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Your source(s) for all things art?

 
 
Reply Thu 24 Sep, 2009 07:44 pm
Do you regularly read magazines, cultural columnists, blogs, newsletters, etc... that's targeted at the subject of art, art history, art theory, etc...? What are they? And do you listen to art based podcasts from museum curators, artists, and other agents of the world of art? Any (though rare) television or radio programs you take time to watch or listen to regularly that dive into the world of art?
 
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Reply Thu 24 Sep, 2009 09:33 pm
I'm sort of out of it so take this with a grain of salt -

I get info from Visual Art Source, most of which I delete immediately. I read the New Yorker, NYT and LAT and SFgate, BBC and Guardian. I'm bad at following archnewsnow.com.
I mostly don't care about the word about what is going on any more. I do like to keep seeing images, and I go on explorations of those that I get links for, and on and on from those.
I'm more and more interested in photography, from a master or from a person with a cell phone.
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Reply Thu 24 Sep, 2009 09:44 pm
I too subscribed to the archnewsnow.com email newsletter then pretty much began to ignore it when it hits my email inbox.

Magazine wise: I subscribe to ARTnews, while occasionally read Art In America, (Just started to follow them via twitter but that's kind of moot considering I rarely actually sign into my account), and occasionally Art Forum.

I also read the art sections in Time Out NY and New York Magazine. They have some fairly reliable sense of whats going on exhibition wise and to borrow the phrase you just used, I take every art review I read with "a grain of salt." Sometimes, I drop by the NYTimes site to see if they have an indepth interview or exhibit review.

I also subscribe to several cultural podcasts which only one is specifically aimed at art, that being the MET Museum podcast and that's not too regular in terms of its publishing podcasts in a timely and consistent fashion. The rest are NPR interview shows that once in a blue moon will interview an author who wrote a book on art criticism or theory, and even rarer an interview of the actual artists.
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Reply Thu 24 Sep, 2009 09:58 pm
I should have clarified that I chase down images I like - not just expecting them and their history to suddenly appear - but generally I'm lazy. I'm in the midst of culling my own voluminous stuff of little value but to me, and am probably more cutting than usual. As in don't show me shit, from whatever gallery.

Lesser patience from me, as I'm tossing my own detritis.
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