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  1. Movies Houstonians Love

    Films & Presenters Season 18 (2024–2025)October 12 | Ratatouille | James Beard Award–winning chef and restaurateur Chris Shepherd Season 17 (2023–2024)December 9 | The Right Stuff | Retired astronaut Colonel Terry VirtsJanuary

  2. The Latest in a Series of Summer Art Immersions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish”

    May 9, 2017 - “Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish complement the Museum’s growing commitment to light-based and immersive art, joining recent examples by James Turrell, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Yayoi Kusama in our collection.”

  3. Displays at the Powell Library

    In the mid-1860s, Governor James S. Hogg worked his first job as a typesetter for The Texas Observer, and it is Governor Hogg’s own collection from which this selection of printed material was chosen. Moving far beyond the stylized frontal pose used in the Great Seal of 1782, the eagles in this display devour prey in realistic settings on the pages of John James Audubon’s and Alexander Wilson’s ornithological works. Among the examples on view are books lovingly inscribed by a father to his young daughter (James Hogg to Ima Hogg), as well as a book that records an important meeting between Ima Hogg and her fellow collectors years later.

  4. Archival Online Exhibitions

    invitation for Homer Gaudens' address in 1924 inaugurating the Houston Art League that would become the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; through the desegregation of the museum's programming and audiences by founding MFAH director James

  5. “Calder-Picasso” opens in October 2021 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    Jul 21, 2021 - From director James Johnson Sweeney to patrons Ima Hogg, Sarah Campbell Blaffer, and Caroline Wiess Law, the Museum’s early champions of Modernism made it possible for significant pieces by both artists to enter the collection

  6. MFAH Announces Details of Inaugural Installations in Its New Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, Opening to the Public Saturday, November 21

    Sep 15, 2020 - will be The Hydrospatial City (1946–72), a hovering, utopian vision for an architecture in outer space by Argentinean artist Gyula Kosice; Caper, Salmon to White: Wedgework (2000), a light-filled environment by American artist James Border, Mapping, Witness brings together works in all media that reflect on what it means to critically engage the notion of border as a flexible political, cultural, and psychological limit fraught with violence (James Drake,

  7. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Unveils Designs for Campus Redevelopment, with more than 70 Percent of Funding Goal Secured

    Jan 15, 2015 - The Beck and Law buildings are connected underground by the Wilson Tunnel, which features James Turrell’s iconic installation The Light Inside. With the existing Wilson Tunnel—housing artist James Turrell’s installation The Light Inside—between the Mies and Moneo buildings, the campus will be fully connected below ground.

  8. Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life

    Julia Margaret Pattle was born in Calcutta in 1815, the fourth of 10 children of Adeline de l’Etang and James Pattle, an East India Company official whose riotous life earned him the nicknames “Jim Blazes” and “the biggest liar

  9. Houston to Celebrate the Opening on Saturday, November 21, of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

    Nov 16, 2020 - black-box gallery at street level is devoted to immersive installations, including The Hydrospatial City, 1946–1972, by the Argentinean artist Gyula Kosice and Caper, Salmon to White: Wedgework, 2000, a light-filled environment by James

  10. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents “Norman Rockwell: American Freedom” in December 2019

    Oct 25, 2019 - The exhibition originated as Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms, curated by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, deputy director and chief curator, Norman Rockwell Museum, and James J.