Paddy Johnson is the founding editor of Art Fag City. In addition to her work on the blog, she has been published in New York Magazine, artreview.com, Art in America, The Daily, Print Magazine, Time Out NY, The Reeler, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and New York Press, and linked to by publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Boing-Boing, The New York Observer, Gawker, Design Observer, Make Magazine, The Awl, Artinfo, and we-make-money-not-art. Paddy lectures widely about art and the Internet at venues including Yale University, Parsons, Rutgers, South by Southwest, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2008, she became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Paddy is also the art editor at The L Magazine, where she writes a regular column..
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by Art Fag City on April 25, 2012
This week, AFC staff will be scouring the city for undiscovered masters thanks to the plethora of open studios. Who knows what we'll find, but here's a heads-up as to where we'll be and why.
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by Art Fag City on April 24, 2012
Better pick up your tickets to the Momenta Art Spring Benefit today; the party’s tomorrow, and there are only a limited number of tickets left. Your contribution ensures you get a one-of-a-kind art work and supports one of the more important artist-run non-profits in New York.
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by Art Fag City on April 24, 2012
Can’t sleep at night for all the burning ideas you have about art? Time to write a few of those words down.
Art Fag City is now accepting pitches in net art and art outside New York; details within.
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by Art Fag City on April 9, 2012
Norte Maar invites you to The Brodmann Areas, a new collaborative ballet that explores the workings of our minds through dance. The ballet will take place at the Center for Performance Research (361 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn). Tickets are $25 ($20 for seniors/students) and can be purchased at http://nortemaar5.eventbrite.com.
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by Art Fag City on April 5, 2012
- I wasn’t sure the Frieze Art Fair was going to get me out to Randall’s Island, but now that Roberta’s and Frankie’s will be setting up shop, I’ll totally go. [Eater]
- “Ten Tributes to Mike Kelley” includes this gem: “When my daughter and her friend (Colette Weber Shaw and Ariel West) started a band at around eight years old they called it Dolphin Explosion. Mike loved the name and said, 'Do you think I could be the drummer?' The look in his eyes was part fun (with his characteristic twinkle) but part worry. I said I'd ask them. I could tell this meant a lot to him, then I was worried. Thankfully, they shrugged their shoulders and said sure, like, 'Why would that old guy want to be in our band, but whatever.' When I told Mike they would let him join he looked really happy and asked, 'When do we practice?' He took it really seriously, instigating rehearsals, setting up the equipment in his studio, pounding away on drums, shouting out, 'Chocolate, chocolate!' on cue. [Frieze]
- How did we miss these cats in October? [Contemporary Art Daily]
- The Chinese Government has shut down Ai Weiwei’s webcam. [CNN]
- And ladies, there is no excuse not to get in the sea this year! [Paddy Johnson]
- This Chandelier looks just like a dick. [Paddy Johnson]
- Art Takes Time Square. Submit your art now! [Tumblr]
- Choire Sicha thinks Biesenbach’s tweets underscore the direction MoMA is heading in, and I’m not sure I like it. Can I say that and still give the Kraftwerk exhibition a thumbs-up? [Bookforum]
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by Art Fag City on February 14, 2012
Fantastic news for people who like to vote for things! The Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction* Reader’s Choice Nominations — til now the exclusive domain of our newsletter readers — is now open to all. This is your big chance to choose your favorite art world personalities. Who is the Best Jerry? Who has the Best Genitals? Who keeps pulling a Franco and popping up everywhere for no discernable good reason? Now, you can cast your vote and help us settle this – in less time than it takes to tell your girlfriend you love her.
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by Art Fag City on February 14, 2012
- Puppies are cute, so why do they end up having names that sound like Allen Ginsberg poems? [Slate]
- In honor of Valentine’s Day, overeducated Conway Twitty lookalike Jonathan Jones writes about the cupid’s mischief at different points in art history. [Guardian]
- Make love to your iPad (no, really): designs for the iPad Fleshlight prototype have been released. [The Register]
- Twitter is teaming up with satellite companies to expand its service into the middle of the Australian desert. [Kurzweil]
- Today marks the 50th anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy’s televised White House tour, in which she shared her broad expertise in art and design. Male AFC staff are trying to think of a way to say “Hot damn!” while still sounding classy. [Culture Monster]
- Ben Davis, one of our nominees for the Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction* (*not affiliated with Rob Pruitt), wrote a piece in defense of Damien Hirst – kind of. [Artinfo]
- Further indication that crime totally does pay: Walter Beltracchi, the German sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of forgery, is now making art with photographer Manfred Esser, and selling them for five figures apiece. [Journal des Arts]
- 30,000 bright red kimjongilia begonias filled an exhibition hall at the unveiling of an equestrian statue in honor of Kim Jong-il’s 70th birthday. By Kim Jong-il standards, the late Supreme Leader looks pretty good. [Telegraph]
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by Art Fag City on February 13, 2012
- Will Barnet, Martin Puryear, and art philanthropist Emily Rauh Pulitzer receive the National Medal for the Arts at the White House today. [Culture Monster]
- Pop Salad’s Sasha Pasulka wrote a dead-on essay asking what Chris Brown’s attendance at the Grammys says about us. [HelloGiggles]
- Almost every museum in New York is undergoing a renovation right now. [Crain’s New York Business]
- The menacingly generous and generously menacing spirit of Steve Jobs lives on as BFA students at Moore College of Art & Design are each promised an iPad 2. [ZDNet]
- The not-quite-likable Moby has added architecture blogging to his list of pursuits. [Guardian]
- Hey, girl. James Rosenquist wishes you a very unsexy Valentine’s Day; he looks like someone’s flaccid uncle. [Artspace]
- The right has embraced a realist painter as their own Shepard Fairey. [Salon]
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