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Lea Weingarten began the Weingarten Art Group in 2006, after more than fifteen years’ experience of working with public and private art collections in achieving their collecting goals. Ms. Weingarten co-founded the Menil Collection’s popular Contemporaries collecting group at the personal request of Mme. Dominique de Menil.
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WAG In The News
Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle’s Senior Writer and Critic, Arts & Culture, features “Arcade” by The Color Condition at Discovery Green and Avenida Houston in the ongoing editorial series Art Daybook. Glentzer makes a direct comparison between the elements of the installation to the spirit of Houston post Hurricane Harvey. The article’s tagline summarizes her interpretation:…
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WAG in the News
Austin360‘s Michael Barnes features a new WAG project in Pease Park in Austin. Patrick Dougherty will build, with the help of many volunteers, one of his signature Stickwork environments: What a rush: Pease Park Conservancy has put out a call for volunteers to help build a major sculpture in the park in January 2018. Designed by renowned artist…
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WAG In The News
Curb Austin spotlights an upcoming WAG public art installation at Pease Park Conservancy: Pease Park Conservancy, keepers of Austin’s oldest park and much-beloved public park just west of downtown, will be soon bringing a major new piece of public art to the space. Patrick Dougherty, whose internationally acclaimed Stickwork project now has placed more than 275 distinct…
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WAG in the News
Houston Public Media correspondent Marissa Cummings features Arcade at Discovery Green in the Avenida Houston campus. The sound of hundreds of thousands of brightly colored streamers blow in the wind and drape over the street, Avenidas De Las Americas, in Downtown. The streamers bridge Discovery Green and the George R Brown together. Barry Mandel is the president of Discovery…
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