Calendar Week of Monday, August 26, 2024-Sunday, September 1, 2024
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.
27 Aug Tue / 2024
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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.
28 Aug Wed / 2024
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Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
Drop-in Tour | “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Experience an extraordinary look at Japan’s Meiji era.
30 Aug Fri / 2024
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Nostalghia
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, this cult favorite is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. Film critic J. Hoberman observed that “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.”
31 Aug Sat / 2024
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Hashiguchi Goyō, “This Beauty” Poster for Mitsukoshi, 1911, color lithograph, Darrel C. Karl Collection. Photograph: Alex Jamison
Saturday Members Tour “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan”
11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan.
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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
2 p.m.—3 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.
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“What I Know and When I Knew It” Reception
5 p.m.—6 p.m.Celebrate the opening of the What I Know and When I Knew It exhibition.
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Nostalghia
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, this cult favorite is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. Film critic J. Hoberman observed that “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.”
01 Sep Sun / 2024
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Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
2 p.m.—5:45 p.m.One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a 16th-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
