Yoshio Taniguchi’s New Asia Society Texas Center: The Full Photo Preview Tour
The Asia Society Texas Center has been providing previews of its new headquarters building in a series of private events, but Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi’s new Museum District landmark isn’t...
View ArticleJohnston Marklee’s Small, Thin Courtyard Building for Drawings at the Menil
L.A. architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee will be the designers of the Menil Collection’s new Drawing Institute building, the organization’s board announced late yesterday. Their firm, Johnston...
View ArticleNew Downtown Tourism Center To Send Tourists to Nearby Tourist Attractions
The regional tourism building planned for the northern of the 2 blocks between Minute Maid Park and the GRB will be called the Nau Center for Texas Cultural Heritage, Mayor Parker announced today....
View ArticleBreaking Up with the Art Guys
Will the newest installation at the Menil Collection be a hole in the ground? The Art Guys were told last week that the museum intends to remove the live oak they “married” in 2009 in “The Art Guys...
View ArticleHistoric Cottage Trucked from Sam Houston Park to Permanent Home in Sam...
How do you move a historic cottage from one location to another? Well, carefully: This video uploaded this week from the Heritage Society chronicles the easy-does-it, steady-as-she-goes relocation of...
View ArticleThe Menil Selects Landscape Architect, Closes In on Campus Expansion
The Menil Collection has picked a landscape architecture firm, and the museum says that the long-awaited master-planned reshaping of its 30-acre Montrose spread will get going this September. The firm...
View ArticleSpace Center Houston’s Newest Acquisition
The Galileo 7 — shown here in a Star Trek episode as piloted by Dr. Mr. Spock on a doomed exploratory voyage to Taurus — is going to be added to the permanent collection at Space Center Houston in...
View ArticleGalveston Historical Foundation Closes On Bishop’s Palace
With the Moody Foundation’s $1.5 million donation as a nice starter, the Galveston Historical Foundation was able to raise the rest of the $3 million it needed to buy the 1892 Bishop’s Palace from the...
View ArticleHeights Telephone Museum To Be Renovated Into Lofts
Hold the phone! Rumored to be a goner, the 1957 Telephone Museum on the corner 18th and Ashland, which was sold about a year ago, will soon be cleaned up and converted into 24 luxury lofts, says Donna...
View ArticleThe Menil Shows Drawings of New Cafe, Entrance Sequence
Architecture firm Stern and Bucek has come up with this rendering of the Menil Collection’s new cafe, part of the free museum’s long-planned expansion of its Montrose campus. The design for the cafe —...
View ArticleMenil Drawing New Drawing Institute onto ‘Back Third’ of Richmont Square
The new Menil Drawing Institute building, being designed by LA architects Johnston Marklee (winners of last year’s competition), will sit on land currently occupied by the Menil’s Richmont Square...
View ArticleKaty Contemporary Arts Museum Creating Its Own ‘Museum District’
Where is the new Katy Contemporary Arts Museum? “In the heart of Katy’s Museum District,” boasts the brand-new institution’s website. That appears to be shorthand for “right across from the Katy...
View ArticleHere Is Johnston Marklee’s Light and Dark Design for the Menil Drawing Institute
The Menil Collection released details of the low-slung design L.A. architects Johnston Marklee have put together for the new Menil Drawing Institute, which is being touted as the “first freestanding...
View ArticleRice University To Demolish Former Menil Museum, Godfather of the Tin House...
Online arts publication Glasstire is reporting that Rice University’s public-affairs office has confirmed plans to demolish the University’s most famous metal-sided structure. Known since the...
View ArticleMenil Collection Taking Bill Stern’s Art, but Trying To Sell His Museum...
The few interior photos included in the listing of William F. Stern’s house at the corner of Milford and Mt. Vernon show the 1990 structure stripped of most of its furnishings — but with much of its...
View Article‘Renovation’ of Menil Bungalow into Menil Café Will Be More Extensive Than...
Whatever the original plans were for the partial demolition of the gray-painted 1940 bungalow that sat across the street from the Menil Collection and across the footpath to the West Alabama St....
View ArticleThe Scene by Minute Maid Park, Where the Gold and Musicians Buildings Are...
Chiming in with this morning’s Demo Report, which more formally announces the departure of a couple of old single-story buildings at 607 and 609 Chenevert St., reader Jack Miller sends in this photo...
View ArticleA Houston Bicycle Museum Arrives in the Museum District
The latest institution to roll into Houston’s Museum District is the Houston Bicycle Museum, which just leased the former bank building at 1313 Binz St. (shown at left) from the Holocaust Museum...
View ArticleSniffing Out the Subtle Secrets of the Rothko Chapel
Exploring the Menil’s quiet, deep-purple monument, the Chronicle‘s Leah Binkovitz turns up a couple new lines of investigation: “In a turn Rothko, with his proscriptions for proper viewing, could never...
View ArticleThe Menil Collection Gets Its Rap Tribute
In advance of their exhibition and performances next month at the Art League of Houston, where they’ll recreate 5 performances by the Art Guys, “while adding a twist that could only come from Black...
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