This page sorts eight newsletters about art by what each one is for: Cool Stories About Art and The Curatorial Collector for the story behind a single painting, The Vivid Eye for odd objects in museums, Casual Archivist and Austin Kleon for design and making, RUINS for theory, and Artnet News and HENI News for the art market. Start with The Curatorial Collector or Cool Stories About Art when the paintings come first.
Lists of art newsletters usually pile every name into one line and stop there. These eight do very different jobs, and that difference decides which of them deserves a place in an inbox.
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Not all eight are about art history. Artnet News and HENI News report on what is happening in the art world today, and HENI describes its own site as a source for daily art news and insights.
Austin Kleon's weekly letter is about making things, and Casual Archivist spends its issues on packaging and printed matter far more than on paintings. RUINS argues about artworks from a declared point of view. Three of the eight, Cool Stories About Art, The Curatorial Collector and The Vivid Eye, are built around telling the story of one work or one object at a time.
The eight differ in purpose more than in quality. The three storytellers suit a reader who wants the past explained at leisure, the two market letters suit a reader who wants today's news, and the three others suit a reader who wants to think about how art is made or argued.
What You'll Discover
Who explains one painting at a time.
Where The Vivid Eye really wanders.
Which letters barely mention paintings.
Whose point of view shapes RUINS.
What the daily market letters track.