Opera Gallery debut
Opera Gallery Houston opened this week with a showing of modernist masterworks — including pieces by Chagall, Miró, Delvaux, Buffet, Riopelle and Valdés — marking a major gallery debut in the city (x.com). Nearby gallery programming also picked up pace: Cupola Gallery’s group show “Form” runs through April 25, and Nantwich Museum starts its first Open Art exhibition on March 31 ( ).
Opera Gallery Houston opened on March 20, 2026, with an inaugural presentation scheduled to run through April 19, 2026. (glasstire.com) The River Oaks outpost was announced as part of Opera Gallery’s international expansion and has been described in coverage as the group’s 14th global location. (fadmagazine.com) The gallery says the Houston program will rotate roughly forty works and stage three to four curated exhibitions each year. (operagallery.com) Opera Gallery’s opening catalogue in Houston lists masterworks and recent pieces by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Yayoi Kusama, Kehinde Wiley, Manolo Valdés and Fernando Botero. (operagallery.com) The space occupies a roughly 3,000‑square‑foot unit at 4444 Westheimer, Suite A115 in River Oaks District, and filings earlier in the project pegged the build‑out at about $7 million. (khou.com) Opera Gallery named Gregory Lahmi as Director and Kara Przybyl McIver as Deputy Director for the Houston gallery in press materials and local coverage. (glasstire.com) Nearby program details: Cupola Gallery’s selected group show "Form" opened in late March and runs through April 25, 2026, presenting works by roughly 45 artists in an open‑submission format. ( ) Nantwich Museum’s first Open Art Exhibition begins March 31, 2026, will run to June 20, 2026, and displays about 70 works chosen from more than 200 entries judged for the show. ( )
