Art blogging on Art Beat about art bloggers

Posted Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 12:58 p.m. by Chris Amico in Self-Indulgence about art, blogging and journalism

I had the pleasure of talking to Scott Rosenberg earlier this month about his book Say Everything for the NewsHour's Art Beat blog. The book is billed as a history of blogging, and it tells that story admirably. We also got to talk a bit about why blogging works so well on the web and how it differs from other literary forms. Read that post here.

That conversation spawned a follow-up post in which I interviewed three art bloggers about how the medium has affected their message.

For example, here's Lisa Fung, arts editor for the LA Times, talking about Culture Monster:

"There's something more personal, for some reason, with the blogs. Maybe it's the voice we use, that let's people get to know our critics better than they would in print," Fung said.

"I think what blogs in general have done is taken the arts off this pedestal, and made it more accessible. The arts aren't some hoity-toity thing that only the rich and white go to."

I'll have more to say about what I learned writing those two posts later. For now, check out the two posts.

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