Calendar Monday, October 21, 2024


Pueblo (Acoma), Acoma Jar with Abstract Bird Design, early 1900s, clay, slip, and paints
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery Through January 12, 2025

This traveling exhibition highlights Pueblo voices and aesthetics, offering an understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience.

09 Nov Sat / 2024

  • 2024 Rienzi Symposium

    William Hogarth, Industry and Idleness, Plate I: The Fellow ‘Prentices at Their Looms, October 1747, etching and engraving, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston.

    Rienzi Symposium | Skillful Hands
    11:15 a.m.—3:45 p.m.

    Rienzi presents a symposium on Skillful Hands: Apprentices and Networks of Learning 1650–1950 where selected participants present their research.

  • Candy Mountain Film Poster
    Candy Mountain
    2:30 p.m.—4:15 p.m.

    Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    The criminally under-seen rock ’n’ roll road movie from Robert Frank and longtime collaborator Rudy Wurlitzer sees Kevin O’Connor as a down-on-his-luck musician looking to strike it rich by locating elusive guitar-maker Elmore Silk, whose creations turn a major profit in the music scene.

  • Basquiat Film Poster
    Basquiat in B/W
    7:30 p.m.—9:30 p.m.

    Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    From visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel comes an evocative personal rendering of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, told in a series of vignettes tracing his turn from street kid graffiti artist to one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.