ooking for something new? Tired of art magazines that feed you nothing but a thin gruel of indigestible jargon? Sick of slick promotion from the already successful in the glossies? All alone in the art supermarket, unable to shop naturally? Want to stay tuned in and not sell out or shell out? Or even just ready for a good art laugh from time to time? Keep reading. WE WANT YOU. The truth is, “art” as we knew it is dead and we’d better get used to it. Hence our name, Afterart News, homage to Arthur Danto, the philosopher/art critic who locates the end of art in 1964, when Warhol exhibited those Brillo boxes. Maybe Danto’s not right about the exact moment “art” breathed its last breath, but since sometime around then it’s been everybody looking to make a buck on the back the latest shockwave or else holed up in some corner somewhere, doing what he or she can and hoping for the best. Afterart News thinks there is a better way. That’s why we’re free, in every sense of the word. First, we’ll never cost you a dollar, a euro, a rupee, a yen, or whatever you carry in your wallet. So save your money to support an artist whose work you like, not some journalistic flash-in-the-pan point of view. Or save your money to make your own art. Second, we’re also strictly un-edited by the publisher*. Afterart News writers are free to say whatever they want. We’ve got no critical axe to grind, no school of thought to enroll you in, no ism to elaborate; all Afterart News wants to do is level the playing ground, and give what’s good a chance. Because after all, what’s left after the end of art? More art, of course, and we’re going to have to live with it. So tell us what you think: editorial@afterartnews.com. We’re listening.
Richard Dailey, editor-in-chief

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