Gallery Goer Asks The Question: What Is This Shit?
The take home question from Saturday’s art viewing activities was first heard outside the Olaf Breuning show at Metro Pictures. “What is this?” a viewer asked a Metro Picture staff member. “It’s Art!”...
View ArticleThis Week’s Must-See Art Events: Everything But the Art World
Good news for those of you who couldn’t get tickets to Performa’s blockbusters! There are still free and open Performa events (a 24-hour group performance, a screening by the Gay Cable Network...
View ArticleBring Back the Nerdocracy
“Raise your hands if you’ve heard of Star Wars Modern.” No hands shot up. “Raise your hands if you’ve heard of Greg.org.” This time there was a giggle, from an artist just a few years older than...
View ArticleGIF of the Day: The Art Happens Here
Here’s a blast from the past: The Commons Art Diagram builds upon MTAA’s 1997 GIF, “The Art Happens Here“, and illustrates where ‘art happens’ or ‘could happen”. The piece was included in The Art...
View ArticleGIF of the Day: Jim Punk, Simple Net Art Diagram Remix
In 1997 the art making duo MTAA produced an animated GIF that functioned as an artist statement, a manifesto, and a call to action. “Simple Net Art Diagram” locates art in the exchange of ideas, and...
View ArticleA Brief History of the Simple Net Art Diagram
+++ set internet to 1997 and begin… +++ AFC and MTAA proudly presents a brief history of the “Simple Net Art Diagram.” You find yourself following Paddy Johnson down a long windowless hallway. After a...
View ArticleThe Yami-Ichi Flea Market at The Knockdown Center: The 150th Wing of the...
The Knockdown Center I spent most of Saturday smiling so hard my face hurt thanks to the Internet Yami-Ichi. The day long flea market hosted more 140 internet-savvy vendors inside Masbeth’s Knockdown...
View ArticleThe Best of Art F City, 2015
Revisiting the ‘Simple Net Art Diagram’, reviewing an art fair’s virtual tour, calling out Georg Baselitz, breaking news on the USC MFA Class, and even bringing back nerdocracy. Readers, we truly feel...
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