The Man Who Fell to Earth at MFAH
The best movie to see alone and/or stoned this Thanksgiving weekend is Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 existential Sci-Fi oddity, The Man Who Fell To Earth. A [...]
MFAH’s Benevolent Ancestors Gift $1.2 Million in Art at One Great Night Event
Given the lack of couture to comment on, Culturemap society reporter Shelby Hodge details the bentleys, cigars, and the art purchased at the MFAH’s all-male [...]
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 [...]
MFAH-curated War Photo Show to Travel to LA, DC, NY
War/Photography: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath the much anticipated mega-show that is scheduled to open next November (2012) in Houston, has announced a [...]
World on a Wire: A new/old film by R. W. Fassbinder comes to Texas screens.
Phillip K. Dick meets Jean-Luc Godard in the fever dream of a vintage collector! OK, that was my quick attempt at a simple and catchy, [...]
MFAH Buys Big Yellow Stella Painting, Different From Menil’s Big Yellow De Maria Painting.
Big yellow minimalism is in- The Museum of Fine Arts has announced the acquisition of Frank Stella’s Palmito Ranch (1961), which they got at a [...]
Houston Museum District Day Saturday: Everyone Doing Everything All At Once!
On Saturday, September 17, Sixteen museums congregated in southern Montrose are collectively celebrating themselves by offering free admission and nonstop free events, films and activities: [...]
Museum Admission as an Expression of Mission
As a follow-up to my article, “Mind Games, Museums, and Suggested Donations,” I’ve been looking into the ways that museums set their general admission prices. [...]
Texas Art Travel: Houston
Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of [...]
Helmut Newton at the MFAH: It’s Pretty…Pretty Vacant
I generally try to be objective and somewhat professional when writing an art review. I probably don’t do a very good job of it, but [...]
Multimedia retrofit: peripatetic singers Cantare in MFAH galleries, MURAL at Rothko Chapel
In a twist on the upsurge of multimedia approaches in contemporary art, the Houston Museum of Fine arts is retrofitting the classics to work together [...]
Under the black Umbrella: museum disaster forum meets to discuss the unthinkable at the MFAH
With tropical storm Don bearing down on Corpus Christi, three hundred museum professionals are meeting with experts from the National Archives, Federal Emergency Management Agency, [...]
Brown Foundation Fellows at Dora Maar: new crop of artists in the South of France
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced the next ten Brown Foundation Fellows who will take up residence at the Dora Maar House during [...]
MFAH to upload massive Latin American art archives
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced plans to digitally archive 10,000 pieces of primary source material on Latin American art and make it [...]
Glasstire Headline Contest: Are You Punny Enough to Win These Tickets?
Here at Glasstire, we are all about visual art in Texas. But every once in a while we venture off of our own site to [...]
Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto now at the MFAH: Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting
“The most beautiful pictures in the world”, according to British artist Lucian Freud, Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (1556–1559), made their debut [...]
MFAH virtual art of China Gallery finished
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has put the finishing touch-screen in its Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery. The new [...]
Sixth Annual Latin Wave: New Films From Latin America
Latin Wave 6, the sixth (obviously) in a series showcasing a number of the most acclaimed films recently released by Latin American filmmakers, returns to [...]
Marzio’s million-dollar chair
Yesterday Rebecca Cohen rounded up a half dozen Texas art mavens’ sound bites on who should succeed Peter Marzio as Director of Houston’s Museum of [...]
