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The AFCRPAAaA* Readers’ Choice Nominees Are Announced!

by Whitney Kimball on February 16, 2012
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Yesterday, we closed the readers’ voting page for AFC’s Rob Pruitt Awards. The results? Not one joke entry was submitted under “Best Genitals.” Hrag Vartanian and Jerry Saltz were nominated for virtually every category. Immediately after the voting page went live, Will Brand’s name mysteriously appeared once each under the “Best Genitals” and “Most Powerful” categories. And it became abundantly clear that nobody can spell; “vrag hartanian”, “rovanian”, “herag”, and “hrog” were all nominated.

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bien-pensant

by Art Fag City on December 8, 2010

bien-pensant – Nobody does an art fair as well as Karen Archey. Her ability to pick out good work in these environments is freakishly good, and her brief write ups greatly informative. 

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Immaterial Dispersal: Not So Great

by Paddy Johnson on September 8, 2010
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For those not following my tweets last night, organizer Nik Pence’s Immaterial Dispersal was not good. Panel participants fell into 2.5 groups, those who wanted to make it hard for internet users to find their work, those who wanted to make it easy and those who wanted to describe either act as about branding their […]

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Rhizome’s Silent Auction Ends Tonight!

by Art Fag City on May 25, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Michael Smith, Sears Class Portraits, 2008, C-Print, 38.9 x 30 inches, unique, framed, Current Bid: $2,500, Starting Bid: $2,500, Retail Value: $3,000. I want that Michael Smith Sears Class Portrait. It reminds me of a post Karen Archey wrote for the blog last year surveying an array of weird portraits in art […]

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Best Link Ever! Stock Photo Fantasies: Pedo-Spouts and Funeral Parties!

by Karen Archey on November 20, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via badstockart.wordpress.com Stock photography is a strange bird. Not only do agencies frequently create bizarro scenes like the free-for-all-funeral above, but they’ve also somehow figured out way to turn a profit from it. This week’s Best Link Ever badstockart.wordpress.com presents a slew of entertaining stock images showcased with their corresponding […]

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Best Link Ever! Pricasso: It is What you Think

by Karen Archey on November 13, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Photo via pricasso.com “There are millions of artists in the world but only one who paints with his penis.” So goes the tagline of this week’s Best Link Ever, pricasso.com, a website touting the talents of Pricasso (a portmanteau of “prick” and “Picasso”) who paints exclusively with his dick. We’re not […]

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Best Link Ever! Someone Still Cares About Fred Durst!

by Karen Archey on November 6, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via fredandme.com Did Fred Durst do it all for the nookie? We’re not entirely sure we care what the rapper’s career motivations are, but someone apparently does. This week’s Best Link Ever, fredandme.com offers documentation of the Limp Bizkit frontman’s various career stages via fan photos of the singer and […]

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Best Link Ever! Man Meat or Steak Meat?

by Karen Archey on October 30, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via Iguogo.com “This quiz is really fucking hard!” exclaims AFC Editor Paddy Johnson. This week’s Best Link Ever, steakhouseorgaybar.com is indeed hard–and no pun intended! The site, simply structured, asks its visitor whether they think a franchise name is a restaurant or a homosexual drinking establishment. Although there’s a wide […]

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