New Regime: the September issue
It’s out with the old, in with the new in the September issue of Art in America magazine, where Marcia Vetrocq assumed the editorship in June, replacing artworld editorial giant Betsy Baker (who remains as “Editor-at-Large/Special Projects”).
A redesign is underway, which for September features bolder headlines and bylines and new layout for the contents page that gives more prominence to the masthead. It’s there that major changes have occurred—not just in the aforementioned staff changes, but also in the roster of contributing editors—the magazine’s family of writers.
I had the dubious distinction of being immediately removed from that list (in time for the August “2008 Guide”), as a direct result of displeasure with my above-linked posts. Perusing the September issue, I now find myself in good company. Other newly deleted contributors (many of whom, admittedly, hadn’t contributed all that much in recent years) are: Holland Cotter, Jamey Gambrell, Ken Johnson, Nancy Marmer, Walter Robinson, Jerry Saltz, Peter Schjeldahl and Brian Wallis.
In her “Editor’s Letter,” Vetrocq promises:
New writers are joining our regular and valued contributors. A dynamic website will be up and running soon.
This month’s newly anointed contributing editors are: Pepe Karmel, Peter Plagens, Gregory Volk. The website, at this writing, is still comatose. But Rome wasn’t built in a day; home pages take a little longer.