Chris Becker

Chris Becker is a Houston-based composer and writer, and author of the critically acclaimed book, Freedom of Expression: Interviews With Women in Jazz. Learn more about Becker at beckeresque.substack.com. Photo by Mark Chen.

Chris Becker

Style & Luminosity: Tamara de Lempicka at the MFAH

Chris Becker·
Climb the stairs to the second level of the Law Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and you encounter two silent, black-and-white films, projected on the wall near the entrance to Tamara de Lempicka, the first major museum retrospective of the Art Deco pioneer and one of the 20th century’s most underappreciated artists.
HoustonVisual Art

Speaking of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce at the Meadows

Chris Becker·
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, whose extensive collection of Spanish art has earned it the nickname “Prado on the Prairie,” is the first stop for The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce, an exhibition of over sixty European, American, and Puerto Rican masterworks dating from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.
Dallas/Ft WorthVisual Art