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  1. 4 Questions about “Sontag” for Author Benjamin Moser

    Sep 17, 2019 - On Monday evening, October 7, Benjamin Moser visits the MFAH to present highlights from Sontag: Her Life and Work, his new biography of writer Susan Sontag (1933–2004). A book signing and reception follow. Even now, 15 years after her death, a lot of people still love her, and a lot of people still hate her. Why do you think Sontag seemed troubled by any acknowledgment of her sexuality? Before I started working on this book, I assumed that Susan was gay in the same way I assumed she was Jewish.

  2. Intern Project Uncovers Fun Facts about MFAH Films

    Sep 13, 2019 - What film has been screened the most at the Museum? The Red Balloon (Le Ballon rouge) has played here 18 times between November 6, 1971, and January 6, 2008. When the film program launched to the public on January 3, 1938, the Museum showed six films. With more than 10,000 entries, the database serves as a record of every film the MFAH has ever shown, from 1938 to the present day.

  3. Meet the Designer of the “Black Is Beautiful” Mural

    Sep 6, 2019 - I was a member of the African Jazz Art Society & Studios (AJASS), a cultural organization of artists and photographers founded by Kwame Brathwaite and his brother, Elombe Brath. It is an honor for me and a highlight of my career as an artist to see the “Black Is Beautiful” poster, reproduced as a large mural in this historic fashion photography exhibition. In 1970, I designed the “Black Is Beautiful” poster using Kwame Brathwaite’s photographs of the Grandassa Models to promote these shows.

  4. Teamwork Saves a Great Work of Art for Houston’s Future

    Aug 22, 2019 - It’s a great way of supporting the greater community. You wanted to do a little extra for if you could. When you went to take a look that afternoon, what was the condition of the mural? It was really in a sad state. The entire wall was saturated from a leak in the roof, and the mortar itself was becoming very soft. The funds will further the restoration and preservation of a monumental mural by iconic Houston artist John Biggers.

  5. 3 Questions for Artist Dario Robleto

    Aug 12, 2019 - I am particular in the materials I use because I am counting on the meaning embedded in a material in one state (a vinyl record, a love letter, a fossil, etc.) to be entirely transported into a new physical state (the sculpture Left to right: I Wish I Could Give Aretha All the R.E.S.P.E.C.T. The disjointedness a viewer often feels between holding the idea of what the original material was (in these examples, vinyl records that were melted) and what it has now turned into (a series of trophies) is an exciting moment

  6. New Film from Mexico Explores the World of “The Chambermaid”

    Aug 5, 2019 - The Chambermaid (La camarista) is a film about Eve (Gabriela Cartol), a young mother who cleans rooms in a luxury hotel in Mexico City. The young woman hopes for two things. One, she works on the 21st floor and learns of an opening for a better position on the 42nd floor. Two, a guest leaves a red dress—and the hotel gives lost-and-found items to its employees if no one claims them. My hope is that this film will help people think outside of the box. The Chambermaid (La camarista) screens on Saturday, August 17, at 7 p.m. & Sunday, August 18, at 5 p.m. Watch the trailer & get your tickets.

  7. Calling All Book Lovers: Contribute to the MFAH Little Free Library

    Jul 29, 2019 - A few months ago, a little metal structure appeared outside of the café at the Glassell School of Art: the Museum’s new Little Free Library. For a more private space, gallery 205 is a cozy nook, surrounded by Impressionist paintings. More Options for Book Lovers The Museum offers a number of other resources for book lovers. Conveniently, the Museum is a great place to read, and you’ll find excellent places to curl up with a book from the Little Free Library throughout the campus.

  8. Striking Different Notes: Two Magnificent Still Lifes from the MFAH Collections

    Jul 21, 2019 - Gorgeous objects and musical instruments lie strewn on a vividly hued carpet, but Munari’s use of brighter colors with more contrast results in a livelier tone than seen in the Bettera painting, alluding to a dissimilar theme. Their identically titled Still Life with Musical Instruments both depict a seemingly haphazard arrangement of musical instruments and attractive objects painted in a refined, realistic manner. In a note of additional gravity, a solo apple perches on a lute, solemnly conjuring a reminder of original sin.

  9. Visiting Musicians

    Jul 20, 2019 - Still singing, they pop open a bottle of champagne and parade out of the house and down a hill, like a merry band of troubadours entering a Hudson River School tableau. The hour-long work comprises nine life-size projections, each featuring a different musician who inhabits a separate room or the grounds of the 200-year-old Rokeby mansion in Hudson River Valley, New York. Each romantically distressed room is lovingly lit and opulently furnished in a style evocative of a John Singer Sargent painting, including the bathroom where Kjartansson appears, playing his guitar in a claw-foot tub.

  10. Symphonies of Color

    Jul 19, 2019 - In 1913, Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, two American expatriate artists living in Paris, introduced a new mode of abstraction they called Synchromism. Color as Rhythm In Synchromy (below), Russell arranged brilliant, subtly modulated colors and varying shapes in an almost concentric pattern to achieve color rhythms that activate the composition, injecting a virtual pulse or principle within an abstract composition—with the goal of producing a visceral, nonverbal, or even spiritual response that transcended the physical.