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PaperCity contributing writer Ericka Schiche is contemplating Valentine’s Day and gifts that go beyond the expected flowers, candy and teddy bears. As an added bonus, your love shopping may just support a few of Houston’s most important mus…
Read MoreFrom a new exhibition focusing on Impressionism to contemporary and sculptural works, these are the three must-see art museum exhibits to catch in Dallas this winter and spring. Who’s afraid of cartoony figuration? Dallas Contemporary April 3 thr…
Read MoreHouston-based painter Evan Pardue made an art pilgrimage to Paris to see the work of two iconic artists, both painters, separated by a century. Pardue details a pair of exhibitions that are worthy of a trip across the pond just to see on their own. …
Read MoreLight, color, canvas: PaperCity queries Kimbell Art Museum deputy director George Shackelford in the final weeks of his curatorial triumph — the museum’s blockbuster exhibitions “Bonnard’s Worlds.” Lauded as one of fall’s 12 must-see museum shows…
Read MoreTwo photographers, unknown to each other, traveled across the United States searching for myth-challenging realities at the mid-century. Both lensmen received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Each photographer’s objective was the same: to docu…
Read MoreFort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum of American Art (The Carter) has hired Michaela Haffner as the museum’s assistant curator of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. Haffner, who is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art at Yale Univers…
Read MoreUpon arrival at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science on Saturday, November 11, 2023, I asked, “This is my first time at Night at the Museum. What’s the move?” Without missing a beat, a smiling docent readily replied, “Hit the T. rex first, and then g…
Read MoreDetroit-based artist Johnny Floyd constructs an aesthetically fascinating parallel universe in which Greek mythological figures are unapologetically Black. Inspired by Sun Ra’s afrofuturist spiritual jazz, unsung sports icons, and outer space, th…
Read MoreThis just in. Barbara Pollack rang us up. The longtime contributing editor for Artnews with a celebrated byline that includes decades as contributing arts journalist at The New York Times, is sharing news of her latest endeavor: Art at a Time Like This…
Read MoreAn all-star extravaganza of outstanding art spanning four centuries, “Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection” is eliciting broad appeal among visitors attending the new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. So m…
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