Tuesday 04th January 2011I'm a big fan of blog posts or articles that list a top number of anything. As a society we all seem to really love it; the top ten most expensive, the top 50 most powerful, the top 20 fails, top 10 tips, top 100 do not do's....the list goes on.
To celebrate our love of lists, order and categorisation, I wanted to draw your attention to ARTINFO's latest top list;
Sex, Scandal, and iPads: ARTINFO's Most-Read Stories of 2010. The ARTINFO Daily Arts Digest drops conveniently into my inbox about mid-afternoon, and I can fully appreciate the humour and more relaxed mode of language that they use to engage their readers. The subheading in the e-newsletter for this particular story read: "These were the lurid tales you liked the most last year, you animals." How could I not click on it?
While the introduction to the list of top articles points out that, once again, sex, money and politics rein supreme, I was more enthused to see that an article about the
Top 10 Artist Websites had made it in at number 9, showing a huge interest on the part of ARTINFO readers in what sorts of websites artists and photographers have to offer. Once I'd finished drooling over some of the offerings in that article, including sites for
Olafur Eliasson (no.3),
Ed Ruscha (no.5) and
Jeff Koons (no.10), I returned to see which articles had beaten, or been beaten by the Top 10 Artist Websites.
Take a look at this
great list, complied by ARTINFO, and relive some of the greatest art stories of 2010.
Happy New Year!
Posted on January 04th 2011 on 05:51pm