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Art Blog
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 blog entries cover different topics, from art critiques and commentary to insider art world gossip, auction results, art news, personal essays, portfolios, interviews, artists' journals, art marketing advice, and artist biographies. Some artists use art blogs as a form of new media art project. 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. Mainst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. In the 2000s, blogs were often the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, multi-author blogs (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally Editing, edited. MABs from newspapers, other News media, media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog Web traffic, traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. ''Blog'' can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooster Collective
Wooster Collective is a website founded in 2003 that showcases street art from around the world. The New York Times, ''The'' ''New York Times'' called it "a leading street-art blog." It features ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. The site also offers podcasting with music and interviews featuring street artists. The name Wooster comes from Wooster Street (Manhattan), Wooster Street, located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. The website's archive starts in January 2003, and the category list is over 100 items long. Categories include entries as "Cardboard" art and "Guerrilla gardening", as well as locations with a street art presence such as Tokyo, Dublin and Milwaukee. It also contains interviews of street artists, with reviews of artists' new work or of recent gallery exhibits. 11 Spring Street Project Wooster Collective was involved in gaining recognition for street art in its own neighborhood. In 2006,the website collaborated with Caroline C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Butler
Sharon Butler (born 1959) is an American artist and arts writer. She is known for teasing out ideas about contemporary abstraction in her art and writing, particularly a style she called "new casualism" in a 2011 essay. Butler uses process as metaphor and has said in artist's talks that she is keenly interested in creating paintings as documentation of her life. In a 2014 review in the ''Washington Post'', art critic Michael Sullivan wrote that Butler "creates sketchy, thinly painted washes that hover between representation and abstraction.Though boasting such mechanistic titles as 'Tower Vents' and 'Turbine Study,' Butler’s dreamlike renderings, which use tape to only suggest the roughest outlines of architectural forms, feel like bittersweet homages to urban decay." Critic Thomas Micchelli proposed that Butler's work shares "Rauschenberg’s dissolution of the barriers between painting and sculpture," particularly where the canvases are "stapled almost willy-nilly to the fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Coats Of Paint
Founded in 2007 by artist Sharon Butler, ''Two Coats of Paint'' is an independent art blogazine about contemporary painting and related subjects. In 2013 and 2016 ''Two Coats of Paint'' was the recipient of Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grants for blogging. Originally conceived as a digest of articles from around the Internet, ''Two Coats of Paint'' now publishes primarily original content, with an emphasis on abstract art, artist interviews, studio visits, art fair coverage, exhibition listings and reviews, and films related to art. Based in New York, the blogazine has been sponsored by many museums, universities, galleries and arts organizations including the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, New Art Dealers Association (NADA), School of Visual Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, American University, and Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Green (journalist)
Tyler Green is an American author, historian and critic. He produces and hosts The Modern Art Notes Podcast, a weekly digital audio program that features interviews with artists and art historians. Art critic Sebastian Smee called The MAN Podcast "one of the great archives of the art of our time." The BBC's Sophia Smith Galer named the program one of the world's top 25 culture podcasts. Green's book about 19th-century artist Carleton Watkins, ''Carleton Watkins: Making the West American'', was published by University of California Press in October, 2018. Watkins (1829–1916) is considered by some the greatest American photographer of the 19th century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias—pictures that motivated and informed the national park idea. In the ''Los Angeles Times'', Christopher Knight wrote that Watkins is “ and indispensable . . . . The lack of a W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Jahn
Jeff Jahn (born 1970) is a curator, art critic, artist, historian, blogger and composer based in Portland, Oregon, United States. He coined the phrase declaring Portland "the capital of conscience for the United States," in a ''Portland Tribune'' op-ed piece, which was then reiterated in ''The Wall Street Journal''. Jahn's cultural activities in Portland frequently receive attention outside the region from media outlets such as CNN, '' Art in America'', ''The Art Newspaper'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''ARTnews''. Described in the press as "outspoken and provocative", and curatorially as, "a clarion call for Portland's new guard of serious artists—the ones creating a dialog that exceeds the bounds of so-called regional art." He originally took up art criticism when then-''Modern Painters'' editor Karen Wright asked him to contribute to the then-London based magazine in the late 1990s. In 2005, he co-founded PORT, a noted visual art blog. He also lectures on art histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Garnett
Joy Amina Garnett (born 1960) is an artist and writer from New York, United States. Trained as a painter, her artwork explores contemporary practices around cultural preservation, alternative histories and archives. Her interdisciplinary work combines creative writing, research and visual media. In her early paintings (1997–2009), Garnett engaged issues around contemporary consumption of media and the distinctions between documentary, technical, and artistic image making. Her mature work draws on archival images, alternative histories and the legacy of her maternal grandfather, the Egyptian Romantic poet, bee scientist and polymath Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi. Garnett is married to conceptual photographer and video artist Bill Jones. Garnett was awarded a writing fellowship at Yaddo in Spring 2024 to work on her family memoir ''The Bee Kingdom'', which was Longlisted for the First Pages Prize in Creative Nonfiction later that year. She was a 2019-20 Shift Artist in Residence at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyperallergic
''Hyperallergic'' is an online arts magazine, based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded by the art critic Hrag Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian in October 2009, the site describes itself as a "forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking". Publisher ''Hyperallergic'' is published by Veken Gueyikian. Reception Hyperallergic LABS, its Tumblr blog, was named by ''Time'' magazine as one of the "30 Tumblrs to Follow in 2013". ''The New Yorker'' critic Peter Schjeldahl described the site as "infectiously ill-tempered". Holland Cotter of the ''New York Times'' suggested it could contribute to a needed "influx of new commentators who don’t mistake attitude for ideas". The publication was cited by the TED blog as one of "100 Websites You Should Know and Use" in 2007 013 update to the 2007 list In 2018, ''Nieman Reports'' published an article outlining how ''Hyperallergic'' came to rival print art journalism, in which Sarah Douglas, the ARTnews editor in chief, said that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Johnson
Paddy Johnson is a New York-based art educator and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of VVrkshop LLC, a company that includes running the artist membership Netvvrk, founded in 2021. Her background includes art criticism, blogging, curation and writing for various publications. Johnson was the founder and editor of the art blog Art F City (formerly called Art Fag City) which was last updated in 2021. Art F City published a calendar in 2015 titled "Nude Artists as Pandas," featuring naked artists dressed up in panda costumes. Early life Johnson was born in Guelph, Ontario. She was educated at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, and continued her education at Rutgers University. She has slowly gained notoriety as an art critic in the New York art scene. She is also known for her live coverage of major art fairs such as the Armory Show, Venice Biennale, Frieze Art Fair, and Art Basel in Miami and Switzerland. Career Coaching Artists Johnson created Netvv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Schor
Mira Schor (born June 1, 1950) is an American artist, writer, editor, and educator, known for her contributions to critical discourse on the status of painting in contemporary art and culture as well as to feminist art history and criticism. Early life and education Mira Schor's parents Ilya and Resia Schor were Polish Jewish artists who came to the US in 1941. Mira Schor and her older sister Naomi Schor (1943–2001), a noted scholar of French Literature and Feminist theory, were both educated at the Lycée Français de New York. After receiving her Baccalauréat in 1967, Mira Schor studied art history at New York University (WSC B.A. 1970). During this time she worked as an assistant to Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. She attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from 1972-1973, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from in 1973. There she was a participant in the CalArts Feminist Art Program’s renowned project Womanhouse (1972). In the Feminist Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
