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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announces plans to reopen with new look inside and out
Installation view of Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray and Jessi Reaves, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, 2021. Photo by Sean Fleming.
HOUSTON, TX
.-Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will reopen its doors to the public at noon on Thursday, February 18, 2021, following a closure since March 16, 2020, due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. During this prolonged closure, CAMH has not only redesigned the exterior plaza at the intersection of Montrose and Bissonnet, but guests will be welcomed into a completely restored and renovated Brown Foundation Gallery as well.
To ensure the health and well-being of its visitors and following the City of Houstons guidance, the Museum will operate at a reduced visitor capacity and has implemented several new safety protocols. All staff and visitors will be required to wear face masks, follow physical distancing measures, and pass a non-invasive temperatur
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In 1968, America’s first Black variety show, “SOUL!,” helmed by producer and host Ellis Haizlip, premiered on public television. The pioneering series ran for five years, cementing itself as not only a vehicle to celebrate African American artistry, community, and culture but also as a platform for political expression and a powerful force in the fight for social justice.
Mr. SOUL! portrays in exquisite detail a revolutionary time in American culture and entertainment through vibrant archival footage and interviews with numerous Black luminaries who appeared on “SOUL!,” or were impacted by it.
Nestled in Houston’s Fourth Ward is the city’s historic Freedmen’s Town, a neighborhood of formerly enslaved Black people settled post-emancipation into what would become a cultural and artistic hub, rightfully earning the Fourth Ward its title as the "Harlem of the South" in the early twentieth century. While only around 50 of the original 508 structures are still standing in the 40-block district, Freedmen’s Town remains a historical, cultural and artistic hub, and local non-profit Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy is dedicated to prot
CAM Houston to showcase Slowed & Throwed exhibit this year Chron 1/21/2021
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is re-opening its S
lowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses exhibit. The exhibit originally opened in 2020 but closed due to coronavirus concerns.
The two-part interdisciplinary exhibition is centered around the legacy of the late Houston legend DJ Screw. The exhibition features unconventional photography and new media created by strategies paralleling the musical methods of the innovative DJ, according to a press release.
The exhibit will feature artwork from visual artists with close ties to the city of Houston, including, B. Anele, Rabéa Ballin, Tay Butler, Jimmy