Houston Museum District Day Saturday: Everyone Doing Everything All At Once!
On Saturday, September 17, Sixteen museums congregated in southern Montrose are collectively celebrating themselves by offering free admission and nonstop free events, films and activities: everything from tai-chi to Czech glassblowing, all happening simultaneously between 10am-5pm. A free shuttle bus service will to help you and yours visit as many as possible!
Art cold war impacts museum shows in Texas
Culturemap‘s Steven Thompson reports on how a Russian embargo on art lending has but a crimp into the exhibition schedules of the Houston’s Museum of Natural Science, which had planned Treasures from the Hermitage: Russia’s Crown Jewels and forced the MFAH to forgo some objects it hoped to include in Gifts of the Sultans: The [...]