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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Winterhalter, Meet Worth

    May 11, 2016 - (She is also known for a topless duel with a countess, but that’s another story.) Fashionable women all across 19th-century Europe once clamored to pose for Franz X. Princess Metternich wore a Worth gown to a ball given by Empress Eugénie, who was so taken by the design that she subsequently ordered all of her evening looks from Worth.

  7. Jazz Age Nightlife: “Sculpted in Steel” Meets “Deco Nights”

    Apr 28, 2016 - Image © 2008 Peter Harholdt. Fig. 2. I. Miller Shoe Company, for I. Fig. 1, Delahaye, 135M Competition Coupe, 1936. Fig. 2, I. Miller Shoe Company, for I. Image © 2008 Peter Harholdt. Fig. 8.

  8. Latin Wave Celebrates 11 Great Years

    Apr 21, 2016 - Latin Wave, our biggest annual film festival, returns from April 28 to May 1 with 11 new films from Latin America. Every year is a little different: The 2016 selection has a strong theme of young protagonists coming of age. Absence A fun aspect of an annual festival is seeing how guests return and themes recur over the years. Absence is directed by Brazilian filmmaker Chico Teixeira, a guest at our very first Latin Wave in 2006. The teens in Absence, From Afar, I Promise You Anarchy, Ixcanul, and The Second Mother all encounter unique challenges.

  9. Ima Hogg: “Like a Rock Star”

    Apr 19, 2016 - When I got older, she gave me advice on colleges I was considering, and told me how pleased she was when I graduated and wanted to be a teacher. She also loved a dish my grandmother made: a ring of white rice and green onions surrounding chicken breasts in a creamy mushroom sauce. That I liked! A favorite memory is during many Azalea Trails, when I sat in the kitchen and unwrapped endless Werther’s hard candies and put them in a bowl.

  10. Gyula Kosice and the Rise of the Argentinean Avant-Garde

    Apr 4, 2016 - Kosice had a pivotal role in the takeoff of original avant-garde movements in Buenos Aires during the 1940s. The MFAH boasts not only rare documents from this period in Argentina, accessible in the ICAA Digital Archive, but also a number of works by members of the Madí movement, and by key artists directly related to it: Carmelo