3 Allen Center, 333 Clay St., Houston, from July 18 to August 21
Opening: August 5 From 11:30 am to 2:30 pm

1 Allen Center, 500 Dallas St., Houston from Aug. 22 to Sept. 26
Opening: September 2, 2010 From 11:30 am to 2:30 pm

This international exhibition featuring a variety of artists and media - painting, photography, sculpture, installation, literature and performance art – will invite each participant to open the door to his or her creative impulse.
The creative impulse calls us to life.
As writer  Guy Corneau says, "It's not just another assignment to complete. It’s about allowing our feelings to sink in, to open the door to them as one opens a garden’s door. Then our senses and native intuition enable the encounter of the ocean within us, the starry sky within us, and each part of the universe within us."
By allowing the viewer to live out his or her own creativity, the opening reception of Metamorphosis-Métamorphose-Metamorfosis will invite in new sensations, new dreams, new possibilities, and will create a space for transformation. Following this event, Metamorphosis will be hosted as a traveling exhibit in the corporate offices of our major sponsor.

Featuring: Katy Anderson, Maylis Hopewell-Curie, Jason Kishell, Kay Nguyen, Karine Parker-Lemoyne, Lisa Qualls, Voahangy Ramariavelo Grenier, Marie-Pierre Stien, Marie Valdez, Joëlle Verstraeten

More info on Rouge Art  and Et Voila Théâtre

Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201 (214) 922-1200

Through August 22, 2010

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Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea will be enhanced by an evocative sonic and musical installation relating and responding directly to the works on display.

Frank Dufour, assistant professor of Sound Design at the University of Texas at Dallas, developed this project with UT Dallas graduate students, Michael Austin, Jason Barnett, Luis Midence, Roxanne Mannish, and students at the Université du Sud Toulon Var working together in a bi-cultural exchange program.

This multilayer “sound-scape” will be heard throughout the exhibition and represents the most ambitious collaboration between UT Dallas and the Dallas Museum of Art to date.

The University of Texas at Dallas hosts the French Regional and American  Museum Exchange

March 19 to August 8, 2010
Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross Street
Houston, TX 77006

Leaps into the Void draws from the Menil’s strong holdings of work and material from the archives and collection that document through film, photographs and works of art, the movement’s ephemeral and performance-based projects, perhaps most famously epitomized by Yves Klein’s “Leap into the Void.”
The photograph by Harry Shunk, capturing the artist hurling himself from a Parisian rooftop, will be exhibited alongside other documents of the jump, including Klein’s publication emulating the Sunday edition of a daily newspaper, which he inserted into newsstands as a guerrilla intervention on the streets of Paris.
Archival photo documentation of Jean Tinguely’s self-destructing sculpture that went up in flames in a square in Milan, to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the founding of Nouveau Réalisme, will also be on display, alongside a 1966 film by Francois de Menil of the construction and deconstruction of HON, a monumental sculpture installed at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm by Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, and Per Olof Ultvedt.

Organized by Michelle White, Assistant Curator, the show highlights the temporality of a lesser-known avant-garde movement. Actively engaged with other conceptual and performance-based ways of making art as they were emerging in the United States at that time, such as like Fluxus, Assemblage and Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme was a brief but influential moment in the history of modern art.

More about the exhibit here.