Contemporary Art
People who post about contemporary art (critics, art historians, artists, curators, collectors, dealers, theorists, etc.)
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@romansartwork.bsky.social
London Based Artist/Curator Royal Drawing School-Drawing year 2024 I make artworks to map the impasse, trying to escape but failing. Website: https://romanvaughanwilliams.wordpress.com/recent-work/
@rcembalest.bsky.social
Journalist, educator, Instagrammer, former ARTnews editor, SVA faculty. I teach writing and career skills to art professionals. Find my upcoming free workshops at RobinCembalest.com!
@michelebosak.bsky.social
Art Consultant. Curator. Design Addict. Traveller. Horror Junkie.
@videonorth.bsky.social
each creature in a 30-foot cone must succeed on a wisdom saving throw or drop whatever it is holding and become frightened for the duration, unable to work out their salvation. art historian. videographer. meditator. chicagoan. www.video-north.com
@edwardwinkleman.bsky.social
🇺🇦 Former art gallerist and art fair director. Author of books on the contemporary art market. Political junkie. I try to remain open minded. Sometimes succeed. Orwell was an optimist. Protect the Dolls.
@tintincooper.bsky.social
Artist working in ceramics, media, painting. Dissecting Memes+sport images. Currently making a shrine to football. Recent: Walker Art Center, Carnegie Art Museum, West Space Melbourne/Creative Australia Recipient
@thegraymarket.bsky.social
I write about the business of art and culture at thegraymarket dot Substack dot com. Former art market editor at The Art Newspaper, former art business editor at Artnet News
@elisabethnicula.bsky.social
artist and writer / editor @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social / does @smoothfriend.bsky.social / so good at balatro https://elisabethnicula.com
@michaeldooney.net
I talk about photography & the art world. Host of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast Co-founder Jarvis Dooney Galerie (est. 2013) https://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
@jilnotjill.bsky.social
Journalist, editor, teacher, organizer. I write about art and comics. Short, with tall energy. jilliansteinhauer.com jilnotjill.beehiiv.com
@jmllhjms.bsky.social
Curator, clown, layabout she/they *I'm mostly only following people I've previously followed on social media jamillahjames.com letterboxd.com/jamillahjames linktr.ee/jamillahjames
@jvincler.bsky.social
Library Director, POETS HOUSE; Co-Chief Art Critic, CULTURED Magazine
@sharonbutler.bsky.social
LIC, Queens, NYC / Painter / Publisher of Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com / https://www.sharonlbutler.com
@lmcleanferris.bsky.social
Writer and curator. Past contributions to: 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, ArtReview, Frieze, e-flux, Mousse. Formerly chief curator at Swiss Institute, New York
@asugarhigh.bsky.social
artist best known for cum shots, bathing with wires, hugging computers, and applying lipstick, pubes and mold to your favorite devices currently teaching a computer how to scribble www.faithholland.com
@mezbreeze.bsky.social
An OG digital artist/writer. Creates in Mezangelle: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Narrative Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
@knightlat.bsky.social
Art critic, Los Angeles Times; 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism & Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Journalism. Pro-woke, pro-DEI
@clarityhaynes.bsky.social
Queer feminist artist. My first monograph is available where books are sold. Represented by New Discretions. clarityhaynes.com
@salrandolph.bsky.social
Artist & writer working between language & action. Art, attention, poetry, and Zen. My book is The Uses of Art. Co-founder of dispersed holdings, a publishing project. She/they. https://salrandolph.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/salrandolph
@rebeccataylor.bsky.social
🏛️ kosmopolitês, educator, museum nerd, strategist 👩🏼🏫 Arts & Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University ⌛️ MoMA/PS1, The Getty, MOCA 🏫 RSA | ICOM | AERA | PES | Dewey (JDS) | IPPA #aesthetics #museums #flourishing #philsky #edusky #academicsky #artsky
@kelani.bsky.social
Technologist, collector, curator, founder @transfergallery helping artists say the quiet part out loud since 2013. Currently building a Decentralized Data Trust for Time-based Media Art: http://transfer.art
@habitualtruant.bsky.social
digital anthropologist associate curator / grayarea.org co-director / transfergallery.com content / vivearts.com founder / siliconvalet.org
@tinariversryan.bsky.social
Editor in Chief at @Artforum.bsky.social. Art historian specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. And yes: it's "Artforum," not "Art Forum."
@reginaharsanyi.bsky.social
Cheerleader for mutable artwork on the soapbox of preventive conservation. I also curate art at MoMI. Bluesky is for being vulnerable and posting like a teenager.
@livingfake.bsky.social
the estate of Joshua Caleb Weibley all opinions those of the artist Joshua Caleb Weibley as expressed by the executor of his estate
@joshuacitarella.bsky.social
Artist and internet culture writer. https://joshuacitarella.substack.com
@flakphoto.news
Hi! I’m Andy, a curator + writer in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. I study images and ideas, and in my spare time, I publish FlakPhoto Digest, a newsletter for photography people. 📬 https://www.flakphoto.news/about 📸 https://www.instagram.com/flakphoto
@drawing.bsky.social
Artist, Director, founder 4th Wall App 🪩, Expanded filmmaker 🔜 Substrate at LACMA ‘SEISMIC’ at Charlie James Gallery, LA Current: CENTO at the Whitney Museum SEEK at Cosm Los Angeles & Dallas
@lovidlovid.bsky.social
Artist- duo-media-material-fam-📼 Upcoming things-process-living-thoughts-🫂
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@cheatlines.co
technician, artist, craftist, martian, gardener ||| Busytown, Colorado ||| ᴛʜɪɴɢs ɢᴏᴛ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ʜᴏᴛ ᴡᴇ sᴛᴀʏᴇᴅ ᴀs ʟᴏɴɢ ᴀs ᴘᴏssɪʙʟᴇ
@drantjegamble.bsky.social
Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // Assoc Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her drantjegamble.com
@jerthorp.bsky.social
Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
@eliseybell.bsky.social
Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed. You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
@cmonstah.bsky.social
"Elegante y muy cabrona." I labor at the word factory for Alta, WaPo, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW and others. https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
@allisoncmeier.bsky.social
Writer on art, culture, history & other wonders. Editor at Fine Books & Collections. NYC-based, Oklahoma born. 'Grave' book is out now from Bloomsbury! (she/her)
@bhoggard.bsky.social
art collector (Hoggard Wagner collection) and software engineer with very left-of-center politics
@bildoperationen.bsky.social
Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture @digitalculturesandarts.ch https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
@jonippolito.net
How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
@ebriel.bsky.social
Artist and paper researcher in Paris - sometimes Hong Kong IG: @ebrielart http://ebriel.com/contact
@jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social
cranky radical, fussy aesthete, generalist, partner of @bhoggard
@johnpowers.bsky.social
Sculptor; 8-bit https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/arts/design/john-powers-sculptor-accident.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@kyraocean.bsky.social
Artist-Researcher-Curator @𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 Creator 𝗈𝖿 ↯ @wwwtxt.bsky.social Core Areas: Computing Arts • Net Cultures • Media Histories • Cyberfeminism ⌭ she/her ＊ KEER•ah ♡彡 kyraocean.com
@karenho.bsky.social
Art crime and business reporter at ARTnews. Owner of a floofy dog. Canadian. Doomscrolling Reminder Lady. Confidential tips can be sent to kho at ARTnews.com or karenkho.45 on Signal
@colbychamberlain.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Art History, Cleveland Institute of Art | “Fluxus Administration,” UChicago Press, 2024 | Queens native, Cleveland resident | he/him
@avantgaertner.bsky.social
art multi-hyphenate, hack writer, researcher, insurance broker, and image researcher. Recent resident of Beacon, NY.
@sacha-b.bsky.social
Enthusiast. 🖤 I live in the best place and work in the best industry. 🖤 #DTLA #contemporaryart 🖤
@alexishyde.bsky.social
Director of Art and Outreach at @quinnemanuel / Co-host of Hyde or Practise, a podcast/ Art Advisor https://www.quinnemanuel.com/artists-in-residence
@chrisrusak.com
Artist — https://shop.chrisrusak.com Perfume • Publishing Las Vegas, Nevada
@douglasdodds.bsky.social
Independent curator, formerly at the V&A. All things digital - especially computer art, digital art, algorithmic art, generative art, etc. Plus museums, libraries, digital humanities, Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne and more. www.douglasdodds.org
@arunadsouza.bsky.social
Writer and critic, mostly contemporary art, sometimes food, always politics. New York Times and 4Columns, among other places. I’m surprisingly sweet. 🇨🇦
@naylandblake.bsky.social
Artist, Auntie, Bear, BIPOC, Educator, Enby, Fat, Femme. Aspiring cranky crone.They/Them. Archive/shambles/home at www.naylandblake.net I love it when you make things.
@suebeyer.bsky.social
PhD candidate Griffith Uni Instruction based art | painting | digital combines Exhibition June 2025 NARS Foundation Brooklyn Oolite Arts residency artist 2025 Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia Otras Formas, NYC
@sephspeaks.bsky.social
Freelance visual arts critic and curator, former editor at Hyperallergic, current contributor to the NY Times (www.nytimes.com/by/seph-rodney), former artist, lapsed poet. "To make something beautiful should be enough; it isn't. It should be" —R. Siken
@jeremymillar.bsky.social
Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London. jeremymillar.org Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015 Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
@mattstromberg.bsky.social
freelance arts writer & editor. LA. avi by Rachid Bouhamidi he/him https://linktr.ee/mattstromberg
@snelsonus.bsky.social
Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects. All views are my own.
@afroartnerd.bsky.social
Art historian and HBCU Professor | Author: Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic | elizabethchamilton.com Header image: Alison Saar. Tobacco, Indigo, Sugar, Cotton, and Rice (2018)
@onceatrophic.bsky.social
Art Historian. Etc. The World Atlas of Public Art (Yale University Press, 2024) now available: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272581/the-world-atlas-of-public-art/
@russeth.bsky.social
Art critic in New York, editor at Artnet News. www.andrewrusseth.com www.instagram.com/andrewrusseth
@andrewgwilson.bsky.social
Art historian, curator, editor. Currently author/project editor Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné. Also writing about Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and others. Weeding, pruning and grass cutting https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/andrew-wilson/
@georginalewis.bsky.social
Started as a sound artist, now I make objects. Work at MIT Libraries, studio resident at Boston Center for the Arts, sings to rabbits. MFA Bard College. she/her
@jenbee.bsky.social
Art for everyone evangelist. Walker. Talker. Native NYer, often in CA. Founder of www.20x200.com.
@chan.gallery
Artist. 2017: Conceptual blockchain work "Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility" (Sotheby's, etc.) 2021: Generative Artwork "LeWitt Generator Generator" (Art Blocks) 2022: Art Game Series "Beggars Belief" (Buffalo AKG Art Museum, HEK)
@rhea.art
👩🎨💻🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐺 For the hard of comprehending: she/her. New show! https://nagel-draxler.de/exhibition/the-fractionalized-phallus/ Blue haired SJW, NFT grifter, anti-IP artist, atheist, cat mom, wife and mother, recovering Brit. "Pronouns".
@benadavis.bsky.social
Writer. Author of '9.5 Theses on Art and Class' and 'Art in the After-Culture.' My newsletter at https://substack.com/@benstoppable
@bengrosser.bsky.social
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics, Artist/Researcher, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University; Visiting Prof. in Humanities, Computing & Design @ Rochester Institute of Technology. cyberneticforests.com
@hyperallergic.com
The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news, views, and reviews that you need right now. 😎 hyperallergic.com
@hrag.bsky.social
Art Critic Futurist 🧬 Editor-in-chief, Hyperallergic 🗽 Aleppo born, Toronto raised, Brooklyn based I tweet politics & culture because art doesn't exist in a vacuum.
@powhida.bsky.social
Artsunion.org | Zeroartfair.com | Postcontemporary artist | You aren't a content farmer. Take a long break.
@manbartlett.com
Forever curious human. Artist (sound, drawing, digital, etc). I was @man on the bird site. Listen to First Light on East Village Radio every 3rd Friday of the month 8a-10a: https://bio.site/man
@joeyaherring.bsky.social
Curator & Public Art Administrator Project Manager, The Strauss @UCSanDiego Opening Winter 2026 🖼️ Formerly @Tate | @SDMA | @MOPASD | @SanDiegoAirport 🎓 @CourtauldStudy & @UCSanDiego ⚾️ Padres Fan