Houston-area museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Menil Collection, the Blaffer Museum, and the Galveston Arts Center, have announced their upcoming spring exhibitions.
Walter Hopps
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“I knew right then I had to find out what was really going on in this place. I had to stay right here. Never made it to California.”
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Earlier this year, artist and writer Anne Doran and New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman published The Dream Colony: A Life in Art, a book about the life and work of Menil…
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Any Houstonian art lover, as well as art lovers throughout the world, knows that we were blessed to be in the company of art curator Walter Hopps. We are now…
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He was going to test the independence of this “Independent” group.
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James Rosenquist died at his home in New York City on Friday, March 31 at the age of 83 after a long illness, reports the New York Times. His survivors…
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The finale of Scott Gilbert’s noir comic series about the alleged theft of a Julian Schnabel painting by the legendary curator Walter Hopps.
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The Beat artists, in their time, were something the establishment really didn’t know what to do with.
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Scott Gilbert’s noir comic series about the alleged theft of a Julian Schnabel painting by the legendary curator Walter Hopps.
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Coming soon to Glasstire, the legendary True Artist Tales comic strip by Scott Gilbert!! Gilbert produced the strip, a who’s who for the Houston art scene of the time, from…
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The Art League Houston (ALH) established its Texas Artist of the Year award in 1983 and, to date, thirty-one artists have been honored. This year, Houston painter Terrell James will…
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The annual Big Show at Houston's Lawndale Art Center isn't the free-for-all it was when it was literally free for all (and curated by Walter Hopps), but I always look forward to it because I'm a hoper.
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When Theo Wujcik, the great technical printmaker and beloved personality, laid his head on his hospital pillow, none of it mattered: not Rosenquist’s or Ruscha’s fame, or Theo’s lack thereof, the Dallas art scene, the fainting guy in the audience, or me.
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Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection, announced Friday that independent curator Cuauhtémoc Medina has been chosen as the sixth recipient of the biennial Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.…
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Deborah Velders, Deputy Director of the New Asia Society Texas Center is leaving Houston to take over as director of the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama. She will begin…
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This past weekend, I had the opportunity to assist with the jurying of Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show. I have volunteered for this event for the last three years,…
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A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I began binge viewing art documentaries. We started with Herb and Dorothy (2008), the story of an elderly middle-class couple whose private collection…