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The L Magazine

Art F City at The L Magazine: Art that Needs Me: “Dieter Roth. Bjorn Roth.”

by Paddy Johnson on February 5, 2013

This week at The L Magazine, I discuss the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s Chelsea location and why it left me feeling ecstatic, but empty.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: ArtStack, The Pinterest for Artists

by Paddy Johnson on January 30, 2013
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Why is ArtStack suddenly so popular? This week at The L Magazine I talk to a few artists using the service to figure out why.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: A Love For Art Blinds No Longer Empty’s Vision

by Paddy Johnson on January 16, 2013
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No Longer Empty launches “How Much Do I Owe You?” in Long Island City. There’s lots of room for improvement.

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This Week’s Art Events

by Whitney Kimball on January 14, 2013
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This week, we’ll be attending an underground animation screening, a ton of international exhibitions, and the re-re-reopening of the Seaport Museum.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Chelsea’s (Mostly) Back

by Whitney Kimball on January 7, 2013
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Let the openings begin. We’re going to see a whole bunch of new shows open this week, and we plan to attend them all. We’re crazy like that. Our full list of recommendations can be found at The L Magazine, but our list of Chelsea recommends can be had after the jump.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: The Art Year in Review

by Paddy Johnson on January 2, 2013
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2012 didn’t offer a lot for the art-inclined: the Whitney Biennial sucked; Bravo’s reality show Gallery Girls failed to find anyone in the art world both legitimate and crazy enough to produce a compelling show; and our schedules now have to make room for everyone’s favorite activity—art fairs!

Here’s a look at what we did last year.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Extreme Hangover Edition

by Whitney Kimball on January 1, 2013
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Thanks to the holiday, some of us will not be at our finest this week. Our massive hangovers will likely be compounded with the news that taxes are going way up and arts funding’s going way down. Happy New Year!

In light of all that, here are some art events that are easy on both your stomach and your wallet.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: The 10 Best Exhibitions of 2012

by Paddy Johnson on December 28, 2012
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My favorite exhibitions of 2012 is up at the L Magazine. No museum shows this year. Ghosts in the Machine was the only one that came close to making the list. Lots of under recognized talent this year, Viola Yesiltac, and Michael Barryhill amongst them.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Last Chance Dance

by Whitney Kimball on December 18, 2012
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Before we head out for the holidays, we’ve still got some thrilling art events in store. Performances! Holiday parties! Openings! Benefits! If 2012 still leaves you feeling artistically unfulfilled, then you’ve still got one more shot at getting some closure.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Wade Guyton And The “Imperfect Beauty” Cliché

by Paddy Johnson on December 6, 2012
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This week at The L Magazine I talk about the Wade Guyton show at The Whitney. As a few avid art readers may know, the show was anointed with great reviews by both Roberta Smith at The Times and Jerry Saltz at New York Magazine, each lauding Guyton for his innovation. I don’t agree with this idea at all, arguing in this piece, that work actually hews fairly closely to pre-existing conservative art world values. Also, even within the frame work of those values, the show’s just not very good. My thoughts on why, after the jump.

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