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Michelin-Starred chefs head two new restaurants at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston FacebookTwitterEmail Installation view of Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Color Flash for Chat and Chew, Paris Texas in Seventy-Two, 2019–2020.Thomas Dubrock The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) on Tuesday announced two new onsite restaurants, both helmed by Michelin-Starred chefs, set to open at 1001 Bissonnet St. The concepts are a collaboration with New York City’s Bastion Restaurants, the group behind Houston’s La Table restaurant near Uptown Park. Cafe Leonelli, scheduled to open in March, and Le Jardinier...

Illumination Through Design The first electric light was invented in the early 1800s by chemist and inventor Humphry Davy (1778-1829). It was a transformative moment. Since then, lighting technology has developed at speed. Today, we can control lamps remotely from our mobile phones. Energy efficient lightbulbs are helping to reduce our carbon footprints. The concept has fascinated engineers, scientists, architects and designers worldwide. “Lighting design has transformed our daily lives and influenced major design movements over the past 100 years,” says said Gary Tinterow, Director...

First impressions of a gift to Houston that will keep on giving. Molly Glentzer December 30, 2020Updated: January 4, 2021, 11:27 am Aristide Maillol's "La Riviere (The River)" rests atop a gently trickling reflection pond between the new Kinder Building and the Cullen Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which director Gary Tinterow refers to as the "hinge" of the campus. Photo: Molly Glentzer / Houston Chronicle The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s new Kinder Building promises to be a gift that gives for decades. Except for light-sensitive works on paper and photogra...

Bernice Bing’s A Lady and a Roadmap (1963), which the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco bought for an undisclosed price in 2020 Kevin Candland/Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Even as the Covid-19 pandemic took an enormous toll on US art museums in 2020, forcing many to close their doors for months and make painful staff layoffs, several quietly continued to collect art. They mainly drew on earmarked acquisition funds that cannot legally be used for other purposes, given the terms of the original donors’ gifts and the laws that govern non-profits. Most of the country...

The Pandemic Is Pushing the World’s Most Esteemed Charities to Their Limits Christina Binkley Shock waves reverberated through philanthropy circles this past June when the renowned Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles announced it was shutting down. Well-known benefactor Wallis Annenberg, who, as the name suggests, had financed the exhibition space since its debut in 2009, had pulled the plug, deciding to redirect her family foundation’s considerable resources toward Covid-19 and social-justice issues. Word soon spread that quixotic billionaire Larry Ellison was ...