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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston gets its own giant bean sculpture by Anish Kapoor

2018-03-27T20:04:00-04:00

Looks like Houston has a giant, shiny bean-shaped sculpture of its own now. Completing its two-day installation today, “Cloud Column” by Anish Kapoor — the same artist who created Chicago's infamous “Cloud Gate” — is the first of two sculptures on the Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's upcoming Glassell School of Art. The school and plaza, making up phase one of the museum's expansion, are scheduled to open May 20.

View south of the Glassell School and Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza. Courtesy Deborah Nevins & Associates / Nevins & Benito Landscape Architecture.

Conceived by Kapoor in the late 1990s and realized in 2006, Cloud Column is made of hand-worked stainless steel. Working for at least five hours early Monday morning, crews used a 650-ton crane to hoist up the 21,000-pound oblong sculpture (attached to a 6,000-pound crate) into its exact positioning on the plaza. After the sculpture was set in place, a member from Kapoor's London installation tea...

Museum of Fine Arts Houston unveils its Steven Holl-designed $450M expansion plan

2015-01-13T15:18:00-05:00

Buoyed by some of the largest donations in the city's history, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will unveil a $450 million project today that envisions its campus as the cultural heart of the city. [...] The project, by Steven Holl Architects, is the most exciting in the institution's 90-year history, board chairman Richard Kinder said. The plan, named the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, is so transformational that in five years Houstonians might not recognize the 1000 block of Bissonnet.

Previously: MFAH hires Steven Holl Architects to design expansion

MFAH hires Steven Holl Architects to design expansion

2012-02-02T16:36:00-05:00

The board's long-range planning committee chose Holl, based in New York City and Beijing, after reviewing site-specific concepts from three internationally known architecture firms, including Snøhetta and Morphosis, according to a statement from board chair Cornelia Long.

Three Firms Selected for Museum of Fine Arts Houston Expansion

2011-05-31T19:34:00-04:00

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has selected three architecture firms—Morphosis, Snøhetta and Steven Holl Architects—to submit conceptual design proposals for an expanded MFAH. The project entails the construction of a building intended primarily for post-1900 art, a parking garage and the integration of surrounding MFAH buildings and public spaces.