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 Bill Davenport on March 4, 2012
South by Southwest is coming to Austin, and visual and dramatic arts groups are hunkering down to weather the tsunami of visitors almost exclusively focused on music, film and technology. Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin reports in Austin 360 that the Zach Theater and Ballet are purposely between shows, as is AMOA/Arthouse’s stylish Congress Ave. facility, [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged arthouse, ballet austin, sxsw jeanne clair van ryzin |
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 Bill Davenport on January 4, 2012
Elizabeth Dunbar, the former curator and associate director at Austin’s Arthouse before its conflation with the Austin Museum of Art, has been named Executive Director of Houston’s Diverseworks Artspace. During her tenure in Austin, Dunbar became known for edgy programming, perhaps too edgy: she was ousted amid controversy from her position last year, leaving the [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged arthouse, diverseworks, elzabeth Dunbar |
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 Bill Davenport on December 23, 2011
The Austin-American Statesman’s Jeanne Claire van Ryzin reports that longtime Arthouse Director Sue Graze will be teaching a graduate seminar at UT called “Staying in the Game”, focusing on career preparedness for studio artists, funded by a two-year $40,000 grant from the Marketplace Empowerment for Artists (MEA) program grant of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged arthouse, Sue Graze, ut |
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 Bill Davenport on November 1, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged arthouse, austin museum of art, jack nokes, laguna gloria, Mickey Klein, texas fine arts association |
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 [...]
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By Sarah Fisch on September 6, 2011
EXTRA FALL RECOMMENDATIONS! If I had my druthers, the climate of Central-South Texas would chill the fuck out starting September 1st. We’d all wear long sleeves and closed-toe shoes, and brrrr cheerfully from under our wool hat brims, our noses tingled by keen breezes a-glitter with wintry promise as the foliage turns (not-literally) to flame… [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 30, 2011
Sue Graze, director of Arthouse since 1999 has resigned as Executive Director to become Director Emeritus. Graze has has shepherded the org through a name change, an ostentatious makeover, a staff purge that eliminated the org’s last curator, and an ugly controversy over improper use of art installations as event props. Graze will remain on [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged arthouse, dario robleto, rthouse, Sue Graze |
By Bill Davenport on August 4, 2011
Outstanding teen education programs at Austin’s Arthouse have earned that org an invitation to the National Convening for Teens in the Arts organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) this month. Arthouse’s Education Coordinator Erin Gentry will accompany Hector Romero and Ashley Love, two of the eighteen teens invited to Boston for the event. [...]
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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 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 Claire Ruud on June 3, 2011
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 [...]
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By Rainey Knudson on May 27, 2011
The fantasy goes something like this: Most everyone was pleased with the clear, focused vision for the 2011 Texas Biennial. It was a brilliant success, with a tightly curated, single exhibition put together by a well-known curator from out of state. The show itself was held in a great institution in a city other than Austin, [...]
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By Bill Davenport on May 4, 2011
Artists Annette Lawrence an Mike Smith have been elected to the board of directors of Arthouse, the embattled Austin art venue. The vacant spots on the board resulted from a mini-wave of protest resignations over the org’s recent cutting of its sole curator, Elizabeth Dunbar. “We are thrilled to have the voices of highly regarded [...]
Posted in Newswire, Uncategorized | Tagged annette lawrence, arthouse, arthouse board of directors graze, arthouse dunbar, arthouse lawrence graze, arthouse smith, mike smith |
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 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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