Calendar Week of Sunday, August 18, 2024-Saturday, August 24, 2024
Gauguin in the World Through February 16, 2025
The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this ambitious exhibition showcasing the work of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.
10 Nov Sun / 2024
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Bird
5:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Houston Cinema Arts Festival
A striking coming-of-age tale that hides its magic in plain sight, Bird follows 12-year-old Bailey, who lives with her single father, Bug, and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug struggles to find time for his children, leading Bailey to seek adventure elsewhere. Leaving the squat, she meets Bird, an eccentric dreamer who dares Bailey to spread her wings.
13 Nov Wed / 2024
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Celestial Conch Shell with Skulls, Huastec, Veracruz (Northern), Mexico, 900–1521, conch shell, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by James C. Flores in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. at “One Great Night in November, 2007.”
Drop-in Tour | “Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Explore humanity’s relationship with the divine in this expansive examination of spiritual ideas and concepts.
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield (2006)
History Book Club “A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.The History Book Club hosts a free virtual discussion about A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire.
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield (2006)
History Book Club “A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire”
7 p.m.—8 p.m.The History Book Club hosts a free virtual discussion about A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire.
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I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (Jeste nejsem, kým chci být)
7:30 p.m.—9 p.m.Houston Cinema Arts Festival
In the last decades of the Soviet Union, a young, queer female photographer breaks free from the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime and embraces the underground hedonism of the times on a wild journey to freedom and self-acceptance.
14 Nov Thu / 2024
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Maarten Van Severen, manufactured by Kartell, LCP00 (Low Chair Plastic), designed 2000, manufactured 2003, PMMA and metal, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the American Institute of Architects, Houston Design Collection, museum purchase funded by the American Institute of Architects, Houston.
Drop-in Tour | “150 Years of Design: The AIA Houston Collection”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Explore objects designed by architects in a unique collaboration between the MFAH and the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
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Art Bites | Ab Ex in NYC
6 p.m.—6:30 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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gOD-Talk
6 p.m.—9 p.m.Presented to complement the exhibition Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples, this screening and discussion explore the spiritual lives of Black Millennials.
