It’s official: CultureGrrl is NOT the future of arts journalism. But the National Summit on Arts Journalism, for which five winners have been selected from those of us who entered the competition, has postponed publicly identifying the projects “that might give us a peek into the future.” Can we stand the suspense, art-lings?
Now that time and the judges have passed me by, I’m going to go dust off my beloved blue IBM Selectric typewriter—the one with the nifty removable metal balls stamped with various fonts. Or should I revert to the green Hermes portable manual model? Where’d I stash that carbon paper?
I do take comfort in the knowledge that Deanna Isaacs of the Chicago Reader believes that I “have a bead on the future.” So does CultureGrrl Donor 71 from San Francisco, to whom I extend my warmest thanks.
Speaking of my quest for financial validation…now that the French have finally returned from their August vacances, it’s time to try to revive the CultureGrrl Donor Geographical Challenge. Canada and Asia already came through admirably. Can one of my several French amis please click my jaune “Donate” button, just to show that you care?
For those loyal readers who still believe that I do have something to say about the future of arts journalism, please note the recent addition at the top of CultureGrrl‘s middle column:
LEE SPEAKS on hot-button artworld issues, art blogging, journalism. To engage me as a speaker or moderator, go here. To see me in action, go here.
And I also invite you to make use of my new CultureGrrl Classifieds feature (also in the middle column), to announce gallery and museum exhibitions, programs, lectures, courses, jobs, publications, etc.
Who says I don’t have a “business model”? I DO have a model; it just doesn’t work very well…at least not yet!
(…as we were taught by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to affix to the end of our typewritten copy, back when dinosaurs roamed the campus.)
Now I know what Joni Evans must feel like.