Don't Miss List
Art in museums & a moving truck are Mari Carmen Ramírez's top fall picks
Cinema Arts Festival, Houston
Dias & Riedweg, "Throw," DVD, at Sicardi Gallery
Mari Carmen Ramirez, MFAH Wortham curator of Latin American art and director ofthe International Center for the Arts of the AmericasPhoto by © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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Editors Note: We've asked Houston arts leaders and CultureMap contributors to pick the jewels from Houston's upcoming arts season — the events that they don't plan to miss. Mari Carmen Ramírez, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Wortham curator of Latin American art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), picked these events.
1. Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art exhibition (Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Oct. 24 —Feb. 6, 2011). This exhibition will kick off the 10-year anniversary celebration of the Department of Latin American Art and International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the MFAH. Conceived as a tribute to the collectors who have supported the program since its inception, it will include over 100 works by nearly 60 artists from Latin America. The exhibition will close with a grand finale featuring the fourth Latin American Experience weekend that includes the opening of Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color into Space and the gala and live auction benefitting the Latin American Art Collection. More than 20 art galleries from Latin America and the U.S. will join the celebration.
2. Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage exhibition (The Menil Collection, Oct. 22-Jan. 30, 2011). This is the third in a series of exhibitions featuring European and Latin American avant-garde artists who have been underexposed in the United States. Schwitters, a German artist, is a pioneer of installation art; the exhibition is his first retrospective since a MoMA show in the 1980s.
3. Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of Flux/usexhibition (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Nov. 6 -Jan. 30, 2011). Benjamin Patterson: Born In the State of FLUX/us is a retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre that spans 40 years and includes collage, drawing, sculpture, and music. A founding member of Fluxus, a loose and international collective of artists who employed humor and anarchic energy to revitalize avant-garde, Patterson helped revolutionize the artistic landscape at the advent of the 1960s. One of the seminal contributions to the field of contemporary art is Patterson’s reassertion of “gesture as music,” a concept germinated by the Dadaists in the early 1900s.
4. Dias & Riedweg: Peñas de Pena exhibition at Sicardi Gallery, Sept. 10 - Oct. 30. This video and performance duo recently exhibited in New York. The Houston exhibition will include a lecture at the Glassell School of Art’s Freed Auditorium and an art installation in a truck that will roam the city Sept. 9.
5. Cinema Arts Festival, Houston (various locations, Nov.10-14, 2010) Featuring filmmakers, visual and media artists and performers from around the world at various locations in Houston, including MFAH.
Other Don't Miss Lists:
Inprint executive director Rich Levy
Houston Grand Opera music conductor Patrick Summers
Alley Theatre artistic director Gregory Boyd
CultureMap arts columnist Nancy Wozny
CultureMap arts contributor Theodore Bale
CAMH senior curator Toby Kamps
