Texas Art Travel: Houston
Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit. The Museum of Fine Arts was a long way from becoming one of the largest museums in the United States. And the Contemporary Arts Museum [...]
Cy Twombly dead at 83
America’s first graffiti painter Cy Twombly died in Rome Tuesday at the age of 83. Known for his groundbreaking (or wall breaking) conflation of drawing, painting and writing, he is memorialized in an eponymous pavilion at Houston’s Menil Collection, which has an extensive collection of his works. Oddly enough, his contemporary Donald Judd, also beloved [...]