New Arts Blog at NY Times: Will Visual Arts Be Blogworthy?

It didn’t make the NY Times’ online company news page and but the gray lady has finally introduced a general culture blog, ArtsBeat. It’s about time that Virginia Heffernan‘s Screens, a blog about online video (heavy on YouTube) had some company on the newspaper’s online Arts page.
So far, the arts blog, launched Friday, has confined itself to dispatches by Ben Ratliff and Jeff Leeds, doubled-teaming the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, and Jon Pareles posting from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Is the new blog going to be limited to play-by-play events coverage? Stay tuned, as they say.
Will visual arts be deemed ready for online prime time? Probably not, if the status of visual arts on the Times home page is any indication. Listed under “Arts” in the lefthand column that delineates the paper’s areas of coverage are books, movies, music, television, theater. And visual arts (not to mention dance, design and architecture) are…where?
Michael Kimmelman, before you go off to Europe, why not get them to rectify this small oversight?