Queer State(s) at the UT Visual Art Center: Out of Nowhere
My friend Rebecca watches ”RuPaul’s Drag U” with her six-year-old daughter, who’s a big fan. The six-year-old, her mother believes, doesn’t understand that Jujubee, Raven and the other drag queens are not biological women. The little girl watches for more or less the same reason her mom does — for the kitschy glamor (although the kiddo [...]
Artists Sue Resellers for Back Royalties: California Droit De Suite Law to be Tested
Lawyers representing Chuck Close, Laddie John Dill, and the Estate of Robert Graham, among others have filed three class-action lawsuits aimed at getting the big auction houses and eBay to divulge information about their sellers, and make them pay up under the California Resale Royalties Act, which requires Californians reselling a piece of fine art [...]
Nonprofit pun contest: HAA’s “Small Nonprofit Boards – Putting the “FUN” in Dysfunctional”
Why is it that small nonprofit boards get mired down in crises? This workshop, offered by the Houston Arts Alliance and Presented by Sean Hammerle of The Rothko Chapel, helps put “FUN” into your board’s dysfunction, where F.U.N. = “First-Class Understanding of Nonprofits,” thereby making the event a strong contender in my new “forced acronym” [...]
AMoA and Arthouse Merging: The Hardest Part
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 [...]