From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 31, 2010

OkTrends The metrics of online dating at OKCupid. Incredibly fascinating.

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 31, 2010

Jenny Holzer Temporary Tattoo Set Is Holzer ripping on AFC?

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 31, 2010

Garbage Pail Genius Takes To A West Side Wall Garbage Pail kid creator Mark Newgarden thankfully leaves puke, piss, and snot behind, in his new Bill’s Burger and Bar restaurant wall murals. He also boasts that he’s no longer reprinting their toilet paper wraps.

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 31, 2010

The 6 Most Statistically Full of Shit Professions | Cracked.com Kiss my ass Cracked.

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 31, 2010

Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry » Nieman Journalism Lab This is pretty interesting and also fun. I really like the paywall sliders.

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Best Link Ever! Yet Another Reason to Watch The Food Network

by Art Fag City on January 29, 2010

POST BY PATRICK GANTERT Giadi de Laurentiis on Everyday Italian A summer sausage Mesmerized by olive breasts Forgot what she made Everybody loves tits! That's one of many take home messages from the above haiku, found on this week's Best Link Ever!, Giada’s Cleavage. The poem also provides a repulsive yet elegant encapsulation of the website's content […]

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Asher Edelman Plans To Guarantee Art Headed To Auction

by Art Fag City on January 29, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Picture This: Art Prices Fall, CNN, Video screen capture: AFC Anyone else remember last year’s  CNN’s interview with Asher Edelman about the recession? You know, the one where Edelman includes himself amongst the art dealers who might go out of business? Well, according to Kelly Crow at The Wall Street Journal, that probably […]

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Who Needs a Computer When You Can Have A Shopping Mall?

by Art Fag City on January 29, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Apple chief executive Steve Jobs displays the new iPad in San Francisco. The iPad can display full web pages and has a near-full size touch-screenkeyboard / AFP It’s a stretch at best to call the Apple iPad launch art related, but it falls under the hood of cultural production, so we’re […]

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Rebuking the Constant Rise of Mediocrity

by Art Fag City on January 28, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Last week at SVA, scholar and critic Boris Groys discussed the difference between what he calls “strong” and “weak” images. According to my and Tom Moody’s combined notes, those in the former category have many spectators, while the latter have few. The avant-garde, as Groys defines it, “isn’t about change, but […]

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Jigga is Probably Not a Freemason, Relax

by Marina Galperina on January 27, 2010

POST BY MARINA GALPERINA On To The Next One, Jay-Z, directed by Sam Brown, screenshot via YouTube In Jay-Z’s monochrome seizure of a video On To The Next One, director Sam Brown splices bombastic bling-bling, a bite of the occult and a sprinkle of fine art allusion. Behold, namely, the eye-scratching centerpiece at 1:30 — […]

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