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Breaking!

Ai Weiwei Released on Bail

by Paddy Johnson on June 22, 2011
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This just in via Hyperallergic: Ai Weiwei has been released on bail. According to xinhuanet.com Ai’s “good attitude in confessing his crimes as well as a chronic disease he suffers from,” was offered as rationale for the decision. Ai will also pay the taxes the government claims he owes.

There aren’t too many institutions here who have changed their programming as a result of the Chinese government’s actions, but Anish Kapoor did reject an offer to show his work from the National Museum of China in Beijing in protest. Perhaps that will change now that Ai Weiwei has been released?

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AFC’s Art Sneaker Contest: The Results!

by Liza Eliano on August 19, 2010
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It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: AFC announces the winner of our art sneaker contest, plus the first and second runner-ups!

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Someone Get That Horse a Drink!

by Liza Eliano on June 24, 2010
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AFC’s third exciting spotting of the horse lamp! It’s an IRL meme!

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BREAKING! 18th Most Powerless Person in the Art World Spotted at LES Gallery Non-ironically Wearing Khakis!

by Art Fag City on November 6, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Blogger Tom Moody takes a picture of the gallery/artist Reena Spaulings‘ buzzer, in the hopes of unlocking what some have named “the final mystery of the art world.” The final mystery of course being, why they are so famous. Always on the prowl for the art worlders who made Hyperallergic’s list of [...]

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UPDATED: Breaking! Rose Art Museum to Remain Open

by Art Fag City on April 17, 2009

Documentation of Brandeis Student's Rose Museum Intervention, February 10, Photograph Thomas Ahn This just in from Brandeis University: following intense public scrutiny, The Rose Art Museum will not close its doors and sell their collection, as it had announced late January. Like many institutions, the university was hit hard by the economic downturn, and severe [...]

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Breaking! New School President Bob Kerrey REALLY Unpopular!

by Art Fag City on December 18, 2008

Image via: New School in exile. New School students really don’t like their president Bob Kerrey.   About 75 or more of them have been occupying the dining hall at the university’s Graduate Faculty building at 65 Fifth Avenue with a list of demands, the first of which being the removal of Kerrey as President, [...]

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Breaking! Bad Art Still in Chelsea!

by Art Fag City on October 24, 2008

Mark Beard, Eva Peron Bag, 2008, Image via: ClampArt “Betty Cunningham is only serving water.?!” lamented one AFC tipster this afternoon who went on to tell me the gallery had spared the expense of hiring waiters, only to have them look completely demoralized without an alcoholic beverage in hand.  Coincidentally, the lack of art buzz [...]

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The Chelsea Art Museum’s Dialectics of Terror Catalog Raises More Questions

by Art Fag City on September 28, 2008

Earlier this week I reported the cancellation of the Chelsea Art Museum’s exhibition, Dialectics of Terror, (formerly named The Aesthetics of Terror),  and thanks to an anonymous tipster I now have the much disputed exhibition catalog in the form of a PDF.    While it’s impossible to know where the points of contention were in the [...]

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Breaking! PBS Poll Energizes Mass Emailers!

by Art Fag City on September 25, 2008

Will the five hundred million people sending me and all their friends a link to the PBS poll, Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States? please stop.  Sarah Palin shouldn’t serve as VP, but that’s not what this question asks.   Technically she meets the minimum requirements, [...]

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