Top Tales of 2010, Straight from ARTINFO
Tuesday 04th January 2011
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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.
Falling short of the 9th position in the list, there are plenty of articles that fulfill the 'sex quota' for the list and go some way to explaining the aforementioned "you animals" comment. With titles spread across the year such as "The Erotic Mirror: Four Female Photographers Turn Their Naked Eyes on Themselves", "Sarah Palin, Memorialized with Porn Art" and "Will Cotton's Latest Confession? A Naked Katy Perry", there's no shortage of perhaps the best selling subject of all time.
Subjects that beat the Top 10 Artist Websites article include unseen photographs of Michael Jackson coming up at auction, a look at the Worlds Wealthiest Artists, and at number 1 an article about photographer Richard Misrach and how Apple used one of his photographs as the background on the iPad when they launched it last January, making the photograph instantly famous around the world.
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
