Arts in the Afternoon: The Net's Good & Bad

A new study by the National Endowment for the Arts finds that the omnivore is an endangered species. These people — who attend a wide variety of cultural events and attend them often — are becoming an ever-smaller proportion of the population. Report author Mark J. Stern is optimistic about what the numbers mean, though. But is engaging with art electronically the same thing as engaging with the real thing?

Poetry critic David Orr offers an amusing parody of the Paris Review‘s name-dropping Culture Diaries.