Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Monday, October 7, 2024-Sunday, October 13, 2024
![Maarten Van Severen, manufactured by Kartell, LCP00 (Low Plastic Chair), designed 2000, manufactured 2003, PMMA and metal](https://static.mfah.com/images/maarten-van-severn-lcp00-low-chair-plastic.2692313923430613730.jpg?width=540&height=540&bgcolor=blur)
150 Years of Design: The AIA Houston Collection Through Summer 2025
Objects designed by architects celebrate a unique collaboration between the MFAH and the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
20 Oct Sun / 2024
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Brewster McCloud
5 p.m.—7 p.m.In her first feature film, Shelley Duvall is “unlike anyone seen onscreen before.” Bud Cort plays Brewster, an intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter within the Astrodome.
26 Oct Sat / 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.”
Members Preview | “Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples”
11 a.m.—5 p.m.MFAH members are invited to preview “Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples” before the exhibition opens to the public.
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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.”
Members Preview Lecture | “Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples”
4 p.m.—5 p.m.SOLD OUT | MFAH members are invited to an exclusive lecture about the exhibition Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples.
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3 Women
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Shelley Duvall won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role of Millie, the vain chatterbox roommate to naive teenage coworker Pinky (Sissy Spacek), with whom she appears to exchange identities. Janice Rule also stars.