Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
An award-winning arts journalist, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Sightlines.
The first social network? Actually, it was postcards
When historian and author Lydia Pyne began work on her book “Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network,” (Reaktion Press, 2021) her relatives began giving...
Hazardous conditions for art and people at Mexic-Arte, say museum workers
Former staffers from Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum have turned to social media to bring attention to what they call hazardous working conditions and other issues at the downtown museum.
The group...
City releases final designs of new Dougherty Arts Center
Architects charged with designing the new Dougherty Arts Center unveiled the final plans at an April 25 meeting hosted by the city of Austin's Parks and Recreation department.
The new...
Wendy Red Star’s brilliant celebration of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation
Start with “Um-basax-bilua, ‘Where They Make the Noise’ 1904-2016” (2019). It’s one of the most compelling works in the mid-career survey “Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth,”...
Leash up: Forklift Danceworks revives ‘Dances for Dogs and People Who Walk Them’
I first wrote about choreographer Allison Orr 22 years ago. It was April of 2000 and Orr was staging “Dances for Dogs and People Who Walk Them” in Zilker...
Making an effort to see: W. Tucker at Big Medium
When W. Tucker had a solo exhibition at Texas State Galleries in 2012, he spent almost a week living in the gallery, sleeping every night on a modest pad,...