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See This Tonight: John Belknap’s Bathroom Interiors

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 27, 2017
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John Belknap: Bathroom Interiors
Special Special
44 East 1st Street
New York, NY
Opens Thursday, April 27th, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Event Page

We’re happy to announce that AFC’s awesome intern John Belknap has a month-long solo show that opens tonight at Special Special. Even if John weren’t part of the AFC fam, we’d recommend his work. Special Special is gallery/retail space inspired by museum stores that produces functional editions with artists. For this project, John is considering the most intimate of spaces: the bathroom.

Works include a self-portrait based on a childhood photo, printed on a shower curtain (what would our childhood selves think watching adult us shower?), limited edition postcards of bathroom interiors, and of course, GIFs. All of these components will be installed in dialogue with the architecture of the space, alongside collage and photographs.

Pics after the jump!

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Looking Forward to Next Week’s DiMoDA 2.0 Launch

by Michael Anthony Farley on September 2, 2016
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We’re excited for DiMoDA’s second exhibition: Morphḗ Presence to open in one week. The virtual reality museum’s first show was totally mind-blowing.

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Artists and Suits: Milwaukee’s MarKEt/FORWARD Symposium

by Corinna Kirsch on March 25, 2015
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Milwaukee gets serious about the art business.

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AFC Spotlight: AFC’s Resident Designer Opens a Gallery

by Whitney Kimball on October 29, 2014
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If you appreciate the simple brilliance of making a ham slice evoke a Helen Frankenthaler painting (and we do) then you may need to see this sensibility applied to curating.

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AFC’s Guide to (e)merge: A Fair with a Local Focus

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Gabriela Vainsencher on October 2, 2013
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Not being a part of the Federal Government, the (e)merge art fair’s schedule to open its third edition in Washington, DC tomorrow will remain unchanged. This is a positive occurrence for the Washington community, and at least according AFC’s Paddy Johnson, who visited the fair in 2011 and 2012, despite a few caveats, it’s worth a visit.

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Hey Grrrls: Come Check Out The Experimental Performance Festival “Emergency Glitter” [NSFW]

by Art Fag City on July 23, 2013
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We know what we’re doing this week. We’re stopping by this summer’s neo-feminist-queer-sex-positive-anti-institutional performance festival “Emergency Glitter,” which, among many others, features AFC’s own roommate Rebecca Patek.

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Lorna Mills Opens at Transfer Gallery Tomorrow Night!

by Paddy Johnson on June 13, 2013
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Clear your calendars for tomorrow night. International GIF artist and famed new media blogger Lorna Mills opens “The Axis of Something” at Transfer Gallery. You gotta be there.

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What People Will Be Talking About At Art Basel

by Paddy Johnson on June 6, 2013
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Move over Frieze talks. This year’s Art Basel in Switzerland Conversations and Salons looks pretty great. They’d better livestream this shit.

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Michael Mahalchick Will Be Stripping Today at NADA

by Whitney Kimball on May 10, 2013
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We’ve already got a big fat bonerang for Michael Mahalchick, creator of Official Art F City Judy Chicago Wiener. So imagine our joy when we heard that we’ll get to see even more of him today at NADA! This morning, we received a dispatch from our editor Paddy Johnson, with cryptic but very tantalizing details about some sort of stripper-themed performance that’s going down at 4:30pm, for one hour only.

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