Calendar Week of Sunday, January 19, 2025-Saturday, January 25, 2025
Gauguin in the World Through February 16, 2025
The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this ambitious exhibition showcasing the work of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.
19 Jan Sun / 2025
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Family Art-Making Studio 2025
1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Create and learn in this workshop for families. Explore a work of art in the galleries, then make your own masterpiece in the studio.
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Family Zone
1 p.m.—4 p.m.Visit the MFAH Family Zone for engaging gallery activities with coloring sheets, colored pencils, books, and more.
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Nicholas Thomas
Lecture | Gauguin and Polynesia: A New Perspective
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.
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Ernest Cole: Lost & Found
2 p.m.—4 p.m.Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s latest documentary chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole’s early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed Black life under apartheid to the world.
22 Jan Wed / 2025
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Paul Gauguin, Trois tahitiens (Three Tahitians), 1899, oil on canvas, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, presented by Sir Alexander Maitland in memory of his wife Rosalind 1960.
Drop-in Tour | “Gauguin in the World”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this ambitious exhibition showcasing the work of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.
23 Jan Thu / 2025
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John Robert Cozens, View of Vietri and Raito, Italy, c. 1783, watercolor over graphite on cream laid paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Dena M. Woodall.
Drop-in Tour | "Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond"
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.This tour visits the highlights "Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond" which explores how the genre of landscape evolved during an era of immense transformation in Britain.
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Concert | “Gauguin in the World”
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.The MFAH and the DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the exhibition Gauguin in the World.
24 Jan Fri / 2025
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The Stranger and the Fog (Gharibeh Va Meh)
7 p.m.—9:30 p.m.Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie's visually ravishing masterwork—banned for decades after the Iranian revolution—is set around the northern coast of Iran, where a boat drifts onto the shore of a small village.
25 Jan Sat / 2025
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Saturday Members Tour | “Gauguin in the World”
1 p.m.—2 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the exhibition Gauguin in the World.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Danaye anjir-e moabad)
7 p.m.—10 p.m.Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison for creating films that criticized the government, before his narrow escape to exile in Europe. Shot entirely in secret, Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centers on a family thrust into the public eye when one of them is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran.
