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Intro to the Art World: A Beginner’s Reading List, AFC Commenter Edition

by Paddy Johnson on June 11, 2013
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Last month we published a short list of art books I thought provided a great introduction to the art world. This month, we publish the additions to this list suggested by our commenters.

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Dude-Count Drops by One in a BYOB Net Art Show in Australia

by Paddy Johnson on March 12, 2013
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Charlie Sofo declined to participate in a BYOB show at RMIT Design Hub, Australia, citing lack of gender diversity. We approve.

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Enough With Dude-Centric Net Art Shows

by Paddy Johnson on April 17, 2012
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I’m getting tired of seeing listings for dude-dominated digital art shows. Just to count what I’ve seen in the last month: The USB Show, at Paris’s Le Point Éphémère two weeks ago, invited one woman artist to participate out of 21; Astral Projection Abduction Fantasy, which ran from February 23rd to March 23rd in Dublin, included three women out of 29 artists; and the April 12th BYOB show, in Milan, only included 9 women out of 42 invited artists. These shows might as well be Lilith Fair, though, relative to the worst recent offender, Dotcom, a show organized by the anonymous collective BSNP at the Centre d’Art Bastille in France. That group show runs through June 10th and includes no women at all.

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34 AFC Friends Cite Their Favorite Link of 2011

by Paddy Johnson on December 31, 2011
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As is our annual tradition, I’ve asked people I know and respect to contribute their single favorite link for the year. No themes. No grand explanations. Just one link, and one sentence describing why they liked it. For the first time ever, this year I received no dupe links. The web is a much larger place than it used to be.

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Report from the Academy: Q&A with Harbourfront Centre Curator Patrick Macaulay

by Sally McKay on June 20, 2011
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How do you curate challenging contemporary art for massive audiences in a tourist destination? For the past ten years, Patrick Macaulay has been doing just that, and he has recently transformed a serious work injury into a renewed sense of curatorial ambition.

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[IMG MGMT] L.M. vs. Leni R.

by Lorna Mills on September 22, 2010
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[Editor’s Note: IMG MGMT is a is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Lorna Mills has actively exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990’s. Her practice has included obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive painting, obsessive super 8 film,  obsessive digital video animations incorporated into restrained installation work and currently […]

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Mining The Art Fag City Comment Section: The Return of Rashaad Newsome and Marina Abramović

by Paddy Johnson on July 27, 2010
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Looking for additional conversation on Rashaad Newsome’s The Conductor (Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi) (2008), on view at PS1 Greater New York? The blog produced two of its most productive comment threads on the subject a couple months ago, before Catalogue Editorial Assistant Rachel Wetzler threw this Newsome interview into the mix. Newsome discusses most of the […]

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on June 6, 2010

sally mckay and lorna mills email from Rob Cruickshank: Marina Abramovic and Margaret Keane both made me cry.

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 23, 2010

sally mckay and lorna mills: On The Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction This is GREAT: A post and thread on Brian Boyd’ s On The Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Michael Bérubé.Mckay says she thinks the book might be in a “different league from Dennis Dutton’s The Art Instinct (…not […]

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The Best of Web 2009!

by Art Fag City on December 31, 2009

Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link!  I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their discretion. The format doesn’t solve the inevitable difference of taste issues between readers and linkers — one person’s trash is another person’s Titian —  but […]

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