Will Gompertz
Another day, another new arts blog. But this one is something of a watershed:
The BBC recently announced the debut of its new blog by Will Gompertz, the recently-appointed arts editor for BBC News. Gompertz had previously run the Tate’s website, which, he says, “became established as the U.K.’s most popular art website.”
The BBC states:
This is the first move towards giving a higher profile and more
consistent focus to our arts reporting in general.
Here’s the new blog, which could use a better name: Gomp/arts.
Wait a minute! Will’s first and only post is dated Jan. 22. Don’t blogs need to be regularly updated?
For more than a year, we’ve had our U.S. version of an cultural blog under the auspices of a major broadcast organization—the PBS NewsHour‘s Art Beat,