All the News that’s Bit to Print
Posted by michelle on 23 Oct 2007 at 02:04 pm | Tagged as: responses/reviews
After all the dust settles from Artpace’s Chalk It Up, looks like Executive Director Matthew Drutt was MIA again, missing the biggest community art event that Artpace organizes for the second year in a row. Apparently eating BBQ in Marfa and sipping cocktails in London are more lucrative endeavors for the local contemporary art director. In the meantime, Artpace is still interviewing for a new curator, any on the potential candidates?
In other news, looks like its a dead end for Volitant Gallery in Austin. That’s the nature of the fickle art market, but Director Xochi Solis says this will give her time to work on individual art projects. Everyone disliked the marble floors and moveable walls, but the gallery had ideal acoustics and voluminous wall space for video installations. The last day to slide across the white marble and catch Femme Fantastique will be October 31st. :(
If you’re in Houston next week, be sure to check out Alejandro Diaz, Chuck Ramirez and the ubiquitous Franco Mondini-Ruiz on Nov. 2nd at a strange place called the New World Museum [sounds like Orwellian territory].
Finally, congratulations to Artlies Magazine for making it to the big leagues: attaining a barcode and a slot alongside every other art magazine in America. It took 8 years of publishing free, quarterly issues before being picked up by a national distributor, so support the lies of art and go buy a copy!
OMG! the Go-Go’s are the new Artpace curator??
absentee is the new black.
go art lies!
a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbGncGg4gI”>Things have changed
Why don’t you leave Drutt alone? Do you bitch about other directors in town when they are not at every event that their institutions host? Did it ever occur to you that he is out there raising the money necessary to keep Artpace in business and give bloggers like you something to blather on about? You really are small minded.
my dear max -
you died in 1936. no wonder you’re so cranky. go get some rest.
regards,
a fan.
p.s. yes, we all bitch about all the directors all of the time, with little or no regard to their poor attendance records. it’s part of the fantastically creative dynamic tension in our wonderfully sophisticated “art community.”
If you know who I am, then you will know that, far from dying in 1936, I have been and will continue to be around for a lot longer.
Leave Britney alone!
undead doesn’t count. begone, vampyr.
what is a secondhand nun?
i heard you guys were giving away free tacos in here..
[...] Oh, I’ll tell you ’bout what I sees. [...]
As a former blogger, I appreciate the candor, Michelle. It takes courage to say what many people are already thinking especially in this town where there seem to be walls on wheels. Sometimes they move quickly toward you. Other times they retreat back based on rules on popularity written back in high school.
In other words, if you see some shit, call people on it. Be careful though, make sure other people are seeing that same shit or things get chilly fast.
What a bunch of nearsighted smart people we have here. That skull is just a high priced Piñata. (with some poor dead guy’ s teeth in it. ) Let’s all hope ‘that guy’ donated his body to science, or his family got dinner at least. I doubt that one will hold up as an important piece of art in the long run.
The first piece of art I can ever remember seeing was a beating jeweled heart by Dali. Much smaller, much bigger impact. That was over 40 years ago. It wasn’t saying anything about the artist.
Post edited by: another tired cowboy, at: 2007/10/23 20:45