Shortly after Dana Friis-Hansen left the Austin Museum of Art (now known as The Austin Contemporary The Contemporary Austin), where he spent nine years as executive director, he headed to…
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Although Glasstire reported that Darryl Lauster was the lone Texan shortlisted for the ArtPrize (the international art competition based in Grand Rapids, Michigan), we are also going to claim the…
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(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…
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Dying city gets transfusion from Austin: Friis-Hansen named director of the Grand Rapids Art Museum
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,…
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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…
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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…
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Jeanne-Claire Van Ryzin reports on the series of mis-steps at Arthouse, Austin’s latest imploding art venue. Censoring Michelle Handelman, pimping Graham Hudson’s Rehearsal at the Astoria to Warner Music, now…