Among the least surprising Houston art news to reach me lately is the news that the Art Car Museum is closing down. This was a private museum founded by in 1998 by James and Ann Harithas, both of whom died in 2022 and 2021. The pair did not make arrangements for the museum to continue indefinitely. I tend to see museums as public monuments that will last as for many lifetimes. But this is obviously not true, I assume that James and Ann Harithas weren’t attempting to create eternal monuments to themselves by founding the
I will miss this museum too. Saw some very interesting art there, again and again.