Calendar Week of Saturday, August 31, 2024-Friday, September 6, 2024
Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West Through September 2, 2024
Raqib Shaw blends Eastern and Western influences to create mesmerizing works of art that merge fable, history, and autobiography.
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.Advance tickets are sold out, with a limited number available on-site the morning of the tour. 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.—7 p.m.Celebrate the exhibition What I Know and When I Knew It.
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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.
02 Sep Mon / 2024
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Open on Labor Day
11 a.m.—5 p.m.The Museum and Bayou Bend—usually closed on Monday—are open on Labor Day for the long weekend.
05 Sep Thu / 2024
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Teacher Workshop | Maximizing Your Teacher-Guided Visits
5 p.m.—6:30 p.m.This Hearst Foundation workshop helps teachers maximize their Museum visits.
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Unidentified Peruvian Artist, Mater Castissima, 1776, oil on canvas, collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma.Art Bites | Spanish Viceregal Paintings from the Thoma Collection
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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The Artist & the Book | Rahim Fortune in Conversation with Nicole Fleetwood
6 p.m.—7 p.m.Artist Rahim Fortune and art historian Nicole Fleetwood discuss how books, research, and libraries are central protagonists in the art world today.
06 Sep Fri / 2024
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MFAH Playdate
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.
