Calendar Week of Tuesday, May 21, 2024-Monday, May 27, 2024
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan Through September 15, 2024
Masterpieces from Japan’s Meiji era (1868–1912) reveal the profound cross-cultural impact of Japan’s developing relationships with the wider world.
12 Jul Fri / 2024
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MFAH Playdate | Summer 2024
11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.Children 4 and younger, and their adult caregivers, are invited to enjoy a multi-sensory experience in the galleries with songs, stories, games, and activities.
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Francisco Goya, Still Life with Golden Bream, 1846, oil on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund and the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund.
Tour | Artwork of the Month “Still Life with Golden Bream”
1:30 p.m.—2 p.m.On this guided tour, learn about Still Life with Golden Bream.
13 Jul Sat / 2024
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Studio Saturday at Rienzi
10 a.m.—NoonUnleash your creativity within Rienzi’s galleries.
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Saturday Members Tour | “Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History”
11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited on this exclusive tour of the exhibition Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History.
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Mitsutani Kunishirō, Flowers, c. 1910, oil on canvas, private collection.
Members Curatorial Lecture | “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan”
4 p.m.—5 p.m.MFAH members are invited to an exclusive lecture about the exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan.
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Summer Nights at the MFAH
Gallery Experience Audrey Jones Beck Building Caroline Wiess Law Building Nancy and Rich Kinder Building6 p.m.—9 p.m.Back by popular demand, Summer Nights at the MFAH returns every Saturday in July. Enjoy a cocktail, chat with a curator, hear live music, and spend time up close with your favorite works of art.
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Classe tous risques
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Claude Sautet’s first major feature stars Lino Ventura as Abel Davos, a wanted man in Italy, who stages a robbery in order to get money to relocate his family. As the losses mount and the noose tightens, Davos must decide when to call it quits.
