A press release from the Houston Museum District Association announced the closures today.
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Today Blaffer Art Museum and the University of Houston announced that Houston’s own Toby Kamps is named its new director at Blaffer, after a long international search. Kamps — onetime curator…
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One year before the opening of the Menil’s much-anticipated Menil Drawing Institute, the Institute is losing its (still-new) chief curator David Breslin. He’s headed next month to the Whitney Museum of…
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Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Austin Does Houston at the Menil Bookstore Next Week
by Glasstireby GlasstireOn July 8th from 6-9 p.m., the Menil’s bookstore in Houston is hosting an exhibition of artist books by Austin favorite Kevin McNamee-Tweed. (The bookstore, in a bungalow across the…
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The Smithers amassed a collection of remarkable breadth and depth, so rather than present a compendium of the whole collection, the exhibition wisely focuses on twelve artists who have much to teach us about creativity and the universal desire to communicate through art.
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The undeniable truth is that Copley’s paintings, in spite of their humor and limited formal charms, are not very good.
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On February 19 in Houston, the Menil Collection’s long-awaited exhibition William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY opens as the first U.S. museum retrospective of this odd and prolific artist’s work. It’s…
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Charles Ray’s recent talk at the Menil was one of the most exciting talks I’ve heard in years.
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For the high-end art collector, a vanity museum is a tricky thing to pull off. I live in the same city as the quirky, elegant Menil Collection, perhaps the best…
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This weekend is your LAST CHANCE to see (or more accurately, hear) the Takis show at the Menil Collection. This exhibition is the first museum survey for Takis, an artist…
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The wunderkammers we experience in museums today are less about the objects they contain, and are more exhibits about exhibiting, displays about display.
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The “New Sincerity” movement began with music in the mid-eighties (thanks, Austin!), spread to literary and film criticism in the nineties, and now—from the looks of upcoming events in Texas—the…
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This iconic and storied Houston art space ain’t going out without a bang.
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A porthole through which we experience Bontecou’s preoccupation with disaster and instability, on the blade-thin line between attraction and revulsion.
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What was it about Wols and this brief, vague period in art history that gave me the impression I was looking at religious icons?
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STARRING RENZO PIANO AS MICK JAGGER
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisAfter the lecture was a tightly coiled media hour. A star was in the building. The star that built the building was in the building. I was stunned by the amount of poetry and humor that emerged inside a handful of minutes.
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From uptown to midtown ....my art odyssey continues with visits to El Museo del Barrio, the Whitney, and the MoMA.
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Mayor Parker did her bit, flanked by "Houston is Inspired" placards which kept blowing over in the breeze.
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Controversial Tree Removed from Menil’s Permanent Collection as Supreme Court Mulls Gay Marriage
In a low-profile acknowledgement of a de-facto situation, the Menil collection’s Board of Trustees has approved the de-accession of Art Guys Marry A Plant, the hapless live oak tree that…
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The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection is an ambitious group exhibition that takes on the broad topics of love and African contemporary art with simultaneous exhibitions at the…