Stark Museum hosts overview of Navajo weaving traditions.
When The Stark Museum of Art in Orange decided to institute a new textile storage system, it was the job of Terri Fox, collections and exhibition manager, to re-visit the museum’s collection of Navajo weavings.
Menil Collection hosts Magritte retrospective.
“Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938” is on view at the Menil Collection, located at 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, through June 1.
Art show, party explores mythological Neches River critters // March 1 – 29, 2014
In 1894, Sir Randolph Foxton-Twickenbush, the great British adventurer, steered the steamship “Good Queen Bess” into the mouth of the mighty Neches River in search of the broad-mouthed squintabass, a creature so huge and so fearsome that no one who had encountered it had survived to tell the tale.
“Beaumont needs a little more weird.”
Looking around Beaumont lately, anyone can see that the city is changing and one person thinks Beaumont could change a little more.
‘The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’ at MFAH
Houston Museum of Natural Science explores spiritual roots of prehistoric art. “It’s often said, ‘It’s because they became homo sapiens sapiens that they started to create art,’ but I tend to think…that it is through art that they became humans, and … through their creations, they invented us.” — Jean-Claude Joiree, Philosopher Eighteen thousand years
Recent work by Elizabeth Fontenot opens with a reception Feb. 1, and will be on display at The Studio through Feb. 22.
Museum of Fine Arts Houston hosts ‘Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona’ “Art is a response to life. To be an artist is to undertake a risky way to live, to adopt one of the greatest forms of liberty, to make no compromise.” — Antonio Berni Images of Antonio Berni (1905-1981), one of the greatest
Hoerth gives new life to ‘retired’ books The table is littered with tiny slivers of paper. Despite the buzz of activity surrounding her, artist Susan Hoerth smiles as she buries herself in a book. Hoerth is not reading, however. She is attacking the pages with scissors and blade. But this is no act of desecration.
Once again, it’s time for the annual guide to the perfect gifts for the nerd you love Well it’s that time of year again. You’ve all got geeky friends on your lists and you have no idea what to get them that will show them they are understood — to show them that you have
