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  1. Hang with “Sculpted in Steel” in an Afternoon for Teens!

    Feb 15, 2016 - We are part of a dedicated group of teens who gather every Friday at the Museum as a part of Houston Art New Generation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (hang@MFAH)—not only to share ideas about art, but to develop projects As a group, we are interested in both analysis and creation, mixing traditional concepts with new perspectives. Excitement is revving over the April event, which includes sketching, tours, making mousetrap cars, poetry readings, and a film screening.

  2. Capturing “Inverted Worlds”: A Talk with Vera Lutter

    Feb 8, 2016 - I went to the lowest elevation, where it was most likely to flood, and a friend helped me find a room with a good view. There are a lot of factors going in to the decision where I set up my camera. I think later on when I started photographing, I subconsciously thought of that. The monumentality, the technology, and the sort of inhumane aspect, they drive me. I haven’t seen that here, but that would probably be the area I’d go. I grew up in an industrial center near Dusseldorf, Germany, which was a center of steel and coal mining.

  3. Happy Anniversary! ICAA’s Documents Project Website Celebrates Four Years

    Jan 11, 2016 - Every one of the 7,000 (and counting) primary texts now available on our site reflects a fundamental spirit of camaraderie and a commitment to a team-based approach that, together, define the core values of the ICAA’s Documents The portal has had a transformational impact on the field of Latin American and Latino visual culture, becoming the principal source for research materials from this emergent field. Rico,  and Venezuela, submitted by an extensive network of scholars that includes Carmen María Jaramillo and her team at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá; Ana Maria Belluzzo and researchers from FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à

  4. Rothko in Reproduction: Dan Fischer’s Graphite Homage

    Dec 15, 2015 - A photomural based on a photograph most likely taken by Regina Bogat—which shows Mark Rothko standing in front of his 1960 painting No. 7—greets visitors to the exhibition Mark Rothko: A Retrospective. Fischer explained to the Guardian: “I can’t really say how one image jumps out and chooses me, or I it—it just happens. I can say that I only draw artists or artworks that have inspired or moved me.” Using a technique he calls “Xerox Realism,” Fischer photocopied the reproduction and overlaid it with a 1/8-inch grid, similar to the method Chuck Close uses to create large-scale, photorealist portraits.

  5. Keeping Watch over Their Flocks: Joachim Wtewael’s Shepherds

    Dec 9, 2015 - Wtewael, A Shepherdess and A Shepherd, 1623, oil on panel, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Melvin R. Joachim Wtewael’s shepherds, clean and idealized, carry the accoutrements of the pastoral life: a water-filled gourd, bagpipes, floppy hats, and a staff with a cupped end for tossing rocks to help herd the sheep. And there are mythological shepherds, too: In one painting, a shepherd from Apulia, Italy, comes across a group of dancing nymphs in the woods—a not uncommon occurrence back in the day, one might imagine.

  6. How to Make an Artist’s Manifesto: Recipe for Revolution

    Dec 2, 2015 - How to make an artist’s manifesto As Futurist leader F. T. In his pithy style, Tzara wrote that “to proclaim a manifesto you have to want: A.B.C., thunder against 1, 2, 3, lose your patience and sharpen your wings to conquer and spread little ABCs and big ABCs . . .” Step 3 Antagonize a group and pit “us” against “them” in an aggressive call for action.

  7. “In Nature, every bit of life is lovely”: Roman Vishniac’s Photomicroscopy

    Nov 18, 2015 - A Lifelong Passion Vishniac’s interest in the natural world began at an early age. When he turned 7, his birthday gifts were a camera and a microscope: tools he would use together for the rest of his life.  Although it might come as a surprise to those who know Roman Vishniac as an important documentary photographer, he is every bit as famous a pioneer in an entirely different field: scientific photography. Documenting Science & Society After immigrating to the United States in 1940, Vishniac worked to establish himself as a freelancer in the scientific community while making his living as a portrait photographer. 

  8. Three Questions for Christopher Rothko

    Nov 4, 2015 - The exhibition Mark Rothko: A Retrospective brought to Houston—its only U.S. venue—a visit from a top Rothko scholar who also happens to be the artist’s son. This group of works has a closer connection to my father. 2. Does Houston offer a special context for your father’s work? I think of Houston as maybe the central Rothko city. To have a relationship with Rothko is necessarily to have a personal relationship.

  9. Rediscovered: Roman Vishniac’s Social Documentary Practice

    Oct 14, 2015 - Most of Vishniac’s published photographs were carefully selected to convey a particular message to elicit a particular response. If at times Vishniac crafted a particular story for an image, he did so in order to use photography to protect a people and their legacy. This broader scope reveals a markedly modern world with a vibrant lifestyle in which secular and religious, urban and rural, and wealthy and poor mingled freely.

  10. What is Abstract Expressionism?

    Sep 30, 2015 - At the same time, Pollock, a student of Thomas Hart Benton, painted rural landscapes. See the scope of one Abstract Expressionist pioneer’s career in “Mark Rothko: A Retrospective,” on view through January 24. Despite their different styles, the Abstract Expressionists stressed the importance of directness in painting and shared a strong belief in the power of abstraction to convey timeless meaning.