Food Molestors and Momus’s Favorite YouTubes

Two shows at the Postmasters gallery have just opened. #1: Playlist (a response to Gug’s Play) unleashed the “archival richness” of the YouTubes, handpicked by a varied group artists, writers and musicians. Co-curator Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City tells me Momus picked this. Oh, Momus. #2: Eat Me is all about food lust, from Monica Cook’s painterly Monicas-on-Monicas-on-octopus orgy to Michael Meads’s literal fucking of food. “Playlist” and “Eat Me!,” Dec 9 – Dec 23, Postmasters, New York

By on December 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm
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Art Fag City‘s Paddy Johnson (“always the hypeman, never the DJ…” until now) has a new Sound of Art video ribbing the New Museum and Jeff Koons. It’s kind of trippy and totally ass-thetic.

By on October 5, 2010 at 5:42 pm
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‘The Sound of Art’ Wants You!

The Sound of Art is noisy sculpture and grunts of strangers in NYC’s art galleries mixed DJ-battle-record-style. It’s echoes of video art sampled, mashed up and screwed on a vinyl LP. Read more »

By on September 17, 2010 at 5:30 pm
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The Amazing NYC Art Fair Google Map

Check-check-check it out: It’s a Google map of NYC art fairs and fair-active museums/larger galleries. Jen Bekman’s Projects‘ cartographic doohickey for the upcoming/ongoing art expos (with Pool, Verge, Red Dot omitted) is spatially nifty, but hitting ‘em all up might require an MTA day pass or a bike to connect the little blue dots. And money. And a cloning hammock. |ArtFagCity|

By on March 2, 2010 at 12:10 pm
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Art Blogger Subjected To Water Torture

Art blogger Paddy Johnson has been silenced for the day after being flooded from her Art Fag City office. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the water attack, which came through the window despite the fact that it’s not raining out. Suspicious. We wish her the best of luck in sorting out the mess and getting back online. |Art Fag City|

By on July 8, 2009 at 3:10 pm
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Cease and Desist Issued For Naked Naomi

The estate of famed fashion photographer Helmut Newton issued a cease and desist order to an art-centric website for publishing this photo of the slightly violent, but always sexy Naomi Campbell taken in 1998, claiming copyright infringement. Art Fag City posted the image on Friday, highlighting a retrospective for the supermodel at Art Basel in Miami and received the C&D on Monday from a law firm representing Ms. June Newton. However, editor Paddy Johnson says she’s well within her rights and even reposted the image along with a useful explanation of the law in the United States. “American copyright law dictates that no infringement occurs if the image is used for commentary, criticism, news reporting or educational use.” But more importantly, legal matters aside, Johnson appropriately notes why the legal notice is so absurd in the first place:

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By on November 11, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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