Edward Burtynsky's photographs of Bangladeshi shipbreaking yards — sites where old container ships are dismantled so their metal and any other still-useful components can be salvaged — have all the ...

HOUSTON — If you’re the kind of person who always wants to know what’s next in art, a museum on the University of Houston campus is here to help. "The Blaffer Art Museum has been here since 1973, so ...

Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, has wrapped up its nine-month national search for a new director by hiring from within. Claudia Schmuckli, the museum’s acting chief ...

It’s Claudia Schmuckli’s last week at the Houston art museum before taking a new job on the West Coast. Claudia Schmuckli joined the Blaffer staff in 2004 before becoming Director and Chief Curator in ...

Hellen Vallier of the University of Houston's Honors College will lead a discussion of Mel Chin: Rematch, followed by lunch, which is on Blaffer. Vallier teaches in The Human Situation sequence and is ...

Founded in 1973, the Blaffer Art Museum endeavors to further the understanding of contemporary art through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. As the gateway between the University of ...

Seth Alverson`s work always amazes me, not only because of his virtuosity as a painter but because of the compelling mystery that lies within. You don`t have to know or understand his reasons for ...

Katrina Moorhead’s exhibition at the Blaffer Gallery, “A Thing Called Early Blur,” looks like Iceland. Well, not like the actual country, which is more temperate than icy, but how you imagine a place ...

Learn more about the exhibition “Rose-colored Drift/To the Students” during a conversation with Spanish artist Sergio Prego, curator Javier Sánchez Martínez and Natilee Harren, assistant professor of ...

The house that curators Alex Gartenfeld and Tyler Blackwell organized for Hugh Hayden's exhibition, "Boogey Men," is haunted. Given the show's title, a bit of spook is expected. There are ghosts and a ...