“The reason artblogs caught on in the first place is that they frequently offered a sharper, better-informed alternative to the bland arts coverage published in regional newspapers–and that they were, to use a word coined by no less a journalistic authority than Joseph Pulitzer, ‘indegoddamnpendent.’ They still are, and that’s why people continue to read them. It remains to be seen whether any institutional blog will ever pack that kind of punch…”
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
