Archive of Paddy Johnson

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..

Paddy has written 4753 article(s) for AFC.

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Hyperjunk: Highlighted sections from DDDDoomed (w/ notes) : Bad at Sports

by Art Fag City on March 16, 2011

Hyperjunk: Highlighted sections from DDDDoomed (w/ notes) : Bad at Sports – From Nicholas O'Brien's new column Hyperjunk. This is a fantastic discussion of R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay on image aggregators such as fffound.com and tumblr. 

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Roving Eye: Getting Beyond The Frame – Finer Things – News & Opinion – Art in America

by Art Fag City on March 14, 2011

Roving Eye: Getting Beyond The Frame – Finer Things – News & Opinion – Art in America – Dan Cameron defends the Francesco Vezzoli show at Gagosian. The images are prints o supermodels superimposed on renaissance type paintings of the Virgin Mary. This is pretty ballsy if you ask me, if only because the premise is so […]

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A Populist Attack on the Art World Pulls Punches

by Art Fag City on March 14, 2011

A Populist Attack on the Art World Pulls Punches – A truly great review of I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes me, plus significant commentary in the comment section. This makes me like the art world more. 

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With Shows Like These, Who Needs Blockbusters? | City Arts

by Art Fag City on March 14, 2011

With Shows Like These, Who Needs Blockbusters? | City Arts – Cezanne's okay, but all this energy over defending Picasso? He's the most overrated artist of the 20th century!

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Terence Koh’s ‘nothingtoodoo’ at Mary Boone – Review – NYTimes.com

by Art Fag City on March 14, 2011

Terence Koh’s ‘nothingtoodoo’ at Mary Boone – Review – NYTimes.com – This Smith review reads a little like she doesn't know what to think of the work. 

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Taking It Offline, Part Two at tom moody

by Art Fag City on March 10, 2011

Taking It Offline, Part Two at tom moody – I like how Moody defines the certificate of authenticity as the object of sale. Limiting the distribution of GIF works against the biases of the medium in a way that compromises it. 

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Why Are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? Because They Think It’s a Good Idea

by Art Fag City on March 10, 2011

Why Are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? Because They Think It’s a Good Idea – A special screening of a lecture by Jan Verwoert<br /> The Artist's Institute – 163 Eldridge St6:30pm, $0.

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Rhizome Archive

by Art Fag City on March 10, 2011

Rhizome Archive – Rhizome's newly launched archives. This is fantastic. 

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Tony Fitzpatrick on Verge Art Brooklyn – artnet Magazine

by Art Fag City on March 8, 2011

Tony Fitzpatrick on Verge Art Brooklyn – artnet Magazine – Man, I don’t like art fairs. I swore off the fuckers a long time ago. Only the borough of Brooklyn could get me to be part of one — in any other case — I’d rather pick up hot coals with my ass-cheeks

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Chugging for Art’s Sake: The Drunken Insanity of Scope’s Frat-in-a-Box Performance, By the Numbers – ARTINFO.com

by Art Fag City on March 7, 2011

Chugging for Art’s Sake: The Drunken Insanity of Scope’s Frat-in-a-Box Performance, By the Numbers – ARTINFO.com – Julia Halperin provides a pretty amusing write up of the jocks in a box at Scope. It's a pretty insipid concept though. 

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