I can’t live without a cup of coffee in the morning, but I also love a good cup of tea. While today tea is an incredibly popular drink, it has an extensive social history.

"Woman with Outstretched Arms" has a special place in Picasso’s career. As a child, he cut figures and animals from paper for to entertain his younger sisters, and cut paper played a major role in his development of Cubist collage. Decades later, he returned to making cutouts once again, and in the early 1950s he began to translate his paper maquettes into small cut-and-folded sheet metal figures.

MFAH conservator Steve Pine assisted New York and national efforts to salvage damaged art following Hurricane Sandy.

Just before our last fellows of 2012 left, they got stuck in the elevator at the Dora Maar House. Some former Dora Maar fellows may just now be thinking, "hey that’s a good strategy to not have to leave." But the "pompiers" (firemen) were called . . .

If you haven’t already seen "There is no archive in which nothing gets lost," hurry! Head over to the Glassell School of Art before the show closes on November 25. Sally Frater, the curator and a critical studies Core resident, selected works that are fresh, so to speak—made within the past decade. . . .