smith, Betty Tompkins and Piotr Ulkanski, Sunsets and Pussy, at Marianne Boesky Gallery. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
NYC: Ambient, a group show organized by Tim Griffin, at Tonya Bonakdar Gallery. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
NYC: Faig Ahmed: East in a Twist, at Leila Heller Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
NYC: Permutation 03.4: Re-Mix, at P! Gallery. Opens Sunday, in SoHo.
Annandale-on-Hudson: Haim Steinbach, Once Again the World is Flat, at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College. Opens Saturday, in the Hudson Valley.

June 15, 2013

Denise Scott Brown denied the Pritzker.

My story at ARCHITECT.

June 14, 2013

Talking ‘net art at ARTnews.

A video still from Joe Hamilton’s Hyper Geography, 2011. (Courtesy of the artist.)

My very cursory overview of what’s going on in the universe of ‘net art is now up at ARTnews. If there ever was a story that was like falling down the rabbit hole, this was it. So much to see and read and watch.

June 12, 2013

Calendar. 06.12.13.

Who’s on Third?, by Llyn Foulkes, 1971–73. Part of the artist’s retrospective, Llyn Foulkes, at the New Museum. Opens today, on the Lower East Side. This is a bangin’ show, people. Go see it. And listen to my NPR profile of Foulkes while you’re at it. Or, better yet, if you want to see the artist in person, he is giving a talk on Thursday at 7:30pm. (Courtesy John Jones Collection and the New Museum.)

L.A.: Richard Artschwager! at the Hammer Museum. Opens Saturday, in Westwood.
NYC: Bienal 2013: This is Where We Jump, at El Museo del Barrio. Opens today, in East Harlem.
NYC: Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, at the Museum of Modern Art. Opens Saturday.
NYC: Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work, at the Society of Illustrators. Through August 17, on the Upper East Side.
NYC: Pancho Westendarp, Victoria Burge and Tom Kotik, Time Times Three, at Robert Henry Ceontemporary. Opens Thursday, in Bushwick.
NYC: Lorna Mills, The Axis of Something, at Transfer Gallery. Opens Friday at 7pm, in Bushwick.
Pittsburgh: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, S/HE IS HER/E, at the Warhol Museum. Opens Saturday.
Northampton, Mass.: Summer of Love: Psychedelic Posters from SCMA, at the Smith College Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
Berlin: Clemens Behr, Splitter, at Gestalten. Opens Thursday at 6pm.

June 6, 2013

Previewing Peter Zumthor’s LACMA basestar.

Got a look at Peter Zumthor’s proposed design for the new LACMA building. It is all kinds of amazing. Find my write-up in ARCHITECT Magazine.

Above is one of my favorite features of the new design: the eastern portion of the building cantilevers over the La Brea Tar Pits’ biggest tar lake. In my view, this is one of L.A.’s most underrated sights. I’m glad to see the museum paying attention to it. (Photo by C-M.)

June 6, 2013

Calendar. 06.06.13.

First AIDS Memorial Service, 13 June 1983, by Lee Snider. Part of the exhibit AIDS in New York: The First Five Years, at the New-York Historical Society. Opens Friday, on the Upper West Side. (Image courtesy of the artist and the NYHS.)

NYC: Restless II — Mix, at Cavin Morris Gallery. Through June 29, in Chelsea.
NYC: Bruce Davidson, Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-65. Opens today, in Midtown.
NYC: In My Hair: A Group Show, at Medialia Gallery. Opens this Saturday at 3pm, in Chelsea.
Miami: DIRT Yuta Suelo Udongo Tè, at the Spear Building. Opening reception this Saturday at 7pm, in the Design District.
Santa Fe: Marco Brambiglia, Megaplex, at SITE Santa Fe’s SITElab 1. Opens Saturday.
L.A.: Julian Hoeber, at Blum & Poe. Opens today, in Culver City.
L.A.: Florian Morlat, Sticks and Stones, Part 2, at Cherry and Martin. Opens today, in Culver City.
L.A.: The Privilege Show, at Control Room. Opens Saturday, in downtown.
S.F.: Selfless, at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art. Through June 28.

June 4, 2013

In Channa Horwitz’s Orange Grid.

I recently spent some quality time inside Channa Horwitz‘s installation at François Ghebaly in Culver City, the last gallery show organized by the artist before her death in April. I liked the installation so much I made a GIF of all its movable parts (in addition to putting together a few words about it). Horwitz also has an interesting personal story. Click through to Hyperallergic to get the scoop — and the GIF.

June 3, 2013

Miscellany. 06.03.13.

A detail from the LAX Theme Building, by Pereira and Luckman. (Photo by C-M.)

Artist lists the Donald Judd house at 101 Spring Street on Airbnb.
READ: This insightful, well-reported piece by Kriston Capps on what the demise of the Hirshhorn Bubble and Richard Koshalek’s subsequent resignation signify for the state of contemporary art and architecture in our nation’s capital.
Tapes reveal that Cooper Union trustees considered shutting down the school altogether.
From the Department of Developments No One Was Expecting: Former L.A. MoCA curator Paul Schimmel has joined the gallery world — as a partner in Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel.
Aaaand Frank Gehry is back in MOCA’s New Sculpturalism show. This one is gonna be a squeaker.
A damn good dissection/dismembering of Léon Krier’s book about Hitler architect Albert Speer.
“‘Metal’ that seems to have been written by Yanni.” Brent Burket reviews Ai Weiwei’s heavy metal effort on Hyperallergic. YES.
This review really makes me want to see the Los Carpinteros exhibit at Sean Kelly.
Art in the wake of natural disaster: Rachel Wolff has a nice piece on the matter in ARTnews.
A tree map of Tompkins Square Park.