These blogs are featured in our news feed from time to time, and generally could be considered as leaders in their particular field, city, or country. Due to the large amount of blogs, we are generally cautious in adding too many specialist blogs (Street art, personal photography, artist’s collectives) that may not be of great general interest.
A mashup of Dan Fox, Jennifer Higge, Sam Thorne et al’s comments. Nice; bounces between Frieze-quality posts and a lot of photographs of opened mail.
Now we’re talking. Daily Serving has what is lazily often called ‘a good eye’.
The director of Kaliman Gallery organizes this extensive, almost daily list of the best exhibitions in private galleries internationally.
With a focus on what exhibitions are current – rather than best images or artists – CAD is a good way to keep track of what’s happening in the galleries. It’s good to have a good European one on the list.
A portfolio of Toronto-based art critic Randy Gladman’s writing and curating projects. The site also offers “a library of noteworthy books about art and fun interviews with cool creative people”, regularly updated.
The LA art blog, as they say. Pretty much big pictures of shows and the backs of people’s legs. Don’t go changing.
The monster. Another NYC monolith. Tends to the dot-point to save time. Mega links to browse.
Confusing mess of a layout. Plenty of what’s on.
Pretty much unmissable – unless it forgets to pay its bills, which it looks like at the moment. Keeping it in the list in case it comes back.
Mixes current show images with nicely picked contemporary art images from the last 5 years. Regularly updated. An ‘artist’s’ art blog.
Even more pictures. Features artists’ work – mainly without commentary. ‘Special.’
Sorry New York Times, seems you’re a blog in this century.
Educationy in tone, a good roundup of whatswhat. Regularly updated.
More from the ArtCat empire, this is regularly updated with some pretty good stuff.
Other Recommended Blogs – Some of these blogs are new to our list, and also sometimes feature in our feed.
Ranges from Contemporary, Modern, and Pre-Modern art, goes well with the Tate Channel – small videos made to accompany exhibitions at the Tate Modern et al.
“A journal of contemporary art published digitally for easy reproduction and circulation by anyone and everyone around the world.” PDFs for the people!
A wide range of content, from contemporary art exhibitions, to new museum placements and events.
Visual arts from Africa, Asia, and the Americas “in the international art context”.
James Wagner lives in New York and writes about art and politics. He is the editor, along with Barry Hoggard, of the arts calendar ArtCal. Three thumbs up.
E-Flux may not be a blog, but their Journal – available online – could be an especially fancy one. More art articles than you can read, so it is not always included in our feed.
I expect good things in the future from these kids. You may wish to go straight to their picks.
A text-heavy (in a good way) online journal from the Netherlands (in Dutch).
FlashArtOnline.com – the online component to Flash Art Magazine.
Contemporary abstract paintings and graphics.
Online site of this offline magazine.
High quality, this site provides video stories on contemporary art and other subjects.
The NY dealer’s thoughts on art and politics. Nice n regular. Follow the links for more.
Theory blog with isolated images.
“We visit art galleries, listen to conferences, cover art and design events, take a lot of pictures, interview creative people, and we document these findings in order to share them with you.” I wonder if anyone ever says thank you.
Afterall focuses on contemporary art and its relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context. And looks good whilst doing it. From the UK.
Paddy Johnson. Mainly New York stuff.
Art and politics (politics and art).
Painting, mainly, New York…mainly.
A rare, quality blog to accompany a contemporary art institution (here, the Walker Art Center)
The ‘Rail, a project largely by Phong Bui, is an institution – albeit a friendly one.
Quite regularly updated blog by Joann Kim (NY).
A whole bunch of art market musings; funny/funnyish cartoons.
In the ArtCat, Idiom Mag, and James Wagner stable it seems – they all seem to be interrelated – and they do all provide good content.
Un-lite NY/ LA gallery musings from John Perreault on Arts Journal. More like little essays, which is nice.
You have to register to get into this massive archive of art theory, with daily contributions by users (mainly text based).
16 Miles is NYC based, but gets out a bit. Updated every 3 or so day, refreshingly ambitious.
Melbourne’s leading independent magazine for contemporary art.
We All Together – large format images (a large proportion contemporary art), that you view via a horizontal slider.
Regina Hackett’s Arts Journal blog.
Paige West’s (a collection curator) various musings on contemporary art, and on buying stuff.
A good UK blog, ranges from big to very small shows.
From South London, a tightly curated collection tending towards contemporary primitive abstraction. Goes well with the author’s collection of interviews with painters, (standard) INTERVIEW.
Looking for a Berlin blog, this one still tends to cover NY/LA and ‘stuff I like’. Nice to have a European perspective.
Andrew Frost in Sydney collates this most indispensable of blogs on the (mainly east coast) Australian art scene. As seen on TV.
Blogger discussions about contemporary art exhibitions in London.
Mainly photography, and urban photography at that.
Good quality contemporary art images, and occasional shots from art fairs and exhibitions.
Lots of stuff. Art featured can tend towards the street art end of the spectrum.
Instantly appealing stuff – some nice things.
Contemporary art talk. Comes in both podcast and readcast varieties. Good chunk of stuff each month.
One artist per entry. Link goes to their ‘art’ category.
Michelle Kasprzak’s views on contemporary art curating. Good for finding curatorial jobs. Not to be confused with….
The equally good online magazine on curating.
Nice looking site.
London exhibitions, Vyner Street et al. Ironically looks like it hasn’t been updated for a while.
From Toronto. Review coming soon.
Long running contemporary art blog run by artist/photographer Sundari Carmody.
Nice site. If I see some good work on here I’ll make a mention.
Contemporary Art at Martha Garzon.com
Martha Garzon’s blog is a particularly wide-ranging blog on contemporary art, updated for the courses she teaches.
Artist William Powhida makes work about growing his own fame, and in the process makes a blog addressing general issues and events affecting emerging contemporary artists. Includes his “enemies” list. Self referential. Once a week kinda deal.
Well yes and it’s visually beautiful, which seems to be a priority.
One of many photo blogs, but a good one.
David John (LA). Sits somewhere between covering contemporary art and interior design.
If it’s not in NY it’s not here. Worth a trip. Extensive links.
Should take you to the English page of this important German magazine archive.
The Art Newspaper, online.
Hue & Cry is a gorgeously designed, black and white, offset, 170mm by 240mm literary slash art journal based in New Zealand. Just as pretty online.
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