The Top 25 UK Art Blogs. Who will make the Creative Tourist list?

Being interested in all things cultural, Creative Tourist rounds up the best art and culture blogs in the UK

The Creative Tourist Top 25 – unveiled as part of the Manchester Blog Awards on 21 October and published monthly thereafter – is by no means a definitive list. But as it shapes up, the list promises to reveal the depth and diversity of cultural blogging out there: from critical reviews to arts news; from the personal to the corporate; and from lengthy writing to almost entirely text-free blogging.

How will we choose the list? To be eligible, the blog has to be written by someone currently living in the UK, updated within the last two months and with the majority of its content focused on art and culture (this doesn’t have to be just popular culture but can include visual art, photography and museums collections, too). Each blog will be analysed using a number of different metrics including Technorati Authority, Inlinks, Google Blogsearch and its number of readers. A detailed explanation of the methodology used for selecting the blogs will be published alongside the list.

And we get involved with the Manchester Blog Awards to boot

Our first Top 25 list will be announced as part of the Manchester Blog Awards (which in turn is part of Manchester Literature Festival) on 21 October. We are also delighted to be sponsoring the Best Arts & Culture Blog at the Manchester Blog Awards – part of the prize includes a paid commission to write on this very site.

If you’d like to nominate a blog for the Top 25 UK Art Blogs, post your comments and links below. Otherwise, keep your eyes peeled for our list, which we will release on this site on 22 October.

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