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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.
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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.