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Robert Smithson

AFC’s Stocking Stuffers: Art Profs Pick Their Favorite Books

by Corinna Kirsch on December 19, 2013
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What the smart people are reading.

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Field Report from Arizona: GWC, Investigators at High Desert Test Sites

by Corinna Kirsch on October 24, 2013
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Over the past week, three artists have been camping out in Arizona in search of paranormal activity. I set up a time to chat with them over email—there’s no cell phone reception at their campsite—to get a report about what they’re doing out in the middle of nowhere.

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Back To School: Art Profs Pick Their Favorite Books

by Corinna Kirsch on August 28, 2013
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Say goodbye to your last week of freedom—next week students and professors head back to college. We miss drooling over the books we used to buy at the beginning of the semester, so we asked several friends of AFC to share us in on their personal favorites from their fall syllabi. From the list of options below, it looks like we’ll have plenty to read.

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Artspirational Sandcastle Time

by Whitney Kimball on July 26, 2013
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Sandcastles. Ever since Creative Time rang in its first annual artist sandcastle competition last year, we haven’t been able to get enough of them. But can this year’s competition–coming up on August 9th–possibly top last year? We dunno, but for inspiration, we look to art.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Glassholes

by Will Brand on November 20, 2012
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This week at The L Magazine, I identify I new trend in art: Glass. It’s everywhere.

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34 AFC Friends Cite Their Favorite Link of 2011

by Paddy Johnson on December 31, 2011
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As is our annual tradition, I’ve asked people I know and respect to contribute their single favorite link for the year. No themes. No grand explanations. Just one link, and one sentence describing why they liked it. For the first time ever, this year I received no dupe links. The web is a much larger place than it used to be.

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[IMG MGMT] A Tour of the Monuments of Ridgewood, Queens

by Jennifer Sullivan on September 13, 2010
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This February, Jennifer Sullivan moved to Ridgewood, Queens, the second to last stop on the M train. Seven months later it's still strange territory to her, but she’s growing to like it. She considers herself to be a self-appointed artist in residence and volunteer ambassador. This photo essay of Ridgewood monuments document the details of her neighborhood and within it, the objects of her attention.

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The Road to Better Challenges: The Art Fag City/C-Monster Work of Art Proposal

by Paddy Johnson on July 19, 2010
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Who wants to see better challenges on Bravo’s reality show Work of Art? Judging by critic Jerry Saltz’ 300 plus Facebook comments on the subject, I’m guessing most of us. Prompted by this clear calling, I teamed up with Carolina A. Miranda of C-Monster.net fame to propose a few suggestions for the Bravo Team.

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BLNK: A Journey to Spiral Jetty

by Juozas Cernius on January 5, 2010

POST BY: JUOZAS CERNIUS All photographs by Juozas Cernius, Cernuis.ly Editors note: BLNK is ongoing series of photo essays documenting art works and events we deem notable.  In this post, photographer Juozas Cernius visits Robert Smithson’s monumental earth work, Spiral Jetty.  Executed in 1970, the 1500 foot long counter-clockwise spiral jutts out from the shore […]

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