In his 1960 essay, Modernist Painting, Clement Greenberg writes, “With Manet and the Impressionists the question ceased to be defined as one of color versus drawing… and became instead a…
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The exhibition is a luminous, timely exploration of how both artists find the sublime in the close observation of nature.
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The exhibition was scheduled to be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from March to May of 2022.
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The experience of the performers on screen and viewers in the museum seems to dovetail.
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Rainey Knudson and guest host Eric Jarvis on the Do-Not-Miss show of the winter, Matt Lauer-based art, and Mac versus Windows.
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On Friday, November 3, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will open an off-campus satellite gallery at 714 Yale Street, in a retail development called Heights Mercantile. The new space…
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"Do you think that you shall never see an artwork as lovely as a tree?”
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on the best art festival in Texas, art fetishes, and tabletop kinetic art that transcends the desk toy.
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The painting that hangs behind Rainey Knudson's desk was made by a Houston painter who was an artist's artist.
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If Olafur Eliason proposed Monet on Ice to the MFAH, it would have been done right. visitors would skate down a virtual frozen Seine, winding through the galleries past real paintings.
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Oklahoma University (OU) announced that Emily Ballew Neff will be the new director of OU’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, pending approval by the OU Board of Regents, according…
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Number 4. While it seems like that number is overwhelmingly small, this has already proven to be one of the most emotionally exhausting projects I have ever worked on.
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MFAH Snags Art Institute CFO in Time for Expansion Project
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has found a replacement for recently retired Associate Director Gwen Goffe. Eric O. Anyah has been lured away from the Art Institute of Chicago and…
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There was something exciting about Houston’s annual Museum District Day and watching people make the ridiculous attempt to visit each and every participating museum in one (usually hot and steamy)…
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Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian…
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My Monkey + Parrot Beats Your Black Cat: Kahlo Portrait Coming to Houston as MFAH and Malba Celebrate 10th Birthdays with Latin American Art Swap
The Latin American Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Malba – FundaciónCostantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires , Argentina, were both established in 2001…
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The Houston Fine Art Fair and The Texas Contemporary Fair: Twice the fairs equals twice the drama
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 these fairs, a classic tempest…