Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Sunday, October 20, 2024-Saturday, October 26, 2024
![Jacolby Satterwhite, A Metta Prayer, 2023, site-specific, 4-channel multimedia installation](https://static.mfah.com/images/jacolby-satterwhite-metta-prayer.8025177178093219395.jpg?width=540&height=540&bgcolor=blur)
Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer Through October 13, 2024
In the expansive multimedia installation A Metta Prayer, Jacolby Satterwhite fuses choreography, video, animation, lighting, and music to reimagine a kaleidoscopic, computer-generated world.
20 Oct Sun / 2024
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Family Art-Making Studio | Fall 2024
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Create and learn in this workshop for families. Explore a work of art in the galleries, then make your own masterpiece in the studio.
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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.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.