General Art Blogs & Art News
General
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.
Absolute Arts.com Art Blog
Items written by bloggers including artists, collectors and dealers, who are all actively engaged in discussion on the site. Many postings deal with fundamental issues like the nature of creativity, whether size matters (in art) or the role of the senses in creating art. Bloggers report on art in travels to all parts of the world. The archives provide about 100 postings (and their responses) going back to July 2004, listed by date and by title.
Artopia
A rather idiosyncratic blog by John Perreault, art critic, curator,
poet and artist. Insightful, provocative and witty commentary on all
art forms and exhibitions. A tad one-sided as he does not post many
remarks by others.
Venetian Red
This cultural blog written and edited by Christine Cariati and Liz
Hager, is based in San Francisco. The authors discuss art history and
the relationship between art and culture, between contemporary art and
the primal compulsion to create.
Art World News
Art Fag CityPaddy Johnson's blog. "As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip."
Art News Blog
"Art News Blog is a selection of visual art news, art reviews and art related stories online. We search the web for some of the more interesting art news stories published each day." A good if inconsistently maintained source of art world news. Stories cover art events and issues from all over the world. The archives, which are organized by date, not by subject.Many stories are accompanied by links to exhibitions, artists, or museums.Not big on discussing "ideas", concentrates on news.
Artforum Diary
Dishes up insider gossip on the scene in art world hot spots including, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and New York. Blog also includes posts from scholarly sources like curators from important art centres that do discuss art and art issues.
Arts and Letters Daily
"News, reviews, ideas, latest trends, breakthroughs, disputes, and gossip in arts and culture...."
We Make Money Not Art
"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." By a writer and curator in the fields of art, design and technology, a design student with a background in visual communication and a computer scientist.