Upon learning that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has hired Caroline Goeser as W.T. and Louise J. Moran Chair of the Department of Learning and Interpretation, and that this department is the new name for the education department, two obvious questions come to mind:
At least from my vantage point in Houston, there don't seem to be many tea leaves to read regarding the abrupt departure of David Rubin from the San Antonio Museum of Art, where he's been the curator of contemporary art since 2006.
The second-floor gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Law Building is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the country--so large that the Georges Braque retrospective only takes up half of it.
