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Art History with Labor: Working in the Arts Sucks

by Leighann Morris on July 10, 2012
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The Bruces are at it again. This year they launched their second Brucennial and flew to Art Basel Miami to tell collectors why the institutional system is fucked. That wasn’t exactly a packed room, so now they’ve produced a video to spread the word. Art History with Labor, now on view at the Lever House and online takes “FUCK THE MAN!” to a whole new level.

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Single File: Marianna Ellenberg’s Positive/Negative

by Art Fag City on May 6, 2010

POST BY DAVID HARPER Marianna Ellenberg – Positive/Negative (clip), 2010 from Dave Harper on Vimeo. In a world of WebMD-induced hypochondria, artist Marianna Ellenberg's Positive/Negative may be exactly what the art doctor ordered. After all, what better way to self diagnosis is there, than to choose two opposing test results and then conflate them by tone […]

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Single File: Florian & Michaël Quistrebert, Ex-Futuro

by Art Fag City on April 29, 2010

POST BY DAVID HARPER Florian & Michael Quistrebert – Ex-Futuro (clip), 2010 from Dave Harper on Vimeo. Existing somewhere between a study of early experimental film and a Norwegian Black Metal music video is Ex-Futuro, a new work by the collaborating French brothers, Florian and Michaël Quistrebert. Though shot on a hand-held, point-and-shoot digital camera, the […]

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Single File: Simon Hantaï, Etude

by Art Fag City on April 22, 2010

POST BY DAVID HARPER Simon Hantaï, Etude, 1969. Oil on canvas, on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Chelsea through April 24. You don't see much of Simon Hantaï,'s work on this side of the Atlantic, mostly because during his lifetime he was a notorious recluse and possibly because his French nationality undermined the idea that […]

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