Remembering Ruth: Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Amon Carter Museum, is Dead at 89
Amon G. Carter was a man of iron will, blunt charm and big ideas. Her father’s daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, inherited his intractibility and vision but thinly cloaked it with her own brand of old-school femininity. Her death on January 6 almost completely severs Fort Worth’s last links with the larger-than-life figures who made it [...]
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Art Patron and Amon Carter Museum Founder, 1923-2013
Ruth Carter Stevenson, Philanthropist and President of the Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, daughter of oilman, newpaper publisher and fierce Ft. Worth booster Amon G. Carter Sr. (1879–1955), died at her home in Ft. Worth on January 6. She was 89. Stevenson was solely responsible for seeing that her [...]
You Can Check it Out Any Time You Like: Hotel Texas Exhibit Re-unites Art From Fateful 1963 Kennedy Visit
In November of 1963, a group of prominent Fort Worth citizens put together a collection of modern art to decorate President John F. Kennedy’s suite at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth in the days just before his assassination. In May 2013, the Dallas Museum of art, in association with the Amon Carter Museum, is [...]
Conrads New Deputy Director of Art and Research at Amon Carter
Margaret C. Conrads, Ph.D., will join the staff of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth in September 2012 as its first Deputy Director of Art and Research; she is currently Senior Curator of American Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. In the reshuffle of the museum staff, current Deputy Director [...]
Madison new Interpretation Manager at Amon Carter
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort worth has hired Jenna Madison as their new Interpretation Manager. She will be in charge of developing programs and materials that will help the Carter’s diverse audiences connect with the art they see, including audio tours, wall text, etc. Madison has eight years of experience as a museum educator [...]
Texas’ Slice of the NEA Pie , 2012
Along with symphonies, dance companies, and theater groups, visual arts projects in Texas got a share of the 863 National Endowment for the Arts Grants in various categories announced last week: In Houston, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston received $21,000 for the group exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, organized by CAMH Senior [...]
Your Ultimate Holiday Shopping Guide: TX Museum Gift Shop Edition
Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique and affordable gifts (for yourself and others) to be found. We’ve rounded up some of the best of them this year. For more shopping delight, be sure to check our [...]
Amon Carter spruces up website in advance of 50 Fest; smiling buffalo unearthed
Check out the new Amon Carter website: in addition to the usual exhibitions currently on view, the museum shop link, the event notices, and workshop sign-ups, there is a searchable database of the ever-growing digitized part of the Carter’s collections, including this very odd SMILING BUFFALO, all in a clean, easy-to-navigate package!
Texas Art Travel: Fort Worth
If great cities are measured by their cultural institutions, Fort Worth is extraordinary. Its Cultural District is compact, pedestrian-friendly and internationally famous for the five renowned museums lined up right next to each other. Designed by a stellar roster of blue chip architects, including Pritzker Prize winners Philip Johnson and Tadao Ando, each building has [...]
Underwater iceberg tour: Amon Carter’s collection now online!
Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum, always free to the public, just got freer. A $50,000 grant from the NEA in 2009 is bearing fruit in a new online database of 7500 of the Carter’s treasures. Although not nearly as easy to browse as most porn thumbnail sites, the images are infinitely more varied and entertaining: [...]