What I’ve seen today: a red-shouldered hawk eating a snake, a turtle sunbathing, two locusts mating, ‘gators snoozing, turkey buzzards riding the wind currents, a rat snake hunting, and I got bit on the lip by an absolutely ferocious mosquito. Can’t wait to do it all again tomorrow. (Photo by C-M.)
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Want to “give your home an edgy look with some serious pizzazz?” Well, look no further. Because “lifestyle retailer” Z Gallerie has just the home design trinket for you: a bling-a-rrific metallic skull that bears an uncanny resemblance to Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted sculpture, For the Love of God — only this version is almost $100 million cheaper. The best part: gift wrap is only $4.25 (shipping not included). Which means that you can purchase this fine piece of home design for yourself and more than a hundred of your closest friends — and still not come close to reaching the original’s price tag (which is almost seven times the GDP of Tuvalu). Act now. Or until Lladró comes out with a $19.95 version of Jeff Koons’ Michael Jackson and Bubbles.
(Many thanks to Ryan Frank for the link.)
Update & Correction: Paddy Johnson over at AFC rightly points out that Hirst’s skull is now valued at £150 million (or about $263 million) — roughly the GDP of Micronesia.
Aiko at Brooklynite Gallery in Bed-Stuy. (Image courtesy of Brooklynite.)
- In NYC: Aiko, Shut Up and Look, at the Brooklynite Gallery in Bed-Stuy, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: The London Police, Pez and Eine at Ad Hoc Art, opens Friday.
- In NYC: David Sandlin, Sin-A-Rama: An Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality, at Jack the Pelican in Brooklyn, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Provocative Visions: Race and Identity - selections from the permanent collection, at the Met, through March 8, 2009.
- In NYC: Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, Havana: A Revolutionary Moment, at Umbrage in Dumbo, opens tomorrow.
- In NYC: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Demonstration Drawings, at the Drawing Center, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Tony Smith at Matthew Marks, opens Saturday.
- In Raleigh: Latina and Other Recent Work, the photographs of José Gálvez at Peace College, opens Wednesday.
- In Miami: Loriel Beltran at Fredric Snitzer, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: Sandrine Pelletier’s Insekts at Fette, opens Friday.
- In Seattle: Marco Zamora and Derek Albeck, Disconnected, at BLVD, opens Friday.
- In Venice, Italy: Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher at Villa Foscari La Malcontenta.
- In London: Francis Bacon at the Tate, opens Thursday.
Swoon’s Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea in Long Island City. (Photo by sabeth718.)
Hey Folks: I’m still on the road, missing all kinds of artsy goodness in NYC, but enjoying the flocks of gargantuan mosquitoes keeping me company on the southern shores of Lake Okeechobee. To keep y’all entertained, here are some pix of Swoon’s latest at Deitch Studios, in Queens, courtesy of Flickr bud sabeth718 and regular C-Monster.net contributor Luna Park.
The show is up until October 18th. To read more on Swoon’s latest riverine project, logon to ArtInfo, which has an interview with the artist right here. Plus: Gammablog has video.
The Digest will return on Monday. Many more photos after the jump.
xox, C.
My ship has come: the Futuro House, in Pensacola Beach, Fla. More here. (Photo by C-M.)
If only the director of the Cremaster Cycle had thought to come up with something as good as this: a plaster statue madeover by seashells and a glue gun. And don’t forget the blowfish. (Photo by C-M.)