Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin is an arts and culture journalist who has covered visual art, performance, film, literature, architecture, and just about any combination thereof.
She was the staff arts critic for the Austin American-Statesman for 17 years. Her commendations include the First Place Arts & Culture Criticism Award from the Society for Features Journalism. Additionally, Jeanne Claire has been awarded professional fellowships at USC’s Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and NEA/Columbia University Arts Journalism Institute. In 2022, she was awarded the Rabkin Prize in visual art journalism.
For two years, she taught arts journalism at the University of Texas College of Fine Arts.
Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Architecture magazine, Dwell, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Art Papers, and ICON design magazine, among other publications.
City of Austin announces more than $2 million in grant funds to preserve historic places
The City of Austin has announced more than $2 million in grants to preserve historic designated places in Austin.
The Heritage Preservation Grant program provides funds to non-profit organization and...
Deborah Hay’s risk and efficiency
Deborah Hay was weeks away from beginning rehearsals for “Horse,” a commission from noted Swedish dance company Cullberg, when the world shut down to the pandemic.
Graham Reynolds had already...
Faithful: Tammie Rubin at Grayduck Gallery
Tammie Rubin is well known for her ongoing series “Always & Forever (forever, ever),” conical porcelain sculptures that allude to, among other things, hoods worn by groups such as the...
At Big Medium, welcome to Adrian Armstrong’s (re-imagined) neighborhood
For his solo show at Big Medium, Adrian Armstrong commandeers a corner of the gallery for “Goodies,” a recreation of the corner store near his great-grandmother’s home in a...
Barry Stone’s “Lost Pines”
In a series of photographs and recovered images, processing loss, memory and recovery
Making space in the ballet repertoire for non-European cultures
With a life in ballet, dancer and choreographer Alexa Capareda has long found fascination with the narratives of story ballets. Most specifically, she finds fascinating how tales from around...