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Tyler Green, 34
Founder of the Modern Art Notes blog
Tyler Green started his blog on Sept. 12, 2001, when he figured the public policy work he was doing might dry up for a while. The former sportswriter came to contemporary art with an amateur's interest and a journalist's tenacity. Since then, Modern Art Notes has grown into an influential blog, mixing Green's gadfly opinions with his gadfly pursuit of scandal among the upper echelons of the world's art museums, galleries and critics.
"For the first two years, the blog was really homespun," says Green. But as the blog grew, so did Green's sense of professionalism. "I stopped making mistakes," he says. Green knew he'd arrived in late July, when the New York Times took note of MAN on its corrections page -- giving Green credit for breaking parts of a story about a possibly too cozy art deal between the Denver Art Museum and billionaire Philip Anschutz.
Green sees his work as an essential antidote to the loss of arts reporting in major newspapers. He's made enemies, as a provocateur who often writes with a sarcastic edge. When the University of Iowa proposed having one of its Jackson Pollocks appraised, Green wondered whether the school had plans to sell it -- which he considers a scandal: "The other big story here is the absolute silence of major American museum directors in the face of an emerging crisis."
- Philip Kennicott
