Art in America 2.0

This morning, Art in America launched a new content-driven Web site under the editorial direction of Sarah Hromack, a longtime blogger and the former editor of Curbed SF. The site features a number of writers who have come to the publication by way of the Internet—writers such as Bosko Blagojevic and Paddy Johnson and yours truly.

Fittingly, the content on the Web site does not correspond precisely with the magazine. AiA has done a step better than promoting its features and reviews online. (A step that art magazines are loathe to take, even a decade into the 21st century. You would be surprised.) Rather than direct imports from print to Web, online content will feature the healthy mix of news-cycle commentary and astute art insight that makes online criticism so much more, well, relevant. See, for example, Bartholomew Ryan's reported feature on the 100th anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto.

And see also my own take on Brandon Morse's show at Conner Contemporary and its visual affinity to the ongoing global financial crisis. It isn't exactly a review—it's not supposed to be a review. Rather (I hope) it's a sort of real-time observation of the way that art responds to and corresponds with the lived-in world.

Brandon Morse, Achilles, 2008–9.

UPDATE: On a related note, Jeffry Cudlin takes the hatchet to Brandon Morse (in a matter of speaking).