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 2008, she became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Paddy is also the art editor at The L Magazine, where she writes a regular column.
Paddy has written 811 article(s) for AFC.
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by Paddy Johnson on June 19, 2013
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It’s a good day for people interested in sex films and anti-pornography propaganda. Let’s begin with the Lawrence Weiner video which includes a scene that asks viewers to what a blow job while listening to someone playing patty-cake and a woman giggling about how there’s a leprechaun on her stomach telling her what to do.
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by Paddy Johnson on June 19, 2013
This week at The L Magazine I forever debunk the idea that travel for the arts is at all glamorous.
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by Paddy Johnson on June 19, 2013
- Michael Miller floats the theory that L.A. is picking up the creative transplants New York is pushing out due to high prices and fatigue. The experts interviewed have all been living in L.A. for years. [Gallerist]
- Speaking of being priced out, creatives worried high prices will force them to leave the city should attend the town-hall style meeting tonight at Jules de Balincourt’s Starr Space. The meeting is structured to brainstorm solutions. [Eventbrite]
- Heather Ford, a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute responds to claims that Wikipedia can show you “how the world perceives your own national culture” and why that’s a wrong headed assumption. [HBlog.org]
- Artists are shooting more shit into space. First Trevor Paglen launched an archival silicon disk with photographs into deep space, now Germany-based conceptual artist Kim Asendorf has shot his gif out of a guy tilting his head in confusion (or curiosity) via the Lone Signal METI (Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment. It’s on 17.6 year journey towards Gliese 526. Marina Galperina took a bit of time to interview the artist. [Animal]
- Toronto Mayor and alleged crack smoker Rob Ford revealed his love for astrology yesterday while attending the unveiling of an Ai Weiwei zodiac at Nathan Phillips Square pond. [The Toronto Star]
- Go see: Five million (or so) museum openings in New York this week. [C-Monster]
- Rich people are suing each other again. Brand X Editions, the New York-based print studio claims they are owed 6 million dollars from artist Christopher Wool and his gallery Luhring Augustine respectively (12 million total) after they violated the terms of a production agreement. [Gallerist]
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by Paddy Johnson on June 18, 2013
As I’m sure everyone has been noticing, real estate prices in Bushwick have been rising, turn of the century cocktail bars have proliferating, and the artisanal cheese industry gaining steam.
I love cheese and all, but I also like being able to afford my rent. Let’s do something about this.
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by Paddy Johnson on June 13, 2013
Clear your calendars for tomorrow night. International GIF artist and famed new media blogger Lorna Mills opens “The Axis of Something” at Transfer Gallery. You gotta be there.
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by Paddy Johnson on June 11, 2013
Last month we published a short list of art books I thought provided a great introduction to the art world. This month, we publish the additions to this list suggested by our commenters.
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by Paddy Johnson on June 3, 2013
Tavares Strachan at the Bahamas Pavilion
- An outdoor concrete installation by world famous sculpture Richard Serra has been designated a site of “cultural heritage value”. The piece lives on a farm north of Toronto, Ontario and was the subject of much litigation; Hickory Hill Investments, the owner of the property, opposed the designation. [NYTimes]
- We are our own paparazzi. A collection of Instagrams taken by or of famous art world folk in Venice. [In the Air]
- MoMA’s new Photography Curator Quentin Bajac gets a profile in the WSJ. Bajac is already feeling the fatigue felt by many curators in America, who due to diminished government support, must spend an enormous amount of time fundraising in addition to their work curating. [WSJ]
- Turkish authorities used violent means to shut down a peaceful protest over the closure of a small park in Istanbul last week. Art worlders in Venice staged a protest of their own over the events. [Hyperallergic]
- The famed art blog Colossal opened a design shop last week. The online outlet sells a lot of material that looks like it might just as easily be found at the MoMA Design store. I’ll take the Yess! sign made of wood for $150 please! [Colossal]
- Julian Assange believes The New Digital Age by authors and Google execs Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen is, “beyond anything else, an attempt by Google to position itself as America’s geopolitical visionary.” Assange indulges is some generalizations to make his points about the company’s imperialist vision (Google’s push against an anonymous web, for example, had practical, not evil roots) but his point of view is important nonetheless. [NYTimes]
- Kathleen Massara at The Huffington Post is a photo blogging machine! The Venice Biennale in pictures. [Huff Po]
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by Paddy Johnson on May 31, 2013
My theory on Sarah Sze’s installation at the United States Pavilion: The show is both a production-site and graveyard for the relics of an unnamed religion. Members of this cult worship reproduction technology and mass-produced items of any form.
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