January 2012
6 posts
“So I’m going to lay this down, just to clarify, so that nobody from the future...”
– Will Brand, writing for Art Fag City on Damien Hirst’s show of spot paintings at every Gagosian Gallery in the world. (via nobodysdiary)
December 2011
12 posts
Last Chance to Support Art Fag City!
Dear friends, Don’t let this chance pass you by. Today is the last day to make a tax deductible donation for the 2011 year. Your gifts, large and small, help keep us publishing through out the year. In 2011, that meant we published nearly 800 posts. You probably didn’t read every one of those posts (we salute you if you did!), but when we covered issues that mattered to you, we did...
1000 Times Yes: whiney's best of 2011 mixtapes:... →
1000timesyes:
volume 1: THE HITS [145 MB, 79:42] str8 mersh, lol indie rock, brit-brit, k-pop youtube rips, contrarian stanning for major label country records, trendy 80s revisionism that will age terribly, that drive song even your dumbest friends posted to facebook, footwork, minimal techno, disco…
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““What we’ve found is that our front-page traffic is growing really...”
– Capital’s Tom McGeveran on the Buzzfeed Ben Smith hire, and a new direction towards original content.
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Ann Liv Young: Sherry is Present Featuring A Very...
Anyone else remember Pee In the Pangate? Ann Liv Young will be performing for audiences once more. Louis B. James gallery doesn’t have has a website which strangely doesn’t come up on google, so I’m posting the full press release below.
Ann Liv Young: Sherry is Present Featuring A Very Sherry Christmas Performances
December 5, 2011 – January 7, 2012
Opening Reception:...
Occupy Museums protests the anti-democratic...
Occupy Museums to protest the anti-democratic policies of Lincoln Center and Bloomberg on the last performance of Satyagraha Thursday December 1, 2011 at 10:30PM.
It is no doubt timely that Philip Glass’ opera ‘Satyagraha’—which depicts Gandhi’s early struggle against colonial oppression in South Africa—should be revived by the Metropolitan Opera in 2011, a...
November 2011
16 posts
I Paint What I See, E.B. White
“What do you paint when you paint a wall?”
Said John D.’s grandson Nelson.
“Do you paint just anything there at all?
“Will there be any doves or a tree in fall?
“Or a hunting scene like an English hall?”
“I paint what I see,” said Rivera.
“What are the colors you use when you paint?”
Said John D.’s grandson, Nelson.
...
Random Awesome: Random Awesome, Nov 16 →
randommeetup:
Time for another Random Awesome meetup, scheduled for this Wednesday at Night of Joy in Williamsburg.
You know the drill: Freaks, geeks and artistes - we take all comers. No presentations, business cards optional - the focus is on awesome people and drinks. We believe firmly in getting people…
Yvonne to Marina: Deal With It
forwardretreat:
I happened to post Jeanette Hayes’s Marina Abramović GIF from Dump.fm a few days before Yvonne Rainer publicly denounced Abramović’s plans for MOCA’s fall gala, which happened on Saturday. “Don’t you think this one calls for a ‘Deal With It’ GIF, too?” I said in a note to Jeanette, who I hoped might make one to mark the occasion. Yes, it most certainly does.
Work of Art is Eliminating Artists in Height Order
Sometime during the first minute of this week’s episode of Work of Art, my TV’s closed captioning simply said: “[All groaning]”. That’s a fitting reaction to most of the episode.
No two ways about it: this week was incredibly boring. The challenge (work with kids) was unoriginal, the guest judge (producer Sarah Jessica Parker) was a punt, and the elimination (Tewz) was overdue. There was...
Creature: An Interview With Haim Steinbach
STEINBACH ON EBAY
HS: eBay is this collective of non-hierarchy where you can access anything you want at any time. You’re not going to be more prejudiced and say, “I’m not going to look for this because that’s low. It’s low art. It’s not important, it’s not worth my time. I’m going to go to the Artnet, and look at great art. I’m going to look at this, because I have values and standards. Why...
October 2011
14 posts
Occupy Museums returns to MoMA and is joined by...
This Thursday 10/27/11
Meet at 2:30 PM, Liberty Square, for an information-sharing assembly.
Or meet at 4:00 PM at MoMA.
We will be joined by the Art Handler’s Union, Teamsters Local 814, who have been locked out of their Sotheby’s union jobs for over three months now. Following Occupy Museums, we will march to the Teamsters’ picket line at the Sotheby’s evening auction, which starts at...
Watchhyperallergic:
This is a music video directed by conceptual painter Dan Levenson. It’s a music video entitled “Red Dot” for the mixtape Studio Workout Vol. 2 coming soon! The record takes us through tales of a self-aggrandizing rapper (for whom rap is his side hustle) talking about selling paintings rather than china white as his main source of income and pride. GAWS
The Deal With Occupy Wall Street.
…Since then it’s been all clamor: MoMA’s always been a play thing for the rich, how’s this gonna change it? Have “voices of dissent” actually been silenced by BIG money? And my favorite: Why aren’t they targeting something else? (Libraries were tabled at Gothamist, Chelseagalleries and Sotheby’s everywhere else).
These are all reasonable questions, but they respond to a single artist’s...
Art Fag City's Reid Singer Interviews David...
GOTH, GLASGOW, AND GALLERIES
RS: A lot of my favorite drawings of yours have something to do with death, graveyards, etc. There’s got to be something virile and attractive and sexy about being really into death, maybe even doing things that might be perceived as goth, like Ian Curtis. Did you ever draw with the idea that people are going to be impressed by how dark you were?
DS: No. Well, it’s...
Occupy Museums! Speaking out in front of the...
The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation of one individual genius over another human being for the monetary gain of the elitest of elite. For the...
2003 interview with the 2channel founder Nishimura with Japan Media Review Q: Why did you decide to use perfect anonymity, not even requiring a user name?A: Because delivering news without taking any risk is very important to us. There is a lot of information disclosure or secret news gathered on Channel 2. Few people would post that kind of information by taking a risk. Moreover, people can only...
KYLE CHAYKA: Things I Learned About Ryder Ripps... →
kchayka:
A few things gleaned from Paddy Johnson’s profile of Internet art star Ryder Ripps for Print magazine:
The only way to succeed on the interwebs is “honesty.”
Ripps has “two Tumblr and three Twitter accounts,” which somehow doesn’t seem like nearly enough.
He feels the emotional pull of Monster Energy advertising (who can deny those claw marks?) and is obsessed with “pubescent...
September 2011
10 posts
