Caroline Wiess Law Building Events Week of Saturday, November 9, 2024-Friday, November 15, 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.
10 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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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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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.
14 Nov Thu / 2024
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gOD-Talk
6 p.m.—9 p.m.Presented to complement the exhibition Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples, this screening and discussion explore the spiritual lives of Black Millennials.
