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Taking the Road Less Traveled at Zoo

by Art Fag City on October 16, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Artist Unknown, part of the Film as a Subversive Art program at the Zoo Fair. Photo AFC As a general rule of thumb, art fairs do well to keep videos depicting transvestite sodomy out of the way so they aren’t the first work a viewer sees. It’s not a good introduction […]

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Borna Sammak Opens Video Exhibition in Best Buy, New Yorkers Annoyed

by Karen Archey on October 9, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Best Buy customer retrieving his motorbike next to Borna Sammak’s title piece I can only imagine what the handful of potential Best Buy customers were thinking when they happened upon Borna Sammak‘s video installation at the retailer’s SoHo location last night. Perhaps, “Only in New York City do I try to […]

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Best Link Ever! Harm van den Dorpel’s Ethereal Others

by Karen Archey on September 18, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Photo AFC Do men only surf the internet bare chested? This week’s Best Link Ever, Dutch artist Harm van den Dorpel‘s etherealothers.com archive of webcam photographs seems to indicate as much. Etherealself.com–the site’s predecessor and source of content–launched in 2008, prompts a browser’s webcam activity, splicing bits of the visitor’s visage […]

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A Brief History of Combining Crap with Crap

by Karen Archey on August 26, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Robert Rauschenberg Dylaby, 1962. Mixed media Is it only a matter of time before innovative aesthetics are subsumed into meaningless art world drivel? AFC’s recent European tour exposed us to a barrage of art consisting of refuse-piled-on-refuse-then-painted. The aesthetic itself isn’t anything new, but I’ve yet to witness a connection made […]

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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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Art Fag City at the L Magazine: The AFC European Tour

by Art Fag City on June 17, 2009

The streets of Venice. Photo AFC I write about the Venice Biennale and Art Basel for the L Magazine this week. The teaser below. Am I an uncultured asshole for missing cars, consistent Internet access, and a navigable map? I feel like one, particularly because a giant wave of relief swept over me when I […]

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Location Suckage Finds Liste Art Fair

by Art Fag City on June 12, 2009

The front entrance of Liste. Photo AFC Feel like taking a tumble down some steep cement or rickety metal stairs?  Readers who answer yes to this question will likely find Liste right up their alley.  Touting itself as the young fair, Liste’s abandoned school/warehouse location is so treacherous only the most desperate viewers will make […]

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Art Basel|Conversations: AFC Recommendations

by Art Fag City on June 11, 2009

At Art and Age, a conversation with Massimiliano Gioni, curator of Younger than Jesus at The New Museum, Berlin artist Dorothy Iannone, and Los Angeles artist Stephen G. Rhodes. Photo AFC Superstar curator Hans Ulrich Obrist may need to permanently station himself outside the Art Lobby due to his intense speaking schedule at Art Basel […]

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Art Fag City at Art in America: The Art Bus Visits Brooklyn, LIC

by Art Fag City on March 9, 2009

The Art Bus outside of Volta. Photo AFC My second post of the day at Art in America.  This time, I travel on the Art Bus to LIC. “Is there anywhere you could possibly feel smaller?” video artist Phil Collins said recently of the commercial art world, “It’s the only place where you give away […]

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Stage II at The Project Receives Undue Love

by Art Fag City on February 4, 2009

The Project, Stage II installation view, 2009.  Photo AFC (Sorry my picture sucks) I’m surprised to see Stage II, a sound art show in The Project’s two small adjoined galleries in Midtown recommended on both Rhizome and Time Out.   The exhibition includes the work of Dave Allen, Larry Krone, Lucky Dragons, Rashaad Newsome, and Superamas […]

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