Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on a singing tree, a Fugazi concert without the songs, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s recent campus expansion.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will finally inaugurate its new Glassell School of Art building on Sunday, May 20. Visitors can view the Glassell, The Brown Foundation, Inc.…

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today that it will award $18.6 million in grants to 199 humanities projects across the country, reports Artforum. One of the major…

Art Historian Pete Gershon and author of the upcoming book “Collision: Contemporary Artists Working in Houston, 1972-1985” will present a talk of the same name on Monday, April 9, 9:30am,…

Today, March 24, 2018, marks the second day of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s eighth Five Funny French Films series. Put on yearly by the museum’s outstanding Film department, the…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the best fishing in Texas, an artworld version of a Lincoln-Douglas style debate in San Antonio, and the psychology of long-term art collecting.

“We asked ourselves, what artwork could we purchase for millions of dollars that would truly reflect the wildcatting, independent spirit of Houston? And we looked at a ton of artworks…

Applications are now open for the Core residency program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. During the nine-month residency, the program’s artists have the opportunity to meet visiting curators,…

Christina Rees and special guest Neil Fauerso on El Paso’s ability to survive the apocalypse, the invention of art words, and a retired president’s dubious art therapy.

In this holiday edition of Glasstire’s Top Five, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson share tips on the best shows to take your various friends and family members to over the Christmas break.

Polly G. Koch, age 65, died on November 28, 2017, in Houston’s Montrose area while walking her two dachshunds. A pickup truck struck her at the corner of Mandell Street…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the cross-pollination of art collectives, an eccentric collector’s decadence, and a major museum show that borrows from Houston locals.

And we thought we were clever when we posted the two different stories of “head art,” as manifested by fans of the Houston Astros versus the L.A. Dodgers. It turns…

This Saturday, Sept. 23 in Houston there’s a major free workshop aimed at artists, galleries, and collectors for helping them salvage water-damaged art objects following Hurricane Harvey. The four organizers are…

  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston announced today the appointment of Bradley Bailey as curator of Asian art, reports Artforum. The MFAH has been without a curator in this area…

(Ed. note: we will continue to update this post as we receive more information.) (If any readers have additional information on the status of these art spaces or others, please…

This is a deeply emotional and visual show, with some pieces that stop one in awe.

The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has announced that they have been gifted 31 portrait photographs created by American filmmaker and photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The works, which are large-format prints from Greenfield-Sanders’ Latino List…

Special Edition: Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on the top five artist residencies in Texas.

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…