Bloomberg announced this morning that it has hired Lance Esplund:

Lance Esplund has joined Bloomberg as the U.S. art critic, covering the museum and gallery scene for the company’s arts and leisure team, Muse.

An art critic and columnist for The Wall Street Journal for the last three years, Esplund was chief art critic for The New York Sun from 2004 to 2008.

He has contributed to Art in America, Harper’s, Modern Painters, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review.