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Current Chelsea Status: Fun

by Whitney Kimball on December 16, 2011
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In an effort to cover more art before shows close, AFC decided to visit a handful of galleries and report what we saw. More than usual, I wanted to stay longer. Here are my notes from five shows at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mixed Greens, Paula Cooper, and Tanya Bonakdar.

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Austin’s Arthouse Eliminates Its Only Curator Citing Budget Problems

by Paddy Johnson on April 14, 2011
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Austin is a buzz this week after Elizabeth Dunbar, the Associate Director and Curator of Arthouse saw her position eliminated in a new round of budget cuts. The prominent contemporary art center moved into an expensive new building in 2010, and has played host to many well-known contemporary artists, Javier Tellez, Jack Strange, and Cyprien Gaillard amongst them. According the Texas based website Glasstire, future programming will be determined by guest curators and traveling exhibitions.

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Anything Jerry Saltz Can Do AFC Can Do Better: 33 Outstanding Artists Emerging After 1999, Part One of Three

by Paddy Johnson and Karen Archey on April 29, 2009

Jason Lazarus, Self portrait as an artist making something contemporary, 2004, 17 x 23 inches, archival ink jet. Observing a curatorial echo chamber privileging appropriation and conceptualism, art critic Jerry Saltz made his own list of artists engaging the plastic arts after 1999.  The writer selected nineteen women and fourteen men — thirty-three in total […]

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