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  1. Snail Mail: A Conversation with MFAH Curator Anne Tucker (part 3 of 3)

    May 17, 2012 - Keith Carter would take a rejected 16 x 20 photograph, write a message on the back, fold it twice, put it into an 8½ x 11 envelope and send it. Some people would tear a photograph in two and write a message on half of it. "There was a real kind of energy that was being sent to you, whereas now it’s so easy that it’s a whole different phenomenon." 'Go to this site and see these pictures' is not the same as, 'I thought you would like this picture.' It’s a different interaction.

  2. A Mother's Day Tour

    May 8, 2012 - The motif's appeal still rings true today, as it captures a moment of unparalleled significance in the cycle of life. Click here to download a handy self-guided tour. Since ancient times, the image of mother and child has appeared in art around the world.

  3. “Eye on Third Ward” Photographers Share Stories and Inspirations

    Apr 30, 2012 - Now, I don’t care what my classmates think because I know I’m smart no matter what I do or what I say. Here, my mother is starting early with preparing my cousin for school. Whatever happened to slowing down and just coasting for a while?     Crystal Davis, Getting Help, 2011, silver gelatin print.   © Crystal Davis   Everyone has a problem asking for help sometimes. Here's a peek at what we're talking about: Christopher Wong, Time to Take a Break from Life’s Ride, 2011, silver gelatin print.

  4. For the Love of Art

    Apr 24, 2012 - Q) How long have you been a docent? Shari Chadderdon: I started training in the fall of 2009. Claudia Zopoaragon: Four years. Q) What made you decide to become a docent? Q) Can you tell us about a unique experience you've had? I have an interest in art and think it is a fun way to share ideas with children. CZ: I've had a passion for art all my life.

  5. The Kodak Snapshot: A Conversation with MFAH Curator Anne Tucker (part 2 of 3)

    Apr 3, 2012 - "When I first came into photography, the first time I saw work by Robert Frank, who is a major artist in our collection, I was stunned to see he had photographed a man I knew in my childhood: an elderly black man positioned by I knew the old man, I had talked to him, I was quite fascinated by him. And I had photographed him myself. My photograph is not Robert Frank’s photograph. In the wake of the Eastman Kodak Co. filing for bankruptcy, I sat down for a chat with Anne Wilkes Tucker, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the MFAH. 

  6. The Kodak Era: A Conversation with MFAH Curator Anne Tucker (part 1 of 3)

    Feb 17, 2012 - When Eastman Kodak Co. filed for bankruptcy in January, the news didn’t just mark a drastic point in a company’s history—it marked the end of an era. Most people went to a studio maybe once or twice in their lives before, for wedding pictures or some special occasion. "Kodak really didn’t have a rival until well into the 20th century. Amateurs no longer needed to know all the technical components of making prints; they didn’t have to have a darkroom.

  7. Sampling History: A Hidden Chapter Revealed

    Feb 16, 2012 - The embroidery that Greenfield Smith stitched around the age of 14 depicts a two-story building, urns of flowers, and a pair of fountains. A couple walks hand-in-hand toward the house, and a child plays with a dog. Bayou Bend has acquired a rare sampler, skillfully stitched by an African American girl born in 1829. Mary J. Bayou Bend’s new acquisition serves as a window to a seldom-seen segment of U.S. history: when young African American girls struggled to find a place for themselves during the tumultuous pre-Civil-War environment.

  8. Stains, Sprays, and Splendor Fill the Canvases of Color Field Painter Jules Olitski

    Feb 15, 2012 - How does it feel looking at a painting vs. standing in a space? Explore More Look at a sunset or moonrise and see how those images are echoed in paintings such as Olitski's With Love and Disregard: Splendor  (image #7 in the slideshow). In the sculpture garden, stop by David Smith’s     Two Circle Sentinel      and compare how a painting and a sculpture can both show gesture, movement, and the play of light and shadow.

  9. New Year Reflections

    Dec 30, 2011 - I feel for a number of reasons that the MFAH is at a critical juncture. One is that e-records created in 1998 should become accessible for public research within the next 3 years. the network.             5. , the Archives does not have a means to provide more than a poor and fractional representation of the MFAH’s full archival record over the past decade.              2.

  10. The Mountain

    Nov 3, 2011 - The MFAH is a private non-profit institution, not a government agency with statutory mandates and record classification systems. The CTO estimated sixty terabytes, mostly unstructured (meaning data residing outside of a database and, as the name implies, not conforming to uniform attributes as in a data table. The first has been to apply existing retention schedules to the museum’s e-records.