AMOA Arthouse merger

Earlier this year, seventeen Texas museums were gifted a total of more than 500 works of art from The Contemporary Austin’s collection. The museums received the pieces as part of…

It’s official! As of today, the AMOA-Arthouse will now be called The Contemporary Austin. In traditional marriages, the wife takes the name of the husband; a few modern marriages hyphenate…

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…

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…

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…

Cases such as the high profile merger between Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones Dance Company, which together became New York Live Arts, have inspired talk of an…

(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…

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…

Austin Museum of Art and Arthouse are talking about merging, say the org’s officials. Austin arts supporter and Arthouse board member Mickey Klein’s all for it, seeing it as a…