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Opportunities

Call for Submissions: Write for AFC!

by The AFC Staff on January 25, 2013
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Can’t sleep at night for all the burning ideas you have about art? Time to write a few of those words down.

Art Fag City is now accepting pitches in two areas: Art outside New York and Net art.

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Art Fag City Seeks Editorial Fellow

by Art Fag City on January 16, 2013
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Art Fag City invites you to apply to its Editorial Fellowship program. What is it? A fancy title for unpaid internship. It’s also…

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BHQF University Is Back in Session, Life Skills Offered

by Whitney Kimball on January 8, 2013
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“You Watching Me Googling You” is a course where students watch Jonah Emerson Bell google them until they talk about surveillance. It’s free!

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Takashi Murakami’s Facebook Profile Picture is Misunderstood in its Own Time

by Will Brand on December 5, 2012
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Takashi Murakami will paint your portrait, but not before serving you a steaming pile of bullshit.

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We Made An Android App So You Can Read Art News

by Will Brand on December 5, 2012
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Books and print magazines about art have many flaws. They don’t fit in your pockets. Their commenting communities are weak. Even the most acclaimed books fail to provide breaking news. Often, we choose books over far superior internet publications (like this one) for the simple reason that books work on the subway.

Today, the printed word dies: AFC has made an Android app.

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Today! Creative Time and PS1’s New “Art Breaks” Series Go Live on MTV

by Whitney Kimball on November 15, 2012
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MTV’s gonna get hip again! Today, Creative Time and PS1 present the second round of MTV’s Art Breaks revival, a video series from the 80s which once featured artists like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Richard Prince. Though you wouldn’t know it, the channel also featured artists like Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, and the East Village performance icon Matthew Courtney.

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[Updated] How to Volunteer for Hurricane Sandy Clean Up

by Corinna Kirsch on November 1, 2012
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You’ve seen the pictures. You’ve read the tweets. New York City looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland along its waterfront. Among the many things New York City needs right now, clean up is one of them. The art world is rallying, too.

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Times Square Might Get a Massive Art Exhibition

by Whitney Kimball on October 24, 2012
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A kickstarter campaign proposes an art exhibition, curated by Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian, to take over the billboards in Times Square.

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Flux Factory: Not-So-Silent Open Call

by Paddy Johnson on October 16, 2012
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Is your art a little too weird for the establishment? Do you like to wear a few too many kinds of plaid at once? Has your mother ever expressed worry about your future?

If you’ve said “yes” to any of these questions, it’s time to submit your work to Flux Factory’s open call for submissions.

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Nine Experiences That Are Comparable to Interning at Family Business

by Whitney Kimball on September 25, 2012
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As we found out during a trip to Chelsea this weekend, a Family Business internship entails guarding art on a folding chair, in a roughly 10 x 10 foot closet space. You’re not getting paid, you don’t get a computer, and the gallery doesn’t sell anything, so you’re not exactly making useful contacts. Currently the gallery is packed with instruments, so there’s also a giant gong a few feet from your head which everybody’s invited to hit with a mallet. Sounds just like the “training which would be given in an educational environment” that is legally required of an unpaid internship, hahahahahaha!

But just for laughs, we thought we’d lay out a few academic or training scenarios which Massimiliano Gioni and Maurizio Cattelan had in mind when they tasked a presumably educated young hopeful to guard their art all day.

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