Hot Online Resources for Art
Journal of Contemporary Art
http://www.jca-online.com/
JCA is an on-line journal featuring portfolios and interviews with a variety of contemporary artists. The simple format belies the big names that can be found here, including Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Takashi Murakami, Roni Horn, Jeff Koons, and Wolfgang Laib. The site also includes links to web-based art projects by such well-known artists as Vik Muniz and Andrei Roiter.
Arts Journal
http://www.artsjournal.com/
The best resource for daily news concerning the visual arts, performing arts, music, art issues and ideas, people, and more. A large list, updated daily, links the reader to news stories from around the world. Also worth reading are the many blogs, written by a variety of professionals in many different arts fields. New to the site is a section featuring classified ads.
The Art Newspaper
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/
An investigative newspaper featuring articles about old art, new art, decorative art, the commercial and the non-commercial world. The writing strives to be accessible and easy to understand. Some sections are updated daily.
Artkrush
http://beta.artkrush.com/
Artkrush, available at the website or as an e-mail ‘magazine,’ is a bi-monthly guide to the international art and design scene. With news highlights, profiles of emerging artists, interviews with curators, and reviews of shows around the globe, Artkrush offers art awareness in an easily digestible format. Each issue of Artkrush delves into a contemporary theme – such as Art Blogs, Japanese Neo-Pop, or Art Basel Miami Beach – and gives you an insider’s tour of an art trend, niche community, or key art-circuit event.
Artkrush is part of the Flavorpill network of online journals. Beginning as a weekly newsletter about a few music events that founders Sascha Lewis and Mark Mangan sent to a few hundred friends in New York City, the company now publishes a series of nine email magazines, reaching more than 300,000 subscribers. Magazines cover New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and London events, as well as Artkrush (art), Boldtype (literature), Earplug (electronic music), and JC Report (fashion).
Art Info
http://www.artinfo.com/
A large, constantly expanding site. The news section features international coverage of art and culture, daily news, columns, interviews, and feature articles. The gallery database allows you to view customized pages from galleries around the world. The exhibitions calendar, searchable by location, date, and artist, has information about upcoming exhibitions at galleries around the globe. The featured artist section holds detailed guides to selected artists, including images of the work, biographies, works for sale, and calendars of upcoming exhibitions.
Art Net Magazine
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/frontpage.asp
Art Net Magazine features excellent articles about current art shows, artists, and art issues, written by professional critics, curators, and artists. The site also features news and book reviews. Art Net Magazine is linked to Art Net, a huge, searchable database of art, artists, and galleries.
The Artists.org
http://www.the-artists.org/
Large and somewhat confusing, but filled with good information. The artists.org contains a searchable database of artist information, individual pages for many artists with links to photos, galleries, biographies, articles, essays, and interviews. Unique to this site is the ability to search by art movements, schools, styles, and periods, allowing you to generate a list of artists associated with particular movements. A great resource for students.
ArtLex
http://www.artlex.com/
In this online art dictionary, you can find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art and visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, quotations and cross-references.
