Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Coordinates: 29°43′35.0″N 95°23′29.5″W / 29.726389°N 95.391528°W
The Contemporary Arts Museum – Houston is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District, Houston, Texas, dedicated to presenting the contemporary art of our time to the public.
As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past and document new directions in art, while engaging the public and encouraging a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs.
The Contemporary Arts Museum occupies a stainless-steel building. The building was designed by Gunnar Birkerts and opened its doors in 1972.
In 1948, a group of seven Houston citizens founded the Contemporary Arts Museum with the goal of presenting new art to the community and to document arts role in modern life through exhibitions, lectures and other activities. The Museum initially presented exhibitions at various locations throughout the city, sometimes using The Museum of Fine Arts. These first presentations included "This is Contemporary Art" and "László Moholy-Nagy: Memorial Exhibition."
By 1950, the success of these efforts allowed the Museum to build of a small, professionally equipped facility where ambitious exhibitions of the work of Vincent van Gogh, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, and John T. Biggers and his students from the then-fledgling Texas Negro College (now Texas Southern University). It was evident that Houstonians were receptive to new ideas.
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