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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM www.hmh.org

Tue–Wed 10a-5p, Th 10a-8p, Fri–Sat 10a-5p, Sun 12p-5p

Adults $22, Seniors (age 65 and above)

$16, AARP Members $16 Active Duty Service members and their families Free through Labor Day through the Blue Star Museums Program. Ages 0 – 18 Free

EXHIBITS: BEARING WITNESS: A COMMUNITY REMEMBERS

The Gallery is personalized with testimony of Holocaust Survivors who later settled in the Houston area. These incredible individuals lived through a genocidal war that inflicted mass death on unprecedented numbers of innocent civilians. The Gallery features artifacts donated by the Holocaust Survivors, their descendants, liberators, and other collectors.

Permanent

RHONA AND BRUCE CARESS GALLERY - AND STILL I WRITE: YOUNG DIARISTS ON WAR AND GENOCIDE

In Nazi Europe, Jewish teenagers wrote in worn notebooks. Far away in America, young people in Japanese internment camps did the same. Decades later, it was children in war-time Sarajevo. More recently, in Iraq and Syria, young writers typed their accounts instead, transmitting messages secretly or posting anonymously on social media. Times change, but the impulse to mark our place in the world endures.

Permanent.

The Menil Collection

www.menil.org

Wed - Sun 11a-7p

Closed Monday and Tuesday. Free Hours: Always free!

EXHIBITS: THE ICONIC PORTRAIT STRAND BY NESTOR TOPCHY

This exhibition presents more than one hundred portraits made over the past twenty years by Houston-based artist Nestor Topchy (b. 1963). The small paintings, with their gold backgrounds, resemble Byzantine icons; however, rather than representing religious figures, Topchy depicts friends and colleagues in the art community. His materials are traditional, and he applies red clay, powdered marble, gold leaf, pure pigments, and egg yolk on small wooden panels. The artist has explained that his approach connects the past to the present and lends a unique effect to his contemporary subjects: “To paint a mortal in the sea of gold light, alone—is to propose a saintliness that dwells within all people.”

Aug–Sep 3

WALL DRAWING SERIES: MARC BAUER

Swiss artist Marc Bauer (b. 1975) has been commissioned to create the fifth installment of the ephemeral wall drawing series at the Menil Drawing Institute. Bauer’s art practice is based in his careful examination of how images circulate in print and online media platforms. Bauer uses drawing to reconfigure found images—from sources ranging from personal family albums to cable news streams— with the goal of ultimately shaping a prismatic view of history, culture, and politics. He likens this process to a kind of witnessing, a deliberate and deeply personal way of seeing and understanding the world.

Through Fall 2024

Contemporary Arts

MUSEUM HOUSTON www.camh.org

Tues - Wed 10a-7p, Thu 10a-9p, Fri 10a7p, Sat 10a-6p, Sun 12p-6p Closed Monday, New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day Free Hours: Always free!

EXHIBITS: JORDAN STRAFER: TRILOGY

Both perversely pleasurable and pleasurably perverse, Jordan Strafer’s videos are absurd, fantastical, humorous, and, at times, violent meditations on power and the uniquely human capacity to inflict violence, be it physical, psychological, or both. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition, Jordan Strafer: Trilogy presents Strafer’s recent trilogy of videos PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure) (2019), SOS (2021), and PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER (2022), alongside a selection of related works on paper by the artist.

July 28, 2023 - November 26, 2023

HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT www.crafthouston.org

Open Tue- Sat 10a-5p. HCCC is closed on Sunday and Monday and the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth (June 19th), July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.

EXHIBITS:

MAX ADRIAN: RIPSTOP

Max Adrian: RIPSTOP is a solo exhibition of patchwork textiles and inflatable sculptures by the Ohio-based fiber artist. Adrian’s volumetric, pneumatic work transports viewers into a realm of artifice, desire, and worldbuilding. Drawing from rich legacies of queer fiber art and theory, including the AIDS memorial quilt and José Esteban Muñoz’s foundational text, Cruising Utopia, the exhibition features monumentally scaled works that physically respond to the presence of viewers by filling with air.

“The sculptures’ constant state of performing, or becoming, reflects Adrian’s interests in queerness as an inherently utopian and future-oriented mode of being,” says Sarah Darro, Curator and Exhibitions Director at HCCC.

September 30 – January 6, 2024

Tree Of Life

Tree of Life showcases sculptural objects made from the African blackwood tree, also known as mpingo or Dalbergia melanoxylon. Native to Tanzania and the territory surrounding Mt. Kilimanjaro, this tree has a naturally dark, nearly black, colored core and other unique properties that make it a preferred choice of material for ornamental turning, carving, and use in woodwind instruments. This exhibition features figural sculptures carved in the Makonde tradition by Tanzania-based artists, Joseph Singombe and Pius Mtembe; ornamental turning by the late Texas-based artist James Harris; and woodwind instruments that explore the different methods artists are using when approaching this material.

September 2023 — January 6, 2024 houstonfamilymagazine.com