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  1. Virtual Cinema Celebrates Pride Month

    May 24, 2021 - June 12, “Night Out at the Movies: A Reel Pride Pop-Up” includes the premiere of the documentary Ailey. Plans are being finalized for a hybrid event, with films streaming online and also projected in person. Check www.q-fest.com for details. About the AuthorMarian Luntz is film curator for the MFAH. These two stories of conflict and struggle are intertwined over the amazing 103-day trek, with the magical, rugged coastline a backdrop to the story of her transition.• SEE THE TRAILER• WATCH HERE beginning June 25 Reel PrideOn

  2. Virtual Cinema | See Maggie Cheung’s Luminous Portrayal of Chinese Silent-Film Star Ruan Lingyu in “Center Stage”

    May 22, 2021 - Your ticket ($10) supports the MFAH and provides a 3-day pass to the film. SEE THE TRAILER About the AuthorElizabeth Klett is a professor of literature at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. Kwan uses these techniques to undercut the traditional idea of the biopic, which tends to depict a linear, realistic account of an individual life. Yet Kwan reminds us that Ruan’s life, like any life, is fragmented and ephemeral—though often achingly beautiful. • Center Stage / WATCH HERE May 28–June 6.

  3. Virtual Cinema | An Icelandic Dairy Farmer Challenges Local Corruption in “The County”

    May 20, 2021 - .” • The County / WATCH HERE May 28–June 6. Your ticket ($10) supports the MFAH and provides a 3-day pass to the film. —Empire magazine In The County, a drama set in a small Icelandic farming community, middle-aged dairy farmer Inga (a mesmerizing Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir) rebels against the all-powerful local Cooperative. Less than 5 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, a male-dominated industry. As Inga strives to rescue her community, she discovers that having principles matters more than living off the land.

  4. Make Your Own Art Inspired by Vincent van Gogh, David Hockney, and Their Love of Nature

    May 17, 2021 - Art-Making Activity | Exploring Horizon Lines and Creating a Landscape Painting• Activity Guide Art-Making Activity | Exploring Trees in Nature• Activity Guide Art-Making Activity | Sketching a Road in Nature• Activity Guide Virtual Learning & Interpretation programs are generously underwritten by the Jerold B. Katz Foundation. Anderson FoundationCarol and Mike LinnAnn G. Trammell This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. Official Promotional Partner:

  5. See Glorious Masterpieces from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library

    May 14, 2021 - as a boy. The Duchess of Alba by Francisco de Goya (slideshow image #2)Standing before a river on one of her estates, the duchess—among the great beauties of her age—is dressed as a fashionable urbanite and fixes her gaze outward. Louis Comfort Tiffany by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (slideshow image #4)While in the United States for an exhibition tour in 1911, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida undertook several portrait commissions, including one for renowned American

  6. Rienzi Gallery Talk | Works on Paper in “Perpetual Bloom”

    May 14, 2021 - “You look at these figures and you think you’re somehow in a Jane Austen novel.” Watch this Gallery Talk to learn more about Jacques Rigaud’s The Rotunda at Stowe and Thomas Rowlandson’s Elegant Figures in a Walled Garden.

  7. Find a Diversity of Design in the Kinder Building Galleries

    May 12, 2021 - A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. On the second floor, you’ll find a diversity of contemporary craft and design objects to intrigue all ages. A Curator’s DreamCurator Cindi Strauss offers her perspective on the inspiration that awaits. “The new galleries for decorative arts, craft, and design in the Kinder Building are a curator’s dream come true.

  8. Virtual Cinema Presents the Award-Winning New Drama “There Is No Evil”

    May 11, 2021 - Shortly after There Is No Evil won the Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, Rasoulof was sentenced to a year in prison and a two-year ban on filmmaking. Your ticket ($12) supports the MFAH and provides a 5-day pass to the film. SEE THE TRAILER Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and the Vaughn Foundation. In “Birthday,” a soldier on leave plans to propose to his girlfriend at her birthday party, until the celebration is postponed. The last story, “Kiss Me,” is a sentimental melodrama with an unexpected twist.

  9. Virtual Cinema Showcases New German Films

    May 3, 2021 - I Was I Am I Will Be flashes back to identify the newlyweds. Marion, an airline pilot who has just received a cancer diagnosis, goes on a trip with her lover to a Turkish resort, where she encounters Baran, a sex worker. The MFAH joins Goethe Pop Up Houston and Houston Cinema Arts Society to feature two dramas via Virtual Cinema: Exile and I Was I Am I Will Be. I Was I Am I Will BeThe opening montage features photocopied passports, multiple translated languages, and a wedding that seems to be as unromantic and transactional as possible.

  10. Virtual Cinema Presents the Essential “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts”

    Apr 29, 2021 - . • Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts / WATCH HERE May 7–June 6. Your ticket ($12) supports the MFAH and provides a 5-day pass to the film. Creative GeniusEven though Traylor’s art-making lasted only a few years, it was truly a life’s work. Traylor lived most of his life on the farm where he was born, first as a slave, then as a sharecropper and tenant farmer.