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Art F City Goes Goth for Its Benefit Bash
On April 18, the blog–cum–nonprofit will host a goth opera benefit starring performance artist Joseph Keckler.
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Miami Beach's Satellite Art Fair Draws the Interactive into Its Orbit
Miami Beach’s Satellite art fair is not a release from an inundation of art — but perhaps it’s a reminder of why you like it in the first place.
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A Crucial First Step to Bringing Artists Together to Stay in New York
Life in New York is shaped by relationship to property.
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Charting New Territory in the Art Blogosphere
In the world of art blogs the economic models are few and most have yet to be proven, but Art F City (AFC) is trying something new through a booth at this year's Nada New York art fair, where the Brooklyn-based site and fellow Nectar Ad cohort has decided to try their hand at selling art.
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Why Occupy Wall Street Deserved AFCRPAAaA's Best Jerry Award
I would be lying if I didn't admit that I had a great deal of fun at last night's Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction (AFCRPAAaA) and I was happy to be a part of it and see Occupy Wall Street receive the Best Jerry Award from Jerry Saltz himself.
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WTF Is Google+? An Artist's Handbook
Community is enough to make Google+ worth a whirl, but what exactly does the site provide for artists? Conversely, what is it missing? A few initial thoughts based on a week’s worth of use.
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The Art Kids Are Not Alright
Jerry Saltz is like the art world's hip uncle. But is he getting too curmudgeonly to hang with the kids? In the critic's recent New York Magazine essay, Saltz calls young artists “Generation Blank” for being not original enough and too digestible by critics — cliche. Meanwhile, other art youth compa
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Surviving the 2011 NY Art Fairs
We're very happy to have partnered with 20x200 and Art Fag City to create the most useful guide (if I do say so myself) of this week's events titled "Art Fag City & Hyperallergic Present the Very Excellent Event Guide to New York Art Fair Week" (sneak peak [http://twitter.com/#!/hyperallergic/status
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Get Ready for The Sound of Art This Thurs, "Brooklyn Sounds More DIY"
Ever caught yourself thinking about what an art space sounds like rather than what it looks like? Perhaps provoked by artists who use sound as their medium or the cavernous qualities of the space art usually inhabits, Paddy Johnson of ArtFagCity fame has put together an LP [http://www.artfagcity.com
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Paddy Johnson Is Looking for Brooklyn Beats, Submit By Friday
This Friday is the last day for artists to submit their sounds to the DJ Battle record you’ve all been waiting for: The Sound of Art. This record, which is being produced by Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City, compiles and organizes art sounds by gallery location — Manhattan (side A) and Brooklyn (side B
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Bravo’s Work of Art: Recap and Tweet Digest!
Last night marked a watershed moment for the art world: the first time that contemporary art was inducted in the burgeoning canon of reality TV. But the big question is: will it succeed in picking an artist the art world will accept or will the show turn out to be more of a Dadaist farce, too nonsen
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Will the Jersey City Museum Close?
Art Fag City has published an extensive report on the financial crisis facing the Jersey City Museum. She paints a grim picture of an institution that is vital to the area’s visual arts community.