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  1. The Story of Azaleas at Bayou Bend

    Aug 29, 2016 - After three days, I found the varieties Audrey Marie, Duc de Rohan, L. C. Fisher, and Mme.\ Dominique. Photo by Rick Gardner in memory of Mary Gardner I notice your list does not include azaleas, which I think of as a traditional Southern flower. Many are no longer available from retail nurseries, so I had search for examples in private and public gardens. Quite a detective hunt! Give me a few examples of the harder azaleas to find.

  2. MFAH Films Keeps the Light Alive

    Aug 2, 2016 - It’s about delivering a quality experience, whether it’s making a product, building a car, or showing a film. We’re lucky to be at a place like the MFAH that still feels 35mm reel-to-reel is relevant and important, aren’t we? Yes, definitely. On the one hand I feel sad because I’m a dinosaur, a rare breed. I don’t much care for the digital world. There are cool aspects about it, of course: A lot of things are easier, faster, and cheaper, although I really don’t like that focus. It’s less human.

  3. Invisible Forces: Mounting with Magnets

    Jul 28, 2016 - A wallpaper section from Ima Hogg’s personal collection, this work of art shows a view of Istanbul from the Bosphorus Bay. Once the template was completed, we attached a beveled mat—segmented to match the edge strips—to the top of the embedded magnet strips. That helped conceal the magnets and give the appearance of a typical mat. We made a template of the strips at the edges, indicating the locations of the magnets and the edges of the artwork.

  4. Roots, Roasting, and Robust Coffee

    Jul 7, 2016 - Guests are invited to personalize their coffee or try one of the café’s special offerings, such as a honey-pepper espresso shot or a Nutella latte. A fresh bag of Attibassi coffee beans. Employees in the MFA Café undergo coffee training in order to ensure visitors always get a five-star beverage. It’s not a who—it’s a legendary brand of espresso machines created in Italy, and one of these shiny, shimmering devices lives behind the counter at the MFA Café.

  5. The Art of Kusama Returns to Houston

    Jul 3, 2016 - Her work is being celebrated in cities worldwide: a retrospective exhibition touring Scandinavia, a solo show this summer at her London gallery Victoria Miro, and a retrospective next year at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington Some Houstonians may remember that Kusama’s work graced Rice Art Gallery’s space in 1997, transforming it into a hypnotic space full of monumental, soft sculptures in yellow, covered with hundreds of her trademark black polka

  6. A “Mad Career” to Preserve and Share America’s Past at Bayou Bend

    Jun 30, 2016 - We lived in the governor’s mansion when I was still a small child, and I knew the thrill of sleeping in Sam Houston’s great four-post bed. So maybe I could blame him, too, for my proclivities. Here are some highlights of a talk she gave in 1963 to the River Oaks Garden Club, less than three years before Bayou Bend would open as a public museum: I don’t know who or what to blame for my antique collecting. . . . And thereupon I conceived the idea of forming a collection of early American furniture, which even then we intended to give eventually to some Texas museum.

  7. The Glassell School of Art Mural Project: It’s Personal

    Jun 23, 2016 - Thirty-two students from the A+ Unlimited Potential (A+UP) middle school recently took on the challenge of a colorful, larger-than-life collaboration: a mural for the Museum’s Cullen Sculpture Garden. “You can still see the distinctive, individual person in each panel; each student put a little bit of themselves in it,” he said. The unity and personality accurately reflect the A+UP program. You can see it in the exhibition A+rt Journeys in the Kinder Foundation Education Center Gallery.

  8. Following the Road to “Aferim!”

    Jun 1, 2016 - I really made an effort; I even went to the sales agent to beg for one! I was excited to see that it was programmed at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York a few months later, so I finally got to see it. I first heard of Aferim! when it had its world premiere at the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) last year, but I was unable to get a ticket. comes to the MFAH via Big World Pictures, a small distribution company. I talked with Big World’s founder, Jonathan Howell, about this road movie, which we’re thrilled to screen on two Sundays, June 5 and 12.

  9. Meet the Chef: Marlies Wasterval

    May 26, 2016 - When I was growing up, my dad lived just down the street from where I work now—so when we came to his house, we spent a lot of time in museums, including the MFAH. I find a lot of comfort in this little corner of town. I personally am not a brunch eater, but I love to serve it! What’s your favorite part about working at an art museum? I think the most appealing change is having running specials. The regular menu is great, but it’s also a lot of fun for me—and the customers too, I think—to try something new every week. Also, I love the brunch.

  10. Making a Dream a Reality at Bayou Bend

    May 20, 2016 - On May 9, 2008, hundreds of people gathered on a warm, sunny morning under a huge white tent on an empty expanse of land at the corner of Memorial Drive and Westcott Street in Houston. The occasion? In 1973, at a ceremony for the placing of a Texas Historical Commission marker at Bayou Bend, Miss Hogg focused less on the past and more on the future, asking those present to “dream along with” her toward the erection of a much-needed building on the corner to provide new amenities: a lecture hall, exhibition areas, larger staff offices, a library, and additional storage space.