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Explain Me: What it Really Means to be A Mid-Career Artist: A Talk with LoVID’s Tali Hinkis

By: on Tuesday, August 21st, 2018 at 1:43 pm

LoVID‘s Tali Hinkis joins us in the studio to discuss the challenges of being a mid-career artist outside of New York. In this episode we discuss how to navigate it all from engaging a general audience to getting grants and networking. A refreshingly frank talk about what mid-career actually looks like for artists and what it takes to get there.

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We’re So Not Getting the Security Deposit Back: DC Edition

By: on Sunday, August 5th, 2018 at 8:48 am

Last October, we published the first edition of our zine series, We’re So Not Getting the Security Deposit Back: A Guide to Defunct Artist Spaces in partnership with Beltway Public Works in DC. Today, we’re making it freely available to all in the form of a PDF. (If you want the physical version please contact AFC directly paddy@artfcity.com)

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The Affect of Animated GIFs (Tom Moody, Petra Cortright, Lorna Mills)

By: on Monday, July 16th, 2018 at 7:47 pm

Tom Moody, Optidisc, 2005

Previously published at artandeducation.net (2009)

Since the early 1990s, artists have chosen the internet as a medium, an environment and a forum. While some internet artists also maintain a gallery practice, the conditions and conventions that inform meaning in online art remain in many ways distinct from those of the off-line... | Read More

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Explain Me: The Case for Taxing The Hell Out of Peter Brant

By: on Monday, July 16th, 2018 at 7:37 pm

In this episode of Explain Me William Powhida and Paddy Johnson discuss the horrific business practices of Peter Brant and Interview Magazine, a fundraising campaign at University of North Carolina so misguided that firing is in order, and the latest headscratching Creative Time project. To help us discuss all of this, and how the new tax code will affect artists... | Read More

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Explain Me, Part II: Doug Aitken’s New Era, Worst Show of 2018

By: on Thursday, June 7th, 2018 at 4:22 pm

Philippe Vergne and Doug Aitken at Aitken’s show New Era

In Part II of Explain Me, William Powhida and I discuss the difference between relational aesthetics and social practice, the whims of the auction market and the perilous affect it can have on artist careers, and Doug Aitken’s train wreck of a show at 303 Gallery along with a... | Read More

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Explain Me: Bags of Cash Help New Galleries

By: on Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 at 1:31 pm

Murakami at Gagosian Frieze NY

In this episode William Powhida and I discuss how the Frieze Art Fair’s failing air conditioning units won’t help global warming, sales strategies for emerging artists, and galleries that have come and gone. Look to Part II where we discuss the difference between social practice and relational aesthetics and discuss the Doug... | Read More

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Explain Me: Related Utopias—Bitcoin Economies and the Art World

By: on Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 at 4:49 pm

This week on Explain Me, William Powhida and Paddy Johnson talk with artist Kevin McCoy about Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Monegraph. This episode is your ultimate bitcoin/blockchain/monegraph explainer.

LINKS 

Monegraph

Seven on Seven, 2014

Public Key/Private Key

READING LIST  

China, Crypto-Currency, and the World Order Tribute... | Read More

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Explain Me: The New Museum Triennial—Two Critics Perform Their Own Acts of Sabotage

By: on Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 at 7:00 am

 

Wong Ping, Wong Ping’s Fables 1, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong

In this episode of Explain Me, Paddy Johnson and William Powhida discuss the New Museum Triennial Songs for Sabotage. Both Johnson and Powhida agree this show has more of its fair share of bad art but only Powhida sees this as a... | Read More

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Explain Me: The Spring Break Art Show Part One and Two With Pictures!

By: on Saturday, March 17th, 2018 at 11:59 am

Bobby Anspach’s “Bobby’s World”. Image: Art F City

Last week William Powhida and I spent an enormous amount of time at the Spring Break Art Show. We had so much to say about the show we produced two podcasts and discussed many booths at length. In the first podcast, we give the lay of the land in art fair world (we discuss the... | Read More

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Hans Ulrich Obrist Interested in Time, Hans Ulrich Obrist

By: on Friday, March 16th, 2018 at 3:48 pm

Hans Ulrich Obrist delivering his keynote at The Armory Show

The line for last week’s keynote lecture at the Armory Show was as long as the speaker’s resume; slated to talk was Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery and arguably the most famous curator in the world. But since Obrist is a fixture at large art fairs, the huge... | Read More

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