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Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
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Jeanne Claire van Ryzin is the arts critic for the Austin American-Statesman where she has worked since 1999. She covers visual art, theater, dance, music, performance, public art, architecture and just about any combination thereof.
Among other commendations, Jeanne Claire has won first place awards for arts criticism from the American Association of Sunday & Features Editors; the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors and fellowships at the USC/Getty Arts Journalism Institute and Columbia Univ. Arts Journalism Program.
Latest from Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin
Van Ryzin: Austin Arts Hall of Fame inducts 5 new honorees
With its in-the-moment mentality, Austin is sometimes wont to overlook its history. But given the enormous growth of the city’s cultural landscape, it’s important to recognize those who made the arts landscape what it is today — a percolating, diverse scene. Each year, the Austin Critics’ Table names several people ...
A360 blasts: Art picks for May 16-22
Thursday-Saturday“Austin Latino New Play Festival.” Teatro Vivo’s new play festival has drawn standing-room-only crowds for several years now. Perhaps that’s because the staged readings of new plays offer a chance for the audience to provide feedback afterward and participate in the process. On Thursday, it’s “El Jardin Viviente” by Ariana ...
East Austin artists, galleries launch ‘Frame’ events to showcase year-round efforts
With its droves of crowds and clatter of buzz, the East Austin Studio Tour is both a boon and a frustration for the neighborhood’s indie galleries.It’s a boon because the annual tour of artists’ studios, businesses, galleries and project spaces draws tens of thousands to the neighborhood and spotlights the ...
Arts picks, May 9-15
Thursday through Sunday“The Cruel Circus.” A new work of dark whimsy from the award-winning Trouble Puppet Theater. A mysterious tinkerer brings to life an entire world of strange circus performers — some polished and complete, some clumsy and misshapen — then disappears, leaving the circus folk to make sense of ...
‘Dance’ explores art of everyday movement
“This lady is crazy,” says Don Anderson, a municipal Austin sanitation worker in “Trash Dance,” the documentary by Austin filmmaker Andrew Garrison. “How are you going to make trucks dance? Trucks don’t dance.” Austin choreographer Allison Orr indeed made the trucks dance. Anderson is one of 25 sanitation workers who ...
Arts picks, May 2-8
Saturday and SundayWest Austin Studio Tour. More the 100 artists participate in this open-studio tour, the west side companion to the long-standing East Austin Studio Tour. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Various locations west of IH-35, east of Mopac, south of Hwy. 183 and north of Ben ...
Best bets, April 28
Arts Ahead: Critic’s Picks for the Upcoming Week Art Gallery Shoal Creek. The longtime Gallery Shoal Creek celebrates its new location in East Austin in the with Flatbed building with an exhibit featuring gallery artists Jennifer Ball, Gregg Kreutz and Tony Saladino. Along with Gallery Shoal Creek, the Flatbed building ...
Best bets, April 27
To celebrate its half-century mark, the Blanton Museum of Art is staging a free, 12-hour multi-disciplinary family-friendly festival.Throughout the day there will be special tours of Blanton’s current exhibit, “Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections” art exhibition and permanent collection.Art-making stations include temporary tattoos and T-shirt screen ...
Arts picks, April 25-28
Thursday-SundayGounod’s “Faust.” Austin Lyric Opera presents a new production of Gounod’s “Faust,” with the classic battle between good and evil set in contemporary times in a show designed and directed by Bernard Uzan. Tenor Jonathan Boyd performs the role of Faust. Richard Buckley conducts. 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 3 ...
Blanton takes new approach to catalog, images
If, as the maxim goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is the single image an art museum chooses to represent itself worth?Arguably, it’s priceless.A signature image speaks volumes about how an art museum chooses to define its aesthetic and public profile. Selecting the iconic work of ...
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