Subject:

The Museum of Modern Art

  • Culture

    November 4, 2010

    Merz at the Menil

    The museum hosts a must-see exhibition of works by art pioneer Kurt Schwitters.

  • News

    December 25, 2008

    Best Films of 2008

    Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

  • Calendar

    July 21, 2005

    Outside In

    The Menil Collection showcases two trailblazing African-American artists in "The Modernist Impulse"

  • Dining

    March 10, 2005

    Mixing It Up

    The world's best chefs have turned their attention to cocktails, with surprising results

  • Culture

    July 15, 2004

    People Are Strange

    Diane Arbus taps into the weirdness of us all

  • Culture

    November 27, 2003

    Incest Is Wrong

    The MFAH shamelessly hops in bed with the Houston Texans

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    What's Wrong with This Picture?

    MFA director Peter C. Marzio gets a bonus of $1.7 million while front-line museum employees say they have trouble paying their rent

  • News

    July 26, 2001

    Tick Tock, Your Time Is Up

    Foreign students at the Glassell School of Art get a stipend, studio space and three years to make it really big. They've had a huge impact on Houston's art scene. But if the INS isn't impressed, they've got to go.

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Life in the Abstract

    In Dorothy Hood's paintings, dark was dark and light was light. The contrasts were often as stark in her life.

  • Culture

    March 9, 2000

    Old Age Question

    Did Willem de Kooning's deteriorating mental health adversely affect his later works?

  • Culture

    October 8, 1998

    The Overlooked Abstractionist

    Dorothy Hood has three -- count 'em, three -- shows concurrently. And it's not enough.

  • Culture

    May 7, 1998

    Building Interest

    "Art and Architecture" was held in the desert, but the subject was hardly dry

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    Culture Clash

    Deputy constables raid the Menil, confiscate the works of famed artist Robert Rauschenberg and get set for a big old auction that has the local art scene gasping

  • Culture

    March 7, 1996

    From the Beginning

    The Menil offers a clue to unlocking the mystery of Jasper Johns

  • News

    January 19, 1995

    Letters

    The Menil offers a clue to unlocking the mystery of Jasper Johns

  • Culture

    May 5, 1994

    Trash Men

    David McManaway and Jim Love: Still scavenging after all these years

  • Culture

    December 23, 1993

    The Joy of Color, the Ecstasy of Form

    A re-evaluation of Matisse as decadent sensualist -- brought to us via the Cone Collection at the MFA

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