BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Hockney and Van Gogh paintings meet in Houston for exhibition on the joys of nature
Despite Covid-19, the show will open with works now safely flown across the Atlantic
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Treats for Van Gogh fans in 2021: exhibitions, museum openings and books
We look ahead at the events to enjoy this year—assuming coronavirus doesn't scupper them
NewsOpenings
Challenges overcome as Houston's Museum of Fine Arts completes $450m campus expansion
Delayed by just three weeks amid the pandemic, new Kinder Building will dramatically increase space for Modern and contemporary art
NewsPhilip Guston
After tumult, museums say that a delayed Philip Guston exhibition will open in 2022
Citing “unease and anxiety” about the show, the director of MFA, Boston predicts it will spur “in-depth discussions about great art”
NewsPhilip Guston
Directors of Tate and the National Gallery of Art defend controversial decision to delay Philip Guston show
“An exhibition with such strong commentary on race cannot be done by all white curators,” says NGA chief Kaywin Feldman
AnalysisControversies
Philip Guston’s KKK paintings ‘are not asleep—they’re woke’: catalogue contradicts museum statement controversially halting show
Essays from African American artists such as Glenn Ligon and Trenton Doyle Hancock show that issues were being addressed
NewsPhilip Guston
Critics, scholars—and even museum’s own curator—condemn decision to postpone Philip Guston show over Ku Klux Klan imagery
Move is deemed “cowardly” and “patronising” after joint statement from host museums including National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and London’s Tate Modern
PreviewExhibitions
Spring into summer: see the major shows almost scuppered by lockdown
From Titian's masterpieces and a major Raphael survey, to the final stop of the Soul of a Nation tour
Reviewcoronavirus
Mixed feelings: what it was like to visit the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in the wake of Covid-19
Glasstire's editor Brandon Zech shares his personal experience attending the museum's reopening this weekend
Newscoronavirus
After two-month shutdown, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is reopening this weekend
Institution adopts new policies to foster “the safest possible conditions”
FeatureMuseums & Heritage
The show must go on: what American curators are up to in isolation
How have curators been filling their time while their museums remain closed? Creatively, it turns out
NewsConservation & Preservation
Houston museum reattributes painting to Velázquez
After conservation effort, Museum of Fine Arts decides its hunch was correct
NewsBuilding projects
Houston's museum building boom continues with opening of Menil Drawing Institute
Campus expansions at three museums in Texas's biggest city focus on creating civic spaces as well as on showing art
CommentPolitics
How should museums respond to Donald Trump?
We asked directors of prominent US institutions what they can or should do
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