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 —...
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 t...
Martin Boyces "Do Words Have Voices", 2011. Image from The Guardian.Artists are kicking up a fuss over the recent changes to a Glasgow licensing law, and we’re with them. If enforced,...
The MFA program in Art Criticism & Writing is one of the only graduate writing programs in the world that focuses specifically on criticism. This program is not involved in “discourse production”...
Martin Puryear, "Some Lines for Jim Beckwourth," 1978. Photo courtesy Moma.orgWill Barnet, Martin Puryear, and art philanthropist Emily Rauh Pulitzer receive the National Medal for the Arts...
The Viewing Room at Electronic Arts Intermix (Still from Dara Birnbaums "Pop-Pop Video," 1980, Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix.)I tend to miss a lot of shows where the venue has limite...
Architects rendering of the Azerbaijan Tower, soon to be the tallest building in the world. Claes Oldenburgs proposed lipstick monument in Piccadilly Circus, 1966Yo, this new tallest tower in t...
Two federal judges in Houston, Texas want to remove paintings from a courthouse because they depict racist imagery. [The Houston Press]The BBC tracks down an internet troll in public, as he’s a...
Install shotPeople who went to school in the Maritime provinces have a special bond. The weather is extreme, the landscape rugged, the population poor and hardworking. Time moves at a different speed...
Sergej Jensen at Anton Kern, installation viewWe see a lot more art than we ever get to tell people about, and we want to fix that. Towards that goal, we’ll be posting some quick hits – a...
What you missed at VIP Art FairErwin Wurm’s art fair stronghold remains strong, while his prices are surprisingly within reach. Only 2000 euro for this timeless banana-in-ass. Here’s hopi...
Thomas Demand’s “public art” project includes putting photographs inside hotel rooms. Putting art above hotel beds isn’t exactly public art. [The Art Newspaper]Tomorrow night,...
Sanja Iveković. Lady Rosa of Luxembourg. Luxembourg, 2001 (screenshot from MoMA website)“Progressive. 221; “Groundbreaking.” “Pioneer.”Such praise feels a little super...
Walmart is full of evil; they’re screwing with Miami Basel. [Artnet]Carol Vogel writes about the Met like it’s fallen into a doomsday scenario: “the fountains are leaking, the sidew...
V.I.P. 2.0 began on Friday and ends Tuesday at 11:59 PM. It is the second-ever online-only art fair, truly a product of the 21st century. And yet in many ways it is indistinguishable from a physical ...
Jay-Z played Carnegie Hall last night and while on stage, he gave a three-artist salute to his art dealer, Larry Gagosian. Aw, luv! [Twitter]GIFs have started to trend in style photography; even fash...
Find out what it’s like to be an Art Fag. We spend our days talking about our favorite genitals in the art world, and we want you to do the same! In that spirit, we’ve left one name blank...
Discussions over defense cuts have been significantly eased after Madonna’s sudden announcement of world peace at Superbowl XLVI. She’s done it. It’s over. [YouTube]Following the su...
The Avant/Garde Diaries is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film.In each digital portrait, featured diarist...
We knew Limoncello wouldnt disappoint.First things first: it works! After a first year badly marred by technical problems, VIP Art Fair 2.0 has had a clean launch in 2012 and elicited only minor comp...
I know it sounds too good, too absurd, to be true, but believe it. We’re actually launching The Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction* this February 23rd. We’re actually hosting ...
A style trend piece we can get behind: Sol LeWitt yarmulkes. [Tablet]France doesn’t have enough poor people who support President Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy hired some fake laborers to attend a p...
The obvious one.February: a month of multiple things happening, both here and in other places, often at the same time. Which things should you watch occur, and where and when will they occur? We know...
Kelley, at far right, with Douglas Huebler (left) and Tim Silverlake, CalArts, circa 1978. Photo via the Douglas Huebler Art Trust.Gagosian Gallery has confirmed a report this afternoon by GalleristN...
John Newman, “Ask The Fact for The Form (red collapse)” (2011)This week at the L Magazine I review the excellent Cheat Chains and Telephones, at KANSAS. Founded this summer by Steven Stewart, the spa...
How do three museums share a single artwork? The Israel Museum, Pompidou, and the Tate are splitting the costs for Christian Marclay’s The Clock. [Art Market Monitor]West coast hipsters are ann...
Emergency Nurse. Image via: Marius WatzThe current recession hasn’t been easy on anyone, but the harsh economic realities can be especially tough on artists (to say nothing of the critics that write ...
You can be the most successful curator of your generation and still dress like a cartoon character.If you have any kind of career in the art world, Massimiliano Gioni should make you feel bad. Since ...
Rashid Johnson, "Cosmic Slop Black Orpheus", 2011.Midway through Roberta Smith’s recent review of Damien Hirst’s Complete Spot Paintings, she asked: “Am I grading on a cur...
The internet might be run on cats, but this sea otter rap proves that all mammals are proper fodder for a meme. [Lair2000.net]Guards at London’s National Gallery went on strike this past weeken...
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