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  1. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Highlights the Mohammed Afkhami Collection of Contemporary Iranian Art in July

    Jun 5, 2017 - These works range across a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Opposing currents of satire and rebellion are encapsulated by Shirin Aliabadi’s Miss Hybrid 3 (2008), a staged photograph that explores the global self-consciousness which characterizes the generation of Iranians who came of age In addition, Afkhami is a founding member of the British Museum’s Middle East and North Africa Art Acquisition Committee, a member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Middle East and North Africa Art Acquisition Committee, and serves on

  2. MFAH Marks Milestone in Campus Redevelopment Project, as Nancy and Rich Kinder Building Breaks Ground

    May 31, 2017 - Additional features include a 200-seat theater, a café, a restaurant overlooking the sculpture garden, and an underground parking garage. conservators and scientists in a steel-and-glass structure that is set atop a Museum garage, with a public café at street level. The 14-acre redesign of the Museum’s Susan and Fayez S.

  3. “In the Studio: Craft in Postwar America, 1950–1970” at the MFAH

    May 11, 2017 - The exhibition, which is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is on view from May 18, to October 8, 2017. Complementing the works is a selection of ephemera and catalogs from the Hirsch Library emphasizing the professionalization of the field. Providing a snapshot of craft across America, the objects on view are made by many of the masters who established new aesthetics and modes of making in their respective mediums.

  4. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the Final Venue for the Most Comprehensive Survey of Modern Mexican Art in 70 Years

    May 9, 2017 - In Houston, the exhibition is also supported by: H-E-B Ignacio and Maria Isabel Torras  José Luis Barragán  The Honorable Oscar Rodriguez Cabrera     Consul General of Mexico  Celina Hellmund, Nina and Léon Brener-Hellmund As Mexican politics took a socialist turn, the end of the Spanish Civil War and World War II brought a number of exiled European artists to Mexico. of Modern art in Mexico during a period of political and social upheaval.

  5. The Latest in a Series of Summer Art Immersions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish”

    May 9, 2017 - “While each was conceived independently, together they achieve a new synergy as they coalesce into a greater whole. Rist explains further: “I want to make it clear that everything we look at is also always just organized light, which helps as I dissolve architecture and forms. Each light is controlled by a video signal so that the “forest” is constantly changing, sometimes shifting in a staccato rhythm, and sometimes in sinuous waves of color.

  6. Portraits of the displaced on view in “Homelands and Histories: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in May

    Apr 3, 2017 - As of May 4, the closing date shifted to October 1 from the original date of September 4. Audrey Jones Beck Building from May 6 to October 1.  Generous support is provided by Joseph M. Cohen and W. Temple Webber III.

  7. 2017 Core Exhibition

    Mar 16, 2017 - Hoehn is a recipient of a 2013 Fulbright Research Fellowship. The Glassell School of Art is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Her work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York included serving as co-organizer of the postgraduate R&D Seminars; editor of Six Degrees; and co-organizer of the 2015 R&D SPECULATION season.

  8. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Highlights 19th-Century Central Asian Ikats Beginning in March

    Feb 8, 2017 - In Houston, generous support for this exhibition is provided by: Bruce and Terry Baganz Luther King Capital Management Franci Neely The E. Rhodes & Leona B. possessions, often forming part of a dowry or passed down through the generations as family heirlooms. Since 2007, the Museum has been developing a focused collection with an emphasis on quality and rarity of the objects.

  9. “Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950” Opens This March, in Houston

    Feb 2, 2017 - Rather than offer a historical survey, the exhibition presents a thematic narrative focused on Cuba’s utopian aspirations and failures. Conga irreversible [Irreversible conga] (2012), a video of a performance piece staged during the 2012 Havana Bienal, shows a traditional Cuban street procession performed in reverse; the marchers and the crowds who blindly follow are a metaphor for the uncertainty of the country’s future.

  10. Comprehensive Survey of Works by Sculptor Ron Mueck Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in February 2017

    Jan 19, 2017 - up his blood-stained T-shirt to reveal a knife wound. In 1999, he became Artist Associate at the National Gallery, London, which allowed him to occupy a studio within the building, and gave him access to the collection and a space to create new work. Also on view are some of Mueck’s more unsettling works that explore themes of mortality, including Man in a Boat (2002), in which Mueck portrays an anxious traveler, perhaps in the underworld; and Youth (2009), a teenager lifting