by Paddy Johnson on March 13, 2013
Who are Brooklyn’s best artists under 30? There are probably more than 8, but that’s the number I came up with when producing a list for The L Magazine. Interestingly, the picks this year are very new media heavy and that’s not by intention. Every time I produce this feature, I make sure the list includes one or two, but it never occurred to me that the list would organically weight that way on its own. What a pleasant surprise.
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by Paddy Johnson on April 17, 2012
I’m getting tired of seeing listings for dude-dominated digital art shows. Just to count what I’ve seen in the last month: The USB Show, at Paris’s Le Point Éphémère two weeks ago, invited one woman artist to participate out of 21; Astral Projection Abduction Fantasy, which ran from February 23rd to March 23rd in Dublin, included three women out of 29 artists; and the April 12th BYOB show, in Milan, only included 9 women out of 42 invited artists. These shows might as well be Lilith Fair, though, relative to the worst recent offender, Dotcom, a show organized by the anonymous collective BSNP at the Centre d’Art Bastille in France. That group show runs through June 10th and includes no women at all.
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