“Please, someone, do the research and write a really in depth article on the nature of getting people in the door [of galleries] versus the likelihood that they buy something…”…
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The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up. Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists, Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen…
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The Olympics are approaching, and my mind has been wandering in eager anticipation. Will David Beckham be shot into space at the opening ceremonies to light a lunar torch symbolizing…
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I really don’t understand the brouhaha over this Museum Tower thing. All I see are opportunities. Perhaps the lawyers on both sides lack vision. Lawyers, arbitrators, city council members. Not…
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I was a late-comer to Francesca Woodman‘s pictures but liked them right away. That was around 2003, and Woodman’s surrealism provided me with a lyrical counterpart to René Magritte’s poetically banal imagery.…
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Manscape: Man as Subject and Object opened last night at Lora Reynolds Gallery. The group photography and video show is curated by Christopher Eamon and purports to be about “the…
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Need a lawyer to look over a contract before you sign it? Are you planning on starting a nonprofit organization and need assistance with filing the paperwork? Can’t afford…
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BlogEssayOp Ed
The Cost of Turnover, or how museums could pay more and spend less
by Claire Ruudby Claire RuudThere’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of…
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Recently, I went to a screening of the documentary Gerhard Richter Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Going into the film, I was downright scared that I would…
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BlogEssayOp Ed
Blindsided? CAC New Orleans and Organizational Crises in the Art World
by Claire Ruudby Claire RuudAbout a year ago now, I published a series of articles introducing readers to some of the financial metrics consultants, academics, and others have used to evaluate the financial stability…
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William Pope.L, Foraging (asphixia version), 2008, Digital C-Print It was 2003 and “William Pope.L’s: eRacism was on view at Houston’s DiverseWorks as part of a national exhibition tour (also…
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The surfaces of Ben Brandt‘s sculptures are covered in gray. The objects look like they’re a thousand years old, as if they’d just been pulled from some long-ago construction site,…
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You must have noticed, if you live in DFW, that there’s some pretty exciting artwork bobbing all over its various surfaces. Local artists are getting busy, many on their own…
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Tumbleweeds We don’t have New York’s density, or Chicago’s architecture, or Los Angeles’ mythologized spaces. We don’t have San Francisco’s prices, Aspen’s lack of oxygen, Austin’s lack of pigment, and…
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Every so often we experience an artwork that reminds us of what art can be. A total artwork—- one which transforms or activates the space it is in, and therefore…
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I’ve been meaning to write something here about film scores for a while. You know, some kind of analysis of the role of music in movies, with interesting, specific examples…
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A friend and I used to have an ongoing joke about writing a blog titled Double Feature. In this fantasy blog we’d review films that seemingly had nothing in common…
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Some say that Black History month no longer needs to be celebrated. The belief is that these marginalized histories can be framed beyond the margins and understood within larger conversations…
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Disambiguation/Red Space Gallery/Closes February 12th Happened There are a lot of great images in Disambiguation, an exhibition currently on display at Red Space Gallery in Austin (the show closes…
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When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career…