AC's zero edition of 8 pages was just mailed. Our next issue is due in
September. If you would like a free copy, would like to submit a review
or short article on issues in art criticism please contact Holly Crawford
(hcartcirlces.org) or Peter Frank (pfartcirlces.org) Also more
information is available on our website--www.artcircles.org

AC
Art Circles is a Public Service Project for the Documentation of Art

We are open to covering all art not on permanent display, with a strong
emphasis on recently produced art. We are based in New York and Los
Angeles, but our intention is to create a flexibly organized newsletter
that is open to exhibitions globally. As we grow, we will contact and
attract writers based in art centers around the nation and the world. We
will post their notations on a monthly basis on our Website
(www.artcircles.org) and make hard copy coverage available to our
subscribers.

Art Circles is a nonprofit public service and appreciates any public or
private support. Editorial policy will remain independent; in fact, we plan
to leave the choice of exhibitions to review to our writers, intervening in
these choices only to keep them current. Duplications will be published.
We will encourage but not dictate coverage of exhibitions, commercial and
public, which are unlikely to receive commentary in other publications. As
well, we will avoid coverage of those exhibitions likely to receive
universal commentary (e.g. the Whitney Biennial) except to discuss aspects
likely to be overlooked otherwise (e.g. issues of installation).

As galleries and other exhibition spaces proliferate throughout New York
and across America, the number of published venues for commentary on
exhibitions continues to diminish - even on the Internet, but especially in
hard print - continues to diminish. The growing audience for art still
includes many viewers who are trained in its history, able to articulate
their responses to art, and in this manner to function as spokespeople and
as consumer guides for the larger audience. But these critics and reviewers
have fewer places to make their observations readily available. (Blogs
help, but are not a solution.) We have created Art Circles newsletter as a
response to this growing scarcity.

Given the ambitious scope of our purview, our reviews are necessarily
short. We also wish in this way to re-examine and re-institute the craft of
reviewing in brief. Decades ago, writers for daily papers, weekly news
magazines, and monthly art publications alike were expected to file reviews
often as brief as 30 words, reviews that were able to describe salient
points and discuss significant aspects despite - even because of - their
brevity. We aim to make this level of commentary from those who write about
art-from many points of view-available to the many interested readers about
art, professional and otherwise.

Art Circles provides a service to the audience for art and also an
opportunity - and a challenge - to those who would serve that audience with
their writing.

Peter Frank, Editor & Holly Crawford, Editor and Publisher