I hereby dub you Sugar Daddy.

Excellent question, to which the simplest answer is Yes. There are, however, extenuations. For example, you can Google “art perception” and find us at the top, but if the main link doesn’t get to our site, then you can click on Google’s “Cached” link to see a saved version of the page. So it’s still out there even if I stop paying the bills. The catch is, it may be much harder to find and to navigate. There are other archives, and a number of cheap or free programs that allow people to download whole web sites to their own computers. So though we’ve deleted or allowed deletion of content on very rare occasions, that by no means implies that it has completely ceased to exist.

The out-of-pocket cost of A&P is only about $10 per year, given that I already pay for web hosting for my personal site. I don’t consider that significant and am happy to pay it. I became owner around a year ago; before that, Karl (Zipser) was owner. If I were ever to contemplate ceasing to support A&P, I would certainly offer it to other members of our open group of contributors, and any decisions would be made by the group.

As you can see, it’s more or less being made up as we go, dependent on the good will of all.

Another question: if we stopped paying the bills, would the content on this site disappear?

In terms of precedents, one of the three early administrators of A&P, a fiber artist from Colorado, decided to quit the blog and asked her two co-administrators to remove her posts which they did.

The scattered muckle is a very apt category for Cubism! The VegoMatic of Art…slicing and dicing everything!