TIME TO PAINT the town! This season, a trio of art fairs hits Houston, beginning with the Houston Art Fair (formerly the Houston Fine Art Fair), where nearly 50 local and international galleries exhibit Sept. 29-Oct. 2 at Silver Street Studios. On the same weekend, the Texas Contemporary event is held Downtown at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Opening-night festivities include a collaborative performance with the Houston Ballet’s Oliver Halkowich and multi-media artist Chris Doyle. And a week later, the semi-annual Bayou City Art Festival returns to the streets of Downtown with hundreds of outdoor booths.
The must-try desserts include honey cake with ricotta Chantilly, chocolate peanut butter panna cotta and Fruity Pebble ice cream "sammies."
Chef Jonathan Wicks and Food and Beverage Director Chris Fleischman of Tonight & Tomorrow and Bar No. 3 at the recently renovated and expanded La Colombe d'Or hotel in Montrose are touting new additions to the dinner menu, too, that include heirloom tomato salad, hush puppies, campechana, pork belly, octopus, fazzoletti, Berkshire pork chops, whole fish and a butcher's cut of lamb. New lunch options include a layered club sandwich and what they call the Lyon burger.
"The late summer menu at Tonight & Tomorrow, a full-service restaurant serving breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner, continues to celebrate modern European cuisine with Southern influences," notes a rep for the eateries. "Tonight & Tomorrow offers multiple indoor dining spaces designed to hold intimate or group dining and a large outdoor dining space in La Colombe d'Or's sculpture garden."
Tonight & Tomorrow's new octopus dish
Hushpuppies a la La Colombe d'Or
Heirloom tomato salad
Campechana
Inside Tonight & Tomorrow
Honey cake, from the new 'Late Summer' menu
Bar No. 3
The new Excelsior cocktail has cold brew coffee, cognac and cardamon bitters.
La Colombe d'Or on Montrose Boulevard
There are new cocktails at the bar, too. "Guests visiting Bar No.3, La Colombe d'Or's full-service bar … will be greeted with a new collection of seasonal craft cocktails," adds the rep. "The Rajasthan Royale highlights passion fruit, amaretto, vodka and sparkling wine, while the Excelsior features cold brew coffee, cognac, liquor 43 and cardamom bitters."
The Bar No. 3 food menu is offered till 11pm.
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Niki de Sainte Phalle shot at pockets of paint embedded in her canvas, in front of a live audience in Paris in 1962.
"Our Saint Phalle exhibition will include work that has never before been displayed in the United States, shedding light on the artist's experimental processes, radical vision, and key role in contemporary art," said Rebecca Rabinow, director of the Menil Collection, in a statement. "The show will be accompanied by a scholarly book that is lavishly illustrated with archival photographs from this pivotal decade."
The exhibition will open with the late Sainte Phalle's famous Tirs, which she created with a .22 caliber rifle often in front of a live audience. The "performance paintings," intended as a commentary on the ingrained violence of culture, were said to have been conceptualized as a feminist assault to the tradition of modern paintings. For the paintings, the artist would shoot bullets at white plaster surfaces imbedded with concealed bags of pigment and cans of paint that would colorfully explode with the impact of the bullets.
Also in the exhibition are a series of figural assemblages – from wall-bound reliefs and colorful freestanding sculptures – that Sainte Phalle used as an exploration of gender identity. Of particular note are her Nanassculptures, whose curvaceous and liberated forms were begun in the mid- and late-1960s during the rise of international feminist movements.
"Pirodactyl over New York," painted with bullets in front of a Parisian audience in 1962
"Lili ou Tony," a sculpture from 1965
"During the 1960s, Saint Phalle — the only female member of the French avant-garde group, the Nouveaux Réalistes — also collaborated with innovative American artists of her generation, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Within the male-dominated artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic, her place in art history has been hard-fought," said Michelle White, the Menil Collection's senior curator. "Her artwork from this time constitutes some of the most advanced work being done around emergent ideas of participatory art and was prophetic of feminist concerns related to the critique of painting and the representation of the body that will drive art in the decades to come."
Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s will be on display at the Menil Collection from Sept. 10, 2021 through Jan, 23, 2022. After its Houston run, the exhibition will move to the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.
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