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  1. Visions of Saints

    This in-focus selection of nine prints and drawings highlights images of saints from the late 16th through 18th centuries and celebrates the museum’s recent acquisition of Guido Reni’s beautiful chalk drawing Head of a Young

  2. Highlights of the Peter Blum Edition Archive

    A major coup of Walker’s tenure, the collection was originally exhibited at the MFAH in 2006 in Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980–1994. The Peter Blum Edition Archive, a landmark MFAH acquisition, is the inspiration for this exhibition. The 1996 acquisition was spearheaded by MFAH curator Barry Walker, who retired in August 2011. The collection contains 44 finished projects by 23 artists, and Blum enriched it by donating all the related preparatory materials, providing a complete record of many of the projects.

  3. Matthew Buckingham “Where Will We Live?”

    The centerpiece of this exhibition is Likeness, a 16mm, color film projection that screens within an installation made to look like a storage space. A survey of 10 additional works, spanning the artist’s oeuvre since 2000, is also view. Where Will We Live? is a Core Program exhibition presented at the museum’s Glassell School of Art. Whimsically merging historical moments with a personal narrative, Buckingham (born 1963) interprets significant events in fresh ways that prompt viewers to question collective memory.

  4. Paradise Underfoot: A 17th-Century Carpet from Iran

    Gardens held great social significance, because they were seen as a luxury, as well as spiritual importance because of their allusions to a celestial paradise. Carpets in the Islamic world defined different spaces in the lives of their owners, such as a sacred space for prayer or an imagined space for brilliant ornamentation in a simple, nomadic dwelling.  Another role was as a reverent space for the privileged or wealthy to sit, as demonstrated in the accompanying painting Layla and Majnum in School.

  5. Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection

    Heda, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Jan Steen—concludes a national tour at the MFAH. The exhibition is made possible through generous support from the Richard C. von Hess Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Circle of Friends in honor of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo.  Ann G. Trammell Education programs for this exhibition are made possible by the Favrot Fund.

  6. New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection

    Part of Life, Luxury & the Avant-Garde, a journey across continents and through centuries of art in four stunning shows this season. Accompanying the exhibition is a major catalogue, produced by the MFAH with Yale University Press, documenting the remarkable depth and breadth of the Cullen Collection. Shedding light on a little-known chapter of 20th-century art, the exhibition features more than 150 Czech avant-garde works collected by Houston philanthropists Roy and Mary Cullen.

  7. Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts

    Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts emphasizes a shared humanity rather than singular histories. Additional support is provided by: An Anonymous Donor Aramco Services Company The Crane Foundation Samuel F. Gorman Martha Katherine Long More than 200 objects of undisputed quality and appeal span the 8th through 19th centuries and represent a rich variety of media from the Middle East, Europe, and East Asia.

  8. Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs

    Among the highlights is the largest likeness of King Tut ever discovered: a 10-foot statue of the pharaoh found at the remains of a funerary temple.   Also showcased are objects associated with the most-important rulers of the 30 dynasties that reigned in Egypt over a 2,000-year span. These spectacular treasures—about half of which come from the tomb of King Tutankhamun—include the golden sandals found on the boy king’s mummy; a gold coffinette that held his stomach; golden statues of the gods; and King Tut

  9. Selected Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the MFAH Collection

    The piece Urban, which includes images of President John F. Kennedy, a baseball game, and the TIROS satellite, is an excellent example of the artist capturing the idealistic nature of America in the 1960s.

  10. Life & Luxury: The Art of Living in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    Experience the elegance of a typical day in a Paris town house during the 1700s. The activity of collecting—particularly art—is explored in a section that evokes a private Parisian galerie. This sumptuous exhibition offers a glimpse into the conventional activities in the cycle of a single day: dressing, writing, collecting, eating, and evening entertainment.