From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Art, Schooled Schooling

by Art Fag City on January 25, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Over the weekend, Gawker’s Kelsey Keith pissed off a few readers with her latest Art Schooled column speculating on who will become the next Jeffrey Deitch. There’s been some minor theorizing of this ilk already from Alexandra Peers over at NYMagazine, which probably prompted Gawker’s post; Peers has the advantage of getting […]

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 25, 2010

Joseph Hart’s “Fragments” – jameswagner.com James Wagner discusses Joseph Hart’s limited edition book Fragment in 2008, which he loved.  I mention this as there’s one week left to see the artist’s show at David Krut. It seems worth it.

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 25, 2010

KING TUT: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs | AGO Art Gallery of Ontario KING TUT is to the art world what Cats is to musicals. It never seems to die. I believe the Royal Ontario Museum hosted a very similar TUT exhibition about 15 years ago. The AGO needs to work on offering […]

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 23, 2010

YouTube – Conan O’Brien Gives A Classy Goodbye on Last Tonight Show This is actually very touching.

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 23, 2010

Nil by mouth – Roger Ebert’s Journal You don’t realize it, but we’re at dinner right now…

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 23, 2010

The Shallows Good God. Nicholas Carr got a book deal out of that paranoid article in the Atlantic about how Google is making us stupid. When will these psuedo-neuroscience stories end? I worry this book will look like Dennis Dutton’s The Art Instinct, which supports the inane idea that people prefer certain kinds of pastoral […]

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 23, 2010

sally mckay and lorna mills: On The Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction This is GREAT: A post and thread on Brian Boyd’ s On The Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Michael Bérubé.Mckay says she thinks the book might be in a “different league from Dennis Dutton’s The Art Instinct (…not […]

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Best Link Ever! Is in ur computr apropriatng ur graduit degreez

by Art Fag City on January 22, 2010

POST BY PATRICK GANTERT “I made you an Enlightment” – so reads the LOLtheorist caption overlaying Immanuel Kant's portrait, and rightfully earning it this week's title of Best Link Ever. The site is a clever spin on LOLcats, a popular internet meme that places bright blocky text in broken English, on top of cat jpgs. Presumably […]

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X-Initiative Announces Art Free For All!

by Art Fag City on January 22, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Image via: Artcat As Boris Groys noted in his lecture last night, we don’t merely have the impression that there is no time — it’s a condition of our social being. Perhaps that’s why it feels like the X-Initiative has existed for no time at all before it set to close. Now […]

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What Is the Role of the Artist?

by Art Fag City on January 22, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Boris Groys, Image: Artinfo There are no less than 15 different ways to say “everyone is an artist”, and scholar Boris Groys probably hit on them all last night in his lecture at SVA. He’s an excellent speaker with an astonishing aptitude for turning a good phrase. The lecture itself covered […]

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