Metro daily newspapers used to employ, as a matter of course, art critics. They worked for newspapers in places like Seattle and Portland, among other metros.
Note the past tense: Another indicator of what newspaper scaledowns have been leading to.
Blogger Eva Lake writes that at the Oregonian, “D.K. Row is no longer The Art Critic. But he’s not leaving. He’ll write about philanthropy, amongst other things (which still peaks my interest, in ways I’ll detail in a future post) at the paper. But as to who will be writing and how they will do it, he couldn’t say. So it’s possible there will no longer be this major voice at the Oregonian.”
The point, as the Stranger‘s Slog notes: “There goes the last standing full-time art critic at a daily newspaper in the Northwest.”
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