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Mag.ma = The TV Guide of Web Video

by Art Fag City on August 25, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Screengrab AFC Rocketboom‘s Andrew Baron launches Mag.ma today, the TV Guide of web video. The site’s about page sports a signature Baron style slide show, explaining exactly what Mag.ma does. “Video online has become a decentralized mess” reads one slide with a countless arrows pointing to different video hosting websites, torrent […]

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Do You See What I See? No. Good.

by Art Fag City on August 24, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Thomas Nozkowski, Image via: Pace Wildenstein Sarah Milroy over at the Globe and Mail thinks that if New York based Thomas Nozkowski had a theme song it would be Forever Young.  She doesn’t specify whether she means Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, or Alphaville’s song by that name, but presumably the title […]

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Dan Graham on Magazine Advertisements

by Art Fag City on August 24, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON The following note on advertisements comes from The Whitney’s catalog produced in conjunction with conceptual artist Dan Graham’s current show at the museum. The advertisement makes public — publicizes — a private need and, as a consequence, shifts categories of this relation. “INCOME (OUTFLOW)” through this alteration, effects the larger homeostatic […]

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New Frida Kahlo Collection Denounced as a Fake

by Art Fag City on August 21, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Finding Frida Kahlo by Barbara Levine.  Published by Princeton Architectural Press If there is an archive of fake Frida Kahlo paintings and ephemera awaiting publication, it would appear its time has come.  The Art Newspaper reports the contents in Finding Frida Kahlo, a book of unpublished Kahlo work belonging to Carlos […]

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Francis Bacon Evokes the Anxiety of a Thriller

by Art Fag City on August 20, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Francis Bacon, LEFT: Head I, 1947-48, Oil and tempera on board RIGHT: Head II, 1949, Oil on canvas How many screaming teeth faces does a person have to see to get that painter Francis Bacon was interested in creating a psychologically disturbed, Godless space?  Bacon critics will tell you one is […]

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