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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Art About Time, and Bushwick Open Studios

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on May 27, 2014

Time: a universal topic in art, but especially prominent in this week’s art events. Thinkers Tacita Dean, R. H. Quaytman, John Powers, and Marco Antonini are just a few who will be taking on time as subject matter.

It is also time to start planning for Bushwick Open Studios. This post covers the several Bushwick galleries and satellite fair which will be opening for this week’s massive open studio walk. Coming up next: AFC’s picks for artist studios. Stay tuned!

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Slideshow: Highlights From the Armory

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 6, 2014

Earlier in the day we reported that many visitors were unable to identify standout work at the Armory, despite the buoyant atmosphere. In this post we identify why: Very few works actually stood out. Looking back at the hundreds of photographs we took during our visit, we have very little to say about the work we saw. Thus, our slideshow provides an overall impression of a relatively bland fair, with few high points or low points along the way.

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The Armory Show Is Back

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 6, 2014

Everyone attending the Armory Show at yesterday’s VIP preview has an opinion on the Armory and fairs in general. “The Armory is back!” declared Monique Meloche of Monique Meloche Gallery. After three years of handwringing over whether the New York-born fair would survive the competition brought to the table by Frieze New York, that question finally seems to be put to rest. The fair is doing just fine.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: We’ve Got a Talk Show, Emojis, and a Death Match

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on December 10, 2013

Get ready for snarky and smart-y talks.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Rafaël Rozendaal and Thanksgiving Horror

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on November 25, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving, readers! Art events will be on the lighter side this week, but we’ve still got plenty of good holiday offerings: among them, a big Lower East Side group show (with substance), the net art event of the year at Postmasters, and a Thanksgiving slasher film in Brooklyn.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Performa Alternatives

by The AFC Staff on November 4, 2013

And there are so many.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Time to Rally

by Whitney Kimball on October 15, 2013

Time to execute your most ambitious plans. Start collecting New York’s finest emerging photographers tonight with Camera Club. Join your comrades for a weekend of social change at Eyebeam. Finally make it down to Postmasters’ new Tribeca space, and those up-and-comers in the Donut District (even Roberta Smith did).

For the rest of you lazies, there’s a lot of other stuff and a boob chair at the Hole tonight. Go nuts.

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