By Rachel Hooper on March 4, 2012
The saying goes that if you are a curator you educate yourself publicly. In other words, you are constantly in a process of learning and integrating that knowledge into exhibitions and public programs you produce. As a full-time student at Rice University, I have taken my education out of the public sphere for the most [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged A-1 53167, Aníbal López, artur barrio, caroline wallace, College Art Association, Flickr, GAAG, guerrilla art action group, ICAA, Kate Palmer Albers, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, museum of modern art, Penelope Umbrico, Reiko Tomii, The Play |
By Bill Davenport on June 29, 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced plans to digitally archive 10,000 pieces of primary source material on Latin American art and make it available online. The ten year, $50 million project will be directed by the museum’s newish International Center for the Arts of the Americas and the MFAH’s star curator Mari Carmen [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged digital archive latin american art archive, ICAA, latin american art, mari carman ramirez, Mari Carmen Ramírez, mfah, mfah latin american, Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
By Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud on June 8, 2011
Lygia Clark’s “Bicho (Máquina)” is one of many artworks listed on the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s online feature, “100 Highlights of the MFAH”. Framed as “the most significant objects in the MFAH collections”, these artworks are far-ranging in media, time period, style, and geographies. What is most pronounced is the striking contemporary and avant-garde [...]
Posted in Blog, Social Studies | Tagged Aldopho Leirner Collection, Bicho, Brazilian Constructive Art, ICAA, Lygia Clark, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Neo-concret art |