Tokyo – When you step into one particular gallery in the Otsuka neighborhood of Tokyo, you will feel a little bit of Houston. The Misako and Rosen Art Gallery is owned and operated by Houston-native Jeffrey Rosen and his wife Misako.“My art education began in the Museum District,” said Rosen.He grew up in southwest Houston and West University, but has called Tokyo home for ...
Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Tau Lewis in her Brooklyn, N.Y., studio. | Photo by Flo Ngala, Courtesy National Gallery of Canada Representation Jamaican-Canadian artist Tau Lewis is now represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery in London. Lewis makes hand-stitched, sculptural portraits and quilts composed of upcycled materials sourced ...
The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, an organization that researches works looted during World War II, is calling on the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to return an 18th-century painting to the heirs of a German-Jewish collector. The MFA asserts that the sale of the work was “legitimate” and that there is therefore no need to restitute the painting. In a ...
Lisa E. Harris, a Houston-based independent and interdisciplinary artist, is the inaugural Houston Regional Affiliate Fellow for the American Academy in Rome. Photo: Roman holiday, but make it art school. Independent and interdisciplinary artist Lisa "Li" Harris will spend eight weeks in Rome, Italy next summer as the inaugural Houston Regional Affiliate Fellow. Through a partnership between the American Academy in Rome and the ...
Washington — Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo, who used to lead the Houston Police Department, called a new measure approved by the Texas state Legislature that would allow people to carry handguns without a license "ridiculous" and urged Governor Greg Abbott to veto the bill."There's something that God gave us and that is common sense, and common sense tells us that that is ridiculous," ...
The state’s largest contemporary art show is seeing a few changes this year, with one of them being that the show is debuting in San Antonio and Houston.Big Medium, an Austin nonprofit “dedicated to supporting artists and building community through the arts in Austin and across Texas,” announced 51 participating artists and five museum partners of the 2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A ...
Israel Rodriguez poses in front of his mural "Google: Derek Chauvin." Photo: Amil Velasquez / Amil VelasquezIsrael Rodriguez admits that he didn’t follow the trial of Derek Chauvin too closely. Not until Instagram posts flooded his feed (@ir_artwork) announcing that jurors found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty of murdering George Floyd. That’s when Rodriguez, an abstract portrait artist, took notice. Color-blocked canvases are ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LAST MONTH, TWO PEOPLE BROKE INTO the Bayou Bend branch of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and escaped by boat after being spotted, police reported at the time. Now an arrest has been made, according to the Houston Chronicle. Lewis Yates Robertson has been charged with burglary. Nothing was damaged or stolen at the museum outpost, which was ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ON TUESDAY NIGHT, TWO PEOPLE BROKE INTO the Bayou Bend Collection and Garden branch of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (the onetime home of arts patron Ima Hogg), the Houston Chronicle reports. Authorities said that an alarm sounded, and that the pair were spotted in the building at around 7:30 p.m. (seems a bit early for a theft, ...
HOUSTON – Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo tearfully thanked Houston and the department Tuesday after announcing he would be leaving to become the police chief in Miami.Surrounded by several members of the Houston Police Department, Acevedo said he wanted everyone to understand how he came to the decision to leave Houston.RELATED: Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo: The biggest events of his career with HPD“I ...
