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Michael Mahalchick

AFC’s Top 10: Whitney Kimball

by Whitney Kimball on January 3, 2013

2012 wasn’t such a sea of shit after all. Every month or so, as the pandering museum shows and art fairs and summer group shows and art writer resignations and auction records had me losing hope, one of these came along. Thank God for that.

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Early Bird Wienerfest Tickets Available For One Week Only

by Paddy Johnson on November 26, 2012

Good afternoon, Wienerfest lovers large and small! Today I come with great Wienerfest tidings. For this week only we’re offering a special early-bird rate on all general-admission tickets of $55 per person, a reduction from our regular $90 rate. That price includes all you can eat wieners, all you can drink beer and Titos vodka, special wieners from Jay Batlle and Michael Mahalchick and a ten dollar donation to Smack Mellon, an artist residency and exhibition program that suffered serious damage in Hurricane Sandy. This wiener bacchanal will take place Sunday, December 16th 3-7PM at Postmasters, so it’s time to mark your calendars.

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Links! Who’s Behind This Art Tree?

by Will Brand on April 16, 2012

We love this line from Roberta Smith’s piece on Michael Mahalchick: “In Mr. Mahalchick's best work an almost devotional sense of precision shines through a thin veneer of slovenliness. Elsewhere the veneer thickens.” [NY Times]
In other newspaper-critics-agreeing-with-us news, Adrian Searle doesn’t like the Hans-Peter Feldmann exhibition at the Serpentine (which was largely drawn from last month’s groan-worthy 303 Gallery show). [The Guardian]
On the other hand, Frieze has a review of a Richard Prince show that honestly starts like this: “'Good artists borrow, great artists steal' is a quote often ascribed to Pablo Picasso. It could also be the motto of Richard Prince, who is known for appropriating existing photographs, and hence taking the Picasso quote almost literarly [sic], something that has caused him copyright lawsuits in the past.” For real, guys? Can we start using the big-boy ledes, please? I think I started an essay with that quote in tenth grade. [Frieze]
New York has a piece by Justin Davidson about what the renovations coming to Times Square will look like. The answer? Boring. Which is exactly what Times Square needs. [New York]
Eleven Rivington has a shiny new space on Chrystie Street next to Lehmann Maupin. [Brian Boucher, Art in America]
So The Times sent art critic Holland Cotter to Africa for a month. His verdict: everything is African, too African, or not African enough, but at least now we’re making things more African, and also less African. It’s a sensitive, inquisitive dispatch, but we’re not sure where it’s going. [NY Times]
Nadja Sayej says she got a Documenta press kit that consisted almost entirely of photographs of curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. We understand that there wouldn’t be much in the way of installation photographs—the exhibition, after all, is still six weeks away—but still, these photos are hilarious. [ArtStars*]

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14 Shows You’ve Gotta See in April

by The AFC Staff on April 6, 2012

Good artworks, like good bears, hibernate. For months, they can’t be found; but now, with the gradual lengthening of days, they’re poking their heads back out, and taking refuge in warming galleries.

But which?

Art Fag City is here to help. With the assistance of local guides and our own expertise, we’ve determined a few select locations where you may be fortunate enough to see good art in the wild. If you spot it, be sure to be quiet, and move slowly; good art is very easily frightened. Good luck!

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The Glowing Ass Forest and Other Highlights from the Dependent Fair

by Will Brand on March 14, 2012

Last year, I wrote that “despite the chaos, it's difficult to see the Dependent as anything but a success.” This year, I'm willing to go a bit further: The Dependent Art Fair was, hands-down, the most interesting, highest-quality fair in town.

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Report from NADA Hudson: The Historic Venue Phish Show of Art Fairs

by David Harper on August 2, 2011

Artists, dealers, hipsters, and collectors thronged upstate this weekend for the NADA Hudson, deemed the “Phish show of art fairs.” 51 participants, from far and wide, aimed to showcase projects that responded to the historic venue. Overall, it was a cohesive and buoyant success.

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IMG MGMT: With Attachments 9/19/02-6/04/06

by Michael Mahalchick on August 17, 2009

Created from attachments sent to me by friends and associates between 9/19/02-6/4/06 and were assembled in chronological order. All of the original images can still be found in my Yahoo inbox. [Editor’s note: IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist Michael Mahalchick exhibited his third solo show at Canada this […]

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Anything Jerry Saltz Can Do AFC Can Do Better: 33 Outstanding Artists Emerging After 1999, Part Two of Three

by Paddy Johnson and Karen Archey on April 30, 2009

Kevin Bewersdorf, Babes, 2008. Observing a curatorial echo chamber privileging appropriation and conceptualism, art critic Jerry Saltz made his own list of artists engaging the plastic arts after 1999. The writer selected nineteen women and fourteen men — thirty-three in total in keeping with the Younger Than Jesus triennial — none of whom have been in a Whitney […]

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AFC’s Top 10: Whitney Kimball

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