Posts Tagged ‘Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’
The cool moves to Houston
By Wendy Next stop for the Barkley L. Hendricks train: Houston. The much-loved American artist’s acclaimed retrospective travels for the last time to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where it opens Friday, January 29. It’s hard to believe the journey began almost exactly two years ago at the Nasher Museum, [...]
Barkley L. Hendricks wins CAA award
By Wendy We could never tire of praise for Barkley L. Hendricks. This week, the College Art Association honored Barkley with an Award for Distinguished Body of Work. Congratulations, Barkley! Barkley’s painting retrospective opened here at the Nasher Museum in February 2008. For visitors, his luscious, full-length portraits quickly become [...]
My Weird America
By Wendy For me, Independence Day is a low-key affair. A few sparklers, a hot dog and I’m good. Flag waving makes me slightly queasy. Recently, however, I saw three exhibitions that nudged me toward thinking about my country’s birthday with a more open mind. Shepard Fairey‘s famous portrait of [...]