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  1. “Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway” Opens at the MFAH February 11, 2024

    Jan 8, 2024 - HOUSTON—January 8, 2024—For centuries, Bergen, one of the largest port cities in Scandinavia, was a thriving hub of global commerce, with a burgeoning export of fish, timber, and fur. That trade in turn spurred the development of a uniquely Norwegian approach to a timeless craft: gold and silver smithing. wedding crowns—also functioned as a means of building personal wealth.

  2. Simone Leigh’s Monumental Bronze Sculpture “Satellite” Is Installed at the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building of the MFAH

    Dec 4, 2023 - The MFAH is the first U.S. museum to acquire and install this monumental bronze in a permanent display. About the Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonSpanning 14 acres in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, the Fayez S. She has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Solomon R.

  3. MFAH Establishes a Gallery for Judaica, Opening December 3, 2023

    Nov 2, 2023 - HOUSTON—November 2, 2023—The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will open a new gallery for Judaica on December 3, 2023. gold Torah Shield produced in Munich; a silver Torah Crown made in Venice; a jeweled silver Torah Crown made in Poland; and a variety of silver Torah Finials made in Central Asia, Holland, England, and Germany in the 18th and It is funded by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.

  4. “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism” Opens at the MFAH February 25, 2024

    Nov 2, 2023 - Matisse in a Kimono (private collection). 2, 2023—Over nine intense weeks in the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and André Derain (1880–1954) embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. Their evolving visual language grew from sensory experience of a moment in time, a sweep of sand brushed in saturated red, a cork oak tree delineated in pink, shadows of reflected light in dazzling hues.

  5. MFAH Presents “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage” in February 2024

    Nov 2, 2023 - Russell H. and Rosalind C. FoundationLisa and Barron WallaceMichael W. Patricia Hills, professor emerita of American Art at Boston University; Dr. Tiffany E. Barber, assistant professor of African American Art at UCLA; Dr. Anita N.

  6. “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence” Tours to the MFAH in November

    Sep 7, 2023 - ’s Charles I at the Hunt (1636) or Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801), among many others. Wiley has said, “That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown people all over the world.” He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, an MFA from Yale University, and honorary doctorates from the Rhode Island School of Design and San Francisco Art Institute.

  7. On View This Fall at the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building: Simone Leigh’s Iconic “Satellite,” Newly Completed for the MFAH; New Modern and Contemporary Exhibitions

    Aug 9, 2023 - He added, “When the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building opened in November 2020, we considered it a triumph—not only for completing the Fayez S. A group of pictures by the pioneering Houston photojournalist Caroline Valenta—including a view of July 4, 1949, festivities at the dazzling, new Shamrock Hotel, the legendary Houston locale—caps a section devoted to midcentury the artist would have a cast made specifically for Houston.

  8. “Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection” Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in October

    Jun 21, 2023 - D. Anderson FoundationMelza and Ted BarrCarol and Mike LinnAndrius Kontrimas / Sheppard MullinAnn G. TrammellSamuel F. GormanMr. and Mrs. Rodney H. MargolisMarguerite & David M. Highlights from the exhibition include: Titian Portrait of a Man in Armor (c. 1530), a remarkable portrayal by the leading painter of 16th-century Venice, epitomizing Titian’s gift for capturing not only the essence of a sitter “Armand Hammer had a fascinating career as a businessman and art collector that spanned most of the 20th century,” commented Gary Tinterow, Director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

  9. Landmark Exhibition “William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows” Travels to the MFAH, Surveying the Celebrated South African Artist’s Work

    May 10, 2023 - “William Kentridge brings a profound humanism and collaborative spirit to every aspect of his work,” added Alison de Lima Greene, the MFAH’s Isabel Brown Wilson curator of modern and contemporary art. Notably, the volume also includes a conversation between Kentridge and revolutionary film and sound editor Walter Murch, and an additional statement by the artist. up of complementary projections that reveal how everyday experience, experimentation, and associative play a critical role in Kentridge’s art making.

  10. “Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in October

    Apr 19, 2023 - During the Depression, Webb prospected for gold, worked as a forest ranger, wrote short stories and picked up a camera. His interest in and love for photography soon crowded out his other ambitions. For both, a composition including the American flag was too potent to resist. On view October 8, 2023, through January 7, 2024, the exhibition Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955 will bring these simultaneous projects together for the first time.