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Jeff Koons Does Just Fine As An Adult

by Paddy Johnson on October 14, 2010
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A predictable pan of Jeff Koons porn paintings at Luxembourg and Dayan by Roberta Smith shows up in The Times today. The early nineties series no critic seems to like, Made in Heaven, features Koons in pre-fucking, mid-fucking, and post-fucking stages with his then-wife, Italian porn star and politician Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina. Smith’s complaints: The […]

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Work of Art Recap: Abdi Farah To Exhibit At The Brooklyn Museum of Art

by Paddy Johnson on August 12, 2010
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As it turns out $5,000 dollars and three solid months of studio time to produce an exhibition goes a long way. This point was demonstrated last night on Bravo’s reality show Work of Art, as audiences watched the final three contestants, Miles Mendenhall, Peregrine Honig and Abdi Farah produce three finished bodies of work for […]

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Highlights From The Lady Gaga Comment Thread

by Art Fag City on May 10, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Friday’s post on the artistic merit of Lady Gaga’s work prompted a comment thread well worth reposting. Topics covered range from the merging of art and everything else to assessing the conceptual merit of Gaga’s work. Not surprisingly, Gaga did not fair well in the subject of the latter: Howard Halle: […]

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on April 26, 2010

welcome to Gagosian Gallery Gagosian’s non-profit cousin, gagosiangallery.org. Mysteriously this website is simply marker of the various big ticket artists Gagosian represents as well as an archive of Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga photos. Slightly disappointing marathon scroll. Why are there no click throughs?

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Killing The Poor and Eating The Rich: NYC’s Artbus

by Art Fag City on March 11, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Democracia, Eat The Rich, Kill The Poor. New York, 2010, (photographer: Rodrigo Pereda) Democracia, Eat The Rich, Kill The Poor. New York, 2010, (photographer: Rodrigo Pereda) Eat The Rich, Kill The Poor. That’s what I always say, so why not immortalize those words on a stretch limo? Thanks to Raul Martinez […]

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Celebrity Hacks Invade Art Basel Miami

by Art Fag City on December 16, 2009

POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON Art Basel Miami, minutes before the VIP preview opens I discuss a number of news stories and trends coming out of Art Basel Miami at The L Magazine. The teaser below. When I first started writing about art fairs, I was more naive than I’d like to admit. I mistakenly believed my […]

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Best Tit In Show

by Art Fag City on December 3, 2009

POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON Not a Tit. Marc Swanson, Untitled (Sitting Buck), 2009, Polyerenthane foam, crystals, adhesive, 34 x 40 x 127 inches When you’ve seen a crystal-studded polyerethane unicorn buck [above], a horseback riding Michael Jackson portrait commission, and a one-armed performer drawing blind in a box to chose from, which one would you […]

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on December 3, 2009

Michael Jackson: King of Art Basel – Miami News – Riptide 2.0 I keep reading this over twitter. I think I’ve seen four Michael Jackson works this year. He’s not exactly the reigning subject of interest, just slightly more prevalent than last year.

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Massive Links! Pimping Your Wares Edition

by Art Fag City on August 7, 2009

Banksy. This smoke break has been brought to you by Kool cigarettes. Image via: fab I’m not an art market expert, but buying an Andy Warhol print depicting Michael Jackson right after the pop singer’s death might solicit an inflated price. Not that the quality of a given artwork has ever had a one to […]

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Locating Fan Production in the Art World

by Art Fag City on July 17, 2009

Jeff Koons, Bubbles, 1988. Ceramic. 42 x 70 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches Joining those whose art ruminations have been prompted by the death of Michael Jackson, this week at The L Magazine I attempt to locate the role of fan production in art.  The teaser below. This March at the SXSW Interactive Media festival, […]

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