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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech talk about the opening of the MFAH's landmark new building for modern and contemporary art.

In spite of the aftershocks of Hurricane Harvey and a global pandemic, the concentrated art community in this coastal town has managed to keep the momentum of culture moving forward.

Artists include Elizabeth Chapin, Emma Hadzi Antich, CP Harrison, Meena Matocha, Hayley Morrison, Saul Jerome San Juan, and Meghan Shogan.

This new collection of video transmissions comes from makers in various states of disruption and contemplation, and goes out to a public more receptive than ever to short, immediate, poetic expressions "of our times.”

"Aguilera and Makonnen tried to give form to the overwhelming personal and collective emotions of rage, disappointment, exhaustion and bruised hope that they experienced in the last six months."

“It’s this weird duality. Art spaces are falling away, but at the same time, we’re creating more access points.”

Christopher Blay hosts Jonathan Morris, a Fort Worth Entrepreneur and community leader. They talk about the marriage of art and commerce, and how Morris' Hotel Dryce You Are Here Art Grant could help build an inclusive community in Fort Worth.

Christina Rees and artist Emily Peacock bring you a horse show in Albany, a vision for a Latinx museum, and the grand opening of the MFAH’s long-awaited new building.

The most powerful thing about the show is not its aesthetic or technical prowess — but rather its ability to offer a temporary calm in our chaotic moment.

This weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will officially open its long-awaited Kinder Building. It is dedicated to showing the institution's collection of 20th- and 21st-century art.

Senior Curator Andrea Karnes speaks about the installation. Artists include Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Yasumasa Morimura, Carrie Mae Weems, Martine Gutierrez, Kehinde Wiley, and Rineke Dijkstra.

"The ceramic works in the show are abstract but very much tell a story of her life in 2020."

Featuring work by William Leavitt, Ari Marcopoulos, Stefan Rinck, Mungo Thomson and Blair Thurman.

Webb’s work gives us a glimpse of what these lands look like to someone who comes from so far away.

"Through three different artistic disciplines, such as fiber art, sculpture and painting, Nela Garzón questions the mercantile and disposable paradigm of objects in conflict with cultural identities."

The phrase “Popular Art” is a small but important redefinition of the broad and nebulous category of folk art.

For the past 40 years, Deborah Butterfield has been creating large-scale sculptures of horses. Her work is currently on view at The Old Jail Art Center in Albany.

"Drennan’s installation connects street and sky through found textiles that provide a message of hope; Bradford’s found photographs are altered through embroidery to literally and metaphorically bind people together in a time of longing and uncertainty."

Christopher Blay and Riley Holloway talk about painting, family, politics, "Home," and recognizing ourselves in the people and culture that make up the Black experience. 

Christopher Blay and William Sarradet on a show about Black hair, an artist creating voids in space, and another artist's take on the grit and grind of the working class.