Calendar Week of Monday, October 28, 2024-Sunday, November 3, 2024
Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography Through August 3, 2025
Showcasing 100 examples of contemporary Cuban photography, this exhibition traces the evolution of the medium’s role in Cuba over nearly five decades.
01 Nov Fri / 2024
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Bruno Munari, Never Happy (Mai Contenti), From the series: The Munari Books, Milan: Mondadori, 1945, Hirsch Library, Lester Beall Collection
Meet the Books | “Child’s Play: Artists as Children’s Book Illustrators”
6 p.m.—7 p.m.Discover more about the exhibition Child’s Play: Artists as Children’s Book Illustrators.
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Art Bites | British Paintings from the Blaffer Foundation
6:30 p.m.—7 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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Black Gospel
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun. Actors and real-life friends Yang Dong Geun, Jung Joon, and Kim Yoo Mi join members of Heritage, a musical ensemble whose members co-founded the Heritage Mass Choir on a trip to Harlem in New York City.
02 Nov Sat / 2024
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Paul Gauguin, Femmes de Tahiti (Tahitian Women), 1891, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo © TMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
Members Preview | “Gauguin in the World”
11 a.m.—5 p.m.MFAH members are invited to preview Gauguin in the World before the exhibition opens to the public.
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Pueblo (Acoma), Acoma Jar with Abstract Bird Design, early 1900s, clay, slip, and paints, Vilcek Foundation, IL.2020 – VF2019.02.02. Photograph © Vilcek Foundation
Saturday Members Tour | “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery”
1 p.m.—2 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the exhibition Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery.
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Fighter in the Wind (Baramui paiteo)
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun. Yang Dong-geun stars as real-life Korean-born Choi Yeong-eui as he arrives in 1938 Japan, hoping to become a fighter pilot, but ending up on a different path.
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Paul Gauguin, Femmes de Tahiti (Tahitian Women), 1891, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo © TMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
Members Lecture | “Gauguin in the World”
4 p.m.—5 p.m.MFAH members are invited to an exclusive lecture about the exhibition Gauguin in the World.
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Handsome Guys (Haenseomgaijeu)
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.
03 Nov Sun / 2024
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Little Artists
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.An exciting art adventure at MFAH for families.
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By the Stream (Suyoocheon)
2 p.m.—4 p.m.Jeonim, an artist teaching at a Seoul university, who invites her uncle—a former actor with a controversial past—to direct a student play. He becomes involved with an academic administrator who is improbably his super-fan, causing drama for everyone around them.
