by Reid Singer on February 7, 2012
V.I.P. 2.0 began on Friday and ends today. Is the second-ever online-only art fair, truly a product of the 21st century. And yet in many ways it is indistinguishable from a physical event. The one delightful exception to this is net art, whose exhibitors never need to worry about transferring a physical object into digital form. We have here a system that might allow a lot of artists to make themselves heard.
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by Reid Singer on January 31, 2012
Credit where credit is due, right? We at Art Fag City heartily applaud the energy and self-starting spirit that a project like this represents, even as we bear in mind the things that can go wrong when the art world embraces youth too eagerly. After they’ve shown at T.A.G., though, one wonders what will happen next to an exhibition’s contributors. Hopefully, they’ll go to art school, refine their skills, and expose themselves to work by other artists. In other words, they’ll do what they were going to do anyway. The space on their resumes occupied by their work with Banks will be pushed downward as soon as they have something to fill it.
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