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ArtsWom Says Goodbye…But not in an annoying way like those damn Von Trapp kids…
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.
Sorry to hear it. And remember Artswom, whoever you really are, remember what America’s Stephen Colbert asked of my nation’s premier blogomatrix, Arianna Huffington: “So, what’s harder to start, a blog or a lemonade stand?”
When you’re rested, stop chasing rabbits, as it were and get back on the horse! If you want to, and sorry for the mixed-metaphor.
Posted by Bob • 5 April 2008 at 6:44 am
You’re leaving already? Sorry to see the end of this blog, but thanks for the memories!
Posted by kimbofo • 6 April 2008 at 4:39 pm
Oh shame … There can never be enough bloggers who appreciate a good pun.
Wish you loads of luck for the future - whatever it holds.
Posted by Debi • 22 April 2008 at 11:57 am
No fair! pout! pout! and mega pout! You have been one of my favourite blog stops.
Thank you for your support, your comments, and for providing a great place to visit over the last year.
Best of luck
Posted by jafabrit • 6 May 2008 at 7:58 pm
Guys, I can’t believe this. Quite a few blogs I knew ceased to exist in the last two months… It’s a shame, but let’s see what the future holds, per chance it will be bigger and more exciting.
As a matter of fact, I translated those 10 questions from Inside the Actor’s Studio into Russian, and got answers from quite a few of my friends. It was definitely a popular and great thing to do, thanks a lot for it.
All the best,
Julia @ Notebooks.
Posted by Julia • 20 May 2008 at 4:59 pm
oh poo! so comments are not automatic, but if you get a chance to read this, sorry to see the blog end. thanks so much for the support.
Posted by jafabrit • 20 May 2008 at 7:07 pm