Cultbytes
Type of site | Blogazine, art, culture |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Editor | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand |
| URL | cultbytes |
| Current status | Active |
Cultbytes is an online arts and culture magazine, based in Manhattan, New York. It was founded in 2014 by the Swedish art critic and curator Anna Mikaela Ekstrand. It is an English-language platform that publishes criticism, opinion pieces, interviews, essays, and social media content.
Background
[edit]In Cultbytes tenth anniversary year, 2024, Vogue Scandinavia's art critic Valeria Schiller called the publication “cutting-edge.”[1] By the same year, the publication had published more than 400 articles written by over 90 contributors, among them artist Ayana Evans who also serves as its editor-at-large.
In 2023 Cultbytes was a media partner of The Immigrant Artist Biennial together with Artspiel[2] and published more than ten articles about immigrant artists and the biennial's events on its platform.[3]
In 2023, Cultbytes published an interview detailing non-payment by the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard as told by his former studio manager.[4] In the same year, Cultbytes summarized ongoing public arguments between a prominent gallerist and a number of her represented artists for non-payment and withholding artwork.[5] Cultbytes has also covered museum workers organizing to unionize in the United States.[6] This coverage contributes to the growing field of arts journalism that makes visible exploitative art-world labor practices in the United States.[7][8][9]
In addition, Cultbytes has published extensively on the NFT-art boom, performance art, Scandinavian artists in New York, and sustainability in the arts.
References
[edit]- ^ Schiller, Valeria (12 September 2024). "Why do we love to predict? Inside 'Clairvoyant' at Ceysson-Bénétière New York". Vogue Scandinavia.
- ^ Gemima, Clare (July 2023). "The Immigrant Artist Biennial Announces 48 Artists to Participate in '23 "Contact Zone"". Whitehot Magazine.
- ^ "The Immigrant Artist Biennial Press". theimmigrantartistbiennial.com.
- ^ Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela (14 July 2023). "Bjarne Melgaard's Former Studio Manager Nicholas Cueva Just Called Him Out: The Backstory". Cultbytes.
- ^ Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela (15 September 2023). "The HOUSING Crisis: KJ Freeman's Storage Sale". Cultbytes.
- ^ "The Immigrant Artist Biennial Press". cultbytes.com/?=unionize.
- ^ Johnson, Paddy (15 November 2013). "Instead of Exploiting Artists, Pay Them Sale". The New York Times.
- ^ Kopel, Dana (28 April 2022). "Proving the Rule: The "Exceptionalism" Problem with Art-World Labor Sale". MOMUS.
- ^ Halperin, Julia (13 March 2024). "How much should museums pay artists for events such as the Whitney Biennial?". The Art Newspaper.