Happy Juneteenth! Texas Celebrations and Museums
Some towns held celebrations last weekend; some are planning picnics and parades for the upcoming weekend. It is actually today, though, that is Juneteenth, the [...]
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey at Amon Carter Museum of American Art
I have a very distinct memory of climbing a mountain with my dad, a literature professor, when I was very small. It was a bare [...]
Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89
Amon G. Carter was a man of iron will, blunt charm and big ideas. Her father’s daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, inherited his intractibility and vision [...]
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Art Patron and Amon Carter Museum Founder, 1923-2013
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Philanthropist and President of the Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, daughter of oilman, newpaper publisher and [...]
You Can Check it Out Any Time You Like: Hotel Texas Exhibit Re-unites Art From Fateful 1963 Kennedy Visit
In November of 1963, a group of prominent Fort Worth citizens put together a collection of modern art to decorate President John F. Kennedy’s suite [...]
Conrads New Deputy Director of Art and Research at Amon Carter
Margaret C. Conrads, Ph.D., will join the staff of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth in September 2012 as its first Deputy Director of [...]
Madison new Interpretation Manager at Amon Carter
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort worth has hired Jenna Madison as their new Interpretation Manager. She will be in charge of developing programs and [...]
Texas’ Slice of the NEA Pie , 2012
Along with symphonies, dance companies, and theater groups, visual arts projects in Texas got a share of the 863 National Endowment for the Arts Grants [...]
Your Ultimate Holiday Shopping Guide: TX Museum Gift Shop Edition
Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique [...]
Amon Carter spruces up website in advance of 50 Fest; smiling buffalo unearthed
Check out the new Amon Carter website: in addition to the usual exhibitions currently on view, the museum shop link, the event notices, and workshop [...]
Texas Art Travel: Fort Worth
If great cities are measured by their cultural institutions, Fort Worth is extraordinary. Its Cultural District is compact, pedestrian-friendly and internationally famous for the five [...]
Underwater iceberg tour: Amon Carter’s collection now online!
Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum, always free to the public, just got freer. A $50,000 grant from the NEA in 2009 is bearing fruit in [...]
