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Zin Taylor’s The Bakery of Blok at Miguel Abreu Gallery

by Karen Archey on August 10, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Zin Taylor The Bakery of Blok installation view. Image via Miguel Abreu Gallery. What gravity could the now-archaic process of bread making have in analyzing cultural phenomena? Zin Taylor's debut solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery manages to make this unexpected reference work, providing a few dynamic visual allusions slightly burdened […]

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Best Link Ever! Why the Long Face, Dude?

by Karen Archey on August 7, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY An extreme dude about to do something extreme Something fishy is going on here! This week’s Best Link Ever, sturgeonface.com, compiles unfortunate photos of facial expressions supposedly resembling that of a sturgeon. After a quick image search for “sturgeons,” we’re not sure what the connection is—the fish’s mouth looks tubular rather […]

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Best Link Ever! Centaurs with Tri-Titted Babes and Slim Thug

by Karen Archey on July 31, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Photo via fuckyeahdude.org THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF WORKSAFE. Now that we have that out of the way, this week’s Best Link Ever goes to Billy Rennekamp‘s blog itsreal.com. Featuring a menagerie of purposefully unstructured, doctored images set against Slim Thug’s “Like a Boss,” itsreal.com falls into prototypical “netart with a […]

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Massive Links! Geometric Abstraction Makes Great Material for Netart!

by Karen Archey on July 30, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Rafaël Rozendaal, electricboogiewoogie.com, 2009. Screencapture AFC Rafaël Rozendaal’s new Mondrian-inspired website electricboogiewoogie.com prompted our list of netart inspired by geometric abstract painting. While most of these links are taken from the ultra-sophisticated Mondrian, Lewitt or Albers, we hope to see netart inspired by painters Francis Bacon, H.R. Giger or Odd Nerdrum. […]

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Support Light Industry’s First Ever Fundraiser!

by Karen Archey on July 29, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via: Light Industry Light Industry, Brooklyn‘s preeminent alternative exhibition space, kicked off their first-ever fundraiser last week. Co-founded by critic and curator Ed Halter and partner Thomas Beard, the outfit launched in March 2008 to provide a wealth of academic yet approachable programming focused on contemporary art and new media. […]

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Best Link Ever! Slice Me Off a Piece Uh That!

by Karen Archey on July 24, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY .gif via peopleinpizzaslicecostumesbecomingpizzas.com It was only yesterday I exclaimed “PLEASE, NO MORE PIZZA ART!” The same brand of ironic kitsch can only be funny for so long, right? Regardless, this week’s Best Link Ever, Xavier Barrade’s peopleinpizzaslicecostumesbecomingpizzas.com, weaseled its way into AFC’s favor whether or not it’s actually considered art. Pretty […]

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Sneak Into A Museum With Peter Coffin

by Karen Archey on July 23, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Diego Leclery Whitney Museum; New York, New York USA (Click on images to supersize) Offering sage advice for the penniless and pocket-heavy alike, artist Peter Coffin’s “How to Sneak into a Museum Without Paying” project features hand drawn maps from contributors around the globe. Thus far he’s culled a handful of […]

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Is Hans Ulrich Obrist an Alien? AFC Reports from the Guggenheim

by Karen Archey on July 21, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Hans Ulrich Obrist. Image via WalterHopps.com Honestly, I can’t really give you an appropriate introduction to yesterday’s discussion with Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Guggenheim. Why, you may ask? Well, because I was misdirected to three different ticket lines by museum staff, and taken deep into the bowels of the building, […]

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Best Link Ever! AFC Hot on the Taxidermy Trail!

by Karen Archey on July 17, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY UPDATE: Image crappytaxidermy.com, via Beth Dean Yeehaw! This week’s Best Link Ever goes to the Livejournal community WTF? Taxidermy, a group of online journalists who gather stunning images of taxidermy gone wrong. Who knew pumping rodents full of chemicals could be so much fun? Well, some artists apparently figured it out: […]

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Let’s Fire Up the Rumor Mill! Bravo Casting Calls for Untitled Art Project

by Karen Archey on July 13, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Damien Hirst and Sarah Jessica Parker gif courtesy Paddy Johnson We’ve received a couple reports about casting calls for Bravo’s Untitled Art Project, and they aren’t good.  Not that it comes as a surprise that show business seeks out contentious, conventionally attractive people, but rumor has it that execs at Magical […]

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