endings and updates

I was thinking to myself this morning, "You know, I've been so busy, I've fallen out of touch.  I need some art news.  Let's go over to Figure Painting and see what's going on."  So I did, only to find that the blog's last post went up a week ago: Callen Bair, the author, is leaving for law school.  While I'm sad to see the site go--I liked it and found it a useful place to find out what was going on in art world doings--I do wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors.  I especially like the focus she took in her last entry--art's not all about New York and the like.

In other blog news, I should probably mention that I intend to soon do some work on the sidebar links.  I really hate to remove links, but I have several to sites that are no longer active.  I keep them there because I enjoyed them, and in many cases think of the writers as friends; but too many dead links make the list less useful.  Now that I've said this, I'll probably never get around to doing it, but I just wanted to go on record first.

Also: some time ago I took umbrage at a suggestion someone made that this site would be closing soon.  I'm happy to report that my status has been upgraded.  And how pleased am I that this site is linked to on the web page of the Courtauld Institute of Art's library?  Very, very pleased.