The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s acclaimed Core program awards residencies to emerging visual artists and art scholars. Overseen by the Core Program’s associate director, Mary Leclère, the Core fellows present an exhibition each spring that showcases work made during that year’s residency. This year’s edition opens Friday, March 16, 2012, with works on view in the Laura Lee Blanton Gallery at the Glassell School of Art through April 20, 2012.
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The first-ever monographic exhibition of Dutch still-life painter Willem van Aelst (1627-1683) premieres at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), March 11–May 28, 2012. Co-organized by the MFAH, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst features 28 of the artist’s finest works culled from private and public collections in the United States and Europe.
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Design Fair 2012: Learn. Shop. Connect. will take place April 25 – 29, 2012. Design Fair 2012 features vintage modern objects of the 20th century, as well examples of cutting-edge contemporary design. A wide selection of carefully curated items will be available for purchase as part of the Design Fair, including furniture, glass, ceramics, lighting, books, metalwork and fashion. Visitors to the Fair will be able to meet the designers and exhibitors for an up-close and personal look at the pace-setting designs of today and the mid-20th century.
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Join the John Cleary Gallery this Saturday, February 18, from 6 – 8 p.m. for the opening of John Chakeres: Structure. The exhibition will run through Saturday, March 17. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), will be supporting the Doodle 4 Google™ 2012 contest by encouraging students in the community to participate and exhibiting the state finalists’ doodles in an exhibition this summer. The annual Doodle 4 Google competition invites students across the United States to submit their own Google doodle—the selected best of which will be displayed on www.google.com. The Google doodle is a custom version of the Google logo displayed on the Google homepage throughout the year in celebration of holidays, anniversaries and the lives of notable artists and scientists.
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The Menil Collection announced that March 4, 2012 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently housed on its campus in the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, after which time they will be returned to the Orthodox Church of Cyprus. In celebration of the frescoes, their time in Houston, and the purpose-built Chapel that has been their home for fifteen years; the Menil will present special public events commemorating the return of this sacred art.
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Cornelia Long, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced today that Steven Holl Architects has been selected to partner with the board and staff of the museum in developing an expansion that enlarges the museum’s presentation of its collections, exhibitions and myriad educational programs.
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On Thursday evening, March 8, 2012, Men of Menil−the black-tie event for gentlemen whose contributions provide funds for the Menil Collection’s general operations and education and outreach programs−will feature a rare import from Japan: a demonstration of the sport and ritual of sumo wrestling.
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The new, permanent Arts of Japan Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will open to the public on Sunday, February 19. The Japan gallery will be the final installation in a suite of permanent Arts of Asia galleries surrounding Cullinan Hall in the Caroline Wiess Law Building, culminating an effort begun in 2007 to expand the presentation of Asian art at the museum.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage. The exhibit opens March 11, 2012, to coincide with FotoFest 2012 Biennial.
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Organized by the Menil Collection, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective is the first-ever critical overview of the artist’s drawings, as well as the first major one-person exhibition organized under the auspices of the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center. The exhibition − which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and now concludes at the Menil Collection − traces the crucial role that drawing has played in Richard Serra’s work for more than 40 years.
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The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) will celebrate the opening of a survey of leading women artists that examines the crucial feminist contribution to the development of deconstructivism in the 1970s and 1980s. The public reception will be this Friday, January 20, 2012, from 7 to 9 p.m. The reception will have a cash bar and modular food truck.
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