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Modern Painters
Studio : Louise Blouin Media
by Louise Blouin Media
Publisher : Louise Blouin Media
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Number of Issues : 10
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 7 reviews)
Our Price : $50.00
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Product Description |
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Magazine covering contemporary visual arts, architecture, and aesthetics. This color glossy is dedicated to publishing great writing about art, not necessarily written by art critics/historians, recognising that novelists, playwrights, musicians, and poets can cast fresh light on writing about art. |
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Best gift I have ever got |
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The other reviews are old posts, but I received a subscription to Modern Painters about 6 months ago as a birthday present and I have yet to be disappointed. It has excellent coverage of stories from all over the art world. The images and articles are really interesting. I really love the interviews with high profile artists, reviews of exhibitions, and art book coverage. Last month I even got my friend a subscription as a gift. It is definitely one of the best art magazines. |
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Though Modern Painters has fallen off a bit, it still is one of the two best art magazines out there |
Along with Parkett, Modern Painters remains one of the two 'must read' art magazines of the day. It has undergone two vast transformations over the last five years. Back in around 2001 it turned into a quarterly magazine and for the next four years it produced exceptional content. Just about every article was thoughtful and full of insights. On top of that they had a first rate caliber of gallery reviewers who highlighted the best shows of the quarter.
since 2005, the quality has dropped off a bit, but it is nice to get it monthly. The articles and reviews still live up to a high standard, though their is just not as many of them. I think that I would be more happy if they returned to the quarterly format, but I can live with what they are putting out today. Just compare it to the other trashy art magazines on bookstore shelves. At first glance they might all look a little interesting, but I guarantee you that all of the others (except Parkett) only have at best four or five pages of publishable content. Some of them might have better ad's (which is sometimes half the fun of these magazines), but they surely dont muster up in the realm of quality articles or reviews.
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I just wanted to amend this review a little. Over the last year and a half, this magazine has totally gone down-hill. I dont know how they could have taken the best art magazine and just utterly gutted it in such a short period of time, but they have managed to do so.
STAY AWAY FROM MODERN PAINTERS. |
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Beware! |
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I only recieved 4 out of 6 issues from my subsciption... inquiries to publisher go un-answered... ummm... except for mailings asking me to "renew now!" Gee guys, No Thanks! BEWARE! |
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Sad Decline |
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I bought this magazine faithfully every month. Then it changed and was a different product altogether. Poorly printed on dull paper, and unexciting with much less information. It was very disappointing change. An not worth the money it costs. I hardly ever buy it any more. |
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SAD DECLINE |
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This once fascinating magazine suffered a "makeover" a few months ago; the good news is that it's now a monthly, the bad news is that it has totally changed for the worse, a re-heated mish mash of Art Forum and Art Papers, with more endless prating about Hirst and Emin in all their fatuous vacuity. I will treasure and reread my many back issues and continue to wonder how this could have happened. Very sad. |
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