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MUSEUM DISTRICT HIGHLIGHTS CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM MENIL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS The Interview: Red, Red Future 5216 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006 713.284.8250 | www.camh.org William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY 1533 Sul Ross St., Houston, TX 77006 713.525.9400 www.menil.org High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005 | 713.639.7300 www.mfah.org With the recent discovery of water on Mars, the Contempory Arts Museum is featuring The Interview: Red, Red Future, which is a solo exhibition by the artist MPA. Combining light, sculpture and photography, visitors are able to converse with the artist via phone. Combining advanced technology and Minimalist aesthetics, MPA’s work sheds light on invisible forces and power. MPA, “Eye,” 2015. Archival pigment print, 7 x 7 inches. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. 36 L O C A L | april 16 Self-taught artist William Copley (1919– 1996), known by his nom de plume CPLY, was the creator of madcap narrative paintings, drawings and installation. Organized in collaboration with the Prada Foundation in Milan, Italy, and featuring approximately 100 paintings and works on paper, William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY is the first comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work in an American museum. William N. Copley, The Cold War, 1962. Oil on canvas, 35 ¼ x 51 ¼ in. (89.5 x 130.2 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston. © 2015 Estate of William N. Copley / Copley LLC / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 19th century’s most renowned portraitist of European aristocracy, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, captured the grace and lavishness of his distinguished subjects with an extraordinary brilliance. This exhibition presents a selection of canvases, complemented by select items of clothing by sought-after fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth and several of Worth’s contemporaries. This major survey features works drawn from public, private and royal collections around the world. Franz X. Winterhalter, Madame Rimsky-Korsakov, 1864, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, on permanent loan from the Louvre.