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  1. The Immersive Installations of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish” Return to the MFAH, beginning in March 2023

    Feb 13, 2023 - She 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. Worry Will Vanish (2014), a two-channel video that runs in 10-minute cycles, will be projected onto the south and west walls of Cullinan Hall, taking viewers into a fantastic dreamscape where the body and nature become one.

  2. MFAH Opens New Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds on March 5

    Jan 23, 2023 - Gallery 6: The Fabric of Life: Textiles and Carpets of Islamic LandsMagnificent carpets and textiles, as well as paintings and garments, provide a glimpse into the everyday presence of these woven treasures. Gallery 1: Introduction to Art of the Islamic WorldsThe introductory gallery highlights enduring themes within Islamic art across a range of manuscripts, metalwork, ceramics, and textiles: calligraphy as the highest art form; Galleries 2 and 3: Early and Later Iranian Art from the Hossein Afshar CollectionAcross these two galleries, the Afshar Collection reveals the stories told by the exquisite paintings from the pages of the Persian national epic

  3. Zen Buddhist Japanese Paintings from the Renowned Gitter-Yelen Collection on View at the MFAH beginning February 19

    Jan 4, 2023 - The exhibition takes its title from a legendary encounter between a Buddhist monk and a Chinese emperor. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter FoundationAnne and Albert ChaoMitsubishi Corporation (Americas)Eddie and Chinhui AllenMr. and Mrs. Russell M. FrankelKathy and Glen GondoMilton D. Rosenau, Jr. and Dr. Ellen R. A primary feature of this final section is the museum’s monumental, room-sized Lotus Pond (1987) by Minol Araki, a 12-panel landscape that reimagines Japanese ink-painting tradition.

  4. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents “Portrait of Courage: Gentileschi, Wiley, and the Story of Judith” in January 2023

    Dec 15, 2022 - The daughter of a well-established artist, she was sexually assaulted by a family friend, and a very public court case followed, which caused Gentileschi to be perceived as a social pariah. “I look forward to seeing the reaction of our visitors to these two paintings treating the same subject, one by a woman, one by a man, separated by 400 years.” contemporary issues through a historical lens.

  5. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Announces Partnership with the Sarofim Foundation

    Nov 21, 2022 - Sarofim will be placed on extended loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, beginning in early 2023, in a collaboration between the museum and the Sarofim Foundation. Fayez S. Additional resources include a repertory cinema; two significant research libraries: the Hirsch Library and the Powell Library and Study Center at Bayou Bend; public archives; a conservation studio; and an off-site storage facility About the Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonSpanning 14 acres in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, the Susan and Fayez S.

  6. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents “Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia” in November

    Jul 28, 2022 - A key artwork is a set of 14 contemporary paintings on paper (2020) of a single Caimo tree and its roles and relationships through the seasons by Confucio Hernández Makuritofe, a member of the Indigenous Kigipe Muina (people from Large ceramic vessels conceived as houses for revered ancestors anchor this section, which also includes a stunning offering of precious materials contained in a ceramic house. exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museo del Oro y Unidad de Artes y Otras Colecciones-Banco de la República, Colombia.

  7. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents “Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure” in November

    Jul 28, 2022 - This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from: Generous support provided by:Jerold B. Katz FoundationM. D. Four years later, he began renting a studio measuring only 16 x 16 feet in a small house in the Montparnasse district of Paris. Scheidegger completed a 25-minute version of the film in 1966 and released a 50-minute version in 1998.

  8. “Philip Guston Now,” First Retrospective in Nearly 20 Years of Influential Artist’s Work, Arrives at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in October

    Jul 28, 2022 - a dark background. a new vocabulary grounded in ordinary objects; a reunion of the controversial paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the late Appalled by the revelations of the Holocaust, Guston presents children in the midst of a ruined city, many masked or hiding their features from the viewer, with a sole ray of hope for a better future personified by the artist’

  9. The MFAH Appoints Paul Coffey Director of the Glassell School of Art

    Jun 22, 2022 - A member of the President’s Cabinet, Paul leads the Office of Engagement, where he has created a series of innovative community-focused programs. The only museum-affiliated school in the nation serving students from pre-K through post-graduate, the Glassell School hosts a Studio School for adults, a Junior School for children and teens and the Core residency program for A longtime educator and administrator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Coffey has led the SAIC’s academic and community-engagement programs for more than a decade HOUSTON—JUNE 22, 2022—The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  10. Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack” Goes on View at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 15

    Jun 13, 2022 - The Museum’s Susan and Fayez S. Barnes frequently recalled the inspiration for the painting as a childhood memory of sneaking into a local dance hall called the Armory. The vivid image, with its dynamic, elongated figures dominating the packed space of a dance floor and illuminated by a cone of light from a single bulb, reflects what became known as the Black Romantic tradition, as writer Jasmine