By Eric Zimmerman on June 10, 2011
‘Tis the season to hand out financial advice. There isn’t a rock in existence under which we could live and not hear about the dismal state of the economy, how to budget, or the slash and burn fever spreading like syphilis through arts, education, and entitlement programs. Contemporary art is in an awkward position when [...]
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By Rachel Cook and Claire Ruud on April 20, 2011
Recent events (scandal?) at Austin’s Arthouse have provoked plenty of public and private conversations amongst artists and curators in Texas and beyond. The duo Cook & Ruud, recently separated by graduate school (Rachel Cook is at Bard in curatorial studies; Claire Ruud is at Yale in business school), have been engaged in conversation around [...]
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