Calendar Week of Thursday, February 13, 2025-Wednesday, February 19, 2025
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 …
13 Feb 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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Art Encounters
6 p.m.—8 p.m.Discover a new art experience at Art Encounters.
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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.
Tour & Toast | “Picturing Nature”
6:15 p.m.—7:15 p.m.Join fellow art enthusiasts for a private group tour through Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th and 19th Century British Landscapes and Beyond.
14 Feb Fri / 2025
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Love & Basketball
7 p.m.—9:15 p.m.All is fair in Love & Basketball. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this romance and sports genre film serves as a landmark for Black women filmmaking for its authentic representation of female athletes, Black love, and female independence.
15 Feb Sat / 2025
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Dahomey
7 p.m.—8:15 p.m.Mati Diop’s hypnotic documentary explores the journey of 26 historical artifacts being returned from French museums to present-day Benin (formerly the West African Kingdom of Dahomey), from where they were plundered during colonial times.
16 Feb 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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Love & Basketball
2 p.m.—4:15 p.m.All is fair in Love & Basketball. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this romance and sports genre film serves as a landmark for Black women filmmaking for its authentic representation of female athletes, Black love, and female independence.
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Daughters of the Dust
5 p.m.—7 p.m.Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of Black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. Set in 1902, it follows a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands near South Carolina as they struggle to maintain their heritage.
