About Art Fag City

Art Fag City is New York-based art blog dedicated to providing exposure to emerging contemporary art and under-known artists. We believe that engaging in smart, critical debate helps us better define and shape the world we want, and that creative production of all forms is essential.

Editorial Director: Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson is the founding editor of Art Fag City. In addition to her work on the blog, she has been published in New York Magazine, artreview.com, Art in America, The Daily, Print Magazine,Time Out NY, The Reeler, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and New York Press, and linked to by publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Boing-Boing, The New York Observer, Gawker, Design Observer, Make Magazine, The Awl, Artinfo, and we-make-money-not-art. Paddy lectures widely about art and the Internet at venues including Yale University, Parsons, Rutgers, South by Southwest, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2007 she received a scholarship to attend iCommons conference in Croatia as the art critic. In 2008, she served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships and became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Two years later, Paddy was nominated for best art critic at The Rob Pruitt Art Awards and won The 2010 Village Voice award for Best Art Blog. Paddy also writes a regular column on art for The L Magazine.

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Editor-in-Chief: Will Brand

Will Brand is a Brooklyn-based writer, programmer, and artist, who joined Art Fag City in the fall of 2010 after finishing his MSc in Art History at the University of Edinburgh. His main interests lie in net art and criticism, but he does a bit of everything around a blog (a sad consequence of web development skills). He’s written an economics dissertation on the empirical effects of Japanese corporate entry into the art market, and an art theory dissertation on the history of artists’ multiples. In his spare time, Will enjoys wishing he had more spare time.

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Associate Editor: Whitney Kimball

Whitney Kimball finally got her act together and wrote this bio, and she’s pleased to find that, six months later, she’s still here.  She moved to New York after completing her BFA in Painting, and she continues to paint in her free time. She hopes you won’t take it personally if she’s offended you on this blog. If everything is good, how can anything be great?

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Associate Editor: Reid Singer

Reid Singer grew up in Manhattan and Pelham, New York. He studied art history at the University of Chicago (B.A., 2008), and was an undergraduate intern for the Chicago Art Journal. In addition to his work at AFC, he authors Hard to Reach, an art and music blog.

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Curatorial Fellow: Anthony Espino

Anthony Espino is from Southern California, currently living in New York, NY. While studying as an undergraduate at School of Visual Arts, he curated and self-published a catalog for the group show “Anti-Static” at the School of Visual Arts. His writing has been featured in Dear Dave Magazine, and he continues to pursue curatorial projects focusing in New Media and Technology.

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  • http://www.artlook.typepad.com lisa

    Hey Paddy, Congrats on the new design and space. Looks great.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003114647480 Klug Haus

    How do we go about contacting the editors to get our new Chinatown (NYC) gallery listed with you guys? http://www.klughaus.net