Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Saturday, November 2, 2024-Friday, November 8, 2024
Ken Mazzu: Points of Interest Through October 25, 2024
ON VIEW AT GLASSELL SCHOOL OF ART | Ken Mazzu: Points of Interest is the first exhibition in a series celebrating the Junior School faculty at the Glassell School of Art.
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 Lecture | “Gauguin in the World”
4 p.m.—5 p.m.SOLD OUT | 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.Misunderstood friends Jae-pil and Sang-gu appear to be tough guys, but are more often clueless. When they achieve their dream of buying a fixer-upper and living in the country, they come to the aid of a drowning girl yet are mistaken for kidnappers. The town is searching for the girl, police get involved, and a dark, ancient spirit is awakened in the men’s basement!
03 Nov Sun / 2024
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Little Artists
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.An exciting art adventure for families at the Museum.
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By the Stream (Suyoocheon)
2 p.m.—4 p.m.Jeonim, an artist teaching at a Seoul university, 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 a super-fan, causing drama for everyone around them.
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Save the Green Planet! (Jigureul jikyeora!)
5:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Ahead of its time in 2003, Save the Green Planet! is now a cult favorite thanks to the popularity of the Korean New Wave. Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-kyun) believes the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and he sets out to save planet Earth.
06 Nov Wed / 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.”
Drop-in Tour | “Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Explore humanity’s relationship with the divine in this expansive examination of spiritual ideas and concepts.
