Explain Me with Andy Adams of FlakPhoto: From Idyllic Photos to The...
Image by Andy Adams. via: FlakPhoto instagram. In this episode of Explain Me we talk to Andy Adams (@FlakPhoto on instagram) a culture producer, and long time digital director. Andy is the founder of...
View ArticleExplain Me: Standing in Quicksand
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...
View ArticleExplain Me: The New Museum Triennial—Two Critics Perform Their Own Acts of...
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...
View ArticleExplain Me: The Spring Break Art Show Part One and Two With Pictures!
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...
View ArticleThe AFC Paddle8 Auction Launches!
William Powhida Charity auctions are a great way to acquire art while supporting the arts organizations you love. So, if you’ve listened to our new podcast, “Explain Me” hosted by yours truly (Paddy...
View ArticleExplain Me with Kenny Schachter: How Trumpian is the Art World?
This week on Explain Me, William Powhida and I talk to Kenny Schachter about the art world and it’s problem with truth. In addition to a bunch of talk about the upper tier—Schachter’s speciality—we...
View ArticleThe New “Explain Me”s: Monsters and Monstahs in the House
Omer Fast installation at James Cohan Gallery The new Explain Me podcasts have dropped! This week William Powhida and I did more than we anticipated, so there are two podcasts. The first is a...
View ArticleIntroducing “Explain Me”, a Podcast with Paddy Johnson and William Powhida
Good evening! Hello! I started a podcast with artist William Powhida! You read that right. This right here is the inaugural episode of “Explain Me”, an art podcast that talks about the latest art news...
View ArticleThis Week’s Must-See Art Events: A Hot (In A Good Way) New Fair
Rachel Stern. who will be presenting work at Crushed: The Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair. While the big galleries are still at the beach, the city’s museums and artist-run initiatives continue to keep us...
View ArticleUNTITLED: Bright Lights, Dim Content
The entrance to UNTITLED. Evidence that the election results have had any impact on the art fairs were scant at best yesterday. Artist Jason Lazarus told me he kept hearing that this was the year...
View ArticleThe Tears That Donald Trump Brought
When I did sleep last night, I dreamed I was stuck in a small hovel trying to hide from an evil demon. I told my friend there was a demon outside, but he let him in anyway and then left me to defend...
View ArticleWednesday Links: Laying Low, Getting Away, and Moving Out
James Mellick, Wounded Warrior Dogs. Image via: MLive.com Ooooh. Production drawings from the 1960’s T.V. series, “Batman”. [Batgirl Bat-trap] Don’t buy your art off e-bay. The company reportedly made...
View ArticleThis Week’s Must-See Art Events: Roleplay Edition
Cao Fei’s photographs of Chinese cosplayers, among other works, will be on view at MoMA PS1 starting Sunday Spring is in the New York air, and with it, a sense of fantastical possibility. Tuesday,...
View ArticleMonday Links: Sketchy Small Fingers
Ralph Wolfe Cowan’s “The Entrepreneur” (2002). Credit: Artist/Hyperallergic Meet Ralph Wolfe Cowan, the man who painted an “oil sketch” portrait of Donald Trump and was then hounded for 15 years to...
View ArticleGIF of the Day: 10 GIFs to Get You PUMPED for SPRNG BRK!!!
The weather might suck today, but tomorrow, life’s a beach. That’s right: the annual AFC fundraiser party SPRNG BRK is happening tomorrow, 6:00 p.m. at Otto’s Shrunken Head in the East Village. If you...
View ArticleShould I Get An MFA? The 2016 Edition
Detail of a Walter Scott’s “Ask Wendy” advice column for The Hairpin (August 2015). Back in 2011 AFC asked the question, “Should I get an MFA?” At the time we leaned towards “No”. There were a number...
View ArticleAnnouncing Double Crossing Brooklyn at The Brooklyn Museum
As many readers know, some of the writers at Art F City have been involved in the building protest over the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit. The event will be hosted at the Brooklyn Museum, a venue many...
View ArticleThe Definitive Stay in New York Reading List
If you’re heading out to “Stay in New York,” Art F City’s affordable workspace conference, there’s no better time than now to catch up on the issues: artists kicked out of studios, community-building...
View ArticleThe Stay in New York Program Guide
An affordable workspace conference for visual artists organized by Art F City and launched in partnership with the Queens Museum. The conference aims to give creative New Yorkers the tools to help...
View ArticleThis Week’s Must-See Events: Collected Cum Shots and Love Children
In New York, there’s no such thing as recovery from last weekend’s art orgy at Bushwick Open Studios. There’s just more events. This week we’ve got what we expect to be a heady exhibition from Whitney...
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