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Best Link Ever! It’s Hammertime for Simon de Pury!

by Karen Archey on October 23, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Link via Hanne Mugaas’ Art and Culture blog People do weird things with their money. As evidenced by this week’s Best Link Ever, the ultra-charismatic Phillips de Pury chairman Simon de Pury produces a cheesy music video featuring himself in an fantasy-auction of sorts, set against a Europop remake of Pete […]

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IMG MGMT: Teen Image

by Seth Price on October 22, 2009

[Editor’s note: IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Born in 1973, the artist has widely exhibited internationally at Capitain Petzel Berlin, the Kunsthalle Zurich, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Friedrich Petzel New York, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, and […]

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What Recession? Collectors Compete For Büchel’s Dirty Socks

by Karen Archey on October 18, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Christoph Büchel Socks, 2009. Pair of dirty socks of the artist on the floor. Copyright Christoph Büchel, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Is artist Christoph Büchel simply a surly art world prankster or does his work effectively question the mechanisms of the art world? The Swiss artist, whose stunts […]

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Best Link Ever! Regretsy Punks Etsy

by Karen Archey on October 9, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Etsy had it coming. The online arts and crafts-based marketplace features saccharine, handmade creations from the hipster-meets-Martha Stewart demographic – a target for ripe for picking by the blogging community.  And so enters Regretsy, a blog pairing the craft site’s most regrettable listings with a bit of vitriolic commentary. The recipient […]

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Borna Sammak Opens Video Exhibition in Best Buy, New Yorkers Annoyed

by Karen Archey on October 9, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Best Buy customer retrieving his motorbike next to Borna Sammak’s title piece I can only imagine what the handful of potential Best Buy customers were thinking when they happened upon Borna Sammak‘s video installation at the retailer’s SoHo location last night. Perhaps, “Only in New York City do I try to […]

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The New York Times on Curating: On the Tip of Creative Tongues, Part Two

by Art Fag City on October 6, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Verge Gallery, Sacramento, CA Stores curate, bloggers curate, websites curate: The New York Times’ Alex Williams writes a feature on the use of the word. “Curate is code for ‘I have a discerning eye and great taste,’” Williams tells us, adding, “Or more to the point, ‘I belong.’” Williams makes a […]

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Best Link Ever Still Available!

by Art Fag City on October 2, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Screengrab AFC Maintained by artist and VVork blogger Oliver Laric, this week’s pick goes to Still Available, a project using the currency of the internet — available urls — and the medium of twitter to humorously respond to the day’s most popular news. romanpolanski.ch, undoubtedly our favorite tweet to date, subtly points […]

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BLNK: DAC’s Art Under The Bridge

by Juozas Cernius on September 30, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Lines of people wait to see THE EXPERIENCE OF GREEN by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen at DAC. All photographs by Juozas Cernius, Caslon Photography The bad news about New York art blogging is that you can’t blog it all. There’s simply too much and short of cloning ourselves we […]

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Massive Links!

by Art Fag City on September 28, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Google image via: greg.org Greg.org notes Google’s security pixilation looks like art. Associate Editor and AFC curator Karen Archey remarked in the office today that the work reminded her of Kota Ezawa, Jason Salavon. I took Alfred Jenson mixed with Luc Tuyman’s palette, though I’m sure there’s an artist that more closely matches Google’s pixilations. […]

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Best Link Ever: Hipster Demographic Penetrates Yet Another Market

by Art Fag City on September 25, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Say it: cupcakes are so late 2008 and my tats are unique. Image and caption via: Look at This Hipster Fucking. Looks like the Lesbians For Men Club thrives in hipster porn too. As evidenced above, this is just one of the many fine shots and captions you’ll see at this […]

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