Pen & Paintbrush Book Discussion
The Pearl, in partnership with our neighbor, the Barbara Bush Branch Library, presents the Pen and Paintbrush Book Discussion series. The book club selects written works that relate to the current exhibitions on display at the museum, and typically meets 3 times a year -- once for each museum exhibition cycle.
Book club meetings include a discussion and a tour of the current exhibitions with a special emphasis on the common themes they share. All are welcome to join the discussion events -- no membership or RSVP required!
Book club meetings include a discussion and a tour of the current exhibitions with a special emphasis on the common themes they share. All are welcome to join the discussion events -- no membership or RSVP required!
Upcoming Book Selection
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo (2019)
Thursday, August 8, 2019 • 1:30pm
Northgate Forest Conference Room, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling and USA Today bestselling author of Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom, and the Shadow and Bone Trilogy. She is the first author in the DC Icons series, a collection of books in which the DC Comics super hero icons are written by megastar young adult authors. Bardugo breathes new life into the story of Wonder Woman, a powerful character featured prominently in the museum's summer exhibition, My Hero! Contemporary Art & Superhero Action. A tour of the art exhibition will follow the discussion, highlighting book themes as well as artists who have interpreted this iconic character.
Book summary:
Wonder Woman will become one of the world’s greatest heroes, but first she is Diana, princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. . . .
Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law to save a mere mortal, Alia Keralis. With this single heroic act, Diana may have just doomed the world.
Alia is a Warbringer. As a descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, she is fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery. Now Diana and Alia will face an army of enemies—mortal and divine—determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. If they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war.
Thursday, August 8, 2019 • 1:30pm
Northgate Forest Conference Room, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling and USA Today bestselling author of Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom, and the Shadow and Bone Trilogy. She is the first author in the DC Icons series, a collection of books in which the DC Comics super hero icons are written by megastar young adult authors. Bardugo breathes new life into the story of Wonder Woman, a powerful character featured prominently in the museum's summer exhibition, My Hero! Contemporary Art & Superhero Action. A tour of the art exhibition will follow the discussion, highlighting book themes as well as artists who have interpreted this iconic character.
Book summary:
Wonder Woman will become one of the world’s greatest heroes, but first she is Diana, princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. . . .
Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law to save a mere mortal, Alia Keralis. With this single heroic act, Diana may have just doomed the world.
Alia is a Warbringer. As a descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, she is fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery. Now Diana and Alia will face an army of enemies—mortal and divine—determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. If they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war.
Previous Book Selections
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Spring 2019
Book: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline Exhibition: An American View Revisited: The Hosek Collection of American Art |
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Spring 2017
Book: The Purloined Paperweight by P.G. Wodehouse Exhibition: A Collector's Passion: Fine Art Glass Paperweights |
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Winter 2016
Book: Riding the Black Cockatoo by John Danalis Exhibition: In the Dreamtime, Australian Aboriginal Paintings from Booker-Lowe Gallery |
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Summer 2016
Book: Flashback by Nevada Barr Exhibition: The National Parks: Select Images by American Photographer Mark Burns |
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Summer/Fall 2015
Book: The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson Exhibition: Dual Nature: Selections from the Chaney Family Collection |
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Spring 2015
Book: River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado by Margie Crisp Exhibition: Painting in the Texas Tradition: Contemporary Texas Regionalism |
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Summer 2014
Book: Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon by Andrew Chaikin and Victoria Kohl Exhibition: “Standing on the Moon” – NASA, the Apollo Program, and Space Exploration |
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Spring 2014
Book: Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling Exhibition: France: Northwest Houston Collects |
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Fall 2013
Book: Gone to Texas: Quilts from a Pioneer Woman’s Journal by Betsy Chutchian Exhibition: Texas Art Quilts, 1993-2011 |
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Summer 2013
Books: What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art by Will Gompertz - and - Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike Exhibition: Pop at the Pearl |
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Spring 2013
Book: An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin Exhibitions: Mesmerize - and - Northwest Houston Collects: Selections from the Home of Ginger and Fred Palumbo |
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Fall 2012
Book: Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros Exhibitions: My Journey, My Story Mi Viaje, Mi Historia - and - The Heart of Mary El Corazón de María |
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Spring 2012
Books: Houston Then and Now by William Dylan Powell - and - Houston Deco: Modernistic Architecture of the Texas Coast by Jim Parsons and David Bush Exhibition: Drive By Landscape: Lillian Warren |
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Fall 2011
Book: The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko Exhibition: Thresholds: Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak |
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Summer 2011
Book: 36 Views of Mt. Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan by Cathy N. Davidson Exhibition: View of Mt. Fuji: Selections from the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens |
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Spring 2011
Book: Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West by Erin Hogan Exhibition: Richard Long: Measured Spaces |
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Fall 2010
Book: Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Exhibition: The Grand Tour: British and French Portraits from a Texas Collection |
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Spring 2010
Book: True Women by Janice Woods Windle (Joint Selection with the Adult Book Club at the Barbara Bush Library) Exhibition: The Wilson Potters: An African-American Enterprise in 19th-Century Texas |
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Fall 2009
Book: The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne Exhibition: An American View: The Hosek Collection of American Art |
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Summer 2009
Book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Exhibition: Legends of Texas Maritime: Art and Artifacts from the Texas Seaport Museum |