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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Bollywood Musicals, Music for Dogs, Zines at the Pool

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 16, 2017

This might feel like a slow week, but you’ll need to plan wisely. This weekend is packed with big events that span all day or more.

Friday, celebrate NYCxDesign (and Tom Dixon’s first New York showroom) with Dezeen at a block party in SoHo. Then rush to Williamsburg for the opening night of the Brooklyn Art Book Fair. They have programming scheduled all day Saturday too. But you’ll probably want to spend Saturday visiting all the idiosyncratic locales Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin’s …Circle Through New York intersects. Alternately, head to the other side of the city for open studios in Sunset Park, which run until 6 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.

There’s plenty more to do all over town this week, and even an excuse to catch the PATH to Journal Square if you’re local wanderlust can’t be sated by four boroughs of art events.

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Thursday Links: Brooklyn, 2019

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 20, 2015

According to a report by City Realty, Brooklyn’s skyline is well on its way to looking like the one Bruce Willis inhabits inThe Fifth Element. Over the next four years, Brooklyn is expected to add a much-needed 22,000 new apartments. Many of those will be in huuuuuuge towers. Scroll through the renderings, which predict a chain of high rises that stretches from Greenpoint to Prospect Heights. But as commenters pointed out, the borough would need to add 70,000 units each year to meet demand, so don’t expect too much relief from escalating housing costs. [Curbed]

On Nicki Minaj, Ovid, and the long history of men fucking statues. [The Guardian]

Vodka! Art! Millenials! Liquor brand Absolut is the internet’s newest art dealer. Why? But mostly, can you even imagine their Miami parties come December? [artnet News]

ISIS doesn’t fuck around. Khaled al-Asaad, the director general of the Palmyra Directorate of Antiquities and Museums from 1963 to 2003, was beheaded Tuesday by the group in Palmyra. He was 82 years old, and executed for refusing to give up the location of artifacts that were relocated from the city’s archaeological site and museum when ISIS invaded the city. Typically these treasures end up on the black market and are used to fund the group’s terrorist activities. Not to state the obvious, but these are terrible, terrible people. [Hyperallergic]

Russia’s right-wing Christians don’t fuck around either. The conservative group calling themselves “God’s Will” attacked the exhibition Sculptures We Don’t See in Moscow, destroying artworks they claim violated Putin’s strict censorship laws which prohibit “offending religious feelings”. ISIS would probably love Russia. [Artforum]

Related: the interview we’ve all been waiting for. Brooklyn artist Mark Porter discusses his infamous sculpture of Baphomet, which the Church of Satan has been using to protest in support of the separation of church and state. [Observer]

Molly Soda’s well-known, but does it benefit the artists to market the show she curated for Stream Gallery as though it were a solo show? The gallery’s called it “Molly Soda’s Same.” Anyway, Hyperallergic mostly panned the work in the show, which is about seeing yourself in other people’s images. The work is described as complacent, underdeveloped and self-indulgent—and worst of all, out of date. “Without an evolutionary push forward, perhaps by including other methods of production or reproduction more evocative of life online, the show feels a couple years too late.” [Hyperallergic]

Speaking of the evolution of net artists, is Wi-Fi screwing up your sperm? Have no fear, new underwear can protect your junk. [Dezeen]

Doesn’t the headline “Congolese artist who died of malaria to have solo show at London art fair” sound like someone died of malaria in order to have a solo show at a London art fair? At any rate, the Africa-focused fair 1:54 will be displaying photographs of Kinshasa by the tragically-deceased artist Kiripi Katembo. [The Art Newspaper]

A gallon of Canadian maple syrup is worth more than a barrel of crude oil. So, uh, Stephen Harper… why aren’t you planting more trees instead of digging up more tar sands? [The New York Times]

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Waacking, Eating, Tweeting, Painting

by Michael Anthony Farley and Rea McNamara on August 10, 2015

This week, work up a sweat learning the art of “waacking” at Otion Front Studio from dancer Coco Motion. Then, reward yourself with dinner and a movie at Postmasters Gallery. Are you the kind of person who Instagrams your food? If so, you might learn a little something about social media and our capacity for connection from AFC friend Molly Soda. Her show SAME opens Thursday night at Stream.

But really, the weekend is all about painting, painting, painting. It kicks off Friday night with paintings on cardboard and paintings of plastic at Trestle Gallery. From a Conor Backman solo show upstate to an all-painting exhibition of 50 artists in Bed-Stuy, there’s painting everywhere on Saturday. There’s so much paint happening, cans of it are starting to bulge out of canvases.

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A Gift List for Art Christmas

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on December 3, 2014

December has come, which means it’s time to get a new calendar. The time has also come to spend your money prudently on art criticism books, or blow it on ostrich pillows. Cyber Monday may be over, but the Internet still offers an abundance of cheap art purchases.

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Donate Now and Receive Rachel Stern Print

by Paddy Johnson on November 24, 2014

The time has never been better to support to Art F City. Donating $50 or more not only earns you a 100% tax deductible donation, but is a gateway into Art F City’s 2015 Calendar and print series, Nude Artists as Pandas. The calendar includes 12 amazing nude photographs of artists, dealers and writers by Rachel Stern, as well as a selected list of all the major art events for the coming year. Shock your relatives and impress your friends with the best gift you could give anyone this holiday season.

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Order Your “Nude Artists as Pandas” Prints and Calendar Today

by Paddy Johnson on November 18, 2014

Buy your calendar and prints today.

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Finally, the Calendar You Never Asked for But Always Wanted

by Paddy Johnson on November 12, 2014

What do nude pandas look like? What do naked artists wearing panda hats look like? On November 18, 2014, those questions you never asked will be answered. This is the date we launch Art F City’s 2015 panda calendar and print series, Artists as Pandas in the Nude—it will be an event to behold. All calendars and prints will be available for FREE with a tax-deductible donation to the blog.

Check back on the 18th and GET READY FOR SOME FUR. In the meantime, you can find out more after the jump.

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