"Fragments of Memory", a selection of works from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, explores the ways in which the past imbues present experiences. In their drawings, the featured artists take up commonplace embodiments of personal and collective memory, such as scrapbooks, snapshots, notes, relics, and odes, to reimagine how we might access fraught memories and […]
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo features a site-specific work by New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981). The 36-foot triptych, C A R A A C A R A, 2024, explores the relationship between origin, transfer, and translation, with each panel of the composition indicating a different step in the artist’s process.
"Tacita Dean: Blind Folly" is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking.
‘rest, raze, cullect,’ brings together three bodies of work, interconnected, and interrelated, yet each inspired by a particular infrastructural situ. Transplanting them together here showcases material shifts over time and conceptual throughlines. Utility boxes on the corners of streets become cage-like shower stalls and water towers. Water main access pipes stretch upwards like pillars and […]
In a word explores traces of loss through the re-generation of ephemera from her family archive. Through sourced images and text, Jean examines rupture/reconstruction, origin/reproduction, and legibility/illegibility as methods of erasure and revelation. This body of work is a dialogue that evolves despite the lack of a living presence; rather, that presence is found and […]
Project Row Houses (PRH) proudly presents the second iteration of our Southern Survey Biennial in the historic row houses on Holman Street in Third Ward. This survey of recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in “The South” will feature installations in PRH’s historic row houses from Rabeeha Adnan (Richmond, VA), Nic […]
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? is a participatory installation by artist collaborators Alex Strada and Tali Keren. It critically examines the U.S. Constitution and creates space for intervention and political imagination. The artists ask visitors to engage critically with the U.S. Constitution and pose two questions: What […]
Developed over 4 years and across multiple locations in Texas and New York, At the Still Point comprises over 70 sculptural works employing various weave structures. Evolving from an exploration of the canvas – a woven textile - into a study of composition with space, the work contemplates what exists between. At the Still Point will […]
Slide through the mid-week blah’s by grabbing a friend and hitting the ice! Enjoy your favorite Houston-themed music. Houston themed clothing encouraged. Show your Houston love! Buy one admission and get another FREE!
Reflect on how we understand our mental health stories, and how talking about them can be empowering. We are not just our diagnoses. But keeping silent about our mental health identities, particularly when we are in positions of power and visibility, can conspire with mental health stigma and a culture that sees mental illness as […]
Join us as we discuss how misery really might have something to do with generating love and company. We all know that life has its ups and downs. We know that, some of the time, we're going to experience difficulty and unease, while at other times life will feel easy and natural. Unfortunately, this knowledge […]
Bundle up in your festive attire and tie up those walking boots! Join Buffalo Bayou Partnership on a free Tinsel Trek led by Laura Conely, founder of Urban Paths. Anyone and everyone is invited to walk through the paths of Buffalo Bayou Park and explore downtown’s new holiday lights. Whether you prefer a brisk walk […]
