Calendar Week of Wednesday, August 21, 2024-Tuesday, August 27, 2024


Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
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.

25 Aug Sun / 2024

  • Green Border Film Poster
    Green Border (Zielona granica)
    2 p.m.—4:30 p.m.

    Along the treacherous forests (“green border”) between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Instead, they become trapped in an escalating geopolitical standoff.

27 Aug Tue / 2024

  • Simon Willard's Patent Alarm Timepiece

    Simon Willard, Patent Alarm Timepiece, Lighthouse Clock, c. 1825, mahogany, brass, steel, iron, lead, glass, and enamel, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by the Lora Jean Kilroy Accession Endowment.

    Virtual Series | Fascinating Finds
    7 p.m.—8 p.m.

    In this three-part series, experts highlight fascinating stories about new works of art in the Bayou Bend Collection.