Calendar Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Celestial Conch Shell with Skulls
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 …

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.

  • Teacher Workshop
    Teacher Workshop | Look Club at the MFAH
    11:30 a.m.—2 p.m.

    The MFAH offers visual arts educators a space to connect and explore strategies for discussing art in their classrooms. 

  • Pueblo (Acoma), Acoma Jar with Abstract Bird Design, early 1900s, clay, slip, and paints

    Pueblo (Acoma), Acoma Jar with Abstract Bird Design, early 1900s, clay, slip, and paints, Vilcek Foundation, IL.2020 – VF2019.02.02. Photograph © Vilcek Foundation

    Saturday Members Tour | “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery”
    1 p.m.—2 p.m.

    MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the exhibition Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery.

  • 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.