Trying to find contemporary artist

So I'm trying to find out where is the best place to find contemporary artists of today. I know in Thesis 1 yesterday Karyn mentioned going to the New York Times or Chicago Times to look for artists, someone else mentioned the magazines or some other stuff. I only ask because I tried looking in google and being that the internet is so big with information about artists I still had trouble finding one, I'm still trying to look for a good one that I can use for reference for my thesis. I will try the magazines I guess...