Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
During our Zoom call, Catherine MacMahon sits poised inside her studio. It’s bright and filled with all sorts of materials: steel, dye, paper, clay … even rocks. She smiles kindly and laughs a little bit when I thank her for meeting with me. “It’…
Read MoreThis Valentine’s weekend, The Heritage Society is stepping forward to make weddings both memorable and seamless — with Houston’s historic. St. John Church. That’s the special venue for a wedding special hosted from The Heritage Societ…
Read MoreSeventy years ago, Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) came up with his greatest hit for Knoll Furniture while tinkering out of a former garage turned workshop in the hamlet of Bally, eastern Pennsylvania. The diamond chair and eponymous Bertoia collection that …
Read MoreIt’s time to help support the art community in the greater Houston area. There are two worthy art auctions going on right now. One benefits newcomer The Future is Unwritten — Healing Arts Houston, the other longtime stalwart Fresh Arts. Art can b…
Read MoreMore than 100 years after his death, Vincent van Gogh (1853- 1890) continues to enthrall the public, with name recognition and a global following exceeding even Warhol — a renown strangely at odds with the Dutch painter’s challenging road as an artist …
Read MoreEuropean home design destination CASA Houston turned into a white cube when acclaimed and widely collected United Kingdom-based photographer David Yarrow made a personal appearance. The occasion inaugurated CASA Houston’s first exhibition curated…
Read MoreWhen it opened 15 months ago, Houston Botanic Garden signaled the nation’s fourth largest city’s commitment to greenspaces in the decades to come. As such, the 132-acre oasis of biodiversity —which transformed the grounds of the former Glen…
Read MoreWe’ve been obsessed with Patty Carroll’s constructed feminist photographs since acquiring a copy of the artist’s monograph, Anonymous Women, in 2017. Now, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery brings the Chicago-based talent to Dallas. MoMA-collected Carroll…
Read MoreWhat was previously a rite of spring in the calendar of global art fairs — Dallas Art Fair, in our mind, the only non big-box art fair in America co-founded and run by a civic leader — pivoted in 2021 to the fall. (The 2022 edition is back on track for…
Read MoreAmong Round Top’s signature bashes are PaperCity‘s biannual fêtes that mark the finales for each fall and spring’s Antiques Show. This year, with the addition of Round Top Publishers under the magazine’s wings and the signature …
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