Openings and Closings: June 8 to June 14
Pendant, c. 1750. Rienzi Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Rienzi, the mansion in the River Oaks neighborhood that is home to the MFA Houston’s European decorative arts collection, is the venue for the small, but resonant current exhibition Materials of Empire: Colonial Narratives 1700–1860. The show examines the links between the luxurious artworks on view, which range from fine jewelry and furniture to a sterling silver nutmeg grinder, and the trade and industry, often powered by slavery, that brought the works or their constituent materials to Europe from colonial outposts in Africa, the Americas, and India. This probing exhibition is not to be missed so, check here to plan your trip in advance. Pleasant Hours by Nura Woodson Ulreich (1899–1950), 1931. Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts. Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts This season, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is celebrating the work of Nura Woodson Ulreich, an artist who was a painter, printmaker, and muralist as well as a children’s book author and illustrator. Curators of the exhibition Finding Nura: Rediscovering an American Modernist from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection hope to revive interest in the Kansas City, Missouri-born artist, who was acclaimed in midcentury New York for her playfully modernist, highly stylized depictions of childhood, but whose notoriety diminished after her death in 1950. The artist is overdue for renewed attention, so make sure to visit the exhibition and, check here to plan your trip! Federal Weight-Driven Eglomise Banjo Clock from the collection of G.W. Samaha. CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts. CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts On June 19, CRN Auctions will be honored to conduct a sale of works from the collection of G.W. “Bill” Samaha, a preeminent, respected,
