"A truer
story would have focused on the fact that none of the three culture
critics—let go from the {Times} in the last year or so
was passionately engaged in the cultural dialogue of the city and the
nation."

"the
truth is that {the critic} is known by the majority of artists, dealers, and
curators in the city as the critic who never showed up."

"Art has been persevering in {Seattle} without the help of its largest
daily paper for quite some time now."

Replace the Seattle Times with the Orange County Register and the named critic with our local visual arts critic and this article by Jen Graves at The Stranger pretty much sums up the state of affairs in Orange County. We should ask for permission to reprint when the OC Register finally does away with its cultural criticism…

Via Culture Monster