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
Houston Chronicle reporter Rebecca Hennes features the latest Weingarten Art Group public art project House of Cards by OGE Group arriving at Discovery Green this Fall. Designs from 20 local artists will be displayed on the faces of life-size playing cards and is a public art experience that can be enjoyed from the safety of…
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Art galleries, like many small businesses, are discovering that PPP relief only goes so far. When doors close and exhibitions go online, it’s not solely gallery revenue that is put in a precarious situation. For artists, selling their work is often their primary source of income. When lockdown first went into effect, Houston-based Inman Gallery…
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Great art isn’t static. It transforms the room in which it’s placed and sometimes every object that surrounds it. Such is the case with this Tomás Saraceno sculpture “Flammagenitus/M+I,” which produces an endless array of shapes, colors, and light projections for one Weingarten Art Group client. Over the past two years, in fact, our client…
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One thing we all feel particularly attuned to right now is the fluidity of time. We are in our homes, surrounded by people who are important to us and settings that are the background of our lives. It feels like an ideal time to consider the artworks we have collected, to discover more about them…
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