Calendar Week of Sunday, September 13, 2015-Saturday, September 19, 2015
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism Through May 27, 2024
A creative partnership between Henri Matisse and André Derain in 1905 changed the course of French painting. This exhibition showcases the legacy of that collaboration through paintings, drawings, and …
28 Mar Thu / 2024
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Drop-in Tour | The Arts of Asia
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.On this guided tour, discover the cultures of China, the Himalayas, India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia in the Museum’s art collections.
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Core Program | Open Studios 2024
4 p.m.—9 p.m.Drop by the Core Program studios to see what the fellows have been working on this year.
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The Artist’s Daughter, Oil on Canvas
5 p.m.—6 p.m.A visit to her estranged father’s exhibition of self-portraits renews the filmmaker’s relationship with him, but not the way she expected.
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Happy Hour Thursday
5 p.m.—8 p.m.Happy Hour Thursday is the place to be! Meet your friends at the MFAH for the best night of the week.
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Art Bites | The Masks of Africa
6 p.m.—6:30 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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Art Encounters | “Vertigo of Color”
6 p.m.—8 p.m.This Art Encounters session invites you to participate in a collaboration between visual art, music, and dance inspired by the exhibition Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism.
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FotoFest | Wendel A. White on “Difficult Histories”
6:30 p.m.—8 p.m.Wendel A. White discusses the photographs in his FotoFest exhibition Difficult Histories—Selections from Red Summer and Manifest.
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Art Bites | The Masks of Africa
7 p.m.—7:30 p.m.A little art can go a long way! Visit the galleries for a snippet of art appreciation.
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Drop-in Tour | “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence”
7 p.m.—8 p.m.Take a guided tour of the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence.
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Martha Liebermann: A Stolen Life (Martha Liebermann – Ein gestohlenes Leben)
7:30 p.m.—9 p.m.An upper-class widow in Berlin could never have imagined having to leave her beloved homeland at the age of 85. As a German Jew in 1943, however, her only choice is to go abroad or wait to be deported to a concentration camp.