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Paddy Johnson at Art Agenda: Kai Althoff At Gladstone Presents Punkt, Absatz, Blümli” (period, paragraph, Blümli)

by Paddy Johnson on February 22, 2011
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There's something slightly strange about walking into an installation designed to look like a homemade living room in every way but the lighting. In the case of Kai Althoff at Gladstone Gallery, the cement floor painted bright yellow doesn't exactly scream domesticity either, but the artist has integrated enough interior design elements that the florescent lights hanging from the lowered ceiling is disconcerting. Why arrange a raised nappy rug, a series of paintings in the style of Otto Dix and George Grosz, and a dividing wall of painted plaster mugs as if they were part of a household if they are to be lit like a gallery object in”¦ a Subway sandwich store?

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Paddy Johnson at Art Agenda: The Mammoth Miami Fair Wrap-Up

by Paddy Johnson on December 7, 2010
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I discuss four Miami fairs: Basel, NADA, Pulse, and Seven. From the Basel write up: Affectionately referred to as the Borg ship amongst some bloggers, Basel’s floor plan is basically a large grid of white cubes inside the Miami Convention Center. This format has the ability to make all art look the same, and this year was no different: a rather stale viewing experience. As always, the Modern and postwar art booths are located at the front of the building, while contemporary settles for the back. Probably not such a bad layout tactic—but I expect this is a design holdover from ten years ago when dead artists brought in a lot more money.

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Paddy Johnson at Art Agenda: Luc Tuymans’s “Corporate” at David Zwirner

by Art Fag City on November 18, 2010
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Luc Tuymans’s paintings set a somber mood at David Zwirner: a ship at sail with its stern to a cloudy horizon; a conspiratorial faceless portrait; a panel discussion dissolving as its participants are cast in blinding light. The 11 works in his latest show titled “Corporate” darkly depict corporations as the new feudal lords. This means a series of portraits, interiors, and landscapes in shades of gray line Zwirner’s walls, along with a girl on horseback and some knightly armor.

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Rob Pruitt Awards Announced: Paddy Johnson Lands Critic of The Year Nomination

by Paddy Johnson on November 17, 2010
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Looks like the Guggenheim will be granting me the press pass they denied me last year to the Rob Pruitt Art Awards. I’m a nominee in the “blogger or critic of the year” category.

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Twitter / @Paddy Johnson:

by Art Fag City on November 1, 2010

Twitter / @Paddy Johnson: – Meg Whitman's personal spending on her campaign: $163 million. National Endowment for the Arts 2010 budget: $161.4 million Via: @Caterina

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Art Writer Paddy Johnson Raising Funds to Record The Sound Of Art on Kickstarter

by Art Fag City on September 21, 2010

Art Writer Paddy Johnson Raising Funds to Record The Sound Of Art on Kickstarter – Sound of Art gets a nod from NYPress

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Paddy Johnson at Art Agenda: Jill Magid’s A Reasonable Man in a Box

by Paddy Johnson on August 9, 2010
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When Jill Magid wrote “What is a reasonable man in a box?” on the Whitney’s wall I suspect she already knew the answer. The text references the “Bybee Memo,”* a leaked 2004 memorandum from the US Justice Department prescribing legal means for the CIA to employ illegal torture techniques such as confinement with insects.

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Paddy Johnson – Who the fuck needs more paintings? Today one has…

by Art Fag City on June 21, 2010

Paddy Johnson – Who the fuck needs more paintings? Today one has… I have no idea what this means, but it somehow seems relevant right now.

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Paddy Johnson at More Intelligent Life: Urs Fischer’s Marguerite de Ponty

by Art Fag City on December 24, 2009

POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON Urs Fischer at The New Museum, Photo: AFC I wrote a review of the New Museum’s Urs Fischer show for More Intelligent Life, the sister publication of The Economist.  The teaser below. Do grand gestures reduce to one-trick-pony-art in museums? That's my concern about Urs Fischer's three floors of aluminium blobs, purple […]

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Paddy Johnson at NYPress: Bring Art On

by Art Fag City on August 27, 2009

Spencer Finch, The River That Flows Both Ways, 2007, rendering. I wrote a piece on a few of Creative Time’s latest projects for NYPress.  The teaser below. IT'S 10 A.M. AND Anne Pasternak, president of the 33-year-old public art organization Creative Time, is listing the tasks she's already completed for the day. “I sat on […]

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