. . .might be good . . .might be gone: Austin Art Mag on Hold After 200 Bimonthly Issues
After almost ten years, . . .might be good, the bimonthly online magazine published by Austin’s Fluent-Collaborative, is going on hiatus for the foreseeable future. In a farewell editorial in the current 200th anniversary edition, editor Eric Zimmerman nods to the publication’s founders, supporters and history, but offers no explanations for the magazine’s demise. A [...]
Interview with New Artpace Executive Director Regine Basha
Julieta Aranda, Hills Snyder and Regine Basha at Sala Diaz Regine Basha was recently appointed Executive Director of Artpace, San Antonio, a position she’ll assume less than a month from now on March 1, 2012. In anticipation of her return to Texas, Claire Ruud caught up with her to ask about her plans. Claire Ruud [...]
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Crunching the Numbers, Part III
(For Part I and Part II, click here and here.) This series has considered the finances of a number of mid-sized, contemporary U.S. arts institutions outside of the major contemporary arts hubs of New York and Los Angeles. In Texas, these have included the Dallas Contemporary and Arthouse, and, because of the proposed merger, the [...]
Austin Museum of Art: Crunching the Numbers, Part II
(To read Arthouse and the Dallas Contemporary: Crunching the Numbers, Part I, click here.) In 2009, the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) cancelled its plans for a new building downtown for the third time. Last December, AMOA sold the land on which it had been planning to build and in February it announced it would [...]
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 [...]
POWER in the Contemporary Art World
The implosion of the Austin art world has got me thinking about art world power dynamics, as I mentioned last week in my published correspondence with Rachel Cook. The resignation of Blanton director Ned Rifkin and deputy director for external affairs and operations Simone Wicha’s instantaneous appointment to the position, the elimination of Arthouse curator [...]