Amid the gloom that's permeated ARTicles of late, heartening news arrived this afternoon about a former NAJP fellow who's a genuine, working, staff critic at a major metro daily. The all-around excellent Ann Hornaday (NAJP 1994-95) was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, adding to the effervescence of a day when her paper, The Washington Post, walked away with a half-dozen Pulitzers. The five criticism jurors, among them former NAJP director Michael Janeway, lauded her "for her perceptive movie reviews and essays, reflecting solid research and an easy, engaging style."
Art journalism is possible with the Internet otherwise it is static without any progress even though two thousand years has passed without any contact with the wider audiance which is why it remained as an unknown field, but this is the age of camera phones and all the high-tech equipment for the use of the artist who wants to display his efforts and inspirations to the wider world and be recognised as the artist which has been hidden before the age of the computers and the Internet, so, here's to the future and the new generation of Artists.