"To begin with, this will not be a magazine in the normal manner, providing broad coverage of the art scene, maintaining a regular schedule of publication and canvassing for advertising revenue. The underlying idea is that, for a number of reasons which have to do with the current state of art, 9W wants to create a forum for a new generation of artists, critics and art historians to develop their ideas." [qtd. from Paul Rodgers' editorial, October 2000]
"Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 85,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced by organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured on MTV and PBS, in the Wall Street Journal and Wired, and in hundreds of other newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world." [qtd. from http://adbusters.org/information/foundation/]
"Where the digerati meet the literati . . ."
"The American Center for Artists is a new electronic magazine that focuses on the biography and autobiography of writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and other artists. It also presents new and reprinted works by these artists as well as articles about them." [qtd. from http://www.americanartists.org/]
". . . un organisme sans but lucratif (charte provinciale du Québec, Canada) dont le mandat consiste à faire valoir la cyberculture sous l'angle des pratiques artistiques contemporaines . . ." [qtd. from http://archee.qc.ca/info.htm]
"Aristos is an independent journal advocating objective standards in arts scholarship and criticism. We argue that the concept art (in the sense of the traditional "fine arts" of painting, sculpture, literature, music, and dance) can be objectively defined. Critical of both modernism and postmodernism, we vigorously oppose the increasingly bizarre and meaningless work promoted in the name of art since the early years of the twentieth century--from abstract painting and sculpture through the seemingly endless concoctions of postmodernism. We also champion contemporary work that, like the great art of past centuries, is concerned with fundamental human values, and is both intelligible and well crafted." [qtd. from http://www.aristos.org/aristos.htm]
"ArtandCulture.com is a dynamic destination that delivers unique access to the best arts and cultural content and related products available on the web today. Staffed by a team of expert curators, ArtandCulture.com provides visitors with the complete consumer experience. Comprehensive information and shopping services enable visitors to find exactly what they are looking for and even discover something new. At ArtandCulture.com, information on the visual arts, performing arts, design, literature, music and film is presented using the web's first interconnected guide to the arts. ArtandCulture.com is focused on creating the context that makes information truly meaningful." [qtd. from http://www.artandculture.com/ACStatic/ABOUT_PAGES/about.html]
"The leading international magazine covering contemporary Asian and Pacific visual art, providing a transcultural meeting place for an extraordinary diversity of cultures, attitudes and art practices. Each issue of this quarterly includes essays, exhibition reviews, auction and city reports, book and museum reviews, exhibition commentary and the Art Directory a comprehensive listing of specialist galleries and institutions." [qtd. from http://www.artasiapacific.com/index2.html]
"ArtBusiness.com provides complete art services, art appraisals, art price data, news, articles, and market information to art collectors, artists, and fine arts professionals. We appraise all works of fine art and offer expert advice and consulting on buying, selling, and collecting. Our database contains over 3,000,000 price records and biographical information on over 250,000 artists. We post a wide variety of current art business articles, are the only site on the web that reviews specialized art reference books, and we sell out-of-print art reference books and exhibition catalogues." [qtd. from http://www.artbusiness.com/]
"The magazine of digital arts and culture."
"This 'cyber gazette' includes news, auction results and comments, advices to buyers and collectors, biographies, adverts as well as an incredible price guide regarding old masters, nineteenth and twentieth century painters and sculptors, furniture, Chinese and Japanese Art, Islamic Art, glass, porcelains and ceramics, books and manuscripts, silver, miniatures etc, and a useful agenda of most exhibitions and auction sales around the world. Let's get tuned to the 21th Century - with Artcult, weave your way throughout the world and give yourself the chance of being discovered by millions of people. Join the Internet, the communication system of the 21st Century." [qtd. from http://www.artcult.com/about.htm]
"The first art newspaper on the net."
"Artexte Information Centre was established in 1980 to collect and disseminate information on all aspects of contemporary visual art. To provide access to the fruits of the intense activity in contemporary art, and to let these resources play out fully in relation to current critical thought on artistic creation, Artexte has developed three complementary modes of intervention: research, documentation and publishing." [qtd. from http://www.artexte.ca/a_info.htm]
On-line version of one of the world's leading art publications.
art metropole specializes in contemporary art in multiple format: artists books, multiples, video, audio, electronic media, and so on. We offer artists' products for sale on our premises and through this web site. We also publish, promote, exhibit and distribute artists products in various formats. [qtd. from http://www.artmetropole.com/site/index.html]
Web version of another major U.S. art journal.
A newspaper for the art world. "We recognise that the art world is part of ordinary life. For example, exhibitions do not happen just because someone thinks it would be nice to put a certain group of art together. In reality, there is a complicated combination of factors which includes high finance, international diplomacy and the aspirations of museum directors. We report on old art, new art, decorative art, the commercial and the non-commercial world--but we are very careful not to mix the last two up, as that lead to puffery, another of the besetting sins of art publications." [qtd. from http://www.theartnewspaper.com/aboutus/aboutus.html]
"Art On Paper is a bimonthly art magazine devoted to works on paper. It presents a balanced range of historical periods and media—prints, drawings, and photography—and publishes scholarly and critical essays as well as wide-ranging information about the art market. Each issue contains news and announcements, and reviews not only of current and recent museum and gallery exhibitions but also independently published artist’s books, limited-edition prints, and specialized museum and dealer catalogues." [qtd. http://www.artonpaper.com/about.html]
"Fondé par Catherine Millet, Hubert Goldet et Daniel Templon, "art press " est un magazine d'information et de réflexion sur l'art contemporain. Il est consacré principalement aux arts plastiques, mais les autres moyens d'expression y occupent une place significative : littérature, danse, théâtre, musique, cinéma, vidéo, architecture, photographie . . ." [qtd. from http://www.artpress.com]
"An updated report of news and reviews."
News, postings, and information on the art business.
"Arts Journal is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day Arts Journal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture. Direct links to the most interesting or important stories are posted every weekday beginning at 5 AM PDT on the Arts Journal news pages. Stories from sites that charge for access are excluded as are sites which require visitors to register, with the exception of the New York Times." [qtd. from http://www.artsjournal.com/about_aj.htm]
"Arts Wire CURRENT features news updates on social, economic, philosophical, and political issues affecting the arts and culture. Your contributions are invited." [qtd. from http://www.artswire.org/current.html#what]
Spanish-language arts journal.
"ARTtalk is a monthly eight-page newsletter available on line and FREE-OF-CHARGE from Participating Art Material Retailers in the U.S., Canada and Bermuda. Each month you'll find informative articles that deal with a variety of subjects such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, arts and crafts, and more. These explain various techniques--how to work and paint with watercolor, oils, or acrylics; use pastels or pen and ink, airbrush, and more. You'll find information on art history, current events and art world news, as well as an occasional 'Kids' Korner.' Subjects vary and change each month." [qtd. from http://www.arttalk.com/
"Artthrob is South Africa's leading contemporary visual arts publication, reporting on the national arts scene and the involvement of South African artists in the international art world." [qtd. from http://www.artthrob.co.za/02jan/aboutus.html]
"@tlas, originally conceived in the summer of 1995, is an online magazine of photography, multimedia, design and illustration." [qtd. from http://www.atlasmagazine.com/fall95.html]
"Balkon Cluj Magazine has been released from December 2000 and it was born from a common project between IDEA Foundation Cluj and Balkon magazine from Budapest. It’s goal is an accurate presentation of contemporary art picture focusing on the romanian and international events (exhibitions, symposions) and on the specific art problems today. Even though it doesn’t follow an explicit aesthetic or critical program Balkon Cluj Magazine is a good instrument in measuring the sensitivity toward art in est-european region. Also, we try to offer in our editions theoretical texts (Virilio, Böhringer, Thierry de Duve) which fill the vacuum existing in romanian context regarding the meditation on art’s problems." [qtd. from http://www.balkon.ro/pages/info/about.htm]
"bkyn is creativity in motion. we're rooted in brooklyn, but growing in digital space. bkyn is an electronic journal serving the arts community. we're a bridge between artists and authors working with more traditional forms and those mining new media." [qtd. from http://www.bkyn.com]
"In its seventeenth year of publication, BlackFlash is one of the longest running art publications and one of three photographic-based art journals in Canada. The magazine aims to nourish innovation in photo-based and electronic art production, promote energetic debate, and showcase diverse voices and communities (local, regional, national, and international). BlackFlashreviews exhibitions and installations, features critical commentary on artistic theory and practice, reviews books, profiles emerging as well as established artists and writers, records the history of artistic institutions, and calendars exhibitions, lectures, and workshops." [qtd. from http://www.blackflash.ca/mission.html]
"Blind Spot Magazine has become the international source book of photography-based fine art for artists, collectors, creative directors, designers, curators and art lovers. Blind Spot publishes new and never-before published works by the world's most renowned artists and discovers vital new work by up-and-coming artists. The collaboration of the editors and the ideas expressed by the individual artists makes each issue of Blind Spot emerge as a single work of art." [qtd. from http://www.blindspot.com/]
Italian arts magazine.
"For 20 years BOMB Magazine has been facilitating conversations between artists of all stripes: painters, actors, poets, directors, musicians, novelists, sculptors . . . BOMB records deeply personal reflections on art and life, legendary exchanges which can only be found in our pages. No other arts magazine pays such close and serious attention to developments in new art and writing, regardless of commercial appeal or name recognition. BOMB is a cultural quarterly with an active editorial board of 70 professionals in the performing and creative arts." [qtd. from http://www.bombsite.com/aboutam02.html]
Artforum's book review publication.
"Bookstorming.com is a specialised bookstore dedicated to the presentation, distribution and sale of contemporary art books, catalogues and publications as well as contemporary artists‘ books, audio and numerical recordings." [qtd. from http://www.bookstorming.com/infos.asp?idtri=10]
"Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life every three months through creative collaboration between writers and artists." [qtd. from http://www.bornmag.com/]
"Each issue of C offers a selective guide to recent and upcoming exhibitions with our editors picks in our 'What to C' and 'What was C'n' sections." [qtd. from http://www.cmagazine.com/whattoc.htm]
y"CAA.Reviews, published by College Art Association, is an online publication devoted to the peer review of new books relevant to the fields of art and art history. CAA.Reviews is published on a continual basis, reviewing national and international museum and gallery exhibitions, academic conferences, and electronic media, as well as books on art-historical criticism, arts education and policy, film, curatorial studies, and more." [qtd. from http://www.caareviews.org/about.html]
"Cabinet is Immaterial Incorporated's quarterly magazine of art and culture run by a staff from around the world. The magazine contains articles, interviews, specially commissioned artist projects, a free CD or CD-ROM every second issue, and a special section around a particular theme." [qtd. from http://www.immaterial.net/page.php/4/]
"Canadian Art is Canada's most widely circulated art magazine. Featuring the country's leading writers and critics, it chronicles the Canadian art scene. Each issue is a treasure trove of high-quality reproductions of contemporary and historical art. With its visual emphasis and intelligent, insightful writing, the magazine is a virtual gallery that keeps readers up to date on shifting trends, issues and styles." [qtd. from http://www.canadianart.ca/]
Electronic art magazine devoted to web art in Quebec.
"The low down on high art."
"Visual arts, architecture, books, fashion."
"Many of us spent the 1990s arguing the issues of identity politics, and as Naomi Klein points out, completely missed the fact that while we were fighting for fairer representation of peoples in society and its media, society and its media itself were being sold off. The age of identity politics is slowly drawing to a close, and what is being asked of all people of good will is a new focus from argument to action. We offer Coretext as a place where you can come to read about things and people - artists, thinkers, technologists - who aren't satisfied with the preached western utopian visions of our contemporary age, and might have something else to say through their work and their words. We invite you to participate." [qtd. from http://www.coretext.net/2001a/about.html]
A quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences.
"The magazine reviews current art exhibitions in the United States and provides a forum for dialogue about art." [qtd. from http://www.creview.com/cx/mission.cfm]
An international journal of theory, technology, and culture.
The European guide to arts, culture and entertainment worldwide.
An online journal of the arts.
"Canada's only sculpture publication, ESPACE, represents a critical tool for the understanding of contemporary sculpture. Published four times a year, in English and French, ESPACE features interviews, in-depth articles and special issues related to various aspects of three dimensionality. Foreign contributors guarantee an international perspective and diffusion." [qtd. from http://www.espace-sculpture.com/espace/reason.htm]
French-language site of Arts+Opinions.
"fineArt forum is the longest running arts magazine on the Internet. Highly regarded by the international professional new media arts and technology communities, fineArt forum helps to maintain the high profile position that Australia occupies in this important field of the arts." [qtd. from http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/aboutus/index.html]
The frAme Journal of Culture & Technology is published by the trAce Online Writing Centre at The Nottingham Trent University, England.
"frieze.com is the frieze website which shares some of the content of the magazine, but also has its own particular features - the frieze 100, news items, web projects and discussions. Both frieze, and frieze.com share a cross-cultural international perspective and a commitment to excellent writing - all of which can be found in the archive. In the archive you can search all of the magazine and website back issue content, including, as well as the features and columns from nine years of frieze, over a thousand reviews." [qtd. from http://www.frieze.com/]
"Fuse is interested in writing that examines artworks and cultural events in terms of the relationship between political issues and contemporary culture." [qtd. from http://www.fusemagazine.org/write.html]
An Australian e-journal of contemporary art.
Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World
"Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World is an online journal of contemporary art and architecture, art history and criticism, focusing exclusively on the visual creative expressions of artists in Africa and other regions of the world. As well, it also highlights the work of non-African / non-Diaspora artists who use iconography and symbolisms derived from any of the artistic traditions of Africa." [qtd. from http://www.ijele.com/ijele/]
"Published in New York, index magazine was started in 1996 by artist Peter Halley and writer Bob Nickas. Since then, the index editorial family has grown into a diverse group of tuned-in and talented colleagues." [qtd. from http://www.indexmagazine.com/who.html]
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
"Established in 1942 by the American Society for Aesthetics, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and timely book reviews in aesthetics and the arts." [qtd. from http://www.temple.edu/jaac/]
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
"Published under the auspices of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, the Journal exists as an academic World Wide Web publication, disseminating information to the global conservation and museum community. The papers and articles found in the Journal represent the work of conservation and museum studies students from around the world, and have been refereed by academic staff representing conservation and museum studies training programmes." [qtd. from http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/jcms/]
E-journal featuring interviews with contemporary artists.
"[T]he electronic journal dedicated to providing a forum for those who are interested in the realm where art, science and technology converge. LEA is produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and the MIT Press, and has been publishing since 1993. Material is contributed by artists, scientists, educators, and developers of new technological resources in the media arts." [qtd. from http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/]
"The Site at MANOVERBOARD.com features artists and writers of extreme vision -- approximately every month. Our mission is to help bring forth new artists who are individually pushing the boundaries of their respective media, whether painting, drawing, photography, animation, and interactive and conceptual art. Like an online gallery, museum, exhibit hall, diary, and showcase all wrapped up in one, The Site at MANOVERBOARD.com is owned and operated by MANOVERBOARD, L.L.C., which also designs and develops Web sites for a diverse roster of organizations. We are continually seeking new people with vision to feature on the site. There is no cost to the artist to be featured, exhibited, or be placed in the Archive. Our objective is simply to shine light on work that expands the limits of beauty and meaning in this difficult new era." [qtd. from http://www.manoverboard.com/about.html]
"Merge is a quarterly international cultural magazine covering a wide range of topics. Art, music, architecture, design, film, philosophy – if we like it, we print it. While the average magazine attempts to explain Everything about Something, our motto is: Anything about Anything. Each issue should reflect our own broad interests as well as those of the writers we work with." [qtd. from http://www.mergemag.com/]
"MIX is a quarterly magazine featuring documentation and critical discussion of independent and non-commercial visual and multimedia artists across Canada." [qtd. http://www.mixmagazine.com/]
Columbia University journal featuring exhibit reviews, artist interviews, essays, and student artist profiles.
"The only international feminist art journal exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices." [qtd. from http://web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa/index.htm]
"The Chicago New Art Association, the publisher of New Art Examiner, is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to examine the definition and transmission of culture in our society; the decision-making process within museums and schools and the agencies of patronage which determine the manner in which culture shall be transmitted; the value systems which presently influence the making of art as well as its study in exhibitions and books; and, in particular, the interaction of these factors within the visual arts milieu." [qtd. from http://www.newartexaminer.org/info.html]
"It has been 20 years since we first went to press and from the start our major concern was to provide quality discourse on the arts, something the founding artists felt was sorely missing in the arts press. Since then we have ventured into a variety of aesthetic and philosophical arenas, enabling a wide diversity of editorial and curatorial perspectives. We have presented the images and words of the famous, the infamous, the not yet famous, and others with an interesting fix on the arts. Our back issues constitute an ongoing "journal" of contemporary art and art issues, created from the inside-out by the artists. We let the artists speak for themselves and are always impressed!" [qtd. from http://www.newobservations.org/]
"where spin is art"
Monthly journal of the NY art scene.
Brazilian art website.
"Odradek is a collective project centered on exchanges about contemporary art. The plurality of our different approches and origins sparked a desire to share and enlargen this debat through a " journal " on the world wide web. One of its most important aspects is its evolutive principal – each on-line issue will be continuouesly fed by texts or other forms of articulation which are proposed by its users." [qtd. from http://www.odradek.org]
French and English contemporary art magazine.
"Parkett is published in direct collaboration with important international artists, whose oeuvre is explored in several essays by leading writers and critics. Each artist also creates a special signed and numbered edition exclusive to Parkett, which may take any form, from unique works of art to prints and multiples." [qtd. from http://www.parkettart.com/index3.htm]
E-journal of art and communication.
Art e-zine and art links.
"Founded in 1990 as an experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become the leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures, publishing the work of such noted authors and critics as Kathy Acker, Charles Bernstein, Bruce Robbins, bell hooks, and Susan Howe. PMC combines high scholarly standards with broad appeal for non-academic readers. As an entirely web-based journal, PMC can publish still images, sound, animation, and full-motion video as well as text." [qtd. from http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html]
"Raw Vision is creating a buzz that goes beyond the art world. It features Outsider Art. The art of those who have 'no right' to be artists and yet create works that are so powerful, original and compelling that those on the cutting edge of art appreciation have hailed it as the greatest discovery yet." [qtd. from http://www.rawvision.com/rawvision/whatisrv.html]
"RSUB produces, develops, acquires, manages and distributes ideas as entertainment and information across a range of media. Founded in 1995 as a division of Razorfish, Inc., RSUB gained immediate recognition in digital media by producing one of the first World Wide Web sites to feature dynamic content, The Blue Dot. RSUB distinguishes itself from its competitors by developing its infrastructure and business practices to achieve complete integration and leverage of entertainment properties. Unlike media-, platform- and genre-specific competitors, RSUB thrives in an environment that is fluid and not married to any one vehicle of expression. Integration of all modes of expression and distribution mechanisms enables RSUB to link every element of the value chain inherent in entertainment and information products. RSUB embodies its belief that mobility across platforms will be the hallmark of the 21st Century media and entertainment business model. By this method, RSUB is growing an integrated, broad-based entertainment company." [qtd. from http://www.rsub.com/rsub/about.html]
A publication of the International Sculpture Center.
"Can you remember when art was fun? When you had a lot more freedom and a lot less responsibility? Before you had to get a real job? Back when you thought that art and love were all you needed? Back when art and love were all you needed? Stare is published on the premise that art still is fun. Yes it's magical, enlightening, mysterious, and (if you hang out with the wrong crowd) awfully damn serious. In every issue of Stare, our editors, publishers and Group of Experts That Dare Not Speak Its Name® bring you the excitement and energy only good art can provide." [qtd. from http://www.stare.com/welcome_to_stare_periodica.html]
"Beginning with dissatisfaction, stretcher emerged to showcase what was happening here in San Francisco and to make connections with other arenas domestic and imported. We couldn’t find the excitement, the energy, so, in that grand tradition, we decided to build it, make it happen ourselves. Stretcher’s vision is to provide both local and global communities with a critical, informative survey of visual art and culture in the Bay Area." [qtd. from http://www.stretcher.org/]
"TAM MONITOR is Alternative Museum's online arts journal, standing for media or news information technology open resource. It is a vital, living organism which will continue to grow, expand & transform as new information is processed & redistributed to our viewers. TAM MONITOR complements the activities of the Alternative Museum as an Institution, by providing vital & living works, projects, events & news." [qtd. from http://208.17.151.64/tam_monitor/]
Space for Visual Culture. "So what does TENbyTEN stand for? Literally, "ten by ten" measures a square. The three words define physical space: the space inhabited by a piece of art, the square footage of architecture, the page of a graphic, a length of fabric. TENbyTEN also evokes the modernist love affair with proportionality." [qtd. from http://www.tenbyten.net/info.html]
"TRANS> continues the publication's vital project of encouraging and cultivating cross-cultural exchanges, a project which makes TRANS> both unique and one of the hottest (not to mention, most relevant and responsible) magazines today. TRANS> uniqueness also commissions original artworks by important emerging and internationally-established artists which are published specially for you in each issue." [qtd. from http://store.yahoo.com/transmag/index.html]
Spanish art e-journal.
"zingmagazine came out of the idea that within certain disciplines, artistic and otherwise, various cross-references occur, both with individuals and the material of their particular interest. Rather than remaining isolated and apart, either through an unaware and uninformed (or aware and informed) malaise, there is a need to commingle arenas. By establishing a forum of collaborative exchange, zingmagazine examines points of both similar and dissimilar articulations. Like sets and subsets in a mathematical diagram, having similar and opposite properties, parts of the exchange will share epiphanies while others will securely diverge. But in the examination of these current issues, born out of the curatorial collaborative spirit, zingmagazine reaches for the crossing point, and it is from this “crossing”—where fiction meets poetry for lunch, theorists mingle with artists over which they are, and while we all assume new boundaries with an excess of technology in the modern world—that we find our inspiration. Likewise, it is from this crossing that the title is honed." [qtd. from http://www.zingmagazine.com/about.html]
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