Yesterday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston announced that it has installed on its South Lawn a new acquisition, Albero folgorato (Lightning Tree), by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. The installation…
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The folks who put the Q in QFest are gearing up again for the five-day annual film festival dedicated to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer cinema. It begins Thursday…
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To draw attention to its current exhibition Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is holding an old-fashioned photo contest. Of the 80 works…
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MFAH Included in Mellon Foundation’s Pilot Program for Curatorial Diversity
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIt’s no secret that the people who work at museums have always been predominately white, but the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is now supporting a new initiative at five major…
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It’s been months now since Detroit filed for bankruptcy, provoking art world nervousness as many eyed the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), the second largest municipally-owned museum in the United…
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MFAH’s movie jukebox hosts a rarely-seen favorite of CAMH Director Bill Arning.
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Oklahoma University (OU) announced that Emily Ballew Neff will be the new director of OU’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, pending approval by the OU Board of Regents, according…
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Number 4. While it seems like that number is overwhelmingly small, this has already proven to be one of the most emotionally exhausting projects I have ever worked on.
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MFAH’s Founding Curator of Photography Announces Retirement After 37 Years
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced that Anne Wilkes Tucker, founding curator of the Department of Photography, will retire in June 2015. Malcolm Daniel, longtime curator and…
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MFAH Director Gary Tinterow will speak tomorrow, Thursday at 11 am, at a luncheon at the Houston Junior League hosted by the Community Artists’ Collective. The talk is not cheap…
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Michael K. Brown, long-time curator of the Bayou Bend Collection, died on Sunday of organ failure, ten days after undergoing a heart transplant. His brothers are organizing services in…
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Long-Lost Van Gogh Discovered in Norwegian Attic, MFAH Painting Helps to Authenticate
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAfter sitting six decades in a Norwegian industrialist’s attic, an 1888 landscape by Vincent Van Gogh was authenticated by the Van Gogh Museum. The painting, Sunset at Montmajour, is the…
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MFAH Snags Art Institute CFO in Time for Expansion Project
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has found a replacement for recently retired Associate Director Gwen Goffe. Eric O. Anyah has been lured away from the Art Institute of Chicago and…
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The trajectory of my work for the past 25 years has been questioning the veracity of the photographic image. Could I make a fake photograph look totally real?
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The LACMA experience was like being in a glowing, sci-fi trance on another planet brimming with strange wonders. The MFAH’s exhibition, however, is embarrassingly lackluster.
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Postproduction has been a part of the process since the medium’s birth.
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Summer Artist Dreams and Another Residency Application
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonSummer may slow down a bit in the art world, but it’s a busy time for artists filling out applications for grants and residencies. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston…
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There was something exciting about Houston’s annual Museum District Day and watching people make the ridiculous attempt to visit each and every participating museum in one (usually hot and steamy)…
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Lauren Moya Ford talks with Assistant Curator Michael Wellen about the art of breakfast tacos, how museums build collections, and Latin American exhibitions at the MFAH.