 I spend a lot of time reading in this new realm of the blogosphere. Auction reports, artist's diaries, studio notebooks and culture pages flow past my eyes on a daily basis. In time I have come to appreciate the energy and effort it takes to put content up on the internet. So for this week, I am taking a tour through some of the more thought provoking blogs, forums, and news web sites for the Visual Arts. This survey is neither objective or scientific and certainly very opinionated. I hope you will visit some of these sites at your earliest convenience.
Keith Tilford has started a new blog entitled "metastable equilibrium". In his inaugural post he presents some very decided musings on Marcel Duchamp. His analysis is both unique and spot on. I am also looking forward to his next exhibit at the James Harris Gallery. His first solo exhibition was a high point in May of 2004. If his blog is as meticulous as the gifted researcher he is, this is going to be a must read in the blogosphere.
Carolyn Zick is in Iceland for the month of December doing a residency at Akureyri . Her blog "Studio Notebook" is always full of fresh insights by a practicing artist. She seems to cover the Seattle - Portland scene with a lively eye, deft prose, and a sense of humor. Speaking of Portland, the "Diary" by Eva Lake is equally full of insights and observations on the visual arts. You should try to listen to her ARTSTAR RADIO via the internet or live on Mondays at 5pm on 1450 am KPSU, Portland Oregon.
Art Dish
is a forum and a web zine currently edited by Jim Demetre. The forums are a good way to find out about exhibitions, openings, calls for artists, studios, drawing sessions and SAMology [like what the CIA used to do with the Politburo during the cold war]literally, the study of the Seattle Art Museum. The site has been recently redesigned to look very clean and easy to read. The other major source for Visual Arts News is of course Art Net Magazine. Here you can get a snapshot of what is going on in various places including New York, Chicago, Paris, London, and Rome. The best daily digest of cultural reporting is Arts Journal.
Their blogroll include two must reads: The Hon. Terry Teachout who writes"About Last Night"
and Tyler Green who writes "Modern Art Notes" [MAN].
Print media still cover the Visual Arts albeit with diminishing space. The PI's Regina Hackett usually gets the story first, although I wonder if Shelia Farr over at the Seattle Times is asleep at the critical wheel so to speak. The Stranger and the Weekly do a competent job with the Visual Arts Listings. There are a lot of sources out there and these have been just a few. The real deal with the internet is that while not driving print media out of business, it is helping to make the public more visually literate.
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