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This Week’s Must See Events: The Biennials Are Upon Us

by Paddy Johnson on March 4, 2014

If fair overload doesn’t kill you this week, the events will. Get ready for the Whitney Biennial, the Last Brucennial, and a throwdown show by Anthony Antonellis at Transfer this weekend. Don’t count on sleeping this week.

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The Official Art Fag City Art Fair and Biennial Guide

by Paddy Johnson Will Brand and Whitney Kimball on March 2, 2012

Get ready for non-stop art viewing. If you like art at all, next week's schedule should be packed with art fairs, biennial viewings, and openings. If you don't know where to start, we're here to help. Our one sentence synopsis as follows: This year more elitists, more protests, more video art, more foreigners, and continued efforts to disguise art fairs as nightclubs.

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Slideshow: The Cat’s Out of the Biennial Bag

by Paddy Johnson on February 29, 2012

So, here’s one cat out of the bag: my initial impressions of the Whitney Biennial aren’t particularly positive. I’ll wait until I’ve written the full review before fully committing to that opinion — reasoning out an argument has on occasion completely transformed it — though in this case that likelihood seems increasingly slim.

In the meantime, photos. AFC’s Curatorial Fellow Anthony Espino and I went a little crazy with the pictures, so there are, um, a lot.

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Bronx Calling, The First AIM Biennial: Profit and Loss

by Whitney Kimball on July 21, 2011

If you're beginning an art career in the face of imminent economic meltdown, then clearly you've got something to say. Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial is now introducing a new generation of emerging artists who participated in the 2011 AIM (Artists in the Marketplace) Program. Often, perhaps unsurprisingly, the work is a little too reflective of a marketplace that tends to muddle passion and bastardize ideas.

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Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari Announce Whitney Biennale Artists

by Art Fag City on December 11, 2009

POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON Pierce Goldberg, son of famed art historian Roselee Goldberg, shot the above film capturing curators Fancesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari orating the names of this year’s Whitney Biennial artists. Welcome to the age of viral PR performance art! I don’t have much time to write today, but I’ll note that I’ve seen […]

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Biennial Artist Daniel Clowes and director Terry Zwigoff Attend Their Own Sneak Preview

by Art Fag City on March 31, 2006

Probably the least defining moment of Clowes career was his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, but since the exhibition will be on the tip of our tongues until the end of May, he has the good fortune of being refered to as such in this post. Promising to be more interesting than either the […]

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Zombie Figuration Isn’t a Thing: A Critical Autopsy with Antwaun Sargent

by Paddy Johnson and William Powhida on August 4, 2020

Jordan Casteel, “Within Reach”, New Museum installation view, 2020. Photo: Dario Lasagni

In this episode of Explain Me, critic and curator Antwaun Sargent joins us to discuss the effects of the pandemic and Alex Greenberger’s Zombie Figuration, a confusing essay that appeared earlier this month in ARTnews. In the first half hour we discuss the disparate effects of the pandemic and general politics. Then we move on to art, zombies, race, and why art has limits. Listen on Spotify, Stitcher, and Apple Podcasts.

BIOGRAPHY

Antwaun Sargent is an art critic and a writer who has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice and more, as well as essays to multiple museum publications. His first book, “The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion” (Aperture) is out now. In April he announced a new partnership with Gagosian that will include working on four exhibitions and contributing features to their magazine. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram.

LISTENER ADVISORY: In this episode, Paddy Johnson occasionally repeats Antwaun Sargent’s words when his audio cuts out. This leads to periodic moments when Johnson and Sargent speak at the same time.

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