ten visual artists i have been thinking about

art fag city is so rubbish though, just endless streams of content and i added paddy johnson on facebook for some reason idk but its just like also she posts really dumb stuff and has really shallow opinions and seems to know a weirdly small amount about well art

i tend to like the frivolous gossipy stuff on her site the best, plus the IMG MGMT series where she has guest artists contribute posts is typically quality

oh yeah contemporaryartdaily has terrific photo documentation of shows

its just really the best "oh yeah this is on" blog by far

I've been trying to find an art magazine that's a middleground between Juxtapoz (yawn-inducing street art) and Artforum (yawn-inducing contemporary art for rich people). No luck so far.

My bf really likes Bomb. What's that like?

i don't keep up with new art nearly as much as i should. i can't look at contemporary art daily too much because it sometimes feels too sterile and repetitive. art fag city is mostly good for IMG MGMT, but i think paddy johnson is also one of the only art writers who pays much attention to internet art/new media stuff, aside from like the writers for rhizome. i knew about greg.org before and i have no idea why i haven't been reading it.

idk what bomb is like but they have some pretty great archived interviews on their website. stephen westfall who is a seriously great painter has done a little bit of writing for them, the one he does with nan goldin is p hilair

I think one of the things with these blogs - i.e. why I read them for a week, then forget to check them for over two months - is that a lot of it is kind of gossip for those already engaged, or at least doesn't offer much by way of entry for those who aren't. I'm guessing what's being asked for ways to stay engaged, which I've found much more by virtue of going to galleries than anything else. Though as I said, Art21 will give a good overview of many individual artists (but not art issues), and I think most of it is available on their website anyways.

idk what bomb is like but they have some pretty great archived interviews on their website.

yeah this, i would subscribe to bomb if i lived in north america, the interviews are always v thoughtful & its archives are amazing (off topic but there's a bell hooks one about academic language that is crucial). idk what it's like as an arts journal but it's a v good publication.

always love joe strasser. can never find good representations of his work online, but we have perhaps six of his originals in the house.

http://www.stashgallery.com/images/strasser_8.gif http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4427966810_25fd81c6ae.jpg

not these ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ tho.

Wait is the one with Goldin the one where she was totally bitchy and contradicted herself and just looked like a total ass?

yeah its p lol

I dig Greg.org but I dont really "get" art

helen frankenthaler died!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/helen-frankenthaler-abstract-painter-dies-at-83.html

helen frankenthaler was still alive!

well not anymore i guess

up until this morning she was, at least

then after that, not

i always liked her paintings, they reminded me of late 70s singer-songwriter album covers

i always think of this fgt quote, even if it is p unfair the way he singles her out

" All art and all cultural production is political. I'll just give you an example. When you raise the question of political or art, people immediately jump and say, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, those are political artists. Then who are the non-political artists, as if that was possible at this point in history? Let's look at abstraction, and let's consider the most successful of those political artists, Helen Frankenthaler. Why are they the most successful political artists, even more than Kosuth, much more than Hans Haacke, much more than Nancy and Leon or Barbara Kruger? Because they don't look political! And as we know it's all about looking natural, it's all about being the normative aspect of whatever segment of culture we're dealing with, of life. That's where someone like Frankenthaler is the most politically successful artist when it comes to the political agenda that those works entail, because she serves a very clear agenda of the Right."

eh

yeah lol the 80s i guess

i wonder how many words have been written about frankenthaler and "femininity"

In re the group-of-seven aesthetic, reminds me a little of a young painter I saw recently in a group show, Lauren Warner. Really liked her stuff

http://dbprng00ikc2j.cloudfront.net/work/image/505729/mf2ji7/20111017210923-LowerTerrace.jpg

i wonder how many words have been written about frankenthaler and "femininity"

― max max max max, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 4:55 PM (28 seconds ago)

i imagine this is at least in part what he is referring to.

This one is gorgeous:

http://www.mfa.org/sites/default/files/images/Daisy-geyser.crop_.jpg

indeed xp

That FGT quote always confused me because I've never known how Helen Frankenthaler is a political artist, or whether he's referring to post-war abstract painting in general.

That said, I feel like 75% of the time when I hear about artists passing away, my reaction is the appropriate variation of "helen frankenthaler was still alive!"

there's some good stuff in this slideshow

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/754706/modern-painters-presents-100-artists-to-watch-part-3-of-5