Friday, April 15, 2011
Musing on the Future of Art Journalism
Earlier this week I took part in a panel discussion hosted by Christie’s on the future of art journalism, along with Eric Gibson, the WSJ‘s leisure and arts editor, and Dennis Scholl, a Miami-based collector and a vice president of the Knight Foundation.
Columbia Journalism School’s digital guru, Sree Sreenivasan kept us in line as moderator.
Scholl provided a lift by breaking news the Knight Foundation is launching a series of grant programs for art journalism in certain regional markets where coverage has dwindled.
Other topics included the merits and shortcomings of Twitter and social media, as well as the rising popularity of news over art criticism.
A link to a video of the conversation can be found here.
much thanks Lindsay for offering this vid; based on the on-line question submitted to the panel, at least one person from Dallas Texas has watched it, so maybe Dallas will write a first article about Dallas wildflower artist Chapman Kelley and his Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 case (2004 and pending) which is likely headed to the Supreme Court of the U.S. for resolution. Kelley has called Dallas home since 2006 and yet the media there won’t touch writing about his artists’ rights litigation..but the international press like the Art Newspaper has written FOUR articles, most recently in their print version April 2011. Is Kelley blacklisted in Dallas? Hard to argue otherwise!