Paddy Johnson is a New York-based art critic, blogger, curator and writer. Johnson is the founder and editor of the

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Art F City (formerly called Art Fag City). Art F City publishes an annual calendar titled "Nude Artists as Pandas," featuring naked artists dressed up in panda costumes.

Early life

Johnson was born in

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. She was educated at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and continued her education at

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. She has slowly gained notoriety as an

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in the New York art scene. She is also known for her live coverage of major art fairs such as the

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, and

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in Miami and Switzerland.

Career

She pens a regular column for ''

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'' in New York. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including

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, Art & Australia,

Art in America ''Art in America'' is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world in the United States, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It i ...

, artkrush,

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, FlashArt, Flavorpill, ''

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'',

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, More Intelligent Life, New York Press, NYFA Current, Print Magazine, The Reeler,

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NY. She has worked with

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as a visiting critic and attended the 2007

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conference in Croatia as a blogger. In 2008, she served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships and became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation which is part of the

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. She has also served on a panel for

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. She contributed to the book ''what's the deal with all the peanut centric aeroplane snacks?'' published by

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. In December, 2011, Johnson was named in a federal libel lawsuit in

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for a May, 2011 article she published in Art Fag City, which suggested an art restorer was a forger and committed crimes.

Sound of Art

In November 2010 Johnson released an LP called "Now That's What You Call Net Art", a DJ

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that compiles mixes based from sounds recorded in art spaces, galleries, and museums in Manhattan and Brooklyn, pitting the neighboring

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against each other. Johnson raised over $11,000 with a

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campaign to fund the project, calling upon sound art lovers and a cadre of collectors, even offering a dinner with herself and artist

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, a former art critic, to the highest bidder. Johnson predicts the project will spawn follow-up records, including East Coast vs. West Coast, and Canada vs. USA. Johnson told

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's Carolina Miranda that the Brooklyn recordings sound more

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References

External links

Art F City

Art F City on Twitter
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Early life

Career

Sound of Art

See also

References

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