HOUSTON, TX.- Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world. For mor…
Scholars to Present New Findings on Henri Rousseau’s Media and Methods
HOUSTON, TX.- An extraordinary gathering of art historians, curators, and conservationists will gather in Houston on Saturday, October 2 to present and discuss new research into the work of Henri Rousseau. The afternoon symposium – to be held at J…
The Menil Collection to Publish Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné
HOUSTON, TX.- The Board of Trustees of the Menil Collection and Menil Director Josef Helfenstein are pleased to announce a plan to publish the Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings of Jasper Johns. The catalogue is being prepared under the auspices of th…
The Menil Collection to Publish The Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings of Jasper Johns
HOUSTON, TX.- The Board of Trustees of the Menil Collection and Menil Director Josef Helfenstein are pleased to announce a plan to publish the Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings of Jasper Johns. The catalogue is being prepared under the auspices of th…
Recently Acquired Works of Art on View at the Menil Collection
HOUSTON, TX.- Earth Paint Paper Wood celebrates the dynamism of the Menil, which continues to add important works of art to the permanent collection via purchase – and also by gift and bequest of Menil trustees and other friends of the museum, inc…
MFA Houston Commissions Artist Cai Guo-Qiang to Create Gunpowder Drawing
HOUSTON, TX.- Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has long been known internationally for his prolific and multi-disciplinary body of work that fuses the mythic and the everyday. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has commissioned Cai to create his first permanent, si…
MFA Houston Commissions Artist Cai Guo-Qiang to Create Gunpowder Drawing
HOUSTON, TX.- Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has long been known internationally for his prolific and multi-disciplinary body of work that fuses the mythic and the everyday. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has commissioned Cai to create his first permanent, si…
Menil Names Toby Kamps New Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
HOUSTON, TX.- Following an extensive search that included numerous national and international candidates, Josef Helfenstein, director of The Menil Collection, has named Toby Kamps as the museum’s new curator of modern and contemporary art. Current…
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Hosts First Major Exhibition of Jan van Huysum
Houston, TX – The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), the first large- scale exhibition devoted to Jan van Huysum’s work, opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Sunday, February 18. Van Huysum is renowned for the tremen…
MFAH Kinder Foundation Gallery Presents Teach Me to See
HOUSTON, TX.- A child born today will see more images in a lifetime than the number of stars in the universe. But how do children learn the skills that will help them respond to the world around them with “thinking”—rather than “passive”—eyes…