Jenny Staff Johnson

You don’t have to be an art fanatic to recognize the big names in the exhibit “Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art” currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh — they’re all the best of the best. While almost...

Houstonians may be forgiven for assuming that performance/conceptual art duos are commonplace in the art world, spoiled as we are by the creative longevity of our own hometown Art Guys. Doesn’t every city have such a pair? Not so, says Toby Kamps. “These collaborative duos are pretty rare in art,...

True story: Art Attack was supposed to be in Mexico this week, but we forgot to renew our passports. So instead of hitting the beach, we're accepting the best consolation prize the world has ever known, a long weekend in Austin and SXSW. True, we've got three members of the...

Fashion designer Lyn Devon didn't know what she'd find when she came to Houston to participate in our first-ever fashion week last year, at the urging of modeling agency owner Neal Hamil. She anticipated the women might all want "big ball gowns," rejecting her classic American sportswear as too subtle...

To win an AIA Houston 2011 Architecture Design Award, you either have to work in Houston or build here, so a glimpse at the annual awards is a reliable means of taking the temperature of the local architecture scene. We got a look at the freshly published list of winners,...