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This Week’s Must-See Art Events:
Michael Scoggins “Decorative Piece” (marker, colored pencil on paper, 67 x 51 inches) will be on view at Trestle Gallery Friday night in the exhibition “Laughing Out Loud”. This is a good week for the arts. Wednesday night, head to e-flux for performances by Viktoria Naraxsa and a talk from Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. Thursday night promises even more glamour, when Malik Gaines discusses…
Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies: The Animated GIF as Place
Hugo Moreno, “Art Department Walls”, 2015, one of nine animated GIFs drawn from Moreno’s video “Art Department Walls” Providence College—Galleries Launches Inaugural Online Exhibition Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies: The Animated GIF as Place Curated by Art F City critics Paddy Johnson, Michael Anthony Farley & Rea McNamara. VIEW THE EXHIBITION: pcgalleries.providence.edu/gif As those…
Faith Holland questions the early web-enthusiasts’ utopian vision of the internet as the ultimate democratic space, free of identity politics. Today, I was deep in a Google Image Search hole looking for GIFs to illustrate our guides to the Republican and Democratic primaries. I discovered two things. One, when you search for “clown car” one of the first results is the 2016 Republican Primaries.…
