Book Signings:
Fall-08:
Houston Deco: Modernistic Architecture of the Texas Coast
Jim Parsons & David Bush
Friday, September 19, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
Houston Deco documents Houston's surviving Art Deco and Art Moderne architecture in beautiful color photographs. From downtown landmarks to East End industrial sites, Houston Deco captures the grace and beauty of these innovative designs.
Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodríguez
Patsy Pittman Light
Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Documenting the life and work of a unique folk artist whose creations paid homage to the natural world. Rodriguez's unique and unusual art will fascinate those new to it and delight those to whom it is familiar.
Rienzi: European Decorative Arts and Paintings
Katherine S. Howe, Edgar Peters Bowron, Christine Gervais,
Cindi Strauss,
Stephen Fox, Suzanne Turner and Marjorie E. Wieseman
Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Rienzi is the American Southwest's most important public collection of European decorative arts, displayed in a splendid house built during Houston's booming postwar years. The former home of Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III, Rienzi is now the center for European decorative arts of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Rienzi opened to the public in 1999.
Spring-08:
Book Signing & Lecture: I Hate Red, You're Fired! The Colorful Life of an Interior Designer
William "Bill" Stubbs
Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
America's Treasures at Bayou Bend: Celebrating Fifty Years
Michael K. Brown
Friday, February 15, 2008 at 12:00 Noon to 3:00 p.m.