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Visual Arts

  • Culture

    September 13, 2007

    "RED HOT: Asian Art from the Chaney Family Collection"

    The MFAH shows Robert Chaney and family's contemporary Asian art collection

  • Culture

    April 26, 2007

    "Sam Gilliam: a retrospective"

    Sam Gilliam's experimental art comes to the CAMH

  • Calendar

    July 20, 2006

    That Show Is Big

    Sam Gilliam's experimental art comes to the CAMH

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2006

    Admire the Landscape

    Sam Gilliam's experimental art comes to the CAMH

  • Culture

    September 8, 2005

    Capsule Reviews

    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  • Culture

    July 14, 2005

    Fantastic Form

    Sicardi Gallery shows the optically kinetic art of Luis Tomasello

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Bombs Away

    Local street artists move beyond the spray can

  • News

    November 4, 2004

    No Virgins, No Velvet

    An MFAH show and a crop of new galleries are redefining what Latino art is supposed to look like

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Museum

    An MFAH show and a crop of new galleries are redefining what Latino art is supposed to look like

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Art Show

    An MFAH show and a crop of new galleries are redefining what Latino art is supposed to look like

  • Culture

    July 29, 2004

    Attention, Please

    Two Latin American artists get an enthusiastic, if belated, reception

  • Culture

    July 8, 2004

    Exploding the Canon

    "Inverted Utopias" helps rewrite the story of modernism

  • Culture

    July 1, 2004

    Connect the Dots

    Art can be both "aboriginal" and "contemporary"

  • Culture

    March 18, 2004

    Village Person

    Arshile Gorky changed his name, but he couldn't change his painful past

  • Culture

    October 16, 2003

    Mo' Masterpieces

    Never gone to New York? The MoMA comes to Houston

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003
  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Curator

    Kim Davenport

  • Culture

    June 19, 2003

    Mixing It Up

    The Ellsworth Kelly exhibit uses red, green and blue in a dazzling display

  • Culture

    May 22, 2003

    The Center of the Universe

    Must artists move to New York to make it big?

  • Culture

    December 12, 2002

    Tommy Fitzpatrick

    Through January 4

  • Culture

    November 28, 2002

    Manet, Monet, Money

    The Museum of Fine Arts tries to draw in the crowds with a "Season of Impressionism"

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    Unmasked At Last

    After a half-century of effort, local African-American artists are emerging to the forefront of the arts, both in Houston and nationally

  • Culture

    April 4, 2002

    Her Back to the World

    At 90, Agnes Martin still strives to paint perfection, and knows she never will

  • 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

  • Culture

    December 13, 2001

    But What Does It Mean?

    An abstract show at Mixture points out why you shouldn't even ask

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Bathroom

    Boulevard Bistrot

  • Culture

    September 6, 2001

    Dream Weaver

    Of all the surrealists, Tanguy discovered the straightest path to the unconscious

  • Film

    February 22, 2001

    Double Dribbling

    Ed Harris's biopic on Jackson Pollock coasts on the merits of its tormented subject

  • Calendar

    January 25, 2001

    Pop Goes the Menil

    More than just soup cans

  • 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

    October 19, 2000

    Death Knell

    Mel Ziegler's provocative installations suggest it's time to bury marketing-driven museums

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Revolution in Chrome

    In the '70s, Jim Harithas's radical chic collided with the CAM. Twenty-five years later, he's back, gunning his engines at the Art Car Museum.

  • Culture

    July 6, 2000

    Biggers Is Better

    The inaugural exhibit at TSU's University Museum is a testament to the power of one

  • Culture

    March 23, 2000

    A Room of Its Own

    With the added gallery space, the MFA can dust off and display much of its extensive permanent collection

  • Culture

    March 9, 2000

    Old Age Question

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

  • Culture

    December 23, 1999

    Double Bogey

    Do you have to play golf or be a man to get into the Whitney Biennial?

  • Culture

    November 25, 1999

    Souvenir Hunting

    MFA's Old Master exhibit reflects our modern desire to treat art as collectibles

  • Culture

    May 20, 1999

    Abstraction Made Personal

    You don't look at Sam Reveles's paintings. You look through them.

  • Culture

    October 29, 1998

    What's So Great About Painting

    You don't look at Sam Reveles's paintings. You look through them.

  • 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

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    The Art of Darkness

    Paintings of racist images have made UH alumnus Michael Ray Charles a star in the art world. Some say his Sambos and pickaninnies have a healing power. But others claim all they do is hurt.

  • Culture

    March 20, 1997

    Light and Darkness

    Aaron Parazette matures, while Mark Rothko endures

  • News

    March 6, 1997

    Ezekiel's Trust

    River Oaks resident Cecile Burns was obsessed by folk artist Ezekiel Gibbs and promoted herself as his champion. But five years after Gibbs's death, his work is all but forgotten -- thanks mostly to Cecile Burns.

  • Culture

    January 23, 1997

    Picture This

    Lynn Randolph brings a touch of reality to the Medical Center

  • News

    January 9, 1997

    Dealer of the Art

    In his 14 years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Peter Marzio has increased the MFA's endowment tenfold, tripled MFA Membership and gotten it started on a huge new home. He hasn't done badly for himself, either.

  • Culture

    August 22, 1996

    Frank-ly Speaking

    The MFA's focus on Frank Freed tells us a lot about the art world, but not much about art

  • News

    August 8, 1996

    Where the Art Is

    For collectors Bob and Nancy Mollers, there's no place like home

  • Culture

    March 21, 1996

    England's Edge

    "Brilliant!" shows brilliantly what's happening across the Atlantic

  • Culture

    February 22, 1996

    Graphic Ideas

    "Brilliant!" shows brilliantly what's happening across the Atlantic

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