The Top 25 UK Arts & Culture Blogs.
Jan 20, 2010 | Comments: 5
Welcome to the February 2010 list of the Top 25 UK Arts & Culture Blogs
Things are a little bit quieter this month but both of the Guardian’s culture blogs have crept up the top 10, as has Amelia’s Magazine and Art of the Estate. Once again, We Make Money Not Art has taken the coveted number one spot.
As ever, Creative Tourist aims to produce a list that takes into account as many objective factors as possible. So we take into account the credibility a blog has built up over time, with the number of subscribers and back-links, but also how engaged people are with the ten most recent posts (using Postrank scores).
Do let us know if you think we’ve missed any great blogs – we are always on the look out for new, exciting bloggers.
Set up in 2004 by the hugely knowledgeable Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art has taken the art world by storm with its eclecticism, style and, above all, detailed and fascinating content.
Describing itself as “an online journal about objects and meanings”, Things Magazine was originally set up by writers based from the V&A and Royal College of Art and now exists as this engaging website and blog.
Artist and author Katherine Tyrrell draws and writes about art for artists and art lovers.
A visually stunning trip through the world of contemporary photography.
With an appealing style and a host of contributors, Amelia’s Magazine describes itself as covering “the best underground creative projects in the worlds of art, fashion, music, illustration, photography, craft and design.”
6. Charlotte Higgins (Guardian)
Another site from the Guardian’s stable of popular blogs, Charlotte Higgins gives her opinions on a wide range of topics, from the Royal Opera to the outbursts of famous artists, our national museums and Barack Obama’s taste in art.
7. Jonathan Jones on Art (Guardian)
Needing little introduction, this blog by established critic Jonathan Jones is always worth a read.
A fascinating blog about graffiti and smaller underground exhibitions in and around London, this blog is exciting, inspiring and refreshing.
From an Edinburgh based blogger, Where’s Runnicles is a review based blog covering both performance and visual arts.
10. Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Writer and blogger, Katherine Woodfine runs this delightful blog about arts, literature and culture around Manchester and London (as she flits between the two).
Pauline McLean is BBC Scotland’s arts correspondent; she blogs about arts events and issues happening across the country.
Run by a group of artists, writers and musicians who work together to create interesting and events for creatives of all kinds to get involved in.
Covering street art, graffiti and exhibitions in galleries across the UK, this blog has bags of enthusiasm, spark and intelligent commentary.
A blog about arts & culture focussed “non-exclusively” on the North West. Winner of Best Arts & Culture blog in the 2009 Manchester blog awards.
From Cheryl Cole to architecture, art to Jazz, the telegraph culture blogs are nothing if not eclectic!
Clearly a major player in the art world, the Frieze blog allows the editors chance to cover smaller and, at times, more quirky subjects.
The blog from online retailers Culture Label, who describe themselves as a “one-stop-culture-shop”, selling products from over 70 of the leading museum shops, galleries, artists and culture institutions from around the world.
A fascinating mix of culture and political commentary: “Madam Miaow casts a sharp eye over the political and cultural landscape and takes a scalpel and a shotgun to the guilty parties.”
This jam-packed blog has been running since the Liverpool Biennial in 2004 and now has thousands of posts that cover arts news and events in and around Liverpool and sometimes further afield.
Based in Leeds, these bloggers cover wide-ranging and varied topics; all under the heading: of writing about the “juiciest morsels of culture”.
An online magazine of cultural commentary and creative writing with a direct, no nonsense style.
Some lovely writing about galleries, launches and artists largely (although not solely) in and around London.
An independent blog from Liverpool that has been running since 2000. Feeling Listless covers every aspect of culture from arts & museums to politics and film.
Run by the UK’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, the FACT blog focuses on stories about art and creative technology.
Part of the Saatchi powerhouse, this blog is packed to bursting with videos, features, news, reviews and interviews.
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Shouldn’t number 4 be “Art of The State”?
Well spotted – it’s been changed.
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I was under the impression that Régine Debatty is a belgian who lives in Rome. As she moved to the UK?
Hi Tony. There are three bloggers who work on the project, one of whom is based in London, so on that basis we decided to include the blog…