Sharkforum

Sharkforum.org is a Chicago-based web site founded by artists Wesley Kimler and David Roth and devoted primarily to the discussion of art. Its tagline is "Opinion with teeth." The website has recently begun a [http://swiss-art.blogspot.com/ Swiss branch] , which operates primarily as a blog.

Besides Kimler and Roth, prominent contributors include composer David Amram, artist and theorist Mark Staff Brandl, Grammy Award-winning record producer Joel Dorn, film critic Ray Pride, musician Nicholas Tremulis and Museum of Contemporary Art curator Lynne Warren.

Several of the contributors are artists who are quite well-known on their own, particularly Wesley Kimler and Mark Staff Brandl, and have exhibited together in various combinations, becoming known as the Sharkpack.

Despite, or perhaps due to its aggressivity, the site has become one of the major art critical presences in Chicago and continues to expand readership and activities beyond the web. It is arguably one of the first widely-known art groups fostered primarily on the internet.

External links

* [http://www.sharkforum.org/ Sharkforum: Opinion With Teeth]
* [http://swiss-art.blogspot.com/ Swiss Art Sharkforum]