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Explain Me: We’re Baaaaaack!

By: on Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 at 1:59 pm

Spring Break. Image: Paddy Johnson

Welcome back to Explain Me! In an effort to produce content a little more regularly we’re trying something new: no editing. This means a little more baseless speculation, and off the cuff commentary, in return for actual podcasts! Yes!

In this episode we discuss news, art, and trends seen at The... | Read More

Explain Me: Standing in Quicksand

By: on Tuesday, February 12th, 2019 at 1:42 pm

We cover a lot of ground in this episode of Explain Me. That ground looks something like this:

The Velvet Buzzsaw is a bad movie. Mary Boone is still awaiting sentencing for falsifying tax documents—a whistleblower could get as much as $300,000 in reward for the tip. Dawn Clements is remembered at Pierogi. Dana Schutz’s first show since the controversy over... | Read More

Museum Board Members Fail Moral Challenges, Museum Exhibitions Exceed Expectations

By: on Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 at 1:58 pm

Jack Whitten, Black Monolith II (For Ralph Ellison), 1994

Donna DeSalvo assembles some of Andy Warhol’s greatest work for his retrospective at the Whitney Museum, while revelations that Whitney Vice Chair Warren B. Kanders owns a company that sells tear gas used at the border shake museum staff. Soul of a Nation at the Brooklyn Museum looks at the history of... | Read More

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Art F City Launches PARADE, A New Programming Arm Focused on Creating Civically Engaged Art

By: on Thursday, October 4th, 2018 at 9:25 am

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October 4 2018 – Art F City is pleased to announce the launch of their new programming arm, PARADE, which  supports and commissions civically engaged public art in Western Queens and beyond. Founded with a mission of fostering dialogue  and connection through art, PARADE is co-directed by Paddy Johnson, writer, organizer and Art F City... | Read More

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Live From Forward Union: Four Women Who Are Using Art to Change the World

By: on Saturday, September 29th, 2018 at 3:15 pm

Live from the Forward Union Fair!

It’s been a rough news week. Between Thursday’s testimonies of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Kavanaugh’s near appointment to the Supreme Court Friday, many of us are exhausted. We would like a win for women.

Sometimes the quickest... | Read More

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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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