Network Sites

Since 2004, ArtCat has served as a carefully edited guide to exhibits produced by emerging and established artists and galleries all over New York City -- and beyond. From neighborhood arts spaces on Long Island to blockbuster galleries in Manhattan's Chelsea district to underground locations on the fringes of Newark, N.J., the site features the region's most avant-garde happenings in an easy-to-find format that has, over the years, drawn thousands of loyal art world followers on a weekly basis. In addition, the ArtCat Zine provides coverage, reviews and regular columns on the latest arts happenings from a group of area arts writers, while a weekly newsletter, delivered directly into readers' inboxes, provides a handy, curated guide of the best gallery shows in the area.

Bad At Sports is a weekly podcast and daily blog about contemporary art. Founded in 2005, the series focuses on presenting the practices of artists, curators, critics, dealers, various other arts professionals through an online audio format. The blog focuses discussion around contemporary Art issues presenting original articles, reviews and re-bloged "art in pop culture" news.

Penned by Barry Hoggard, bloggy has covered the arts and the politics of culture since 2002. A long-time collector of emerging artists, Hoggard has helped curate group shows of contemporary works, has appeared on panels covering various arts subjects, and has been cited and profiled in media outlets such as Variety, the Brooklyn Rail and ArtKrush. He is co-founder, with his partner, James Wagner, of the arts listings and web hosting service, ArtCat. In 2007, he and Wagner were honored by arts non-profit NURTUREart for their long-time support of the visual arts.

This singular arts and culture aggregator gathers the most fascinating and unusual arts, architecture and design stories from websites high and low and compiles them into an easy-to-navigate, tongue-in-cheek round-up that is issued on an almost-daily basis. Since its launch in late 2007, the site has been linked to by dozens of influential arts and culture blogs and has been cited and/or linked to by mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Time.com. C-Monster.net is run by Carolina A. Miranda, a freelance journalist based in New York City who has written for publications such as Time, Fast Company, ArtNews and Florida Travel + Life on topics related to the arts and architecture, among other subjects. In 2008, she was named one of eight USC Getty fellows in arts journalism.

Voted the best local blog by the readers of the San Antonio Current in 2008, Emvergeoning is devoted to covering every element of the San Antonio cultural scene, but also bridges to ideas and topics brewing at a national and international level. In addition to the visual arts, the blog's various contributors -- all of whom are artists or writers -- report and analyze new happenings in literature, cinema and music. The site was founded by writer Ben Judson, who is also a regular contributor to Art Lies, the Houston-based arts magazine.

Created by Paul Schmelzer, a Minneapolis-based multimedia journalist, founding editor of the Walker Art Center blogs and current editor of the nonprofit news Minnesota Independent, Eyeteeth was founded in January 2003 and has ever since been chronicling developments in socially engaged contemporary art, culture jamming, street art, media literacy, sustainability and emerging forms of protest. Schmelzer's blogging has been heralded in print and online. Worldchanging.com called Eyeteeth "unfailingly interesting and eclectic." Fimoculous.com included it in its list of "30 Best Blogs You (Maybe) Aren't Reading," and Schmelzer's project "Signifier, Signed" was named one of the "Best Links of 2005" by Kottke.org. An Eyeteeth essay was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle article, "Can art still play a subversive role in society?" (2006), and Off-Center, the Walker Art Center blog Schmelzer founded and named, is considered one of the two "best known" art museum blogs by the Los Angeles Times (2008).

Covering art news and happenings from Berlin to New York to Shanghai, the London-based FADwebsite has, for three years, catered to an audience of patrons and aficionados interested in cutting edge art from around the world. The site, which has been cited in The Times of London for its keen eye on the European avant-garde, is run by Mark Westall, who, in the ‘90s ran the culture magazines Hey Tony and Gspot, and who, in recent years, has run a private digital marketing shop. FAD counts on dispatches from roughly half a dozen arts writers and artist contributors from around Europe and the world.

From Washington, D.C., critic Kriston Capps writes news and reviews for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Dallas Morning News, Sculpture, Art Papers, Art in America, the American Prospect, and the Huffington Post. Since 2003, his blog Grammar.police has served as a springboard for much of his work, with a focus on art, politics, and rhetoric. Cited by the Washington Post, the New York Observer, Wonkette, and many peers in arts and political blogging, Grammar.police is a crucial read for the socially and politically engaged art enthusiast. Capps taught a graduate studio art colloquium for the 2008–9 academic term at the University of Maryland. In 2009, he was named a Visual Art Journalist Institute fellow.

A must-read for anyone working in film, Variety has described Greencine as "a daily imperative for any literate cinephile." Produced by writer and critic Aaron Hillis, a contributor to publications such as the L.A. Weekly and Premiere, with the assistance of Craig Phillips, a San Francisco-based screenwriter, this comprehensive site features film and DVD reviews, market analysis, interviews, festival coverage and podcasts. It has been in continuous operation since 2003 and is linked to by media outlets such as the New York Times, Salon and Variety.

Founded in 2001 by banker-turned-filmmaker Greg Allen, greg.org: the making of is an ongoing exploration of inspiration and the creative process. Though Filmmaker Magazine credits greg.org as the world's first filmblog, contemporary art, architecture, design, even fashion and politics regularly find their way into the editorial mix. He has contributed articles to Cabinet Magazine and the New York Times on contemporary culture.

Founded by Boston-based writers Joshua Glenn and Matthew Battles, Hilobrow seeks out the spirited disposition in arts and letters, excoriating a middlebrow culture that soothes, placates, and domesticates. Hilobrow's beat is encyclopedic, taking in film, art, literature, internet culture, science and technology, history, and biography. The site hosts a growing roster of artists and writers who exhibit unstinting freshness and lack of compromise in their work, featuring writing by Luc Sante, Annie Nocenti, Erik Davis, Douglas Wolk, and others, along with original illustration work and curated virtual collections of art and design from outsider to avant-garde.

The House Next Door is a go-to cultural website that covers film, television, books and politics in short posts, long-form essays and video -- as well as a weekly comic strip called 'Directorama.' This year, the site will establish a relationship with popular online entertainment site Slant Magazine as a way of expanding content offerings and extending its reach. Overseen by Time Out New York film writer Keith Uhlich, it has received numerous press mentions, including references in Newsweek and Salon. The House Next Door was recently awarded a Muriel web award for Best Film-Related Website.

Written by New York City-based artist and writer Christopher Reiger since 2005, Hungry Hyaena covers the gamut of contemporary arts topics as related to issues ranging from ecology to philosophy to theology. Geared at professionals working in the arts, he pens insightful essays on arts issues in the news and provides analysis of controversial topics such as shock in art. His blog was recently named one of "The Best Art Blogs in NYC" on Mapcidy.com.

Idiom is an online publication of urban artistic practice. By allowing emerging artists, writers and arts professionals to report on, review, and otherwise cover overlooked or under-thought aspects of the larger creative community, Idiom offers a local, engaged counterpoint to the prevailing discourse of contemporary art.

A long-time writer on the arts, James Wagner also covers progressive politics and queer issues on his eponymous culture site, begun early in 2002. In addition to regularly reporting on art world happenings in New York City (and beyond), he has contributed material to exhibition catalogues, appeared on panels dealing with issues related to arts collecting, blogging and curating. He has served as an art curator both in real spaces and on a web gallery for the highly-regarded Visual AIDS project. His work has been cited in the Brooklyn Rail, ArtKrush, Art and Auction, and Art in America. He is the co-founder, with his partner, Barry Hoggard, of the online arts guide ArtCat. In 2007, he and Hoggard were honored by the celebrated emerging arts non-profit NURTUREart for their work in the visual arts.

Life Without Buildings presents architecture in a way that makes the subject accessible to the non-architect, covering the built environment as it relates to everything from film to fiction to fashion. Since it began publication in 2004, the site has featured interviews with figures such as Charlie Kaufman, related to the release of ‘Synecdoche, New York’ and worked with the seminal 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm to document the recovery and retrofitting of their Ant Farm Media Van v.08 (Time Capsule), now archived at SFMOMA. Life Without Buildings has been featured in Architect Magazine, Architecture and Mark Magazine. The blog is produced by Jimmy Stamp, a San Francisco-based writer who has contributed to media outlets such as Dwell.com, Wallpaper.com and ArcCa.

Since 2005, Matthew Langley, an artist and writer, has run this eponymous cultural blog geared at artists and aficionados. The site covers a broad swath of topics -- art, design, film, music and literature -- and deconstructs techniques as well as trends. Though based in Washington, D.C., Langley regularly travels to report on happenings in locations such as Miami (for Art Basel) and New York (blockbuster Chelsea shows). A graduate of the Corcoran School of Art, his work has been featured in publications such as Art in America and the Washington Post.

Newarttv.com is produced by NewArtTV, Inc. a media and production company based in New York City with a focus on producing premium video content on contemporary art. The creator of NewArtTV is Robert Knafo, art critic/independent curator and the producer of studiovisit.net.

Founded and edited by author Stephen Elliott, The Rumpus is an online magazine focused on culture, as opposed to "pop culture." Updated fifteen times a day, The Rumpus features book, film, and art reviews, interviews, essays, humor writing, and videos alongside columns by Rick Moody, Steve Almond, Antonia Crane, Peter Orner and comics by Paul Madonna, Jon Adams, and Ian Huebert. The Rumpus was named a recommended read by Salon in 2009.

Exploring the subject of information design is this Toronto-based blog produced by trained architect and designer Greg J. Smith. On a regular basis, he brings together and analyzes issues on information visualization, graphic communication and the broader digital culture for an audience of architects, as well as design and web professionals. Smith's posts have been cited by outlets such as Boing Boing, Design Notes and the O'Reilly Radar. He is also a regular contributor to Rhizome and co-curates and edits Vague Terrain, an online digital arts publication.

Established in 2008 by Joanne McNeil, a new media consultant based in Boston, Tomorrow Museum is known for its probing examination of our rapidly shifting culture. In images and essays, the site regularly examines the impact of technology on the arts -- from how novels are written on cell phones to how ideas are exchanged over social networks to the social media influences of graffiti. In its short time, the site has been regularly linked to or cited by popular blogs such as Fimoculous, the Morning News and GalleyCat, as well as the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Maintained by artist and cultural writer Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint reviews, reports and comments on the art of painting and related subjects. In continuous operation since the spring of 2007, it has been cited by arts websites from all over the world and was named one of the top art blogs by the Courtauld Institute in London. An associate professor of Visual Arts at Eastern Connecticut State University, Butler has written about art and culture for The American Prospect and is a contributing writer at The Brooklyn Rail. She has received numerous grants and awards for her painting, including the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant for visual artists.

Since 2005, online video channel VernissageTV has covered a wide gamut of international exhibitions and events in the areas of contemporary art, design and architecture. Run by former gallerist Heinrich Schmidt, and based in Basel, Switzerland, the site has been widely praised for the quality of its content. ArtKrush has hailed VernissageTV for its "brilliantly-edited shorts" while Ceci Moss, of Rhizome.org has said that the site produces "some of the best videos covering contemporary art on the web. Period."

Volume is an independent quarterly magazine that sets the agenda for design. By going beyond architecture's definition of 'making buildings' it reaches out for global views on designing environments, advocates broader attitudes to social structures, and reclaims the cultural and political significance of architecture. Created as a global idea platform to voice architecture any way, anywhere, anytime, it represents the expansion of architectural territories and the new mandate for design. The Volume project has published Archis, magazine for Architecture, City and Visual Culture and its predecessors since 1929. Volume magazine and Archis RSVP events form an experimental think tank devoted to the process of real-time spatial and cultural reflexivity.

VVORK is an online art publication founded in April 2006 with a daily reach of over 10.000 readers. The curatorial focus lies on the smallest common denominator of artistic production, the single work (treated as a primary experience rather than documentation). Apart from the daily online activity, the curatorial practice has been extended to exhibitions in physical art spaces and print publications such as Galerie West (The Hague), MU (Eindhoven), Used Future (Basel) and Code Magazine (Belgium). Vvork is based in Berlin, London and Vienna.