Archive of Ardalan Keramati

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Why We Do This: Flesh and Concrete, Mexico City

by Guy Forget on May 18, 2012
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With Flesh and Concrete, Jaya Kara Brekke and Julio Salazar have organized an art exhibition with ramifications well beyond the aesthetic. The exhibition, the winner of apexart's Franchise Program, was conceived in reaction to the construction of the Supervia, an intrusive highway being built through Mexico City. Their response is pitch-perfect, and speaks to the power of art at its best.

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Forget in Ten Parts, Part 10: Aesthetics of weariness, or Lauren Lancaster is in Kabul

by Guy Forget on April 15, 2011
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Forget in Ten Parts is a ten-part weekly series by AFC's Curatorial Fellow, Guy Forget, focusing on the aesthetics of impermanence. For the final post, Brooklyn-based photographer Lauren Lancaster has shared some pictures from her current trip to Kabul, where she is working on a photo project on young Afghanis.

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Forget in Ten Parts, Part 9: An old-fashioned post on painting and advancement in art, with pictures

by Guy Forget on April 8, 2011
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Forget in Ten Parts is a ten-part weekly series by AFC's Curatorial Fellow, Guy Forget, focusing on the aesthetics of impermanence. For the penultimate post in the series, the topic is painting and contemporary art in general. (Illustrated.)

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In Our Masthead: Valaire Van Slyck

by Guy Forget on April 4, 2011
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Gracing our masthead this month is a detail of Untitled (2009) by Valaire Van Slyck, whose paintings are themselves artifacts of the post-industrial urban environments he lives in.

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Forget in Ten Parts, Part 8: Disposable content

by Guy Forget on April 1, 2011
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Forget in Ten Parts is a ten-part weekly series by AFC's Curatorial Fellow, Guy Forget, focusing on the aesthetics of impermanence. This week Guy presents two text based works and talks a little about disposable content.

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Art Club: Karen Kilimnik at 303 Gallery

by Guy Forget on March 28, 2011
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For those among us who've braved the 70 degree days and thundersnows of the past couple weeks to go see it, it's time to discuss Karen Kilimnik's The Hellfire Club episode of the Avengers currently on view at 303 Gallery (thru April 23).

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Forget in Ten Parts, Part 7: The Aesthetics of Impermanence

by Guy Forget on March 25, 2011
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Forget in Ten Parts is a ten-part weekly series by AFC's Curatorial Fellow, Guy Forget, focusing on the aesthetics of impermanence. This week Forget interviewed Dr. Fernanda Person, adjunct professor of philosophy at Beaufort College. Dr. Person did her dissertation in the history of aesthetic theory in Western philosophy.

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Forget in Ten Parts, Part 6: An illustrated list

by Guy Forget on March 18, 2011
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Forget in Ten Parts is a ten-part weekly series by AFC's Curatorial Fellow, Guy Forget, focusing on the aesthetics of impermanence. This week Guy has put together a list of ten art works, illustrated.

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Art Club Preview: Karen Kilimnik at 303 Gallery

by Guy Forget on March 16, 2011
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Every few weeks here at AFC we pick a show to commit to seeing and thinking about, and after two weeks we come back to discuss what we've seen. This time it's Karen Kilimnik's current show at 303 Gallery. Although best known for her paintings, for this show Kilimnik has employed a variety of methods and materials: paintings, photographs, photocopies, props, drawings, all complete with soundtrack.

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Forget in Ten Parts, Part 5: Here today, gone tomorrow

by Guy Forget on March 11, 2011
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Forget in Ten Parts is a ten-part weekly series by AFC's Curatorial Fellow, Guy Forget, focusing on the aesthetics of impermanence. This week Forget comments on the fleeting nature of NYC art fairs, a commentary supplemented by relevant texts and illustrations.

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