The Corcoran’s Houston Connections
Tyler Green has a long, thoughtful Modern Art Notes entry on what the National Gallery of Art might...
Loose Ends
A Backdrop for Braque at the MFAH
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.
Layover Art
It’s not unusual for a gallery to show renderings, models or other materials related to public artworks. When...
Texas Twofer: Sargent and Sorolla
There are a few oil paintings in John Singer Sargent: The Watercolors, which opens Sunday at the Museum...
Are We World Class Yet?
If a few more logistical details come together, I may be in New York next week in time...
Bigger Than Tut
Meadows Museum Revisits Sorolla’s Fleeting American Fame
Museum in Transition
One of my most powerful art memories of 2013 is visiting the traveling exhibition 30 Americans, which presented important works by contemporary African American artists, on July 4, a free day at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Invading Art’s Territory
The second or third photograph you see in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s fascinating exhibition, Color! American Photography Transformed is an untitled 1851 color plate by Levi L. Hill
The Many Lives of Artworks
Hotel Texas Marks an Awkward Anniversary, recipe Reveals Art’s Shifting Signifiers IMAGE: Andy Warhol, Double Mona Lisa, 1963. ...
Populist Dallas
DMA’s Move to Free Admission Belies The Big D’s Elitist Image I’m excited about Arts+Culture going statewide for...
European Reunification at MFAH
July Loose Ends: What’s Back, And Making It Available to All Houstonians In a comment below the online...
MFAH Inflated Attendance Figures for Years
General Admission Visits Are Less Than 19% of Beck, Law Building Tallies Having spent two weeks poring over annual reports and attendance data, I’ve got good news and bad news about the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [...]