SOME MAJOR

CONTEMPORARY ART
MAGAZINES
IN ENGLISH, AND BY NO MEANS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST.
 ARTFORUM

• https://www.artforum.com/
• Based in NY, Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. For decades, a major
authority when it comes to the visual arts.
• It features in-depth articles and reviews of contemporary art, as well as book reviews, columns on cinema and
popular culture, and numerous full-page ads from prominent galleries around the world.
• Market-oriented, mainstream.
• The online edition, however, owing to its rich but poorly-structured content, is somewhat tedious to navigate.
• Subscription is possible, but at a price. No newsletter is offered, however. There exists an application, still, much of
the content is restricted.
 ARTNET

• ’’Buy, Sell, and Research Contemporary Art: artnet’’

• http://www.artnet.com/
• It is operated by Artnet Worldwide Corporation, headquartered in NY, and owned by Artnet AG, a German publicly
traded company based in Berlin and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company’s revenue is some 17
million EUR per year.
• A daily newsletter is available that often comes with an afternoon edtition.
• It features online auctions, a digital library of artists and their works, analytics reports, an international exhibition
calendar etc.
• Does sometimes – depending on the contributor (e.g. Ben Davis) – offer in-depth analyses of the artworld: major
exibitons, artists, cultural policies, artistic phenomena. At other times it is as commercial and neoliberal as they
come.
ARTREVIEW

• https://artreview.com
• Founded in 1949, ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art
magazines.
• In fact, UK-based, and somewhat bent on UK themes.
• Critical, analytical, politically mainstream.
• Offers in-depth articles and reviews by reputable authors and art critics and also
interviews with curators, artists and other professionals in the field.
• Subscription to a weekly newsletter is possible.
ARTSY

• http://www.artsy.net/
• An online platform designed to connect collectors to art.
• Non-linear – search engine and database draw connections and map relationships among
works of art.
• Artsy is backed by a group of investors, including Eric Schmidt, Wendi Murdoch, Dasha
Zhukova, Thrive Capital etc.
• A newsletter, daily, sometimes even more frequently.
• Its perspective, however, is highly market-oriented and rarely in-depth.
• Articles are diverse, fluctuate in quality, but the content is rich, even if unbalanced. Not only
contemporary and modern art is featured. Haphazard.
ARTDAILY

• http://artdaily.com/
• Mexico-based, but international in focus and in good English.
• A most comprehensive daily update on what is being exhibited around the world.
• Featuring not just contemporary art, but also retrospectives, as well as major cultural
exhibitions, auctions, purchases, acquisitions, conservations, deaths and birthdays.
• Very market-oriented and even somewhat conservative (in that it is not really open to
more the innovative, radical, non-commercial or experimental forms of art).
• No in-depth analyses, just news.
THE ART NEWSPAPER

• http://www.theartnewspaper.com/
• UK-based; its perspective largely restricted to London and NY.
• Politically mainstream to extreme centre.
• A podcast is offered, with occasional good-quality discussions and talks.
• A weekly newsletter for free.
• A conservation section exists, which is somewhat of a rarity in contemporary art
magazines.
 HYPERALLERGIC

• http://hyperallergic.com/
• ”Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today.”
• Founded in 2009, it is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.
• More than a blog, less than a magazine, but has collaborators at some of the main artistic centres across
the world. These are able to offer perspecives and reviews of exhibitions taking place in different
countries.
• Focused on art criticism.
• No newsletter.
 E-FLUX

• http://www.e-flux.com/
• Based in NY, but with a global perspective. Indeed.
• A very serious and in-depth critical discourse surrounding contemporary art, culture, and theory.
Sometimes highly philosophical, at other times not. Contributors come from around the world.
• Mainstream but liberal, and open to various experimental forms of art.
• A newsletter is provided, unfortunately, one as confusing as they come.
• The English language is at times less-than-perfect, given the platform’s international character.