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We’re All Performance Artists Now

by Art Fag City on July 16, 2009

Antony Gormley, One & Other, 2009 I hate to bring out the old fogey in me, but I’ve always felt conflicted by the concept of life as performance art.  Sure, if that’s what you want to call it, that’s what it is, but the job of explaining why Paris Hilton’s life is not performance art […]

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by Art Fag City on July 8, 2009

Gawker – Joe Jackson Pancake Painting a Little Too Intense For Corporate America – Michael Jackson “Speaking of important Michael Jackson news, pancake-painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has some! He painted this moving portrait of ‘Joe Jackson with a Michael Jackson memorial ticket and a pancake upon his head.’ Ebay is censoring it!”

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Open Call To Artists: A Book About Death

by Art Fag City on June 29, 2009
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I’m not typically a fan of open calls (uncurated shows tend to attract those who can’t), but I can get behind a solid show concept employing the format.  One such case can be seen in A book About Death, an exhibition asking over 1000 artists to produce an unbound book of 500 post cards.  Conceived […]

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by Art Fag City on June 27, 2009

Brow Beat “…it’s impossible not to be charmed by “Lisa, It’s Your Birthday.” The minute-long song—written by Jackson but voiced by an imitator because, according to James L. Brooks, M.J. wanted to play “a joke on his brothers”—is one of the least-essential in the singer’s catalog. It’s also incredibly endearing, a sweet jingle written by […]

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by Art Fag City on April 15, 2009

Michael Jackson Auction Canceled – ARTINFO.com So sad! An auction of more than 2,000 items from the king of pop’s now-defunct Neverland ranch has been called off, after he sued last month to have it stopped.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Hank Willis Thomas at Jack Shainman

by Art Fag City on March 4, 2009

Hank Willis Thomas, Time Can Be a Villain or a Friend, Light-jet print My latest review now online at The L Magazine.   The teaser below: Art using the language of media to tease out social mores is as old as Marshal McCluhan, but seldom as interesting. Enter Hank Willis Thomas' exhibition at Jack Shainman, […]

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10 Top Music Videos Made By Artists: Contemporary Edition

by Art Fag City on October 13, 2008

LEFT TO RIGHT: Bjork/Michel Gondry, Human Behavior, 1993,  Deerhoof/Martha Colburn, Wrong Time Capsule, 2005, The Eight Bit-Construction Set, Dollars, 2001, Following up on last week’s post about music video classics made by artists, today we take a look at contemporary work.  Some historical overlap occurs between the two posts — classics and contemporary both list […]

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IMG MGMT: The Undead

by Saul Chernick on July 21, 2008

Daniel Hopfer, Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women, circa 1500-10 (Click on all images to see larger version) [Editors note: IMG MGMT is an artist essay series highlighting the diversity of curatorial processes within the art making practice. Today’s invited artist Saul Chernick shows at Max Protetch Gallery in New York, and maintains the […]

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by Art Fag City on June 2, 2008

the new shelton wet/dry A fascinating Michael Jackson Neverland photo essay. More images here. via c-monster.

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Larry Salander’s Fall at Men’s Vogue

by Art Fag City on April 29, 2008

John Constable Constable’s Skies, an exhibition at Salander O’Reilly Galleries in 2004 evoked idle questions amongst dealers I knew at the time wondering how the gallery could afford to mount a show in which nothing was for sale. I didn’t care then. The collection of paintings was undoubtedly one of the best I’d seen — […]

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