![Should Texas Museums Have Artist Board Members?](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118045204im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Sketching-150x150.jpg)
Should Texas Museums Have Artist Board Members?
Noting the flap over the departure of the artist-members of LA MOCA’s board of directors, D Magazine‘s Peter Simek asks if the Dallas museums ought to consider getting some. Simek points out that audience-centric museums need not suck, using Nicholas Serota’s Tate Modern as an example, and crediting Serota’s use of input from contemporary artists [...]
![DMA Appoints Gabriel Ritter as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118045204im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ritter-150x150.jpg)
DMA Appoints Gabriel Ritter as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art
Gabriel Ritter is the new Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. Ritter is currently completing his Ph.D. in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also earned his masters of art history, and is completing a Doctoral Fellowship at the National [...]
![Weegee, [Marilyn Monroe, ca. 1960, International Center of Photography, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993, © Weegee/International Center of Photography/Getty Images"](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118045204im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/weegee_Acc_3002_1993-150x150.jpg)
CAA Part II: Design, Food, Weegee and Naked Hollywood
The College Art Association Conference was a great excuse to play in L.A. for a few days. Arriving at the swanky L.A. Marriott Live hotel, I immediately noticed the intersection between art, design and advertising. The bathroom lobby resembled a pink Dan Flavin installation. Huge Guess banners filled the lobby walls and columns. Guess [...]
![Austin Museum of Art: Crunching the Numbers, Part II](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118045204im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Operating-Margin_AMOA-150x150.jpg)
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 [...]