Paddy Johnson is the founding editor of Art Fag City. In addition to her work on the blog, she has been published in New York Magazine, artreview.com, Art in America, The Daily, Print Magazine, Time Out NY, The Reeler, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and New York Press, and linked to by publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Boing-Boing, The New York Observer, Gawker, Design Observer, Make Magazine, The Awl, Artinfo, and we-make-money-not-art. Paddy lectures widely about art and the Internet at venues including Yale University, Parsons, Rutgers, South by Southwest, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2008, she became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Paddy is also the art editor at The L Magazine, where she writes a regular column..
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by Art Fag City on November 28, 2011
I’ve never cared much for the work of Keith Haring, so perhaps its fitting that the artist whose work most resembles that made by a robot worried about a computer takeover. An excerpt from the Keith Haring Journals after the jump.
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by Art Fag City on November 28, 2011
- Tyler Green’s got a problem with about five million facts the Washington Post got wrong in a story about Hide/Seek, one year after the scandal at the Smithsonian. Hard to believe such basic errors could be made. Jacqueline Trescott described the exhibition as “the first ever major show about same-sex intimacy”, a mistake that would be hard to make even if you’d never heard anything about Hide/Seek. Also, as Green points out, the show wasn’t about intimacy so much as the impact gay and lesbian artists have had on American art. [Modern Art Notes]
- Canadian auction records always seem small to me. [The Art Newspaper]
- OMG, people need to stop talking about David Hockney’s iPhone and iPad paintings like they’re some work of genius. I get the feeling none of these “experts” have seen other iphone art as a point of comparison. [Bloomberg]
- Relatedly, making the rounds today: Hockney not Hirst is the most British influential artist of all time according to a survey taken by over 1000 British painters and sculptors. What artist is going to give a shit about this? [The Independent]
- Dramatic Prairie Dog [Tom Moody]
- Martin Brominski has some fantastic pictures from Tamara Zahaykevich’s exhibition at Kansas (closed last month). Man, am I ever sorry I missed that show. [Anaba]
- More Tom Moody annotations, this time on an essay Marjorie Perloff wrote about the connection between the internet and the concrete poetry of Augusto De Campos, his brother Haroldo and Decio Pignatari. A few holes are identified. [Tom Moody]
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by Art Fag City on November 25, 2011
- As LACMA plans to haul Michael Heizer’s “Levitating Mass” to the museum from its current residence in a Riverside County quarry, the quarry’s owners are planning a party for the night of the big move, selling T-shirts with the message: “Big ”¦ Rock ”¦ Move!” [LAT]
- Hyperallergic editor and Occupy ally Hrag Vartanian has offered the group’s Arts and Culture committee a spot in Williamsburg for “studio space, rehearsals, concerts, storage, performances, exhibitions, teach-ins, film screenings, art classes for children, sleeping, etc.” [The Art Newspaper]
- As resale prices on eBay for tickets to “Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan” have risen well above $200, London’s National Gallery offered this stern warning to scalpers: “Tickets that have been resold will be cancelled without refund and admission will be refused to the bearer. The National Gallery is currently contacting any companies or websites which are offering this facility in order to advise them of this and request they stop immediately.” [Museum site]
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has announced six finalists for its 2012 Hugo Boss Prize: Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Monika Sosnowska, Danh Vo, Tris Vonna-Michell, and Qiu Zhijie. The winner will receive a $100,000 prize and an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. [NYT]
- Banksy is running for the Turnip Prize, a parody of the Turner Prize awarded by patrons of a pub in rural Somerset for art showing the least talent and minimal effort. [Telegraph]
- Danny Guthrie, an artist and associate professor at Michigan State, has been taking mostly nude photographs of himself and his students for quite a while. Now, a column written by a student calling the photographs “sexist” and “exploitive” has renewed debates about whether MSU’s art and art history departments should allow Guthrie to continue. [Detroit News]
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by Art Fag City on November 18, 2011
The Boyd-Level Art Basel Miami Beach guide is out. Download this puppy. I use it every year — it’s invaluable.
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by Art Fag City on November 15, 2011
Mike Hein’s sculptures combine found objects with molded plastics (acrylic, plexiglass). They replicate commonplace items like t-shirts, plastic bags, and potted plants and are rendered in varying degrees of playful abstraction. Above all, his work reflects his interest in the physical properties and connotative potential of his materials. A look through his portfolio reveals a […]
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by Art Fag City on November 8, 2011
If Marlborough Gallery had a reputation to worry about, they would be busy doing a lot of damage control for last Wednesday's rap joust, directed by Rashaad Newsome. A real-life manifestation of POWHIDA's mock-douchebag performance a few months back, it was another masturbatory celebration of wealth that sidelined the performers and sincerely made everyone look like VIP douchebags.
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by Art Fag City on October 5, 2011
- Steve Jobs died. (I know, you know). Watch his 2005 lecture at Stanford. [Youtube via The Internet]
- I guess we can look forward to the New York Observer’s breezy trademark slideshows on GalleristNY. Up first: New York Art World’s Most Powerful Women. This looks like this list was made for a price database company; a list of the first names one sees in a catalogue of Sotheby’s and Christies, plus a few blue chip gallery owners. Where’s Laura Hoffman, Chrissie Iles, Lauren Cornell? Almost no minorities. One critic. No C-Monster. Bullshit. [GalleristNY]
- Last week we had the bad Bob Dylan painting story, this week we have @occupyartworld, @occupyoccupyartworld, and some bickering over a jacked story. Big waste of time.
- Greg Allen expressed some doubts about Gerhard Richter’s show at Marian Goodman Paris last week, but now he’s gone for a full-on nerding-out. It’s a fun read.
- Congratulations to “R.E.M. Release Animated GIF Album Cover” for winning the Most Worthless Press Release Email @1000timesyes Has Ever Opened award. Upon a request for evidence I confirmed the validity of this award. Half-assedry at it’s best: Behold the GIF!
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by Art Fag City on September 12, 2011
Are you on our mailing list? You should be and here’s why: Every week Art Fag City mails out our newsletter full of our latest incisive reviews, breaking news, and opinionated commentary from the Lower East Side, Chelsea, Brooklyn and abroad. Also, um, PRIZES. Six Thousandth subscriber wins an intern!
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by Art Fag City on September 6, 2011
Who’s looking forward to sweating profusely this week at a bunch of crowded openings? I know I am! The question is, at which openings shall we sweat? I polled the AFC staff to come up with a few targets for the month. These are the results.
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by Art Fag City on July 1, 2011
You may have seen our post last week on the work of artist Laura Brothers (out4pizza). If you did, you’ll understand how excited we are to present her custom-made masthead for Art Fag City. Brace yourself!
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