Paintings by local artist and designer Joey Blazek on view in the museum’s café.
October 2011
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A conversation between Dr. Marianna Adler, psychologist-psychoanalyst, Dr. Gemma Marangoni Ainslie psychologist-psychoanalyst and artist Margaret Meehan, whose workis on view at Women and Their Work. Audience participation is welcome.
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Dr. Eric Stryker from Southern Methodist University in Dallas will discuss subculture, sexuality, and gender identity in the contemporary art world.
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Part of an ongoing reading series presented by the University of Houston Libraries and Creative Writing Program, Shrimp Boat Projects presents local authors that delve into issues surrounding Galveston Bay.…
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The Texas premiere of How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, a 2010 film by Norberto López Amado and Carlos Carcas. The film traces architect Norman Foster’s neverending quest…
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Egan’s work “portrays the times we are living in and how social interaction and diversity fuel the human spirit.” Murphy presents a series of drawings exploring juxtapositions.
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Houston artist Frank Tolbert2’s work is highly narrative he has created a visual language all his own through the recurrent use of personal iconography, often interlaced with ambiguity and humor.
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Dallas artist Paul Booker prints small hand-drawn shapes onto thin plastic, then pins together to create complex architectural structures. He has an upcoming show in September at the Museum of…
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Can empiricism and rationality discover everything that is real and true? These questions will be addressed in a lecture on philosophy of science, Hermetic philosophy and learned magic, Western European…
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Two Texas artists with contrasting views of landscape: Maratta’s long, skinny drawings of the Texas Horizon convey a surprising sense of space; in Randy Twaddle’s ink and coffee drawings washes…
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Sideshow banners and drawings from the “last sideshow banner painter.”
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The kickoff celebration for a year-long outdoor installation in which fluorescent twine and rebar forms a hanging scrim among live oak trees on the grounds of Verde Camp, a village…
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Curator, art critic, and associate professor of art at Claremont University in Claremont, California, presents Getting It Wrong in Just the Right Way: Diebenkorn’s West Coastism, addressing the various ways…
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Artist Aaron Parazette and Dallas painter John Pomara will have a chat about Aaron’s current exhibition of a 150 foot wall painting and extensive selection of surfer text paintings.
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This exhibition brings together a number of rarely seen, works by James Castle, Frank Jones, Bill Traylor and Chelo González Amezcua, among others. The exhibition is co-curated with Murray Smithers,…
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A major international loan exhibition which explores Islamic art through the universal tradition of gift giving, Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with support from the MFAH.
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Ibsen Espada’s decorative abstactions fuse influences from Abstract Expressionism and gestural street art.
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An installation influenced by Caspar David Friedrich and Sung Dynasty painting.
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“A two-day clay love-fest.” 60 of Texas’s finest clay artists converge on Gruene, TX where visitors can meet the artists, view and purchase their latest work, and watch demonstrations. Saturday,…