The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which ranks 51 on the list of 100-most visited international museums, saw 401, 395 visitors in 2020, and was closed for 87 days due to the pandemic.
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The billboards began going up on Monday, and the project hopes to attract the attention of Texans, particularly people of color, as COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the state.
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"American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood" at Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum of American Art
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Untrained Artists: The Amon Carter Has Fun for You TOMORROW night!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHow many people have you heard say, “I can’t do that, I’m not an artist”? That attitude never stopped the folks featured in the Amon Carter Museum’s current exhibitions Self-Taught…
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Our special guest star this week is Jennie Ash, Visual Arts Director at Art League Houston!! Like everything else, the Top Five is always better in a British accent. Jennie joined Rainey Knudson on a wet day at Project Row Houses to count down this week's list!
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In the past few days, there have been a couple of announcements from museums that are snatching up some Texas art folks. First, the Tampa Museum of Art announced that…
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The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth has announced a four-month renovation project, designed to improve the museum’s climate control. New windows and air conditioning will make the art last…
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Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum has just finished digitizing all the prints in their archives of eight important American photographers, putting more than 35,00 images online. The images are from…
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On Wednesday at 3pm, Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite, the Kay and Velma Kimbell Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University, will present a lecture entitled “Water Matters in American Art”…
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Most people in the arts actually visit museums, but many others experience images—even museum paintings that art history students initially learned from textbooks—almost exclusively through the Internet. Today, the Amon…
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Seek out these strange and wonderful paintings of a fleeting, uneasy world that embodies a darker side of our state identity.
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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 holiday that commemorates the announcement…
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Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey at Amon Carter Museum of American Art
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekBearden and Homer cleverly spin experience into a something we can all sing—Cyclops, Circe and Nausicaa are recounted in colorful and expressive collages, which take cues from Matisse’s cut-outs and blend them with African tropes.
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Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89
by Janet Tysonby Janet TysonAmon 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 but thinly cloaked it with…
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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 fierce Ft. Worth booster Amon…
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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 at the Texas Hotel in…
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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 Art and Research; she is…
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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 materials that will help the…
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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 in various categories announced last…
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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 and affordable gifts (for yourself…