Of my writings published online on this
blog and The Huffington
Post since last April 2010, the ones that have
in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those
in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was
illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came
in the Wall Street Journal's
blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century
in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's
recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick
in my readership as well as
in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?