Hrag Vartanian

Critic, Curator, Editor-in-chief and co-founder, Hyperallergic

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Caught My Eye

December 6, 2008 by hv

  • Brooklyn Museum Decides to CHARGE to Follow Their "1stfans" Twitter Art Feed
    The Brooklyn Museum is charging to subscribe to a Twitter feed? WTF!?!?! Are they lame or maybe they're just smoking crack…you decide…in the meantime, I'll stick to the original Brooklyn Museum twitter account.

    According to their official post, they are inviting artists to "work" with Twitter…but the idea of charging for something that is normally free isn't as much unfortunate as a little criminal in my book. I'd rather see artists experiment with their regular feed which can actually at times be dull.

    According to their Twitter page: "Join 1stfans for $20/yr to get this benefit of membership. 1stfans Twitter Art Feed features tweets by contemporary artists every month, so join today!"

    NO THANKS!

    (tags: internet blogosphere art museums)
  • Art History Newsletter – Is There Another Kind?
    "I venture to suggest that 'metrosexual art historian' is redundant."
    (tags: art)
  • NewYorkology – Free Museum Hours in NYC for Fall/Winter 2008/9
    A great and useful list (via BenStock's Twitter)
    (tags: museums nyc)
  • Armenian Observer Blog – Online Journalists Now Jailed More Than Those In Any Other Medium
    Released today, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that 45% of media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors.
    (tags: blogosphere internet)
  • Black Star Rising – How Photographers Use Twitter
    There are in fact many answers it seems…
    (tags: photography internet blogosphere)

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  1. Tina Glengary says

    January 14, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Have you ever gotten a membership to a museum? Usually membership benefits include things that the regular public can’t get, a newsletter, invites to events, etc. The 1stfans program is an online, social media membership. I paid $20/year for the benefits that provides, including art via Twitter.

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