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By Bill Davenport on August 9, 2012
After 20 years of love/hate in the “docks” warehouse north of downtown, Houston art space DiverseWorks is relocating to 4102 Fannin Street in the heart of midtown. This move, the third in the organization’s history, jumps the gun on the org’s anticipated move into proposed Independent Arts Collaborative. Located at the intersection of Fannin and [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 30, 2012
Curator, writer, and onetime Glasstire editor Rachel Cook is returning to Houston with a n MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College as the newly created Assistant Curator at Diverseworks Artspace. She’ll start work on August 20, coordinating exhibitions, performances, and public programs. DiverseWorks Executive Director Elizabeth Dunbar, in a directorial quote, [...]
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By Claire Ruud on January 19, 2012
Why should we care about the rise of the arts management professional? Because the institutions that produce art—institutions made up of people who have a set of experiences and frameworks for thinking—are implicated in the kinds of art we produce. In New York, if large institutions with massive collections characterized the early 20th century, and [...]
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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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