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.
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Heather Parrish has a keen sense of place and a curiosity about who inhabitedthat place before her.
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Several board members of Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum — including board president Michael Torres and treasurer George Elliman — have resigned citing concerns about the museum’s management and leadership.
The resignations...
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Mexic-Arte Museum announced today that it has chosen El Paso firm Exigo Architecture and Austin's Cotera + Reed Architects to lead the design of the museum's building project.
Since 2018,...
Darkly comic, Performa Dance’s ‘The Mad Scene’ skewers our desire for fame
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Louis XIV also happened to...
The first social network? Actually, it was postcards
When historian and author Lydia Pyne started work on her book “Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network,” (Reaktion Press, 2021) her relatives began giving...