Scope and Contents Howdy, Chicago,Molly Glentzer here, the Houston Chronicle's art critic.We've been thinking maybe it's time to mend our differences. So we just wanted to let you know we're feeling kind of chill now about this whole hill of "Beans" thing. Most Popular More men accuse former Texas judge, Baptist leader of sexual misconduct With health failing, former first lady Barbara Bush forgoes treatment for comfort care Breaking down 2018 Texas A&M...

Scope and Contents On a May afternoon in 2012, Hiram Butler, BA ’76, and his husband, Andrew Spindler-Roesle, were walking out of the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in New York City. The couple was attending a memorial service for friend and acclaimed curator, Barry Walker. On their way out, they bumped into artist Ellsworth Kelly and his husband Jack Shear. The two had on Metropolitan Museum of Art employee badges and were carrying some of Kelly’s plant drawings for an upcoming exhibition.Butler...

Scope and Contents New Canaan Library and The Glass House are pleased to present journalist and author William Middleton, speaking about his new book Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil. The event will be held in the Library's Adrian Lamb Room on Wednesday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m., preceded by a light reception at 6 p.m. Please register online at newcanaanlibrary.org. The program is generously supported by New Canaan Community Foundation.Join author...

Scope and Contents For many, Houston is known worldwide for oil and world-class art. Although at first glance the two have nothing to do with each other, former Harper’s Bazaar writer William Middleton’s new book shows the connection that exists between oil and art in Texas.“Double Vision” is Middleton’s dual biography of Dominique and John de Menil, famous French oil industry billionaires and art collectors who moved to Houston and changed the city’s cultural landscape.“They were the...

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Scope and Contents Few philanthropists of the 20th century contributed more to the American art world than Dominique and John de Menil. French expats who left Paris for the United States during World War II, the de Menils were the heirs to multiple fortunes—including Dominique’s family’s booming oil equipment company, which was headquartered in Houston, Texas. The couple kept a townhouse in Manhattan and an apartment in Paris, but in Houston, they put down roots and left behind a profound cultural legacy....

Scope and Contents After an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 in 1970, the crew and mission control at Johnson Space Center faced hurdle after hurdle in devising a way to get the astronauts home safely.The crew overcame limited fuel and electrical power, a failing air filter system that led to increasing levels of carbon dioxide and the threat of a tropical storm blowing the capsule far off course from its expected landing destination. Most Popular Houston man speaks out after...

Scope and Contents NASA’s Jerry Woodfill spoke at Rothko Chapel on April 17 as the last speaker in a long running series, Concept of the Divine, which provides an opportunity for speakers to share how their personal concept of the Divine has shaped their lives. Woodfill has worked at NASA for more than 52 years. Joining in 1965, he was the Apollo Moon Program’s Spacecraft Warning System Engineer. It was this warning system that alerted Mission Control that there was an incident on board the Apollo 13 aircraft,...

Scope and Contents Sure, Austin has music and quirkiness, but if you want to talk about Texas's artistic center, it's Houston. The city's museums are so sprawling in size and topic—from the century-old Museum of Natural Science to the MFA Houston, the largest cultural institution in the southwest—the museum district divided them up into four walkable zones. Houston just added another notch to its mighty big cultural belt with news that the Menil Collection—a free 30-acre neighborhood of art centers—is...

Scope and Contents On a rainy New York evening in May of 2012, Mark Rothko’s painting Orange, Red, Yellow went up for auction at Christie’s. As bidding began, it became clear this was no ordinary auction. Barrett White, Christie’s executive deputy chairman recalls the air in the room was “electric.”According to White, a typical sale lasts about two or three minutes, “and for the Rothko, the bidding war lasted for seven minutes, with over 50 bids made.”In the end, the painting sold, with...