By Paula Newton on May 20, 2013
This weekend, the Austin Museum of Digital Art will hold the PROTOS Digital Art and Prototyping Festival—four days of daytime events (free!) and nighttime events [...]
Posted in Newswire, Uncategorized | Tagged AMODA, Austin Museum of Digital Art, digital photography, Faking It, long center, mfah, PROTOS Festival |
By Bill Davenport on April 24, 2013
People began lining up at 5:35 outside the MFAH’s Brown auditorium theater last night to see the inaugural “Conversations with the Director” featuring art star [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged gary tinterow, jeff koons, mfah, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Bill Davenport on February 14, 2013
NBA demigod Michael Jordan has rented Houston’s Museum Of Fine Arts For His 50Th Birthday Party, during the NBA’a upcoming All-Star Weekend. Jordan’s rumored plans [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged beyonce, mfah, michael jordan |
By Rachel Hooper on February 2, 2013
My week of exhibition openings began at Rice Gallery with Gunilla Klingberg, who was kind enough to do an interview with me for Glasstire. We [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged drug cartels, drug wars, EMERGEncy room, Fernando Brito, FotoFest, galina kurlat, Gunilla Klingberg, installation, logo, mandala, mfah, Miguel A. Aragón, Pedro Reyes, photography, rice gallery, The Gulf of Mexico, war photography |
By Peter Lucas on January 28, 2013
Movie-lovers and image-makers should be extremely excited about the upcoming opportunity to see some of the best movies ever in the best way possible. In [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged cinema, film, mfah, movies, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Bill Davenport on January 21, 2013
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of four institutions participating in Art Across America, an exhibition billed as “the first major survey of [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged art across america, mfah, mfash, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, national museum of korea |
By David F. Brown on December 30, 2012
Draped in camouflage, bunting, or shroud, war’s singular product is death. In face after face of WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath at [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged mfah, war photography |
By Peter Lucas on December 3, 2012
This Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is showcasing the artistry of filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay with a special series [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged film, mfah, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, quay brothers |
By Peter Lucas on October 27, 2012
“Everything is being spoiled in this world. …Know what? When everything is being spoiled, we’ll be spoiled too!” So proclaim two teenage girls–both named Marie–before [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged 60s, czech, daisies, film, mfah, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Sebastien Boncy on September 19, 2012
Can I admit that I get a major kick out of this image? That I am thankful for it? Can I say this without losing [...]
Posted in Monocular | Tagged Abstract Expressionism, Albert Uderzo, American Made, Arthur Rothstein, Buddhism, Buddhist Art, David Hickey, Dust Storm Oklahoma, George Bellows, Hergé, Incognegro, Jacob Lawrence, John Powers, Kimiki Powers, mat johnson, mfah, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Portrait of Florence Pierce, René Goscinny, Soga Shōhaku, The Brown Angel, Toni Morrison, Unrivalled Splendor, Western Hunter, Will Eisner |
By Rachel Hooper on September 15, 2012
I have to admit that art fairs, in general, are not my thing. They seem exhausting for everyone involved from visitors to the gallery girls [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged Barbara Davis Gallery, brad bucher, carlos cruz diaz, daniel mcfarlane, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Geoff Hippenstiel, Hollis Taggart Galleries, houston fine art fair, joe havel, Julie Mehretu, kara walker, leslie hewitt, Man Ray, mfah, Robyn O’Neil, schroeder romero & shredder, shazia sikander, talley dunn gallery, The Art Guys, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Victoria Lightman, Willem De Kooning |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2012
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 12, 2012
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston will get seventeen new airtight, sulfur-free cabinets to store it’s 898-piece collection of silver alloy items, taking them out [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged imls, mfah, silver collection, ut ransom center |
By Bill Davenport on March 17, 2012
Cafe Express is no longer the only food option! Beginning March 12, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has arranged for a different food truck [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged food trucks, ladybird, mfah, sculpture garden |
By Joshua Fischer on March 12, 2012
When Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective opened at the Menil Collection, it was SERRAPALOOZA. Throngs of people congregated at the Menil, many of us on the [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged joel shapiro, joshua fischer, jules olitski, menil, mfah, rice gallery, Richard Serra, Texas Gallery |
By Rachel Hooper on February 19, 2012
There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, camh, contemporary art, devin borden gallery, G gallery, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, mfah, Moody Gallery, Sicardi Gallery, Wade Wilson Art |
By Bill Davenport on February 18, 2012
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be supporting the the 2012 “Doodle 4 Google” contest by exhibiting the Texas state finalists’ drawings this summer. [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged corporate free advertising, doodle 4 google, mfah, sell-out, unpaid illustration work |
By Bill Davenport on February 3, 2012
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has selected Steven Holl Architects to develop plans for their highly anticipated new building art after 1900. Holl was [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged mfah, steven holl |
By Bill Davenport on January 18, 2012
Blogger Judith Dobrzynski interviews the MFAH’s Mari Carmen Ramírez for today’s Wall St. Journal on the eve of the launch of the museum’s vast digital [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged frida kahlo, Judith Dobrzynski, Mari Carmen Ramírez, mfah |
By John Pluecker on December 7, 2011
There’s a new contest for Texas writers called ARTlines: An Ekphrastic Poetry Competition, sponsored by a new reading series in Houston called Public Poetry in [...]
Posted in Blog, The Open Blog | Tagged ekphrasis, john pluecker, mfah |