Goddamn I miss the museums in Houston. Swing by the menil too, while you're at it, its just across the lawn.
Yeah, I've never been to the Menil Collection-- I'm not sure why. I've been to the MFA like seven times. Don't know if you're still in Houston, but did you happen to catch the Singer Sargent exhibit this year? It was utterly wonderful.
Nah, I've been in Oakland for a couple years now, and the SFMoMA has been undergoing construction and won't be back up and running until 2016, and the art scene otherwise is pretty dreadful. There's a lot of focus on cheesy commercial art stuff or some typically bad tech-based art. The few who do good work (Holly Herndon, for instance, the noise scene here is great) typically are busy in LA or overseas. I have been been meaning to go to a Codame event, but I'm still skeptical. I'm coming back to Houston for the holidays to visit and am so looking forward to actually going to something worthwhile, it bums me out sometimes not being able to just go for a bike ride and see something really compelling, really relevant, and well curated. The Menil is fantastic, though, they work really well in conjunction with the other museums nearby.
Incidentally, I caught the impressionist exhibit -- it was a series of about a hundred paintings Monet did along different parts of the Seine. Included his classics from the winter of 18-whatever when the whole thing froze up. Really an amazing 90 minutes.