Surprise! Old Texas Art Has National Audience-DMA Texas Webpages Draw Interest
The new Texas art section of the DMA’s website got kudos from ArtsJournal blogger Judith H. Dobrzynski for making a stab at telling a regional story, counter to what she calls “cookie-cutter approaches to buying art” that blights many institutions.
Museums Not Required to Shop Often Don’t: Dobrzynski Tells Why
Ace art blogger Judith Dobrzynski penned a neat summary of how a dedicated acquisitions fund ups a collecting museum’s cachet and opportunities in last week’s NY Times. Such funds are surprisingly rare; according to Dobrzynski, ” private collectors donate 80 to 90 percent of what is on view in American art museums. Fewer than two [...]
MFAH’s Combative Ramiréz in Wall St. Journal, calls Frida Kahlo Overappreciated Drama Queen
Blogger Judith Dobrzynski interviews the MFAH’s Mari Carmen Ramírez for today’s Wall St. Journal on the eve of the launch of the museum’s vast digital archive of Latin American art source materials. The first 2,500 documents from Argentina, Mexico and the American Midwest go online on Thursday, gathered and scanned under the museum’s International Center [...]
Covert Ops: blogger’s conspiracy theory has NEA funding individuals through artistic excellence awards
Real Clear Arts applauds what it sees as the NEA’s back-door efforts to get public money into the hands of individual artists through residency programs, after their direct grants fell victim to Jesse Helms and the culture wars of the 1990′s. NEA chief Rocco Landesman has said that he would like the agency to once [...]