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  1. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to Open Its Steven Holl–Designed Nancy and Rich Kinder Building on November 1, 2020

    Jan 15, 2020 - Rich Kinder Building to the public on November 1, 2020, we will welcome visitors to an expansive, beautifully designed complex of buildings and urban gardens, revealing an international collection that we could never before exhibit Steven Holl Architects designed the master plan for the redevelopment, along with the Kinder Building and a new home for the Glassell School of Art. Gary Tinterow said, “The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has, over the last dozen years, become one of this nation’s fastest-growing art museums in terms of collections, programs, and audience.

  2. The MFAH Highlights Latin American Art This Summer

    Apr 29, 2015 - Under the terms of this agreement, the Museum houses and administers hundreds of works owned by the artist’s estate in exchange for the opportunity to exhibit them. Concrete and Constructive art. Latin American and Latino art.

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

    May 10, 2023 - “We are thrilled to be able to exhibit William Kentridge’s expansive work in Houston,” said Gary Tinterow, Director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Latin American and Latino art. www.mfah.org Media ContactMelanie Fahey, Senior Publicistmfahey@mfah.org | 713.398.1136 His art has sought to explore the edges, cracks, and uncertain spaces of a South Africa in transition from an oppressive, racially segregated society to an uncertain and challenging democracy.

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

    Sep 7, 2023 - We are very proud to exhibit them at the Museum and participate in this national tour,” commented Gary Tinterow, Director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 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. For Wiley, Holbein’s painting triggered an ongoing investigation into the iconography of death and sacrifice in Western art, which he traced across religious, mythological, and historical subjects.

  5. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Appoints Daniel Kurt Ackermann Director of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

    Mar 4, 2024 - Mack and David Stuempfle; and the catalog and exhibit Layered Legacies: Quilts from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem in collaboration with the North Carolina Museum of Art and curators Dr. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the College of William and Mary; his Master of Arts in Architectural History from the University of Virginia; and his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina

  6. “Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna, 1897–1907” Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in September

    Jul 15, 2013 - About the Neue Galerie New York The mission of the Neue Galerie New York is to collect, preserve, research, and exhibit fine art and decorative arts of Germany and Austria from the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular to examine their role in the emergence and development of modern art. The encyclopedic collection of the MFAH numbers some 65,000 works and embraces the art of antiquity to the present.

  7. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presents “Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands” in November

    Oct 2, 2017 - “Since the establishment of the department in 2007, the MFAH has endeavored to collect, exhibit, and interpret art of the Islamic worlds,” added Gary Tinterow, MFAH director. Love and Longing Love and longing are among the most celebrated themes in art around the world. A familiar subject in Persian poetry and art is that of the rose and the nightingale (gul u bulbul).

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

    Mar 2, 2012 - Unrivalled Splendor will exhibit some of the earliest known examples of Buddhist art in Japan; narrative scroll paintings; beautiful examples of calligraphy; screens embellished with gold and silver; sketches; sculptures; and This wide array, from courtly to popular works of art, reveals overlapping themes in Japanese art. The first, “Early and Medieval Buddhist Art,” demonstrates the influence of Buddhist ideas and their impact on art through breathtaking works, including one of the earliest examples of Buddhist art in Japan: an 8th-century sculpture

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

    Dec 27, 2011 - 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.” “Thanks to the vision of the Asian communities in Houston, the space for Asian art at the MFAH has quadrupled, several significant art objects have joined the permanent collection and our commitment to Asian art exhibitions and works and embraces the art of antiquity to the present.

  10. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Highlights 19th-Century Central Asian Ikats Beginning in March

    Feb 8, 2017 - , the Art of the Islamic Worlds program at the MFAH was established as an institutional commitment to collect, exhibit, and interpret art from the Islamic worlds. The growing collection has been acquired primarily with funds raised at the Art of the Islamic Worlds Galas, with support from the Friends of the Art of the Islamic Worlds patron group, and with gifts from generous donors. Additional examples of ikat textiles from Central Asia and other cultures will be on display in the Art of the Islamic Worlds, Arts of India, and Arts of Japan galleries nearby.