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  1. “Olafur Eliasson: The collectivity project”

    Oct 19, 2015 - The collectivity project is an installation of more than 580,000 white LEGO® bricks that allows the public to create an imaginary cityscape. The Houston presentation of The collectivity project coincides with the groundbreaking of the Museum’s Fayez S. Sarofim Campus and the new Glassell School of Art. collectivity project” Dates Through January 31, 2016 Overview This past weekend, the 5,000 guests who attended the Mixed Media Block Party at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, were among the first to help create a

  2. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Breaks Ground on the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus

    Oct 15, 2015 - Richard D. Steven Holl Architects’ New Glassell School of Art: A Gateway to the Fayez S. By the early 1970s, growing enrollment led to plans for a new building to house the art school. The Glassell School of Art, an efficient, utilitarian design by Eugene Aubry for the architecture firm of S. I.

  3. Christopher Rothko joins Gary Tinterow for “Conversations with the Director” on Monday, November 16, 2015

    Oct 6, 2015 - When Monday, November 16, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.  The program coincides with Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, on view now through January 24, 2016, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Tickets are on sale now and available on a first-come, first-served basis online at www.mfah.org/conversations or on site at any Museum admissions desk.

  4. Contemporary Latin American Art Featured at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in November

    Aug 18, 2015 - In Teresa Serrano’s La piñata (2003), we watch as a man beats to death a piñata that is shaped and dressed to look like a woman from the Mexico–United States border. The piece presents a metaphor for resistance in that a heavy concrete block is precariously balanced on top of rows of these teeth, and rocks back and forth in a grinding motion. From a distance, the leaves could be a line of ants; up close, the allusion to farm laborers and the narcotics trade becomes apparent.

  5. Dutch Master Joachim Wtewael (1566–1638) Subject of Major Monographic Exhibition at the MFAH Beginning in November

    Aug 17, 2015 - Wtewael also made large narrative paintings that focus on a single figure, including the sensual Perseus and Andromeda (1611) and the evocative The Kitchen Maid (c. 1620–25). Ranging from portraits and moralizing biblical scenes to florid mythological compositions, these works underscore Wtewael’s reputation as a remarkable storyteller and a great master of the Dutch Golden Age. The exhibition is on view in Houston from November 1, 2015, to January 31, 2016.

  6. “Defining the Body: Contemporary Figuration on Paper”

    Aug 4, 2015 - artists of the 1980s, including Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, and A. Title Defining the Body: Contemporary Figuration on Paper Dates August 1–November 1, 2015 Overview Artists draw the form—nude or clothed, the entire body or certain parts—and look to their family members, friends On view from Saturday, August 1, to Sunday, November 1, 2015, the installation presents examples of Realism by figurative artists of the 1960s and 1970s, such as George Segal and Philip Pearlstein; moves on to the Neo-Expressionist

  7. 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.

  8. 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. The following summer, Rothko taught at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), where his canvases assumed a fresher palette and a more painterly quality.

  9. “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 Hired in 1976 to establish a Department of Photography, Tucker arrived at the MFAH to nascent holdings of 141 images. A selection of these gifts will be on display in the special exhibition In Appreciation: Gifts in Honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker.

  10. “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.