Fiona Gardner, Ellen Hart Sturm, March-April 1959, Owner, Ellen’s Stardust Diner (Broadway and 51st Street)
Saw you on the E Train a brilliant photo essay documenting Miss Subway winners at home or at work appears in this Sunday’s City section of the New York Times. Photographer Fiona Gardner teams up with writer Amy Zimmer to interview the winners, the clips running along side Gardner’s photographs. Art Fag City has featured the artist’s work on multiple occasions.
Saul Chernick, The Gaurdian, 2007, Ink on Paper, 36 x 24 inches
In case anyone thought we’d be above issuing statements like “I told you so” after an unrepresented artist we’ve profiled earns a solo show at a blue chippy gallery think again. Not only are we not above issuing such a statement, we’ve made a entire new category for just such an occasion!
Let me reintroduce Saul Chernick, one of last year’s featured emerging artists, and the first of those profiled to earn a place in this new coveted category. Don’t miss his upcoming show this Saturday in the project space of Max Protetch. Required reading: The Drawings of Saul Chernick.
Cities mark Portrait Gallery of Canada deadline
Cities compete for the Portrait Gallery
The Second Generation: The Millennial Generation Way More Annoying Than Us, Says Gen-Xer
Choice quote from Radar, "Today, when a hip band allows Outback Steakhouse to co-opt one of their most beloved songs, Millennials (those born between 1982-2002) don’t call it selling out. It’s a cogent business decision."
Rhode Island School of Design | ANNUAL GRADUATE THESIS EXHIBITION 2008
Thanks to a RISD tipster for this: Opens May 20th, closes June 1st. Apparently the school has advertising on MTA city buses that I’ve missed.
California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage - New York Times
Now for the rest of the country.
Honoring artist Lynn Hershman Leeson and del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter tonight. Don’t miss it!!!
Nico Nico Animated Gifs: Pink Tentacle
The bird pecking the running stick figure is choice. Via c-monster
Clementine ‘sisters’ bow out—with no regrets
By October of 1996, they had [raised] the princely sum of $60,000— enough to cover their expenses for the first year. (Now, 12 years later, they have to sell at least $80,000 every month to cover expenses.) Via: Bloggy
Bronx Museum of the Arts: Programs
1:30-3:30pm – The Brainstormers / GuerrillaGirls. Satiric demonstration in front of the Museum. Picketers representing men (wearing fake moustaches) will protest too many women exhibited at Bronx Museum…
Critic recommendations in walking order. Chelsea only. Looks like Piotr Uklanski at Gagosian is a winner.
ArtCal - Tribeca / Downtown - KS Art - Noise/Art
Curated by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. This show represents the living phenomena of underground noise musicians who work contemporaneously as visual artists and who utilize the ephemera and product of noise music…
Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82 - New York Times
“PGh0bWw+PG…” previously in the place of this link; technical error, or homage to Rauschenberg? You decide. From the obit. “Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.” says Rauschenberg, “I think you’re born an artist or not. I couldn’t have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.”
ArtCal - Long Island City - Sculpture Center - Michael Portnoy, Casino Ilinx
This looks impressive.
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Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
