Calendar Week of Monday, November 4, 2024-Sunday, November 10, 2024
Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples Through January 20, 2025
Exploring 3,000 years of spiritual belief and practice, the expansive Living with the Godsfeatures more than 200 objects from the MFAH collections, along with exceptional loans from museums and …
10 Nov Sun / 2024
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The Masterson Legacy: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour at Rienzi
2 p.m.—4 p.m.Step into the private world of the Masterson family, the original owners of Rienzi. Get an exclusive look at art objects and areas of the house not usually on view.
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Bird
5:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Houston Cinema Arts Festival
A striking coming-of-age tale that hides its magic in plain sight, Bird follows 12-year-old Bailey, who lives with her single father, Bug, and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug struggles to find time for his children, leading Bailey to seek adventure elsewhere. Leaving the squat, she meets Bird, an eccentric dreamer who dares Bailey to spread her wings.
13 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.
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield (2006)
History Book Club “A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.The History Book Club hosts a free virtual discussion about A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire.
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield (2006)
History Book Club “A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire”
7 p.m.—8 p.m.The History Book Club hosts a free virtual discussion about A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire.
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I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (Jeste nejsem, kým chci být)
7:30 p.m.—9 p.m.Houston Cinema Arts Festival
In the last decades of the Soviet Union, a young, queer female photographer breaks free from the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime and embraces the underground hedonism of the times on a wild journey to freedom and self-acceptance.
