On opening day at Arthouse, a new museum in Marble Falls, modern art collectors (and owners) Jeanne and Mickey Klein stood in its gallery, discussing the aesthetics of limestone. The architect on the project, Grace Boudewyns of the firm Lake Flato, chatted with them; she was the one who’d chosen the large, smooth blocks of Lueders limestone for the facade of this low-profile building, which sits—striking but minding its own business—beside a former 1910 post office on Main Street. Mickey, an animated ninety-year-old, turned to me. “Do you know what Lueders is?” he asked.That’s the Texas town where the limestone came from. It’s “a marvel,” said Jeanne, who’s 81, “to see stone that surrounds us in the Hill Country used in such a creative way.”…The post Texas’s Best New Art Museum Is Hiding in a Small Hill Country Town appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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