Cultbytes
Type of site | Blogazine, art, culture |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Editor | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Ayana Evans, and Alexandra Bregman |
| Website | cultbytes |
| Current status | Active |
Cultbytes is an online arts magazine, based in Manhattan, New York. Founded in 2016, the blogazine predominantly covers artists of color, female artists, social issues within the art world, and is engaged in art influencing.
Reception[edit]
It was praised by the editor-in-chief of ArtZealous, Kristina Adducci, for being "passionate about working against the social inequalities in the art world."[1] Joan Robledo-Palop, the art historian, called it's social media presence "avant-garde" and "inspiring."
Cultbytes founding editor-in-chief Anna Mikaela Ekstrand has been interviewed about her editorial work in ArtZealous[2], Art Frankly[3], and We-Rule[4] and has lectured about it at the visual arts department at Brown University and participated in a panel at Superfine Art Fair[5], among others.
Exhibitions[edit]
The site serves as a producer and co-organiser of several exhibitions including Akshita Gandhi and Anuktri Upadhyay: Traveling Souls[6][7], The Boring Company New York and SpaceX Gallery[8][9][10]co-curated by Adrian Wilson, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, and Uniska Wahalo Kano, Sara Erenthal - BACKSTORY curated by Nina Blumberg[11][12][13], Your Decolonizing Toolkit[14] co-curated by Ekstrand and Ayana Evans, and Ekstrand served as co-curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial,[15] an exhibition supported by NYFA[16] and Kickstarter held in 2020 presenting 60+ artists at Brooklyn Museum,[17] EFA Project Space, and online. The Immigrant Artist Biennial was widely covered by Hyperallergic,[18] Artnet,[19] The Art Newspaper,[20] and other art publications.
Staff[edit]
- Editor-in-chief, founder: Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
- Editors-at-large: Alexandra Bregman[21][22] Ayana Evans[23]
- Social Media Manager: Nina Blumberg[24][25][26]
Contributing writers[edit]
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Guest writers[edit]
- Tsedaye Makonnen (Performance Artist)
- Fabiola Einhorn (Interactive Design)
- Madeleine Löfberg (Creative Writer/Journalist)
- Annika Connor (Painter/Actress)
- Cheikh Athj (Poet/Musician/Dancer)
- Patrick Scorese (Curator)
- Louise Hohorst (IR-Specialist)
- David Van Leeuwen (Attorney)
- Lotte Andersen (Artist)
Content Collaborators[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Zealous, Art (2020-11-06). "The Remarkable Women Behind The Immigrant Artist Biennial Share Their Curatorial Process". Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ "Art Publishing Platform Launches Newly Formed Agency". Artzealous. January 21, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Anna Mikaela Ekstrand – Founding Editor-in-Chief of Cultbytes". Art Frankly. November 24, 2018. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Anna Mikaela Ekstrand is a curator, the founding-editor-in-chief of Cultbytes, an online art publication, and a cultural strategist/PR-person". We-Rule. May 6, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Superfine! Brings Unstuffy Art Fair Experience to Soho for Third Annual May Show". Art & Object. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ "ATO Gallery and Cultbytes presents Traveling Souls". Architect and Interiors India. September 22, 2020. Retrieved December 9, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Mumbai Based Artist Askhita Gandhi teamed up with poet Anukrti Upadhyay to create "Traveling Souls"". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ "An Elon Musk Space on Rivington Street?". Bowery Boogie. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ staff/claire-lampen (2018-12-19). "Elon Musk Not Working On A Hyperloop Out Of This LES Basement". Gothamist. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela (2018-12-22). "Waking the F*** Up, Building Community Through Performance Art at a Fake Start-Up". Cultbytes. Retrieved 2020-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Sara Erenthal: BACKSTORY — Opening Night at The Storefront Project". streetartnyc.org. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ McLogan, Elle (2019-07-24). "Sara Erenthal's Backstory: NYC Street Artist Makes Art Out Of Trash". CBS. Retrieved 2020-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Street Artist Sara Erenthal Takes Her 'Raw, Primal' Self-Portraits Indoors". Bedford + Bowery. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ Silva, Patricia (2016-11-04). ""Your Decolonizing Toolkit:" Freeing Thought from Conditions of Exploit". Cultbytes. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ Zealous, Art (2020-11-06). "The Remarkable Women Behind The Immigrant Artist Biennial Share Their Curatorial Process". Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ "Conversations | The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB)". NYFA. 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ "A Visually Impaired Dancer Asks You to Take a Closer Look at His Work". Bedford + Bowery. 2020-03-12. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ Cassell, Dessane Lopez (2020-04-21). "Centering Immigrant Artists, From Advising on Visa Applications to Responding to Xenophobia". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ "Editors' Picks: 10 Things Not to Miss in the Virtual Art World This Week". artnet News. 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ "Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ "Inside The Bouvier Affair: Interview with Author Alexandra Bregman". Barnebys. April 3, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Alexandra Bregman, Adjunct Faculty". Columbia Journalism Website. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ "What It Takes to Raise a Black Woman Up". New York Times. June 19, 2020. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Nina Blumberg and the Ever-Changing Art World". Friend of the Artist. November 21, 2020. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Art Publishing Platform Launches Newly Formed Agency". Artzealous. January 21, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ Lu, Meng-Chieh Monica (2017-03-30). "15 Art Instagrams You Should Be Following This Spring". artzealous.com. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ "El Museo Del Barrio's 'Disco De Los Muertos': A Party to Die For". Gallery Gurls. October 22, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ Zealous, Art (2020-05-21). ""Joie de Vivre" Instills Creativity, Joy, and Stillness Amidst Chaos". artzealous.com. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ Barnebys (2019-01-09). "The First Abstract Modernist, Hilma af Klint". Cultbytes. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ "Artists on Coping: Jane Swavely – Art Spiel". Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ "Artists on Coping: Reece Cox – Art Spiel". Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ↑ Yaniv, Etty (2020-04-19). "Artists on Coping: "We Are Here to Help Each Other," Liz Jaff". Cultbytes. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
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