By Eric Zimmerman on May 27, 2011
Artists have a hard time organizing. We don’t have a union to bust, don’t have annual conferences, and it’s not all that shocking. Take a bunch of individualistic, over-worked, buck-the-system kind of people and chances are they aren’t going to want to join a club, and who can blame them? For a couple of years [...]
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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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By Bill Davenport on April 17, 2011
Artists’responses to the recent elimination of curatorial staff at Arthouse continue to coalesce. A facebook group, Artists FOR Arthouse, is cobbling together a supportive-yet-critical framework for protest, linked with the Org’s May 12 5×7 fundraiser. 149 facebooks are attending so far with 1169 yet to be heard from, and 50 or so maybes and no’s.
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