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  1. MFAH presents “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” in October, the First Community-Curated Native American Exhibition at the Museum

    Aug 22, 2024 - Generous support is provided by:Duncan W. CorbettMichael W. DaleColleen and Andrew GoldFranny Koelsch Jeffries and John JeffriesAlice C. IRS 501(c)(3) that raises awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States and fosters appreciation for the arts and sciences. SimkinsThe Margaret Cooke Skidmore Exhibition Endowment About the School for Advanced ResearchThe School for Advanced Research (SAR), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational institution, was established in 1907 to advance innovative

  2. Exploring 3,000 Years of Spiritual Belief and Practice through 200 Great Works of Art in the Exhibition “Living with the Gods,” Opening in October

    Aug 7, 2024 - Rodney H. MargolisMilton D. Rosenau, Jr. and Dr. Ellen R. Gritz About Neil MacGregorNeil MacGregor is a British art historian, writer and broadcaster. This exhibition is a magnificent capstone to our first century as a museum." The piece will be presented in a gallery themed to the Cosmos, with a monumental Shiva Nataraj, on loan from a private collection.

  3. “Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography” Opens September 29, 2024, in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building of the MFAH

    Jul 18, 2024 - Patricia J. Gallery 2: Memory, the Body, and IdentityThe second section of the exhibition marks a pivotal shift in Cuban photography. The exhibition of some 100 works will be on view September 29, 2024 through August 3, 2025, in the Museum’s Nancy and Rich Kinder Building for modern and contemporary art. “With the acquisition of the Madeleine P.

  4. The MFAH Is the Exclusive U.S. Venue for “Gauguin in the World,” Opening in November 2024

    Jun 24, 2024 - About Paul Gauguin Gauguin was born June 7, 1848, to a French father, a radical journalist; and French mother of Peruvian heritage. After a half-dozen years at sea, he returned to Paris. At 23, he secured a stock-broker job at the French Bourse, later marrying a Danish woman and fathering five children. There, Gauguin had a brief, unsuccessful stint as a carpet salesman. Frustrated by his lack of artistic success, Gauguin decided to escape Europe and make a voyage to French Polynesia, where he lived and resumed painting.

  5. Opening at the MFAH June 9: “Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West”

    Jun 6, 2024 - More than a century later, Shaw devised his own ballads, commenting: “I always felt that in a strange way I am the reversal of Kipling, the ‘Colonizee’ and the Colonized exchanging places and perspectives.” “I am a spectator, yet at the same time, I am a player.” Guest curator Zehra Jumabhoy has observed further: “In Shaw’s work the concept of the real is always shifting, challenging viewers as they navigate layers of meaning.” Informed by his personal experiences, Shaw conjures up a wide range of paradoxical feelings: remorse over Kashmir as “a trampled Eden, a Paradise Lost,” as Jumabhoy writes, but also hope for a healed land of converging cultures

  6. MFAH Is Only U.S. Venue for Major Retrospective of Thomas Demand

    May 29, 2024 - The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue. His large-scale photographic works investigate the way images embed themselves in a society’s collective memory. “We are lured in because we think we have seen this before, only to discover that what we are looking at is just a stage set.

  7. Margo Handwerker Appointed Dean of the Glassell School of Art Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    May 22, 2024 - During nearly a decade at the Texas State Galleries, Dr. Handwerker earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Architectural History and Theory; a Master’s from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art History, Theory and Criticism; and a BA from Indiana University, Bloomington With a proven track record of cultivating meaningful relationships with local, regional, and national organizations, she brings a wealth of connectivity to her new role.

  8. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Installs New Presentation for the Arts of Korea Gallery

    May 16, 2024 - “Seemingly suspended inside new, completely transparent cases, striking white ceramics, elegantly shaped jars, and finely carved dining tables are accompanied by a recent acquisition—a monumental masterwork by contemporary Korean Also featured in the gallery is a 10-panel, 19th-century folding screen, Seven Jeweled Mountain, depicting a panorama, typical of its time, of the legendary mountain range that was renowned for its distinctive topography and said About the Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonSpanning 14 acres in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, the Fayez S.

  9. MFAH Presents “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” in July 2024

    May 15, 2024 - of a modern nation-state, and considers how a self-conscious reinterpretation and re-articulation of the past helped inform a contemporary nation and its global future through unique new expressions.  of this section. • Fashioning the Self assesses the emergence of a new Japanese identity as a non-white, modern nation-state, and considers the changing gender roles of the period, the end of samurai status, the creation of a Another highlight of this section is a bowler hat by Hayakawa Shōkōsai I, woven entirely out bamboo reeds. • Making History, Enshrining Myth examines the importance of a national religion, traditions, and myths to the formation

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

    Mar 4, 2024 - contemporary intervention in the William C. and Susan S. B.Y.O.B, a site-specific work co-curated with artist Michael J. “As part of the MFAH, Bayou Bend is a unique site for the study of American decorative arts and material culture in a national and global context.”