We're thinking Spring has hauled off and sprung! Well, unless there's some crazyass Arctic blast still lurking out there. It feels like festival/outdoor concert weather! Here's some stuff for you to peruse for tonight:
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In spire of the dreary economic weather and a 24 percent decline in endowments to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the institute is continuing with expansions and is also continuing to acquire pieces for the permanent collection, thanks in part to advanced planning by the board of trustees, according to an annual letter sent to members and donors to the MFAH by museum director Peter Marzio.
Candlelight Open House at Bayou Bend Dec 7, 2007 5:00 PM at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has been hosting Candlelight Open House nights at their Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens on Friday nights. This Friday night is your last chance to go to the open house and tour the property in all of its holiday season glory. The central figure in Yuletide´s Holiday Heroines is...
No, it's not by driving as fast as we can around loop 610, but it does include city-wide celebrations, all hoping for the same thing: No rain. Here are a few of the events we'll be checking out tomorrow. Where will you be? Tell us, maybe we'll ditch our plans and join you. But probably not. >>Freedom Over Texas Festival Houston's Official 4th of July Celebration. Chevy presents a concert and Independence Day celebration at...
We've said before that we're fans of the architecture of John Staub, the man who designed homes for many of Houston's rich and famous between the late 1920s and early '60s. Staub's 1930 house for Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hanszen (the same Harry Hanszen for whom a college at Rice University is named) is one of Staub's premier picturesque romantic designs — a rambling, Norman-style home based on a medieval chateau Staub had seen...
Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor cybertoad who wraps up this weeks black and white theme with this wonderful image from Bayou Bend Gardens. Houstonist would like thank everyone who submitted black and white images for this week's unexpected and unannounced theme. We'll get back to mixing up our photo of the day next week. Keep reading Houstonist and keep sending in photos! We thank you for...
Bayou Bend Spring Lecture: Remembering Miss Ima In 1961, a young curator from Delaware´s Winterthur museum came to Houston to train the first class of Bayou Bend docents. On this, the 50th aniiversary of Miss Hogg´s gift of Bayou Bend to the MFAH, Jonathan Fairbanks will reminisce about his time with Miss Ima Hogg and discuss his favorite art and antiques in the collection. In 1962, Mr. Fairbanks gave a presentation about Bayou Bend´s...
Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor The Gallery who says, "I like this shot...." and we say, "So do we!" It's a statue of Diana The Huntress located in the MFAH's Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, tucked away off of Memorial at Westcott. A great aerial photo of the collection can be found here on Google Maps. According to found information on the web Diana The Huntress,...
Let's think back to last year for a minute. We had an unusually mild winter, if you'll remember, and around the beginning of February local azaleas decided, "To hell with it. It's nice out; let's go ahead and bloom." Problem was that the azalea tourist season wasn't due for another few weeks, so gardeners at Bayou Bend — azalea central — had to cover their plants with four tons of ice to try to fool...
Suppose you curate a garden renowned for its springtime displays of azaleas, but the winter weather has been so screwed up that the plants are trying to bloom a few weeks early. You might not care, but the people at Bayou Bend do — and that's why they're putting their azaleas on four tons of ice. Tuesday, crews spread 40-pound bags of ice cubes around 600-700 azaleas. An insulating layer of mulch was then...
Like it or not, Thanksgiving has come and gone, so the holidays are officially upon us. Stressed? Us too. Fortunately, there are plenty of holiday distractions — here are a few of the old standbys. Do you know a holiday event Houstonist should note? Drop us a candygram. In the meantime, Merry Christmas/happy Hanukkah/happy Kwanzaa/super Winter Solstice! Sure, there are always a bunch of community theater productions of A Christmas Carol, but only in...
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