April 2008 archive

After over a year of art-fuelled banter, ArtsWom will be exiting the blogosphere and retiring to a farm somewhere with huge fields to run in and lots of rabbits to chase.

Looking back, it’s difficult to comprehend the sheer variety of topics we’ve covered on these pages! Everything from dirty car art, to the neuroscience of art sponsorship, and Terence Malick to Lucy Pinder, we’ve covered it all – and have expended a hell of a lot of words doing so.

In the manner of a teary-eyed employee, issuing our soggy goodbyes while everyone around us wishes we would just leave already and let them get on with their work, we would like to thank all our fellow bloggers who’ve been kind enough to bother talking to us every now and again and, of course, our readers who have (at least) validated our pretentiousness over the past months…

We’d also like to thank our sponsor Sky Arts for supporting us over the past 365-plus days. Without their involvement, ArtsWom as it is would never have happened and we simply wouldn’t have been able to deliver our usual, witty and culturally-inflamed prose in a delightfully ad-free environment.

So, where should you go now for your daily fix of mind-expanding art-cotics? See below for a link-blast of the blogs that have kept us going…

Jafabrit’s Art, Jessica Duchen’s Classical Music blog, John Baker’s blog, It’s a Crime (or a Mystery), Art News Blog, About:Blank, A Daily Dose of Architecture, Art Fag City, Art Knowledge News, Cartoon Brew, Cool Hunting, Core77.com Design Blog, Drawn! The Illustration Blog, English Russia, Bookarazzi, Inhabitat, Laughing Squid, TheWinger.com, We Make Money Not Art, West End Whingers, Who Killed Bambi?, Tales from the Reading Room, Reading Matters, No Such Thing as Too Many Books, Notebooks, Fametastic, watch tHe skies, Animation Ramblings, Future Movies, Filmstalker, HecklerSpray, FictionBitch, The Book’s Den, The Stage, Jarkko’s Blog, Forward to Yesterday…and anyone we’ve inexcusably forgotten…

Of course, to keep up to date with the latest goings-on of our sponsor, visit the Sky Arts Staff Blog or the Sky Arts homepage for a never-ending stream of artistic delights!

I don’t know how to end this. I guess that’s it, really.

Goodbye.

Thanks to everyone who entered the ArtsWom competition to win a Sony LCD TV. Of course, in such things there can be only one winner, but we hope everyone who entered feels as though their lives improved in some small way after doing so.

The question asked was, what channel is Sky Arts HD broadcast on? And the answer, of course, is channel 268, which you can check by following this link: www.skyarts.co.uk.

Answering this question correctly and being drawn randomly from the thousands of entries we received was Felicia from Essex. Congratulations! Your television will be winging its way across the country shortly.