Calendar Week of Saturday, January 25, 2025-Friday, January 31, 2025
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.
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.
26 Jan Sun / 2025
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Monthly Meditation Sessions by the Black Man Project + Black Woman Project
10 a.m.—11 a.m.The Black Man Project and Black Woman Project present monthly meditation sessions at the Museum.
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MFAH on the Move | Bilingual Yoga
11 a.m.—NoonMeet up at the Museum for free yoga on Sunday morning with FitMix Communities.
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Miriama Bono
Lecture | Gauguin’s Tahitian Legacy
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Architect, cultural consultant, and artist Miriama Bono will present the contemporary works of international artists Kanaky and Yuki Kihara, how their work draws inspiration from Gauguin, and the impact of the painter's legacy in Tahiti.
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6 A.M. (Sa'ate 6 Sobh)
2 p.m.—3:30 p.m.Sara lives in Tehran and has been accepted by a doctoral program in philosophy at a Canadian university. She has a 6 a.m. flight to catch, but her friends have planned one last party before she leaves Iran. What follows is a tense social drama depicting a group of people celebrating their friend’s success while the guest of honor worries about her early flight the next day.
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The Masterson Legacy: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour at Rienzi
2 p.m.—4 p.m.Step into the private world of the Masterson family, the original owners of Rienzi. Get an exclusive look at art objects and areas of the house not usually on view.
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Universal Language (Une langue universelle)
5 p.m.—6:30 p.m.Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin and Iranian writers Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati won the inaugural Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes for this absurdist comedy that variously evokes the films of Abbas Kiarostami, Wes Anderson, and Guy Maddin.
29 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.
30 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.
