The Washington Post website sports a new look today. Museums and galleries are now on this page. Their listing of 142 area art galleries is here.

When the Post first launched their website a couple of years ago, they used to augment their printed newspaper coverage of the visual arts by allowing a few freelance writers (myself included) as well as their "regular" galleries critic (at the time Ferdinand Protzman) to write additional weekly reviews of gallery and museum shows. Then their online Arts Editor (at the time John Poole) was promoted and the "job" was left open for a very long time and all the online gallery reviews ended.

Maura McCarthy is now the online Arts Editor and doing a pretty good job, but obviously the budget to have contract writers do additional gallery reviews no longer exists and she doesn't have the luxury to augment the print version's already skimpy coverage of area galleries and artists.