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"The house makes sort of a little museum of surprisingly indigenous artists"

Dividing her time between Houston and Manhattan along with writer/scholar husband James Harithas (former director of Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum) and seven children "who are in every different school in the world and have never once been home for vacation at the same time," Harithas spins through life like a whirling dervish patronizing up-and-coming as well as established artists, coating exhibitions and sending them on the road to an art-hungry public. A pivotal force in Houston's tumultuous art scene since 1969 when she opened Galerie Ann (which later became the now-defunct Robinson Gallery), Harithas is currently working on taking her most recent exhibition to New York; the highly acclaimed Collision opened at the University of Houston's Lawndale Annex last September.

ABOVE: Ann Harithas is Houston's guardian angel of emerging artists. RIGHT: Two large, colorful oils by San Antonio artist Mel Casas dominate a casual dining room.

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