Working Artist's Journal - Anna L. Conti, San Francisco
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Art Journalism:

Arts Journal - daily digest of art & culture news

Arts & Letters Daily - daily digest of art, philosophy, and literature

SF Gate Culture Blog (Art Section)
Mat Petty, Peter Hartlaub, Amy Moon

SF Gate Art Page

Art Critics

From the Floor - Todd Gibson (NY)

ionarts - daily music, art & lit blog with classical leanings, from DC

Modern Art Notes - Tyler Green covers everything

Modern Kicks - art & culture notes by JL (Boston)

Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof - covers Philadelphia & mid-Atlantic coast

Blogs by Artists

Alanna Spence - San Francisco painter, a journal of her personal life

Anaba - from artist, Martin Bromirski, in Richmond, VA

artblog.net - art discussion moderated by figure painter Franklin Einspruch

Art for a Change - Mark Vallen (L.A.)

Bare and Bitter Sleep -pointed and intelligent notes by Cinque Hicks of Austin

Black Cat Bone - James Bailey, experimental artist, out of Mississippi

Carole Es - making art in L.A.

Coop - cars and girls, L.A. style

Elise Tomlinson - Alaskan painting journal

Everyday Matters -by Danny Gregory from NY

Fresh Paint - art and poitics by painter Cynthia King, from Chicago

Marja - Leena Rathje - Finnish-Canadian artist, printmaker

My Backwards Life - the global and the personal from David Byrne

Namaste Nancy - SF painter

Rachael Buffington Baldanza - artist from Rochester, N.Y.

Reluctant Painter - by Antonia,out of Minnesota

Simple Posie - from toronto, by Jennifer McMackon

Space Above the Couch - Jennifer Pohl of Canada

Speed of Life - by Greg Chadwick, California artist

Studio Notebook - by Carolyn Zick, Seattle artist

Thinking About Art - JT Kirkland (DC) the comments get lively.

Visiting Artists - A portrait project by Libby Rosof & Roberta Fallon

Blogs by Institutions, Gallerists & Curators

Art @ the Katzen - by Jack Rasmussen at American University

art.blogging.la - from Caryn Coleman

Contemporary / Pulitzer - The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

DC Art News - by gallerist F. Lennox Campello

EdwardWinkleman New York art dealer

EyeLevel - from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Newmark Confidential -
by SF gallerists
Mark Wladika and Margaret Bertels

OC ArtBlog - by Chris Hoff, from SoCal

Zeke's Gallery - art opinions from Chris Hand, in Quebec

Blogs by Collectors

James Wagner - art aficionado (N.Y.)

Erik Schneider - avid contemporary art collector (Atlanta)

More Pix, Fewer Words

A Painting a Day - by Duane Keiser from Richmond, VA

Bay Area Photologgers - Always fresh - photos of the SF Bay Area

Bijou - Nicole Hyde, Colorado painter

Look, See - Chris Ashley of Oakland, CA

Romanblog(Vblog) - video interviews of artists by Philly artist, Vincent Romaniello

San Francisco Art openings - actually, a proto-blog: short, pithy reports, with lots of photos

Info Sites
For Artists

Art Thoughts - by Alyson B. Stanfield, business coach for artists

Robert Genn - artist to artist, about the practice of art, twice weekly from Canada

Blog Indexes

ArtsFeed - an all-in-one-place list of links to the latest art and culture blogs

BlogWise - a search site for blogs

BlogSearch Engine - Search Engine and Directory of blogs

DeepBlog - an easy updated guide to QUALITY blogs

My Favorite non-art Blogs

101 Cookbooks - I love to eat

Cronaca - by art historian, David Nishimura

Laughing Squid - underground art & culture from SF

Metroblogging San Francisco & SFist - both are general SF dailies

MisterSF - Hank Donat's occasional SF gossip & news

NewsGrist - about media, spin, and copyright

Philosophy Talk - John Perry and Ken Taylor, on my second favorite topic

Sneeze - for the occasional dose of sophomoric boy humor

SF Supervisor Chris Daly - explains his votes and actions

Travis Lusk- my nephew, a radio guy, in NYC

Art Monthlies

ArtFag - Canadian art zine (updates every 2 months)

Jeanette Winterson - art & other essays from the author of "Art Objects"