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By Rachel Hooper on March 4, 2012
The saying goes that if you are a curator you educate yourself publicly. In other words, you are constantly in a process of learning and [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged A-1 53167, Aníbal López, artur barrio, caroline wallace, College Art Association, Flickr, GAAG, guerrilla art action group, ICAA, Kate Palmer Albers, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, museum of modern art, Penelope Umbrico, Reiko Tomii, The Play |
By Peter Lucas on February 20, 2012
Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged Come Back Africa, film, Miriam Makeba, movie, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, South Africa |
By Bill Davenport on February 3, 2012
The MFAH’s Glassell School of Art is again looking for a new crop of CORE Fellows for its ever-more-prestigious residency program. Residents receive a stipend, [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged core residency, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, nick barbee |
By Bill Davenport on January 18, 2012
Gary Tinterow, former Met curator and new director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is going to be awarded the insignia of Officer of [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged gary tinterow, maxwell anderson, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, order of arts and letters |
By Bill Davenport on December 26, 2011
It’s currently under construction on Friday, January 20 the MFAH’s much touted International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) digital archive goes online [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged international center for the arts of the americas, latin american art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Bill Davenport on December 1, 2011
The museum of Fine arts Houston has announced that Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Gary Tinterow will be the museum’s new director, filling the large [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged gary tinterow, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Bill Davenport on November 18, 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has opened its new Kinder Foundation Education Center in the lower tunnels outside the Brown Auditorium Theater. With futuristic [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged hang@mfah, institute of museum and library services, kinder education center, macarthur foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Peter Lucas on November 11, 2011
I want to call attention to one film in the Cinema Arts Fest that, while nestled quietly and rather buzzless in the schedule between exciting [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged cinema arts festival houston, film, film festival, Houston, koyaanisqatsi, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Bill Davenport on October 10, 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has begun its switch to energy-saving LED lamps, installing 150 Toshiba A19′s in its Pre-Columbian Gallery and the exterior [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged led, museum lighting, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, pre-culumbian, toshiba |
By Peter Lucas on October 7, 2011
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, [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged alamo drafthouse, mfah, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World On A Wire |
By Laura Lark on August 5, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged aerosmith, anne tucker, barbara stanwyck, bourgeois, caligula, dejeuner sur l'herbe, Derek Zoolander, dinner on the grass, Euro trash, Europeans, Eyes wide shut, fake feminism, frick museum, Helmut Newton, hugh hefner, idle rich, james mcneil whistler, joan crawford, june newton, manet, manfred heiting, marlene detrich, mfah, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, richard avedon, robert palmer, squeaky fromm, this is spinal tap |
By Bill Davenport on June 30, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged brown foundation fellows, Cheryl Toman, Chia-Yu Hsu, David Chaillou, dora maar house, Jane Boyd, John Jesurun, Kristina Van Dyke, Lisa Corrine Davis, Mamiko Otsubo, mfah, Mona Washington, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, museum of fine arts houston dora maar, Sarah Schulman |
By Bill Davenport on June 29, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged digital archive latin american art archive, ICAA, latin american art, mari carman ramirez, Mari Carmen Ramírez, mfah, mfah latin american, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Kelly Klaasmeyer on June 27, 2011
So you may have heard, Houston is getting an art fair. Um, actually two art fairs. There has been a ridiculous amount of controversy surrounding [...]
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By Bill Davenport on March 21, 2011
Jeremy Musson, British author and historian and former Architectural Editor of Country Life will speak on the intricate hierarchy of servants that grew up to [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Downton Abbey, English manors, Jeremy Musson, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, upstairs downstairs |
