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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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech walk you through the Texas shows they’re most excited about seeing this fall art season.
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Everything and everyone is connected.
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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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War is hell, as artists are always here to remind us.
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Christopher Blay and special guests Jane Burke, Surpik Angelini, Carter E. Foster, Chris Hightower, and Mari Carmen Ramírez talk about the current Texas exhibitions they've curated.
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I took my first art class, and now it’s almost as if long-dead artists were making their works before my eyes.
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"Latinx art is still waiting to be taken up by museum acquisitions and a collector base. It’s an art still in the process of legitimation."
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“No one who knew her could ever forget her vitality and fierce intelligence.”
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Two images of women and waterfalls: from the movie Brave, and in a 1926 watercolor by the artist Rockwell Kent. Implausibly, they feel like freedom.
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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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Christopher Blay and Brandon Zech let you in on some choice online artist conversations taking place across the state this week, with some favorite Texans in the mix.
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The 1982 rediscovered classic by Emmy Award-winning documentarian Horace B. Jenkins will be accompanied by a free online conversation between acclaimed director Sacha Jenkins and Houston rapper Bun B.
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These flags show a different kind of patriotism — one that holds ideals to a higher standard.
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The museum's film department brings you great international, independent, and documentary films for home viewing, and your streaming fee supports one of Houston’s best cinema programs during this critical time.
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Cast against the modern, urbane anarchism of Duchamp, Bacon is a wild-eyed wilderness prophet.
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News
Texas Museums to Merge and Consolidate, Hire Architects For New Mega-Complexes Around the State
We anticipate what some people are calling maybe the biggest capital campaigns the world has ever seen, and our Texas museums may never be the same.
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Some 6,856 items in the museum's collection are available to view online.
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A press release from the Houston Museum District Association announced the closures today.
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The Obama portraits, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, will come to the MFAH — the only Texas stop on the tour.