A Houston Museum’s Huge Expansion

The first exhibit at Houston's Museum of Fine Arts' new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building is just as spectacular as the trapezoidal facility itself. Three gallery floors offer Caper, Salmonto White: Wedgework, 2000, a light-filled environment by James Turrell; kinetic sculptures by Jean Tinguely; The Hydrospatial City,1946–1972 by Argentinean artist Gyula Kosice; and a historic 1965 acquisition, Moon Dust (Apollo 17), 2009, an installation of suspended lights by Spencer Finch.

View of Trenton Doyle Hancock's Color Flash for Chat and Chew, Paris Texas in Seventy Two.

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The 237,000-square-foot Kinder Building, which took a decade to build, includes eight major commissioned works by such artists as Ai Weiwei, Byung Hoon Choi, and Ólafur Elíasson and offers the first comprehensive installation of the museum’s collections of modern art. The facility’s $385 million campus expansion includes a school of art and conservation center and, with 650,000 square feet, is the largest cultural construction project in North America in the last 10 years.