Is ArtsBeat, the NY Times new culture blog, not just dormant but dead? It’s no longer to be found anywhere on the newspaper’s “Arts” web page.
As of now, it’s had a four-day run, Apr. 27-30.
Do we need to change its slogan to: “No culture, none of the time”?
UPDATE: Sam Sifton, the NY Times culture editor, responds:
We haven’t discontinued ArtsBeat, nor have we suspended it. We started it as an arts event blog, so that our reporters and critics could report from festivals and the like; we’ll likely expand it from there. (You can find a link if you click on “blogs” off our home page.)
You’ll have to look very closely for that link: in very small font on the lower right, if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the newspaper’s home page (not its “Arts” page).