Art in Fairhope

Join us for a charming Spring Fairhope sale. This contemporary cottage houses the collection of Fairhope resident, art critic, and curator Mimi Detering. Mimi and her deceased husband Hermann Detering embodied an academic, postmodern and deconstructive approach to art. They were mythicists, deeply influenced by Claude Levi Straus, Jacque Derrida and the history of photography, psychology and animal rights. Hermann was a "Cow Whisperer", a rancher, a professor at Rice University and philanthropist and most of his collections are in public institutions in Texas. Mimi, a Houston based art critic. They owned Detering Book Gallery, a rare bookstore in the...