And Now, an Increasingly Abstract View of What It’s Like To Work at the...
Alberto Sosa’s latest animated video interview of a starting-level employee in the Houston art world features visitor services and volunteer coordinator Yma Luis — and thousands of drawings....
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How the 24-Sided Kinder Building’s Roof Swoops Will Fit In with the MFAH’s...
Construction started yesterday on the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, going up in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s former parking lot north of Bissonnet St. at Main. That’s the curvy-roofed structure...
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You Won’t Have the Menil Collection To Kick Around for Most of Next Year
Are you one of those architecturally sensitive types who has long suspected that the worn, squishy pine floorboards of Renzo Piano’s Menil Collection building were meant to serve as some sort of...
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Construction on the MFAH’s New Glassell School Is Ramping Up
From the skies above Montrose Blvd. just north of Bissonnet, here’s a view from late last week of progress on the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s new Glassell School of Art. The new building, designed...
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Gunnar Birkerts, 1925-2017
Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts, designer of the stainless-steel-clad Contemporary Arts Museum that’s stood at the northwest corner of Montrose Blvd. and Bissonnet St. since 1972, passed away...
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The Menil Drawing Institute: 6 More Months
What’s been going on at the Menil Drawing Institute’s new building since its opening — originally scheduled for last October — was postponed over the summer? A lot of sensing and measuring: “It’s...
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How Much Progress Has Been Made on Holocaust Museum Houston’s New Flat-Topped...
Photos from the 13th floor of the office tower at 1200 Binz St. look northeast to show the state of things at Holocaust Museum Houston’s construction site off Caroline St. Peeking out behind the...
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Houston Maritime Museum Sets Sail for Canal St.
Museum movers are now lugging cargo out of 2204 Dorrington St. as part of the Houston Maritime Museum‘s move to the Second Ward, where it’ll remain landlocked. Two years ago, the museum announced...
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Comment of the Day: Former Ink Spots Museum Faces the Music
“The building on E. 20th was for years the The Original Huey ‘Ink Spot’ Long Living History Music Museum. Very cool for neighbors, visitors, and especially Hamilton Middle School students to be able...
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An Opening-Night Brawl at CAM Started with a Few Loaves of Bread
One highlight of Pete Gershon’s new book about Houston’s ’70s and ’80s art scene is his description of the all-out melee that erupted in the Contemporary Arts Museum’s upper gallery at the opening...
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League City’s Longhorn Cattle Museum Reopens
All bovine exhibits at the house-turned-museum-and-events-venue at 1220 Coryell St. are now back on view following months of renovations to address flood damage, reports the Chronicle’s Jennifer...
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Weekend Crowdsourcing Event Yields Holocaust Museum Houston New Old Artifacts...
Note: This story previously stated that the museum had accepted artifacts as donations over the weekend. While the museum has agreed to consider certain items further as donations, it has not...
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