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  1. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Announces Chris Goins as the General Manager of Retail

    Jul 21, 2015 - Goins comes to the Museum with a successful sales track as store director of Tootsies flagship shop in Houston. “We are thrilled to have Chris Goins join our team,” said Gary Tinterow. “The goal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, shops is to offer a diversified range of product that is smart, stylish, and closely aligned with the Museum’s overall mission,” said Goins. Goins will build upon the first-rate reputation of The MFAH Shop and The Shop at Bayou Bend, shaping robust offerings and engaging audiences with a focused approach to products and an improved guest experience.

  2. Major Rothko Retrospective opens at the MFAH September 20

    Jul 20, 2015 - In 1969 and 1970, Rothko introduced a new painterliness in a series of black-and-gray compositions. The exhibition concludes with a brilliant red canvas from 1970, one of the final works of his career. Late Work From the late 1950s well into the 1960s, Rothko’s work assumed a more somber note, as he favored a darker palette and austere, subdued handling of paint. Across a career spanning the most troubled years of the 20th century, Rothko explored the tragic and the sublime, and his canvases remain a testament to the deep humanism he brought to modern painting.

  3. “In Appreciation: Gifts in Honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker”

    Jun 17, 2015 - Among the gift highlights are a large print of Richard Avedon’s Dovima with Elephants (1955); Nan Goldin’s multimedia Ballad of Sexual Dependency; a unique Man Ray photomontage from around 1926; a photograph by the medium’s inventor A selection of these gifts will be on display in the special exhibition In Appreciation: Gifts in Honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker. Hired in 1976 to establish a Department of Photography, Tucker arrived at the MFAH to nascent holdings of 141 images.

  4. “Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna’s Imperial Collections” Opens at the MFAH in June

    May 13, 2015 - I and his heirs. Highlights include: • Armor of Emperor Maximilian I (c. 1492) made by Lorenz Helmschmid • Bronze bust of Emperor Charles V (c. 1555) by Leone Leoni • A rock crystal goblet made for Emperor Frederick III (1400–1450) GOLDEN A hundred years later, in 1916, Emperor Charles I inherited a dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy upon the death of longtime Emperor Franz Joseph.

  5. The MFAH Highlights Latin American Art This Summer

    Apr 29, 2015 - At a time when few paid attention to the physical depletion of the planet, Kosice’s The Hydrospatial City was both a sounding alarm and a poetic manifesto for mankind’s survival in space. In the 1960s and 1970s, Gego pioneered a structural method for drawing in space with a series of flexible, hanging net sculptures made of stainless steel wire. Additional spaces include a repertory cinema, two libraries, public archives, and facilities for conservation and storage.

  6. “Shadow Monsters”

    Apr 1, 2015 - Essentially a digital version of a traditional shadow-puppet theater, Shadow Monsters allows visitors to create their own shadow plays, making a childhood game of imagination a reality. As of September 3, the end date has been extended from September 20 to November 1, 2015. I enjoy working with simple, intuitive things; playful feelings that touch us on a very basic level.

  7. “Pablo Bronstein: We Live in Mannerist Times”

    Mar 31, 2015 - Complementing these renderings are a small selection of porcelains from the Museum’s Rienzi Collection, displayed in cases throughout the gallery. They comprise a sequence of images of machines and details, many derived from the steam engine, which was the most advanced technology of the time. Title Pablo Bronstein: We Live in Mannerist Times Dates April 15–August 23, 2015 Overview London-based artist Pablo Bronstein uses architecture as a means to engage with the power of history, monuments, and the built

  8. “A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins”

    Mar 23, 2015 - Title A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins Dates April 4–July 5, 2015 Overview This exhibition celebrates the gift and promised gift of more than 400 photographs from the collection of Michael Marvins, a fourth-generation, Houston-based studio photographer, and his wife, Michele. light by Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, and Mario Giacomelli; spatial perspectives, including Western landscapes by Ansel Adams and William Henry Jackson and urban views by Alvin Langdon Coburn and O.

  9. “American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkins”

    Mar 19, 2015 - Title American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkins Dates April 16–July 19, 2015 Overview American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Trained as an art historian and museum professional, Alice C. Simkins is a leading supporter of the arts in San Antonio and Houston. Following Houston, American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkins will travel to the McNay Art Museum, where it will be seen from September 30 to December 6, 2015.

  10. The 20th Annual “Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography” opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on Tuesday, February 3

    Jan 27, 2015 - Hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 10 a.m.–9p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 12:15–7 p.m. Sunday. Call 713.639.7300 or visit www.mfah.org for more information. What On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, debuts Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography, the annual photography exhibition that offers a unique view of Houston through the eyes of its Eye on Houston features photographs by students from three Houston-area high schools: Jack Yates High School, Bellaire High School, and César E. Chávez High School.