by C.J. Stahl
This truly is the digital age. With Amazon “generously” allotting eligible Kindle e-books to be shared for a one time period of fourteen days, it seems like the tradition of actual book sharing is coming to a slow death. That’s not to say you can’t borrow Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus off a book buddy for a period of time until they forget about the arrangement and you walk away book in hand, scot-free. It does mean, however, that all of you fancy individuals with the newest, weirdest book readers will be substantially limited in your sharing abilities. I’ve never been good with, or cool enough to, keep up with the latest in technology, but I did just start using Google Reader, so today we’re going to talk about blogs.
Blogs are sharable, can be incredibly content-heavy and/or just really enjoyable. Let me take a moment to shamelessly ask you to PLEASE SHARE THIS BLOG! Okay back to business. Few trivial things truly make me feel as good as when I’m able to recommend a blog to someone who’s never heard of it before, or when someone shares a blog with me that I end up loving. This of course is dependent primarily on two necessary factors: the blog is actually good and it is relevant to the individual’s interests. As I’d stated earlier in regard to technology, I’m never at it’s cusp. Throughout my life this has also been true for most art and culture as well. When I really think about it, most of the art, music, and culture that I truly identify with has come as some type of inheritance.
Most of us were probably taught long ago about the importance of sharing. It’s likely, in these silly economic times, that deep in our hearts we are at once scared to share for fear of running out of our necessary resources. Now, we have been moved to share, because it’s getting easier and easier to see that we are all in this together (at least 99% of us are in this together) not to mention we want our voice heard and we have realized we need to share to have this happen.
So without further adieu, here are a few of my favorites blogs:
Edward Winkleman is incredible, hands down. He is the owner/gallerist of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea (http://winkleman.com/ this is the gallery site), and he is incredibly close to his blog. You can typically expect one substantial post a day, with the exception of weekends, ranging in topic from contemporary art and its institutions to politics. Other than being wonderfully intelligent, the greatest characteristic about Winkleman’s commentary is that there is always a well developed sense of personal ethics that you can pick up on, whether he’s discussing the Occupy Wall Street movement or the commercial art market (in which he is quite comfortable critiquing and in giving his insider perspective). If you aren’t already familiar, do yourself the favor and check out Ed’s blog. http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/
Art Fag City, voted the Best Art Blog by the Village Voice for 2010 is another excellent choice. Led by widely published editorial director Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City’s focus is New York art news and reviews. This could sound limiting but AFC has a pretty wide range with a lot of fresh, young voices writing for it. Multiple posts a day and a “links” post from Ms. Johnson will add up to enough daily content to make your eyes burn. http://www.artfagcity.com/
Hyperallergic describes themselves probably best: “a forum for serious, playful and radical thinking about art in the world today.” I just recently started following this blog, and so far I have not been disappointed. Hyperallergic covers a broader geographical range than Winkleman and AFC, and tends to be more inclusive of what can be recognized as subcultural influence. If you enjoy both high contemporary and that which is influenced by street art and illustration, Hyperallergic does a fantastic job of covering various trends seamlessly. Multiple posts a day and a touch of mouthy commentary makes reading about sometimes heady work really refreshing. http://hyperallergic.com/
If you’d like to share any of your favorite blogs with the staff at IN THEORY, we’d love to receive your suggestions. Feel free to email us at pafagradjournal@gmail.com
Who knows, maybe we’ll put together one of those lists.
This truly is the digital age. With Amazon “generously” allotting eligible Kindle e-books to be shared for a one time period of fourteen days, it seems like the tradition of actual book sharing is coming to a slow death. That’s not to say you can’t borrow Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus off a book buddy for a period of time until they forget about the arrangement and you walk away book in hand, scot-free. It does mean, however, that all of you fancy individuals with the newest, weirdest book readers will be substantially limited in your sharing abilities. I’ve never been good with, or cool enough to, keep up with the latest in technology, but I did just start using Google Reader, so today we’re going to talk about blogs.
Blogs are sharable, can be incredibly content-heavy and/or just really enjoyable. Let me take a moment to shamelessly ask you to PLEASE SHARE THIS BLOG! Okay back to business. Few trivial things truly make me feel as good as when I’m able to recommend a blog to someone who’s never heard of it before, or when someone shares a blog with me that I end up loving. This of course is dependent primarily on two necessary factors: the blog is actually good and it is relevant to the individual’s interests. As I’d stated earlier in regard to technology, I’m never at it’s cusp. Throughout my life this has also been true for most art and culture as well. When I really think about it, most of the art, music, and culture that I truly identify with has come as some type of inheritance.
Most of us were probably taught long ago about the importance of sharing. It’s likely, in these silly economic times, that deep in our hearts we are at once scared to share for fear of running out of our necessary resources. Now, we have been moved to share, because it’s getting easier and easier to see that we are all in this together (at least 99% of us are in this together) not to mention we want our voice heard and we have realized we need to share to have this happen.
So without further adieu, here are a few of my favorites blogs:
Edward Winkleman is incredible, hands down. He is the owner/gallerist of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea (http://winkleman.com/ this is the gallery site), and he is incredibly close to his blog. You can typically expect one substantial post a day, with the exception of weekends, ranging in topic from contemporary art and its institutions to politics. Other than being wonderfully intelligent, the greatest characteristic about Winkleman’s commentary is that there is always a well developed sense of personal ethics that you can pick up on, whether he’s discussing the Occupy Wall Street movement or the commercial art market (in which he is quite comfortable critiquing and in giving his insider perspective). If you aren’t already familiar, do yourself the favor and check out Ed’s blog. http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/
Art Fag City, voted the Best Art Blog by the Village Voice for 2010 is another excellent choice. Led by widely published editorial director Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City’s focus is New York art news and reviews. This could sound limiting but AFC has a pretty wide range with a lot of fresh, young voices writing for it. Multiple posts a day and a “links” post from Ms. Johnson will add up to enough daily content to make your eyes burn. http://www.artfagcity.com/
Hyperallergic describes themselves probably best: “a forum for serious, playful and radical thinking about art in the world today.” I just recently started following this blog, and so far I have not been disappointed. Hyperallergic covers a broader geographical range than Winkleman and AFC, and tends to be more inclusive of what can be recognized as subcultural influence. If you enjoy both high contemporary and that which is influenced by street art and illustration, Hyperallergic does a fantastic job of covering various trends seamlessly. Multiple posts a day and a touch of mouthy commentary makes reading about sometimes heady work really refreshing. http://hyperallergic.com/
If you’d like to share any of your favorite blogs with the staff at IN THEORY, we’d love to receive your suggestions. Feel free to email us at pafagradjournal@gmail.com
Who knows, maybe we’ll put together one of those lists.
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