This is a column that was meant to appear in this space last week. It was going to describe how, at a recent party full of people who care about art, almost every person I talked to said they didn't know I was writing online. I was shocked. I resolved to write a piece in print telling you that only about half of what I do for the paper appears in print, where space is limited, while all of it appears online, through the visual art feed on Slog, The Stranger's blog, and on the visual art page of our website.
If you're not reading online, you're missing a lot, I was going to tell you. Except that there wasn't enough room in the paper for me to tell you that there isn't enough room in the paper. The column got cut.
That's normal. This is the hungry season for newspapers. But even when The Stranger print edition is fat, it can't rival the website. I'm a longtime print journalist, so it feels weird to write this, but if you really want to follow my coverage, you can't do it sufficiently with what you're holding.
In the last few weeks alone, here's what you've missed if you've only picked up the print edition: an intro to the Henry Art Gallery's incoming director, Sylvia Wolf, with testimonials by national figures in the museum world; a morning-after piece on Venice Biennale director Robert Storr's subtly barbed talk in Seattle (which follows his entertaining attack on his critics in this month's Artforum); a take on whether a Village Voice critic should run commercial art fairs on the side (uh, no); word that the fences will come down at the Olympic Sculpture Park's meadows this summer; an interview (and podcast) with Seattle artist John Grade, whose new installation at Suyama Space will take up residence at a glacier this spring; a review of Ken Kelly's new abstractions at Howard House; an explanation for why Seattle Art Museum's 16th-century Italian wood room is closed; a comparison of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise at SAM to their lower-wattage appearance at the Met in New York; Vanessa Beecroft's dalliance with Sudanese babies; love for Niki de Saint Phalle's little-known shooting paintings from the 1960s; and images of artworks up around the city, by Fire Retard Ants, Roxy Paine, Squeak Carnwath, Tomory Dodge, Robert C. Jones, Molly Norris, Doug Keyes, Alice Tippit, Ken Fandell, Eric Eley, Claire Cowie, and Kim Jones.
If you want to see all that, go to Slog, click on categories, and click on visual art. It's a new world or something. 
