Art blog
Encyclopedia
An art blog is a common type of blog
that comments on art. More recently, as with other types of blogs, some art blogs have taken on 'web 2.0' social networking features. Art blogs that adopt this sort of change can develop to become a source of information on art events (listings and maps), a way to share information and images, or virtual meeting ground.
Art blogs may also serve as a forum to reach out to anybody interested in art — be it painting, sculpture, print making, creative photography, video art, conceptual art or new media. In this way, they may be visited not only for the practitioners of different forms of art, but also collectors, connoisseurs, and critics.
1. Media convergence will continue to improve consumer choice, providing a better match between desire and availability.
2. Content producers are just that. Consumers care less about how and where they can get the content they want. What they do consistently care about is the quality of the content, and whether the content is produced to their timescales.
3. The content producer-to-content consumer relationship is changing. Requests for feedback and further debate have been partially overtaken by things like conversations, and further fragmentation will certainly occur.
4. Information technology and systems, provided as commodity (pay-as-you-go) services. Such services range from processing and storage, through to credit card processing and super-fast content delivery.
5. The economic downrun.
On January 8, 2009, Regina Hackett, art critic of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
, noted in her article Art Blogs Hit Wikipedia that commercially run, mainstream media supported, art blogs face issues of acceptance among the independent art blogging community.
On January 7, 2009, The Village Voice
art critic Martha Schwendener suggests that art blogs have helped shape a more laissez-faire climate for art writing. "Art blogs have created a new, largely unedited, admirably 'unprofessional'—hence, democratic—venue for people to speak their minds, gossip, or theorize about art."
In September 2008, the Brooklyn Rail contributor James Kalm produced an article titled "Virtually Overwhelmed." . A practicing artist and video blogger himself, Kalm has this to say about art blogs, "The art blogosphere is a work in progress, and you’ve got to be vigilant of hidden agendas. As with anything online, take it with a grain of salt. Have fun, speak out, but don’t let it cut too much into your studio time; you might end up in a twelve step-program."
In the November 2007 issue of Art in America
, Peter Plagens contributed "Report from the Blogosphere: The New Grass Roots." Plagens convened a round table of veteran art bloggers, who conversed via email on a range of questions, aimed at getting a better understanding of the what art blogs were, how they were run, and their relationship with the mainstream media.
In an October 2007 article for artnet Magazine, critic Charlie Finch suggested that art critiques and reviews by art bloggers are overrated and lengthy, and implied that the art blogging community was overly insular. The article includes several ad hominen arguments against specific art bloggers, and ventures the opinion that art blogs "have no readers".
In the January 2005 issue of Art in America
, Raphael Rubinstein mentioned several blogs in the magazine's "Front Page" section, where he penned a brief, annotated survey of 12 art blogs that he found "to be worth regular visits.". Rubinstein opined that “art-related blogs” had not, at the time, become as consequential as blogs in other fields such as poetry or politics.
, where the new-media artist Maurice Benayoun
dumped hundreds of undone art projects, was the first to become a doctorate thesis in art and art science in and of itself: Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art Université Pantheon Sorbonne (December 6, 2008)
This PhD was directed by Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet. Jury : Prof. Hubertus von Amelunxen
, Louis Bec, artist, Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove
, and Prof. Jean da Silva.
In May 2010, The Dump – Recycling of Thoughts, a contemporary art exhibition curated by Agnieszka Kulazińska at Laznia Art Center (Gdansk
, Poland
) presented 9 artists whose works were derived from The Dump blog project list.
, in London, maintains a list of recommended art blogs
. Directories such as Yahoo! Directory and BlogCatalog maintain a list of user submitted art blogs.
Absent Without Leave
Absent Without Leave is an artist's blog by Ivan Pope
, artist and internet evangelist. AWoL covers art practice, other artists work and the wider art world. Pope is a 1990 graduate of Goldsmiths' College, University of London fine art BA. He has written extensively on art, technology and the internet. Absent Without Leave was one of the first personal artist blogs, started in January 1994.
anaba
anaba is quoted from in Deborah Solomon's New York Times profile "Figuring Marlene Dumas", featured in James Kalm's Brooklyn Rail article "The Ethics of Aesthetics", alluded to and quoted from in Jerry Saltz
's New York Magazine apology "A note from our art critic Jerry Saltz", quoted from and cited in Christoph Buchel's appeal to the US Court of Appeals (Mass MoCA v. Christoph Buchel).
Art Fag City
AFC is a blog of New York art news, reviews and gossip maintained by Paddy Johnson
. Johnson, a 2001 graduate of Rutgers University
MFA program, also writes for Art Review, Frieze
, Time Out, and the The L Magazine.
Artblog.net
Artblog.net has been produced since 2003 by Franklin Einspruch, an artist and writer in Boston. Einspruch is also the editor of an online archive of the writings of Walter Darby Bannard
.
The Artblog
Maintained by artists/writers Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, "The Artblog", founded in April, 2003, is based in Philadelphia but also covers art from around the world. Like many art bloggers, Fallon and Rosof are collaborating artists; Fallon also writes about art for Philadelphia Weekly
and both write for print publications and lecture about contemporary art.
Artlog.com
Artlog is an online platform and blog that highlights exhibitions and art works from galleries, museums, non-profits, artists, and pop-ups. Based in NYC & San Francisco, the site is edited by David Goodman, formerly of BOMB Magazine and RISD. Artlog's content is also featured on NBC New York and The Huffington Post.
Art Practical
Art Practical is an online magazine that enriches critical dialogue for the San Francisco Bay Area visual arts by providing comprehensive analysis of events and exhibitions. The Art Practical website choreographs a coalition of four independent chroniclers of contemporary art and culture—Bad At Sports, Happenstand, Shotgun Review, and Talking Cure quarterly—to create visibility for individual projects and a forum for critical reflection within the broadest possible audience.
Bad at Sports
Created by Duncan MacKenzie
, Bad at Sports is a weekly podcast produced in Chicago that features artists talking about art and the community that makes, reviews and critiques it. Bad at Sports also features a series of video interviews with artists, gallerists, and other involved in the art world.
C-Monster
The true identity of C-Monster is unknown, and the bibiographic record of this Brooklyn-based art blog appears to be in jest: "Raised by a clan of gypsies throughout the Andean puna, C-Monster speaks five languages and was taught to read palms and recite epic poems at the tender age of three. She fled to the U.S. during the Great Border War of 1941, and after her arrival, worked for many years at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Lubbock." The blog is best known for its "Digest," which appears most weekdays.
Catherine Spaeth
Art historian and critic Catherine Spaeth teaches the history of contemporary art at Purchase College and provides art tours of museums and galleries in the New York Area. Her blog is known for essays that place work in a critical and art historical context.
Contemporary Art Daily
An online journal that posts extensive documentation of international exhibitions each day. Contemporary Art Daily works directly with galleries and museums to acquire exclusive high-resolution photographs of selected shows. The staff also provide in-depth visual coverage of several major international art fairs, including the Venice Biennale
and Art Basel Miami
.
CultureGrrl
Lee Rosenbaum covers museums, auctions, and art law news. Rosenbaum, a cultural journalist, writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal,and is a regular cultural contributor on New York Public Radio (WNYC). She has also published several Op-Ed pieces in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times
.
Daily Art Fixx by Wendy Campbell
Covering contemporary art, art history, and everything in between. Created in 2009, DAF presents "a little art...every day" Usually features one specific artist per day but also has a number of series including: The Monday Mixx Group Feature, 5 Random Art Facts, 5 Women Artists You Should Know, and E-Learning.
The Daily Render by Nikolas R. Schiller
A periodically updated art blog by map
artist Nikolas Schiller
. Created in May 2004, the author uses the blog format to post renderings of arabesque
aerial photographs of cities throughout the United States of America. The format employed is that of a portfolio
that tangentially includes art criticism, upcoming gallery exhibits, publications, videos, and social commentary.
The Dump
by Maurice Benayoun
About the Dump Blog by the French new media artist Maurice Benayoun
Barbara Robertson writes in the magazine Computer Graphics World : The Dump... "is a collection of his ideas. Hundreds of ideas. “Everyone can come and take them and do them if they want".(...) in December 2008 "Benayoun submitted “The Dump” as his PhD thesis and became, arguably, the first artist to use a blog to qualify for a doctorate degree". "Of all his work, “The Dump” is the simplest form of digital art, but also the most accessible and most interactive. It is neither virtual nor augmented reality, or perhaps it’s both, but with it, Benayoun might have created the newest of all new media. At least, for now."
Edward Winkleman
New York dealer Edward Winkleman's blog features discussions about art, politics, and culture. Winkleman is noted for offering advice to emerging artists. Winkleman Gallery is located in the Chelsea arts district in New York City.
Eyeteeth.org
Founded in Jan. 2003, Eyeteeth: A Journal of Incisive Ideas focuses on the interstices of art, media, activism and politics. It is written by Paul Schmelzer, founding editor of the Walker Art Center
blogs and contributor to the Royal Society of Arts' book "Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook." He has written on art for Adbusters
, Cabinet magazine
, the Minnesota Independent, Raw Vision
, The Outsider, Thing.net, Version magazine and others.
Gibbs Cadiz
Plays and Film critic Gibbs Cadiz is based in the Philippines. He is also an editor for the Philippine Daily Inquirer
.
John Haber Art Blog
New York-based John Haber writes and blogs about art in an accessible, journalistic prose to write online reviews and essays about topics ranging from the early Renaissance
to Postmodernism
, with more than 5,000 links between reviews. His Haberarts blog and hyperbook was founded in 1994 and currently features over 850 artists, critics and art historians. Of special interest is the connection of art to feminism
, philosophy
and politics
.
Hrag Vartanian
A contemporary online flaneur explores the New York art world. Hrag Vartanian
was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a writer, critic and designer who regularly contributes to AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Quarterly, Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail
and other publications. He is currently Director of Communications at AGBU, the world's largest Armenian non-profit organization.
i love video
Video Artist and blogger Bo Lee curates a collection of art videos. It is updated on a nearly daily basis and one of the few that showcases primarily film and video art'.
Joanne Mattera Art Blog
Although her blog description reads "Guaranteed Biased, Myopic, Incomplete and Journalistically Suspect," Joanne Mattera maintains a site that reports responsibly and in some depth on art shown in New York City and elsewhere, including the Miami art fairs. Mattera is a painter who divides her time between Manhattan and Massachusetts.
jameswagner.com
New York-based James Wagner writes about art and politics. He is the editor, along with Barry Hoggard, of the New York weekly arts calendar ArtCat.
Joanne Mattera Art Blog
Although her blog description reads "Guaranteed Biased, Myopic, Incomplete and Journalistically Suspect," Joanne Mattera maintains a site that reports responsibly and in some depth on art shown in New York City and elsewhere, including the Miami art fairs. Mattera is a painter who divides her time between Manhattan and Massachusetts.
Modern Art Notes
Modern Art Notes, maintained by Tyler Green covers modern and contemporary art issues and criticism. Green attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism. He is a member of the United States section of the International Association of Art Critics
(AICA) and lives in Washington, DC. Forbes
magazine once named MAN a "Best of the Web" site, and publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times
, the Wall Street Journal, Time
, the Detroit Free Press
, the Boston Globe, the Denver Post, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
, Slate
, and Art in America
have all featured MAN.
Modern Art Obsession
MAO is maintained by a young modern-art-obsessed collector who is a member of the Guggenheim
Photography Acquisition Committee.
Mustikka
a fresh blog about contemporary art: artists, art fairs, architecture, exhibitions, galleries.
Myartspace Blog
Is an art blog maintained by art critic and writer Brian Sherwin
for the artist social networking site Myartspace. The blog focuses on art news, advice for emerging artists, and is home to an ongoing interview series involving artists, gallerists, and art critics from throughout the world. Notable interviewees include Vito Acconci
, James Rosenquist
, and Michael Craig-Martin
. Several of Sherwin's interviews have been featured on the Juxtapoz website.
NEWSgrist
NEWSgrist, maintained by artist Joy Garnett
, began in March 2000 as an e-zine devoted to the politics of art and culture in the digital age. For four years it was distributed entirely by email subscription. Garnett currently serves as Arts Editor at Cultural Politics, a contemporary culture, politics and media journal.
New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
Greg Cook's Journal focuses on New England art news, reviews, and artists. Greg Cook is part of the new wave of "underground" cartoonists pushing the boundaries of contemporary comic books by experimenting with styles and subject matter that go beyond traditional newspaper gag strips and superhero pamphlets. His subjects range from history to comedy to fictional dramas about day-to-day life. He has published his comics in Nickelodeon Magazine, Tower Records' Pulse magazine, The Believer, New Art Examiner, Arthur, Non, L'Association's Comix 2000 and other publications.
OrbisPlanis
http://orbisplanis.blogspot.com
The masthead and logo for the blog, showing two people at an art museum, represent the central idea, which is to report, share, and have a conversation about all things related to art. The mission is to inspire us all to be better artists.
PORT
Co-founded in 2005 by Jennifer Armbrust and Jeff Jahn
(who still maintains the site) PORT focuses on critical content related to the Portland art scene. PORT describes itself as "dedicated to catalyzing critical discussion and disseminating information about art as lensed through Portland, Oregon." In the November 2007 Art in America roundtable Plagens described PORT as, "the closest thing to the virtues (paid critics, office help, etc.) of a print art magazine on the Internet...." In 2007 Tyler Green
described PORT as, "The undisputed champ of the regional art blogs." on Off Center, the Walker Art Center's blog.
Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood Explores art and themes of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and was created in 2007 by Stephanie Pina. It usually focuses on the women involved with the Pre-Raphaelite circle and recently created the Pre-Raphaelite Reading Project, an attempt to contemplate Pre-Raphaelite subject matter by reading texts referenced by the artists alternated with modern books that draw inspiration from Pre-Raphaelite art. Frequently promotes projects from modern artists who exhibit a similar style to the Pre-Raphaelites.
Review - Art Exhibitions in London
Running since February 2006, this site offers reviews of major exhibitions in London, held at venues such as Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the Royal Academy, the National Gallery and other public and private space in the UK capital.
TheCompleteness
TheCompleteness, a multimedia online journal focusing on the relationships between things. The Completeness is produced in parallel with SoapBox presentation parties, which occur quarterly in New York City. The underlying purpose of both projects is to create a public forum for critique and discussion of the ways in which all things, tangible and intangible, relate to each other.
Two Coats of Paint
Maintained by artist/writer Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint is a daily digest of reviews, commentary, and background information about painting and related subjects. Butler, an art professor at Eastern Connecticut State University
, also writes for The Brooklyn Rail
and The American Prospect
.
rebel:art
rebel:art is an art blog about art and activism, founded as a print magazine in 2004 by Alain Bieber. Today it's one of the biggest art blogs in Germany and covering all kind of subversive artworks from the field of Culture Jamming, Adbusting, Hacktivism
, Net. Art, Street Art etc.
Wooster Collective
The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. Updated by Marc and Sara Schiller, the site also offers podcasting with music and interviews featuring street artists.
Art Sleuth: openmagazinepictures.wordpress.com a blog on the London contemporary art scene. Part of www.openmagazine.co.uk
Whatspace
Whatspace is a Dutch blog on the worldwide contemporary art scene.
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
that comments on art. More recently, as with other types of blogs, some art blogs have taken on 'web 2.0' social networking features. Art blogs that adopt this sort of change can develop to become a source of information on art events (listings and maps), a way to share information and images, or virtual meeting ground.
Defining Art Blogs
Art blogs entries cover different topics, from art critiques and commentary to insider art world gossip, auction results, art news, personal essays, portfolios, interviews, artists’ journals, and artist biographies.Art blogs may also serve as a forum to reach out to anybody interested in art — be it painting, sculpture, print making, creative photography, video art, conceptual art or new media. In this way, they may be visited not only for the practitioners of different forms of art, but also collectors, connoisseurs, and critics.
Art Blogs and the Mainstream Media
On April 28, 2009, Art Connect produced an in-depth interview by Peter Cowling for Art Connect and Jessica Palmer of Bioephemera. The interview, titled It is not Really Bloggers vs. Journalists, You Know , pointed to five trends that were shaping the communication and discussion of art on the internet, and that the real picture was much bigger than just the bloggers vs. journalists that had been discussed to date. These five points were:1. Media convergence will continue to improve consumer choice, providing a better match between desire and availability.
2. Content producers are just that. Consumers care less about how and where they can get the content they want. What they do consistently care about is the quality of the content, and whether the content is produced to their timescales.
3. The content producer-to-content consumer relationship is changing. Requests for feedback and further debate have been partially overtaken by things like conversations, and further fragmentation will certainly occur.
4. Information technology and systems, provided as commodity (pay-as-you-go) services. Such services range from processing and storage, through to credit card processing and super-fast content delivery.
5. The economic downrun.
On January 8, 2009, Regina Hackett, art critic of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area...
, noted in her article Art Blogs Hit Wikipedia that commercially run, mainstream media supported, art blogs face issues of acceptance among the independent art blogging community.
On January 7, 2009, The Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
art critic Martha Schwendener suggests that art blogs have helped shape a more laissez-faire climate for art writing. "Art blogs have created a new, largely unedited, admirably 'unprofessional'—hence, democratic—venue for people to speak their minds, gossip, or theorize about art."
In September 2008, the Brooklyn Rail contributor James Kalm produced an article titled "Virtually Overwhelmed." . A practicing artist and video blogger himself, Kalm has this to say about art blogs, "The art blogosphere is a work in progress, and you’ve got to be vigilant of hidden agendas. As with anything online, take it with a grain of salt. Have fun, speak out, but don’t let it cut too much into your studio time; you might end up in a twelve step-program."
In the November 2007 issue of Art in America
Art in America
Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
, Peter Plagens contributed "Report from the Blogosphere: The New Grass Roots." Plagens convened a round table of veteran art bloggers, who conversed via email on a range of questions, aimed at getting a better understanding of the what art blogs were, how they were run, and their relationship with the mainstream media.
In an October 2007 article for artnet Magazine, critic Charlie Finch suggested that art critiques and reviews by art bloggers are overrated and lengthy, and implied that the art blogging community was overly insular. The article includes several ad hominen arguments against specific art bloggers, and ventures the opinion that art blogs "have no readers".
In the January 2005 issue of Art in America
Art in America
Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
, Raphael Rubinstein mentioned several blogs in the magazine's "Front Page" section, where he penned a brief, annotated survey of 12 art blogs that he found "to be worth regular visits.". Rubinstein opined that “art-related blogs” had not, at the time, become as consequential as blogs in other fields such as poetry or politics.
Art Blogs and the Academy
In December 2008, the art blog The DumpThe Dump
The Dump is a blog initiated in 2006 by the new media artist Maurice Benayoun, about undone art projects.This blog was probably the first to become a doctorate thesis in art by itself: Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art Université Pantheon Sorbonne This PhD was directed by...
, where the new-media artist Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris. His work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.-Biography:Born in Mascara,...
dumped hundreds of undone art projects, was the first to become a doctorate thesis in art and art science in and of itself: Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art Université Pantheon Sorbonne (December 6, 2008)
This PhD was directed by Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet. Jury : Prof. Hubertus von Amelunxen
Hubertus von Amelunxen
Hubertus von Amelunxen is a professor at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, and the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee. He studied Roman, German, and Art History at Marburg and Paris and finished his Ph.D. in Roman Studies at the University of Mannheim...
, Louis Bec, artist, Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove
Derrick de Kerckhove
Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada...
, and Prof. Jean da Silva.
In May 2010, The Dump – Recycling of Thoughts, a contemporary art exhibition curated by Agnieszka Kulazińska at Laznia Art Center (Gdansk
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
) presented 9 artists whose works were derived from The Dump blog project list.
Other coverage of Art Blogs
Other coverage of art blogs includes interviews of art bloggers, reviews of art blog site, and recommendations of favourite sites. Art Connect has produced around 90 reviews of art blogs, and undertakes interviews with art bloggers . The Courtauld Institute of ArtCourtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top...
, in London, maintains a list of recommended art blogs
. Directories such as Yahoo! Directory and BlogCatalog maintain a list of user submitted art blogs.
Examples of art blogs
[Talk Art http://www.aakrititalkart.com/]:A virtual meeting ground for artists, art collectors, art enthusiasts, critics and connoisseurs.Absent Without Leave
Absent Without Leave is an artist's blog by Ivan Pope
Ivan Pope
Ivan Pope was involved with many early internet developments in the UK and across the world. He started networking in 1988 while a contemporary of Damien Hirst and the YBAs at art college in London. After graduation he went on to develop an early bulletin board systems for artists . Pope invented...
, artist and internet evangelist. AWoL covers art practice, other artists work and the wider art world. Pope is a 1990 graduate of Goldsmiths' College, University of London fine art BA. He has written extensively on art, technology and the internet. Absent Without Leave was one of the first personal artist blogs, started in January 1994.
anaba
anaba is quoted from in Deborah Solomon's New York Times profile "Figuring Marlene Dumas", featured in James Kalm's Brooklyn Rail article "The Ethics of Aesthetics", alluded to and quoted from in Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and a columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. He was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney...
's New York Magazine apology "A note from our art critic Jerry Saltz", quoted from and cited in Christoph Buchel's appeal to the US Court of Appeals (Mass MoCA v. Christoph Buchel).
Art Fag City
AFC is a blog of New York art news, reviews and gossip maintained by Paddy Johnson
Paddy Johnson
Paddy Johnson is a New York-based art critic, blogger, curator and writer. Johnson is the founder and editor of Art Fag City, which is an art blog....
. Johnson, a 2001 graduate of Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
MFA program, also writes for Art Review, Frieze
Frieze
thumb|267px|Frieze of the [[Tower of the Winds]], AthensIn architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Even when neither columns nor pilasters are expressed, on an astylar wall it lies upon...
, Time Out, and the The L Magazine.
Artblog.net
Artblog.net has been produced since 2003 by Franklin Einspruch, an artist and writer in Boston. Einspruch is also the editor of an online archive of the writings of Walter Darby Bannard
Walter Darby Bannard
Walter Darby Bannard , also known as Darby Bannard, is an American abstract painter.Bannard attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, which continued after graduation and eventuated in the extreme...
.
The Artblog
Maintained by artists/writers Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, "The Artblog", founded in April, 2003, is based in Philadelphia but also covers art from around the world. Like many art bloggers, Fallon and Rosof are collaborating artists; Fallon also writes about art for Philadelphia Weekly
Philadelphia Weekly
Philadelphia Weekly , is an award-winning alternative newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published every Wednesday.The paper was founded in 1971 as a sister publication to the South Philadelphia Press. In 1995, the paper became Philadelphia Weekly...
and both write for print publications and lecture about contemporary art.
Artlog.com
Artlog is an online platform and blog that highlights exhibitions and art works from galleries, museums, non-profits, artists, and pop-ups. Based in NYC & San Francisco, the site is edited by David Goodman, formerly of BOMB Magazine and RISD. Artlog's content is also featured on NBC New York and The Huffington Post.
Art Practical
Art Practical is an online magazine that enriches critical dialogue for the San Francisco Bay Area visual arts by providing comprehensive analysis of events and exhibitions. The Art Practical website choreographs a coalition of four independent chroniclers of contemporary art and culture—Bad At Sports, Happenstand, Shotgun Review, and Talking Cure quarterly—to create visibility for individual projects and a forum for critical reflection within the broadest possible audience.
Bad at Sports
Bad at Sports
"Bad at Sports" is a weekly podcast about art and culture in Chicago and across the globe. It is currently the only surviving program about the Chicago Art Scene. Previous publications included the New Art Examiner, and the PBS program Art Chicago. However, as an Internet broadcast, it has...
Created by Duncan MacKenzie
Duncan Mackenzie
Duncan Mackenzie was a Scottish archaeologist, whose work focused on one of the more spectacular 20th century archaeological finds, Crete's palace of Knossos, the supposed centre of Minoan civilisation....
, Bad at Sports is a weekly podcast produced in Chicago that features artists talking about art and the community that makes, reviews and critiques it. Bad at Sports also features a series of video interviews with artists, gallerists, and other involved in the art world.
C-Monster
The true identity of C-Monster is unknown, and the bibiographic record of this Brooklyn-based art blog appears to be in jest: "Raised by a clan of gypsies throughout the Andean puna, C-Monster speaks five languages and was taught to read palms and recite epic poems at the tender age of three. She fled to the U.S. during the Great Border War of 1941, and after her arrival, worked for many years at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Lubbock." The blog is best known for its "Digest," which appears most weekdays.
Catherine Spaeth
Art historian and critic Catherine Spaeth teaches the history of contemporary art at Purchase College and provides art tours of museums and galleries in the New York Area. Her blog is known for essays that place work in a critical and art historical context.
Contemporary Art Daily
An online journal that posts extensive documentation of international exhibitions each day. Contemporary Art Daily works directly with galleries and museums to acquire exclusive high-resolution photographs of selected shows. The staff also provide in-depth visual coverage of several major international art fairs, including the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
and Art Basel Miami
Art Basel
Art Basel is an international contemporary art fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. Similar to the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world". Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa...
.
CultureGrrl
Lee Rosenbaum covers museums, auctions, and art law news. Rosenbaum, a cultural journalist, writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal,and is a regular cultural contributor on New York Public Radio (WNYC). She has also published several Op-Ed pieces in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
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Daily Art Fixx by Wendy Campbell
Covering contemporary art, art history, and everything in between. Created in 2009, DAF presents "a little art...every day" Usually features one specific artist per day but also has a number of series including: The Monday Mixx Group Feature, 5 Random Art Facts, 5 Women Artists You Should Know, and E-Learning.
The Daily Render by Nikolas R. Schiller
Nikolas Schiller
Nikolas Schiller is an American blogger, a prominent digital map artist in the blogosphere, a vegetarian, and a civil rights activist who lives in Washington, DC...
A periodically updated art blog by map
Map
A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes....
artist Nikolas Schiller
Nikolas Schiller
Nikolas Schiller is an American blogger, a prominent digital map artist in the blogosphere, a vegetarian, and a civil rights activist who lives in Washington, DC...
. Created in May 2004, the author uses the blog format to post renderings of arabesque
Arabesque
The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements...
aerial photographs of cities throughout the United States of America. The format employed is that of a portfolio
Artist's portfolio
An artist's portfolio is an edited collection of artwork intended to showcase an artist's style or method of work. Many people can use portfolios. Freelancers, writers, photographers, models and graphic designers are just a few examples of people who use them...
that tangentially includes art criticism, upcoming gallery exhibits, publications, videos, and social commentary.
The Dump
The Dump
The Dump is a blog initiated in 2006 by the new media artist Maurice Benayoun, about undone art projects.This blog was probably the first to become a doctorate thesis in art by itself: Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art Université Pantheon Sorbonne This PhD was directed by...
by Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris. His work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.-Biography:Born in Mascara,...
About the Dump Blog by the French new media artist Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris. His work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.-Biography:Born in Mascara,...
Barbara Robertson writes in the magazine Computer Graphics World : The Dump... "is a collection of his ideas. Hundreds of ideas. “Everyone can come and take them and do them if they want".(...) in December 2008 "Benayoun submitted “The Dump” as his PhD thesis and became, arguably, the first artist to use a blog to qualify for a doctorate degree". "Of all his work, “The Dump” is the simplest form of digital art, but also the most accessible and most interactive. It is neither virtual nor augmented reality, or perhaps it’s both, but with it, Benayoun might have created the newest of all new media. At least, for now."
Edward Winkleman
New York dealer Edward Winkleman's blog features discussions about art, politics, and culture. Winkleman is noted for offering advice to emerging artists. Winkleman Gallery is located in the Chelsea arts district in New York City.
Eyeteeth.org
Founded in Jan. 2003, Eyeteeth: A Journal of Incisive Ideas focuses on the interstices of art, media, activism and politics. It is written by Paul Schmelzer, founding editor of the Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...
blogs and contributor to the Royal Society of Arts' book "Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook." He has written on art for Adbusters
AdBusters
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia...
, Cabinet magazine
Cabinet magazine
Cabinet is a quarterly, Brooklyn, NY-based, non-profit art & culture periodical launched in 2000. Cabinet also operates an event and exhibition space in Brooklyn.-Section 1: Columns:...
, the Minnesota Independent, Raw Vision
Raw Vision
Raw Vision is a British magazine devoted to outsider art and edited by John Maizels. It features content about the subject worldwide.-History:...
, The Outsider, Thing.net, Version magazine and others.
Gibbs Cadiz
Plays and Film critic Gibbs Cadiz is based in the Philippines. He is also an editor for the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...
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John Haber Art Blog
New York-based John Haber writes and blogs about art in an accessible, journalistic prose to write online reviews and essays about topics ranging from the early Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
to Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
, with more than 5,000 links between reviews. His Haberarts blog and hyperbook was founded in 1994 and currently features over 850 artists, critics and art historians. Of special interest is the connection of art to feminism
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
, philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
and politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
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Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a writer, critic and curator who regularly contributes to AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Magazine, and other publications...
A contemporary online flaneur explores the New York art world. Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a writer, critic and curator who regularly contributes to AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Magazine, and other publications...
was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a writer, critic and designer who regularly contributes to AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Quarterly, Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail
The Brooklyn Rail
The Brooklyn Rail is a political, artistic and literary magazine based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Coverage includes political andliterary essays, art criticism, interviews, original fiction and poetry, and reviews....
and other publications. He is currently Director of Communications at AGBU, the world's largest Armenian non-profit organization.
i love video
Video Artist and blogger Bo Lee curates a collection of art videos. It is updated on a nearly daily basis and one of the few that showcases primarily film and video art'.
Joanne Mattera Art Blog
Although her blog description reads "Guaranteed Biased, Myopic, Incomplete and Journalistically Suspect," Joanne Mattera maintains a site that reports responsibly and in some depth on art shown in New York City and elsewhere, including the Miami art fairs. Mattera is a painter who divides her time between Manhattan and Massachusetts.
jameswagner.com
New York-based James Wagner writes about art and politics. He is the editor, along with Barry Hoggard, of the New York weekly arts calendar ArtCat.
Joanne Mattera Art Blog
Although her blog description reads "Guaranteed Biased, Myopic, Incomplete and Journalistically Suspect," Joanne Mattera maintains a site that reports responsibly and in some depth on art shown in New York City and elsewhere, including the Miami art fairs. Mattera is a painter who divides her time between Manhattan and Massachusetts.
Modern Art Notes
Modern Art Notes, maintained by Tyler Green covers modern and contemporary art issues and criticism. Green attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism. He is a member of the United States section of the International Association of Art Critics
International Association of Art Critics
The International Association of Art Critics was founded in 1950 to revitalize critical discourse, which suffered under Fascism during World War II. AICA was initially affiliated with UNESCO as a non-governmental organization...
(AICA) and lives in Washington, DC. Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
magazine once named MAN a "Best of the Web" site, and publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, the Wall Street Journal, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, the Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep"...
, the Boston Globe, the Denver Post, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area...
, Slate
Slate (magazine)
Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
, and Art in America
Art in America
Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
have all featured MAN.
Modern Art Obsession
MAO is maintained by a young modern-art-obsessed collector who is a member of the Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
Photography Acquisition Committee.
Mustikka
a fresh blog about contemporary art: artists, art fairs, architecture, exhibitions, galleries.
Myartspace Blog
Is an art blog maintained by art critic and writer Brian Sherwin
Brian Sherwin
Brian Sherwin is an American art critic, writer, and blogger with a degree from Illinois College in 2003. Sherwin is the Senior Editor for the artist social networking site myartspace, where he has written an extensive interview series with emerging and established visual artists...
for the artist social networking site Myartspace. The blog focuses on art news, advice for emerging artists, and is home to an ongoing interview series involving artists, gallerists, and art critics from throughout the world. Notable interviewees include Vito Acconci
Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...
, James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...
, and Michael Craig-Martin
Michael Craig-Martin
Michael Craig-Martin RA is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is noted for his fostering of the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, An Oak Tree...
. Several of Sherwin's interviews have been featured on the Juxtapoz website.
NEWSgrist
NEWSgrist, maintained by artist Joy Garnett
Joy Garnett
Joy Garnett is an artist based in New York. She is married to visual artist Bill Jones. Garnett's paintings, based variously on news photographs, scientific imagery and military documents she gathers from the Internet, examine the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics and...
, began in March 2000 as an e-zine devoted to the politics of art and culture in the digital age. For four years it was distributed entirely by email subscription. Garnett currently serves as Arts Editor at Cultural Politics, a contemporary culture, politics and media journal.
New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
Greg Cook's Journal focuses on New England art news, reviews, and artists. Greg Cook is part of the new wave of "underground" cartoonists pushing the boundaries of contemporary comic books by experimenting with styles and subject matter that go beyond traditional newspaper gag strips and superhero pamphlets. His subjects range from history to comedy to fictional dramas about day-to-day life. He has published his comics in Nickelodeon Magazine, Tower Records' Pulse magazine, The Believer, New Art Examiner, Arthur, Non, L'Association's Comix 2000 and other publications.
OrbisPlanis
http://orbisplanis.blogspot.com
The masthead and logo for the blog, showing two people at an art museum, represent the central idea, which is to report, share, and have a conversation about all things related to art. The mission is to inspire us all to be better artists.
PORT
Port
A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land....
Co-founded in 2005 by Jennifer Armbrust and Jeff Jahn
Jeff Jahn
Jeff Jahn is a curator, art critic, artist, historian, blogger and composer based in Portland, Oregon, United States.Jeff Jahn's cultural activities in Portland, Oregon frequently receive attention outside the region on CNN, Art in America, The Art Newspaper and Art News etc...
(who still maintains the site) PORT focuses on critical content related to the Portland art scene. PORT describes itself as "dedicated to catalyzing critical discussion and disseminating information about art as lensed through Portland, Oregon." In the November 2007 Art in America roundtable Plagens described PORT as, "the closest thing to the virtues (paid critics, office help, etc.) of a print art magazine on the Internet...." In 2007 Tyler Green
Tyler Green
Tyler Scott Green , is a retired professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1993-1998.-External links:...
described PORT as, "The undisputed champ of the regional art blogs." on Off Center, the Walker Art Center's blog.
Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood Explores art and themes of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and was created in 2007 by Stephanie Pina. It usually focuses on the women involved with the Pre-Raphaelite circle and recently created the Pre-Raphaelite Reading Project, an attempt to contemplate Pre-Raphaelite subject matter by reading texts referenced by the artists alternated with modern books that draw inspiration from Pre-Raphaelite art. Frequently promotes projects from modern artists who exhibit a similar style to the Pre-Raphaelites.
Review - Art Exhibitions in London
Running since February 2006, this site offers reviews of major exhibitions in London, held at venues such as Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the Royal Academy, the National Gallery and other public and private space in the UK capital.
TheCompleteness
TheCompleteness, a multimedia online journal focusing on the relationships between things. The Completeness is produced in parallel with SoapBox presentation parties, which occur quarterly in New York City. The underlying purpose of both projects is to create a public forum for critique and discussion of the ways in which all things, tangible and intangible, relate to each other.
Two Coats of Paint
Maintained by artist/writer Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint is a daily digest of reviews, commentary, and background information about painting and related subjects. Butler, an art professor at Eastern Connecticut State University
Eastern Connecticut State University
Eastern Connecticut State University is a public, coeducational liberal arts university and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Eastern is located in Willimantic, Connecticut on . Founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest campus in the Connecticut State University System...
, also writes for The Brooklyn Rail
The Brooklyn Rail
The Brooklyn Rail is a political, artistic and literary magazine based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Coverage includes political andliterary essays, art criticism, interviews, original fiction and poetry, and reviews....
and The American Prospect
The American Prospect
The American Prospect is a monthly American political magazine dedicated to American liberalism. Based in Washington, DC, The American Prospect is a journal "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics" which focuses on United States politics...
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rebel:art
rebel:art is an art blog about art and activism, founded as a print magazine in 2004 by Alain Bieber. Today it's one of the biggest art blogs in Germany and covering all kind of subversive artworks from the field of Culture Jamming, Adbusting, Hacktivism
Hacktivism
Hacktivism is the use of computers and computer networks as a means of protest to promote political ends. The term was first coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective named Omega...
, Net. Art, Street Art etc.
Wooster Collective
Wooster Collective
Wooster Collective is a website founded in 2003 that showcases street art from around the world. It is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. Updated by Marc and Sara Schiller, the site also offers podcasting with music and interviews...
The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. Updated by Marc and Sara Schiller, the site also offers podcasting with music and interviews featuring street artists.
Art Sleuth: openmagazinepictures.wordpress.com a blog on the London contemporary art scene. Part of www.openmagazine.co.uk
Whatspace
Whatspace is a Dutch blog on the worldwide contemporary art scene.