Archive for September, 2012

New World Museum director Armando Palacios once again lures a Venice Biennale talent to town. Venezuelan sculptor Clemencia Labin %26mdash; whose installation at her country%26rsquo;s pavilion for the 2011 Biennale won over even the toughest critics for its enchanting amalgamation of color, shape, soft sculpture, design and architecture %26mdash; makes her Texas debut his month with a... | Read More

New World Museum director Armando Palacios once again lures a Venice Biennale talent to town. Venezuelan sculptor Clemencia Labin %26mdash; whose installation at her country%26rsquo;s pavilion for the 2011 Biennale won over even the toughest critics for its enchanting amalgamation of color, shape, soft sculpture, design and architecture %26mdash; makes her Texas debut his month with a... | Read More

The Andrew Martin showroom has opened in Decorative Center Houston, and we%26rsquo;re entranced with the wallpapers in the Navigator wallpaper collection %26mdash; specifically, the library books, stamps, mathematics and science. And then there are the Lumberjack papers (a wall of sturdy logs) and another of stacked vintage luggage. The Kelim Sofa Multi is rich and lovely, and there are some... | Read More

The Andrew Martin showroom has opened in Decorative Center Houston, and we%26rsquo;re entranced with the wallpapers in the Navigator wallpaper collection %26mdash; specifically, the library books, stamps, mathematics and science. And then there are the Lumberjack papers (a wall of sturdy logs) and another of stacked vintage luggage. The Kelim Sofa Multi is rich and lovely, and there are some... | Read More

If Warhol is the king of Pop art, then Roy Lichtenstein is the movement%26rsquo;s crown prince. Now this prince%26rsquo;s unforgettable benday dots and swell comic attitude are celebrated in a new retrospective, complete with behind-the-scenes drawings, his greatest and most classic cartoony paintings of the %26rsquo;60s and many under-known canvases that comment on the canon of 20th-century... | Read More

If Warhol is the king of Pop art, then Roy Lichtenstein is the movement%26rsquo;s crown prince. Now this prince%26rsquo;s unforgettable benday dots and swell comic attitude are celebrated in a new retrospective, complete with behind-the-scenes drawings, his greatest and most classic cartoony paintings of the %26rsquo;60s and many under-known canvases that comment on the canon of 20th-century... | Read More

Art direction Michelle Avi%26ntilde;a. Makeup Terri Sullivan. Hair Ashley Scroggins for Cutloose Salon.

On the eve of a breathtaking $2.25 million grand reopening by %26ldquo;it%26rdquo; architecture firm WORKac, Claudia Schmuckli contemplates the reborn museum she helped forge and forecasts what%26rsquo;s next. Catherine D. Anspon has a sit down with the woman at the top of University... | Read More