Contemporary Art & Art History
Modern & Contemporary Art
Akrylic"Randy Gladman is a Toronto-based art critic, curator and consultant.... His articles about art and culture have appeared in many magazines including Artforum, Contemporary, ArText, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Smock, NY Arts, Strength and others." Postings cover a wide range of art topics and include reviews, interviews, and essays on contemporary artists. Site can be browsed by artist, critic or keyword. Reading lists enhance each article.
Art Addict
Paige West, art curator and gallery founder posts direct and honest commentary on contemporary art. Items include reviews with collecting advice. Posts are organized by categories like Artists, Care and Handling, Current Affairs and Collector Notes. Under Gallery Talk, you'll find a humourous list of questions to ask at galleries when you come across a snobbish employee. Lively responses and opinions from other art lovers, artists, dealers complement the author's. West is not a critic but more of an enthusiast and supporters so she's more likely to discuss shows she likes so there is not the edginess of say Tyler Green's blog.
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic is a New York-based blogazine, podcast & journal. It is intended to be "a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about visual art. Combining the best of art blog and magazine culture.... In addition to the blogazine, HyperallergicLABS is a visual laboratory that mines the internet for images, memes, quotes, links and videos. LABS is a curatorial experiment that welcomes public submissions."
Modern Art Notes
Art journalist, Tyler Green writes on a variety of topics from artist and exhibitions reviews to current art world events and issues. His commentary can be biting on objects of his disapproval or eloquent on those he likes. Provides useful inks to other related sites. Difficult to search.
Modern Art Obsession
The
author is a collector of modern art. His blog is intended to be "just a
place to vent, and share our experiences with other art collectors."
Good for highlighting less well known exhibitions and artists.
New Art
"Notes
on installation art, performance art, interactive art,
digital art, web art, theater, cinema, painting, sculpture, and
more...." Posts new images, Utube videos and commentary of artwork
regularly.
Toronto-based art blog focusing on contemporary Canadian art. Includes interviews with artists, dealers, collectors and curators, tips on collecting, articles on the major exhibitions across the country and art guides to each major city.
CultureGrrl
An Arts Journal Weblog by Lee Rosenbaum that combines useful cultural commentary, original reporting and good writing.
Art History
Smarthistory: the blog
Part of the Smarthistory website
which is being developed by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker as a
dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the static Western art
history textbook.
The Art History Blog
The
Art History Blog is "where you’ll find brief, to the point posts all
about art history. And not the boring stuff, either, but those fun
anecdotes that only a really spunky docent can tell you. So if you’ve
ever been intimidated by an art museum, fear not: we think anyone can
look at art and try to figure it out, the same as any art historian,
and we want to help you do it."
Provides the latest news and essays about art, contemporary and historical. Regularly updated.