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Miscellany. 02.27.12.

By c-monster on February 27, 2012 in C-Monster, Graffiti and Miscellany. 0 Comments

He sure don’t: God Don’t Like Ugly, in New York. (Image by Becki Fuller.)

Alive in Baghdad, a photo essay.
Southern California has to stop it with the green lawns.
Today’s Must-Read: Martin Amis’s (disavowed) guide to video games. Sample text, on Pac-Man: “Do I take risks in order to gobble up the fruit symbol in the middle of the screen? I do not, and neither should you. Like the fat and harmless saucer in Missile Command (q.v.), the fruit symbol is there simply to tempt you into hubristic sorties. Bag it.” (Fank Yew @KristonCapps.)
Literary characters as rendered by law enforcement composite sketch software. (@giovanniGF.)
The Tate’s photographic archive rescued from the garbage. If they didn’t want it, they could have had the decency to put it on eBay. (@WayneFord.)
Randy Kennedy has a profile of Battle Station master Rammellzee. Highly fascinating.
Marina Abramovic + Rem Koolhaas = Mind. Boggled. (@ClaudiaLaRocco.)
Photo Essay: A little bit of Google Street View, as curated by Jon Rafman. I love the runaway moose.
Alissa Walker dissects the role of the critic: the food critic. Raises an interesting point about critics engaging the world beyond just what’s in front of them.
Graffiti planes. (@glasstire.)
And, yet another reason it pays to see art in person.
Cholafied: Best. Tumblr. Ever.

Tags: becki fuller, god don't like ugly.

Calendar. 02.22.12.

By c-monster on February 23, 2012 in C-Monster, Calendar and Painting. 0 Comments

memorydoubled, 2012, by Franklin Evans. Part of the artist’s solo exhibit Eyes on the Edge, at Sue Scott Gallery. Opens Friday, at 6pm, on the Lower East Side. (Image courtesy of the artist and Sue Scott Gallery.)

**In the event that you’re looking for a Kickstarter project to support: sculptor Leon Reid IV is teaming up with documentary film producer Julia Marchesi to create a lending-library sculpture in Cobble Hill. Check it!

Lyon, France: Robert Combas, Greatest Hits, at the Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, France. Opens Friday.
L.A.: Lisa Sarfati, On Hollywood, at Rose Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Santa Monica.
L.A.: Deconstructing Perestroika, the Wende Museum at the Craft and Art Museum. Through May 6.
NYC: Cage Transmitted Evening 2 Part 2, at Norte Maar. This Friday at 7pm, in Bushwick.
NYC: What I Know, a group show, at NYCAMS. Through March 17.
Plus: Find all my latest New York listings over at Gallerina…

Tags: franklin evans, memorydoubled, sue scott gallery.

Photo Diary: Honduras.

By c-monster on February 20, 2012 in C-Monster, Photo Diary, Pre-Columbian and Travel. 0 Comments

This past December, I spent several days in northwestern Honduras, visiting the Mayan ruins at Copán, among other sites, and the village of Copán Ruinas. I can’t recommend this area enough: beautiful, low-key, not entirely saturated by tourism.

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Tags: copan, copan ruinas, honduras, maya.

Off the wall.

By c-monster on February 17, 2012 in C-Monster, Galleries, Mixed Media, New York and Sculpture. 1 Comment

Dug these sculptures: by Kevin Lips at Interstate Projects in Brooklyn. On view through February 25. (Photo by C-M.)

Tags: interstate projects, kevin lips.

Calendar. 02.15.12.

By c-monster on February 15, 2012 in C-Monster, Calendar and Street Art. 1 Comment

Aakash Nihalani at work. Pieces by the artist will be on view as part of the group show All Talk, with Destroy & Rebuild, Jesus Saves and many others, at Pandemic Gallery, opening this Friday at 7pm. (Image courtesy of the artist and Pandemic.)

L.A.: Zefrey Throwell, Entropy Symphony: Movement III — Los Angeles, the 1000 car horn symphony. Today at 6:00pm, for five minutes, all over.
L.A.: Ansel Adams Los Angeles, at drkrm. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in downtown.
L.A.: Common Places: Printing, Embroidery and the Art of Global Mapping, at LACMA. Opens Saturday in the Fairfax District.
S.F.: Mark Bradford, at SFMOMA. Opens Saturday.
S.F.: Rineke Djikstra: A Retrospective, at SFMOMA. Opens Saturday.
Minneapolis: Punk Attitudinal: Film and Video, 1977-87, a video series, at the Walker. Thursday at 7:30pm.
Chicago: Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, at the Smart Museum of Art, at the University of Chicago. Opens Thursday.
Pittsburgh: Maya Lin, at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Through May 13, at the Heinz Architectural Center.
Northampton, Mass.: Pursuing Beauty: The Art of Edo Japan, at the Smith College Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
Washington, D.C.: Ñew York: Latin American and Spanish artists in New York, at the Art Museum of the Americas, at the OAS. Opens Thursday at 6pm.
Miami: Michael Vasquez, Rites of Passage, at Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Opens Friday at 6pm.
NYC: Cake and Don Pablo Pedro, Inside Out, at Mighty Tanaka. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Dumbo.
NYC: Paul Chan: On Not Working, at the School of Visual Arts (136 W 21st St, 220F). This Friday at 6:30pm.
NYC: Matt Freedman, The Golem of Ridgewood, at Valentine. Opens Friday, in Ridgewood/Bushwick.
Plus: Get the rest of my New York recommends over on Gallerina and get a run-down of the pieces to see at the New Museum’s triennial…

Tags: Aakash Nihalani, all talk, pandemic gallery.

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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Tags: aztec, colonial art, contested visions, inca, LACMA, pre-columbian.

Miscellany. 02.13.12.

By c-monster on February 13, 2012 in C-Monster, Illustration and Miscellany. 0 Comments

Things I deeply covet: Moby Dick as illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Double. Whoaaaa. The image above is from Vol. 1, Ch. 8: “Yes, the world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.” (Image courtesy of SUNY Plattsburgh.)

Lucid dreaming. This is so Inception.
On Intellectual Property: A fascinating piece that looks at the fuzzy overlap of ideas, using Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech as the focus. For artsy types debating the creative boundaries between one work and another (as in: Cariou versus Prince), this is a must-listen.
Brent Staples argues that advertising portrays African-Americans in more forward, nuanced ways than the dramatic arts.
I’m late on this, but it’s very worthwhile: An essay by Glenn Greenwald on the protocol for public figure deaths. Well done.
Sorta related: A great critique of the Henry Miller mythmaking machine. (The Rumpus.)
The best of the West can be found…in Japan.
“There will be Wi-Fi and bad coffee.” Gary Shteyngart on the future.
A history of pop-music special effects.
Artcritical has a good essay about the Diane Arbus monograph just reissued by Aperture. (@heartasarena.)
Cataloguer of ephemera and overlooked bits of popular culture: The New York Times profiles Jim Linderman.
Crocheted hyperbolic surfaces — and other math art.
“The Consumer Product Safety Commission Has Issued a Voluntary Recall for ‘Baby Boomers.’”
1970s rock star at their parents homes. The interiors are a visual feast, especially the Zappas’ purple nurple Los Angeles living room. (Thank you, Dona McAdams.)
Werner Herzog on chickens.

Tags: moby dick rockwell kent, suny plattsburgh.

My new favorite saint.

By c-monster on February 11, 2012 in C-Monster and Sublime ridiculosity. 0 Comments

San Simón, a Guatemalan folk saint, apparently of Maya origin, who is appeased with food, cane alcohol, cigars or cigarettes. He is generally depicted holding a bag of coins and, according to some cursory internet research, is not only the patron saint of drinkers, but can bless gamblers with good luck. What sold me, however, were his dapper duds and the plate of taquitos at his feet.

Tags: folk saint, saint simon, san simon.

Photo Diary: F*ck Art (and more) at the Museum of Sex, in NYC.

By c-monster on February 10, 2012 in C-Monster, Museums and New York. 0 Comments

I popped into the opening of F*ck Art, the street arty show at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan last Wednesday. The opening came complete with chocolate penis pops, hot trannie nurse handing out Jell-O shots, almost nekkid people and plenty of sex. Seen above: An installation by Aiko’s. (Photos by C-M.)

Miss Van.

El Celso.

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Tags: f*ck art, museum of sex.

Looking for urban petroglyphs.

By c-monster on February 9, 2012 in C-Monster and New York. 0 Comments

A relief of the Gemini capsule carved by artist Kevin Sudeith in northern California. The artist has recently been working around New York. My story on his petroglyphs is now up at WNYC. (Image courtesy of Sudeith.)

Tags: gemini capsule, kevin sudeith, petroglyph.

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Calendar. 02.22.12.

Photo Diary: Honduras.

Off the wall.

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Photo Diary: Contested Visions at LACMA.

Miscellany. 02.13.12.

My new favorite saint.

Photo Diary: F*ck Art (and more) at the Museum of Sex, in NYC.

Looking for urban petroglyphs.

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