This is a deeply emotional and visual show, with some pieces that stop one in awe.
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Yesterday, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced the acquisition of Yayoi Kusama’s All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), one of the artist’s signature Infinity Mirror…
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In 1938 Nelson Rockefeller commissioned twin works from Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse for his Manhattan penthouse, and this week it looks as though the two works will be reunited…
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Houston Public Media’s Jen Rice put out a radio news spot yesterday, interviewing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) Director Gary Tinterow, Contemporary Arts Museum (CAMH) Director Bill Arning, and…
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It seems like the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has been celebrating its campus redevelopment project for ages. Last year, it held a huge block party for the groundbreaking…
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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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Study Reveals That Museums Show More Contemporary Art Than Ever
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonA new study shows that leading U.S. museums now devote almost half of their temporary exhibitions to contemporary art, reports The Art Newspaper. 44% of the shows organized by 29…
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Navigating a historical exhibition like 'Adiós Utopia' can be difficult. The MFAH does a nice job of providing a broad outline, but it's best to find a personal position from which to steer your experience.
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These sculptures act like still frames in a larger story that stars, finally, all of the people milling about them in the museum.
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The MFAH screens early films by father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembène.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced the dates and schedule for the 13th annual Houston Jewish Film Festival, in which it participates. The primary venue for the festival…
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There are better and worse ways to stage a revolution. Somehow this all feels so… familiar.
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Dessert Before Dinner: Houston Couple Pledges Entire Show to MFAH
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonTwo Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection opened this weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and a couple of evenings before, the…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of five big American museums to designate undergraduates for the Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, and the two new fellows for…
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Here I sit, with the responsibility of finding meaning in Degas one day before a presidential election. This is a tall order, but I’m Darwinian about art.
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The Tate announced yesterday that it has appointed Michael Wellen as curator of international art, reports Artforum. Beginning in December, Wellen will work with the art from Latin America in…
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A show of works by African-American artists in the collection opens the museum to accusations of perfunctory curatorial affirmative action.
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The best works of art put up strong resistance to easy interpretation. They encourage the physical encounter.
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Have your camera ready, because that's the prize: the proof that you saw, more valuable than the seeing itself.
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There’s always clamor in our world. Once again I’m glad for the artists who cut through the noise, noisily.