Weingarten Art Group is a boutique art advisory firm with Houston roots and a national and international presence. The firm provides expert service and brings thoughtful, imaginative solutions to private, corporate and public clients, specializing in collection development, acquisitions and budget management, strategic planning, public art, corporate partnerships, education and travel.
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
Austin and Houston based Interior Designer Marcus Mohon is a strong advocate for the pairing of fine art with elegant design. When he was chosen to participate in the 2020 Kips Bay Designer Show House in Dallas, Texas he reached out to Weingarten Art Group to curate selections that would compliment his graceful and inviting…
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On Our Radar
“It never happened, and I never saw it, so I made it.” -Marco Castillo Marco Castillo’s reinterpretations of modernist Cuban art, architecture, and design are breathtaking and heartfelt tributes to Cuban craftsmanship from the 1960s and 1970s. We have long admired Castillo’s work as a founding member of Los Carpinteros, so when we discovered that…
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WAG in the News
Houston Chronicle‘s Arts and Culture writer Molly Glentzer shares the story of the new mural by french graffiti artist Blek le Rat that has been painted onto the facade of the newly constructed Residences at La Colombe d’Or. Blek le Rat, a 69-year-oldFrench graffiti artist, was selected by the Zimmerman’s who have been following Blek’s…
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WAG Project
WAG tapped Austin-based artist Melissa Borrell to create a mesmerizing commission for one of our corporate clients, a global investment management firm with headquarters in Austin. “TopoGraph” is a visual confection of a sculpture, providing changing views as you experience the art from different angles. Inspired both by Hill Country topology and by the visually cyclical…
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