Art: Art Museums

Art In Parks is a multi-platform guide to outdoor art in the Houston Parks and Recreation Department (HPARD) system. Available on smart phones or on the web, Art In Parks offers information on 91 pieces of municipal art located in 24 parks across the city. Art In Parks is part of the City of Houston's Civic Art Program, which curates 677 works of art around Houston.

Established in 2020, Art Museum TX is a not-for-profit institution in Fort Bend County, Texas, dedicated to presenting our region's contemporary art to the public. Art Museum TX provides an interchange for visual arts of the present and recent past, presents new directions in art, strives to engage the public, and encourages a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs.

International contemporary art.

Exhibitions that exemplify the art of today. From German painters to South African videographers to Houston sculptors, the Museum is proud to show work by artists from many different cultures and backgrounds.

The mission of HMAAC is to collect, conserve, explore, interpret, and exhibit the material and intellectual culture of Africans and African Americans in Houston, the state of Texas, the southwest and the African Diaspora for current and future generations.

The space exhibits a diverse array of artists and a permanent collection by Peter Birkhäuser. The gallery space presents up-and-coming artists, local artists, Texas based artists, career retrospectives, and established or mid-career artists.

The permanent collection highlights Arts of Africa, the Americas and Pacific Northwest, Ancient World, the Pacific Islands, Drawing, Medieval and Byzantine, Modern and Contemporary, Surrealism, and the permanent installation entitled Witnesses.

The Moody mounts three exhibitions a year in its galleries, curates numerous temporary and permanent public art installations throughout Rice's campus, and hosts performances, conversations, classes, and hands-on workshops.

An encyclopedic collection of nearly 70,000 works of art created throughout the world, from antiquity to the present.

Photos, artifacts, textiles than range from the colonial to the modern eras. Many virtual exhibitions are available.

The National Museum of Mexican Art stands out as the most prominent first-voice institutions for Mexican art and culture in the United States. We are home to one of the country’s largest Mexican art collections, including more than 18,000 seminal pieces from ancient Mexico to the present.

UMMA’s collections include more than 20,000 objects from Western, Asian, and African traditions as well as Modern & Contemporary art.
UMMA's collections are particularly strong in European art of the Renaissance period to the 19th century, Chinese and Japanese art from antiquity to the 19th century, African art of the 19th and 20th centuries, and American art from the 19th century to the present. Works by Whistler and Picasso, Chinese and Japanese paintings and ceramics, and sculpture from central Africa are among the finest in North America.

Focused on the art of the Americas, especially from Texas and the region. Works of art on paper make up a major part of the collection, along with paintings, photographs, sculptures, glass, ceramics, crafts, and large installation pieces.

Major collecting areas are modern and contemporary American and Latin American art, Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings, and prints and drawings.

Western art shares the stories of the cowboy, the vaquero, Native Americans, and the vast beauty of the Western landscape through drawings, sketches, paintings, and sculptures.

Contemporary artists from around the world, from awe-inspiring monumental sculptures to quiet moments with art in nature.

Features pieces from China, Japan, India, Korea and Southeastern Asia spanning from historical to contemporary.

Contemporary installations to paintings and sculptures.

European Baroque and Renaissance works encompassing major works by Botticelli, Canaletto, van Dyck, Zurbarán, and Artemisia Gentileschi, among other Gothic, Baroque, and Renaissance masters. The mission of the El Paso Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit works of art that support and illuminate the Museum’s permanent collection of American, European, and Mexican art.

Extensive holdings of artists' books and livres d'artiste; archives and visual materials related to publication history, book art, and book design; and materials important to the history of typography and fine presses. Our large collection of original illustrations includes drawings and prints by Eric Gill, Miguel Covarrubias, John Biggers, and Arthur Rackham. Among our diverse holdings relating to literary figures are paintings by Tennessee Williams, Anne Sexton, and e. e. cummings, as well as sketches by D. H. Lawrence and Charlotte Brontë. European and Latin American modernists—among them Odilon Redon, Jean Cocteau, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera—and satirists such as George Cruikshank, Max Beerbohm, and José Posada are also well represented. Included among the Center's contemporary artworks are works on paper by Robert Rauschenberg, James Turrell, Elizabeth Catlett, Jasper Johns, and Betye Saar. Particular archival strengths include works and papers of Nancy Cunard, Charles Henri Ford, Pavel Tchelitchew, Ed Ruscha, Elizabeth Olds, and Anita and Leah Brenner.

The collection is comprised of Antiquities, European Art, Asian Art, Art of the Ancient Americas, and African and Oceanic Art.

More than 22,000 works including: Medieval and Renaissance art; 19th- through 21st- century European and American paintings, sculptures, and photographs; one of the finest collections of prints and drawings in the Southwest; the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts; the Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass; and Art of New Mexico.

Exhibition, research and education in the arts and culture of Spain.

Art from the 1940s to the present including Pablo Picasso, Philip Guston, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Puryear, and Agnes Martin to Mark Bradford, Teresita Fernández, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and Kehinde Wiley.

Cowboys, Native Americans, women of the West, settlers, mountain men and others are featured through various themed exhibits.

Modern and contemporary sculptures featuring more than 300 masterpieces by Calder, de Kooning, di Suvero, Giacometti, Hepworth, Kelly, Matisse, Miró, Moore, Picasso, Rodin, Serra and more.

Renowned for the most comprehensive ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art collection in the southern United States. The Nelson A. Rockefeller Latin American art wing spans the ages from the ancient Americas to the present and includes an outstanding collection of popular art. In the contemporary galleries, works of internationally recognized artists share prominence with notable Texas and regional art. The comprehensive Asian art wing displays works from Korea, India, and Japan, and includes an important Chinese ceramics collection.

Features permanent and special exhibitions of paintings by the premier Western artists, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. The collection also includes works by Oscar E. Berninghaus, Charles F. Browne, Edwin W. Deming, William Gilbert Gaul, Peter Hurd, Frank Tenney Johnson, William R. Leigh, Peter Moran, and Charles Schreyvogel.

The UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum exhibits the work of Charles Umlauf and other visual and performing artists in a museum and a garden setting.