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2017-2018 Recipients of Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Announced

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 7, 2017

The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program has announced their 2017-2018 artists and we couldn’t be more thrilled. The seventeen selected applicants (out of over 1,300) include several names we’ve mentioned on the blog, along with frequent AFC collaborator Jaimie Warren. We’re excited they’ll be AFC’s neighbors in DUMBO.

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Be AFC’s Neighbor: Apply For Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 11, 2017

Applications are open for Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program. We’re a recipient, and it’s been great. Artists and cultural organizations should apply!

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Reading is Fundamental

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 8, 2017

Start your week off with a dose of Civil Rights history Monday at IFC, where fierce pussy is screening The Black Power Mixtape and Wednesday at ICP, where Hettie Jones will be talking about what Making America Great really looks like. Thursday, we’re looking forward to two book launches. Andrea McGinty will be releasing her Ah Yes Bad Things at Printed Matter and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is throwing a party to celebrate the catalog for their current exhibition Queer Threads. Friday night there are mysterious but promising exhibitions opening all over Brooklyn. Then it’s DUMBO open studios all weekend. End the week with a day trip to New Haven (seriously, it’s a painless train ride) where Bortolami’s ARTIST/CITY program has paired Tom Burr with a Marcel Breuer masterpiece that now finds itself surrounded by an IKEA parking lot.

The world is a strange and wondrous place. We’ll see you out in it.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: R&B Diva to Save Distant Brown Dwarf Star

by Michael Anthony Farley on March 20, 2017

Much like Paddy’s experience of the Whitney Biennial, New York’s art scene this week is dominated by the political with a healthy smattering of painterly painting, ubiquitous identity politics, and the unapologetically weird.

Highlights include a talk about “the intersectional self” at the 8th Floor featuring Genesis P-Orridge on Thursday, followed by a solo show from Dona Nelson at Thomas Erben Gallery. We’re looking forward to Ernesto Burgos’ work at Kate Werble Gallery (think ab-ex in 3D) on Friday night and some afro-futurist cyberpunk world-building by E. Jane at American Medium on Saturday. If you need a moment of zen before the work week starts, head to E.S.P. TV’s closing reception at Pioneer Works on Sunday—you can join them on a corporate retreat, complete with a self-help guru.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Constructing Paradise or the Devil Giving Birth to the Patriarchy?

by Michael Anthony Farley on January 30, 2017

It’s a strange week in post-America, indeed, when the least dystopian art event involves Kim Kardashian ass-workout tapes.

That would be Cindy Hinant’s solo show at MuseumofAmericabooks Monday night. Tuesday, perpetual AFC fav Peter Burr is speaking at the New School, and never has the thought of retreating into one of his installations and imagining life in an underground city been so tempting. But if you’re an artist ready to join the resistance, head to ICP School on Wednesday for a discussion about the role of artists in activism during these dark days. Thursday, every opening feels timely, even Mary Beth Edelson’s 1970s feminist mythologies on view at David Lewis. Down the street, Bea Fremderman waxes apocalyptic at Shoot the Lobster, and the New School has an exhibition about the US/Mexican border that will probably break some hearts.

The weekend brings more timely events, such as David Diao exhibition about his childhood experiences as a refugee (at Postmasters) and a Sunday conference at the New Museum about bodies under duress. Come get advice from lawyers and activists about civil disobedience, the migrant crisis, environmental crises, and more.

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This Weeks Must-See Art Events: The Art World Mobilizes for 2017

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 3, 2017

For everyone who has complained that the art world is too apolitical in the past month or so, take note of how 2017 is kicking off. We have a week of feminist exhibitions, the start of a month-long project about Trump’s America Saturday at Petzel Gallery, and shows that tackle topics from water contamination to the holocaust and the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Welcome to the art world in the Trump era. If the list of participants at Petzel’s event is any indication, the big guns are coming out.

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NSFW GIF of the Hump-Day: See Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Speak at Strange Genitals TONIGHT at 6

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 16, 2016

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Shockingly, the below GIFs are the only vaguely NSFW GIFs from the groundbreaking oeuvre of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge that I could find. S/he will be speaking tonight as part of F.A.G.’s Strange Genitals exhibition, at the AICAD Seminar Gallery in 20 Jay Street (suite M10).

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NSFW GIF of the Hump Day: Jonathan Monaghan’s Strange Genitals

by Michael Anthony Farley on November 2, 2016

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We’re pretty pumped to open the latest F.A.G. project, Strange Genitals tomorrow night at AICAD. The exhibition, as its title suggests, is a collection of weird organs invented, depicted, or otherwise enhanced by artists. Although the show features a lot of fleshy skin tones, it was actually inspired by something totally inorganic: these futuristic fuckmachine tower GIFs from Jonathan Monaghan.

Jonathan sent us this series last year, when we were looking for architectural/landscape inspired work for our exhibition Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies: The Animated GIF as Place. We ended up showing another series of his, but knew this one needed to be seen. Thus, Strange Genitals was born—squeezed into the world from a baroque steampunk orifice being penetrated by a futuristic robot phallus.

You can see Jonathan’s GIFs after the jump.

And if you want to see even more Strange Genitals from Jared Buckhiester, Saul Chernick, Sejong Cho, Carol Cole, June Culp, Phaan Howng, Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), Jonathan Monaghan, Cupid Ojala, Ga Hee Park, Sophia Park, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Jessica Stoller, and Jessica Wilson check out the opening tomorrow night at 6 p.m.

The show will be on view at AICAD’s Seminar Gallery (20 Jay Street, suite m10, Brooklyn) until Nov 19th.

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Covering The Waterfront: The Dumbo Gallery Round-Up Part 2

by Emily Colucci on October 7, 2016

Following the first part of my DUMBO gallery round-up, I concluded my waterfront adventure by visiting A.I.R. Gallery and Art In General. More on my trip below:

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Covering The Waterfront: The DUMBO Gallery Round-Up Part 1

by Emily Colucci on October 6, 2016

Can art thrive in the land of startups and $10 coffee? Neither is known to be particularly art friendly, so the question seemed relevant as I headed over to DUMBO. Dotting the neighborhood are several non-profits (and a few for-profit spaces), many of which are beneficiaries of the space subsidy program run by Two Trees, the largest (and arguably only) arts-friendly developer in the city. The program offers these spaces rents at reduced retail prices. (Disclaimer: Art F City is a space subsidy program participant.)

This fall, the proliferation of non-profits in the neighborhood hosts more than its share of politically oriented shows. Following my last gallery round-up in the West Village, I decided to cruise the Brooklyn waterfront on a Saturday afternoon to see what these non-profits to offer for their fall shows. And I was not disappointed. Here’s what I found:

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