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Sneak Into A Museum With Peter Coffin

by Karen Archey on July 23, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Diego Leclery Whitney Museum; New York, New York USA (Click on images to supersize) Offering sage advice for the penniless and pocket-heavy alike, artist Peter Coffin’s “How to Sneak into a Museum Without Paying” project features hand drawn maps from contributors around the globe. Thus far he’s culled a handful of […]

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Is Hans Ulrich Obrist an Alien? AFC Reports from the Guggenheim

by Karen Archey on July 21, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Hans Ulrich Obrist. Image via WalterHopps.com Honestly, I can’t really give you an appropriate introduction to yesterday’s discussion with Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Guggenheim. Why, you may ask? Well, because I was misdirected to three different ticket lines by museum staff, and taken deep into the bowels of the building, […]

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Best Link Ever! AFC Hot on the Taxidermy Trail!

by Karen Archey on July 17, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY UPDATE: Image crappytaxidermy.com, via Beth Dean Yeehaw! This week’s Best Link Ever goes to the Livejournal community WTF? Taxidermy, a group of online journalists who gather stunning images of taxidermy gone wrong. Who knew pumping rodents full of chemicals could be so much fun? Well, some artists apparently figured it out: […]

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Let’s Fire Up the Rumor Mill! Bravo Casting Calls for Untitled Art Project

by Karen Archey on July 13, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Damien Hirst and Sarah Jessica Parker gif courtesy Paddy Johnson We’ve received a couple reports about casting calls for Bravo’s Untitled Art Project, and they aren’t good.  Not that it comes as a surprise that show business seeks out contentious, conventionally attractive people, but rumor has it that execs at Magical […]

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Artworld Goes Wild! An Evening at Mildred’s Lane

by Karen Archey on July 13, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Doron Sadja of Paris London, a Bard sound student, performs at Mildred’s Lane. All photos Karen Archey unless otherwise noted. Should you spend the weekend amidst the uncannily utopic landscape and Dionysian crowds at Mildred’s Lane, you’d probably feel like you’re on the set of a Ryan McGinley photo shoot, only […]

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Can You Feel the Zeitgeist? Michael Jackson’s Funeral Breaks the Internet

by Karen Archey on July 8, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Photo AFC What may have been the most poignant day in recent history depressed the shit out of us here at AFC. But our melancholy was due less to Michael Jackson's televised funeral than the weirdly banal status updates via CNN's live video feed and Facebook status plugin. The memorial service […]

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Best Link Ever! Net Overload: 99 Links You Should’ve Seen Already!

by Karen Archey on July 3, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Still from “Grape Stomp” video How much link can you get? We have no idea who Greg Rutter is, but he put together a fantastic list of 99 links  comprehensively scouring every meme on the Internet ever. Websites range from obvious classics Cute Overload and Dancing Baby to lesser known gems […]

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Do Canaries Have Accents? Notes From Berlin: Kaye Donachie

by Karen Archey on July 1, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Kaye Donachie, Serenely let us move to distant places, 2008. AFC Associate Editor Karen Archey was fortunate enough to spend some time in Berlin during our recent European art tour.  This series of reviews reflects a handful of galleries we visited throughout May and June. Peres Projects Schlesische Str. 26 10997 […]

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Best Link Ever! Taking a Stroll Through the Land of Trolls

by Karen Archey on June 26, 2009

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Dear Lindsay Pollock: Basel Ain’t All Schnitzel and Cheval Blanc

by Karen Archey on June 12, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am), 1987 Barbara Kruger’s infamous image unironically graced the front page of The Art Newspaper’s daily ArtBasel sales report for June 12-14. One would assume the article using Kruger’s image—which skeptically investigates consumer culture—would share its critical sentiment rather than blindly glorify the private […]

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