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John Baldessari

We Went to Midtown and the Upper East Side

by The AFC Staff on July 25, 2013
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We’re back! It’s been a while since we’ve given you a “We Went To,” but here we are to tell you about the best and worst of what’s on view on the Upper East Side. One fact became clear on this trip: John Baldessari has made a career out of oxymorons.

Our thoughts on Venus Over Manhattan, Higher Pictures, Hauser & Wirth, Marian Goodman, and Tibor de Nagy, inside.

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John Baldessari and R.H. Quaytman on Jack Goldstein: “Nobody Knew Who He Was”

by Corinna Kirsch on June 27, 2013
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Every once in a while an artist’s talk comes along that’s as spirited as a wild dinner party. The conversation’s good, if a little off track, but mostly, it’s the company that makes the evening worthwhile. That pretty much sums up what happened Tuesday night at the Jewish Museum’s “Dialogue and Discourse: How Is Jack Goldstein?”, a roundtable held in conjunction with the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition Jack Goldstein x 10,0000.

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Art Now! Vol: 4 on Shelves This September

by Paddy Johnson on June 21, 2013
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The art coffee table world got a little more current. Josh Baer tells us Art Now! Vol:4 will be on shelves this September, and for those of us who need an easy overview of the contemporary art world this is a great place to start.

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John Baldessari on STUFF

by John Baldessari on June 19, 2013
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Are you having trouble understanding artists through their art? Understand them through their STUFF instead.

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More Fire at MoCA: An Art Museum Without Artists [UPDATE]

by Whitney Kimball on July 16, 2012
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MoCA’s controversial forced resignation of Paul Schimmel can officially be upgraded to SOS. In a series of open letters and public resignations, MoCA board members have spent the past week letting the museum know what they think of its decision.

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Hirsts Spotted at Gagosian

by Will Brand on January 4, 2012
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January's show at Gagosian – any Gagosian, all Gagosians – is Damien Hirst's spot paintings. All of them, loaned back from their owners, in a retrospective. Why? Because they can.

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RECOMMENDED Recommended Shows for Fall!

by Nicole Demby on September 16, 2010
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Art Fag City has slogged through the glut of fall shows and cherry-picked the best ones just for you.  Now we’ve even curated our own curated list to absolve you of even the slightest need to make decisions for yourself!!  Here we present our RECOMMENDED Recommended Shows: John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Met, Marcel […]

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John Baldessari: Pure Beauty in New York on 10/20/10

by Art Fag City on September 1, 2010
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John Baldessari: Pure Beauty Date: Wednesday, October 20th 2010 – Sunday, January 9th 2011 Venue: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue This retrospective is going to be great. First launched at the Tate Modern in 2009, the exhibition was one of the strongest we saw last year, and probably the most relevant to contemporary artists. […]

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