Art Beat, a local art column I love to read

Ok, I know the person who writes the column, Linda Mitchell, but that isn't enough reason to make me look forward to her columns, and in other circumstances could be a reason for dread.. if I didn't like them.

There is another a2k art topic I started on one of her columns, En Plein Air - and I promised then to give links to others in the series, and shortly thereafter deleted the list by mistake.

What I like about Linda's writing is her conversational tone, her wide view of what makes up art, and makes art of value, her engagement with place, this place. She is not a critic as such; I see her as an explorer each time she writes a piece. I think of her as open to experience.

I mentioned before and will again that I wish more people were talking about art the way she does in more and more newspapers read by the general populace.

Not included in my links are any letters to the editor from any of the columns... they're not online.

As a disclaimer, I admit myself and my gallery partner are mentioned somewhere in these articles, which I get a kick out of but is not the point of this post.


Listing the columns in reverse order, as many as I could find, from today backward -

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/111104/artbeat1111.html
Strange Vehicles in China, Part II
(I think this one is a site error, as strange vehicles II was from the 11/18 issue)

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/111104/artbeat1111.html
Strange Vehicles in China, Part 1

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/101404/artbeat1014.html
Artistic Legacies

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/092304/artbeat0923.html
HSU's Art Academy

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/090904/artbeat0909.html
It's Alive

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/082604/artbeat0826.html
Phantom Galleries

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/072204/cover0722.html
En plein air, Painting outdooes with nine women artists

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/071504/artbeat0715.html?
Banking on the Arts

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/070104/artbeat0701.html Sonya Fe

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/061004/artbeat0610.html
Open Studios

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/052704/artbeat0527.html
Artful jesters

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/051304/artbeat0513.html
The lectures

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/042904/artbeat0429.html
Empire Squared

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/041504/artbeat0415.html
The Average Guy

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/031804/artbeat0318.html
On the Value of Art

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/022604/artbeat0226.html
Suk Choo Kim

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/021204/artbeat0212.html
A love story

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/012904/artbeat0129.html
Banned in Eureka

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/010804/artbeat0108.html
Empire Squared

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/122503/artbeat1225.html
The tactics of tyrants: a conversation with Chuck Bowden

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/121103/artbeat1211.html
The Curatrix

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/120403/artbeat1204.html
A very busy - and crucial - season

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/120403/artbeat1204.html
June's red scrapbook

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/103003/artbeat1030.html
Notes from a traveler

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/102303/artbeat1023.html
Emerging from underground


http://www.northcoastjournal.com/100903/artbeat1009.html
A pastel morning

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/100203/artbeat1002.html
Behind the mask

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/091803/artbeat0918.html
Inharmonious

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/082103/art0821.html
Falling in Love
Holly Garbutt: Stitching emotions

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/052203/artbeat0522.html
Against the Tide: Hobert Brown fights to preserve his zany race
2003 Kinetic Schu8lpture Race Map & Schedule