by Reid Singer on January 31, 2012
Credit where credit is due, right? We at Art Fag City heartily applaud the energy and self-starting spirit that a project like this represents, even as we bear in mind the things that can go wrong when the art world embraces youth too eagerly. After they’ve shown at T.A.G., though, one wonders what will happen next to an exhibition’s contributors. Hopefully, they’ll go to art school, refine their skills, and expose themselves to work by other artists. In other words, they’ll do what they were going to do anyway. The space on their resumes occupied by their work with Banks will be pushed downward as soon as they have something to fill it.
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by Reid Singer on January 25, 2012
There’s nothing immediately offensive about the premise of Ian Cheney’s new documentary, The City Dark. Living in New York, I can believe that Cheney, an amateur astronomer since his teenage years in Maine, might miss seeing the stars at night, and feel deprived. When he attempts to stretch that wistfulness into an authoritative documentary, however, the results are less than convincing.
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