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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Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle’s Senior Writer and Critic, Arts & Culture, features Weingarten Art Group’s latest public art installation at Discovery Green. “Paloma” by French studio Pitaya and “Here and Now” by Houston based Lina Dib come together to create a one-of-a-kind immersive environment along the Brown Promenade. In the feature Molly writes: The Discovery…
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Houston Press arts and culture writer Susie Tommaney includes Weingarten Art Group project at Discovery Green titled Paloma by French art studio Pitaya and Houston based Lina Dib in 10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston. About the installation Susie writes: By day Paloma will look like a flock of origami birds suspended from the live…
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WAG Project
Founding Partner and Lead Artist Patrick Renner of Flying Carpet Creative, gives us a fun behind the scenes look at their recent installation titled Sluice at the new Buffalo Heights H-E-B store. This colorful sculpture was brought to fruition thanks to the input of many people, hailing from all parts of Houston, who painted the…
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We are thrilled to share that Weingarten Art Group project Carlos Cruz-Diez at the Cistern: Spatial Chromointerference realized for Buffalo Bayou Partnership with the help of Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery has received a CODAworx Merit Award in the Public Spaces category. This project was selected from among 435 entries submitted from more than 26 countries…
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