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Beautiful Barcelona, a City Like No Other

There aren't many cities in the world that rival the buildings of Barcelona.

01/21/2016 By Bill Wiatrak

Culture

Culture Club: The New Museum District

Where is Houston's new museum district? All over the city.

01/05/2016 By Nick Esquer

Museum News

MFAH Takes On Diversity with Mellon Recruits

The museum announces its latest group of Mellon Foundation curatorial fellows, primed to learn the ins and outs of high art curation.

12/31/2015 By William Geoffrey Wood

Visual Art

Sights and Sounds

Mixed-media artist Jennie C. Jones creates collages through music, paintings and sculptures at CAMH.

12/17/2015 By Jenn Nguyen

All That Jazz

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody

The Roaring Twenties goes on display in all its decadent glory in MFAH's Deco Nights.

12/08/2015 By Nick Esquer

Museums

The MFAH Unveils a New Gift Shop and European-Inspired Café

Form and function combine at the recently renovated gift shop and MFAH Café.

11/13/2015 By Sara Samora

Art

Going Dutch

MFAH features the first monographic collection of artist Joachim Wtewael’s works

10/22/2015 By Andrea Siso

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Aug 21-23

The Third Man Screening at MFAH, FrenetiCore's Integration, kids activities at The Health Museum, comedian Wyatt Cenac and a pop-up poetry slam at OKRA

08/19/2015 By Nick Esquer

Art Openings

A Many Splendor Thing

The MFAH brings on the opulence with selections from the Habsburg dynasty collection.

06/19/2015 By Trey Strange

52 Road Trips

6 Artsy Road Trips

Love art? An embarrassment of cultural riches lies just a tank of gas away.

04/30/2014 By Michael Hardy

Visual Art

The Return of the Mounds!

New exhibition is first to examine Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock's drawings

04/25/2014 By Michael Hardy

Sweet Charity

Kill Two Birds with One Stone IPA at Boheme

Support the Asia Society Texas Center and sample chef Rishi Singh's food at an upcoming happy hour.

04/24/2014 By Katharine Shilcutt

Oddity

Toilet Paper Art and Soap Sculptures at the Texas Prison Museum

Finding beauty amidst the confiscated shivs at one of the state's weirdest museums.

04/17/2014 By Alice Alsup

Visual Art

Menil Launches First-Ever Advertising Campaign

The traditionally low-profile museum partners with local marketing firm ttweak to promote its new Magritte exhibition.

02/21/2014 By Michael Hardy

Architecture

Menil Collection Unveils Drawing Institute Design

Latest addition to Menil campus to be designed by Los Angeles architecture firm Johnston Marklee

02/19/2014 By Michael Hardy

Exhibition

Seeing Food in a New Way

New Houston Center for Photography exhibition explores the photographic possibilities of what we eat.

12/16/2013 By Nick Panzarella

Nighttime Noshing

A Taste of Southeast Asia at Upcoming Night Market

Asia Society's one-night-only night market brings the flavors of Southeast Asia to the Museum District on November 7

10/29/2013 By Katharine Shilcutt

Day Trips

Blues And Boudain, Shrimp Gumbo And Country Rap

Food for your body, mind, and soul in Port Arthur. Yeah, Port Arthur.

04/19/2013 By John Lomax