Debate Blogging as Art Criticism

Thursday the 12th of May, at 13.00 hours a debate about Blogging as Art Criticism is organised on the floor of Art Amsterdam.

Primary reason is the actual shift of art criticism from tradional media to blogging and other social media. This blog experiment is to be seen in that perspective. Secondary reason for this debate is that major fund the Mondriaan Stichting didn’t want to finance this because they have their reservations on the role of blogging in relationship to art criticism. Happily enough the fund wants to elaborate on that in this debate.

Madeleine van Lennep of the Mondriaan Stichting will talk about their arguments and visions with director of Nest/reporter Eelco van Lingen, editor-in-chief Kunstbeeld Roos van Put, curator/blogger Michelle Kasprzak and new media journalist/NRC blogger Ine Poppe. This quick and dirty debate of an hour will adress issues like blogging as a proper medium for art criticism, the dangers and the possibilities.

The debate is part of a series of lectures and events organized by De Groene Amsterdammer and Kunstbeeld.