Louis Grachos Named AMOA-Arthouse Director, Starts Next Year!
Louis Grachos, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY has been named as Executive Director of AMOA-Arthouse after seven month search. He’s easing into it: Grachos takes on his new role part time at AMOA-Arthouse on November 1, 2012, and will assume full-time responsibilities on January 1, 2013. He’ll be missed in Buffalo- [...]
Arthouse and Austin Museum of Art To Merge. No Shake-Up Announced but New Director and Rebranding are on the Horizon
After months of backroom talks and explorations, the boards of the AMOA and Arthouse have declared the orgs united. The merger makes financial sense: the new entity will have an annual operating budget of $3.2 million and zero debt, and will save and estimated $1 million in operating expenses the first year. For the time [...]
Arthouse and the Dallas Contemporary: Crunching the Numbers, Part I
In an attempt to figure out what the hell has been going on at Texas institutions lately, I’ve been playing around with some numbers. Since the contemporary arts organizations I wanted to look at—Arthouse, The Dallas Contemporary and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston—don’t publish their annual reports online, I turned to their Form 990s. Form [...]