ArtCar Museum

Art Car Museum
Art Car Museum - 140 Heights Blvd
ArtCar Museum is located in Texas
ArtCar Museum
Location within Texas
ArtCar Museum is located in the United States
ArtCar Museum
ArtCar Museum (the United States)
EstablishedFebruary 1998
LocationHouston, Texas
Coordinates29°46′19.56″N 95°23′49.56″W / 29.7721000°N 95.3971000°W / 29.7721000; -95.3971000
TypeArt museum
Collection sizeAutomobiles
Websitewww.artcarmuseum.com

The Art Car Museum is a private museum of contemporary art located in Houston, Texas, United States. The museum, nicknamed the "Garage Mahal," opened in February, 1998. Its emphasis is on art cars, fine arts, and artists that are rarely seen in other cultural institutions. The museum's mission is to elevate awareness of the political, economic, and personal dimensions of art.

The museum was founded by Ann Harithas, artist and long-time supporter of the Art Car movement, and James Harithas, former director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and late director of the Station Museum, Houston, Texas.

The museum showroom celebrates the spirit of this post-modern age of car-culture, in which artists have remolded stock cars to the specifications of their own idiosyncratic images and visions. The museum features elaborate art cars, lowriders, and mobile contraptions, as well as organizing a number of temporary exhibitions by local, national, and international artists, some accompanied by catalogs, such as a retrospective of the social/political, pointillist paintings by Houston artist Ron Hoover (1944-2008) held in 2010.[1] and a survey of the work of artist John Atlas in 2014.[2]

The museum is scheduled to re-open in the The Orange Show. Previously it was located at 140 Heights Blvd, Houston, TX 77007, which began operations in 1998.[3] The Houston Heights location closed in April 2024.[4]

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References

  1. ^ Johnson , Patricia C., Noah Edmundson, James Harithas, and Jim Hatchett. 2010. Ron Hoover, A Retrospective: 1972 - 2007. Art Car Museum / Ineri Publishing, Houston, Texas. 64 pp.
  2. ^ Hatchett, Jim, and Noah Edmundson. 2014. John Atlas, 1960-2015: A Survey. Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas. 46 pp. ASIN B01CQ9UZK2
  3. ^ Guzmán, Andrea (2024-09-30). "The Art Car Museum has a new home at the Orange Show after a $1.25M donation". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  4. ^ Shey, Brittany (2024-03-03). "Houston's Art Car Museum will close for good in April". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-10-01.