Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Victoria Ramirez has announced that she will be leaving the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin to be the new director of the El Paso Museum of Art, reports…

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.

It was announced recently that Christine Gervais has been appointed the new Director of Rienzi, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s off-site museum for European decorative arts. Gervais has worked at Rienzi for the past…

Fall Preview! Rainey Knudson, Christina Rees, and Brandon Zech do Glasstire's top picks for this fall.

The best works of art put up strong resistance to easy interpretation. They encourage the physical encounter.

This week Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees count down the top five museums in Texas.

Have your camera ready, because that's the prize: the proof that you saw, more valuable than the seeing itself.

There’s always clamor in our world. Once again I’m glad for the artists who cut through the noise, noisily.

Last Friday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston kicked off a twelve-film program celebrating the 100th birthday of actress Olivia de Havilland, who is the last surviving cast member of the 1939…

Glasstire correspondents Brandon Zech and Ariane Roesch checked in with summer visitors of Yayoi Kusama's signature installation at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Reactions were varied.

In his act of creating a second authentic artistic identity Guston has shown me, and many generations of artists, that losing faith in an idea of yourself as an artist doesn’t have to be the end. You can make art after disillusionment.

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s 14-acre home to collections of decorative art, paintings, and furniture, has gone full-on Broadway. Currently, the collection is offering an audio tour…

Tomorrow, June 19, is Father’s Day. If you have yet to get your dad a gift, fear not—museums and art spaces across Texas want to help you celebrate dad in…

Brandon Zech and guest host Tommy Gregory on curating an airport, the future of public art, and how to get a leg up on the must-see summer show.   1. Kusama:…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced its big upcoming summer exhibition Kusama: At the End of the Universe, which opens June 12. Though an active artist since the 1950s, the 87-year-old…

Fazeli’s valorization of illness as a tool for economic revolution is an example of the kind of fuzzy thinking that too often goes unchallenged in the art world.

The court painter might be the least naïve kind of artist. Franz X. Winterhalter presents a relevant prism through which to examine our contemporary social moment.

Tomorrow, April 12, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host artist Frank Stella in conversation with  Michael Auping, the museum’s Chief Curator. It’ll be packed. The talk accompanies the…

It should be a compliment to Texas (but it’s not) that the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has hired the assistant curator of contemporary art at the Dallas Museum of…

I could be convinced by a car show. I’m a sucker for a good anthropological dig into the charred remains of the twentieth century. This is not that show.