Arts Times Be Damned
Part two to that last post is that the Times does have writers worth reading outside of pop music and the movies (that old standby John Rockwell, Roberta Smith, and Alan Riding are at the top of my version of their roster), but it isn’t the paper of record it once was for everything highbrow.
That paper of cultural record, absolutely positively, is the Guardian, which brings me to something I’ve been meaning to share with you since yesterday: Doug McLennan, creator and guru of ArtsJournal, now has a blog, Diacritical. His second post, today, is about why the Guardian is so great. Check it yourself. I bet you bookmark it.