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  1. Unrivalled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art

    Mar 2, 2012 - Education programs for this exhibition are made possible by The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. She writes in the exhibition catalogue: “John Powers’ passion, enthusiasm, and learning resulted in a collection of the highest quality. I do not think it would be possible to make a collection of this caliber today. September 3, 2012 Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York  June 24–September 9, 2012 For more information, please contact: MFAH Communications 713.639.7554

  2. "Egyptomania" Reveals the West's Enduring Romance with Egypt and Its Dramatic Influence on Decorative Arts

    Feb 16, 2012 - The description of G. An “Aegyptian” Chair, c. 1875, and a Thebes Stool, c. 1884, are fine instances of the Egyptian Revival in English furniture. A black marble Obelisk, c. 1850, would have had a dramatic presence in someone’s home. It stands over one foot tall and features side panels with hieroglyphics.

  3. Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage

    Jan 19, 2012 - In El Lissitzky’s Runner in the City (c. 1926), an image of a male athlete jumping a hurdle is collaged over a photograph of a teeming Times Square, as if the figure were fleeing a dehumanized American metropolis. Wangeshi Mutu, a Kenyan artist who works in New York, combines fragments from Western and African visual cultures in A Headresting Moment (2006): a larger-than-life-size collage of a hybrid female figure. The artist used Photoshop to combine a photograph of his Hungarian-Indian aunt in European dress with an image of his Indian grandfather in traditional clothing, reconnecting a daughter and a father who had a turbulent relationship

  4. Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst

    Jan 3, 2012 - in fact, a work by Van Aelst. It includes an abundance of opulent objects overflowing the canvas, including a nautilus cup on a stone table with a rich blue tablecloth, likely painted using expensive ultramarine pigment made from lapis lazuli (a stone prized The project was conceived by Tanya Paul, Ruth G.

  5. Elegant Perfection: Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum

    Dec 27, 2011 - Opening Events The MFAH members’ opening will include a ribbon-cutting and performance by Akiko Yano, a composer, vocalist and pianist. Seigo Arai; Nanako and Dale Tingleaf; Mitsui & Company (U.S.A.), Inc.; Penny and Paul Loyd; Mitsubishi Corporation; Miwa S. Sakashita and John R. Our commitment to exhibit contemporary objects will continue as well, with phase two of the installation and the eventual commission of a major work from a contemporary Japanese artist, showcasing Japanese art through time.”

  6. Highlights of the Peter Blum Edition Archive

    Dec 19, 2011 - Eric Fischl’s renowned Year of the Drowned Dog is a composite of six color prints that, when combined, operate as a pictorial game with a complex narrative. The first component is a triptych of a Caribbean beach panorama and the second consists of three separate smaller sheets (mother and child observing the dog of the title, three sailors and a walking man) that overlap the panorama 6, 2012 Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection March 4-June 3, 2012 Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage     March 11–June

  7. Matthew Buckingham “Where Will We Live?”

    Dec 12, 2011 - The film features the image of a small dog—a detail from a 1659 Velázquez painting that portrays child-prince Felipe Prospero with his pet—projected onto the back of a shipping crate. An opening reception will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, December 16, 2011. The exhibition will be open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., for the run of the show.

  8. Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London

    Dec 9, 2011 - Brauer, Senior Lecturer, Glassell School of Art, MFAH Friday, June 8, at 1:30 pm, and repeated on Saturday, June 9, at 4 p.m.: From Guinness to Gainsboroughs: A Brewer Collects in the Gilded Age, presented by Julius Bryant, presented by David E. Fayez Sarofim; M. D. Anderson Foundation; Fayez Shalaby Sarofim and Meredith J. Long Endowment for Exhibitions; Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis; and Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff.

  9. Beauty, Humor, and Social Justice: Gifts from Joan Morgenstern

    May 9, 2011 - And Jonothan C. George S. Zimbel’s Dog and Cat, Bona Fide Farm (1976) pictures a small kitten scrambling up a screen door and a much larger dog, standing against the door and looking up at its escaped prey. A whimsical photograph by Karl Biden depicts a dog with two black spots, one of which is a graphic circle floating half on the dog and half in space.

  10. Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting

    Mar 11, 2011 - MFAH Hours and Admission             Hours are Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m.–9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.; and Sunday, 12:15–7 p.m.  Admission will be free for children 5 and under, but they will need a ticket to enter the exhibition. On Thursdays, admission will be $15 for adults and $10 for children 6–18, students, and senior adults (65+). Titian Titian (c.1485-90–1576) was the greatest of all Venetian Renaissance artists.