Caroline Wiess Law Building Lectures Week of Wednesday, August 28, 2024-Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Thomas Demand, Control Room, 2011, chromogenic print
Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History Through September 15, 2024

The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this internationally touring landmark retrospective of Thomas Demand’s work.

29 Aug Thu / 2024

  • Konoshima Okoku, Tigers, 1902, one of a pair of six-panel gold-ground folding screens; ink, color, gofun, and gold leaf on paper

    Konoshima Okoku, Tigers, 1902, one of a pair of six-panel gold-ground folding screens; ink, color, gofun, and gold leaf on paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Sandra Tirey and Jan van Lohuizen.

    Lecture | The Purrfect Subject: Cats in Japanese Art
    6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.

    This lecture about the book Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art is inspired by the exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan.