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Houston museums struggle to reopen after Hurricane Beryl

HCCC appears to have been hit the hardest. Leila Cartier, the museum's director, said the organization's flood insurance claim for Beryl was denied. This comes after the museum lost power and was closed for a handful of days due to the May derecho, and due to a subsequent summer thunderstorm that blew out power a week later. "I would even say sometimes on a sunny day, our transformer would blow," Cartier said. "You'd be in the building and the transformer would just explode. And that was it. We'...

How a Houston ex-cult member processed his trauma—with balloon art

The project, titled "Out Of The Strong, Something Sweet," is the work of Houston's DJ Morrow. The show delves into Morrow's experiences growing up in The Family International cult, formerly known as The Children of God. Morrow knows balloons seem like an odd medium for such an exhibit. But his background as a balloon twister actually stems from his childhood in the cult, which was founded by his great-grandfather David Berg in the 1960s.

The project, titled "Out Of The Strong, Something Sweet,"...

Meow Wolf's Houston location will have 'interdimensional' bar inside

Immersive art experience Meow Wolf Houston has yet to announce the theme for its new Houston location, opening later this year, but we now know a little more about one aspect of the installation.

Immersive art experience Meow Wolf Houston has yet to announce the theme for its new Houston location, opening later this year, but we now know a little more about one aspect of the installation.

Meow Wolf Houston will include a "surreal dive bar in the afterlife" called Cowboix Hevvven, which will se...

Houston origami master will attempt to break world record

A longtime origami master will be attempting to build a 6-foot-tall paper dragon in Houston this weekend, in an attempt to break a world record. The attempt will also be part of the city's first Houston International Origami and Arts Festival (HIOAF), taking place Aug. 3–4 at PlazAmericas in Bellaire.

A longtime origami master will be attempting to build a 6-foot-tall paper dragon in Houston this weekend, in an attempt to break a world record. The attempt will also be part of the city's first H...

Queer teens come from 90 minutes away for this Houston experience

In a time where queer teenagers are under attack—from school boards threatening to out them to doctors leaking their medical records—the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston hopes to create a safe space where kids can imagine a better future.

In a time where queer teenagers are under attack—from school boards threatening to out them to doctors leaking their medical records—the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston hopes to create a safe space where kids can imagine a better future.

The CAMH will...

'CenterPointle$$': Graffiti captures Houston's anger over Beryl outages

The mural, which is under I-10 West between Taylor and Studewood streets, reads, simply, "Centerpointle$$." Though Chron hasn't yet confirmed who painted the tag, above it are two names, including Rowdy, the city's prolific tagger and street artist.

The mural, which is under I-10 West between Taylor and Studewood streets, reads, simply, "Centerpointle$$." Though Chron hasn't yet confirmed who painted the tag, above it are two names, including Rowdy, the city's prolific tagger and street artist....

History becomes paper sculptures for artist's photography exhibition

In Plato's allegory of the cave, a person stands inside a cavern with a fire at their back, watching the shadows formed by the fire on the wall. The person believes the shadows are their reality, not realizing that there are objects behind them casting those shadows.

A short video at the entrance to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's new exhibit Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History highlights this concept. In the animated video, a small cluster of party balloons weighed down by a chip clip drag

New Houston mural honors Texas' 'Grandmother of Juneteenth'

To celebrate the holiday, artist James E! Walker has transformed the iconic "Midtown" sign, inside Bagby Park at 415 Gray St. into a mural steeped with meaning and symbolism. The work, titled "Dear Grandma," is a reference to Lee's nickname: the Grandmother of Juneteenth.

Lee was born in Marshall, Texas, and grew up in Fort Worth. In 1939, when she was 12, her family bought a house in a predominantly white neighborhood in Fort Worth's historic Southside district. Shortly after the purchase, ami

Artists focus on body's connection to land in Houston exhibit

On a small table in the Moody Center for the Arts' Brown Foundation Gallery, a series of colorful crystal hands hold stones. The hands belong to artist Kelly Akashi. She's made different casts of her body over the years — legs, torso, hands — which show the process of aging. The hands also show generational trauma. Several of the glass hands are wearing bits of jewelry: a bracelet here, a gold cocktail ring there. In the palm of each hand are stones and pebbles. The jewelry belonged to her grand

POST Houston's new art installation will blow your mind

Art Club, the new 40,000-square-foot exhibition space that opens June 1, is meant to combine elements of both an art gallery and a nightclub. The venue, located in POST's X Atrium, builds off the sound and light shows integral to the 2017 music festival Day For Night, which took place in the same building when it was known as the Barbara Jordan Post Office. "Art Club aims to arouse the imagination of visitors and prompt discussion about technology’s mediation of our everyday lived experience," a

Where to celebrate Pride in Houston all month long

This year for the first time ever, Houston will celebrate Pride with two parades—one from the newly-formed group New Faces of Pride on June 22, and one from long-standing group Pride Houston 365 on June 29. The dual pride celebrations come after a handful of years in which the city's pride festival was scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, excessive Houston heat, and financial issues.

But Pride is about more than just parades. From family-friendly events to fundraisers, pool parties to choi

Every Houston museum you can explore this summer

First founded in 1909, HMNS is one of the most popular science museums in the country. In addition to temporary exhibits that run the gamut from mummies to sharks, HMNS also includes a permanent exhibit on paleontology, a planetarium, a butterfly and tropical plant enclosure, and the Hall of Gems, plus cool science-y displays including a pendulum that demonstrates Earth's rotation, exhibits on Texas wildlife, and a sundial. The museum draws 1.5 million visitors a year, which means it can sometim

Custom jeweler for Lady Gaga, Beyoncé debuts exhibition

Artist Georgina Treviño has made custom jewelry for celebrities including Lady Gaga, Doja Cat and Beyoncé, and her work has graced the pages of Rolling Stone and W Magazine. But she's never had a solo exhibition—that is until May 25, when her show La Fuente del Deseo (The Fountain of Desire) opens at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

Treviño, who was born in San Diego and raised in Tijuana, studied jewelry and metalsmithing at San Diego State University, graduating in 2014 and starting

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveils renovated Korea Gallery

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Korea Gallery, the first gallery dedicated to Korean art in the southern United States, will reopen on May 16 after a renovation and newly configured installation.

The gallery, part of the museum's Arts of Asia collection, includes several new acquisitions and loans that have been added to the museum since the gallery first debuted in 2007. The works span several centuries, with a heavy focus on the 500-year-long Joseon Dynasty, a transformative period in Kore

Meow Wolf Houston announces more artists for upcoming space

Ten more Texas artists have been announced as collaborators for Meow Wolf, the psychedelic immersive art experience set to open a Bayou City location later this year.

The 10 newly-announced artists will join Meow Wolf Houston's Art Team Task Force (ATTF), which will work with the company's Artist Development and Production team to apply the "frosting" to Meow Wolf Houston before it opens.

According to Meow Wolf's website, "the Frosting layer is one of the last phases of the install timeline in

Hundreds built Houston art installation just for it to be burned

The Houston Temple, the non-denominational structure built by Petaluma, California-based artist David Best to The , is now open for visitation every Thursday night at Orange Show headquarters.

Beginning this evening, the wooden temple will be open from 6–9 p.m. every Thursday through Oct. 31. Visitors are welcome to write messages or memories on one of the temple's wooden planks, or simply sit in contemplation or remembrance. The temple will be burned in a public ceremony on Nov. 9.

Best, who

Trippy spa from Meow Wolf co-founder is headed to Texas

Called Submersive, the project promises to be "a spa that takes you beyond relaxation into elevated states of consciousness." The 25,000-square-foot, $15 million project is set to open in 2026. An exact location for the retreat has yet to be announced.

The project is the brainchild of Corvas Brinkerhoff, who in 2008 helped cofound the psychedelic art space Meow Wolf in Santa Fe. Meow Wolf now has four locations in the United States, including an outpost in Grapevine, Texas, that opened in 2023.

Houston's Menil Collection lets abstract art take center stage

In the first room of the new Menil Collection exhibit "Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions," a sculpture from recently deceased artist Richard Serra hangs on the wall. The work is made from thick rubber industrial belts, dark brown and floppy, but structured at the same time. Triangle Belt Piece, made in 1967, is a direct response to the dripping, gravity-influenced works abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock was making a decade before. At the same time, the lines and flow

One of 2024's most anticipated art shows opens in Houston

The first thing you notice walking into the downstairs gallery at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a blanket-covered couch positioned in front of a large screen. The room is dark, and the other furniture—a dining table and chairs, a yellowing lamp—give the impression of cast-offs. It feels like walking into a basement den, or perhaps a converted garage.

That's fitting because American artist Olivia Erlanger's previous work has dealt with the mythology of the garage—everything from Frank

Houston's Rothko Chapel is undergoing a big expansion

It was ironic that Wednesday's groundbreaking ceremony for Phase II of the Rothko Chapel's renovations was somewhat interrupted by background noise—mowers and leaf blowers manned by landscapers in the distance. That's because the second phase of the chapel's revamp will include extensive work on a park-like space extending the Rothko's calm, meditative atmosphere to the surrounding grounds.

The chapel, which opened in 1971 on the campus of the Menil Collection, was commissioned by museum founde

Houston's Museum of Fine Arts celebrating its 100th anniversary

The oldest art museum in Texas, the MFAH opened on April 12, 1924, with just one structure, the neoclassical Caroline Wiess Law building at Montrose Boulevard and Bissonnet Street. The original museum entrance faced south, overlooking Hermann Park and the Miller Outdoor Theater, which celebrated its centennial last year.

Over the years, the original building was expanded with new wings and galleries, and the museum's campus also grew, with the eastern structure, the Audrey Jones Beck Building,

Sculptor builds 35-foot temple to honor Houston's art community

The encounter with Scranton highlights one of the reasons Best is in town. Though Best, who is in his late 70s, lives in California, he has close ties to the Houston art car community. He's in town for the next several days as the Orange Show's 2024 artist in residence.

Best is well known internationally for his towering, intricate, non-denominational wooden temples, which are built as places of mourning, release and reflection, and then burned to the ground. He's closely associated with the Bu

Two artists are turning Houston's Sabine Street footbridge pink

Though Buffalo Bayou Park has undergone numerous improvements over the past decade, including the installation of new pedestrian bridges spanning the bayou near Montrose Boulevard and Shepherd Drive, the Sabine Street Bridge predates them all. As a result, it has a sort of neglected, utilitarian air. Whereas the Rosemont Bridge, just east of Montrose, includes decorative ironwork railings and a unique Y-shaped design, the Sabine bridge consists of ugly stairs, patchwork concrete, and generic met

In Houston’s Botanic Garden, Zimbabwean art is born in real time

At the Houston Botanic Garden Friday morning, artist Passmore Mupindiko was putting the finishing touches on a stone sculpture, a hummingbird perched atop the leaves of what looks like a bromeliad. A visitor to the garden earlier in the week saw Mupindiko's unfinished sculpture and already put a claim on it. That customer is coming to pick up the sculpture later on Friday, and so Mupindiko, working under a pop-up tent just inside the gardens' entrance, is trying to finish it in time.

"It needs
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