10 vivid, eye-catching February art events no Houstonian should miss Shahidul Alam s
Sailboat Fishing for Ilish will be part of the Shahidul Alam: Truth to Power exhibition at the Asia Society Texas.
Photo by Shahidul Alam
Photo courtesy of Drift
Portal of Healing is on view at Rice University’s Houston Asian American Archive.
Photo by Ann Shi
Image courtesy of Jennifer May Reiland Archway Gallery presents Regenerations.
Image courtesy of Carol Berger After some starts and rescheduling last month, February presents the perfect valentine for Houston art lovers. Look for big, new exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, while museums and galleries across serve up a range of themes from the political, to human bodies, to fundamentals of light and color.
Local museum showcases personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors in ‘Stories of Survival’
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HOUSTON – Holocaust Museum Houston presents “Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory
,” a new exhibition showcasing more than 60 personal items brought to America by survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. The showcase is available to view at 5401 Caroline Street through April 18.
“Stories of Survival” explores “the relationship between objects, their meaning to the original owner and subsequent significance, each artifact is dramatically paired with oversized photographs by renowned documentarian Jim Lommasson with handwritten responses by Survivors or their family members,” the museum announced in a press release.