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      <title>Comments On: The Meaning of Engagement
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Diana]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This really illuminates the finer points of  this transition. And your interview post with Regina is genius because to listen to her cadence, the way you recounted it, is indescribable. I still hope you're right and that the Times learns but it might be irrelevant. <br />
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Having only one art critic in town spreads the work load pretty thin and there's only so much you can cover in limited space. We've been thankful to have any attention - even a calendar listing that makes it in... eyeballs. Opinions and critiques are the bitter pill that don't always convey well online because things are easily taken out of context, randomly distributed and sidetracked by troll attention.<br />
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There's still room for independent, non-profit, DIY publications out there. Kind of like the old days - fanzines, comics, extremist opinions - that are definitely entertaining. It's time to get creative.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Steven Vroom]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[With the demise of the PI, the Stranger becomes the paper of record for Visual Arts Criticism. The media landscape has been changing for some time. Artists will continue to make work, galleries and museums will continue to have exhibitions. The diminished ability of the public to find out what is currently on view will be left to the weekly papers and the quarterly glossies, [Art Access, Art Guide]. The North Seattle Herald Outlook, The Capitol Hill Times, and the South Seattle Beacon are now being published bi-monthly and local Visual Arts Criticism will fade from view.<br />
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So Jen, like it or not, you are going to be it as of mid-march.<br />
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Good Luck
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:16:29 -0800</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[My Dog Ben]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Jen, your writing is so different from when you started with The Stranger. I think it's different *because* of The Stranger. Sometimes I disagree with you but you are still the best writer on the paper. If we only get one art critic in town, let it be you.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:06:35 -0800</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[Jen, You ask the question: "Is the creativity of engaged individuals an important part of what's encouraged at the Seattle Times?" The record would, I think, suggest otherwise. There is a muffled quality to the writing at the paper, from the editorial pages to the art reviews; it is as if the loud voice of the Blethen family, with its conservative sensibility, narrow business agenda, and outdated civic boosterism drowns out any meaningful self-expression on the part of the writers. The only hope for the paper would be a new owner. As my grandmother used to say in her heavy Greek accent, "The fish rots from the head."<br />
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:23:48 -0800</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Braid Steenfunker]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Here, here!<br />
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Now let's read what a real critick has to say.<br />
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<a href="http://www.moviesintofilm.com/2008lists.htm">http://www.moviesintofilm.com/2008lists.&hellip;</a>  <br />
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:23:12 -0800</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[Jen... I'm concerned.  Your escalating dogmatic diatribe in recent days regarding art criticism in Seattle is becoming increasingly alarming proof that you're not doing your job as an art critic.  Are you bored?  Maybe your ethusiasm in the matter is simply a selfserving excercise to validate your own writings as the consumation of criticism?  Why not stick to examing artwork?  Besides, the loss of Sheila as a writer comes at no great expense to the art scene and the demise of the PI will compel Regina to write like a writer as oppose to a shaman.<br />
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You're getting dangerously close to becoming the Geraldo Rivera of Northwest art criticism.  Stick to writing about art.  You're good at it!
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:46:04 -0800</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[meks]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Regina Hackett is fucking awesome.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:38:38 -0800</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Will in Seattle]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I agree with @2.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:43:10 -0800</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Deep Maroon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[In chess the four elements are: force, time, space and  pawn structure.<br />
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Formerly space (position) allowed undue power (or suppressed power).   With the Internet, it becomes less and access to pawn structure becomes limited.<br />
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Pure force (of person) becomes greater.<br />
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The fastest (time) claims more prizes.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Your Name Here]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["the most likely scenario come April is that I'll be the only full-time newspaper art critic in town"<br />
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time for a raise!
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:01:59 -0800</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Rotten666]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The same things can be said of many of your coworkers at the stranger.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:00:51 -0800</pubDate> 
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