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The Cost of Turnover, or how museums could pay more and spend less
By Claire Ruud on June 27, 2012
There’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of the Blanton Museum of Art after Rifkin had spent only two years in the post. Five months later, Maxwell Anderson became the new Director of [...]
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Barry Walker, Former MFAH Curator of Prints and Drawings, has Died
By Bill Davenport on April 18, 2012
Barry Walker, former curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston died earlier this week after an accident. Hired by legendary Director Peter Marzio in 1991 to launch the MFAH’s department of prints and drawings, Walker retired in 2011 after Marzio’s death to pursue [...]
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MFAH Buys Big Yellow Stella Painting, Different From Menil’s Big Yellow De Maria Painting.
By Bill Davenport on September 25, 2011
Big yellow minimalism is in- The Museum of Fine Arts has announced the acquisition of Frank Stella’s Palmito Ranch (1961), which they got at a discount from the artist, who gave them a break in honor of the MFAH’s late director Peter Marzio. “Peter Marzio was everything you would want from the director of a [...]
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Suburban art sprawl: Marilyn Hillery Wall Dedicated at Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
By Bill Davenport on September 12, 2011
The community art wing at the suburban Houston Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts has been renamed the Marilyn Morgan Hillery Community Gallery, in honor of the 73-year old artist’s contributions as a founding board member and donor. The gallery displayed Hillery’s art for it’s inaugural show, from July 29-August 7. The Pearl Fincher Museum, [...]
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The Houston Fine Art Fair and The Texas Contemporary Fair: Twice the fairs equals twice the drama
By Kelly Klaasmeyer on June 27, 2011
So you may have heard, Houston is getting an art fair. Um, actually two art fairs. There has been a ridiculous amount of controversy surrounding these fairs, a classic tempest in a teapot involving leaked email, competing fair organizers and collectors and galleries picking teams and various board members from the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, [...]
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Marzio’s million-dollar chair
By Bill Davenport on April 10, 2011
Yesterday Rebecca Cohen rounded up a half dozen Texas art mavens’ sound bites on who should succeed Peter Marzio as Director of Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts for the NY Times’ Texas page. 25% diffuse speculation (no names were mentioned) and 75% eulogy abour Marzio’s irreplaceablness, the piece adds little information to the already anxious [...]
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