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Houston Museum Presents Works By John Alexander

John Alexander: A Retrospective covers a span of thirty years of the artist´s career, and includes approximately one hundred works from the late-1970s to the present. The exhibition will be on view from April 13 to June 22, 2008, at Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston.

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English Silver At Houston Museum

Houston Museum presents Fit for a King: English Silver from the Collection of George S. Heyer, Jr. The exhibition is on view through September 16, 2007 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building.

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Glassell Junior School Of Art Celebrates Talent Of Community Bridge

This fall, the Glassell Junior School of Art presents dual exhibitions highlighting works created by summer-school students and participants in the community bridge program, formerly known as outreach.

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Houston Museum Showcases Career Of Michelangelo Antonioni

In what has become the first posthumous retrospective, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present the complete works of the legendary Italian filmmaker, Michelangelo Antonioni, who died on July 30, 2007 at age 94.

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Bayou Bend Collection Makes Texas Premiere

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens is teaming with Houston´s Opera Vista this fall to stage the Texas premiere of Amy Beach´s Cabildo on the terraced lawn of the elegant residence at 1 Westcott Street off of Memorial Drive. The outdoor performance begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, September 22, 2007 in the Diana Garden, one of several formal gardens on the property.

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Discover Painting By Vincent Van Gogh

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, have discovered a painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) underneath the artist’s painting Ravine, owned by the MFA.

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Houston Museum Presents ‘Houston Wilderness’

Art and ecology meet in a photography exhibition opening this fall at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston Wilderness: A Collaboration presents more than 50 photographs that offer unique interpretations of the diverse eco-regions that encompass and surround Houston.

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’Ornament As Art’ At Houston Museum

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this fall, places contemporary jewelry within a larger framework of twentieth and twenty-first century art.

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Portraits of Exotic Animals At Houston Museum

Oudry´s Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe showcases a set of eleven magnificent, life-sized animal portraits, along with a painting of the son of the series´ former owner, the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Asian Art At Houston Museum

A the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, RED HOT — Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection , is a sweeping overview of the spectacular rise of Asian contemporary art over the past decade. It introduces a series of exhibitions and gallery installations that the museum is devoting to Asian art over the next several years and provides Houston with its first major look at contemporary art from the region.

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Boston Museum Presents Weber Collection

Boston Museum Of Fine Arts exhibition features the private collection of Dr. John C. Weber of New York, who has acquired one of the finest holdings of Japanese art outside of Japan.

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Boston Museum Presents Contemporary Craft

This exhibition, which features the collection of Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick, is one of the most wide-ranging assemblages of contemporary craft in the United States, and includes 120 objects by 107 artists hailing from 20 countries.

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