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An '''art blog''' is a common type of [[blog]] that comments on art. More recently, as with other types of blogs, some art blogs have taken on '[[web 2.0]]' social networking features. Art blogs that adopt this sort of change can develop to become a source of information on art events (listings and maps), a way to share information and images, or virtual meeting ground.

Art blogsblog entries cover different topics, from art critiques and commentary to insider art world gossip, auction results, art news, personal essays, portfolios, interviews, artists' journals, art marketing advice, and artist biographies. Some artists use art blogs as a form of new media art project.

Art blogs may also serve as a forum to reach out to anybody interested in art – be it painting, sculpture, print making, creative photography, video art, conceptual art, or new media. In this way, they may be visited not only for the practitioners of different forms of art, but also collectors, connoisseurs, and critics.

In 2011, art critic [[Brian Sherwin]] interviewed art critic [[Mat Gleason]] of [[Coagula Art Journal]] for Faso.com's FineArtViews blog. The interview between Sherwin and Gleason focused on [[contemporary art]] criticism and the role of art blog'sblogs in present-day [[art criticism]] among other issues. Gleason suggested to Sherwin that art blogs and the development of new media have become a "''blow''" to traditional print art magazines. Gleason and Sherwin also discussed how [[bloggers]] form a "''pack mentality''" based on region and perceived significance.<ref>[http://faso.com/fineartviews/27987/fineartviews-interview-mat-gleason-art-critic-and-founder-of-coagula-art-journal "FineArtViews Interview: Mat Gleason --— Art Critic and Founder of Coagula Art Journal"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111218141116/http://faso.com/fineartviews/27987/fineartviews-interview-mat-gleason-art-critic-and-founder-of-coagula-art-journal |date=18 December 2011 }}, Faso.com -– FineArtViews. Retrieved 7 January 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/26/fineartsviews-interviews-_n_828719.html "FineArtViews Interviews Mat Gleason, Art Critic/Founder of Coagula"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420061624/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/26/fineartsviews-interviews-_n_828719.html |date=20 April 2012 }}, ''HuffPost''. Retrieved 7 January 2012.</ref>

On 28 April 2009, Art Connect produced an in-depth interview by Peter Cowling for [[Art Connect]] and Jessica Palmer of [[Bioephemera]]. The interview, titled "It is not Really Bloggers vs. Journalists, You Know,"<ref>Cowling, Peter and Palmer, Jessica, "It is not Really Bloggers vs. Journalists, You Know", April 2009 {{cite web|url=http://www.loveart-gallery.com/art-blog-reviews/2009/04/27/extraordinary-art-blogs-series-part-seven-it-is-not-really-bloggers-vs-journalists-you-know |title=ArchivedExtraordinary copyArt Blogs Series, Part seven: It is not Really Bloggers vs. Journalists, You Know &#124; art blog reviews |access-date=2009-04-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701133911/http://www.loveart-gallery.com/art-blog-reviews/2009/04/27/extraordinary-art-blogs-series-part-seven-it-is-not-really-bloggers-vs-journalists-you-know/ |archive-date=1 July 2009}}</ref> pointed to five trends that were shaping the communication and discussion of art on the internet, and that the real picture was much bigger than just the bloggers vs. journalists that had been discussed to date. These five points were:

* Media convergence will continue to improve [[consumer choice]], providing a better match between desire and availability.

* Content producers are just that. Consumers care less about how and where they can get the content they want. What they do consistently care about is the quality of the content, and whether the content is produced to their timescales.

* The content producer-to-content consumer relationship is changing. Requests for feedback and further debate have been partially overtaken by things like conversations, and further fragmentation will certainly occur.

On 8 January 2009, Regina Hackett, art critic of the [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]], noted in her article "Art Blogsblogs Hithit Wikipedia"<ref>Hackett, Regina, "Art Blogs Hit Wikipedia." ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', January 2009. {{cite web |url=http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/art/archives/159041.asp |title=ArchivedArt copyblogs hit Wikipedia &#124; Seattle Arts News and Reviews – seattlepi.com |access-date=2009-01-19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720231949/http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/art/archives/159041.asp |archive-date=20 July 2011}}</ref> that commercially run, mainstream media -supported, art blogs face issues of acceptance among the independent art blogging community.

On 7 January 2009, ''[[The Village Voice]]'' art critic Martha Schwendener suggests that art blogs have helped shape a more laissez-faire climate for art writing. "Art blogs have created a new, largely unedited, admirably 'unprofessional'—hence, democratic—venue for people to speak their minds, gossip, or theorize about art."<ref>Schwendener, Martha, "What Crisis? Some Promising Futures for Art Criticism." ''The Village Voice'', January 2009. {{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-07/art/what-crisis-some-promising-futures-for-art-criticism/ |title=ArchivedNew copyYork Art – What Crisis? Some Promising Futures for Art Criticism – page 1 – Village Voice |access-date=2009-01-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116123956/http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-07/art/what-crisis-some-promising-futures-for-art-criticism |archive-date=16 January 2009}}</ref>

In September 2008, the ''[[Brooklyn Rail]]'' contributor [[James Kalm]] produced an article titled "Virtually Overwhelmed.".<ref>[http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/09/artseen/brooklyn-dispatches-virtually-overwhelmed Kalm, James, "Virtually Overwhelmed." ''Brooklyn Rail''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105114244/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/09/artseen/brooklyn-dispatches-virtually-overwhelmed |date=5 January 2009 }}</ref> A practicing artist and video blogger himself, Kalm has this to saysays about art blogs, "The art blogosphere is a work in progress, and you’ve got to be vigilant of hidden agendas. As with anything online, take it with a grain of salt. Have fun, speak out, but don’t let it cut too much into your studio time; you might end up in a twelve step-program."

In an October 2007 article for artnet''Artnet Magazine'', critic Charlie Finch suggested that art critiques and reviews by art bloggers are overrated and lengthy, and implied that the art blogging community was overly insular.<ref>Finch, Charlie, "A NOT-SO-VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY" ''artnet Magazine'', {{cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/finch10-26-07.asp |title=ArchivedA copyNot-So-Vast Right Wing Conspirancy – artnet Magazine |access-date=2009-01-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418041306/http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/finch10-26-07.asp |archive-date=18 April 2009}}</ref> The article includes several ''ad hominen'' arguments against specific art bloggers, and ventures the opinion that art blogs "have no readers".

In December 2008, the art blog [[Maurice Benayoun|''The Dump]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-dump.net/|title=The-dump|website=www.the-dump.net|access-date=23 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212143100/http://the-dump.net/|archive-date=12 February 2018}}</ref> where the new-media artist [[Maurice Benayoun]] dumped hundreds of undone art projects, was the first to become a doctorate thesis in art and art science in and of itself: ''Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art'' Université Pantheon Sorbonne (6 December 2008). This PhD was directed by Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet. Jury: Prof. [[Hubertus von Amelunxen]], Louis Bec, artist, Prof. [[Derrick de Kerckhove]], and Prof. Jean da Silva.

Other coverage of art blogs includes interviews of art bloggers, reviews of art blog sitesites, and recommendations of favouritefavorite sites. Art Connect has produced around 90 reviews of art blogs, and undertakes interviews with art bloggers.<ref>[http://www.loveart-gallery.com/art-blog-reviews/ Art Connect review of art blogs] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124135259/http://www.loveart-gallery.com/art-blog-reviews/ |date=24 January 2009 }}</ref> The [[Courtauld Institute of Art]], in London, maintains a list of recommended art blogs.<ref>List of art blogs recommended by the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, {{cite web |url=http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/booklibrary/collections_services/links.shtml/ |title=Courtauld Institute of Art : Book Library Useful Links |access-date=2009-01-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029201701/http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/booklibrary/collections_services/links.shtml |archive-date=29 October 2008}}</ref> Directories such as Yahoo! Directory and BlogCatalog maintain a list of user-submitted art blogs.

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*''[[Mira Schor|A Year of Positive Thinking]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/|title=A Year of Positive Thinking -– Mira Schor|website=ayearofpositivethinking.com|access-date=23 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707202156/http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/ |archive-date=7 July 2011}}</ref> is published by artist and activist [[Mira Schor]], "a cheerful postscript" to her book of essays on art, culture and politics called ''A Decade of Negative Thinking''.

*''[[Paddy Johnson|Art F City]],''" founded by [[Paddy Johnson]], thisis an officially non-profit art blog that covers new art in New York. At the''The NYTimesNew York Times'', Holland Cotter named AFC as a blog that "combines criticism, reporting, political activism and gossip on an almost-24-hour news cycle."<ref>Holland Cotter,"Lost in the Gallery-Industrial Complex," New York Times, 17 January 2014.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/arts/design/holland-cotter-looks-at-money-in-art.html |title=ArchivedHolland copyCotter Looks at Money in Art – the New York Times |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2017-02-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729010753/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/arts/design/holland-cotter-looks-at-money-in-art.html |archive-date=29 July 2017}}</ref>

*''[[Maurice Benayoun|The Dump]]'' by the French new media artist [[Maurice Benayoun]] deliveringdelivers hundreds of undone art projects<ref>[http://www.cgw.com/Print.aspx?Page=/Publications/CGW/2009/Volume-32-Issue-4-Apr-2009-/Without-Bounds.aspx] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716201324/http://www.cgw.com/Print.aspx?Page=%2FPublications%2FCGW%2F2009%2FVolume-32-Issue-4-Apr-2009-%2FWithout-Bounds.aspx |date=16 July 2011 }} ''Without Bounds'' by Barbara Robertson in CGW volume 32 issue 4 April 2009</ref>

*''[[NEWSgrist]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsgrist.typepad.com/|title=NEWSgrist -– where spin is art|website=newsgrist.typepad.com|access-date=23 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323152450/http://newsgrist.typepad.com/|archive-date=23 March 2018}}</ref> maintained by artist [[Joy Garnett]], began in March 2000 as an e-zine devoted to the politics of art and culture in the digital age. For four years, it was distributed entirely by email subscription.

*''[[PORT]]'', co-founded in 2005 by Jennifer Armbrust and [[Jeff Jahn]] (who still maintains the site), ''PORT''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portlandart.net/|title=PORT: portlandart.net -– Portland art + news + reviews|website=www.portlandart.net|access-date=23 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121025150/http://www.portlandart.net/|archive-date=21 November 2017}}</ref> focuses on critical content related to the Portland art scene. ''PORT'' describes itself as "dedicated to catalyzing critical discussion and disseminating information about art as lensed through Portland, Oregon." In the November 2007 ''Art in America'' roundtable Plagens described ''PORT'' as, "the closest thing to the virtues (paid critics, office help, etc.) of a print art magazine on the Internet...." . In 2007, [[Tyler Green (journalist)|Tyler Green]] described ''PORT'' as, "The undisputed champ of the regional art blogs." on ''Off Center'', the Walker Art Center's blog.

*''The[[Two SiloCoats of Paint]],''<ref>{{cite web|url=[http://thesilowww.raphaelrubinsteintwocoatsofpaint.com/|title=The SiloTwo byCoats Raphaelof Rubinstein|website=thesilo.raphaelrubinstein.com|access-date=23Paint] April 2018{{webarchive|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2018032209470920140705141241/http://thesilowww.raphaelrubinsteintwocoatsofpaint.com/ |archive-date=225 MarchJuly 2014 2018}}</ref> is maintainedfounded by art[[Sharon criticButler]] andin poet2007, Raphaelis Rubinstein.dedicated A revisionist "dictionary" ofto contemporary artpainting aimedand atrelated challenging existing accounts of art since 1960subjects and to offerreceived a fresh look at some well-known artists, The Silo was originally funded by an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant in 2013–14.