By GT contributors on September 6, 2012
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian Andy Campbell invited New York- and Stockholm-based artist Emily Roysdon to take over the VAC’s Vaulted Gallery for the fall semester. I first heard of Roysdon in [...]
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By Leslie Castro on January 11, 2012
With the New Year comes a time for reflection. This year my annual reflection comes straight off the heels of a two-week trip to Austin. It’s always exciting to go back home, see friends, hug my mom and dad, and generally just catch up on things. For this trip, however, I had a goal. [...]
Posted in LMC y Pensamientos Pochosos, Uncategorized | Tagged amoa, arthouse, austin, Distance, New Year, Transition, Visual Art World |
By GT contributors on January 3, 2012
Glasstire’s contributors suss out the season’s most promising shows. AUSTIN Evidence of Houdini’s Return Arthouse/AMOA January 4 – March 4, 2012 Arthouse and AMOA are officially conjoined twins and, as such, will be mounting an abstraction exhibition, Evidence of Houdini’s Return. While the title is slightly obscure (it’s also the title of a painting by [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged amoa, arthouse, Bill Davenport, Diana Al-Hadid, Facundo Argañaraz, J. Parker Valentine, katie geha, Katja Mater, lucia simek, rainey knudson, Sarah Fisch, spring preview texas, Sterling Allen, Visual Art Center |
By Margaret Meehan on November 29, 2011
Visual AIDS began Day With(out) Art on December 1st, 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. It was meant to inspire positive action and make the public aware that AIDS can affect everyone. That first year some 800 U.S. art and AIDS groups participated by shutting down [...]
Posted in Melba Toast | Tagged AIDS, amoa, arthouse, Artpace, Contemporary Arts Houston, creative time, Day without art, Fort Worth Contemporary, SMU Dallas, Texas, Visual AIDS |
By Claire Ruud on November 2, 2011
Think of a newlywed couple moving in together for the first time. Writing the prenup was hard and planning the wedding was an emotional rollercoaster, but the work of synchronizing the day-to-day, learning to make decisions together, sacrificing on one another’s behalf is practically Herculean. In the merger between Arthouse and AMoA, the prenup’s been [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged amoa, arthouse, austin art, austin museum of art, Merger, nonprofit mergers |
By Claire Ruud on October 7, 2011
When the AMoA and Arthouse announced that they were beginning discussions about some sort of merger, it kicked up a dust storm in Austin worthy of West Texas. And friends in the dance community tell me it was the same in NYC when Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company began [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged amoa, arthouse, austin museum of art, nonprofit mergers |
By Claire Ruud on June 17, 2011
(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 [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged amoa, arthouse, Bill Arning, CAC, CAM, camh, Claire Ruud, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Houston, Marti Mayo, New Orleans, St. Louis, stan vanderbeek |
By Bill Davenport on June 15, 2011
Graziella Marchicelli, Director of the Amarillo Museum of Art since 2006, was abruptly fired on May 13 for what T. Jay Reeves, the president-elect of the museums board called “a rule violation,” although no one connected with the museum quoted in the article in the Amarillo Globe-News had any criticism of her work. In the [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged amarillo, amarillo museum of art, amoa, fired Graziella Marchicelli, Graziella Marchicelli, jay reeves |
By Claire Ruud on June 10, 2011
(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 [...]
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By Bill Davenport on June 2, 2011
Dana Friis-Hansen, former director of the Austin Museum of Art, has been chosen as the next Director and CEO of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. In the museum’s press release, Friis-Hansen looked forward to his new home and job with typical directorial optimism, citing the dying city‘s “vibrant creative culture, its forward-looking civic leadership, its [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged amoa, dana friis-hansen, friis-hansen grand rapids, grand rapids art museum |
By Claire Ruud on April 30, 2011
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 [...]
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By Bill Davenport on April 26, 2011
Ex-Austin Museum of Art curator and “art conoisseur” Dana Friis-Hansen will share the stage with burlesque dancer Jori Lodes, furniture maker Michael Yates, musician Southpaw Jones, and a squad of other assorted cultural figures at Pecha Kucha #11 in Austin at Seaholm Power Plant on Wednesday night at 8:20pm. His five minute talk is titled [...]
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