We are ripe for a rigorous, joyfully open-minded, unthemed, ongoing and regular survey of the best work being made in Texas.
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Glasstire correspondents Brandon Zech and Ariane Roesch checked in with summer visitors of Yayoi Kusama's signature installation at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Reactions were varied.
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Although selfies with artworks have been a thing on social media, the phenomenon hadn’t really hit me till my recent visit to The Broad Museum in Los Angeles. One super-sized…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced its big upcoming summer exhibition Kusama: At the End of the Universe, which opens June 12. Though an active artist since the 1950s, the 87-year-old…
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I could be convinced by a car show. I’m a sucker for a good anthropological dig into the charred remains of the twentieth century. This is not that show.
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Given the drop in the price of oil, 2017 and 2018 may be key years for the survival of Houston’s art institutions.
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It's collaboration in a nutshell: people working together, subtly directed by authority, with dissidents pressured to keep their mouths shut.
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There’s yet another important lecture series and this one is called “Till Now: Contemporary Art in Context.” Maybe it’s basic stuff; maybe not. It starts off tomorrow evening with Claire…
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As much as art grad school students may complain, most of them know that architecture students have it tougher. They have more rigorous assignments, stay up all nights making precise…
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Great news for those of us in Houston who love going to the MFAH but hate the dining options: the museum plans to open their new MFACafé this fall in the…
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We should all just relax, lie back, and enjoy our enrichmutainment.
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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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If you are in an area that hasn’t been hit by the horrible weather in the past couple of days, count yourself lucky, because the flooding and storms have whipped…
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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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ArticleBlogReview
Japan’s Own Summer of ’68 (and Thereafter) Charted in Ambitious MFAH Show
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasThe MFAH's landmark exhibition assembles conceptual Japanese photo-based art from the late-60s and 70s previously unseen in this country.
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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston is approaching the end of its tenth annual series “Movies Houstonians Love.” Prominent Houstonians introduce each screening and expand on their affection for the movie,…
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I asked Robert Earl Keen why he loves the movie. He immediately cited its understatement. “So much is left to the audience’s imagination. It allows one to feel like a participant.”
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GlasstireNews
Mellon Foundation Starts Curatorial Fellowship Program at MFAH and Four Other Major Museums
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Mellon Foundation has announced its inaugural class of fellows in the Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, which provides specialized training in the curatorial field for undergraduate students…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) only launched the “Arts of the Islamic World Initiative” in 2007 and initially raised enough money to acquire six objects for a permanent…
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It’s nice timing that the MFAH’s “Truffaut: On Childhood” series has arrived on the heels of Richard Linklater’s recent coming-of-age film, Boyhood.