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.
Deborah Roberts sues another artist, gallery for copyright infringement
Deborah Roberts, an Austin-based internationally recognized artist, has filed suit against artist Lynthia Edwards and her Brooklyn gallerist Richard Beavers, and his eponymous gallery, for copyright infringement.
The civil complaint...
An exhibition celebrates Sam Coronado’s legacy and the prints of the Serie Project
An exhibition newly launched at the Art Galleries at Austin Community College pays tribute to the late Sam Coronado, long time ACC art faculty member and a foundational contributor...
Now departing for Narnia: At Austin’s airport, Janet Zweig’s ‘Interimaginary Departures’
There is no Gate 13 at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Instead between gates 12 and 14 is Gate ∞ (the infinity symbol), an immersive and interactive permanent installation by Brooklyn-based...
Plans to address crisis at Mexic-Arte Museum were in place but then dismissed, documents show
Only the first floor of Mexic-Arte Museum’s distressed building is legally permitted to host the public. Artists and a curator have paused plans for an exhibition, citing concerns for...
The Sightlines Questionnaire: Patrick Kelly, director and curator of the Old Jail Art Center
The small West Texas town of Albany might be not be the first place you would expect to find a first-rate yet small art museum with an ongoing series...
Huston-Tillotson University named to National Register of Historic Places
The 20-acre campus of Huston-Tillotson University — Austin’s oldest institution of
higher learning and only Historically Black College and University — has been added to the National Register of Historic...