I’ve been using this blog mostly as a place to put administrative posts about AJ. But I’ve decided to take up blogging myself. First, a couple more administrative notes. We’ve been adding more blogs to AJ in recent weeks. Former NYTimes reporter Judith Dobrzynski’s Real Clear Arts debuted last week with a bang, and she’s been breaking news almost daily, so check her out.
Today is a sad day. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is going out of business tomorrow after almost 150 years on the beat. Once upon a time I worked at the P-I, as a music critic and as an arts reporter and arts columnist, and I’m sad to see it go. With its closing, some friends will lose their jobs. I have mixed feelings, because the P-I’s demise has allowed AJ to pick up one of the nation’s best art critics, Regina Hackett.
Regina has been at the P-I since the early 80s, and in the past two years has written an entertaining blog Art to Go, which has been something of an online classroom in how she looks at visual culture. Tomorrow (Tuesday) she re-emerges on AJ on her new blog Another Bouncing Ball.
In the next few weeks, we’ll be launching a number of other blogs as well, so stay tuned.
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