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January 16, 2019 - MFAH Presents the 24th Annual “Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography” Exhibition
Title Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography When January 16–August 11, 2019 Overview The 24th edition of Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photographyopens today, January 16, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The annual photography exhibition is a collaboration between the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and area high schools to document and celebrate Houston’s … -
December 6, 2018 - Van Gogh survey opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in March 2019
“Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art” explores the artist through rarely loaned paintings and drawings from throughout the decade of his career Organized by the MFAH in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo HOUSTON—December 2018—Few artists have left behind as complete an account of their life and work as Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). In March 2019, … -
December 3, 2018 - “Mending: Craft and Community—Selections from the Museum’s Collection”
Title Mending: Craft and Community
Selections from the Museum’s Collection Dates December 8, 2018–October 20, 2019 Overview This exhibition showcases mending as an act of transformation by artists working in a wide range of craft-based materials. Through 28 objects drawn from the Museum’s collection, Mending: Craft and Communityexamines both formal and metaphorical examples of mending created … -
October 11, 2018 - Rarely Displayed 17th-Century Persian Garden Carpet from Glasgow’s Burrell Collection on View at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in November
The Wagner Garden Carpet, on tour in America for the first time, is presented alongside masterworks from the Hossein Afshar Collection in Garden Paradise: The Magnificent Safavid Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow HOUSTON—October 11, 2018—The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, explores the importance of the garden to Islamic cultures through the lens of the world-renowned and rarely exhibited … -
October 2, 2018 - Van Gogh survey opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in March 2019
“Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art” explores the artist through rarely loaned paintings and drawings from throughout the decade of his career Organized by the MFAH in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo HOUSTON—September 2018—Few artists have left behind as complete an account of their life and work as Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). In March 2019, … -
September 25, 2018 - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Partners with Mercantil Bank and Colección Mercantil Arte y Cultura, Caracas, to Present First Comprehensive Exhibition of Venezuelan Informalism
More than 130 works in “Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955−1975” explore the expressive richness and historical significance of the movement HOUSTON—September 2018—In October, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, partners with Colección Mercantil Arte y Cultura, Caracas, to present Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955−1975, a groundbreaking exhibition that charts the … -
September 17, 2018 - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, celebrates two mavericks of the American Avant-Garde with the exhibition “Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood”
HOUSTON—September 17, 2018—In November 2018, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will present Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood, a focused selection of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper that encapsulates each artist’s evolution across four decades and reveals the subtle affinities that link these two bodies of work. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the exhibition … -
August 21, 2018 - The Connoisseur’s Eye: New Perspectives on Ceramics in the Rienzi Collection at Rienzi
Title The Connoisseur’s Eye: New Perspectives on Ceramics in the Rienzi Collection Dates September 1, 2018–February 3, 2019 Overview The Connoisseur’s Eye highlights the extensive collection of ceramics at Rienzi, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, house museum for European decorative arts. Recent research has uncovered new information on pieces from lesser known English and Continental … -
July 18, 2018 - Unprecedented loans from the National Portrait Gallery, London, chronicle 500 years of the British monarchy at the MFAH in October
The exhibition “Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol” sheds new light on changing ideas of monarchy and nationhood in Britain, from Hans Holbein, Sir Peter Lely, and Sir Joshua Reynolds to Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, and Annie Leibovitz HOUSTON—July 2018—A major partnership between the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, brings a … -
May 23, 2018 - “Mike + Doug Starn: Big Bambú” Engulfs the Mies van der Rohe Galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, This Summer
“This Thing Called Life” marks the first time the artists’ ongoing “Big Bambú” project has been reconceived for a museum’s interior HOUSTON—May 23, 2018—In June, Mike and Doug Starn’s internationally acclaimed and ever-evolving Big Bambú project opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Engulfing two levels of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe–designed galleries with a monumental wave of bamboo, This …