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  1. Inside Fashion Fusion: An Interview

    Apr 22, 2019 - Do you feel like you grew as a designer from your experience with Fashion Fusion? KB: Yes. A wonderful thing about Fashion Fusion is that there are simply no creative limitations. KB: As designers, we rarely get to see our pieces on the runway, and watching them at Fashion Fusion is always a bit magical. Kyndall Bollmeyer: This year’s Fashion Fusion is a visual storytelling of Vincent van Gogh’s life and artistic progression.

  2. “Be Natural” Sheds Light on Women in Film

    Apr 1, 2019 - Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché screens Friday, Saturday & Sunday, April 5, 6 & 7. On Friday, Michelle Mower and Trish Rigdon moderate a post-film Skype Q&A with Pamela Green. “How could someone as essential to the early days of cinema as Alice Guy-Blaché be erased from the history books? As a female director, it really upset me that her legacy had been buried. I knew I had to help.”  “I can’t recall how the campaign for Be Natural got on my radar, but when I saw the pitch video, I was shocked,” Mower says.

  3. GONZO247: Celebrating Community, Color & Vincent van Gogh

    Mar 25, 2019 - You’re Invited Make plans to attend the free Spring Festival on Saturday, March 30! Activities run from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. See GONZO in action from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Want to find out more? GONZO’s live-painting demonstration starts at 4 p.m. As a part of the Museum’s Spring Festival: Celebrating Colors on Saturday, March 30, we are excited to have renowned local street artist GONZO247 join the fun. Admission is free, and the festivities begin at 3 p.m.

  4. Rienzi Takes Center Stage

    Mar 13, 2019 - Although the production had only a 13-performance run, The Lady of the Camellias closed with Tony Award nominations for “Best Featured Actor in a Play,” “Best Costume Design,” and “Best Scenic Design.” The musical opened on November 23, 1964, at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre with an all-star cast that included the legendary Chita Rivera. From Houston to New York City Inspired by their love of Broadway music and theater, the Mastersons immersed themselves in New York City’s scene for nearly a decade.

  5. The Visual Arts Meet the Literary Arts at the MFAH

    Mar 5, 2019 - Sign up for the Public Programs e-newsletter to keep up with MFAH programs for adults and find out about upcoming events. Coral also contributed a writing prompt to inspire guests to think about their own time and experiences in the city. ¿Cómo habitas la ciudad? / ¿Cómo existes en la ciudad? How do you inhabit the city? You, too, can submit your work to the Museum for consideration on the MFAH blog. A variety of Art + Lit programs, and drop-in writing sessions, are scheduled throughout the year.

  6. A Unique Quilt’s Salute to Texas

    Feb 28, 2019 - Often working as a group, they customarily sewed these bedcovers to mark important life events such as marriage, the birth of a child, or a family member leaving home.  The Lone Star State Texas gained its independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836. In the 18th century, Europeans brought the basic skills of quilt-making to the colonies, where these skills flourished. Both useful and beautiful, quilts became a quintessential American tradition in the 19th century.

  7. “Beauty Everywhere” in Vincent van Gogh’s Paintings of Flowers

    Feb 27, 2019 - , a seaside town on the Mediterranean, and stayed for three days. Vincent van Gogh, Roses and Peonies, 1886, oil on canvas, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. © Kröller-Müller Museum Red & Green By that time, a general appreciation of the lighter palettes of the Impressionists had set in. Already in these early flower still lifes, Van Gogh shows his tendency toward a shallow picture space, a characteristic that also informs his celebrated bouquets of roses, sunflowers, and irises.

  8. “Staff Art Show” Spotlights Talent across the MFAH

    Feb 22, 2019 - I like to think of glass the same way a painter thinks about paint. Color can create a mood or feeling, especially when seen through a window lit by bright sunlight.” Monica Cuellar, Their Reflection and Love, acrylic on canvas. © Monica Cuellar Monica Cuellar Security Console Monitor “I wanted to make some type of abstract landscape with a lake. Richard Hinson, The Elements: Wind 2.2.a, stained glass. © Richard Hinson Richard Hinson Senior Preparator, Collections “The Elements: Wind 2.2.a is an original design and part of a continuing series of the four elements

  9. So Fashionable! Portraits in the MFAH Collections

    Feb 15, 2019 - Indian, A Bejeweled Lady, 1690–1720 This elegant Indian woman wears a luxurious, European-style velvet gown and ornate slippers, one of which has slipped  off to reveal her toe clad in a pink silk stocking. Mathew stands in a park landscape in a gray shot-silk dress tinged with blue highlights and enhanced by graceful folds and classicizing drapes. In Peale’s portrait, on view at Bayou Bend, the demure yet sensuous woman is dressed sumptuously in a costume of red velvet, paired with a red turban, both of which offset her cream-colored skin.

  10. Southern Exposures: The Photography of Sally Mann

    Feb 14, 2019 - A Ticket to Transcendence In her book A Place Not Forgotten: Landscapes of the South (1999), Mann affirmed: I do consider myself a Southern photographer. What snake venom is to them, romanticism is to the Southern artist: a terrible risk, and a ticket to transcendence. See “Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings,” on view in the Law Building from March 3 through May 27. This sweeping overview reveals how the legacy of the South has had a direct effect on Mann’s work.