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About Art Practical:
Art Practical is an online magazine that enriches critical dialogue for the Bay Area visual arts by providing comprehensive analysis of events and exhibitions. Since its launch in October 2009, we have worked with a network of partners to promote the Bay Area's role in the international art scene, to create a historical record of contemporary artistic practices, and to foster artistic production through critical writing and public programming.
Our partners are important chroniclers of the San Francisco Bay Area contemporary art and visual culture: Bad At Sports, Daily Serving, Happenstand, and Talking Cure. Collectively, we represent the current shifting landscape of arts journalism by serving as junctures for critical dialogue rather than proprietors of it. In creating the coalition of four partner organizations, Art Practical does not condense information. Instead, it generates pathways of investigation.
Art Practical is emblematic of the collective and collaborative spirit of the wide-ranging Bay Area visual arts culture, which combines a long local history of incubating experimentation and innovation with international perspectives. Our contributors are some of the most renowned artists, performers, writers, educators, and curators working here. This vibrant, complex mix of cross-disciplinary practices demonstrates a model for visual arts criticism that is highly conscious of the audience it is serving, as well as the culture it is representing.
Press and Other Kind Words about Art Practical:
Interview on KCUR (89.3 FM) Central Standard: http://kcur.org/post/call-arts-criticism-kc
Rocketblog!: http://rocketgrants.org/2012/03/04/ap-in-kc-response-from-ak-of-pp/
and http://rocketgrants.org/2012/02/05/we-art-practical-the-rocket-grantees/
and http://rocketgrants.org/2012/01/19/public-forum-with-art-practical/
KQED.org: http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=53096
Open Space: http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/05/bohemia-of-finances-pt-6/
and http://blog.sfmoma.org/2010/10/art-publishing-now/
and http://blog.sfmoma.org/2010/02/interview-with-art-practical/NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/arts/
NPR: http://topics.npr.org/article/08FR6mL4uoa6J?q=Chicago
Mission Local: http://missionlocal.org/2010/10/art-publishing-now-2/
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Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where the broader community is invited to contribute reviews and commentary. They are short format pieces (250-400 words) that, as the name implies, offer quick and timely responses to an exhibition, event, or even something you’ve read here. If you are interested in submitting a Shotgun Review, please contact Alyse Mason Brill.
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Our Team
Catherine McChrystal, Editor-in-Chief
Matthew Harrison Tedford, Senior Editor for Features
Tess Thackara, Senior Editor for Reviews
Victoria Gannon, Senior Editor for Style
Alyse Mason Brill, Shotgun Review Editor
Matt Sussman, Associate Editor
Katy Meacham, Public Relations Assistant
Liz Glass, Editorial Assistant
Stoyan Dabov, Chief Strategist and Web Engineer
Smitty Weygant, Technical Director
