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  1. A Radical Concept: Fall into “Pratone”

    Mar 25, 2020 - Award-winning designer Laura Umansky, the Houston-based founder of Laura U Interior Design, talks 1970s design in the video “Big Meadow.” Watch below to see more about the surprising, joyful “Pratone.” Pratone—a stand-out work in the exhibition Radical: Italian Design 1965–1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection—draws upon nature, Pop Art, and innovative functionality, culminating in an inviting patch of foam grass that was designed for people to fall into. 

  2. Understanding Francis Bacon

    Mar 25, 2020 - “What makes Francis Bacon an important artist and Francis Bacon: Late Paintings both a visual knockout and a philosophical punch to the gut is that [he] is a preternaturally talented painter,” the Wall Street Journal’s Peter Plagens Alison de Lima Greene, MFAH curator of modern and contemporary art, explores Bacon’s depiction of the human form and the major themes that dominate the artist’s later works. Find out more about “Francis Bacon: Late Paintings” Hear from curator Alison de Lima Greene in this video of the opening-day lecture for the exhibition:

  3. Gardening with the MFAH

    Mar 24, 2020 - I love camellias, azaleas, and magnolias in the spring. I love the smell of the Osmanthus in the fall and again in the spring. I love seeing the forgotten bloom of the spider lily. Each is unique and each is beautiful. We asked him to share a personal perspective on tending the gardens. With Houstonians staying close to home, what’s your advice about caring for a garden at this time of year? The lightning-struck bronze tree (Giuseppe Penone’s Albero folgorato) on the South Lawn. Mainly, because I see it weekly. I don’t go inside too often. Explore the gardens at Rienzi and Bayou Bend.

  4. Movie Night with MFAH Films “Bacurau”

    Mar 23, 2020 - Described as a 21st-century Western, it has a familiar premise. A group of strangers arrives in a rural town, and the locals become suspicious. You can purchase a screening of Bacurau, just as you’d buy a movie ticket, and you can watch the film at home through April 7. A Community Coming TogetherBacurau is a cathartic and enigmatic film. Bacurau’s prevailing theme is a community coming together during difficult times. Cultural ConnectionsThe MFAH has a history with co-filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho.

  5. Body and Soul

    Feb 22, 2020 - In 1966, writer Amiri Baraka published the poem “Black Art” in reaction to the assassination of Malcolm X:  “We want a black poem. And a / Black World. / Let the world be a Black Poem / And Let All Black People Speak This Poem / Silently / or LOUD” Resistance & Reflection Baraka was part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which sought We ought to stop thinking we have to do the art of other people.”  See “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” in the Beck Building.

  6. Fearless Filmmaker Challenges Real-Life Issues for 50 Years

    Feb 21, 2020 - After the screening, stay for the Skype Q&A, followed by Union Maids, a more labor-centric approach to feminism. This film covers the fight to form industrial unions in the first half of the 20th century. Focusing on a General Motors factory in Ohio over many years, American Factory and the film that precedes it, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, tell the story of a struggling working class and the difficulties they face as The retrospective Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film features screenings on March 7, 8, and 15. Join us opening night for a live Q&A over Skype with Julia Reichert herself!

  7. Collection Spotlight: A Fusion of Forms

    Feb 15, 2020 - A Devotion to Michelangelo The base, created in 1878, is clearly by Rodin, who furthered the concept of a vase Carrier-Belleuse had created as a designer at the Minton ceramic factory in England. However, his pupil Auguste Rodin sculpted the four Titans, mythological giants conquered by the gods of Olympus, who sit on a plinth, doomed for an eternity to support the hefty vessel. A Turning Point The sculptures mark a turning point in Rodin’s vision—when he fully focused on natural postures that showed passion, emotion, and character and used textured surfaces to facilitate the interplay of light and shadows

  8. Francis Bacon: Body Language

    Jan 28, 2020 - “I’m always hoping to deform people into appearance,” Bacon said. “I can’t paint them literally.” Female Nude Standing in a Doorway, 1972  /  Study for Portrait, 1971 In Memoriam After the 1971 suicide of Bacon’s companion, George Dyer, the artist delved into the complexities of mourning and guilt through a series of paintings Photographic Memory Bacon preferred to work from photographs rather than live models, as he did for Female Nude Standing in a Doorway and Study for Portrait.

  9. “Radical: Italian Design” | 3 Questions for Dennis Freedman

    Jan 18, 2020 - At the time, I was an assistant art director at Fairchild Publications, living in New York City on a very modest income. I had a small one-bedroom apartment on the 10th floor of a building without a freight elevator. Like them, I was intrigued by the possibility that design and architecture could have a lasting effect on how we think and act. However, at that point, I had no idea it would lead me on a path that would change my life.   

  10. Spotlight on the Iranian Film Festival

    Jan 2, 2020 - The 27th annual Houston Iranian Film Festival takes place January 17 to February 1. 24) Rice Cinema (January 31 & February 1) Highlights include looking back with a retrospective saluting the work of legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, and looking forward with the new documentary Finding Farideh—Iran Left to right: Abbas Kiarostami (January 18) / Finding Farideh (January 26) Thought-Provoking New Releases The festival’s slate of movies offers a wide range of thought-provoking, acclaimed new Iranian releases.