Traveling with Sargent
John Singer Sargent. Exhibition explores different aspect of artist known for glamorous portraits.
Author Archives: artstudio
Fresh Perspective: Braque Retrospecitve
Braque retrospective highlights importance of modern French master.
Perversion or Perfection
Artistic pursuit of ‘perfect form’ is difficult path.
The world looks fondly at the sculpture of Michelangelo’s “David,” a symbol of perfection and strength.
Cultural Threads
Stark Museum hosts overview of Navajo weaving traditions.
When The Stark Museum of Art in Orange decided to institute a new textile storage system, it was the job of Terri Fox, collections and exhibition manager, to re-visit the museum’s collection of Navajo weavings.
The Man in the Bowler Hat
Menil Collection hosts Magritte retrospective.
“Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938” is on view at the Menil Collection, located at 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, through June 1.
‘Acquae Obscurae’
Art show, party explores mythological Neches River critters // March 1 – 29, 2014
In 1894, Sir Randolph Foxton-Twickenbush, the great British adventurer, steered the steamship “Good Queen Bess” into the mouth of the mighty Neches River in search of the broad-mouthed squintabass, a creature so huge and so fearsome that no one who had encountered it had survived to tell the tale.
The Beaumont Art League will present a pair of exhibitions beginning Feb. 1.
The Scurlock Gallery will host “Sharing Colors,” a group show featuring the work of local artists Marty Arredondo, Sheila Busceme and Faye Nelson.
Talking music, culture Reporter, radio host promotes ‘Local Scene’
“Beaumont needs a little more weird.”
Looking around Beaumont lately, anyone can see that the city is changing and one person thinks Beaumont could change a little more.
Impressionists are Coming!
‘The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’ at MFAH
Houston Museum of Natural Science: More than Grafitti
Houston Museum of Natural Science explores spiritual roots of prehistoric art. “It’s often said, ‘It’s because they became homo sapiens sapiens that they started to create art,’ but I tend to think…that it is through art that they became humans, and … through their creations, they invented us.” — Jean-Claude Joiree, Philosopher Eighteen thousand years