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3 unusual facts about Contemporary arts museum houston


Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

By 1950, the success of these efforts allowed the Museum to build of a small, professionally equipped facility where ambitious exhibitions of the work of Vincent van Gogh, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, and John T. Biggers and his students from the then-fledgling Texas Negro College (now Texas Southern University).

Single-artist shows have focused on a variety of media and have included "When One is Two: The Art of Alighiero e Boetti," William Kentridge, Uta Barth, and Juan Muñoz.

William Clutz

Recognized as a significant proponent of abstract figuration in the renewed interest in figuration of the late 1950s and 1960s in such exhibitions as “Recent Drawings, USA”, 1956 and “Recent Paintings USA, the Figure,” 1962 at MOMA, “The Emerging Figure”, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, 1960 and “The Figure International” American Federation of Arts, 1963.


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During the opening of Exhibition 10, curated by Sebastian J. Adler at the Contemporary Arts Museum, artist and experimental filmmaker Michael Snow created an elaborate piece on the advertising light grid of the Goodyear Blimp, which flew over the museum.

Mary Heilmann

In 2007 she dedicated the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach (CA), a comprehensive exhibition, which followed the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston, Texas, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus (OH), and 2008 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York was to be seen.

The Art Guys

"The Art Guys: Think Twice," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995


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Eve Andree Laramee

She has participated in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, Mass MOCA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; among other institutions.