Articles on Art
If you're searching for articles on art, you have a lot to choose from. There are more than four hundred million art articles posted on the Internet. Of these, 220,000 have "Articles on Art" in the titles, and include topics as rub-on transfers, Fijian art and Russian authorities lashing out at artists and curators.
Looking for content rich articles on art on the Internet can be a shotgun approach. Sometimes you'll get to a site and see lists of articles, but not much information. Other times, you'll find the first paragraph of an article and nothing more. Or you might find a page that says it has art articles. Then when you get there, there are mostly art prints for sale.
While there is much worthwhile writing on art and other topics on the Internet, there is a lot that is mostly hype and PR. If you want to read shallow articles on art, sign on to Google Alerts, under the categories, contemporary art, postmodern art and art journalism. While many of the web and blog pages that these alerts link to are excellent, many others are trivial.
Dumbing Down
Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg, author of "Beyond the Killing Fields," wrote in the blog, Politics Daily on July 8, 2010, "The world has embraced the new technology, and as I see it, the craft of credible, serious journalism is in a state of chaos…Papers have lost much of their advertising to the Internet, which so far has produced sparse original reporting considering the volume of websites, choosing instead to cherry-pick from newspapers without compensating them.
"Also, Internet sites have decided that their audiences want shorter, splashier articles, not lengthy, detailed ones that often force governments and corporations to correct errant ways of dealing with the public...
"The best journalism costs serious money. I'm referring to investigative journalism, which is especially costly because it can take months for a team of reporters to bring forth a solid, major story. In the past, these came almost entirely from a small number of major newspapers and a few magazines...
"Good journalism does not have to be printed on paper. But the Internet has also spawned an endless 24/7 trail of garbage, which I call bits-and-pieces journalism -- "borrowed" or "aggregated" material from other sources, especially original stories from newspapers. Internet companies say that the material they use is in the public domain and therefore free...
"We were dumbing down the coverage before the Internet reared its head. If we want to restore a higher grade of journalism, we professionals will have to address the public and convince them that without serious reporting, they will not have the means to make informed decisions..."
1 Cent a Word
A few people I know outsource their Internet writing to online writing companies, several located in India. The average price for a 1,000 word web page is 1 cent a word, or $10.00 for the page.
This kind of writing is far from the journalism I grew up with from publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker and Newsweek.
Please enjoy the pages in this category. I have published these in a variety of magazines including ArtScene, Artillery and Art and Living.
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