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This Week’s Must See Events: Ride the Macabre Wave

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on September 20, 2016

Last month, Corinna Kirsch pointed out to us that NYC’s art scene is getting pretty goth this fall. A quick glance at the exhibition thumbnails below reveals this spooky prophecy was dead-accurate: graveyards, skulls, and darkness predominate.

Tuesday night, recount the psychedelic adventures of Bruce Conner at MoMA. Wednesday, the domestic gets the spotlight with projects from Chloë Bass and Oksana Todorova at CUNY and A+E Studios, respectively. Expect plenty of creep-out factor from the latter’s biomorphic, toxic household items. Thursday, Julie Mehretu’s occult-influenced new body of work takes her practice in a darker direction, and Irene Lusztig lectures about conjuring empathy from (probably) eerie archival material.

The weekend gets even more macabre. Brian Andrew Whiteley is displaying his infamous tombstone at Christopher Stout Gallery Friday night, while Ghost of a Dream builds their own dream haunted house from the ruins of art fairs Saturday at Smack Mellon. And of course, Wickerham & Lomax’s Local Atonement: A Nutshell Study of Unexplained Death opens at American Medium. Sunday, Mana Contemporary’s fall open house encompasses just about everything under the sun—from Marilyn Monroe’s poetry to Israeli textiles—but of course a little momento mori content as well. Andy Warhol’s skull paintings will be on view. 30 years after his death, Warhol still has his finger on the undead pulse of the art world zeitgeist

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This Week’s Must-See Events: Queer Power Edition

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on June 13, 2016

Monday’s been a rough day for us here at AFC as I’m sure it has for many readers. We’re still processing the horrific news of Orlando’s mass killing Sunday morning and it’s made writing much of anything difficult. Is there anything that can be said on the subject of guns, prayers, Islam, hate crimes and ISIS that social media hasn’t covered?

Probably not, that doesn’t diminish our need to mourn. One way we’ve decided to do this is to focus on queer events in this week’s must see events. It’s a small gesture to be sure—we’re not saving any lives. But it’s what we can do to say to the families, friends and lovers of those lost that, “you’re not alone.”

So, let’s talk all things homo-tastic: Monday night, Neil Goldberg revisits the David Lynch classic ERASERHEAD with a queer perspective. Tuesday, the unsung godfather of glam illustration Antonio Lopez gets his long-overdue retrospective at El Museo del Barrio, and two events at BRIC and Mitchell Innes & Nash bring queer/feminist perspectives to the city’s affordability crisis. Wednesday night, dyke icon K8 Hardy opens a mysterious solo show at Stap-On Projects while Thursday offers a one-night-only performance/installation from Scottish duo Ruby Pester and Nadia Rossi, who will be tackling sexuality, gender, and more at Bannerette. Friday night, head to Bushwick, where the Hot Summer Nights gallery crawl has some queer-tastic highlights in time for Pride month—be sure to catch Los Ojos’s all-LGBTQ group show and Vincent Tiley’s solo project at Christopher Stout Gallery. Also in Brooklyn Friday night: solo shows from AFC favs Björn Meyer-Ebrecht and Rachel Stern at Studio 10 and Black & White Projects, respectively, both located in the same building.

If you’re not politically/emotionally exhausted by the weekend, we recommend checking out the massive group show Of the people on Saturday at Smack Mellon. It’s all about the issues involved in this fucked, fucked election cycle. So when you’re feeling thoroughly anti-establishment, check out the Queens Museum’s Sunday panel on the visual legacy of punk.

It’s too late to wish everyone a happy Pride Month, but hopefully we can at least have a thoughtful one.

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This Week’s Must See Events: Suggested Double Dates

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on December 14, 2015

This week, good events come in pairs. Art handling gets its moment of glamour with a charity calendar launch on Tuesday at Field Projects and a workshop at the Cue Foundation on Saturday. Wednesday night, hop from holiday parties at Postmasters and Ortega y Gasset. Or attend Sondra Perry’s screening and artist talk at EAI. Perry also has a closing reception at Recess the next night. And if simulacra of tragedies is your thing, check out the creepy photos of Corinne May Botz at Benrubi Gallery or Vincent Tiley’s “Sad Pretty Boys” at Christopher Stout Gallery, on Thursday and Friday respectively.

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Announcing F.A.G. and a New, Artist-Run Satellite Show in Miami

by Michael Anthony Farley on October 23, 2015

We’re pleased to announce that Art F City is launching a new project space/curatorial platform called Fine Art Gallery. Fine Art Gallery will be primarily based out of Brooklyn, but we’re kicking off our programing with a booth in Tiger Strikes Asteroid’s Satellite Show during Art Basel Miami Beach 2015.

We’ll disclose more details about our project in the coming weeks, but we’re pretty excited about the new art fair, which will feature international artist-run spaces and collectives in Miami Beach’s defunct Ocean Terrace Hotel. Tiger Strikes Asteroid released the exhibitor list today, and we’re happy to report that it includes many of the galleries who participated in Baltimore’s Artist-Run Art Fair this summer, which we christened “The Art Fair that Doesn’t Suck”.

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Tuesday Links: Art Cool Again Thanks to Miracle Dealer

by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Rea McNamara on September 8, 2015

“It’s been such an amazing experience being able to travel all over and use my photography to impact people’s lives. Seriously can’t believe how many mountains I’ve climbed and beautiful views I’ve captured.” via the satirical instagram account Socality Barbie

Why does ISIS blow up archeological buildings and temples in Iraq and Syria? Turns out it’s a big cover-up for the looted art and historical objects they then sell on the international antiquities market. [The Independent]
Sotheby’s and Artsy are collaborating on an online-only sale of contemporary art next month. With a focus on works valued at $50,000 or less that meaningfully engage with technology — confirmed artists include Richard Prince and Cory Arcangel — this marks Artsy’s first sale with a major auction house. [New York Times]
According to this account, a Roxane Gay and Erica Jong discussion at last week’s Decatur Book Festival in Georgia was a very awkward demonstration of white feminism and the denial of privilege. [The Guardian]
The reviews are starting to roll in for the Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s sprawling, politically-tinged Istanbul Biennial: Adrien Searle calls it a meditation on “the “ongoing tides of human misery”, Amah-Rose Abrams praises Bakargiev for properly capturing the city’s long history of emigration and asylum. (Not mentioned: whether or not the press kit was a repeat of Documenta 13.) [The Guardian, artnet News]
Christopher Stout Gallery is opening on Meserole Street in Bushwick with a “program of showing subversive and difficult art.” [Hyperallergic]
Is there any headline more nauseating than “Meet the Art Dealer to Billionaires Who’s Making Collecting Cool Again”? [Bloomberg]
Right-wing vandals have struck Anish Kapoor’s controversial “Dirty Corner” at Versailles with anti-semetic graffiti. Kapoor doesn’t want the piece to be cleaned. He will “not allow … intolerance to be erased.” Why? [artnet News]
Jacob Appelbaum, Edward Snowden confident and Ai WeiWei Seven on Seven collaborator, has his first solo show opening in Germany this week. This fascinating interview offers an interesting take on the history of surveillance in Europe; Appelbaum calls the holocaust Europe’s “first big data project”. [we make money not art]
Who wants to go to Mars? We might be a few years from making those trips happen, but you can sign up to have NASA will put your name on a chip and send that to Mars. Not quite the same thing is it? [NASA via: @corinnakirsch]
The best parody Instagram account we’ve seen: Socality Barbie. This account places a hipster Barbie in various scenes—coffee shops, mountains, bars that have antlers hanging on the wall—applies the perfect filter and voila. It’s the captions that really make the account though. Under one shot of Barbie on a mountain the text reads, “It’s been such an amazing experience being able to travel all over and use my photography to impact people’s lives. Seriously can’t believe how many mountains I’ve climbed and beautiful views I’ve captured.” [Wired via: Metafilter]
What day has the largest number of openings and where are they concentrated? A useful graphic shows us that some what predictably, this Thursday will be the biggest night. 79 shows open that evening, most of them in Chelsea. Wednesday and Sunday are the big nights for the Lower East Side with 29 and 20 shows opening respectively. [ARTnews]
VICE journalist Mohammed Ismael Rasool, along with two colleagues, was arrested in Turkey on terrorism charges while covering the violent conflict between the Turkish government and members of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party. The other two journalists have been released and are back in London. Here, they make a plea for Rasool’s release. [VICE]
Valid #BackToSchool thought: “if sedentary lifestyles are killing us, if sitting is the new smoking, why does education continue to be about sitting still in class?” [@JesseHirsh]

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