10 Art Newsletters to Actually Read
- Jul 20
- 2 min read
Danielle Krysa has written daily art picks for over a decade, built around her books on creative blocks and the inner critic. Different theme each day of the week: Monday brings motivation, Thursday opens up to reader questions, Saturday closes with a curated group of four or five artists around a theme.
Cool Stories About Art
Julien isn't an art historian. He started explaining paintings to his daughter as a game, to make museum visits less boring, and it grew into a newsletter with over 130,000 subscribers and 300,000 Instagram followers. Twice a week, one painting, one story, no prior knowledge required.
Art Forecast
Tatum Dooley writes for Artforum, Vogue, and the Globe & Mail. Her newsletter tracks where the art market is headed and gives you something to say about it at your next opening, without sounding like you Googled it that morning.
Katy Hessel has run the Instagram account of the same name since 2015 and wrote The Story of Art without Men. Her newsletter is a monthly top five: exhibitions worth seeing, artists worth discovering, books worth reading, centered on women artists across history and today.
Bronwyn Hunter-Shortly spent over a decade at Christie's and Kasmin Gallery before going independent. Her newsletter is closer to an advisory service than a blog: what she's watching, what she'd buy, and why.
Chris Davies has spent 20 years helping creative people build sustainable careers. His newsletter skips the inspiration-poster tone and goes straight to strategy: how to talk about your work, how to reach the right audience, how to keep going when it's hard.
Our own biweekly list of open calls, residencies, grants, and galleries looking for artists, sent straight to your inbox.
Tabby Booth is an artist and curator. Her newsletter reads like a studio diary: behind-the-scenes process, a weekly creative prompt, and a curated edit of what's catching her attention that week.
The New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist has sent a Friday list of ten things worth sharing every week since 2013. Over 300,000 people subscribe, and The Guardian named it one of the best newsletters on Substack.
Christopher P Jones, author of How to Read Paintings and Great Paintings Explained, unpacks the stories behind individual works. His MA in art history shows in how he traces the way interpretations shift over time.
