We revisited the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and that might look like a failure of adventurousness or even imagination but we've otherwise been busy on various things that aren't reported here, like several Tex-Mex and a classy Japanese and even a Michelin star Indian restaurant and dive bars and the like. This MFA return was for some dear styles that we had missed, especially a temporary exhibition of life in Trajan Rome (stunning) and the more of the Haute Couture from the Louvre (stunning if often unwearable) and Mediaeval and Renaissance Euro art (unfashionable but I love this stuff), the statue garden and even contemporaries like James Turrell. As an aside, I get annoyed by works entitled "Untitled" as the artist should know best what a work is about, but I was amused by one entitled "Untitled (Broccoli) / Harry Betoia" which was exactly what it was. My faves were some lovely works in the style of Cranach, a heart rending Botticelli lady and a lesser but large Botticelli nativity roundel, a glowing blue-white Andrea della Robbia and a few French bronze nudes in the garden. Plenty of others of interest, too, of course. Not a collection like the Met or Louvre or Uffizi but still a pleasure and given a second visit, we are satisfied.
The Museum of Fine Arts is in Houston.
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