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  1. See Glorious Masterpieces from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library

    May 14, 2021 - as a boy. The Duchess of Alba by Francisco de Goya (slideshow image #2)Standing before a river on one of her estates, the duchess—among the great beauties of her age—is dressed as a fashionable urbanite and fixes her gaze outward. Louis Comfort Tiffany by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (slideshow image #4)While in the United States for an exhibition tour in 1911, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida undertook several portrait commissions, including one for renowned American

  2. Rienzi Gallery Talk | Works on Paper in “Perpetual Bloom”

    May 14, 2021 - “You look at these figures and you think you’re somehow in a Jane Austen novel.” Watch this Gallery Talk to learn more about Jacques Rigaud’s The Rotunda at Stowe and Thomas Rowlandson’s Elegant Figures in a Walled Garden.

  3. Find a Diversity of Design in the Kinder Building Galleries

    May 12, 2021 - A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. On the second floor, you’ll find a diversity of contemporary craft and design objects to intrigue all ages. A Curator’s DreamCurator Cindi Strauss offers her perspective on the inspiration that awaits. “The new galleries for decorative arts, craft, and design in the Kinder Building are a curator’s dream come true.

  4. Virtual Cinema Presents the Award-Winning New Drama “There Is No Evil”

    May 11, 2021 - Shortly after There Is No Evil won the Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, Rasoulof was sentenced to a year in prison and a two-year ban on filmmaking. Your ticket ($12) supports the MFAH and provides a 5-day pass to the film. SEE THE TRAILER Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and the Vaughn Foundation. In “Birthday,” a soldier on leave plans to propose to his girlfriend at her birthday party, until the celebration is postponed. The last story, “Kiss Me,” is a sentimental melodrama with an unexpected twist.

  5. Virtual Cinema Showcases New German Films

    May 3, 2021 - I Was I Am I Will Be flashes back to identify the newlyweds. Marion, an airline pilot who has just received a cancer diagnosis, goes on a trip with her lover to a Turkish resort, where she encounters Baran, a sex worker. The MFAH joins Goethe Pop Up Houston and Houston Cinema Arts Society to feature two dramas via Virtual Cinema: Exile and I Was I Am I Will Be. I Was I Am I Will BeThe opening montage features photocopied passports, multiple translated languages, and a wedding that seems to be as unromantic and transactional as possible.

  6. Virtual Cinema Presents the Essential “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts”

    Apr 29, 2021 - . • Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts / WATCH HERE May 7–June 6. Your ticket ($12) supports the MFAH and provides a 5-day pass to the film. Creative GeniusEven though Traylor’s art-making lasted only a few years, it was truly a life’s work. Traylor lived most of his life on the farm where he was born, first as a slave, then as a sharecropper and tenant farmer.

  7. Light up Your Life with “Electrifying Design”

    Apr 28, 2021 - “Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting” is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Major support is provided by:Cecily E. Exploring Light and Making Reflective Installations• Activity Guide Exploring Function and Making a Working Lamp• Activity Guide Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting is on view in the Law Building through May 16. Rather than organizing the exhibition chronologically, co-curator Sarah Schleuning and I decided to focus on ideas and groupings that highlight what makes lighting a significant and early indicator of shifts in aesthetics, technology

  8. Virtual Cinema | Musician Ben Model Returns for Another Silent-Film Concert

    Apr 22, 2021 - He enjoys the livestreams because they “combine the excitement of a live performance with the informality of a friend inviting you over for a movie.” In Celebration of MothersBecause this program follows Mother’s Day, Model accepted our challenge to feature a movie with a memorable mother. A Few Words from Harold Lloyd’s DaughterSuzanne Lloyd, Harold’s daughter, is devoted to his legacy and maintains a website about her legendary father.

  9. Virtual Cinema Presents the Poetic New Documentary “Małni”

    Apr 20, 2021 - Your ticket ($12) supports the MFAH and provides a 3-day pass to the film. His work focuses on history as a material process, a set of actions bound to the land and inscribed on the body. SEE THE TRAILER About the AuthorMichael Sicinski, a Houston-based writer and teacher, is a regular contributor to Cineaste magazine, Cinema Scope magazine, and MUBI Notebook.

  10. Virtual Cinema | “My Wonderful Wanda” Is a Humanistic Masterpiece

    Apr 16, 2021 - In My Wonderful Wanda, filmmaker Bettina Oberli takes her eponymous character away from two sons in Poland to a caretaking job for a wealthy Swiss family in a gorgeous lakeside villa. A Surprising RevealWhat begins as a commentary on class and immigration, possibly even undocumented work, soon becomes a powerful and often humorous study of family and motherhood.   • “My Wonderful Wanda” / WATCH HERE Your ticket ($12) supports the MFAH and provides a 5-day pass to the film. SEE THE TRAILER About the AuthorTodd Green is a Houston-based copywriter and screenwriter.