Lectures Week of Sunday, August 11, 2024-Saturday, August 17, 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 …

19 Jan Sun / 2025

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  Lecture | Gauguin and Polynesia: A New Perspective

  Lecture Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

  2 p.m.—3 p.m.

  Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas will discuss the works of Paul Gauguin and Oceania. Thomas is the author of Gauguin and Polynesia which offers a fresh view on the artist, not from the perspective of European art history, but from the contemporary vantage point of the region – Oceania.