MFAH Unveils New Displays for European Arts — Including Several Never-Before-Seen Pieces

Evan W. Black

THIS WEEK, THE MUSEUM of Fine Arts, Houston unveiled a reimagined showcase for its European art collection. The 11 galleries feature works from the Middle Ages up through the 18th century, and now include new acquisitions and rarely displayed pieces from the museum’s permanent collections.

On the Grow: Local Purveyor Gourmet Ranch Beefs Up for Chefs and Consumers

JUST IN TIME for Father’s Day gifting and summer cookouts, Houston-based Gourmet Ranch has opened its new state-of-the-art meat processing plant and ramped up production on premium beef shipped direct-to-consumer. We can already smell juicy steaks sizzling on the grill!

PrintHouston Is Back — This Time with Fun Hands-On Workshops

Chris Becker

TO COINCIDE WITH PrintHouston 2022, a month-long celebration of printmaking coordinated by PrintMatters Houston, the Heights-based printmaking studio Burning Bones Press is hosting The Matrix, a series of Wednesday-night workshops where the general public is invited to learn more about the art of printmaking.
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In Homecoming Show, Isabel Wallace-Green Dances Her Way Back to Jones Hall with Alvin Ailey Company

Isabel Wallace-Green (photos by Kent Barker and Xavier Mack)

HOUSTON-BORN DANCER AND arts educator Isabel Wallace-Green vividly recalls seeing a performance of Alvin Ailey’s landmark 1960 dance work Revelations as a child, peering over a high balcony in Jones Hall. “The dancers were pretty small!” laughs Wallace-Green, who nevertheless was captivated, especially by a section in Revelations titled “Wade in the Water,” where translucent white, cobalt, and aquamarine cloths are stretched across the stage to evoke baptismal waters and — for African American slaves — the riverbed as a pathway to freedom. “I’d never seen anything like that.”

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Just Desserts: Is This Artist’s ‘Sweet’ Work Good Enough to Eat?

FOR ANNA SWEET, the hunger for sugar, carbs, and fat is much like the art world’s hunger for art — especially art made by attractive, colorful, larger-than-life individuals.

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