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Why Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Will Continue to Attack the Arts – Praxis Theatre

by Art Fag City on August 26, 2010

Why Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Will Continue to Attack the Arts – Praxis Theatre – Will we talk about the arts next election in relation to harnessing our imaginations and creativity within a complex and multidimensional culture? Or will we discuss the arts in relation to whether we should use tax dollars to support […]

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Review: Stephen Harper the Musical (The Shehori Brothers) | Mooney on Theatre

by Art Fag City on July 27, 2010

Review: Stephen Harper the Musical (The Shehori Brothers) | Mooney on Theatre – Absurdity of absurdities. Canada's famed right winged Prime Minister has inspired a musical.

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Introducing AFC’s New Curatorial Fellow David Harper

by Art Fag City on April 16, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON AFC’s new Curatorial Fellow David Harper looks shockingly like a hipster puppy. No matter. Even if he were an ironic dog of the internet, it would still be a pretty solid qualification to work here. Suffice it to say we’re very excited to introduce David Harper to our readers. Not that […]

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We Went to Baltimore Part II: Platform, Springsteen, First Continent

by Michael Anthony Farley and Molly Rhinestones on July 14, 2016
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Artscape, Baltimore’s annual, gigantic public art festival, and the Artist-Run Art Fair launch this week. Yesterday, we posted about a few local galleries ahead of time to scope out what’s on view across town from the main festivities. Today, we’re discussing exhibitions from Melissa Godoy Nieto and Lane Harlan at Platform, Colin Foster at Springsteen, and Michael Assiff at First Continent. 

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IMG MGMT: Ruin Value

by Aaron Williams on June 14, 2016
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I keep a folder of images on my desktop, culled from internet searches and random meanderings around the net. There isn’t much curation involved in these images, and I’m not always sure why an image calls to my collection, but themes arise nonetheless. A unifying quality is the bleak reality that’s laid bare by the breakdown of a system– bygone expressions of power like Brutalist architecture, panopticons, and military camouflage. I feel ambivalent about these images, uncomfortable with taking pleasure in the aesthetic forms that hides insidious subtexts.

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