Well, 2010 sure came along quickly! Keeping up with my weekly art picks for TheChiGuide seems to be hard enough, and then I realize I've neglected my blog!  New year's resolution: blog more, procrastinate less!  Do I sound like a 21st century Bridget Jones yet? 

Anyway, I keep up with news about the art world for my job as Chicago Gallery News publisher, and I'm always zipping between Twitter and Facebook.  There is a lot to keep track of locally, not to mention in New York, LA and the rest of the world (no, it's not easier to keep up being here in the middle in Chicago.) 

One of this week's biggest pieces of news is that the Los Angeles Musuem of Contemporary Art (AKA MOCA) just picked one of New York's (and the world's) biggest art dealers, Jeffrey Deitch, to be its new director.  MOCA does need to rock its own boat a bit right now, but the pick would be unprecedented.  Art dealers just don't get picked to run musuems.  It's usually called 'conflict of interest' (though Deitch will actually cease all of his commercial operations when he moves to MOCA in June.) But that's just one of the many opinions out there. Are you interested now?

Anyway, my point is, I read about this, other art world people read about this. But who else cares? I'm not saying that in a dismissive way - I really want to know who else cares beyond the art world regulars.  And for people who do care, how much does it matter to most of us anyway? If you followed more news from the art world at large (they have an excellent penchance for gossip too, I might add) do you think you'd enjoy keeping up with the on-the-ground players more too, meaning galleries, studios, artists in your own city...

Are people in Chicago paying more attention to this MOCA/Deitch news than the relatively recent introduction of a new director (Madeleine Grynsztejn) at our own Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008 (oh, we call it the MCA, NOT MOCA, by the way)? Who even knows the name of our major musuem players?

There will be a lot to think about in 2010!

As always, any thoughts or questions: ginny@chicagogallerynews.com