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MOCA Board Delivers $75 Million in Commitments

by Corinna Kirsch on April 18, 2013
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We don’t know what finally threw the board into action—public pressure hadn’t yielded results previously, so it’s unclear why or if that became a factor—but something has transformed these members into a functional fundraising team.

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Open Call: Horse Lamp Locations Needed!

by Paddy Johnson on June 8, 2010

Horse lamp by Swedish Design firm Front. Photo AFC Anyone wonder where the famed horse lamp gracing the Armory Art Fair’s VIP section this winter ended up? I know I didn’t. Thanks to former intern Anne Johnson’s hard weekend detective work though, we now know it’s location: 675 Bar! This horse is an unlimited edition which means […]

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Brandon Herman’s Performance Revealed

by Art Fag City on May 15, 2010

POST BY ANNE JOHNSON “Brandon Herman: Sex Machine: 90’s Madonna Video Style” Photo by Robyn Von Swank So what was the deal behind photographer Brendan Herman's performance “L.A. Pig”, the press release for which, I found so confusing last week? In short, the performance on Saturday night was a lot more like this photo than […]

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The Poor Intern Food Challenge

by Art Fag City on May 7, 2010

POST BY ANNE JOHNSON New Food Cafe at the New Museum. THE CHALLENGE: AFC editor Paddy Johnson gave me 40 bucks to spend at four art museums in New York — 10 dollars per café. Where will I have my best meal? After a week of visiting museums, I have a few results to share. […]

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Brandon Herman’s L.A. Pig

by Art Fag City on April 30, 2010

POST BY ANNE JOHNSON Watch out: Brandon Herman is coming to town. According to the Envoy press release, the L.A. based artist will be doing…something. I still don't really know what and the written material for the performance doesn’t give any hints. “It’s going to be intimate,” he had told me. There are maybe eight […]

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The Jersey City Museum in Dire Financial Straits

by Paddy Johnson on April 28, 2010
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Jersey City Museum Jersey City’s only museum showcasing the work of local emerging artists is in dire financial straits. Artists such as Martha Colburn, Amy Wilson, Louis Cameron, Damien Catera have all exhibited at the Jersey City Museum, a public institution with a now uncertain future. On March 30th the museum announced it would slash […]

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Koons for Kids: Artrageous 2010

by Art Fag City on April 26, 2010

POST BY ANNE JOHNSON Jeff Koons, “Hulk Elvis”. 2009 Artrageous collaboration with kids. As Young and The Restless soap star Victor Newman noted last year, there is a certain child-like whimsy to Jeff Koons' work. We assume this will be no more evident than in the art he will create tomorrow during his collaboration with […]

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Achugar and Mahalchick at The Kitchen April 29-May 2

by Art Fag City on April 23, 2010

POST BY ANNE JOHNSON Sublime Is Us, Luciana Achugar’s last piece, a collaboration with Michael Mahalchick. Is it Halloween already? No, it's just time for a spooky perfomance piece like choreographer Luciana Achugar's “Puro Deseo”. Inspired by the monsters of Gothic film and literature (think Frankenstein and vampires), Achugar will perform inside a black box-like […]

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