A) Despite Ideum’s list, there are still less than a dozen art institutions blogging in English. The rest are variations, wannabes and personal blogs on art.

B) I like opinion with a focus on information that you can’t get from the mainstream press. Commenting uselessly on an article in the NYTimes by writing ‘nice article here’ is something I don’t need to see ever again (although I am as guilty of doing it as anyone out there).

C) As an out of towner, I’m not certain that I ‘get’ why you guys need five blogs. Couldn’t you just have one blog with categories? Are there people in Minneapolis who only go to the Walker to hear music and never step foot in any of the galleries? And what exactly is “GeneralGarden Dirt?”

D) Then finally, can you guys add some of the multi-media (Walker Art Calls things I think?) either into the blog(s) or make the linkage fairly explicit. I always have a whale of a time trying to find, and then keep track of what, and where everything is. While it might be easy to you, to me it is sort of like needing to use one entrance for the galleries, a different one for a concert, yet a third (all the way down the block) for the store, and yet still a different one (on the other side of town) for a lecture. On the internet I prefer one entry point that leads off to everything else. Your tiny gif menu up top doesn’t cut the mustard for me.

Beyond that everything else is swell.

One of the questions I have about museum blogging is whether we’re writing for an audience who’ll be reading in a decade or so. I think the medium is about now–we’ve got leather-bound books and well-edited manuscripts, catalogues, and the like that can cover the historical–and, as such, I’m really not all that concerned about how “tired” it might look in a few decades. I am concerned about interesting, engaging, and relevant material that speaks to this time.

Tom, you’re a blogger (http://fortboise.org/blog/): what’s your thought on the medium?

I as artist, can not be bothered to even title my piece. You are an idiot. You know that. I know that. I do not have to insult you, you insult yourself.

But Arbus’ exhibit was worth the visit. More than I wanted to know about the light reaching her film, really, but there was the “Boy above Crowd” which made it all worthwhile.