Third-Person About
Artblog.net is written and produced by Franklin Einspruch, an artist and writer in Boston. Artblog.net went live in May 2003, and since then has become widely recognized as one of the important examples of its genre. Artblog.net and its author have been cited by Art & Auction Magazine, the New York Observer, and the Miami New Times, among others. Terry Teachout, writing for the Wall Street Journal, said this about it:
...a fast-growing number of artbloggers are "professionals" of a different kind - professional artists who blog on the side, some of whom, like the Miami-based painter Franklin Einspruch (www.artblog.net), cover their local arts scenes as incisively as any print-media critic. ...The emergence of the practitioner-blogger has the highest potential significance for arts journalism.
Personal, contrarian, subjective, independent, spirited, and consitutionally indifferent to the art "scene," as people call it, Artblog.net seeks to apply clear looking, clear thinking, and clear writing to visual art. It posts exhibition reviews, art book reviews, reports on comics and illustration, essays on a broad range of concerns within visual art, special publications, reports from his studio, and a weekly roundup of hyperlinks to art-related stories selected by the author on the basis of importance, humor, or oddball virtue. Artblog.net publishes each weekday.
Einspruch's writings have appeared in the Boston Globe, the New Criterion, New York Foundation for the Arts Interactive, RISD Views, the Miami New Times, Accent Miami, and elsewhere. His art is represented by galleries in Miami, San Diego, and Scottsdale. His professional accomplishments include artist residencies in Greece and Taiwan, several grants for his work, and a fourteen-year career in teaching art at the college level.
In addition to Artblog.net, Einspruch produces The Moon Fell On Me, a webcomic, and edits the Walter Darby Bannard Archive.